Self-help guide for non-professional young masters

The atmosphere in the Palace of Compassion and Ning was solemn.

A pair of relatively speechless mother and son sat on one side, holding teacups, not thinking about drinking tea at all, they were trying to figure out what the other was thinking, guessing how the other would speak.

Grandma Ayan was a little at a loss, since the emperor came, the queen mother had been silent with him for a long time, no one had any intention of speaking, the longer the delay, the more irreversible the relationship between mother and child.

She knew that the emperor definitely came here for Yizhi. In the past three years, he has detained the queen mother in the palace in the name of recuperating her illness, forbidding her to have any contact with the outside world, and almost cutting off all her ties with others, making her words more and more serious. It has no weight, and Yizhi is just a joke.

However, some people are willing to disregard the emperor's ban and come to ask for help because of this dispensable handwriting, and some people obey the Queen Mother's order and disrespect the name of the emperor. In the eyes of the emperor, this is a fatal provocation.

The bitter thing is that the queen mother didn't know what happened at all, and it was completely out of the elder's instinct to protect her relatives who were closer in blood. This was a naked betrayal in the eyes of the emperor who questioned her lack of deep feelings for him.

Finally, the Queen Mother spoke first.

She said: "Yuan'er, you have lost weight, these days must be very hard, right?"

Emperor Yuan touched his thin chin subconsciously, but he didn't feel any difference from before, the bones were still sharp and angular, it can be said that he has never been rich in these years, so he replied: "Why did the Queen Mother say that? "

The queen mother sighed, covered the teacup, and handed it to Nanny Ayan, crossed her fingers on her knees, and finally looked straight at her adopted son, who was in name only, "You don't even want to call the Ai family 'Queen Mother' anymore." Yet."

Emperor Yuan smiled and said: "What are you talking about? Xiao Wanqing is the only child of yours, and you don't care about me who got it cheaply. You don't have any gaps in your heart whether I call you or not. Or is there only a sincerely convinced mother?" ', 'Mother Concubine', 'Mother Empress', can you satisfy your vanity of becoming the Lord of the Sixth Palace?"

"Yuan'er..."

"It's a pity, you don't have such a good life. In this life, you were lucky enough to give birth to a boy, but you killed him yourself. The second one was a daughter. What a pity. If Xiao Wanqing was a boy, I am afraid that the throne today will not It's nothing to worry about. If the father dies a few years later, he will probably take the throne for Xiao Wanqing's sake and pass the throne to that little bastard, King Jin. So it's good for her to die early, otherwise there will be more suspense. Ah, do you think so?"

"You! How can you come up with such outrageous words!"

"Not only can I say it, but I can also do it. Didn't you always want to know the cause of death of the father and Xiao Wanqing? In order to know the truth, you even made an enemy of me, and took the risk to write a paper to Xiao Beicheng. The bastard went to save someone, but you don't know, he risked his life to save his sweetheart, and was pierced by a sword, and his life and death are still uncertain."

Emperor Yuan pointed to his left chest in a serious manner, seeing the Queen Mother's complexion suddenly turned pale, he felt even more happy in his heart, and he showed it on his face without hesitation.

"Although he is about to die, he can no longer follow his promise to tell you the truth he found, but I can. I have witnessed everything that happened back then. As long as you are willing to kneel down and beg me, I will Never keep it, I will tell you everything you want to know."

Seeing the empress dowager trembling with anger, using her hands even harder, her fingertips were almost sunk in the flesh, Mammy Ayan felt that something was wrong, she knelt down in front of her first, and persuaded: "The empress dowager! Don't be fooled by him, we I have been kept in the dark for these years, and it is not bad to be ignorant for a few days. King Jin is blessed with great destiny, and people will be fine. Please believe that King Jin will keep his promise, and also believe that the eldest princess in the sky will Will keep him!"

The Queen Mother bit her lip and said nothing, Ayan Nanny shook her sleeves and pleaded: "Queen Mother, let's wait a little longer, wait a little longer..."

"The Ai family is willing to wait, but the emperor is afraid that he won't." The Empress Dowager looked at Emperor Yuan with resentment in his eyes, but the latter didn't take it seriously.

"There is nothing I can't wait for. It's not like you, Queen Mother. At the age of today and no tomorrow, you need to resign yourself to fate. In fact, the decision is still in the Queen Mother's hands. After all, I don't know what that little bastard Xiao Beicheng found out, what he got Whether it is the truth of the matter or not, I would like to advise the Queen Mother, I am much more reliable than him."

Speaking of this, he took a sip of tea unhurriedly, frowned when he tasted a musty smell, and threw the teacup on the ground in great displeasure, smashing it into powder.

He wiped the tea stains on his lips gracefully with a handkerchief, and the corners of his mouth curled up, showing a wrinkle, "I am not young anymore, time is precious, if the Queen Mother is fine, I will leave first."

He made a gesture to get up, and sure enough the Queen Mother couldn't sit still, instead she held Ayan Nanny's hand and stood up, gritting her teeth and kneeling in front of Emperor Yuan, no longer caring about the ancestral etiquette.

When it comes to status, she is not as good as his biological mother, the Sage Empress. Although she does not conform to the etiquette of seniority, she herself does not feel that she is at a disadvantage.

The sharp pieces of porcelain pierced through the dress, cutting her legs bleeding, but she didn't care about the pain, she gritted her teeth and endured the pain, kneeling and walking a few steps, stopping at Emperor Yuan's feet.

"This is really a miracle. After being a general, you with a strong temperament can be so humble. Should you admire the deep love between you and Xiao Wanqing's mother and daughter?"

"The Ai family is willing to step back to this point. One is to seek the king's life, and the other is to seek the truth of the past. If the emperor has had his fill of ridicule, then pity this old woman who loves her dearly..."

The Empress Dowager closed her eyes overwhelmed, but she didn't smile as she expected. What responded to her was only a cup of cold tea.

Emperor Yuan sneered and picked up the teacup that had been left on hand for a long time, lifted it to the top of the Queen Mother, poured it mercilessly, splashed cold water on the other's face, and soaked her hair and fine clothes. This situation gave him revenge pleasure and satisfaction.

"What a loving daughter, who loves the house and the crow... But don't you feel that you are too greedy? You are really a lion, and you open your mouth to ask two questions. I really feel that who cares about your kneeling, right?"

"What the emperor wants is to be straightforward. If the old woman has it, she will definitely not be stingy."

"Okay, an exchange of equal value is very fair, so I won't go around in circles with you. I want to know the truth about the death of the Sage Empress back then."

The Empress Dowager sighed helplessly, the question that had been answered time and time again over the years was now being asked on her head again, the truth is really numb.

"I've said it so many times, isn't the emperor bothered?"

"The Queen Mother is the one. I have been asking for so many years, but I have not been able to impress your hard-hearted heart. To tell you the truth, I should be the one who admires the Queen Mother."

"I can't give you the answer you want, because Queen Sage..."

"In her lifetime, her fortune was limited, she was weak and sickly, she almost had miscarriages several times when she was pregnant, and when she gave birth, she unfortunately suffered from dystocia and died of a bloody collapse." Emperor Yuan repeated the recited answers, his face was not very good-looking.

"Although the risk a woman has to bear in giving birth is great, don't you think it's an astonishing coincidence? My birth mother, Empress Sheng Xian, is like this, the mother of my eldest son Xiao Junhan, Empress Xiaoyi, is like this, and Lin Xici's first wife, Qian Shi, is like this, and even your good friend The eldest daughter, Princess Xiao Wanqing, almost died when she gave birth to King Jin, the chance of her death is too bizarre."

The Empress Dowager gritted her teeth and swallowed her anger. After a long time, with tears in her eyes, she reluctantly told the truth: "You think right. The Sage Empress was indeed murdered by others. Are you satisfied?"

"I don't care who was in the palace to harm her when she was pregnant. I just want to know who caused her death. As long as you are willing to tell the truth, I guarantee that you will know the death of the first emperor and Xiao Wanqing." the truth."

"It's the late emperor..."

Her voice was so low that she could hardly hear her. Emperor Yuan asked, and the queen mother finally cried out hoarsely: "It's the first emperor! He followed the example of Emperor Wu and set up sons to kill their mothers. She went astray and had no choice but to kill her... because the first emperor wanted you to be the crown prince, and he wanted you to be the crown prince!"

"Impossible!! Lizi kills mother, haha...hahaha, don't you think this is ridiculous? You can at least make up a decent reason. He wants me to be his heir, but he insists on killing my mother. Yes I showed the face of a strict father, but poured out his tenderness to King Han, is this possible!!"

"The Empress Sage came from a humble background. The first emperor firmly believed that the more ordinary people you are, the more greedy you will be for power. Once you ascend the throne, she may be the second Empress Lu! He didn't want his concubine to become a powerful woman who is greedy for profit. I don't want my son to become a puppet at the mercy of others, he is for you..."

"What nonsense!!"

The Empress Dowager ignored Yuandi's hysterical roar, she talked on and on, as if she just wanted to find peace of mind for the concealment of the past years.

"He hoped that you could have the support of your relatives when you first established the throne. This is something that the sage queen could not give you, and I, who was born in the general family, was the best candidate. Since your custody was handed over to me, he has no more Turn over my sign... because he doesn't want anyone to get in your way!"

Talking about the sad past, the queen mother broke down in tears, "He doesn't want you to be a puppet, so after using the power of your relatives to stabilize the imperial power, you must ruthlessly wipe out these powerful officials to prevent future troubles. If they are your blood-related relatives, you must not bear the pain." Killer, so it's me...it has to be me."

The knuckles of Emperor Yuan's hands holding the edge of the table turned white. He looked at this woman who was over sixty years old, and suddenly felt that she, like himself, was a poor person who could not escape the schemes of that despicable man.

"I have never been favored by her in my whole life. In the end, even my father, brother and relatives will die for her son. Who do I ask for an explanation! Xiao Jingyuan, you must have a conscience. I knew that one day my husband and daughter would die in the In your hands, I would rather... I would rather strangle you to death in my arms the first time I hugged you, and die with you

The queen mother's hysterical attack was over, and the whole person was like a puppet whose soul had been taken away. She sat slumped on the ground, her eyes glazed over, and she no longer asked the truth about the death of her husband and daughter.

She already had a guess in her heart, even if Emperor Yuan was willing to tell everything that happened that year without reservation, I'm afraid she would still firmly believe in the illusion fabricated by her own wishful thinking.

It seems that their weak mother-child relationship has finally come to an end.

Emperor Yuan stood up, stepped on the blood that flowed from the Queen Mother's knees, and left the Compassionate Ning Palace step by step.

Before leaving, the ruthless emperor left a last sentence.

He said, "Ayan, die for the Lord."

The author has something to say: Emperor Yuan also revealed a very paranoid side, and began to show the attitude of a behind-the-scenes boss.

Thank you for reading the text, the little cute duck~