The dust settled on the Zhou family.

It wasn't until the Zhou family moved out of the Cheng'en Mansion that the people in the capital reacted that the Zhou family, who had been favored for so many years, was really sent down by the emperor because of a trumped-up crime.

Of course, there are also discerning people who know the real reason why Zhao Tiannan sent the Zhou family.

Even the emperor's own uncle ended up like this because he was involved in stealing and selling official grain, which is enough to see the emperor's determination to deal with this case strictly, so how can the other officials involved in the case be lucky?

For a while, those who were not involved in this matter naturally patted their chests and shouted in rejoicing, while those who usually profited from participating in the theft and sale of official food fell into anxiety and fear.

Let's talk about the Zhou family.

Zhao Tiannan did what he said, just as he said to the Queen Mother, although he sent the Zhou family, he was extremely tolerant and allowed the Zhou family to enter the palace to see the Queen Mother, not only that, but even Ciyun Nunnery specially ordered that if the Queen Mother wanted to visit Zhao Youjun, there was no need to stop it.

If it were a change of the usual, the Queen Mother would definitely be happy about it.

But at this moment, the Queen Mother only feels that life is so difficult.

After the Zhou family was sent down, they thought that there was no possibility of turning over, but they didn't expect that the emperor would still allow them to enter the palace to meet the queen mother.

With such a cognition, how could the Zhou family not seize the opportunity of the Queen Mother.

The old lady of the Zhou family immediately changed her clothes and led several daughters-in-law into the palace.

The Queen Mother had been living in Cining Palace before, and she hadn't seen the Zhou family for a long time, so even if she was depressed because of the conversation with Zhao Tiannan before, she saw Mrs. Zhou and others at this time. also showed a rare smile.

It's just that before she said a few words, Mrs. Zhou and the old lady Zhou were crying and complaining to the queen mother, as for the content of this cry, it is nothing more than how miserable the Zhou family is now, how sad life is, and so on.

The Queen Mother was cried like this by Mrs. Zhou, which also aroused sadness in her heart. Two old ladies over seventy years old hugged their heads and cried bitterly.

Mrs. Zhou saw the Queen Mother crying so sadly. Originally, I was still a little proud in my heart, my sister-in-law has been for decades, and Mrs. Zhou knows more than a little bit about the Queen Mother. She, the queen mother's sister-in-law, is most distressed by her mother's family, if it weren't for the queen mother's subsidy over the years, the Zhou family's life would not have been so smooth.

When Mrs. Zhou wanted to come, she cried so sincerely. Even if the queen mother can't make the emperor change his mind and retract his will, at least she can't bear to see the miserable appearance of the Zhou family now. Reward some good things to get the Zhou family through the difficulties.

But what Mrs. Zhou didn't expect was that the Queen Mother cried sadly, but she didn't mean to reward at all, until she and several daughters-in-law stayed until they had to leave the palace to close the palace door. The Queen Mother didn't come up with a single son.

The Queen Mother and Mrs. Zhou have known each other for so many years, and if you want to say anything, you can't see what Mrs. Zhou means, that's a lie. But the Queen Mother also had a hard time, so she quarreled with Zhao Tiannan like that. Although she is still in the name of the Queen Mother, and she is indeed living a golden and noble life, her emperor's son has already ordered that the Zhou family can enter the palace to see the Queen Mother, but don't want to take away even a needle from Cining Palace.

In the final analysis, the surname is still Zhao, even if the Queen Mother is the biological mother of the current emperor, no one dares to resist and disobey Zhao Tiannan's order when he already has an order.

The Queen Mother also knew that even if she rewarded Mrs. Zhou and others, they would definitely not be able to take it out of the palace.

So, how did Mrs. Zhou enter the palace, and how did she return to the crowded little house of the Zhou family now.

Compared with the Cheng'en Mansion, which occupied a wide area and was rich and luxurious, this small mansion is now not even comparable to the subordinate room of the Cheng'en Mansion, of course, there is no subordinate in the Zhou family today, and even the Zhou family has to be crowded to live, how can there be a place for the subordinate to live in this mansion.

When Mrs. Zhou and the others went back, they were greeted by a room full of people's eyes.

But then, seeing the empty hands of Mrs. Zhou and others, the look in the eyes of the Zhou family turned to frustration.

"What's the matter, how can the Queen Mother not have any reward?" The first one who didn't believe it was Zhou Tai, he grabbed Mrs. Zhou's hand and asked viciously, "Did you swallow the reward given by the Queen Mother?" ”

Mrs. Zhou was stunned.

She and Zhou Tai have been married for decades, they came together in the initial poverty, and later they shared the scenery of the Chengen Mansion for decades, why is it that Zhou Tai has become a little unrecognizable to her now that she has only been back in poverty for so many days?

Because of such doubts in her heart, Mrs. Zhou inevitably had a bit of trance and hesitation in her reply, "I, we don't have ......"

But in Zhou Tai's eyes, it was Mrs. Zhou who was weak-hearted.

pinched the old lady Zhou's neck, and a blue veil appeared on Zhou Tai's old face, "You old pious woman, our Zhou family has only been in trouble for a few days, and you have learned to pull things into your pocket, the queen mother's reward is for me as an elder brother, you quickly take it out, take it out quickly!" ”

Mrs. Zhou was pinched by Zhou Tai unguardedly, and she couldn't breathe while breaking Zhou Tai's hand, making a "gurgling" sound in her throat, and her eyes were still rolling upward, which looked particularly terrible in the eyes of others.

Fortunately, the son and daughter-in-law of the Zhou family were stunned for only a moment before reacting, and hurriedly surrounded Zhou Tai and pulled Zhou Tai away.

Zhou Tai was already old, and when this attack came down, he only felt weak, so he let go of his hand, but he still pointed at Mrs. Zhou and said hatefully: "Old pious woman, hurry up and hand over the queen mother's reward, otherwise, our Zhou family can't tolerate you now!" ”

Zhou Tai is very persistent in the imaginary "reward" of the Queen Mother, and it looks like Mrs. Zhou will drive it out if she doesn't take it out.

If it had been changed before, decades of pampering would have been excellent, and Zhou Tai would not have cared about the queen mother's reward at all, just because the Zhou family at that time already had gold and silver, and the queen mother's reward was more of a symbol of the royal favor for the Zhou family.

But now it's different, Zhou Tai is no longer the high-ranking Cheng'en Gong, and the Zhou family has also moved from the Cheng'en Mansion to the cramped small mansion now, and so many years have passed. If there is no subsidy from the Queen Mother, the Zhou family, who are now penniless, are afraid that they will starve to death in a few days.

In such a situation, it is no wonder that Zhou Tai attaches so much importance to the queen mother's reward.

Mrs. Zhou was finally able to breathe freely again, holding her neck and panting for a while, before she stretched out her hand and pointed at Zhou Tai tremblingly, with a line of muddy tears flowing from her eyes. "Zhou Tai. You old bastard, for the sake of a reward that you don't have at all, to treat me like this? ”

Zhou Tai didn't have time to listen to Mrs. Zhou's accusations. His attention was focused on the words "a reward that is not at all."

"No?" He tilted his head, his face full of disbelief, "How could the Queen Mother not have a reward?" Doesn't she know where we are now? ”

At this time, the frightened daughters-in-law of the Zhou family said timidly: "Father." The Queen Mother really didn't reward anything down. ”

Zhou Tai's gaze swept over the faces of Mrs. Zhou and several daughters-in-law one by one, and it took a long time. finally had to believe that the Queen Mother, who he was looking forward to, did not reward anything this time.

"How is this possible?" He muttered.

The sudden chaos of the Zhou family also came to an end.

Of course, Zhou Tai refused to believe it. The Queen Mother, who had protected his family for decades, would leave it so suddenly, and as soon as it dawned the next day, she urged Mrs. Zhou to enter the palace.

He was sure. The Queen Mother would not have seen the Zhou family fall like this, as for why there was no reward yesterday. Presumably the Queen Mother is a little confused when she is old.

Although Mrs. Zhou was still angry because Zhou Tai treated her so roughly the day before, this anger was obviously not as good as the panic caused by being hungry the night before.

It is also a shame that the house where the Zhou family lives now is under the root of the imperial city, otherwise, with the situation that the Zhou family now has no money to hire a carriage, it is a big problem whether Mrs. Zhou can go to the palace gate.

With Zhao Tiannan's instructions, the old lady Zhou entered the palace smoothly, and even went so smoothly that she was convinced of Zhou Tai's previous speculation, and the queen mother must have been a little confused before forgetting to give the reward.

With the lesson of the last time, this time Mrs. Zhou was crying, but she did not forget to describe the situation of the Zhou family now having no rice to the pot with the Queen Mother, and even directly asked the Queen Mother to help.

But Mrs. Zhou was disappointed again, although the Queen Mother comforted her, but when it came to substantive things, she refused to accept them at all, let alone the reward she and the Zhou family wanted.

Mrs. Zhou was disappointed again.

In the next few days, the Zhou family did not believe in evil and went to the palace again and again to see the Queen Mother, but the result was the same, they failed to get any substantial benefits from the Queen Mother.

Even once, Mrs. Zhou was angry and said to the Queen Mother, "As the Queen Mother, you live a luxurious life, but you are reluctant to take out a little bit to help your mother's family, you deserve to end up with a son who is not a daughter and is not there", such disrespectful words.

Xu really realized that it was impossible for the Queen Mother to help the Zhou family, and it was also possible that she was afraid that the Queen Mother would be a big disrespectful crime to the Zhou family, and since then, the Zhou family has never entered the palace to see the Queen Mother.

When the Zhou family moved out of the Cheng'en Mansion, except for some clothes, Zhao Tiannan might not have taken anything valuable, even the jewelry worn by the ladies of the Zhou family was also pulled out, and only some worthless plain silver hairpin rings remained.

The Zhou family, who had nothing to lose, relied on the little silver they got from these jewelry, but they were half-starved for a few days, and then the silver ran out, and they could only live on the luxurious clothes they brought.

After a while like this, seeing that they couldn't hold on anymore, the sons of the Zhou family turned their minds to the friends they had made before.

The sons of the Zhou family are not particularly outstanding, and the friends they make are naturally mostly friends of wine and meat, and they naturally want to get together with the Zhou family when the Zhou family is prosperous, but now that the Zhou family is down, these people can't hide, of course, it is impossible to reach out to help.

And the other powerful people in the capital who were watching from the sidelines, there was a clear man who knew the reason why the Zhou family had fallen to such a point, so they naturally hid far away and did not dare to get close to half a step, for fear that they would also be involved in the case of stealing and selling official food.

There are also those who think long-term, seeing that the daughters of the Zhou family can now freely enter the palace to meet the Queen Mother, thinking that the Zhou family will only be able to turn over again in the future. With the idea of speculation, he also took out some silver to help the Zhou family, hoping to make a good relationship in the future.

Relying on these helps, the Zhou family can be regarded as having a difficult life.

Besides, the Queen Mother, the Queen Mother is also bitter and can't say it, although she was imprisoned in Cining Palace by Zhao Tiannan, she was not allowed to take anything for the Zhou family. But in the eyes of the Zhou family. She, the queen mother, is worthy of her name, since the Zhou family no longer goes to Cining Palace to see her, she also knows that her brother's family is afraid that they will hold a grudge against her.

The secluded life is already boring. added the matter of the Zhou family, and the Queen Mother inevitably thought of Zhao Youjun's daughter.

She still remembered that Zhao Tiannan not only said that she could let the Zhou family enter the palace to see her, but also allowed her to go to Ciyun Nunnery to see Zhao Youjun.

Since Zhao Youjun was sent to Ciyun Nunnery, the Queen Mother has not seen her again. Now that I can finally go to see her, how can I not be excited. He immediately ordered to go down and go out of the palace to Ciyun Nunnery.

With Zhao Tiannan's orders, naturally no one stopped the Queen Mother, so she went all the way to Ciyun Nunnery unimpeded. also met Zhao Youjun by Shun.

However, when she really saw her daughter who had been missing for a long time, the Queen Mother wished she had never seen her.

In her heart. Zhao Youjun's image is still the bright and moving woman she was at the beginning, but she really met. But she didn't dare to recognize her daughter at all.

The women in the capital all know that Ciyun Nunnery is a terrible place, but what is terrible, people who have not experienced it can not say clearly.

If people who are confused can see Zhao Youjun's current appearance, they will definitely be cautious from now on, and put an end to the possibility of being sent to Ciyun Nunnery.

From the outside, Zhao Youjun has not been tortured much, although he is thinner than before, but at least he still has a full tail, what makes the Queen Mother frightened is the numbness that Zhao Youjun expressed, even if he saw his own mother, Zhao Youjun was not moved, and he never cried to her for help as the Queen Mother thought before.

Even, being watched by Zhao Youjun's eyes that couldn't see any emotional fluctuations, the Queen Mother faintly had the urge to run away.

What kind of eyes are that, there is no emotion, there is no feeling, Zhao Youjun looked at the Queen Mother, but it seemed that the Queen Mother was not her own mother at all, not even a living person, but a stone, a stake.

The Queen Mother thought many times about what her beloved daughter would become in the Tsz Yun Nunnery, skinny, hysterical, and constantly thinking about escaping from the Tsz Yun Nunnery......

But she never imagined that her daughter would become the living dead she is now.

"Mother's Youjun......" The Queen Mother couldn't hold back the sadness in her heart anymore, and hugged Zhao Youjun and cried so much that she couldn't help herself.

Her most distressed daughter, the daughter who should have enjoyed the honor of the princess in the palace, how was she tortured by these old nuns in Ciyun Nunnery to become what she is now?

The Queen Mother thought that Zhao Youjun's appearance should be the most sad thing for her.

But her grief was destined to be more than that.

It didn't take long for another old nun to lead another person to the Queen Mother.

The Queen Mother was immersed in grief, and she only glanced at this sudden person casually, but then, she looked at the person with some disbelief.

"Yunyang!" The Queen Mother exclaimed.

Isn't this later person the Fengming Dance who was personally sent into Ciyun Nunnery by Mrs. Runing Hou.

The reason why the Queen Mother lived in seclusion in Cining Palace before was to change the title of the county lord of Feng Mingwu at the expense of this, and since then, because of Zhao Tiannan's orders, no one has mentioned things outside the palace in front of her.

Therefore, she didn't know that Feng Mingwu, who thought that she could live better with the title of county lord, not only lost at Mrs. Han's birthday banquet and was the prince of the Marquis of Runing, but also entered the Marquis of Runing Mansion as a concubine, and was sent to Ciyun Nunnery by Mrs. Marquis of Runing because she was not pregnant and could no longer conceive, not only went on the same path as Zhao Youjun, a mother, but also ended up with the same ending.

Seeing Feng Ming Dance in Ciyun Nunnery, and Feng Ming Dance in a similar state to Zhao Youjun, was undoubtedly a great shock to the Queen Mother.

Zhao Youjun and Feng Mingwu are five or six points similar in appearance, but now, those two similar faces are the same numbness and coldness, looking at the Queen Mother's eyes, it makes her heart gradually flood with a lingering chill for no reason.

"This ......" The Queen Mother held Zhao Youjun in one hand and Feng Mingwu in the other, and finally couldn't hold back her tears, "What kind of sin has this been......"

No one can answer the Queen Mother's question.

After returning to the palace from Ciyun Nunnery, the Queen Mother began to be bedridden, and she was already over the age of ancient after suffering such blows one after another, she could no longer bear it, and her body completely collapsed, and she could only lie on the hospital bed, hanging by the imperial doctor and various precious medicinal materials.

……

These news, through various channels, finally reached Feng Zhige's ears.

Feng Zhige actually didn't care about what happened to the Zhou family and Zhao Youjun's mother and daughter now, she didn't treat these people as opponents, so when she received these news, she just thought it was fun.

What Feng Zhige is concerned about now is the errand that Xiao Jingbei has taken over.

As the Jinyi Weibei Town Fu Division, Xiao Jingbei was already in charge of torture, and the authority of the Bei Zhen Fu Division allowed him to directly convict people without going through the trial of the Three Law Divisions.

And now, Xiao Jingbei has taken over the errand of trying the case of stealing and selling official grain from Zhao Tiannan. (To be continued.) )

ps: Have you turned over the red envelopes today?