"Didn't you tell you?" She followed up and added, "Oh, I forgot that this matter belongs to the palace secret, and even he doesn't know it." Except for Ah Qing, all the people who knew about this were already dead. ”

What kind of environment is this? Not to mention the conspiracy, there are many secrets hidden. Zhu Di came to tell me that he might not be Zhu Yuanzhang's son, and now Concubine Lu also came to tell me that Ah Ping was not her biological son.

But in a flash, he realized that something was wrong, "Impossible, if Ah Ping is not your son, how can the first emperor pass the throne to him?" ”

Zhu Yuanzhang is so shrewd and powerful, and he upholds the rules of passing on the throne to the heir, if Ah Ping is not the son of Concubine Lu, then he is not the son-in-law, how can he unswervingly pass the throne to him?

Concubine Lu sneered and said: "You asked the point, my son was originally the eldest son, but he has been weak and sickly since birth, and the imperial doctor said several times that it was difficult for him to live past the age of ten." I had to think and plan for the future, but the prince was infatuated with the servant, so that the slut became pregnant before me. I don't need to say anything about the rest of the matter, you should be able to guess it with your IQ. ”

I can't guess! I can't guess why people's hearts can be so black! "What about the maidservant?" The question that burst out of her teeth didn't even give her hope, and she only raised her eyebrows and asked me, "What do you say?" ”

Suddenly, he felt extremely sad in his heart, and turned his eyes to look at Ah Ping, who was lying quietly in the bed, he had a sentence that was right: Hate only hates to be born in the emperor's family. I thought that with Zhu Yuanzhang's care and arrangement, Ah Ping would not be too difficult in the first few years after he ascended the throne. didn't think that there was a secret of the palace behind this, and Concubine Lu's black hand never chose to give up.

But what I don't understand is, "Why are you telling me?" "Isn't this secret supposed to be hidden forever?

She looked at me with pity and said slowly, "I have always been merciful to a dead man. ”

My heart jumped, "You're going to kill me?" ”

"Not yet, you are still useful to the mourners. But don't try to speak, there are two ways in front of you now: one is for the mourning family to find out the evidence of your murder of the emperor, and send all the relevant people into the heavenly prison to punish the nine clans, including your own brother Xu Tong and people like Jinyiwei; The other is that you now go out with the mourning family to announce that the golden seal will be handed over to the mourning family, so that the mourning family will be in charge of the harem and temporarily take over all court affairs, so that the mourning family may be able to allow you to live a few more days. ”

In fact, there is only one of the two paths, and it is the path I must choose.

I walked past her to the edge of the bed and sat down, shook Ah Ping's hand and asked softly, "What about him?" Are you really so cruel to him to death? Have you ever thought that even if you support a new emperor to ascend the throne, how can you guarantee that you will definitely be able to ensure that your Lu family will sit on the throne? ”

"So the mourning family has never moved this thought, the emperor is naturally the most orthodox of the first emperor's succession, no matter how much Wei'er was raised by me, and he is the son of the prince, as long as he can be used by me in the future, the mourning family will not embarrass him too much."

Does it mean to make Ah Ping a puppet emperor? I laughed behind her back, Concubine Lu, even if you use this despicable means to achieve your wish this time, but your time will not be too long, this dynasty will eventually be replaced by Zhu Di who is far away in Beiping, and then I am afraid that your Lu family will not be the end now.

Before this, I was always taboo about Zhu Di, and tried all kinds of ways to smooth out the grievances between him and Ah Ping, once Zhu Yuanzhang killed me because of my false words in my dream, and ordered Ah Ping to follow his edict to withdraw the domain, after I learned that the decision I made was still to mediate the relationship between Ah Ping and Zhu Di's two uncles and nephews, hoping to balance. But at this moment, I had an unprecedented expectation for that period of history in my heart, and I really wanted to see what the expression on the face of the vicious woman behind me was when Zhu Di's iron hooves set foot on the capital.

But I probably don't have that chance, and once Concubine Lu gets control, she won't be able to keep me alive. Today is afraid that it will be the last time to see Ah Ping, there is infinite attachment and reluctance in my eyes, I leaned down and lightly printed a kiss on his forehead, and then tossed and fell on his lips, and suddenly tears rolled out of the frame and fell on his face.

But when I got up, I wiped the tears from my face with my sleeve before turning around and calmly said, "I don't have a gold seal, you don't have to question it, it's a fact." You also know that I was in a coma for half a year before, during which he ascended the throne and called me the emperor and named me the queen, but I couldn't take over the golden seal at that time, and then I woke up in poor health and couldn't take charge of the harem affairs, so the golden seal has always been in his hands, and I don't know where to put it. ”

I didn't care if Concubine Lu hesitated, to tell the truth, even if she forced me, she wouldn't be able to take it out. I didn't care about the golden seal before, and I wouldn't ask where Ah Ping was storing it, and I thought it was in this hall, if she wanted to, she could search it.

However, she didn't do such a lowly thing, only muttered for a moment and said: "You go out with the mourning family, you only need to listen to the orders of the mourning family for a while, if there is a whisper, then don't blame the mourning family for turning their faces and being ruthless." ”

I was about to go out with her with heavy steps, when I suddenly saw her pause, my eyes fell on the table, and I heard her ask, "When has Bing'er woken up in the past two days?" ”

Something flashed through his mind, and he immediately responded: "Night." ”

"Woke up two days in a row?"

"I woke up later on the second night than on the first."

She didn't ask any more questions, and walked out of the hall. I stared at her back and thought to myself, why didn't she think it was strange? Obviously, she didn't know that I had annotated those twists, thinking that it was Ah Ping's instructions, and it stands to reason that if she poisoned Ah Ping, she would definitely know about its toxicity, shouldn't she be suspicious of it?

I've been thinking about this after I left, I didn't listen carefully to what she said when she went out of the palace to face Fang Xiaoru and the courtiers, roughly that the emperor was seriously ill and difficult to get up, and the queen deliberately concealed it, with ill intentions and the like, she wanted to retake charge of the harem to temporarily govern the government on behalf of the emperor, saying that I had handed over the golden seal to her. I don't care about these anymore, I have been circling the strange situation just now in my mind for a long time, and the final conclusion can only be - Concubine Lu thinks that the poison on Ah Ping will not make him unconscious for a long time, and the old lady doctor actually hid some details when he reported just now, so her calculation should be to make Ah Ping do something when he wakes up groggily.

When Concubine Lu's words fell, the concubine immediately echoed and loudly reprimanded me, the demon queen, for being bold and reckless, and daring to hide the emperor's illness. strongly agreed that the queen mother should temporarily take care of the affairs of the court and the harem, but seeing that Fang Xiaoru and others were unhappy, they did not raise any objections.

Because in their opinion, there are priorities, and the most important thing at present is to take down me, the "demon queen" who covers the sky with one hand, and as for the temporary government proposed by the queen mother, I can be impeached later.

Concubine Lu made a decision that surprised me, she did not put me in prison, nor did she banish me to the cold palace, but ordered the guards to escort me into her original palace. Xiaoxiao and Yun Gu here, as well as Xiao Tongren, were also imprisoned, Yuan'er was taken away by Liu Qing, and Uncle Mu and Jinyiwei were the only ones who were not punished.

But I didn't see Yan Qi, and Yan Qi disappeared from the moment the Queen Mother entered the door.

I won't suspect that he ran away or what kind of concubine Lu's traitor or something, anyone in the dormitory might do these things, but he wouldn't. There was no way he could have escaped alone, but I don't know where he went.

After being escorted into Concubine Lu's palace, I was locked in a dark room, and my original mood was surging to this point, not to mention calming down, and I was not as excited as I was at that time. My biggest mistake was not to enter this palace, but to not see through human nature.

In the past, I watched some classic lines in palace fighting dramas that said that the palace was the place where the most secrets were buried, and I just watched it at the time, but now I understand the strength and sadness behind this sentence when I am immersed in the scene.

I feel sorry for Ah Ping, he had several conflicts with Concubine Lu in the past, but he still listened to my persuasion and tried to get closer to the mother-son relationship, and when the concubine beat me to the point that he was almost crazy, he didn't really do anything to Concubine Lu, just stripped her rights. It can be seen that Ah Ping already has a longing for this mother in his heart, but he doesn't know that once in the past, Concubine Lu is not his mother, nor does she miss the love of an adopted child, and she will do whatever it takes to hold power.

But now I don't want to do it anymore, and I don't even want to do that history very much. Historically, Aping's Empress Ma died in the fire when Zhu Di stepped into the capital in the fourth year of his reign, and it stands to reason that I will not die in this catastrophe. But the trajectory of history has long been deviated, and it is likely that it has changed since I told Zhu Yuanzhang in my dream that it would be in the future. I am a person who should not exist in this era, and the original history will definitely not be caused by me, it may be that Zhu Yuanzhang's last suspicion haunted Ah Ping and made an edict, it may be that Zhu Di's limelight is too strong and Ah Ping is jealous, or it may be other reasons.

So it is very likely that history has changed because of my intervention, at least at the moment, Ah Ping did not withdraw the feudal domain strongly, and also let Zhu Di go, even if Zhu Gaoxu was left as a proton in the palace, but the relationship between their uncle and nephew should not reach the point of fighting each other.

I remember that the history I saw in that space said that the Battle of Jingjing lasted for nearly three years, and it should have been launched a year after Ah Ping became emperor. There must be something before the war, and according to the current point of view, Zhu Di is impossible......

Suddenly, a terrible thought slowly formed in my mind. The premise of Zhu Di's inaction is to establish it under the oath, and Ah Ping will no longer withdraw from him, but if the government is in the hands of Concubine Lu, will it become the last straw that crushes the camel, and the edict of Zhu Yuanzhang, which was originally suppressed by Ah Ping, will be moved to the table again, which will lead to later events?

I'm not sure, but along the way, many facts tell me that I have fallen into the cross-currents of history by accident or force. I don't have an answer to whether the track that I was pulled away from because of Concubine Lu's trouble.