Chapter 843 - No Choice 844 Old and Not Dead

Hongluan put the tray on the table: "Some things are extremely difficult to decide, but the concubine thinks that with this glass of wine, she can help the Empress Dowager think through many things; There are too many things in the front court, and the emperor can't stay for a long time, so the queen mother, if you think clearly, tell the emperor. When people do something wrong, they always have to pay something, otherwise wouldn't it be too unfair to those who were killed? The affairs of the Shangguan family, listen to the concubine's advice, you had better let it go. ”

She pointed to the wine: "The wine is very good, the best aged wine, made with flowers and some grapes, is one of the tributes to this year's New Year's Festival, the emperor originally said that he wanted to taste it with the Queen Mother on February 2, but unfortunately the palace was very busy outside the palace on February 2nd, even if the emperor wanted to accompany the Queen Mother to have a glass of wine, the Queen Mother did not have this mind, right?" There are many words in the draft, but the matter of the draft girl really makes the Queen Mother tired. ”

After speaking, he bowed slightly, returned to the emperor and sat down, watching the empress dowager stop talking. Whether to drink this wine or not is all up to the Empress Dowager herself: whether she wants to protect the official family or herself.

The Empress Dowager looked at the emperor and her voice trembled: "Do you really want to give this wine to the mourning family?" You must know that the mourning family is your imperial grandmother. She really didn't expect the emperor to be so ruthless, and he didn't hesitate to let her die for the sake of his mother and the power of the Shangguan family.

The emperor said lightly: "The empress dowager can eat if she likes it, and if she doesn't like it, she won't eat it, it's just a little filial piety from her grandson; Do you know the cause of your mother's death? There are many words that are not wrong, and now that I have grown up, how can I ignore the fact that my mother was killed by someone and that I am the son of man? He also asked the Empress Dowager to fulfill her grandson's filial piety. ”

The Empress Dowager looked at the wine on the table, and then looked at the emperor and finally smiled: "The mourning family has suffered and enjoyed blessings, and has become the most noble woman in the Heavenly Empire, is there anything that can't be let go?" It's just a glass of wine, and the mourning family ——, eat it to fulfill the emperor's filial piety. She stared at the small wine glass: "I just don't know how the emperor will explain your filial piety to the mourning family to the world?" ”

Hongluan smiled: "Birth, old age, sickness and death are common things, besides, people have good fortune and misfortune, the empress dowager has worked hard for many years and has become ill, and she must take good care of her phoenix body." "Her words are the same as the threat just now, it is normal for a person to die violently in this palace, as long as the emperor gives an order, it is not easy to hide from the world?

The Empress Dowager thought of the thousands of lives of the Shangguan family, and thought that her calculations ended up like this, so she gritted her teeth and picked up her wine glass: "Since the emperor doesn't think about the Shangguan family, and the mourning family has nothing to say, then it will fulfill your filial piety." As she spoke, she brought the wine to her lips, but her hands were shaking so much that she could not drink it.

The emperor didn't open his mouth to stop him, he looked at his finger: he was waiting for the final result, either the empress dowager died or he knew the cause of his mother's death.

And Hongluan looked at the Empress Dowager and did not stop it, but there was naked disbelief in her eyes, she didn't believe that the Empress Dowager would really eat that glass of wine, this was just the Empress Dowager's temptation and the Empress Dowager's compulsion: thinking that the emperor could not really let her die, as long as someone shouted no at this time, she would win.

But no one spoke. Shang Yi fell to her knees and wept, but she didn't dare to say indiscriminately, she hadn't seen the cannibalism of the heavenly family in the palace for many years, but she didn't expect that the master she served was the queen mother, and she also had such a day when she was forced to be forced by others, right? No mistakes in many words

The Empress Dowager looked at the wine in the glass, the color of the wine was good, the aroma was pleasant, if it did not appear today, it would still be a glass of wine; But she knew that the royal crane top red was colorless and tasteless, and no matter how good the wine was delivered to her at this time, it was just a fatal thing.

Does she drink or not? The thousands of lives of the Shangguan family, her own life, were pulled back and forth in her heart, almost up and down. Now the emperor's meaning is really too clear to understand, if she really doesn't say how the first empress died, then the Shangguan family and her can only accompany the first empress.

She took a long breath and put down the wine, but she didn't have the courage to eat the wine with a heart, and two lines of cloudy tears flowed down her face as the wine glass fell on the table: "It's always okay to leave a queen for the Shangguan family, right?" There are many words without mistakes: "She can't let the Shangguan clan die like this."

The emperor was still very calm, and he didn't seem to have much reaction to whether the empress dowager ate the glass of wine or not: "Convict according to the law, I will not forgive one of them, and I will not wronged innocent people." Does the Empress Dowager not believe that there are still people with conscience in the Shangguan family? As long as I don't do evil, I can open the net. ”

The Empress Dowager can't ask for permission anymore, if she asks again, it means that she concludes that there are no good people in the Shangguan family, and everything she does is extremely evil; If the emperor is allowed to think so, it will be a catastrophe for the Shangguan family.

She nodded: "How does the emperor want to settle the mourning family?" Go to the temple to worship the Buddha, or in the temple hall of the palace? She wondered how much freedom she still had.

The emperor looked at her with a touch of coldness in his eyes: "It's too early to say this, even if the Empress Dowager tells the cause of the queen mother's death, it still has to be verified; Before the matter is settled, the Empress Dowager still worships the Buddha in the Buddhist hall in the palace - as for the Empress Dowager going to the temple as usual, I will invite one or two concubines to repay the vows on behalf of the Empress Dowager. ”

The Empress Dowager's eyes dimmed: "I thought it out very thoughtfully, and there was no mistake in the arrangement, the emperor is really the talent of the emperor, but the mourning family has harmed the Shangguan family." The mourning family can rest assured and rest assured, your father's eyesight is better than that of the mourning family, and it is right for this country to be handed over to you. The killing is decisive, and there is the legacy of your imperial grandfather. ”

Hongluan and the emperor did not answer and let her continue, at this time, the empress dowager had lost everything, there was no Shangguan family and no prestige that the empress dowager should have, and she couldn't do it with only one empty name; If you want to live the rest of your life in peace, there is only one way to go.

"I really don't want to think about the things back then, and I don't want to mention them again." The Empress Dowager closed her eyes: "In order to survive in the palace and live well, who is not a hand of blood?" It's not that the mourners didn't know that some things were going too far, but they didn't have a choice at the time. ”

With a long exhale, she opened her eyes and pulled up Shang Yi, who was kneeling on the ground: "Get up, I want you to accompany me in the future." You don't know what happened back then, and those who know are afraid that they are either dead or high. Your mother's death was not the result of the mourning family, she died of poisoning rather than disease. ”

Chapter 844: Old and Not Dead

The emperor closed his eyes when he heard this: "Who did it?" He had already guessed that his mother was the victim of a traitor, but his heart was still stirring when he heard it with his own ears. For many years, he was lonely in the palace, and in order to protect himself, he used all means and scheming to protect himself, but the crown prince lived so humbly that he even had to have people pretend to be assassins to assassinate him because he wanted to survive, so as to get rid of those who had evil intentions around him.

He did not dare to get rid of those who were disrespectful to him and had evil thoughts towards him, he did not dare to say to his father, and he did not dare to show himself well in front of his father: just so that he could live a little longer, until his father died and he could ascend to the throne. How many times in those days, in the dark night, the tears in the corners of his eyes wet the pillow, because he thought that if there was a queen mother, he would never live so tremblingly.

"The mourning family is not clear." The Empress Dowager suddenly flashed a little smile in her eyes: "Now the concubines and concubines in the palace are all likely to start, you must know that your mother is extremely favored by your father and the emperor, and it can almost be said that she is the harem of the crown of the palace; The current concubines and concubines had to work hard and hard to get your father to take a look, how many enemies do you think your mother has provoked? The mourning family doesn't like your mother, so someone wants to harm her, and the mourning family didn't remind her. ”

"Sitting in that seat, if you don't have the ability to save your life, you can only blame yourself for being incompetent, even if the mourning family helps her once, can you help her for a lifetime?" The Empress Dowager sneered a few times: "How much hardship did the mourning family endure and how many grievances did it take to let your father ascend to the throne?" There are no benefits in the world for nothing, and as a queen, she should have known what was behind the queen's throne. The poison is not the usual poison, it should be a chronic poison. ”

"The mourning family later asked the imperial doctor, and the poison used was not certain and unchanging, and was extremely complicated; But the imperial doctor of the year said that it should be the poison of flowers and plants, because there are too many poisons and too many changes, the imperial doctors can't diagnose it as poison at all, but like a disease. It's just that this imperial doctor died because he was too concerned about the cause of your mother's death. ”

The Empress Dowager sighed lightly: "Back then, he was the only one who overrode public opinion, thinking that your mother did not die of illness, and your father asked him to investigate carefully, but unfortunately he died before he could find out." ”

Hongluan glanced at the emperor and said, "The imperial doctor didn't have time to tell the first emperor about those words." ”

"Nope." The Empress Dowager was silent for a while before she spit out these two words, and her face changed slightly because of this.

Hongluan asked again: "Did the imperial doctor die the same day after the Empress Dowager called him for questioning?" And what he found out didn't remain, didn't he, well, the concubine guessed that it was very likely that he died in the fire, right? No mistakes, not a lot of words"

The Empress Dowager snorted: "Exactly." He died in his home, and the fire that night killed his family and of course burned everything he found. She paused slightly: "When the mourning family asked him those words, the people who served in front of the mourning family that day were the current three concubines, as well as Concubine Jia and the two imperial concubines. ”

"It's a bit too coincidental that there are so many people." Hongluan looked at the emperor: "The Empress Dowager did it on purpose back then, right?" There are many mistakes, do you want to hit them, or do you already know who did it? ”

The Empress Dowager changed color: "The mourning family said that the death of the emperor's mother has nothing to do with the mourning family, as for who did it, it depends on the emperor's ability." No one knows about the palace eunuchs back then, for example, Concubine Li's beauty was mainly to drink flower tea and eat all kinds of flowers, and there was a big palace maid beside her who was very good at this, but now she has already left the palace and disappeared. There is also Concubine Jia who is very good at the way of flowers and plants, which was well known to everyone at that time. ”

"And Concubine Rou had a very good relationship with Concubine Jing back then, and she was also a person who loved flowers and plants, but since the emperor's mother had an accident, they didn't move around much for a while, and since then, there have been no extra flowers and plants in her palace, and she no longer talks about flowers and plants with others; And the palace people around Concubine Rou are not less than the friendship of the three concubines, so there is no need to talk about this. The mourning family didn't investigate it carefully back then, so the mourning family still doesn't know who did it. ”

After speaking, the Empress Dowager slowly got up: "Emperor, can the mourning family go to the Buddha Hall?" "No mistakes, no skipping words.

The emperor looked at her quietly: "For the sake of the Shangguan family, you don't recognize me as the grandson of your relatives, do you want to take a good country?" "No mistakes, no skipping words.

The Empress Dowager looked at him quietly for a long time: "What the mourning family said is true, as for how to do it, it's your business." There are many secrets in the palace, and you should have known the truth of moving your whole body a long time ago, do you blame the mourning family? You forced the mourners to tell the truth, and after telling the truth, you thought that the mourning family was going to ruin this great country. Emperor, whether you want to avenge your mother, or ignore the country, that's your business. ”

The death of the first queen did not involve a few concubines, but the largest families today. As the Empress Dowager said, everyone has secrets, whether they know what the emperor wants to check or not, as long as they think that their lives may not be guaranteed, and their families will do it, only God knows.

The Emperor did not speak any more, and was silent.

Hongluan gently held his hand: "I believe that it is not so difficult, and not everyone is stupid enough to fight; As for the result, it depends on how we do it. ”

The emperor looked at Hongluan's eyes, looked at it for a long time, and then smiled slightly: "Yes, it depends on what we do." Some things can't be rushed, and they need to be boiled slowly. ”

The Empress Dowager didn't say much, no matter what the emperor wanted to do, it was not for her to control in the future, and this palace was no longer her world but her cage. She put her hand gently on Shang Yi's shoulder and said softly, "It's time for us to go." ”

"Your Majesty, what are you trying to lure your uncle to leave Beijing for? Are you going to abolish the queen, that two of us old guys are too lazy to pay attention to you, but you are so careful with us, but it makes us lose face. The old prince who stepped into the hall with a beard and a red face: "Give us three or five hundred jars of wine in the palace, and we two old and immortal will forgive you this time." ”

The Empress Dowager turned back sharply when she heard this: "Uncle Huang" tears came out of her eyes: "Mourning family, mourning family finally saw you." As she spoke, her body trembled, and she bowed down to the two princes who came in.

And the emperor's and Hongluan's expressions moved slightly, especially the emperor, he never expected that the two ancestors would come back: they are the emperor's great-uncles, a generation higher than the empress dowager, and they are the only old people in their nineties and old birthday stars in the imperial family, and their status is extremely noble.

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