Two Hundred and Fortieth Chapters Truth (Four)

Yun Fenghuang was startled.

The Empress Dowager said with a wry smile: "You have experienced this kind of suffering yourself! Why have you completely forgotten it after so many years?"

"..." Yun Fenghuang was stunned for a moment, then understood immediately, and asked in surprise, "Mrs. Qu...has always been jealous of you?"

It's like, back then, Chao Jingyou tried every means to oppose her.

Even if she was ridiculed and ridiculed again and again, she still failed repeatedly.

In the end, she caught the matter of Xie Fenghuan and successfully married into Qi's family!

As the Empress Dowager said, Yun Fenghuang didn't react when he was young. After all, Qi Jiulu is the most outstanding young child in the whole Northland. It is normal for Chao Jingyou to love him and covet him.

After getting older, Yun Fenghuang realized that Chao Jingyou may have feelings for Qi Jiulu, but it may not be as deep as she imagined.

Judging from the fact that Chao Jingyou personally named her daughter Qi Luqing, Chao Jingyou's heart knot is not so much Qi Jiulu, but Yun Fenghuang.

Otherwise, she would not hope that her own flesh and blood could become the next Yunfenghuang.

"Of course she hates the Ai family." The Empress Dowager said with a sneer, "She is also the daughter of a famous family. In terms of talent and appearance, she and the Ai family are evenly matched! But the Ai family has all parents, and the elders in the family are probably quite equal. For love. Especially the grandmother, among the many granddaughters, the one who loves Aijia the most! And what about her? Just because the birth mother passed away early, and the stepmother came in to control the back house, suppressing and ridiculing everywhere, so the life of the dignified daughter-in-law is not as good as many The concubine is at ease!"

"And Aijia didn't understand people's hearts when she was a teenager. Hearing her grandmother say she was pitiful and often took her in and out, it made her even more jealous..."

"Especially, when we were young, Aijia and her often went to Shanyuan Temple."

"But Ai's family was to accompany her grandmother, and because of this, she got to know the late emperor; she had to do it in order to avoid the torture of her stepmother, so she went to the Taoist temple, and Ai's family walked around for fun, but she had to take the time to copy. The scriptures, fortunately, I have something to explain after returning home. Otherwise, I will have to be questioned by my stepmother, what is her intention in running out when she sees the sky?!"

"This was still a child, when we reached the age of marriage, Ai's family had parents, brothers and sisters to help them become famous. Even if they were talented, they were not as good as her. However, when it comes to famous girls in the imperial capital, they only know about Ai's family, but they don't know about her!"

"As for the marriage, let's not talk about it. Ai's family is the daughter of the main branch of the Ji family. She has both parents, many brothers and sisters, and is loved by the old lady... Please enter the palace, the empress dowager and other nobles will give a few words of praise, Even being a concubine is a must! The only time Qu Shi entered the palace was to be the concubine of the elderly Shizong!"

"Tell me, can she not be jealous of Aijia?!"

The young Empress Qu hated the Empress Dowager so much!

Even though the Empress Dowager was one of the few people who treated her well, at that time, maybe both of them were too young.

The Empress Dowager has no intention of restraining herself from being generous, comfortable, well-loved and smooth-sailing in front of Empress Qu, while Empress Qu is gradually distorted in the day-to-day jealousy, and the Empress Dowager's care for her has also become a reality. Received a condescending handout.

In the end, she hated the Empress Dowager even more than she hated the instigator, her stepmother and father.

So when she conspired with Shu Wang and his wife, and some members of the Ji family to usurp a piece of wealth, she refused to have a child with Shu Wang, but immediately thought of Emperor Shenzong.

It wasn't that she took a fancy to Emperor Shenzong, but because, Emperor Shenzong was the husband of the Empress Dowager, and he and the Empress Dowager were in love with each other.

"The first emperor has no hope since he was a child, and he is used to carrying everything by himself." The empress dowager breathed a sigh of relief, but the tears still flowed down uncontrollably. He is very well-known in the middle school, and many people say that he is a bit high-flying when he marries the Ai family."

After all, she is capable of being a concubine, but she married an unfavored prince, even a nobleman... But at that time, everyone still felt that Shenzong was lucky and the Empress Dowager was wronged.

"At that time, Aijia was used to being arrogant and arrogant, and he didn't pay attention to these boring words. Aijia thought that the first emperor must have thought the same way. After all, when the first emperor was in front of Aijia, he was always indifferent when facing reputation... Later, Aijia Only then did the family understand that the first emperor was actually only in his teens at that time, and he was at the time when he was full of vigor, and he was not used to troubles in his seventies and eighties, so how could he be able to truly face the accusations of thousands of people and remain indifferent? It's just that he was used to covering up, and ...and dare not show weakness in front of Aijia."

The Empress Dowager said sadly, "He really listened to those words. He was afraid that Ai's family would regret it, and that Ai's family would also feel that marrying him was a foolish..."

Therefore, when faced with the coercion and lure of Empress Qu and others, Shenzong chose to mediate alone, and even took the risk of winning over the Imperial City Guards, doing many things that he had never done before and did not dare to do, and thus embarked on the battle for the throne. the road.

"At that time, he was not sure about anything." The Empress Dowager smiled bitterly, "That's why Aijia was sent to Zhuangzi without explaining... Many years later, on the eve of his death, Aijia dared to ask him, Why did he do that at that time? He said that he was afraid of hurting Aijia, and originally planned to send Aijia to Zhuangzi for a while. The family still has the family to rely on, so he may not be dragged into the water. But he hesitated for a long time after writing letters from the Ai family, and he couldn't bear it..."

Speaking of this, she suddenly said, "Returning the blood of the Gongxiang family means mourning the family. The late emperor did not intend to do so."

Seeing Yun Fenghuang looking at herself in surprise, the Empress Dowager showed a little complacency, and said calmly, "The first emperor didn't know about his extinction until his death, but he also knew that the Ai family also played tricks...he couldn't find it." The real murderer, so I hated my brothers and sisters to death, and I also hated Sejong to death... After all, if Sejong hadn't deliberately let the royal family fight in order to stabilize his status and authority in his later years, how could the Ai family and his wife be affected by these things? Well, whether it is the first emperor or not, I just want to live in peace and stability."

"The first emperor told the Ai family in private that although Xiaozong and the regent were not his own children, the left and right children didn't know it, so they should treat them as their own flesh and blood..."

"Otherwise, I would not have married Ji's daughter as the crown princess for Xiaozong."

"It's just that the Ai family felt more and more guilty after he left, so they decided to return to the Gongxiang family."

Yun Fenghuang was a little stunned: "Is this also the reason why Mrs. Ji parted ways with you?"

"Divorce?" The Empress Dowager showed a little strange look, did not answer this question, but said, "It's just that when the first emperor was here, he loved Xiaozong and the regent very much. The Ai family originally wanted these two children to be extinct. Then , a logical adoptive heir. However, when things came to an end, I couldn't bear to think of the late emperor. So I procrastinated, but let them have the people they are now, and they also harmed these children."

She sighed faintly, and said, "It's simply sad that my family is old, and I have gradually lived to this day. After all, I still have time to complete all kinds of plans by myself."

Yun Fenghuang was silent for a moment, and said: "So, in these years, many situations in the former court and the harem are actually under your control? In this case, when the Ji family was destroyed, why didn't you stop it beforehand, but why did you delay it until now?" , to retaliate against His Majesty?"

The empress dowager turned her face to look at her, and the weird look on her face became more and more obvious: "Revenge? The destruction of the Ji family was originally planned by the Ai family. Even if the emperor didn't do it, the Ai family would do it... Ai family Why should the family take revenge on the emperor for this?!"

"!?" Yun Fenghuang was stunned.

The Empress Dowager sneered: "You are so smart, can't you guess that since it wasn't the first emperor who made Ai's family unable to have children, so that Ai's family misunderstood the late emperor...and harmed him for the rest of his life, and Ai's family for the rest of his life, then naturally the other There is someone who can do it!"

And this person who made the attack was able to keep the Empress Dowager from noticing, and even angered the Emperor Shenzong, obviously someone she was very close to and trusted!

Only Ji!

The Jiang family had already speculated on this point before, but...

She was still a little puzzled: "The emperor's grandmother is the daughter of the Ji family, and her parents were there when she was young. Why did the Ji family want to harm you? Even if they do it, at least they are different, so they won't be able to kill you? If that's the case, Why do you want to lay a poisonous hand on the Hezu?"

"It was indeed done by some people. They talked for Qu's lowly maidservants, and they regarded blood relatives as nothing..." The empress dowager's eyes darkened, "However, this matter was hidden from Ai's family at that time, but not from Ji All the elders! After they found out, not only did they not tell Aijia, but they immediately sealed it up... All the tragedies in Aijia’s life, and the life of the late emperor, all started with this incident! Otherwise, even if Aijia had already treated the The late emperor created a gap, but there may not be no chance of recovery!!!”

Yun Fenghuang is silent.

From Ji's standpoint, their choice was actually right.

The empress dowager's infertility cannot be reversed. In this case, even if it is a close relative of flesh and blood, it does not mean that serving tea and admitting mistakes can be resolved.

So since the Empress Dowager doesn't know, it's better to keep it a secret, so that she can continue to communicate as if nothing had happened.

If you are lucky, the Empress Dowager will not know about it until she dies, and this matter will pass like this.

Otherwise, who knows what will happen?

If it spreads out, it will not be a good thing for the reputation of the entire Ji family.

"This family has done such a thing." The Empress Dowager asked Yun Fenghuang, "In the end, because of mourning for the family and the late emperor, they enjoyed wealth and honor, and even their family status became the number one family in the country... Tell me, is there any reason for this?"

Yun Fenghuang slowly shook his head.

She thought about it after substituting herself as the Empress Dowager, and she felt that if she were the Empress Dowager, her natal family would also be wiped out! ! !

The empress dowager sighed, leaned back, and said a little tiredly: "The Ai family not only wants them to die, but the Ai family also wants them to die, ruining their reputations, and making the best use of everything... The emperor has done a good job of this. , Aijia is very satisfied."

After a pause, she suddenly laughed to herself, and asked, "Do you know, at the beginning...why was the emperor succeeding Xiaozong and ascended the throne as the Son of Heaven?"

Yun Fenghuang subconsciously said: "Of course it's because orphans and widows are easy to control..."

She stopped abruptly in the middle of her speech. This kind of speculation was also the most extensive guess that Chunjia could be selected at the beginning, and it was very in line with Ji's position.

But the problem is, judging from the meaning of the empress dowager's words... the candidate for the throne is not the Ji family at all, but her!

Shenzong didn't even intend to return to the Gongxiang family. Since the empress dowager decided to do so, and didn't think about what the Ji family would do in the future, why bother to find a puppet?

Ordinarily, one should look for a clan son who is old, stable and able to take charge on his own. It would be best if his father and brother are so many that the Ji family can't handle it, and even the one who can liquidate the Ji family right after he ascends the throne?

Could it be that the Empress Dowager is worried that she will have a hard time after this kind of emperor comes to power?

It shouldn't be... Yun Fenghuang thought in his heart, with this master's ability, he had cheated Shenzong all his life, and Shenzong still didn't know anything, even if his emotions blinded Shenzong's vigilance, it was enough to show his means.

Can Xinjun be her opponent when he just arrived?

Besides, if the new king is not out of his wits, as long as the emperor's grandmother doesn't find fault with him, how can he not be honored and raised in the palace, and he will be peaceful in the morning and evening?

"...Is it because Your Majesty was quick-witted when he was young, and you were moved to love talents?" The queen pondered for a while, and asked tentatively.

The Empress Dowager looked at her with a happy smile: "I just said that you look like Aijia. It seems that you are still young, and you are not as thoughtful as Aijia is at your age."

Yun Fenghuang didn't care about this, and said: "How can my grandson's daughter-in-law be on a par with you?"

They are all dying people, so why does she have to compete if she is a bit competitive?

"It's not been a day or two since Ai's family favored Xiaoqi." The Empress Dowager said leisurely, "You know it too, why can't you come back to your senses?"