Chapter 153: Ji Qin

On the second day after Xie Wuzheng left the palace, he sent an unfamiliar maidservant into the palace, saying that it was to give the noble concubine some local products brought by the servants from the north.

As first cousins, the noble concubine and Sui'an's son-in-law had a normal relationship, let alone after the collapse of the Xie family, the relationship between siblings became even closer, so no one became suspicious, so they were brought to Huanhua Palace smoothly.

In the hall, Yun Fenghuang was holding a tea bowl, slowly looking at the people below.

This maid looked older, about 30 years old, but she still had her hair styled as a maiden, and her appearance could only be described as straight and fair, not considered beautiful.

With low eyebrows and pleasing eyes, he looks very honest.

After she entered, she saluted respectfully, handed over the local products brought in as a cover to the noble concubine, and then said: "My servant, Ji Qin, has a son for the Ji family, and has been ordered to serve the son-in-law for ten years."

"Ten years?" Yun Fenghuang calculated, and said, "I have been in the palace for thirteen years, and in the same year the son-in-law went to the imperial capital to prepare for the exam. So, you came to him later?"

"Yes." Ji Qin said frankly, "After all, the empress was in the limelight at that time. Although all the children of the Xie family were not as amazing as the empress alone, but the tide has risen. So? At that time, it was not difficult for the Cypriots to come to the side of the consort, but it was difficult to hide it from other people, especially the eyes and ears of His Majesty and Empress. How could the master have made such a mistake after being in power for many years? Three years later, Chunjia In ten years, the empress's position in the palace is stable, and the marriage between the son-in-law and the eldest princess has already been settled, at this time, who will care if the son-in-law has two servants in front of him?"

"Even if someone thinks that maidservants are exceptionally capable, they will think of the empress instead of Ji."

"After all, the empress only temporarily worked for the Empress Yuan, and later she switched to His Majesty, and even spared no effort to step on the Ji family...Who would have thought that the most important people of the Ji family are all in front of the horse's saddle?"

Yun Fenghuang nodded his head and said: "No one of the noble family is a fuel-efficient lamp! It's my negligence to black the lamp."

"Your Majesty, why should you belittle yourself?" Ji Qin shook his head, and said, "Although your Majesty is a woman, she is talented in the city, but everyone in the master's family deeply admires it. Otherwise, the master's family felt that the building was about to collapse. The empress has been chosen as a channel for the master to seek justice from the royal family."

"If it weren't for the fact that the empress has been firmly grasping the favor all these years, and suppressed Gu and other dignitaries who have inextricable ties with the harem, they would not be able to hold their heads up. First of all, the servants and these people would not be able to hide so well, so that Even the Imperial City Division knows nothing about it!"

"Secondly, maidservants act normally, and it is even more impossible for them to come quickly and smoothly under the banner of empress."

"The master's family made a bad move back then, and chose the current successor as the heir of Xiaozong."

"So much so that there is a catastrophe!"

"But at a critical juncture, I still had a vicious look after all."

"The chosen empress, you are a first-class expert."

"So please don't be annoyed and angry, my mother. Compared with the background and the age of the master's family, how different is the age of my mother?"

"At the end of the day, it's because the lord's calculations were intentional and unintentional, taking advantage of the danger of the empress's flurry before her wings were full. If it wasn't for the empress who had suffered too much in the family at that time, she was eager to promote her natal brothers, and because none of her natal brothers could compare with yourself. One-tenth of the talents, the master's calculations may not be successful."

"My lady's talent, my lady's means, and my lady's ability are all highly respected by the master."

She said gently, "That's why over the past few years, some people in the main family's remaining palace have tried every means to serve the empress... It's just that the empress herself is straightforward, I'm afraid she didn't realize it?"

"..." Yun Fenghuang narrowed his eyes, stared at her for a while, and then slowly said, "This palace has indeed gone smoothly in the past two years, even including the abolition of the empress, it has not been disturbed. The Tao is whether you are extremely happy, and are you helping me when you co-author it?"

"Your Majesty, the Ji family has produced three empresses after all." Ji Qin said calmly, "Even after the Ji family was overthrown, the previous dynasty and the harem had undergone a major cleansing, and more than once. But back then, the Ji family controlled the government for many years. Your Majesty, there are people like Yi Guogong, who insist on being loyal to His Majesty... No matter how bad the Ji family is, being able to rule for three dynasties naturally has its own merits. If you teach some people, you have to follow them. Isn't it? Of course, The servant girl said this, not because she wants the empress to accept her, after all, with the empress's means, even if there are no maidservants to follow suit, what she wants to do will be successful sooner or later."

She said slowly, "After all, not everyone can be as cruel as your empress, who is so cruel that she uses her fertility, life, and even her own flesh and blood as bargaining chips to carry out bitter tricks."

Yun Fenghuang heard this shocking sentence, but his face remained unchanged, and he only said slowly: "Compared to intrigue, I am only a junior after all. The Ji family is worthy of being a famous family. As early as thirteen years ago, they actually fell in love with him At that time, I didn't know whether I could survive the turmoil in the imperial palace...but I was very curious: Since you all thought that His Majesty would not let you go, what did you do or did you lose step by step? Did you preside over the three dynasties? Is your family of top nobles so useless?"

"Oh, what I said was wrong. You have already planned on my cousin's idea in advance, but you seem to be sure that the Ji family will lose."

"But why?"

"Even if His Majesty has already ruled in person at that time, the Ji family is still in the former court and the harem, isn't it?"

"At that time, even His Majesty was not sure that he would win..."

"Mr. Ji, how do you know that you are doomed?"

"Did His Majesty take some advantage?"

"But how can the handle be compared with the power and position? Even if the death of Xiaozong was written by the Ji family, it is not impossible for the Ji family to quibble and deny... What is it that made the big Ji family, when the family was still in its heyday, in three years? When all the phoenix lords are sitting on the phoenix seat, they feel that their chances of survival are slim, and they can only pin their hopes on this young lady who just entered the palace at that time and was only able to be registered as Jieyu by taking the medicine to plant Ji Muzi. Little concubine?!"

A look of seriousness flashed across Ji Qin's face, and he didn't answer the question directly, but said: "Your Majesty is a smart person, now that the showdown is over, the servant girl said bluntly: There is actually no serious grievance between the master's family and Your Majesty. Not to mention how many times we had cooperated in private back then, even at this moment, it is also..."

"Wait!" Yun Fenghuang stopped her, and said in a harmonious voice, "You said that there was no grievance back then, so it's fine, but now there is no grievance? Then I, Mrs. Xie, have hundreds of lives, could it be because of bad luck? of?"

It's not that she believes in Xie Wuzheng, but from the perspective of interests, since the Xie family has mastered Xie Wuzheng, she must find a way to make Xie Wuzheng's status leap above all the brothers.

But just by virtue of his status as a son-in-law, he still couldn't surpass the many brothers and nephews of Yunfeng Huang's compatriots.

What's more, Xie Jian and Jiang's parents are there, even if Yun Fenghuang thinks that Xie Wuzheng is more talented and worth cultivating, to see his parents' face, and listen to his parents' persuasion and plea, it is impossible not to ask his brother and relatives. Nephews tilt resources.

After all, she is not Yun Qingman, who is not loved by her father or mother. She has been doted on since she was a child, but no matter how selfish an individual is, she still has affection for her family after all.

And these are incomparable to Xie Wuzheng, a cousin who was not familiar with her before.

Therefore, the Ji family has sufficient reasons and motives to destroy the Xie family.

Ji Qin said slowly: "Madam, if the maid said that the Ji family did not do this matter, you would not believe it. I just ask you to think about it. With your intelligence, you never thought that the master would send you People persuaded your cousin, but why bother to murder the Xie family, so as to form an eternal hatred with you? Or do you really think that your cousin can't stand the temptation, your same mother, brother, and even the first sister-in-law? , Nephews and nieces, all of them are devoted to you, can't they be persuaded by the master? Besides, with the master's ability, it is not difficult to convince them that cooperating with the master and hiding it from you is also for you good!"

"After all, forgive me for my blunt words: the three generations of the Xie family, Zhong Ling Yuxiu are all in the body of the empress."

"Except for the empress, the rest of the people are all chickens and dogs, vulnerable to a single blow!"

Yun Fenghuang looked at her, didn't get angry, and didn't speak.

Ji Qin paused for a moment, then continued: "The son-in-law was only one of the targets of the master's family at that time, and there was another one, I think the empress knew it well by now, it was your eighteenth brother, a compatriot from the same mother, Thank you Mr. Xiyu."

"That's the brother who has the best relationship with the empress, and he is a compatriot of the same mother. It is reasonable and reasonable. As long as he is alive, even if the Xie family is still safe and sound, there are several nephews and brothers who are in front of you. His son-in-law?"

The imperial concubine is silent, this is the truth, Xie Xiaoyu... the direct brother she grew up with the most when she was young.

Even if he made a big mistake and went away, he would still leave a big trouble for her.

But when she thinks back, hatred is hatred, and resentment is resentment. Even if there was a glimmer of hope to save him, she still couldn't bear to see him die.

After all, this brother is a bit stupid, but no matter how stupid he is, he is still a real brother.

Xie Wuzheng is completely incomparable.

"Why did the eighteenth brother lose his reputation and not even leave a son?" The imperial concubine frowned and turned her mind, showing some hope and expectation, "I heard that the son-in-law Tongji's daughter has many heirs." Xie Fuwang is one of them! The eighteenth brother...has he left a son and a daughter with you?"

Ji Qin didn't expect her to think of this, he was stunned for a while, feeling a little regretful, he shook his head and said: "The Eighteenth Young Master is different from the son-in-law, the son-in-law is estranged from you, and he is unwilling to be suppressed by the big family. Apart from being a concubine's cousin, he has no bargaining chips, leaving an heir with Ji's daughter is a request of the son-in-law to show his sincerity."

"As for the eighteenth son, he is the mother's direct brother."

"To put it bluntly, what the son-in-law did is placed on the Eighteenth Young Master, so there may be no room for change!"

"Since that's the case, why did the main family use similar methods against the Eighteenth Young Master?"

"The master's family just sent someone to pretend to be a staff member who came to seek refuge, instructing the eighteen princes to kill their wives and sons, and follow up with noble daughters, so that they can get Cui Wan's care."

"But I never thought of killing the Eighteenth Young Master."

"The one who really did this is someone else."

Yun Fenghuang looked at her, and asked slowly: "But I don't know, who is this person?"

"..." Ji Qin was silent for a moment, and finally said slowly, "Your Majesty really thought that after the Xie family was destroyed, the son-in-law and you suspected that the Gu family was the chief culprit, did we plant the blame?"

The imperial concubine let out a short sneer: "At that time, I was full of resentment, plus I had no doubts about Xie Wuzheng, and even felt pity for Xie Wuzheng, so naturally I didn't think about it. Thinking about this for the past two days, I feel that there are many flaws. Let’s just say, if Mrs. Gu has the ability to do such a big thing, how can she still suffer under the hands of this palace all these years?!”

"My Xie family is nothing to put in the temple, but in the Northland, I am also a powerful native born and bred!"

"It's not an ordinary person, let him, Mrs. Gu, flatten and round it!"

"It's true that Gu's alone can't do it." Ji Qin said calmly, "But what if... add a Yun's?"

Yun Fenghuang's composure was suddenly broken: "...what?"

Ji Qin slowly said: "Back then, Your Majesty succeeded the late Emperor as the vassal king of Yuanzhi. He had the name of the Son of Heaven but not the reality of the Son of Heaven. He was like a puppet. He ruled in the harem. Except for the Yuan family who is closely related to him, there is only Yiguo Gong unswervingly supports him. Although the Yun family has always been a royalist, but the royalists are not limited to the Yun family. Your majesty is not a close descendant of the Gongxiang family. When he came to the imperial capital, the officials told him the truth I don't have much affection, and I even look forward to the Prince Regent and his son. Have you ever thought about why Yunzhao is so determined to send the only legitimate daughter into the palace as Concubine Shu, and send the only legitimate son to accompany her as a companion? , support His Majesty so relentlessly?"