Chapter 138: The Past of the Heavenly Empress Revisited (2)

Li Zhi spent the night in the queen's palace, and couldn't stand the queen's night of nagging and secretly went to have a tryst with the maid Wu Zetian. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info Wu Zetian endured humiliation and won the favor of the queen and queen, she was generous, and gave favors to the palace maids around her, and everyone was very willing to make friends with her. Empress Wang's intimate maid Xiaocui is even closer to Wu Zetian. Li Zhi was very pleased to see that Wu Zetian and Empress Wang got along well, and named Wu Zetian as Zhaoyi, and decided to take his son Li Hong back to his side. Li Zhi and Wu Zetian were very affectionate and spent many romantic nights, so that Li Zhi didn't even bother to go to the court. At this time, Queen Wang felt very regretful and annoyed. Queen Wang herself did not have children, and she really wanted to accept Yan Wangzhong, the first son born to Li Zhi and the palace maid Liu, as her righteous son, and then set up as the crown prince, so that her position in the harem would be very strong. encouraged Wu Zetian to speak for her, Wu Zetian really spoke for Queen Wang in front of Li Zhi, Li Zhi felt that Wu Zetian knew that he was very moved, and Queen Wang regarded Wu Zetian as a mortal enemy. Empress Wang and Concubine Xiao Shufei began to prepare to join forces to deal with Wu Zetian together.

Queen Wang clamored to make the crown prince, and Concubine Xiao Shufei also wanted to make her own son Yongwang Sujie the crown prince, and Li Zhi felt very irritable. One day, at the ceremony when the queen accepted Chen Wangzhong as her adopted son, Wu Zetian brought some snacks over. And Queen Wang quietly sprinkled the poison she had prepared on the snacks and was discovered by the maid Xiaocui. Xiao Shufei deliberately let her pet cat eat a piece of poisoned snack in front of everyone at the scene, and the pet cat was poisoned on the spot. Empress Wang took the opportunity to ask Wu Zetian if she wanted to poison Chen Wangzhong. And in front of everyone, Queen Wang and Concubine Xiao Shu used all their tricks to force Li Zhi to send Wu Zetian into the cold palace. Xiaocui knew that it was the queen who poisoned Wu Zetian, she was very frightened and wanted to tell the secret, but she didn't dare, her abnormal expression was seen by Wu Zetian. Before Wu Zetian went to the cold palace, he wrote the word "cui" in Li Zhi's palm. Queen Wang was still unwilling, and rewarded Wu Zetian with poisonous snacks, meaning to kill herself. Wu Zetian was not afraid at this life-and-death juncture, and left with a poisonous snack. Queen Wang and Concubine Xiao Shu succeeded in their plan and were overjoyed. Wu Zetian inspected the poisonous dim sum in the cold palace, found the powder of the residual poison, and understood that he had been manipulated by the queen. Li Zhi felt uneasy, recalled the word "Cui" written by Wu Zetian, guessed that it might be Xiaocui, and summoned Xiaocui to ask, Xiaocui was extremely panicked and incoherent. Li Zhi was full of suspicions, and suddenly remembered that Wu Zetian might commit suicide, and his heart ached, so he hurriedly rushed to the cold palace. In the cold palace, Wu Zetian expressed his suspicions about Queen Wang, according to her speculation, Queen Wang poisoned in a hurry, and some other snacks were not stained with poison, and after saying that, Wu Zetian ate a piece of dim sum by himself, and the result was fine. Li Zhi said that he had asked Xiao Cui, and Wu Zetian immediately sensed that Xiao Cui was in danger and asked Li Zhi to hurry up to save Xiao Cui. Queen Wang learned that Li Zhi was questioning Xiaocui, and she was afraid that the matter would be revealed, so she poisoned Xiaocui to death. When Li Zhi rushed to the palace of the queen, what he saw was Xiaocui's body. At this time, Queen Wang and Concubine Xiao Shufei said in unison that it was Xiao Cui's poison, and then committed suicide in fear of sin. Li Zhi was stunned by the cruelty of the queen and rushed away in anger. Wu Zetian sympathized with Xiaocui's death because of her, and gave all the jewelry that Li Zhi gave her to Xiaocui's parents, and Li Zhi admired Wu Zetian more and more.

Wu Zetian and Princess Gao Yang got together, and Wu Zetian received her. Wu Zetian and Princess Gao Yang didn't speculate, and after Gao Yang left, Wu Zetian sent her to Xuanwu Gate all the time, and said that the friendship between them was over. Li Zhi summoned Sikong Master Li Ji back to the capital, and went ten miles outside the city with Wu Zetian to greet him. Wu Zetian, who was pregnant with Liujia, led the horse back to the city for Li Ji, which moved him very much. Soon after returning to the palace, Wu Zetian gave birth to a little princess. Princess Gaoyang conspired with King Jing and King Wu to rebel, and they wanted to support King Ke of Wu as the new emperor. The rebellion of Princess Gaoyang and others was quickly suppressed. The eldest grandson Wuji took advantage of the situation to implicate Wu Zetian and forced Li Zhi to deal with it harshly, the kind and weak Li Zhi cried and begged the eldest grandson Wuji to spare his brothers and sisters from death, but the eldest grandson Wuji categorically refused. And because of this incident, Wu Zetian, who had just become pregnant and gave birth, was also put in prison. Wu Zetian, who was thrown into prison, was tortured, and Li Zhi issued an edict to appoint Chen Wangzhong as the crown prince when he had nothing to do, he thought that Wu Zetian would be able to escape in this way.

Wu Zetian fainted after being tortured in prison, and King Chen was also made the crown prince, but Wu Zetian was not released from the prison. At this time, Hong Duwei reported to Li Ji, saying that he could prove Wu Zetian's innocence, so Li Ji, who had just returned to the dynasty, played a huge role in making Wu Zetian end this ordeal. Li Zhi personally went to take Wu Zetian and the little princess back to the palace. The eldest grandson Wuji, Chu Suiliang and others felt gritted their teeth. The eldest grandson, Wuji, announced in the court the disposition of the rebellious Princess Gaoyang and others, and Li Zhi cried and begged them not to kill his uncle, aunt, and siblings, even if it was to exile them. But Gao Yang and the others were still killed. At this time, Wu Zetian also began to deeply realize that Li Zhi was just the puppet emperor of the eldest grandson Wuji, and she vowed to get rid of these old ministers one day and make Li Zhi a real emperor, and she had clearly realized that if she did not fight back, she would die without a place to bury. Liu Zheng suggested that Queen Wang go to Zhaoyi Palace to see the little princess, so that Li Zhi might change his opinion of her and pull his heart back a little. At this time, Wu Zetian also showed the ability she learned from Taizong to deal with the government and help Li Zhi review the folds, Wu Zetian's opinions often made Li Zhi admire, thinking that he was inferior, and obeyed her. Wu Zetian learned to write Li Zhi's handwriting, and sometimes even reviewed and folded on behalf of Li Zhi.

Queen Wang and Wu Zetian's little princess were alone together. The queen was afraid that the little princess would catch a cold, so she closed the doors and windows, and put the little princess's quilt over the bridge of her nose, while the charcoal stove in the room was still burning. After Wu Zetian returned to his palace, he found that the little princess was a little suffocated and had passed out. After taking all the palace maids and eunuchs away, Wu Zetian and the little princess stayed alone. Wu Zetian kept pressing the little princess's person, the little princess's face was a little better, and she was about to wake up, and at this time, Wu Zetian thought of all his previous encounters, so he was ruthless and suffocated the little princess to death with tears, she wanted to blame the queen like this. Li Zhi couldn't put down the princess born by Wu Zetian and liked abnormalities, but when he came to see the little princess, he found that the little princess was dead, and learned from the palace maid that the queen had come, and suspected that the queen had killed the little princess, and he was furious. The eldest grandson, Wuji, Chu Suiliang, and others advised Li Zhi that the case should be tried clearly before a final decision could be made. During the trial, Wu Zetian gradually fell into the disadvantage and was once again beaten into the cold palace. Soon Li Zhi found out the suspicion, Wu Zetian was taken out of the cold palace again, at this time the queen fell into an unfavorable situation, Li Zhi wanted to abolish the queen, and the eldest grandson Wuji and others made all their efforts to oppose the abolition of the queen. Wu Zetian saw that the time had not come, and in turn persuaded Li Zhi not to abolish Queen Wang. Li Zhi was moved by Wu Zetian's open-mindedness and generosity, and since then he has been dependent on Wu Zetian for life and death.