Chapter 241 The Truth (1)

Yun Fenghuang instinctively backed away, but halfway through, she became stiff for a moment, and abruptly stopped this movement.

"Snapped!"

The movement was not that the Empress Dowager slapped the Queen's face, but that the Empress Dowager Yuan, who was half a step behind the Empress Dowager, suddenly stepped forward and grabbed the Empress Dowager's wrist, forcing the Empress Dowager's arm to stop. half empty.

Everyone was shocked by the scene of the rabbit rising and the falcon falling.

Yun Fenghuang was also stunned.

But the most surprised one was the Empress Dowager, she subconsciously struggled, and found that the Empress Dowager Yuan was holding on very tightly, and she really didn't want her to fight.

"Are you crazy too?" The Empress Dowager laughed angrily, "Is it still necessary to continue to pretend to be your loving mother? It's just that you are pretending to be with the emperor, why are you pretending to be with this lowly maid!?"

Empress Dowager Yuan didn't look at her, her gaze was fixed on Yun Fenghuang's face, she burst into tears, and said word by word: "Back to the empress dowager, I'm not crazy! It's just that the emperor risked his life Don't even want to save her... Now that you hit her on the face, wouldn't it still hurt Huang'er's heart when you look back? Please remember the Empress Dowager for the sake of Huang'er's child in my life. This Xiaoyun family must be punished."

She raised her sleeves to cover her mouth, and wept loudly, "If the Empress Dowager wants to hit me, hit me, I always have no way to raise my son, and raised a bastard like Gong Xiangji!!! If I had known today, I would have died alone back then , in the ancestral hall of King Fuyang's lineage, guarding for the rest of his life!!!"

The Empress Dowager was stunned, and immediately, like a deflated ball, she weakened at a speed visible to the naked eye, as if she had aged ten years in an instant, she shook, and slowly withdrew her arm, what? He didn't say anything, and he didn't look at the Queen or Queen Mother Yuan again. He just walked towards Jiang Lan with some staggering steps and asked about the emperor's situation.

Empress Dowager Yuan didn't look at Yun Fenghuang anymore, and followed the Empress Dowager, holding her breath and listening carefully to Jiang Lan's report.

Yun Fenghuang stood where he was, intact, but his wide sleeves hanging on the ground couldn't help trembling.

"Niang Niang..." The servant called out worriedly in a low voice, but Yun Fenghuang's eyes were red, and the tears that had just dried up came out again.

After listening to Jiang Lan's report, the Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager Yuan were silent for a while. The Empress Dowager Yuan hoarsely voiced and made the same request as Yun Fenghuang Shicai.

After saying this, she hesitated for a while, looked sideways at the Empress Dowager, and said in a low voice: "Do you... want to go together?"

"I won't go to Ai's house." The Empress Dowager looked at the room leading to the inner room, she was silent for a moment, but shook her head, and said lightly, "The empress has obviously gone in, she can still stand there calmly, she must be fine. But after all, this is a child you raised with your own hands, if you are worried, just go if you want to go."

Empress Dowager Yuan blessed her, and was supported by Jiang Lan, who staggered into the room.

After the Empress Dowager watched her go in, she lowered her eyes and pondered for a moment, then suddenly said: "You come with Ai's family!"

Then he flicked his sleeves and walked out first.

Yun Fenghuang was stunned for a moment before realizing that these words were addressed to her.

She hesitated for a while, and the servant next to her subconsciously wanted to stop her: "Your Majesty, you said just now that you are worried about Your Majesty and will wait here."

This is because she is afraid that if she goes outside with the Empress Dowager, the Empress Dowager will do something again.

But Yun Fenghuang thought about it briefly, and followed.

The Empress Dowager had hardly been to Xingxin Hall in this dynasty, but she was obviously no stranger to it, and led Yun Fenghuang to turn left and right on the winding corridors, and soon arrived at a secluded waterside pavilion.

The Ming Palace guards were outside, and only Yun Fenghuang was allowed to enter.

"..." Yun Fenghuang walked in, and saw the Empress Dowager standing in front of the window facing the water pavilion, holding on to the window lattice, with an indifferent expression, stepped forward to bless her, and did not speak.

After a while, the Empress Dowager asked coldly, "What do you think?"

"The grandson's daughter-in-law doesn't understand what the imperial grandmother means."

The Empress Dowager said coldly: "What else can we do now?"

"..." Yun Fenghuang was silent for a while, and said, "My daughter-in-law is confused now, and I don't know what to say. But if she talks the most, it's probably an accident."

"Accident?" The Empress Dowager sneered, and turned around. She was old, and now she was ill, and her time was running out. Underneath, the whole person showed a dying weakness.

But under the rage, a pair of pupils are still shining.

Like a knife, he scraped Yun Fenghuang's body up and down, but said in a neutral tone, "This is quite honest."

Yun Fenghuang didn't speak, she was really upset.

The Empress Dowager said again: "But what happened to you? It's not a day or two that the emperor favors you. Over the years, what you have done in the former court and the harem, you have treated the successor, the heir, the Chongxin king, and the prince and concubine. Even if he doesn’t know what he’s doing, doesn’t he have an approximate count? But he still turns a blind eye, knowing that your existence will inevitably cause civil strife in the royal family. With the importance he attaches to the world, but I haven't picked you up all this time... Doesn't that mean he's lost his head?!"

"Grandmother, what is your grandson-in-law?" Yun Fenghuang smiled wryly, "When your majesty likes it, you will be more favored. If your majesty doesn't like it, you can kill it with your backhand. In this case, as long as your majesty doesn't want to, can grandson-in-law really be able to?" Harm the royal family?"

The Empress Dowager stared at her quietly, for a moment, she suddenly curled her lips, showing a somewhat bleak smile: "It really does."

Yun Fenghuang didn't understand what he meant, showing a look of doubt.

The Empress Dowager didn't let her guess, and said slowly: "You are really like when Aijia was young."

"Granddaughter-in-law is terrified." Yun Fenghuang gradually came back to his senses, the empress dowager... the relationship between her and Chunjia, is it a little strange to stand up for Chunjia at this moment?

Shouldn't she sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight, and even hope that the emperor will be unlucky?

Why did he intend to slap her for Chunjia and summon her to teach him a lesson?

The queen regained her composure, and said, "The grandson's daughter-in-law is from a humble background, and she is far inferior to the emperor's grandmother in terms of virtuousness. How dare she compare herself with the emperor's grandmother when she was young?"

"You are preoccupied with yourself in this matter, suspicious and jealous, listening to the wind is like rain trampling on other people's sincerity." The empress dowager spoke slowly and stunned her, "It's really like when Aijia was young!"

Seeing Yun Fenghuang's eyes widened for a moment.

She smiled coldly, and pointed to a building not far away that was still emitting smoke: "Can't figure it out?"

Yun Fenghuang had a vague guess in his heart, but he always felt—how is it possible? !

She held her breath, forced herself to suppress all the mixed feelings, her thoughts turned, trying to keep up with the empress dowager's train of thought, she shook her head and said: "I can't figure it out! Your majesty knows how wise and powerful you are, and grandson-in-law dare not say how virtuous and benevolent she is, But I think that as a concubine and queen, I will abide by my responsibilities, work hard, and dare not slack off in the slightest. It would be understandable if such a thing happened when His Majesty was just in charge. But now it has been Chunjia's twenty-three years. The Forbidden Army and Miyagi have been purged many times, why does such a thing happen?"

"Why is it impossible?" The Empress Dowager said slowly, "You and the emperor are indeed considered talents, but, after all, you are young. The wisdom of the predecessors may not be inferior to yours, and it is better to strike first. No matter how hard you get to the bottom of it , but young and ignorant, a lot of the past has long been annihilated in the years, but where do you know? No matter how you check the palace, the palace city, or the imperial army, no matter how you check it, no matter how you clean it up, you need people to do things. What's so surprising about the situation?"

Yun Fenghuang looked at her: "But if the emperor's grandmother had such a means in the early morning, why did you remain at ease when the Ji family was destroyed, why after the Ji family was destroyed, and why have you been so peaceful in the past ten years since the Ji family was destroyed?"

By this time, if you still don't understand, today's turmoil is inextricably linked to the Empress Dowager, and she has spent many years in vain.

But instead of suddenly realizing it, Yun Fenghuang was even more confused.

The Empress Dowager stared at her and said lightly: "Do you know why the Ai family asked you to come here to talk today?"

"My daughter-in-law is dull." Yun Fenghuang was startled for a moment, but she was a little disturbed by the rhythm of her thoughts, so she quickly stabilized her mind before shaking her head.

"The reason is what Aijia just said." The Empress Dowager said lightly, "You really look like Aijia when he was young."

She said, "You have been staring at Shanyuan Temple for a long time, even when you didn't know anything, you set fire to Shanyuan Temple... And you specially asked many old people from the time of Shizong and the first emperor to interrogate, presumably for Aijia I also understand and speculate about the past, and today you and I are more honest, let Aijia first hear what you have gained over the years?"

"..." Yun Fenghuang pondered for a while, and said, "Then the grandson-in-law will show her shame."

She immediately described the conjectures that she had negotiated with the Jiang family in detail, that is, the past grievances and hatreds of Shenzong, Queen Qu, Concubine Shu, and the Empress Dowager, as well as the suspected loss of fertility, not only Shenzong is also the Empress Dowager.

During this process, she carefully observed the expression of the Empress Dowager, and found that she was very calm when talking about other things, including when she suspected that the Empress Dowager was infertile.

Only when Empress Qu was mentioned, did the Empress Dowager show a serious look.

Guess right?

Yun Fenghuang only thought about this in his heart, but saw the Empress Dowager looking at her with a complicated expression, but said: "You really look like the Ai family... When the Ai family was young, and the lowly maidservant of the Qu family were all because of the elder's help. Because of this, I often go to Shanyuan Temple. Qu's family background is not as good as that of Ai's family, but her appearance is better than that of Ai's family. Her biological mother died early, and her stepmother is quite cunning, so the situation at home is not very good. Qu's family and Ji's have relatives who are oblique Relationship, therefore, when Aijia's grandmother met her in Shanyuan Temple, she took good care of her, and told Aijia to protect her more... Aijia listened to her grandmother's advice and treated her as a sister, taking her with her when she went in and out. , so she is not only quite familiar with the children of the Ji family, but she was also by the side when the Ai family met the late emperor by chance..."

When the Empress Dowager said this, she suddenly burst into tears, "So when I found out later that the late emperor met her privately without telling Aijia, Aijia...was shocked and angry, except for being annoyed at myself for being stupid and leading wolves into the house..."

She stopped suddenly and didn't continue talking, but asked Yun Fenghuang, "If you were the Aijia at that time, what would you do?"