Empress Reborn

Not long after Li Lingyue reminded her, Empress Dowager Wu sent her confidants to the place where her two sons were demoted to strengthen supervision, and took the opportunity to either spare or demote Li Jingye and others, weakening the power of several people.

From Li Lingyue's point of view, what the queen mother did was just for self-protection, but in the eyes of some people, it had another intention.

Two months later, Shangguan Wan'er was grinding calligraphy with the queen mother when she suddenly saw Qiu Shenji, who was sent to Bazhou to guard Li Xian, approaching. Hanged himself indoors."

"Ming Yun..." The pen in her hand fell down, and the empress dowager, who was nearly sixty years old, couldn't help but staggered. Shangguan Wan'er, who was beside her, hurriedly put down her work and came to help her.The queen mother glanced at her, waved her hand, and staggered back to her seat.

Rubbing the inkstone with her fingers, she looked at her skin that was no longer young, and her heart was stagnant. This is the second son who has left her. The world will arrange her grievances again and force her own son to death, right?No wonder, this time even she felt that she forced this son to death. She could have foreseen this fate by sending someone like Qiu Shenji who didn't recognize her relatives and was blinded by his interests.

It's just that there is no personal relationship in front of Daye, not to mention that the child is bewitched by others and always thinks that he is his mother-killing enemy. He and himself are not of the same heart, and it will become a disaster in the future.There are always some sacrifices in the creation of innovation, my child, if you want to blame it, blame you for being born in the emperor's family.

The pity in her eyes was covered by sullenness, the queen mother picked up the not-so-light inkstone and threw it straight down, scolding: "Hang yourself to death? Ming Yun was clearly forced to death by you!"

Qiu Shenji didn't dare to evade, and let the inkstone hit his forehead, black ink mixed with red blood flowed down, dyed his brows, and blocked his vision, but he still remained motionless, only pleaded guilty, he concluded that he Well thought out, the queen mother needs to be the first prince besides the first crown prince. Not only will he not be punished, but he will also be valued by the queen mother.At this time, the queen mother is like this, she should just want to play a play, he nodded in cooperation with the forehead, and tremblingly said: "The queen mother is calm, the minister is guilty, but the prince did hang himself and died shortly after the minister arrived I'm gone. The first prince is afraid that he will become ill from depression, so he can't think about it..."

I thought of this way to get rid of the crime.The queen mother twitched the corners of her mouth with a half-smile, secretly thinking that if she didn't lack such a loyal and cruel official like him, she would drag him out and behead him.

"So I blamed Aiqing by mistake." The queen mother softened her tone, but the expression on her face was still dark, she stared at Qiu Shenji and said, "It's just that I asked the Qing family to help me take care of Ming Yun, but the Qing family reported his death. Tell me, what should I say?"

Qiu Shenji heaved a sigh of relief, kowtowed and replied: "I'm not protecting the prince first, please punish the queen mother!"

"Okay." The Empress Dowager glanced at Shangguan Wan'er, "Wan'er draws up an order."

Shangguan Wan'er took the order, followed the Queen Mother's words, and wrote a line of words in Yizhi - "Qiu Shenji was not good in taking care of the prince, which caused the common man Li Xian to hang himself in Bazhou and move him to be the governor of Diezhou. I hope he will reflect on himself and act carefully."

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"Just being relegated to Diezhou Inspector, it seems that my sixth brother is really not liked by Auntie." Li Lingyue sighed while listening to Shangguan Wan'er's report, pointing to the handrail.As soon as she finished speaking, Shangguan Wan'er's catkin covered her body, "Stop talking, you don't want to see where this is."

This is the queen mother's palace.Li Lingyue curled her lips, grabbed Wan'er's hand and pulled her into her arms, and teased her by pointing at the tip of her nose, "My little lady, don't you think like those people that Sixth Brother was killed by your mother? "

"Why are you still talking!" Shangguan Wan'er wished she could cover Li Lingyue's open mouth with paper, and this time she stretched out her hands to cover it.

Li Lingyue liked her serious and worried appearance, and lowered her eyebrows to send a kiss on her palm. She took Wan'er's hand and said softly: "I know you care about me. Don't worry, Auntie is not a cold-blooded person. She, she couldn't bear to kill me."

Shangguan Wan'er was helpless, leaning into her arms and sighing softly, "Your heart is unpredictable."

Li Lingyue looked at her with a smile, "My Wan'er is so talented and beautiful, no one can bear to hurt her."

Shangguan Wan'er glanced at her complainingly, and said angrily: "You know that I care about you."

"I know." Li Lingyue pressed her forehead against her, her words filled with endless tenderness, "I will protect myself, and I will protect you too. A Niang is just like us, she is also a woman and has her own worries. My own grievances. Otherwise, she would not have summoned me, and allowed me to come to see you first."

Shangguan Wan'er lowered her eyes, snuggled into Li Lingyue's arms to rest for a while, and then reluctantly left, "Hurry up and meet the Queen Mother. Be careful in everything, and don't be so outspoken again."

"I obey, my son-in-law." Standing up, Li Lingyue looked at the little lady whose face was flushed by what she said, lightly pinched her cheek, and walked out.

In the empress dowager's dormitory, she saw a lonely mother, her mother's expression was a little sad, different from the previous Weiyi Didi, she was sitting alone in front of the vanity mirror, twirling a strand of her white hair, her eyes were empty and she was wondering What.

"Aniang." Li Lingyue's soft call awakened the empress dowager who was in meditation. The empress dowager looked at her through the vanity mirror and waved to her, "Ah Yue, come here."

Li Lingyue walked over obediently, she stood behind her mother, picked up the comb and helped her comb it up.

Only the Empress Dowager Wu sighed: "Is mother old?"

Li Lingyue's hands froze, she leaned over her mother's shoulder, looked at the humanity in the bronze mirror, and said, "Where is the mother, I see that mother is not old at all, she is still young and beautiful, and she is the most beautiful in my daughter's heart." people."

"Poor mouth." The daughter's words were so sweet to the Empress Dowager Wu's heart, and the Empress Dowager Wu suddenly felt a lot more relaxed in her heart. She thought that her daughter was indeed more caring than those sons, so she asked, "Mother is the most beautiful, what about Wan'er?"

Li Lingyue hesitated for a while, whether to please her mother and wronged Wan'er, or to obey her own wishes, and finally she chose the latter, saying: "Wan'er is also beautiful, she is the most beautiful person in my daughter's heart."

Empress Dowager Wu was a little disappointed. Her daughter was afraid that Wan'er was more important than her mother. She pulled Li Lingyue to sit beside her and asked tentatively, "Do you know about your sixth brother?"

Li Lingyue nodded, and looked at her mother worriedly, "Mother's day is sad, people who die cannot be resurrected." Seeing her mother's expression of melancholy, she leaned over and hugged her mother like a bet, and comforted her: "Sixth brother is so lucky, I don't have the chance to see my mother's pioneering work." .Mother also has a daughter, and the daughter will help the mother."

Empress Dowager Wu frowned, she broke away from her daughter's arms, looked at her daughter and asked, "What do you want?"

Li Lingyue smiled, took two steps back and bowed down, looked directly into her mother's eyes and said solemnly: "I beg the queen mother to give my daughter the surname Wu."

The Empress Dowager Wu was stunned, with a look of satisfaction in her eyes, she smiled and said: "It's not in vain to love you so much for my mother. This matter is settled, but there is no rush. Tell me what you should do now?"

Li Lingyue thought for a moment, "According to my daughter, the capital should be moved to Luoyang first."

"As expected of my son, mother also has this intention." Empress Dowager Wu looked at her daughter approvingly, recalling her daughter's previous instructions, and said again: "Where is your subordinate Su Muzhen? Ask her to help mother with something. "

Li Lingyue listened to her mother's instructions, and nodded in response, "Yes."

Looking at her well-behaved and obedient daughter, Empress Dowager Wu thought that among these children, Ah Yue was the only one who loved her the most.She reached out to caress her daughter's face, and suddenly realized that she was really old.