Xie Wenzai talked about the news he heard from the Zhenguo Mansion, and couldn't help sighing: "Who would have thought of it? The Queen Mother did not come out of the palace back then, it turned out to protect the orphans of the Wu family! ”

Hai Xiya couldn't help but sigh: "No one can think of it, right? I remember when I first heard the news, Lao Cao complained......"

At the beginning, the news of the fire in Kunning Palace and the martyrdom of the Wu family reached Suzhou, and it was already half a year after the incident, so even the rumors of the Empress Dowager Zhou's closure of the palace, and the children of the Zhou family stationed in various border cities, also heard about it. When Cao Gengyun first heard about it, he couldn't help but be angry and complained a few words to the people around him.

He thinks that the emperor obviously favors the Sun family, and many practices are very excessive, if the queen mother can open her mouth to take care of it, the emperor still has some scruples and does not dare to do too much. But the Queen Mother stood by behind closed doors, and the emperor and the Sun family became more and more unrestrained. She herself can live a quiet life, but what should she do with the people who were persecuted by the Sun family in the government and the opposition? They want to ask for help, but they can't find a way!

Cao Gengyun's words were a little more resentful, but he was not the only one of the Wumen ancestors who were also exiled to the border city at that time. Everyone felt in their hearts that even if the Empress Dowager Zhou was not the emperor's biological mother and had a bad relationship with the emperor, as long as the emperor still wanted a reputation for filial piety, he could not completely ignore the Empress Dowager as nothing, and would still take into account the Empress Dowager's words and deeds. If the queen mother is willing to take care of the emperor, the emperor can't be too partial to the Sun family. Then the loyal ministers of the court, Qingliu, have a chance to breathe.

But if even the queen mother closes the palace and no longer interferes in the affairs of the former dynasty and the harem, how can it be that the loyal ministers and Qingliu who are unwilling to cling to the Sun family are good?

The exiled Wumen students were angry for a while, but Xie Wenzai persuaded them to calm down.

They were too embarrassed for Empress Dowager Zhou. After the emperor ascended the throne, his attitude towards the Empress Dowager Zhou and the Zhou family was not as good as before. If the Queen Mother's words worked, the son of the prince born to Empress Wu would have already established a prince, how could the mother and son both died tragically in the fire of Kunning Palace, and the emperor did not strictly investigate the meaning of the real culprit, but prevaricated with the conclusion that "the dry weather caused the fire"? Although this emperor also cares about reputation, but after the Sun family came to power, he cleaned the imperial history platform, and controlled the officials who remembered the residence notes, and he set up a filial prince as the prince to keep his name, what else is there to fear?

Although the Empress Dowager Zhou is the empress dowager, she has no children and has no deep relationship with the emperor. When the Zhou family was already suspicious of the emperor because of the military power in the northwest border, it is understandable that the Empress Dowager Zhou temporarily avoided the Sun family after the death of her niece Empress Wu for the sake of her family. Moreover, the Zhou family sits in the northwest and has always only guarded the country, not involved in court politics, what does the dispute between Wu and Sun in the former harem have to do with the Zhou family? Even if Empress Wu is the granddaughter of the Zhou family, what she represents is not the interests of the northwest.

The Zhou family only needs to guard the northwest frontier.

The Empress Dowager Zhou only needs to stabilize the military power and status of the Zhou family in the northwest.

With such an idea, Wu Men accepted the decision of the Empress Dowager Zhou to close the palace and close herself, but she never expected that the Empress Dowager Zhou did this in order to protect the two orphans of the Wu family.

Haixi Cliff sighed and asked Xie Wenzai: "When Lao Cao comes back, do you want to tell him about this?" It saved him from thinking about it all the time. ”

Xie Wenzai smiled bitterly: "It's not easy for too many people to know about this." The news of the survival of the orphans of the Wu family is still secret in Beijing, and not many people know about it. Even if they have arrived in Chang'an now, the news will not leak out too quickly. It is very likely that the Sun family will also plant people in Chang'an City, for the sake of the safety of the two children of the Wu family, it is better for us to keep it secret first. ”

If it weren't for secrecy, why did the Chengenhou Mansion have to be so careful to let Mrs. Shizi take the two children as a cover, and add a Du Qi as a second layer of cover, so that the three members of the Wu family could secretly send them all the way to Chang'an City? They are also worried that the news will leak out, and the Sun family will send someone to hurt the two children!

Hai Xiya was a little puzzled: "The emperor has issued an order to posthumously crown the Duke of Wu Wen'an, pardoned the exiled Wu family's former life, and re-established the old Wu family's relatives and friends in the court. The Sun family failed to stop the emperor's will at the beginning, so do they still want to hurt the orphans of the Wu family now? What can these two children do in their way?! ”

"Mrs. Gui said that this is what Sun Guifei meant." Xie Wenzai paused, "When the emperor just issued an order to posthumously crown Duke Wu Wen'an, Mrs. Gui once asked the Queen Mother for her life and wanted to take her daughter out of the palace and return to the house to spend her life. Although the Wu family's mansion has been burned down, the original site is still there, and it is good to spend some money to rebuild the house. But the Queen Mother thought about it again and again, but still refuted it. Because the death of the sixth prince was somewhat unclear, Sun Guifei was suspicious all day long, thinking that the Wu family was retaliating, and suspected that Cining Palace was involved. Originally, the Wu family was dead, and the Queen Mother could endure it for many years, so there was no reason to hurt the only imperial heir, and the death of the six princes could not be related to the Queen Mother. But if the Sun family knew that the three surviving members of the Wu family had been living in Cining Palace, it would be difficult to explain this matter. ”

In fact, Empress Dowager Zhou suspected that Concubine Sun Guifei might have noticed something, so she would repeatedly target herself, Concubine Xu Xian, and the Chengenhou Mansion outside the palace. There were a few late-night visitors to the Chengenhou Mansion last year, although each time they stayed soon after they were discovered and driven away by the nurses, no one could guarantee that they did not find the Wu family living in the mansion.

Therefore, Empress Dowager Zhou was in a hurry to let her younger brother Cheng Enhou send the Wu family to Chang'an, not just because she was not in good health. It was precisely because the Wu family could not prove their innocence in the death of the six princes that the Empress Dowager Zhou could not seek the emperor's grace, so she had to turn to her mother's family for help. In addition to the northwest where the Zhou family is located, there is no place in the world to shelter these two children.

Haixi Cliff frowned when he heard this: "The death of the sixth prince ...... It can't be related to the Wu family, right? They live in Cining Palace, and they are hiding from the outside world, so how can they walk around the palace casually? Besides, the Wu family brothers and sisters are still children, in the year when the six princes died, they were younger, how could they have harmful intentions? ”

Xie Wenzai sighed: "Mrs. Kegui is not a child, and she hates the Sun family deeply, the Sun family will definitely suspect her." ”

Gui lost her husband and eldest son in the Wu family fire, her mother's family was demoted out of Beijing, her father died of depression, although the brothers were alive, but the future was bleak, even if the emperor reactivated the old relatives and friends of Wu in recent years, he did not think of returning to the family. Gui took his daughter and nephew to live in the backyard of the deep palace for many years, and he was not allowed to see outsiders, and his temperament had already changed. The blood feud between her and the Sun family is not something that can be erased by a few years of peaceful life. And if the six princes are crowned, the power of the Sun family will be unshakable. If the Gui clan is revengeful, it is not impossible to directly cut off the future of the Sun family.

Even if Empress Dowager Zhou and Cheng Enhou don't think so, the Sun family will think so.

Hai Xiya asked in a low voice, "What did Mrs. Gui say in front of the Duke of Zhenguo?" ”

"She said that she had never done it, and she had been living with her daughter in the palace in the small courtyard of Cining Palace, and she had never gone out or seen outsiders." Xie Wenzai also lowered his voice, "But she also said that Empress Wu has been in charge of the Six Palaces for many years and is deeply loved by the palace people. If there is any palace person who is grateful for her kindness in the past, and can't get used to seeing Sun Guifei and the six princes domineering and doing the right thing for heaven, it is also a matter of course......"

Hai Xiya was stunned: "What does she mean by this?" Does she know who killed the Six Princes? The palace people who were gracious to Empress Wu during her lifetime? ”

"Who knows?" Xie Wenzai pursed his lips, "She's only willing to reveal so much......",

He didn't feel very good. Empress Dowager Zhou and Chengenhou Mansion have sheltered Gui's mother and daughter and Wu Ke for many years, why does Gui's family seem to be not very honest with the Zhou family, and seems to have a deep resentment?

(End of chapter)