Chapter 21: Provocation (I)
When the capital was settled, he began to think about the affairs of the palace. On this day, the little emperor and Zeng Shou came to Cining Palace together.
The people in Cining Palace were all cleaned, and the Empress Dowager Dong was placed under house arrest here, and there was nowhere to vent her anger every day, and she wanted to shout a few times, but the eunuch palace maid ignored it and called people to reprimand, and the person laughed and said: "It stands to reason that Niangniang is uncomfortable, and it is also appropriate to reprimand us slaves, but now we are the slaves of the Long Live Lord, not the slaves of Niangniang, Niangniang is still provincial." These few words that are neither yin nor yang made the Empress Dowager so angry that she fell backwards, and she held on to the table and shook it a few times before she didn't fall down.
"Get out, get out of here!" When I entered the door, I heard the roar of the Empress Dowager Dong, the previous gentle and virtuous mother of the Empress Dowager seemed to have changed a person, with a hideous face, rude words and deeds, seeing the little emperor and Zengshou coming in, he snorted coldly in his nose, and looked at himself to the chair: "Which gust of wind blew the emperor here, it's so fresh, and there are still people who come to see me, the living dead." After all, he had the grace of nurturing, the little emperor bowed his head and did not speak, and sneered: "The living dead are better than the real dead, don't you know this truth?" ”
"What are you that you dare to accuse me?" The Empress Dowager Dong's eyes widened, and her face was full of anger.
"I am the princess canonized by the Lord of Long Live Lord, the only eldest princess, who does the mother say I am?"
"Hmph, princess, I don't know how to kowtow when I see it?"
"I never visit the waste."
"Emperor, listen, I'm your mother-in-law, what are you saying from this wild sister who doesn't know where you came from." The Empress Dowager looked at the little emperor.
"The Queen Mother is angry, I don't want to be an enemy of the Queen Mother this time."
"You just see me as an enemy now!" The Queen Mother stretched out her hand and pointed to the palace maid and eunuch standing outside, her face full of anger, "I am the Queen Mother, your mother-in-law, the lord of the six palaces in the past, the mother of the world, you look at what kind of life I am living now, any dog slave can kick his nose and show me his face, I ...... I'm not as good as one of the lowest minions in this palace!
Emperor, this is what you don't want to be my enemy? You forced your own mother to death, and now you want to force me to death?
The little emperor lowered his head, remembered the death of the Empress Dowager Xi, and was silent. The queen mother of the two palaces hung the curtain, the little emperor was constrained by power, the little emperor was trying everything to make his own decisions, and finally tossed the two palaces with the help of longevity. In the following days, all kinds of problems in the court came one after another, it turned out that the kings of the clan had ghosts in their hearts, and most of the original Wenchen were good at playing tricks, really doing things to push back and block, and even put on what Confucius and Mencius ways to debate with themselves, at this moment the little emperor knew how complicated it was to master the government, and he only felt that the two palaces were stupid before, but when he was in charge, he understood the pain. Thinking of the Queen Mother of the West who died in the cold palace, the little emperor became more and more guilty, and he didn't dare to come to see the Queen Mother, until today Zengshou proposed that the court and the capital were cleared, and it was time to look at the palace, and the Queen Mother of the East must have a saying earlier, the little emperor originally wanted to delay a day and count a day, and was said to be longevity, so he had to come over hard. "I didn't mean to persecute the Queen Mother, but the Queen Mother had a lot of estrangement between my mother and son before and even wanted to sow discord.
The little emperor plucked up the courage to face the Empress Dowager Dong.
"Hmph, now you are called your mother and son, didn't you say that you were the son of Chen Gongren before, and didn't recognize the mother of the Empress Dowager Xi? Now that people are dead, they come to this set of pretends, which is just as disgusting as your father. ”
"The husband is the wife, and the queen mother can't talk about the emperor behind her back." The little emperor's face was serious.
"The husband is the wife, yes, not only is it a husband and wife, but also a monarch and a minister, I can't help but die if he lets me die, I have been trying to be a good queen, and I have no heirs to expand the harem for him, hoping to spread out, and this country is also inherited. What about him? How did he do it? Cheating with someone, or with your own sister-in-law! When the Empress Dowager said this, there was a smile on the corner of her mouth, her eyes were cold, and she stared at Zengshou tightly: "I know you hate me, I forced your mother to death, but I'm happy, I don't regret it, she deserves to die!" You deserve to die, you wicked seed. ”
"Queen Mother." The little emperor shouted, "Pay attention to your words. ”
"Isn't it? Adultery with his own sister-in-law, this is to sink in the people, adultery is just enough, and the harem concubines are drugged, and they are not allowed to give birth, this is the fox spirit is fascinated, this kind of self-destruction of the Great Wall, the loss of the throne is also done, the emperor, you say, if there are such concubines in your palace, will they be executed?
The Empress Dowager Dong's eyes were stern, and the little emperor nodded involuntarily and immediately said: "That's a concubine, and she naturally deserves to die if she murders the emperor's heir, but if this is the first emperor...... It is normal for the first emperor not to allow concubines to give birth to heirs, this ...... This cannot be generalized.
"Is it not a sin to murder one's own offspring?" Emperor, if it weren't for me and the Empress Dowager Xi discovering the secret, how could we have you?
It's a pity that when I found out that I was drugged, I was poisoned too deeply, I couldn't be rescued, and I couldn't have children for life, and the Queen Mother of the West didn't know where to find the recipe, and she actually thought of eating human brains raw, no wonder she came later, and sat on an equal footing with me all the way, this forbearance and viciousness, it is really incomparable to me.
"He's the emperor, and he's still at the mercy of others? My mother is not a gentle and virtuous person, I don't believe that she can bewitch the first emperor, the queen mother, you really want to add to the crime.
"I don't believe that the old princess can trick the emperor into doing these things, she has been remembering since she was a child, the old princess is not smiling and is scathing, it is possible that the first emperor was confused and had some adultery with her, but how could she poison her own heirs for this, how could the old princess have such charm?"
"I don't know what to do, go deep, this world is the most difficult to escape this love word, the princess you see, after a long period of widowhood, her husband and lover have died one after another, and you have to face you, who is not a man or a woman, how many Shaohua and red faces are as withered as an old woman." When the Empress Dowager Dong said this, she smiled sadly, and stretched out her hand to caress her face: "At least she has been loved, like us, she was snubbed by the first emperor early, and even poisoned, and lost the right to be a mother, Zeng Xiaoliu, you tell me, what's wrong with me and the Empress Dowager Xi executing your mother?" People like her should have died a long time ago, and Bai Aya's strangulation was too cheap for her, and it was hard to dispel the anger in my heart. "Zengshou thought of the old princess moody, all kinds of harsh criticism of herself, perverted and strict to herself, the mother in her memory is a ruthless and capricious person, she dotes on herself for a while, and punishes for a while, all of which are because of the long years, from love to hate, from love to fear?
Seeing that she was silent, the Empress Dowager Dong knew that she had a headache when it came to her, so she continued: "Long live Lord, do you really believe that the Empress Dowager West is not your biological mother? I was in Chuxiu Palace when you were born, and I can prove that the Queen Mother West is your biological mother. ”
"That's not what the Queen Mother said before.
Zengshou sneered. I was selfish before, but now that I'm in this situation, our mother and son have torn their faces, and I'm going to be sent to the cold palace soon, right?
It doesn't matter if you tell the truth, it's a big deal to be burned to death.
Speaking of this, she looked at Zengshou, a sneer on the corner of her mouth, and her eyes were cold and terrifying.