"The Queen Mother has arrived!" The third prince was about to speak, when the sharp voice of the eunuch suddenly came from outside.

The third prince had no choice but to stop and take two steps forward to greet the Queen Mother. After the Queen Mother came in, she saw that Qingdi was also there, so she said: "Yaocen, you go back first, I have some important things to tell Your Majesty now, and after I finish speaking, I will ask someone to pick you up and take you to my palace, and I also have something to tell you." ”

Qingdi bowed slightly and said, "Yes, Queen Mother." ”

After Qingdi left, the queen mother told the third prince what she had just said in the second prince's mansion, and when the third prince heard it, he quickly took out the edict he had just written, and said: "Queen Mother, the son already knows that it is wrong, and this edict is what I just wrote." Do you see if it's appropriate? ”

The Queen Mother was surprised, took the edict and looked at it, nodded and said: "Very good, this is exactly what I want to tell you, you have realized it in advance, this is very good." Zhou Xing has been an official in the court for decades, and now he is becoming more and more confused, he wants to eradicate some dissidents for you, but he uses bad means. If you find out after a thorough investigation that he is indeed at fault, you must punish him. ”

"Okay, Erchen understands."

The Queen Mother nodded, seeing that the third prince's attitude and approach were right, she could finally breathe a sigh of relief, and left after explaining that he wanted to get along with his second brother.

The Queen Mother ordered someone to bring Qingdi to her. Qingdi had just returned to her residence, Chu Yaocen asked her what the third prince had said, Qingdi shook her head helplessly and said: "Since he has made this decision, there is no room for redemption, and now he has asked Zhou Xing to investigate thoroughly, wouldn't he offend the previous prince's party again, if he still wants to do something to Zhou Xing, it is estimated that it will also chill his own people." ”

"Oh? He wants to investigate Zhou Xing thoroughly? Chu Yaocen smiled helplessly and said, "After all, it's inexperienced, I don't need to do anything, he is going to push himself into a dilemma." By the way, didn't you remind him? ”

"How do I remind him? If he didn't make Zhou Xing's case at the beginning, the second prince said that those people under him were still moths under him, and he would definitely not listen to him. Now that half of it has been disposed of, he regrets that he wants to check Zhou Xing...... Hey, if this emperor has a little courage, he should wait until Zhou Xing kills all the disobedient ministers who have other ideas, and then push Zhou Xing out as a scapegoat, so that even if there are still people who disobey him in the future, they will not dare to do anything. After Qingdi finished speaking, he shook his head and said, "He is too young, and he still needs to accumulate experience." ”

Chu Yaocen chuckled, rubbed Qingdi's head and said, "Why do you look like an old man, aren't you younger?" ”

Qingdi patted her chest and said, "In my heart, I am already an eighty-year-old girl. ”

Chu Yaocen laughed, hugged her and said, "Then aren't we growing old together in advance?" ”

Qingdi was also amused by him, and was about to speak, when the eunuch next to the Queen Mother came over, saying that he wanted to invite Qingdi to the Queen Mother, Qingdi glanced at Chu Yaocen and went with him.

As soon as the two of them left, the smile on Chu Yaocen's face was removed, and he immediately picked up his pen and wrote a letter, so that the killing could be sent to Zhang Xiuhe quickly.

Qingdi arrived at the Queen Mother, and after a salute, the Queen Mother gave her a seat, Qingdi thanked the Queen Mother, and sat on the stool in a regular manner, looking at the Queen Mother with a smile.

The Queen Mother took a sip of tea and asked, "Do you know what I called you for?" ”

Qingdi's eyes rolled, and at this time, the Queen Mother called her over, not for the sake of government affairs, but for her identity. The three princes all knew that she was not Chu Yaocen, and the Queen Mother must have known it. Qingdi didn't say anything, still smiling and looking at the Queen Mother, as if waiting for her to speak.

"Just now, I wanted to scold the old three, how could I hand over the right to dispose of the old second-hand minister to Zhou Xing, so in the eyes of others, it must be biased. But after I went, I found that he had already prepared an edict and decided to thoroughly investigate Zhou Xing and give justice to the second child. The Queen Mother smiled slightly, looked at Qingdi and said, "You must have taught this, right?" ”

Qingdi raised her eyes and looked at the Queen Mother, and when she saw a smile on her face, she knew that she was quite satisfied with the three princes' approach. But the Queen Mother is really still an ordinary woman, she only thinks about letting her two sons live in peace, but she doesn't take into account that if an emperor wants to sit in his position, he must make a move to eliminate dissidents. If she was the queen mother, she would not be willing to interfere with her son's approach, and she would be satisfied with this kind of decision.

Qingdi shook his head and said, "It's not me, it's Your Majesty who came up with this method himself, and he doesn't want to fall out with the second prince." ”

"Really?" The Queen Mother asked rhetorically with suspicion in her tone.

She saw Qingdi nodding, and she nodded with satisfaction. If she taught it, it proves that this girl is indeed capable, and she doesn't say it when it's obviously her credit, which proves that she doesn't want to take credit, but attributes the reason to the third child, what a generous good girl.

The more she looked at it, the more satisfied she became, and asked her, "Girl, what is your real name?" ”

Qingdi raised the corners of her mouth slightly, sure enough, I am afraid that everyone in this royal family knows that she is not Chu Yaocen except for Xiaohu. Qingdi didn't refute anymore, and hurriedly replied to her with words that had been explained several times: "Back to the Queen Mother, my name is Qingdi, and I pretended to be Chu Yaocen because there were too many mistakes at the beginning...... The first emperor already knew about this when he was alive, but he never broke me, so I continued to stay in the palace as Chu Yaocen. ”

"Qingdi?" The Queen Mother nodded: "You are honest, and you don't continue to say something to excuse yourself, so you admit that you are lying." What did you do in the palace? ”

"Actually, Lu Gongzi is the real Chu Yaocen, I am his wife, I thought he was dead, I was helpless, so I came to Wu Country and approached you as ...... person, I just thought that you were Yaocen's relatives, and you should accept me, but I didn't expect him to be dead" Qingdi paused, secretly looked at the Queen Mother, and saw that the Queen Mother frowned slightly, and she also chuckled in her heart, why, is the Queen Mother dissatisfied with her explanation?

"He's the real Yaocen? Is it my nephew? And you are his wife? The Queen Mother leaned forward slightly and asked Qingdi.

Qingdi nodded: "Yes......"

"You...... Are you already married? The Queen Mother remembered what the second prince had said to her, and it was true, Qingdi was already a married woman, and that man lived here, under their noses.

Moreover, if it were another man, she might use strong means to send that man away, or kill him directly, anyway, for the stability of the country, for the third child to have this woman, it is not impossible to do a little tough thing. But this man is her nephew, should she do the same?

The Queen Mother didn't speak, and Qingdi didn't say anything, just quietly waited for the Queen Mother to continue talking.

The Queen Mother was silent for a long time, and finally regained her composure, sat back in her place, she still held on to a glimmer of hope, and asked, "Then is there still a relationship between you and Chu Yaocen?" What do you think of the third child? ”

Qingdi understood what she meant, and couldn't help but feel funny, and said: "The relationship between me and Yao Cen is very good, and the two of us will definitely raise our eyebrows and grow old together." His Majesty is the Ninety-Five, and he will definitely be able to find a woman worthy of him. ”

I don't know why, the Queen Mother suddenly got angry, slapped the table and said: "Bold, you two, you dare to bully the king!" Come on, put her and that Lu Yin in prison! ”

Qingdi didn't expect things to develop like this at all, she had been in the royal family of Wu for so long, and she was a little used to the various dependences of people in the royal family on her, so the emperor and the two princes didn't say anything after knowing her true identity. But what is the Queen Mother doing like this? Is it because she doesn't want to marry her son that she is angry and wants to kill her?

Qingdi didn't know the purpose of the Queen Mother, and she didn't dare to speak rashly to excuse herself, and soon, she and Chu Yaocen were both imprisoned.

Chu Yaocen didn't even resist anything, he smiled heartlessly, looked at Qingdi and said, "Did you make the Queen Mother angry?" ”

Qingdi glanced at him and said, "You still have the heart to laugh, what if the Queen Mother is really angry and kills us?" Unexpectedly, he escaped the prison of the madman of the Li royal family and fell into the prison of the Wu royal family. ”

Chu Yaocen saw that she was angry, so he didn't tease her, rubbed her hair and said: "Okay, don't worry, they will come soon and respectfully invite you out, after the death of the first emperor and the crown prince, no matter how united the royal family of Wu is, they don't have enough ability, they can't do without you." ”

Qingdi glanced at him, sighed helplessly, and said, "We seem to be taking advantage of people's danger." ”

"You're thinking too much, it's not taking advantage of others, it's our luck. What's more, you didn't harm them, haven't you been helping them? Chu Yaocen smiled.

Moreover, even if he doesn't talk about this, his letter should have already reached Zhang Xiuhe's hands, Wu Guo, and it will soon be a big mess.

Jianye and Shenjiang are not too far away, but they also have to be half a day's journey. Zhang Xiuhe got the letter sent by the killing, so he quickly opened it and read it, and after reading it, he happily said to the killing: "You go back and tell Brother Lu, I will do what he said immediately." ”

After finishing the killing, he hurriedly went back.

In fact, Chu Yaocen's method is very simple, that is, at this time, let Zhang Xiuhe lobby the ministers left by the former prince, saying that the current saint disposes of Zhou Xing, it must be because the saint thinks that they are not loyal, so he wants to get rid of the second prince and them. It's like if other emperors have ascended the throne since ancient times, they change to courtiers.

By the way, the punishment of Zhou Xing must also be heavier, so as to make the previous princelings more determined and more chilled.

However, Zhang Xiuhe was "sealed" here, and he couldn't go back by himself without a special reason, and now Zhou Xing has nothing to do, he went back too early. However, among the people ordered by the emperor to investigate Zhou Xing thoroughly, several of them were his people, and they must be able to make a move soon.