Chapter 204: The Queen's Countermeasures
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"How is this possible?!!!" When the Shu sisters conspired with Meng Guiyu, Queen Meng in Wangchun Palace only received the news that her brother had masterminded collusion with Ruru, she was shocked and couldn't believe her ears, "If Starling had such a skill, he would still have so many ridiculous reputations in Chang'an over the years?!"
Chunlai was embarrassed: "Madame and the eighth prince both explained it like this, but Grandpa Guo ...... But Master Hou, he doesn't seem to believe it very much, and now everyone in the house seems to think that the eighth prince is hiding it because he is afraid of Aunt Jiaoyu. β
Empress Meng laughed angrily: "If the starling brother had this clumsy ability, he would have killed a few Jiaoyu a long time ago, and he could still let them live for so long?! After all, Jiaoyu is just relying on her young beauty to serve people, and Zheng Hou who coaxes her will listen to her everything! In terms of real means, she is just like that! Without Zheng Hou's support for her, what is she!"
"Considering that you still have the Queen Mother, the house is just putting the eighth prince under house arrest at this time, and it has not cut off the supply of people and medicinal materials for the waiters. Chunlai tried to comfort her, "The slave maid thought, the eighth prince is Zheng Hou's own flesh and blood, no matter whether the collusion with Ruru was done by the eighth prince, the tiger poison does not eat children! Zheng Hou can't really take the eighth prince like this, at most it's just a lesson!"
Empress Meng bit her lip and sneered: "You don't understand! Zheng Hou's affection for our mother and son has become increasingly thin since he empathized and fell in love with Jiaoyu! Under the tireless provocation of Jiaoyu's cheap maid over the years, he has long regarded us as strangers! What is there to be reluctant to do at this time?! Anyway, the heirs under his knees are prosperous, and there is no need to feel distressed if he dies a few times!"
"Niangniang......" Chunlai opened his mouth, wanting to say some comforting words but felt that he couldn't say anything: after all, how did Zheng Hou treat Mrs. Xiang and the three of them, this Chang'an, there is nothing unclear about the nobles, and it really doesn't look like there is much affection.
And she still hasn't told the queen, that is, when Zheng Hou thought that Meng Si'an was the culprit at first, he almost beat Meng Si'an to death!
Is that still the young son he has always held in the palm of his hand, let alone Meng Boheng, a son who doesn't like him?
"I don't have much status in Zheng Hou's mind. The queen squeezed her fist hard and said, "Zheng Hou hasn't moved the starling brother until now, it's just because of two reasons: one is to worry about his aunt, and the second is because he is afraid of the suspicion of King Gaomi!"
"After all, King Gaomi only impeached the Meng family for betraying the country, and although he was seriously injured before, he returned to Chang'an after his injuries stabilized. In the past few days since he came back, I haven't seen any bad news spread out about him, if it suddenly disappears, the eighty percent of the Gaomi King will suspect that it is because he knows about the Meng family's betrayal of the country, and he has been wiped out!"
Chunlai said, "Niangniang, what do you mean?"
"Spread the news!" the queen snorted coldly, "It's that the starling brother was used as a cover by the Meng clan and presided over the collusion with Ruru in a daze...... When he was attacked in Bishui County before, didn't the imperial court keep saying that it was Ru Ru who did it? In fact, it was the Meng clan who took this opportunity to contact Ru Ru and planned to usurp the throne with the help of Ru Ru's power!"
Ignoring the stunned Chunlai, she continued to herself, "In order to hide people's eyes, Meng Shi seriously injured him regardless of his flesh and blood!"
"At this time, because of the attack on King Gaomi's side, there is even a plan to simply kill him!"
"Niangniang!" Chunlai said eagerly, "If this news spreads, it will inevitably arouse the attention of King Gaomi to the Eighth Prince, and the Meng Clan will not dare to easily harm the Eighth Prince, resulting in no proof of death! But what are you going to do? We just have such a small number of people, it would be good if we could hand over the news, and Zheng Hou will find out about you sooner or later!"
"The little prince of King Guangling and Concubine Meng has been killed by the Shu sisters, who knows if the Meng family will change their plans because of this?"
"How are you going to do it then?!"
"The slave maid said something that should be slapped, although the eighth prince is your brother-in-law, but he has never been close to you! If you are in his situation now, he will not care whether you live or die! In this case, why do you still take a big risk for him at this time?!"
"......" Empress Meng was silent for a long time before she said, "Do you think I did this just for the sake of my starling? As you said, I told him that I was a sibling, but in fact I didn't kiss him at all!
"I'm doing this for myself!"
"The child whom the Meng family intends to push to the position of the East Palace has been 'died' by the Shu sisters in full view. β
"The war in the western Xinjiang, Kang Zhao's personal northward journey, Meng Jiaqian's practice, His Majesty's royal health, and my aunt's aging ...... All of this makes Damu's future more and more confusing. β
"Do you think the earlier plan can continue if the Meng clan doesn't immediately find another suitable 'little prince' to succeed me?"
"If I can't continue, I'm a waste. β
"By that time, not to mention the rest, most of the guards of Wangchun Palace may be withdrawn!"
"After they left, the Shu sisters casually hinted that Bacheng could kill me!"
The queen's eyes flashed with coldness, "How can I not remind the upper and lower levels of the Meng clan at this time, if I don't care whether I live or die, don't blame me for learning from Meng Jiaqian and selling the entire Meng family?!
Chunlai was stunned for a long time before he ate and said, "But...... But Niangniang, if Meng Shi knew about it, he would be furious, and he would simply ...... Just ......"
Why don't you kill you with lightning speed and never suffer from future troubles?
After all, Empress Meng's status in the Meng family was not high at all, and she didn't have the nourishing and happy life of her cousins in the second and third rooms! The Meng family has always despised her, how can she accept her threat?
"If I don't do anything, they will give me a way out?" The queen sneered and said, "Chunlai, don't be naΓ―ve! What is my mother's family, you have been with me these days, is it not clear? They are ruthless to the enemy, and even more ruthless to their own people! They are kind and well-behaved, and they will not get their pity and favor! They can only fight, grab, and calculate, but there is still some hope!"
Speaking of this, seeing that Chunlai was still full of fear, he sighed, "I know you're scared, but I'm actually scared too." But when spring comes, we are people who have nothing to rely on, and we have to rely on ourselves for everything! If we do something we do, we will die, and if we don't do it, we will die, why don't we try it? At least let ourselves be happy?"
He added, "If you really don't want to, go back and try to contact the sixth brother to come over, and I will tell him, let him do it! Alas, I can't help you, if you don't follow me, you won't fall into the current situation." β
"If the slave maid hadn't followed you, she would still be in Xinshou Palace at this time!" Chunlai smiled reluctantly and said, "The Empress Dowager is old, once the mountain collapses, with the grievances between the Empress Dowager and the Shu sisters, the Xinshou Palace, eighty percent of the people in the Xinshou Palace, how can the slave and maid be spared? Moreover, when they were in Xinshou Palace, the slaves and maids were just ordinary palace maids in the side hall, and they were called and drunk by Chi Zuosi, and they did a lot of things, took little money, and had no chance of losing face. β
"Niangniang doesn't dislike slaves and maids for being stupid, and brought slaves and maids to this Wangchun Palace, as soon as they come, they are in charge of the palace maids, and the treatment is much better than before!"
"So Niangniang, no matter what happens in the future, the slave and maid will not regret following you!"
She sniffed, "But in this case, the slave maid still suggests discussing it with Chongxinhou? After all, we live in the palace and are really not well-informed about the outside world! Maybe what has changed after such a while? Besides, Chongxinhou is a man, and he has seen more scenes than us, so maybe he has a better idea?"
Empress Meng frowned and thought for a while, then nodded, "Just do it." β
And at this moment, King Gaomi, who didn't know that he was about to reap the unexpected surprise of the queen's defection, asked Zhao Yu with a pale face: "What the hell is going on?!What does Zhao Shi mean?!"
Zhao Xuan looked at the news that had just been delivered from Beijiang, and said with a wry smile: "Actually, Mizhen's daughter-in-law plans to go north in person, and I know that this must be the result! Have you forgotten how nonsense and unreasonable that child is? The eldest brother has always been euphemistic, but what he said in the letter was just that Mizhen's daughter-in-law begged hard, and with the help and persuasion of Sheng Shixiong's former colleagues, he had to send troops to the western Xinjiang!"
"But in fact, maybe it's the secret daughter-in-law who cries and makes trouble with him in public, and spills and entangles!"
"She is a young and young junior, and she is still pregnant. β
"For the safety of her husband, who can not be sympathetic to the north of Xinjiang in the ice and snow?"
"Big brother, who is an uncle, can still ignore it once or twice, and he can't bear it if there are too many times!"
"And you also know that the eldest brother is actually not good at military affairs, but some of the generals are under his command!"
"In this case, Mizhen's daughter-in-law has the ability to let those generals speak to her, how can the eldest brother not consider the opinions of his subordinates?"
"In the final analysis, Mizhen's daughter-in-law's background took advantage, although Sheng Shixiong's official position was not high when he returned to the field, but his reputation for serving the country loyally is too loud, who doesn't know the old man over there in northern Xinjiang?"
"Back then, General Zhou specially summoned him because he heard of his righteousness. β
"At this time, Mizhen's daughter-in-law, as his granddaughter, went to Northern Xinjiang, and there are always some old people in the old people who will take care of her. Look at the Xu family, don't you just take care of the Sheng family's heirs as if they were your own bloodline?"
"Oh, and Ning Weihou, although he has been out of the army for some years, he has been the commander of an army in the end, how can there not be a few henchmen who swear to follow him to the end?"
"Those henchmen know the origin of the Sheng Xu family, and they have to help the secret daughter-in-law speak!"
"In this way, the eldest brother doesn't want to lose people's hearts, what else can he do if he doesn't cling to it?"
Zhao Xuan sighed and said helplessly, "In the final analysis, we really shouldn't have let Mizhen's daughter-in-law go to Northern Xinjiang at that time!"
King Gaomi's face was gloomy and he said: "I don't know what you say! However, the rebel son of Bacheng has reached a secret agreement with the Meng family, and Meng Guiyu's little child is like crazy, and he is simply the one who will spare everything to intercept us!"
Even if there are sporadic people who break out of the encirclement and escape from Gyeonggi, that is, the scope of the forbidden army's activities without edicts, they are also given a knife by a group of chaotic people!
β¦β¦ Later, it took a lot of effort for the Gaomi Mansion to find out that those people were all people from the south who had violated the ban by force, and they received a reward from the Feng family of the Sheng family in Nanfeng County, and specially hunted down his envoys.
Although the strength of these people is uneven, and they may not work together in order to compete for the reward, but the Feng family of the Sheng family is said to have a considerable reward this time, so that the people on the southern side of the road are almost out of the nest, and these people have three sects and nine streams, and they don't have the slightest bottom line when they do things, and they are completely unscrupulous, and they are stunned to kill all the people of King Gaomi, and they haven't let go of half of them!
So much so that King Gaomi stopped Lu Shiyu's order, and it was never delivered to Lu Shiyu at all!
"The wood is already in the boat, let's think of a way to make up for it now, right?" Zhao Xuan was a little weak when he said this, because Zhao Shi's secret letter stating the facts was sent to the Zhao Mansion yesterday, and he specially chose the mansion to enter through the corner gate at night, lest he let it out.
So he knew that Zhao Shi had decided to abandon King Gaomi and choose to sleep on the crane, what he said at this time was just that Old Madam Qin taught him to appease and fool King Gaomi, his personality has always been more decent, he couldn't help but feel ashamed, and forced himself to look solemn, and said, "Why don't you bring the matter of Western Xinjiang to the court now?" and urge the imperial court to come up with an idea of the war situation in Western Xinjiang. Looking back, I said that the reason why the eldest brother sent troops to rescue the western Xinjiang was precisely because of your instructions...... So that everyone in the world knows your love for Mizhen, and Mizhen can't help but repay you when you look back?"
King Gaomi grimaced and said: "That rebel has never been filial, and it would be good if I didn't get angry with me, and I would repay it! And what if the northern Xinjiang army sent troops? The northern Xinjiang army did not have wings, so it could fly to the western frontier at once! Maybe the rebel would not be able to hold on at this time?"
In fact, Yizhou is indeed a little unbearable at this time.