At night, Changqing Palace.

There was a crisp bang, and it was the Empress Dowager Li who smashed a fine porcelain teacup down.

The elegant pink and blue porcelain pieces splashed on the ground, and immediately Gong E stepped forward to clean it up lightly.

"Look at the good daughter you taught." Empress Dowager Li stood on the side of several cases, because of anger, her hands trembled slightly according to several cases, "I dare to set fire today, so will I dare to kill people with a knife tomorrow?" ”

Emperor Qinglong was kneeling on the ground at this time, and he didn't even pay attention to the blood mark on the back of his hand that had just been scratched by the broken porcelain piece that had just been splashed out, and just said, "The queen mother is angry." ”

"Anger? Hum! Empress Dowager Li snorted heavily, "How can I be angry?" On a good day like Yue'er's ceremony today, she dared to instruct someone to set fire. I don't know, but they have always had a lot of opinions about me, an old woman, but I wish that my old woman would immediately kick her legs and go to see the emperor, and they would be satisfied. “

Yangde Palace is the palace where Empress Cui lives, and when Empress Dowager Li said this, she actually implied that today's Sima Yu set fire was secretly instigated by Empress Cui.

After saying this, Empress Dowager Li still felt that the anger in her heart was not missing a star. So she squinted at Emperor Qinglong, and said, "Is it that my old wife is also in the way of the emperor?" You also wish I had gone to see your father a day earlier? ”

As soon as Empress Dowager Li said this, Emperor Qinglong immediately lay down and kowtowed.

"The queen mother's words, the son can't stand it."

"What do you have to bear?" Empress Dowager Li snorted lightly in her nose, sat down in the chair with the support of Gong E, and then said slowly, "When your father and emperor just left, you ascended the throne in Rexiaoli, but which minister below obeyed you, the new emperor?" One by one, like wolves, they are eager to pull you off the throne so that your royal brother can ascend the throne. At that time, I thought that your situation was not easy for my mother, and while listening to the government, I asked my mother's family to make suggestions and efforts, and finally got those difficult ministers out of power. But you are just fledgling, but you are beginning to suspect that the mourning family is coming. Why, I'm afraid that the mourning family will learn from the Empress Dowager Lu, control the government, and let you be a puppet emperor? You are crawling out of my intestines, you are one, and you don't understand the truth that your lips are dead and your teeth are cold? Anyway, at that time, the mourning family thought, there is no resentment in your own life, you are my biological son after all, what is there to complain about? The mourning family just wants to live a leisurely life every day, who is impatient to pay attention to the government? Therefore, the mourning family will no longer listen to the government, and will return the government to you. Who knew that you secretly began to suppress the Li clan of Zhao County. Why, you don't have the blood of the Zhao Jun Li family in your body? You're happy to suppress your grandfather's family? It's just that now the Li clan of Zhao County has declined, and the Boling Cui clan in Yangde Palace is prosperous, don't you worry? Don't blame the mourning family for not reminding you that the prince is transposed, which is related to the country. ”

Emperor Qinglong, who only said these words, had a pale face.

"The queen mother," he leaned down again, kowtowed, and whispered, "the son was confused back then, and please forgive the son for the sake of his son's young age." ”

In this regard, Empress Dowager Li only snorted lightly and did not answer.

Emperor Qinglong knew that what happened back then really hurt Empress Dowager Li's heart. Over the years, although he came to Changqing Palace every day to ask for peace, the relationship between mother and son has become increasingly estranged.

But he still remembers that when he was a child, the queen mother sat on the stone bench under the wisteria trellis, watched him and Ah Ye frolicking there, and then beckoned them to come over, touched his and Ah Ye's heads, handed them a bowl of sour plum soup, and then smiled and gently wiped the sweat on their foreheads with a handkerchief.

At that time, the faint fragrance on the handkerchief seemed to linger on the tip of the nose, but now there seems to be a layer of glass between him and the queen mother.

and Ah Ye, thinking about how close the two brothers were before, but because of his suspicions, it has been nearly twenty years now, and Ah Ye has never set foot in the capital.

Thinking of this, Emperor Qinglong only felt that his heart was full of guilt.

"Queen Mother," he raised his head and said in a deep voice, "my son will go to Yangde Palace and punish Ah Yu heavily." ”

With that, he stood up, turned around and was about to leave.

Empress Dowager Li stopped him by opening her mouth: "Come back." ”

Emperor Qinglong immediately turned his head and stood there with his head down.

"She is your favorite daughter, and you are willing to punish her? It's better not to coax the old woman of the mourning family. Empress Dowager Li sneered and spoke.

Emperor Qinglong felt that if he didn't mend the relationship between him and Empress Dowager Li, he was afraid that the relationship between their mother and son would be even more estranged in the future.

Therefore, he simply put all the thoughts and thoughts in his heart out: "I have so many daughters under my knees, but I love Ah Yu the most, and the queen mother really doesn't know the reason?" ”

Empress Dowager Li was silent for a moment, and then said with a sneer: "How can an old woman who only knows how to listen to dramas and teasing birds in a town know so much? ”

"Queen Mother," Emperor Qinglong took a few steps forward, closer to Empress Dowager Li, and then said in a deep voice, "My son will simply tell everything tonight." I know that the most worrying thing in the queen mother's heart is nothing more than whether A-Yuan's position as the prince is stable. Ah Yuan's biological mother died early, although he had long been a prince, but Queen Cui then gave birth to a son, and the Boling Cui clan naturally wanted to pull Ah Yuan down and let the bloodline of his Cui clan ascend to the position of prince. I know all this, but the queen mother, now the Boling Cui clan is growing stronger, and the power in the court is intertwined, even if I know this qiē, I am powerless. ”

"You are powerless, so you have been pampering the Yangde Palace and alienated Ah Yuan and Ah Xuan?" Empress Dowager Li's voice was as cold as the snow on the roof in the middle of the night.

Emperor Qinglong smiled bitterly when he heard this: "It's the son who is incompetent." It's just the queen mother, have you ever heard of a sentence? Sometimes, estrangement is also a kind of love. ”

Empress Dowager Li was silent. After a few moments, she said, "Then what are you going to do next?" Or have you been pampering the Yangde Palace, alienating Ah Yuan and Ah Xuan? In this way, you are not afraid that the Boling Cui clan will take the opportunity to provoke the courtiers and write to abolish Ah Yuan's position as the prince? What are you going to do then? ”

"Ah Yu is only seven years old, so they must not be in a hurry to make a move for the time being, right?" Emperor Qinglong said hesitantly.

Empress Dowager Li snorted coldly: "You are not in a hurry. Ah Yuan is in the position of the prince, so many eyes are staring at him day and night, since someone wants to pull him down, he can't find a small reason to make a big fuss one day, and then the courtiers are all talking, how do you protect him? And what will you do to protect him? ”

Emperor Qinglong pursed his lips and did not speak.

Seeing this, Empress Dowager Li snorted coldly, reached out and took the teacup handed over by Gong E, opened the lid of the cup, slowly blew the hot air curling up inside, and stopped talking.

Emperor Qinglong hesitated for a moment, and finally said in a low voice: "Please also ask the queen mother to teach her son." ”

Empress Dowager Li took a sip of Lanxue tea in the teacup slowly, wiped her lips with a handkerchief, and then put the teacup on the table, then squinted at Emperor Qinglong, and asked slowly: "What, now you are not afraid of the queen mother interfering in court politics?" ”

When Emperor Qinglong heard this, he blushed and knelt down again: "The queen mother, it was her son's fault back then, which made the queen mother cold to her son. It's only these years that the son has woken up, and only the queen mother in this world will treat me wholeheartedly, for my sake, and the son will never doubt the queen mother in the future. ”

When Empress Dowager Li heard this, she looked at Emperor Qinglong in a daze and did not speak for a long time.

Rao was the suspicion of Emperor Qinglong back then, which made her feel cold, but in the end, this was also her own son. She still remembered how crumpled he was when he was born, and his cry was not loud at all, whimpering like a little milk kitten.

This is the first child she has ever had. As a mother for the first time, the throbbing at the first glance of him at that time is still so clear even after many years tonight.

Empress Dowager Li sighed, reached out and pulled the kneeling Emperor Qinglong up.

"Sit." She pointed to the chair next to her and motioned for him to sit, and then asked Gong E to bring a basin of clear water.

Carefully dipped in a handkerchief with water to wipe the blood stains scraped by the broken porcelain on Emperor Qinglong's hand, Empress Dowager Li sighed: "For the first time in so many years, it is the first time that our mother and son have sat together quietly and gossiped like this. ”

The tip of his nose seemed to smell the faint fragrance on the mother's handkerchief that year. Emperor Qinglong lowered his head, concealed the sudden redness in the corners of his eyes, and replied softly: "Yes." ”

Even though it was just a small blood stain, Empress Dowager Li was not at ease, so she sprinkled some anti-bleeding and anti-inflammatory powder on it, and finally found a clean plain white handkerchief and tied it up.

instructed Gong E on the side to serve tea, and then Empress Dowager Li slowly said to Emperor Qinglong: "I also understand the thoughts of the Boling Cui clan, they always feel that their Cui clan should be the first among the five surname clans. It's just that over the years, first our Zhaojun Li clan pressed on his head, and then although our Zhaojun Li clan was depressed, but immediately there was Taiyuan Wang's top up, how could he Boling Cui's subdued? Later, the Cui family entered the palace and became the queen and gave birth to Ah Yu, they naturally wanted to make Ah Yu the prince, and then the emperor, and then their Boling Cui clan was ranked first among the five surname clans, and they could simply suppress the other four clans. Therefore, Ah Yuan is naturally their stumbling block, and they must get rid of it by all means. It's just that they think too well, Ah Yuan is the bloodline of my Zhao County Li family, even though my Zhao County Li family has not been as good as before these years, but the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and it is not that their Cui family can be bullied casually. What's more, I have bigger chips in my hands right now. “

Emperor Qinglong naturally wanted to ask: "What does the queen mother mean by this bigger bargaining chip?" ”

Empress Dowager Li glanced at him, and then said slowly: "This bigger bargaining chip is the patriarch of the Taiyuan Wang clan, Wang Jun." ”