Chapter 222: Confusion

Chapter 222

This doubt has been hidden in Yun Fenghuang's heart for a long time, and now he finally has the opportunity to ask it out.

The Empress Dowager was silent for a moment, then said slowly: "After Ji Sheng left, Ming Hui was left alone, and she gradually lost weight. Especially in the days before her death, she lost weight quickly... The outline became clearer and clearer. You should know who she looks like." Are you clear?"

"Yes." Yun Fenghuang nodded, "It is precisely because of this reason that the grand-daughter-in-law can't figure it out. Although Minghui is not like the first emperor, she clearly looks like a daughter of the Ji family. If this is the case, why hide her real appearance? The outside world does not know her background , isn't it a bad thing for the emperor to look like the mother clan?"

The Empress Dowager said softly: "You followed Ling Zi when you just entered the palace, you must know that Ling Zi has not been trusted by the Ji family?"

Yun Fenghuang pondered quickly: "Could it be that Ji Sheng's move was not to hide the truth from you and the people left behind by the late Emperor Shenzong, but to hide the knowledge from the Ji family?!"

"Otherwise?" The Empress Dowager sneered, "Sheng'er and Xiaozong are young couples, and they were quite harmonious in the first place. After they have their own flesh and blood, let's not talk about it... She was ignorant when she was young, and she didn't know about Xiaozong. Her background is that she blatantly helped Xiaozong fight against the family. Although she was reversed by the family after all, the family could not trust her. According to what Minghui said in private, she killed her mother and took her daughter and adopted her from the palace concubine. In order to act as the concubine's daughter, so as not to keep the subordinates complaining that she has nothing to do. At that time, there was indeed a concubine in the palace who was pregnant and gave birth at the same time as her. "

She said indifferently, "If the Ji family knew that this child belonged to her and Xiaozong, they would have to get rid of it."

"That's why she didn't dare to let Minghui show that she has the blood of the Ji family."

"It's just that this secret is too heavy, she dare not and can't bear to let Ming Hui know."

"It's just that after she leaves, the Ji family will not be able to protect themselves. Minghui tried her best to lose weight in order to look good... No one cares about it."

Yun Fenghuang was quite surprised: "But the common man Ji Sheng is nothing more than a queen after all. At the beginning, the first emperor Xiaozong was suppressed by the Ji family. How could the Ji family be so merciless to the daughter? Minghui is just Girl, even if it is born of Xiaozong and Ji Sheng, so what?"

The empress dowager glanced at her with playfulness in her eyes, and said, "It's just a queen? You are also a queen now, and the emperor can't come to Ai's house even if he wants to. Once you come, doesn't Ai's house have to let you in? Are you still a queen?" It’s just that she came from a humble background. At that time, Nianniansheng was the daughter of my Ji family. She had Ai’s family in front of her. She was raised as the mother of the country since she landed. She knew many things about the family very well. If Xiaozong was not the first emperor Heir, I'm afraid that the Ji family will be betrayed by her sooner or later!"

"With such a daughter who eats inside and out, who can not be careful?"

"Besides, she hid Minghui not only because she was worried that the Ji family would be unfavorable to Minghui, but also because she was worried that Minghui would become her weakness."

"After all, if the Ji family uses Minghui to force her to do something..."

"I'm afraid it will be difficult for her to refuse."

"But if Mrs. Ji also thinks that Minghui is not actually born by her, it's just a cover to deceive others, so naturally she won't take it too seriously."

After a pause, he continued, "Otherwise, do you think that what Ji Minggan did back then had no interest in Ming Hui, but rather teased Yun An? He didn't pay attention to Ming Hui because in the eyes of the Ji family's children at that time, Ming Hui was originally Not a real concubine."

"Dare to ask the emperor's grandmother." Yun Fenghuang became curious, "What exactly did Ji Sheng do in the first place, so that the Ji family tabooed her so much? But after the grandson's daughter-in-law entered the palace, it seemed that the relationship between Ji Sheng and the Ji family was different. Not as bad as imagined?"

The Empress Dowager said indifferently: "You committed suicide in order to become a concubine. When Ji Sheng was young, he was a little more ruthless than you. She directly collected all kinds of corruption and perversion of the Ji family, and she wanted to take the lead in exposing Duke Ye. Yes... If these things are successful, the entire Ji family will almost be over. Even the Ai family will be disgraced."

"It's her herself. Whether she can sit firmly in the back seat in the future is a problem!"

"If you were Duke Ye and others, what would you do?"

Yun Fenghuang: "..."

She suddenly felt that Mrs. Ji was not as stingy as she thought.

Her descendants, no, don't need to be separated by seniority, just say that Kang An's biological daughter, if she grows up to eat inside and outside like this, she will probably be able to tear her apart!

The Ji family actually let Ji Sheng continue to be the empress dowager, this is really...

The famous family is really generous!

only……

Yun Fenghuang couldn't help asking: "How kind was Xiaozong to Ji Sheng back then, that Ji Sheng repaid him so heartily?"

She didn't see at all that Ji Sheng was the kind of master who would love to death?

By the way, is there a problem with the level of Ji's goddaughter?

Although I have never met Emperor Xiaozong, when Chunjia was young, he was also a majestic emperor with both good looks and good looks, why didn't he see Ji Lingzi looking for life and betraying his family for him?

Is this Xiaozong's method is better, or Chunjia's ability to coax girls is not good?

Just as she was wondering, she heard the Empress Dowager sneer and said sarcastically, "Is it because you love Chunjia that you have tried every means to compete for favor over the years?"

"Of course." Yun Fenghuang said without thinking, "The sun and the moon can learn from my daughter-in-law's love for His Majesty!"

The Empress Dowager nodded lightly: "That's right, where did the world, the sun and the moon come to expose you so much?"

Yun Fenghuang said sternly: "Grandmother Mingjian, if granddaughter-in-law didn't love His Majesty to the extreme, she wouldn't want to live when she was plotting against others, but why has she struggled so far?"

"My Ji family was originally a famous family. When Ji Sheng was born, the entire Ji family was like a fire cooking oil, and it was thriving." The Empress Dowager sneered, making it clear that she didn't believe her nonsense, with a slightly nostalgic look on her face, and said softly , "You can imagine how rich and honored she was when she was young and young."

"Even if she enters the palace as a princess, no one dares to go against her will."

Speaking of this, the Empress Dowager sighed, and said quietly, "Such a child, what do you think, when the family continues to dictate to her?"

Yun Fenghuang was startled.

The Empress Dowager said indifferently: "You yourself are not a person who lives and dies for the love of your children. How do you think that my daughter, who was carefully selected by the Ji family, would be naive and ignorant? Ji Cheng, she and the Ji family are not at odds, From the beginning, it was not for Xiaozong, but for herself... She was young at that time, and she didn't know many things, so she felt that since she was the princess and the mother of the country in the future, why should she be a puppet for the family? After the empress, I became even more impatient with Ji's orders and demands. Besides, there are certainly some idiots in this world who cater to their mother's family according to their own flesh and blood. But Ji Sheng is not."

"At that time, she had nothing to do, but she was very tired of Ji."

"But there is a lot of side-talking in front of Ai's family. The implication is that since she has entered the door of the Gongxiang family, she is the daughter-in-law of the Gongxiang family, and she should be considered by the Gongxiang family."

"It's just that I don't feel sorry for my husband, at least my own children."

Speaking of this, the Empress Dowager paused, and said softly, "She may not be a good daughter, but in fact, she is really a good mother who does her best. Aijia still remembers that year she came to see Aijia alone , kneeling in front of Ai's family, weeping bitterly, making Ai's family feel sorry for Xiaozong, saying... that she has nothing to do, and it is already conceivable that if the Ji family continues to exist, even her biological daughter will not feel sorry for her. How can we continue to persecute her children even harder in the future?"

"If Xiaozong was the flesh and blood of the first emperor, even if she wasn't born in the Ai family, she would not have ended up in the same fate as she did later."

"It can only be said that good fortune tricks people."

"...Grandmother, granddaughter-in-law is unclear about one thing." Yun Fenghuang said in his heart that this is reasonable, after all, a rich family can pass on for a long time, and it is necessary to have a way of raising children.

It is unlikely that Ji Sheng could be selected as the royal concubine because he is easy to be coaxed by men.

Moreover, she can be a princess and a queen purely by the family. If the family is down, what good fruit can she have?

It was for the sake of himself and his own children that a pampered daughter-in-law was thinking about giving her family a ride.

After all, if she put Yun Fenghuang in Ji Sheng's seat, she would not be polite to Ji Cheng.

After pondering for a while, Yun Fenghuang said, "Since the Ji family and you knew early on that Xiaozong is not a royal family, why did you choose the crown princess from the Ji family?"

"Could it be that the first emperor of Shenzong didn't worry that the Ji family would make a mistake because they had a concubine and a future queen, and recognized Xiaozong as the heir of Shenzong?"

If she was Shenzong, she would not let the daughter of an important minister be the crown princess.

Isn't this ready-made to help fakes!

If the Ji family hadn't produced such a rebellious daughter like Ji Sheng, with a gentle personality, they might have let Ji Sheng and Xiaozong have a son, pretending to be confused and continue to be relatives!

"Who told you that the Ji family was the one entrusted by the late emperor to monitor in order to return the blood of the Gongxiang family?" The empress dowager heard the words, but she showed a strange look, and said, "Or do you think that the emperor was only enthroned back then, Duke Yi took the initiative to seek refuge, is it true that the emperor was born extraordinary and possessed the aura of domineering, so that an important minister like Duke Yi, who fell in love with him at first sight, would bow down immediately?"

Yun Fenghuang's heart skipped a beat, and he said, "Duke Yi?! But forgive my grandson, for all these years, grandson really didn't realize that he has such a means to fight against the city?!"

If Duke Yi was entrusted by Shenzong to pass the throne back to the courtiers of Gongxiang's bloodline, how come she has come from behind all these years, tossed and humiliated, and even the daughter, concubine, daughter-in-law, and grandson have not been kept? !

Couldn't this master be a top-notch scholar in the imperial court but a pure layman in the imperial court?

The Empress Dowager said with a half-smile, "He? He was just following orders, but how could he preside over the overall situation?"

After a pause, she said slowly, "Don't you think that the Imperial City Secretary is in the hands of the emperor, which is not worthy of the name?"