Use a substitute on your wedding night to scatter the ashes of your entire family

As soon as he got on the carriage, Gu Xingyan watched Li Shuangwan take out a bunch of things from her small bag, then took out a bronze mirror and painted his face into a different appearance.

"You, you are..."

Li Shuangwan smiled at him playfully: "For the sake of convenience in the future, I cannot wear a veil when entering the palace, so I have to do this."

She shook the things in her hand, "Look, these treasures are all given to me by Yang Luo. Oh, by the way, I told you in the letter that Su Luo changed her last name. Now she has her mother's last name, Yang Luo."

Gu Xingyan nodded: "Yes, in her previous life, she changed after she arrived in Daliang."

"I know." Li Shuangwan looked at the man opposite him, and saw his own figure reflected in his black pupils, so he quickly turned to the bronze mirror.

Her originally fair skin had become a little red and rough due to traveling day and night, but after she applied the potion, it immediately turned charcoal black, and her eyebrows were also drawn a little thicker.

Then she used the pen Yang Luo gave her to draw on both sides of her nose, making her small and straight nose appear slightly collapsed. But even so, her appearance was still outstanding.

Gu Xingyan's eyebrows twitched a few times.

When getting off the carriage at the palace gate, Jia Cheng and Mo Lin met each other and bumped into each other.

……

Concubine Chen was in a particularly good mood today. She got up early in the morning and with the nourishment given by Song Yafeng yesterday, her complexion became even better. She dressed up carefully and put on the concubine's crown that she had not worn since the death of Emperor Daliang, and also wore a lot of pearl hairpins on her head.

What a noble and favored concubine.

She gently pressed down her hair and asked the nanny beside her, "Is there any movement in Kunning Palace?"

The nanny pressed down her high bun, as if she felt that something was missing from her hair, and said, "Don't worry, Madam. Lord Song is doing things in a reliable way, and it should be done soon."

As soon as the nanny finished speaking, she heard the brisk footsteps of her trusted eunuch Shi Rong approaching from afar.

Shi Rong came in with a happy face: "Your Majesty, Lord Song and the Jinyiwei have found evidence of crimes in Kunning Palace. The East Factory and the Jinyiwei have now surrounded Kunning Palace. Your Majesty, do you want to go and see what's going on?"

The nanny paused for a moment, and Concubine Chen looked at herself in the mirror. Although she was in her early forties, she was always satisfied with her appearance. She smiled smugly, "Why are you in such a hurry? I haven't even finished combing my hair yet."

"Yes, the servant is waiting on the side."

The maid picked out a red gold hairpin with eight-treasure exquisite crabapple flowers and put it on her. Concubine Chen looked in the mirror and waved her hand away: "Go and get the gold and jade hairpin with phoenix spreading wings that the Ministry of Internal Affairs sent yesterday and let me wear it."

This hairpin was a gift from their Ministry of Internal Affairs to show their surrender to her. She was very satisfied with it, so there was no reason for her not to accept it.

The nanny was slightly startled, and said cautiously, "Madam, this, this gold-inlaid jade phoenix spreading wings hairpin has a phoenix on it, why don't you wait until today's matter is over and wear it tomorrow?"

Only the queen is qualified to wear the phoenix.

Concubine Chen was in a good mood, but after hearing this, her face immediately darkened. She slammed the hairpin in her hand on the dressing table, and the valuable jade hairpin broke into two pieces: "Madam, are you cursing that I can't step on the Shu family mother and son under my feet today!"

The maid turned pale with fear and knelt down to apologize: "Your Majesty, I didn't mean that. I was just worried about the Queen..."

Concubine Chen interrupted with a wave of her hand: "Alright, considering that you have been with me for decades, I will let bygones be bygones this time. But Mammy, please watch your mouth. Go get it, and stop talking nonsense. Today, I want to show that bitch Shu Nanyu how I trampled them to death step by step, and trampled them to death forever."

The nanny didn't dare to say anything more. She answered yes and stood up. Just as she walked to the cabinet to take the hairpin, she saw Shi Rong holding the hairpin carefully in his hands. He glared at the nanny, turned around and smiled at Concubine Chen, "Your Majesty, some people are ignorant. Don't take it too seriously. You might get angry and hurt yourself."

Concubine Chen took the hairpin from Shi Rong and touched his white and tender hand: "You are still sensible."

Shi Rong chuckled.

Concubine Chen looked at the hairpins in her hand, which were inlaid with gold and jade, and had a phoenix with its wings spread and its head held high. She longed for the day when she could wear these pearl hairpins that symbolized the mother of the country and the principal wife on her head openly and have everyone submit to her.

It has been almost thirty years, and today she can finally hold her head high.

Seeing the pale-faced nanny standing aside, who was her trusted nanny after all, Concubine Chen softened her voice and said, "Come here and put it on for me."

"Yes." The nanny took the hairpin from Concubine Chen's hand and carefully put the Phoenix Bu Yao with its head held high on Concubine Chen.

But she was still careful and pinned it behind Concubine Chen's high bun. From the front, only the phoenix's fiery red beak made of ruby ​​was visible.

Another hairpin was used to block most of the phoenix's body, so it could not be seen unless one looked closely.

A sinister look flashed across Shi Rong's eyes.

Concubine Chen then stood up from the dressing table with satisfaction and asked Shi Rong, who was bending over, "Kunning Palace was surrounded. How did Shu Nanyu react?"

Seeing the queen asking him, Shi Rong hurriedly flattered, "The queen, no, Shu Shi denied it flatly, saying that she didn't put it there at all. Lord Song and the governor of the East Factory, Cai Junting, have already sent people to invite Prime Minister Xie and other cabinet ministers."

Concubine Chen stretched out her hand and said, "Come with me and see the excitement."

Shi Rong quickly extended his arm and said, "Okay, I will serve the Empress Dowager."

Concubine Chen chuckled and poked his forehead with her finger: "You are so smart."

……

When Gu Xingyan and Li Shuang arrived late, hundreds of Jinyiwei had already surrounded Kunning Palace tightly.

The queen stood there straight, looking at Song Yafeng coldly: "Song Yafeng, you are so bold. I am the queen of Daliang, and you dare to surround Kunning Palace!"

Song Yafeng sneered and refused to give in. "Your Majesty, I have offended you. But this morning, when the East Factory was interrogating a young eunuch named Wu Mao from Kunning Palace, he confessed that he saw the Queen threaten him with the lives of Hong Mai's entire family to kill Your Majesty a month and a half ago."

He just stood there and said condescendingly: "You know, Queen, our Jinyiwei has been loyal to Your Majesty since the day it was founded by the late emperor. Now that Your Majesty has died an untimely death, we, the humble officials, dare not fail to handle the matter impartially."

Empress Shu smiled coldly, "What a loyal man, you are. What a fair man. After your majesty got into trouble, all the eunuchs and maids in the palace were interrogated by your Jinyiwei and Dongchang. Since I threatened Hong Mai a month and a half ago, why did this little eunuch named Wu Mao confess until this morning?"