622: Is it the conspiracy of the eldest princess? (1 more)
Is the words of the virtuous concubine true?
Meng Huaijin was also asking himself.
His answer was "I don't know", and he told Cheng Qing the same.
"Three years ago, I thought my surname was Meng, and I wanted to enter the school as soon as possible to repay my parents for their nurturing grace and Cheng's sponsorship."
"Three years after Chengping, someone told me that my surname should be Gu. My parents are just 'loyal servants' who were entrusted to raise me safely, I am the child of the queen's mother's family, my family died due to the emperor's suspicion, I have a sea of blood and hatred, and there is family glory waiting for me to recover. ”
"From the third year of Chengping to the eleventh year of Chengping, it took me a full eight years, from Nanyi to the capital, from lifting people to Shaoqing of Dali Temple, I thought I was on the right path...... Now some people say that I don't have the surname Gu, I should be surnamed Xiao, Xiaolang, you ask me if what the virtuous concubine said is true or not, I don't know. ”
A person's surname is a belonging in Dawei.
I'm not sure what my surname is, I don't know who I am, at this moment, Meng Huaijin has doubts about every decision he has made in the past eight years, Chengping three years to Chengping eleven years, is Meng Huaijin's precious time from youth to youth, if you deny the "effort" of these eight years, wouldn't it be a denial of his whole person?
Meng Huaijin has always been Cheng Qing's "guiding light", but now the candle flame of this lamp is flickering on and off, and Cheng Qing is very anxious!
"Senior brother, does it matter what your surname is? If you have doubts about your origins, then go and find out and figure it out. Each of us has responsibilities, but life is short for decades, and we should live for ourselves...... What your surname is, it doesn't affect who you are, if you don't like the surname Gu and Xiao, you can still choose the surname Meng, no matter what, you are always my senior brother, it took you eight years to become what you are now, relying on your own efforts, not your surname! ”
Cheng Qing guessed that after three years of Chengping, the person who ran to tell Meng Huaijin about his "life experience" should be Xiao Yunting.
That year, Xiao Yunting was only fifteen years old, right?
- Xiao Yunting can really make trouble!
Xiao Yunting has now run back to the northwest, and it is impossible for Cheng Qing to catch the other party and confront Meng Huaijin.
Meng Huaijin said that he thought his surname was Gu, and the Meng family's parents were adoptive parents, and according to their age, Meng Huaijin should be the queen's maiden nephew.
So Meng Huaijin arrived in the capital and soon had his own power - outsiders thought that Meng Huaijin climbed so quickly because of Nanyi Cheng's "funding", but Cheng Qing knew that Nanyi Cheng's funding for Meng Huaijin stopped when Meng Huaijin went to Beijing to take the exam.
Meng Huaijin can have today, relying on himself.
Cheng Qing had long been suspicious of a master like the black-clothed night walker by his side, but Cheng Qing respected Meng Huaijin's privacy and endured it.
If today's virtuous concubine had not insisted that Meng Huaijin was the son of the queen's early death, Cheng Qing would not have sat down with Meng Huaijin and discussed his life experience openly and honestly.
Thinking about it now, it's no wonder that the queen wanted to protect Cheng Qing's two sisters at the beginning, and the queen's actions once made Cheng Qing conspiracy theories, thinking that the queen was trying to win over the five princes, but now she finds that she thinks too much - the queen is probably close to Cheng Qing because of Meng Huaijin's face!
But the virtuous concubine insisted that Meng Huaijin was the prince, what did the virtuous concubine want?
As a modern person, Cheng Qing doesn't believe in the nonsense of "harmony between wives and concubines", she must first assume that the starting point of the virtuous concubine is malicious!
"Xu is a virtuous concubine...... No, the virtuous concubine is not so well-informed in the deep palace, it should be the eldest princess Fuzhen who knows your life experience, senior brother, and poked it out in public through the mouth of the virtuous concubine, so that the emperor is suspicious of the queen and shakes the opportunity of the fifth prince to be the prince! ”
In the rebellion of the eldest prince, the advantage of the "eldest son of the emperor" is gone, and the most likely to be the crown prince are only the third prince and the fifth prince.
Behind the three princes stood the eldest princess, and the fifth prince had the support of the queen.
During the emperor's coma, the queen and the eldest princess behaved evenly together, and they did not live up to the emperor's trust.
"The virtuous concubine said that senior brother, you are the son of the queen's mother, this is nonsense, although the mother denied it in public, the emperor's inquiry was indispensable afterwards. In the end, it will definitely be found out that you are not the prince, but the identity of your Gu family will be exposed-"
Meng Huaijin said that he was the Gu family, and the Gu family was destroyed due to the emperor's suspicion, no wonder for so many years, the queen was like an invisible person in the palace.
The emperor was already suspicious, Meng Huaijin was the queen's nephew, the queen had been silent, and now she explained to the emperor that she didn't know, and the emperor wouldn't believe it!
The queen may not recognize her nephew, but the queen also announced that Meng Huaijin's adoptive mother, Mrs. Meng, entered the palace, and Mrs. Meng was entrusted to raise the children of the Gu family.
With the emperor's suspicious character, he must be suspicious of the queen's intentions.
recognized his lost nephew, but kept it a secret, did he still have a grudge against the emperor because of his mother's affairs?
It is appropriate to have grievances.
Normal people will be resentful!
But the emperor is not a normal person...... Just like Cheng Rong's matter, the emperor felt that he had let Cheng Rong be buried, and Nanyi Cheng should not hold a grudge against the emperor's decision.
Thunder, rain and dew are all Jun'en.
What to say about revenge?
A courtier cannot hold a grudge against a king!
The same is true for the queen, from the emperor's standpoint, after the collapse of the Gu family, he also retained the queen's position in the middle palace, which is deep enough and righteous, the queen is not only grateful, but also resentful of the emperor, that is a great rebellion!
Cheng Qing said, and couldn't help but smile sarcastically:
"I have to say that the eldest princess really understands the emperor."
Cheng Qing felt that the queen would most likely get into trouble this time, including Meng Huaijin, and I don't know what the emperor would do in the end.
Meng Huaijin pondered Cheng Qing's sentence repeatedly: What his surname is does not affect who he is.
Cheng Qing's analysis is very reasonable, but Meng Huaijin still can't completely let go.
If Cheng Qing is right, then Niangniang is really going to get into big trouble this time, and even affect the five princes, and finally let the third prince become the crown prince, this is not the result that Meng Huaijin and Cheng Qing are willing to see-
On this day, the eldest prince led the troops to rebel, the emperor had already prepared, the eldest prince was defeated and captured, and the Marquis of Yingchuan was seriously injured and died.
The magnates of the capital have not yet recovered from this incident, and in the evening, the news of the death of the queen mother came out of the palace, and the emperor guarded filial piety for his mother and decided to strike the dynasty for seven days.
Gao Shoufu and other important ministers all sighed: Blessings are not double, disasters are not one-way, this year is really eventful!
After the death of the Queen Mother, the emperor had to mourn, regardless of officials or ordinary people, since he went up and down, and stopped all weddings and pleasures.
While counting his family's losses in the rebellion of the eldest prince, Cheng Qing ordered people to remove all the clothes that were prohibited during the state funeral of the Cheng family.
Master Cheng Liu actually came to the door overnight, and asked Cheng Qing as soon as they met:
"What happened in the palace today, you tell me carefully, how did I hear that Meng Huaijin was the queen's concubine who died early?"