Empress Wei took a deep breath and said coldly: "This palace doesn't believe it!" ”

She raised her chin slightly, "When I went to Cuihua Mountain, if it wasn't the first person to be rumored to have smallpox was the county lord of Chaoping, Ah Xuan has always doted on his daughter, although he is in filial piety, he also goes to the backyard every day to play with the county lord of Chaoping, and the epidemic will not make the people of Cuihua Mountain panic at all!" ”

"And now, have you managed to take advantage of such a loophole?!"

"Ever since you instructed the Song Lu clan to expose this palace, this palace has been staring at you!"

"Where did you get the opportunity to do this?!"

"Even if the people in the palace are negligent - if only three or five people come out, the royal family and hundreds of officials will not be scared out of the city to hide!"

The queen's eyes were calm, "Don't say that you have help from Old Lady Duanmu or the like!" Yanhou's family is in the imperial capital, how could the old lady agree to make such a heartbreaking move?! Even though Yanhou and the county lord of Chaoping had already produced flowers last year, they were not afraid of the epidemic, but Brother and Sister Song did not produce flowers, and she is still pregnant with a child - it is said that the descendants of Yanhou Mansion privately called the unborn fetus 'little son', which shows that most of them are a male fetus! Old Madam Duanmu will not tolerate any smallpox outbreak in the imperial capital at this time when she rushes at the child! ”

"Your previous actions, of course, have the help of Old Lady Duanmu, so naturally you must also be subject to it!"

"After all, as you say, who called you behind, there is nothing?"

"Old Madam Duanmu is not related to you, why did she help you for nothing?!"

"Can you do something under her nose that will affect the juniors she cares about?!"

"But you're still scared, Queen!" Lu Hehao looked at her, the corners of his mouth hooked slightly, and his tone mocked, "Otherwise, what are you doing to prevent this palace maid from continuing to cut down?!" ”

He knew what Empress Wei was afraid of—as Empress Wei said, with his power, even if he would use unscrupulous means to spread smallpox to blackmail the court, it would be useless.

Because he actually did not have the ability to spread smallpox on a large scale, it was not enough to use this method to force the royal family and hundreds of officials out of the city.

In fact, even if the royal family and hundreds of officials were forced to leave the imperial capital at this juncture, it would only be a fulfillment of King Su, and it would not be of any benefit to Lu Hehao himself.

However, just because he can't use this method doesn't mean that no one can use it.

For the Su family, who are eagerly hoping to solve the problem that King Su is not in the imperial capital at the moment, with their background, it is not difficult to do such a thing!

The current situation is very clear, once King Su can't ascend the throne, the Wei family, who supports the crown prince, will not be as indecisive as Emperor Duanhua, and after being the emperor for three or two years, there is no way to take care of the henchmen: the Wei family will definitely not let go of King Su and the Su family!

The family is facing a life-and-death crisis, what else is the Su family afraid of?

As mentioned earlier, the prestige clan values fame and decency—provided that they are not cornered!

Only on the basis of the hope of continuity in the family will they pay attention to personability.

Otherwise......

Even the most noble and elegant children of the noble clan will tear off their gentle masks in an instant, revealing their fangs and claws!

After all, there is no family that has been illustrious for several dynasties, and it is established purely by virtue of manners.

King Hengzhu Su is not in the imperial capital now, even if the smallpox epidemic accidentally injured the high-ranking officials and eunuchs, will the Su family care?

As for the Empress Dowager Su, Su Shaoge, and Su Bofeng, who are also in the imperial capital, others may still believe that the Su family will throw a rat bogey, but Empress Wei, who was born in Fengzhou Wei, knows that these three people will not care about sacrificing themselves.

In other words, as long as Su Shaoge, who is in charge, chooses to sacrifice, others can only be sacrificed.

As for what to do with King Su and the Su family after the three of them died, the Marquis of Ji who inherited the title of Duke of Ji, but he has always been in Sangzi and has never set foot in the imperial capital!

Jihou Su Shaoxin, the eldest son of the Su family in Qingzhou.

Compared with his younger brother Su Shaoge, who became famous as a teenager, Su Shaoxin can be said to be bleak.

The outside world's impression of him is also words like "mediocre" and "mediocre", and many people even say that the reason why the eldest son of the Su family is not like his father and younger brother is because he is stupid and unapologetic, and he can't even create a family with such a deep background as the Su family in Qingzhou, and he can't save his studies.

So he can only stay in his hometown to guard the ancestral business, and the ancestral business has always been managed by the old servant, he is just a name.

However, Empress Wei's biological father, Wei Xi, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, has always given people the impression that Su Shaoxin is also half a catty to eight taels, which is not much better.

Therefore, once the Empress Dowager Su, Su Shaoge, and Su Bofeng pass away, whether the Qingzhou Su clan will really decay the dragons without a leader from now on - it is estimated that only the Su family themselves know.

As Lu Hehao said, only Valve Reading will know how persistent Valve Reading is about taking precautions.

For the sake of the long-term consideration of the family, the outstanding children hide the edge as one of the hole cards, and lie dormant silently with an ordinary or even stupid reputation - even many people have been dormant all their lives, and until they die, they are considered just a mediocre person parasitic on the family - there are not a few.

What's more, judging from the Su family in recent years, the Empress Dowager Su has won the respect of the first emperor; The merits of the Duke of Ji are also impressive; Su Shaoge became famous and talented as a young man.

With these three here, it is enough to ensure that the reputation of the Su clan in Qingzhou will not fall - if there is another equally outstanding Su Shaoxin, I am afraid that the first emperor will not be able to sleep!

Therefore, the Su family has every reason to let Su Shaoxin hide clumsiness, stay in Sangzi under the banner of guarding the ancestral industry, and secretly accumulate savings as a backhand.

"Actually, the Su family may not have thought of this method now!" Lu Hehao saw the hesitation in Empress Wei's eyes, and the deeper his smile, "It's just ...... They're not as desperate as I am, and they can get out at any time! So they don't dare to do it unless they have to! ”

"But if I'm willing to take the charge for them...... Do you think they will hesitate? ”

"I promise, as long as I have three longs and two shorts, no matter what the reason, no matter who did it, outside the palace, someone will immediately find the Su family and offer this plan to help King Su ascend the throne!"

"After all, I must have no good end at that time, so why should I care about the name behind me?"

"Wouldn't it be a happy thing to let the person who hurt me not fall well?"

He watched Xin Xian subconsciously put away the short knife and chuckled, "So, I'll just say that the queen won't kill me-"

"Then next, my safety, please pay more attention to the queen!"

…… Lu Hehao laughed and brushed his sleeves away, and after a while, Emperor Duanhua hissed, "You...... You were so coerced by him? ”

"Or else?" Empress Wei hadn't looked at him directly since she came in, and when she heard the words at this moment, she sneered, then turned her head, squinted at the emperor, and said unhurriedly, "Kill him for a while, and then let the Su family benefit?" ”

Emperor Duanhua couldn't help but say, "But those words are just his empty words!" You don't even check it and believe it?! ”

"Lu Hehao is running for the throne to make such a fuss, do you think he will enter the palace without self-defense?!" Empress Wei sneered, "I've been thinking before, what is the basis for him to appear at the emperor's grandmother's birthday banquet with such a big lama?!" ”

Although he didn't succeed in killing Lu Hehao just now, he was ridiculed by Lu Hehao - then he had to endure disgust and killing intent to protect this one well, but there was no depression in the queen's expression, but a little relaxed.

"It's also that I haven't thought of him before, so that he has secretly developed all these years, and it is Jian Pingyu and Duanmu Old Lady, who knows if there are any other hole cards?"

"Now I finally know that after all, he still uses the snipe and clam to fight each other in a vain attempt to be the fisherman - he is not on the stage after all!"

"In that case, I can also be a little relieved—what's the point of allowing him to live a few more days?"

When Emperor Duanhua heard this, he was silent for a while, and then said: "You're not afraid that he actually has other hole cards, but he can use this rhetoric to stop us, so he didn't take it out?" ”

"If he really has other hole cards, and they are enough to protect him, he shouldn't go around in this palace, but take advantage of him to expose the matter between King Qing and you, and go to the court to make a grand appearance under the banner of honoring the first emperor!" Empress Wei glanced at him lightly and said, "The current turmoil was all caused by him as an introduction, but he has not been able to go to the court until now, what do you think this means?" ”

"It means that his adventure of breaking into Mingren Palace last night was just a wedding dress for the Su family and King Su in the final analysis!"

"Do you think he'll be willing?!"

"He was rude to you, not necessarily just dissatisfied with you, in my opinion, but also because he was angry in his heart, and there is no other place to attack at the moment, just when you summoned him, didn't he just tell you everything?!"

Emperor Duanhua was obviously aware that Empress Wei's attitude towards him now was even more harsh and cold than when she persuaded him to pass on the throne to the crown prince before noon - he was not a taste in his heart, and he was inevitably a little annoyed and angry at this moment, remembering what Lu Hehao said, Empress Wei knew the truth in the matter of smallpox in the past year, but she kept hiding it from him: If it wasn't for the queen not telling him the truth here, why would he have been deceived by Lu Hehao all the way to the recent awakening? !

Thinking like this, Emperor Duanhua felt that he was out of position, and the queen was not without responsibility!

And the queen is now trying her best to be the queen mother, so it can be seen that the reason why the queen hid this matter from herself, maybe there is something selfish in it?

The more he thought about it, the more unwilling he became, and he was about to open his mouth to question the queen, but he didn't think that the palace door was knocked, and before the emperor could speak, the people outside were anxious to push the door in—Emperor Duanhua and Empress Wei frowned at the same time, and were about to scold, but someone anxiously said, which made the emperor and queen both lose color and fall into the ice cellar: "Your Majesty, Niangniang, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has been assassinated!! ”