Rebirth's Charm

Chapter 170

When the Queen Mother arrived at Yu Shaoyun's palace, she went straight in and said, "The Ai family wants to see Eunuch Wei, why don't you let him go?"

Yu Shaoyun laughed with him, and said in a harmonious voice: "It's not that the concubine won't let me go, but that there are other secrets in this matter. Besides, this matter concerns the royal heirs, so don't be careless. According to Eunuch Wei, he has a secret edict in his hand. The concubine wants to invite Marquis Yongping and General Zhen Guo into the palace, and let them check the authenticity of the secret edict and make a decision."

The Empress Dowager was half-believing, sat down with a suppressed anger, and tried to make her voice as amiable as possible, "You child, you should have made it clear to Aijia earlier, it just caused the palace people to talk nonsense in private, and suspected that you were going against Aijia."

Yu Shaoyun smiled brightly and spoke sincerely: "How dare the concubine? The emperor is not in the palace, and the concubine should serve you wholeheartedly."

As long as she can talk.The queen mother taunted in her heart, but smile lines appeared on her lips unconsciously.My mind turned, thinking that Qin Anhuai would also enter the palace, and things would not go wrong, so I calmed down and waited.

What the Queen Mother didn't expect was that King Kang, Yu Shaoheng, and Qin Anhuai came over at the same time.

After the three of them saluted and sat down, Yu Shaoyun ordered someone to bring Eunuch Wei.

Eunuch Wei entered the door without any haste, knelt down in front of the Queen Mother and Yu Shaoyun, took out the secret edict from his sleeve, and put it up with both hands, he said: "I will tell you the truth, Queen Mother, Queen Mother, Concubine Jing was drugged by a female talent to miscarry. The emperor left the palace." This secret edict was left at that time because the dragon's illness was related to Concubine Jing's sister Concubine Hui. Previously, the servant did not follow the order immediately, and he wanted to find out the ins and outs of the matter. Now that he has found out, the servant must obey the order immediately. "

The Empress Dowager looked at Eunuch Wei in astonishment, and said word by word: "What did you say? What does it mean that the emperor's dragon body has something to do with Concubine Hui?"

Eunuch Wei said euphemistically: "The emperor's dragon body is sick, it was caused by Concubine Hui's poisoning. The relevant people have been ordered to be imprisoned by the servants, and the empress dowager can ask at any time." He also reminded respectfully, "The empress dowager will understand after reading the secret edict. gone."

When the Empress Dowager launched the secret edict, she looked at Qin Anhuai, her eyes were extremely cold, and her tone was even colder: "Look at the good children you teach!"

At this time, Qin Anhuai had blue veins throbbing on his forehead, looked at Eunuch Wei with a blue face, and said angrily: "If you have half a lie, be careful that I will kill you!"

Eunuch Wei's attitude was indifferent, "If this slave speaks half a lie, he is willing to die. But if what this slave says is true, then General, you should give the Queen Mother an explanation."

The Empress Dowager looked at the familiar handwriting, she knew every word, but she couldn't connect the words and sentences, and didn't know what the words meant.

She always felt that Zhong Liye was too ruthless towards the Qin family. The three daughters of the Qin family entered the palace one after another, but he refused to give him any favors.But I don't know how the daughter of the Qin family treated him. The dignified son of heaven was poisoned by the concubines around him, and he was once sick and haggard... If he hadn't been so depressed at that time, he might have been enraged and wiped out the Qin family. .

But she actually wanted to join forces with the Qin family to bring down the Yu family and the Xiao family.

She suppressed her grief, tried her best to calm herself down, read the secret edict several times from beginning to end, took a deep breath, handed it to Yu Shaoyun, stood up, "Aijia... I'm going back to the palace first. General Zhen Guo is going back to the mansion, and King Kang and Marquis Yongping are going to talk in Aijia Palace."

Three people said yes.

When Qin Anhuai left, his footsteps were particularly heavy, and his expression was frightened and panicked.If the Empress Dowager regards him and the Luo family as abandoned sons from now on, if the Empress Dowager really cares about Concubine Hui's actions and offends the Qin family, then his good times may have come to an end.

Who would have thought that half of his life's glory would be buried in the hands of an unfilial daughter.

Immediately, he thought of Zhong Liye, and his fear grew heavier.

Zhong Liye must have known about Concubine Hui's poisoning before he left the palace, but he didn't say anything - seeing how the Queen Mother was just now, he didn't know about it beforehand.He left a secret edict to let Eunuch Wei take care of this matter. After all, Eunuch Wei is a servant, and the progress of investigating this kind of matter must be slow.

What is the purpose?

Zhong Liye predicted that after leaving the palace, the Queen Mother would use the power of the Qin family to compete against Yu Shaoheng and Xiao Xun. After a period of confrontation and competition, the queen mother might feel only frustration—even the Qin family and the Luo family were like this, let alone the queen mother .And once the matter of Concubine Hui was made public, the queen mother would only feel distressed for her son and resentment towards the Qin family.

Perhaps, Zhong Liye couldn't see through some people in his life, but he knew the Queen Mother very well, and he could easily calculate every step of the way with the Qin Luo family.

When Zhong Liye left the palace, was he really depressed and rash?At this point, it is clearly to help the crown prince not to fall, and to help Yu Shaoheng and Xiao Xun get rid of their worries.

What do you mean by this?Qin Anhuai couldn't understand it.

Does Zhong Liye think that the only people who can rule the world in his place are those two important ministers who are about his age?

King Kang could see that the Queen Mother was very sad, and comforted him cautiously: "Don't be sad, Queen Mother, I think these things are also deliberately arranged by the emperor, in order to let you distinguish between loyalty and evil."

"What makes me sad is that he didn't tell me anything, no matter how angry and bitter he was, he didn't tell me." The queen mother said, tears streaming down, "I have lived all my life, but I don't know how to let you two brothers Working together, we can't make him not afraid of you, and we can't make you not afraid of his suspicion."

"Mother," Kang Wang panicked, and when he came to the queen mother, he raised his hand to help wipe away his tears, "Don't worry, in the past, our two brothers did not agree with each other, but after leaving the palace this time, the emperor's brother has no ambitions for me." I can know it in my heart, and when I return to Beijing in the future, I don’t think I will be afraid of me anymore. And I... These days, I feel that Brother Huang’s life is harder than anyone else. After he returns to Beijing, although he can’t share his worries, he can do it. From time to time, you will always ask for warmth, and slowly you will always have some brotherhood, right?"

The Empress Dowager carefully pondered what the youngest son said, and in desperation, she smiled wryly, "You are always like this, every word and deed must have nothing to do with the imperial power, I don't know how a person with such a temperament as you was born The emperor's house." Shaking his head, he asked again, "In your opinion, when will your brother be able to return to Beijing?"

Kang Wang seriously analyzed, "This time, Brother Huang is afraid that he will not return to Beijing until one or two years later?"

The queen mother was inevitably disappointed, "Why do you say that?"

"It's also a good thing." Kang Wang said with a sincere smile, "The longer you leave, the more you can see the characters and abilities of Yongpinghou and Yiyonghou, and you can gradually realize that it was wrong for him to suspect the two of them. In fact, this kind of thing, It’s still outsiders who can see clearly——Xiao Xun and Yu Shaoheng’s most important relatives and loyalty, no matter who they are, as long as they don’t touch the people they care about, they will fulfill their duties to the royal family.”

"Suspicion is wrong. I was also wrong. I was in a hurry for nothing, and I didn't say anything. Today, I have lost my face." The queen mother laughed at herself, "In the past, there was still a demon in my heart, and I couldn't see clearly—— ——The emperor is no longer the age for me to take care of him. By now, the emperor has nothing to do, so what can I do? In the future, I will just coax the prince and princess to live, and treat the empress, mother and child better, and my life will be clean Be more peaceful."

"What the queen mother said is true." Kang Wang smiled with relief, "My child will be born in a while, and I will let the princess carry the child into the palace from time to time to accompany you."

The queen mother finally had a real joy, and then discussed: "The Qin family—"

"If the emperor's sister-in-law, Yongpinghou, and Yiyonghou don't want to touch the Qin family, you don't need to worry about it." Seeing that the queen mother was puzzled, Kang Wang explained, "These people, including the emperor, are willing to see the court There is a confrontation between the two parties in the hall. Brother Huang is happy to see this situation, otherwise he would have informed you about the Qin family and ordered severe punishment. As for others, they don’t want to have the reputation of being a dictator. If you look at The daughter of the Qin family is upset, so she can deal with it as she pleases."

"Of course I want to deal with them." The Queen Mother's voice turned cold, "How can I sit back and relax when such a snake-hearted person is in the palace? The crown prince is the only one under the emperor's knees who can inherit the throne. There is no one to succeed you?" As he spoke, he glared at King Kang again, "With a father like you, what will your child be like in the future? I don't even dare to think about adopting."

Kang Wang smiled apologetically and echoed again and again, "It's right to think so, it couldn't be better."

"..." The queen mother felt a headache again, and she had nothing to say to this kind of son.

Kang Wang felt emotional.Up to now, in his eyes, Zhong Liye is the real wise emperor.Whether intentionally or not, whether willingly or forcedly, Zhong Liye chose to hand over the responsibility of presiding over the Chao Gang to Yu Shaoheng and Xiao Xun.The reason may be that Zhong Liye is too arrogant, he would rather have his opponent take over the world than give others a chance to develop their power.Even so, the courage is also very human.

After the queen mother sent the Qin sisters out of the palace, and took back all the confidantes who had left, life in and out of the palace returned to peace.

In March of Yangchun, Ye Xihan left the capital and went to Shu.

Xu's feeling about this matter is that a catastrophe is imminent, thinking that he and Brother Tao will not be bullied to death by Ye Xilang and Fang Fei in the future.When saying goodbye, she said to Ye Xihan full of resentment: "If our mother and son end up being sent out of the house, don't regret it then!"

Ye Xihan couldn't help laughing, "If your parents, second brother, and second younger siblings take good care of you after I leave, you will have a better conscience then. My term of office is three years, and I only hope that when you return to Beijing She has changed back to the woman I respect." He has many helplessness that he can't understand outsider - tried his best to persuade, exhausted his patience to accompany her, she is still obsessed, only caring about hating her husband's family and Yu's family, refusing to look far away , with such a pillow person, he was really helpless, so he had to come up with this worst plan.

Yu Shaoheng, Ye Xilang, and Xiao Xun sent Ye Xihan away from the prime minister's mansion, and only turned back outside the capital.

In the spring of this year, Jing Zhiran gave birth to a young princess. Since then, King Kang has shaken off his reputation of being idle, and he has devoted himself to coaxing his precious daughter and accompanying his wife at home.

After that, nothing major happened. In August, Zhong Liye and Tang Hongxiao went to Jiangnan together, and ordered people to bring back two letters and two orders.

The two letters were written to the Empress Dowager and Yu Shaoyun, and the purpose was related to several important officials.

The first decree, Zhong Liye took back part of the real power in Qin Anhuai's hands, but at the same time entrusted Xiao Xun with a heavy responsibility, ordering Xiao Xun to lead the secret guards to protect the queen mother, empress, and prince in the palace.

The second decree, Zhong Liye told Yu Shaoheng, Ye Shuxuan, and Luo Yuanhua what he had seen and heard on the road, such as which place should develop water conservancy, which place has more corrupt officials and the people are in dire straits.In addition, he also mentioned some honest and fair officials.The meaning of this decree is naturally to let Yu Shaoheng and the other three take separate actions.

Although Luo Yuanhua and Qin Anhuai are relatives by marriage, they have always insisted on their own views on government affairs and made a lot of achievements in their positions.This is also the reason why the whole court is willing to keep this left prime minister.

Because of these two wills, Yu Shaoheng became really busy again.Ye Xizhao didn't mind either, the only requirement for him was to eat meals on time.

The next day, Ye Xizhao took Ruigeer to the palace.

Yu Shaoyun hugged Brother Rui, kissed the child's small face, and praised with a smile, "Father and son are really alike. It turns out that the elder brother was so good-looking when he was young." Then he asked: "Is the day when the third sister-in-law is going to give birth soon? Is the doctor Wen Po who was sent there still reliable?"

"They are all very dutiful people." Ye Xizhao said with a smile, "The crown prince and princess went to the queen mother's palace again?"

"Yeah. The grandparents and grandchildren are getting closer." Yu Shaoyun said meaningfully, "After all, the woman who used to call the wind and rain, figured out those things, and after knowing which is more important, she is willing to be a mother-in-law and daughter-in-law with me sincerely." .Naturally, Kang Wang contributed a lot."

Ye Xizhao was happy for Yu Shaoyun from the bottom of his heart, and he said another thing, he also came here to ask for Yu Shaoheng: "Are you going to write a reply letter to the emperor?"

"Tell me, what should I write?" Yu Shaoyun took two portraits with a smile on his face, "Look, this is the letter he wrote to me. Apart from that, it doesn't have a word. Is it possible that I will also reply to the two portraits?" Give him a portrait? How can there be such a leisurely heart."

Among the portraits, one is Zhong Liye and the other is Yu Shaoyun.

From Ye Xizhao's point of view, Zhong Liye's meaning was obvious: let Yu Shaoyun and the children not forget him, and he never forgot Yu Shaoyun.

Yu Shaoyun must have seen the intention, but he still blamed him in his heart.

(End of this chapter)