The queen mother is

Wen Yining's weakness.

Perhaps ten years ago, when this man became the male queen of the Jin Dynasty, and Taifu Wen was one of the three powers in the dynasty, some people would think about it and secretly want to use Wen Yining's weakness to threaten the emperor, The queen, in order to seek power and profit, filled her own pockets.

In the end, just like how Emperor He got rid of the Zhang family and the Zhang family of Empress Zhang Xian, these families who were involved in politics with their relatives were wiped out, and the nine clans were killed.

It's a pity, since Taifu Wen and more than a hundred members of the Wen family were buried in the sea of ​​fire, and Wen Shuyao lived in seclusion in the cold palace, no one cares about these anymore.

Wen Yining leaned on the bed in the Shou'an Hall, watching the night gradually falling outside, only slightly raised the corners of his mouth: Once a person is alive, he has to pay the price for his choice.

It was true ten years ago, and it will be true ten years later.

"Master, are you awake?" Ruyi came in with a bowl of soup and medicine, saw Wen Yining sitting on the couch in a daze, so she put down the medicine and came over, and tucked the quilt up for Wen Yining.

"Master Han said that you are not seriously ill, you just need to drink some soup and medicine to recuperate."

Seeing that Ruyi hesitated to speak, but finally chose such a bad beginning, Wen Yining smiled faintly, tilted his head back, closed his eyes and let out a long sigh:

"If you want to ask anything, just ask. It's not Xiao Ruyi's temperament to hold back and not mention it."

"Master, why do you know martial arts?"

Ruyi didn't have time to ask, but Ping An, the guard standing aside, asked first. Ping An's face rarely showed any expression, but it showed a very scary expression.

"Peace, you..."

Ruyi was frightened by Ping An's terrifying expression, and carefully tugged Ping An's sleeves.

Wen Yining raised his head, looked squarely into Ping An's gaze, and when his four eyes met, it was Ping An who took the lead to look away. Annoyed, Ping An even said a little awkwardly:

"The martial arts displayed by the master in the Xuanzheng Yuan is not inferior to peace. The master has his own martial arts to protect his body, so why does he need to be protected by safety. In the eyes of the master, what Ping An has done for so many decades-is it not meddling?! "

Ruyi assures that he has never heard Ping An say so many things in his life.

Wen Yining looked at Ping An, and just when he was about to open his mouth to say something, the palace servants outside the palace suddenly rushed in regardless of etiquette, and knelt down on the ground with a plop:

"Master, master, master, something big happened! Shu, Mrs. Concubine Shu didn't know what stimulated her, and now she is talking nonsense, pouring pomade on herself, and even taking a candle in her hand, threatening the palace people Don't get close... Now I'm preparing to go to the lotus pond in Nanyuan, I'm afraid it's, I'm afraid it's not good—"

what? !

Wen Yining was taken aback, threw off the quilt and rushed outside, even forgetting to put on his shoes.After chasing after two steps, he suddenly stopped and looked back at Ping An:

"Ping An, I will tell you exactly what you asked me about. Now, I will only tell you one thing. For these ten years, you and Ruyi have been indispensable people by my side."

finished,

Wen Yining didn't care about safety, but hurriedly put on his shoes and socks, put on his coat, and rushed out——

In July, the night wind is getting stronger, but no matter how cold the wind is, it is still in summer.Besides, what wind could be colder than the night wind in the cold palace.

Since moving out of the Tingzhu Hall, Wen Shuyao has lived in the Tongxin Hall which is the closest to the Shou'an Hall.To the north of Tongxin Hall is the Shou'an Hall across the palace wall, and to the west across the Baoyun River is the Fengxian Hall and Sansuo.

It's a pity that even if there are palace servants around her carefully serving her again, and having the supreme glory in the second half of her life, Wen Shuyao is depressed all day long, doesn't like seeing people, and even less like being served by her side.

Seeing the cautious eyebrows and eyes of those palace people, Wen Shuyao could hardly forget the empress's mother, Mrs. Xu's miserable scream before she died, as if she was laughing at her all the time:

Everything you have is a gift from your brother.Without your brother, you have nothing.

Because of Concubine Shu's perverse personality, the servants in the palace did not dare to appear in front of her.The huge Tongxin Hall looks no different from Tingzhu Hall.

This afternoon, Wen Shuyao, who was sitting in the hall, did not expect that he would welcome visitors other than his brother.Looking up at the eunuch in blue python robe in front of her, Wen Shuyao remembered that she had seen him before, but it was time to listen to the bamboo hall.

King Ning's people came to see him, a useless concubine in the cold palace, probably only one thing, and that was thinking about how to use her to bring down her brother.

With a sneer, Wen Shuyao looked at Wei Fengguo, "If you want to cooperate with me and bring down my brother, then don't talk about it. No matter how much I hate him, he is my only relative."

"Your Majesty, you and the Queen Mother have always had a close brother-sister relationship, and our family knows this."

Wei Fengguo approached the hall unhurriedly, and even poured himself a cup of tea very bluntly, and took a sip with peace of mind before he spoke:

"The tea in the imperial concubine's palace is exquisite, but the Yuqian Longjing in the south of the Yangtze River is very rare in Beijing."

"Just say what you want, I don't have time to listen to your chat."

"The empress should call herself 'Aijia' instead of the palace," Wei Fengguo patiently corrected, "or is it that the late emperor is not enough to have such weight in the empress's heart?"

"..." Wen Shuyao was stunned, and sneered, "You eunuch, what do you know, the first emperor is the person I love the most in my life. It's a pity——what he loves is not Aijia."

"Then empress, who did the late emperor love the most?" Wei Fengguo continued to ask with a smile, "Imperial concubine Xu? Or the second prince Ling Tongzhou."

Wen Shuyao gave Wei Fengguo a hard look, thinking that the eunuch did it on purpose, didn't he?There is nowhere to come to her to find bad luck.That bitch Xu Yingying and her little bastard Ling Tongzhou were the people she hated the most in Wen Shuyao's life, and no one dared to mention them in front of her for no reason.

This Wei Fengguo is quite courageous.

"It seems that the empress does not understand," Wei Fengguo sighed, stood up, and stood with his hands behind his back. "Then let's change the way of asking and ask the empress."

"Your Majesty is the Empress Dowager's dowry Teng Cong. When the Empress Dowager was still the Prince's husband and wife, you and your Majesty entered the mansion together. Later, the late Emperor ascended the throne and proclaimed himself Emperor, because your elder brother's empress status made you a concubine."

"Since then, your position in the palace has been a concubine until the second year of Wenjing, when the emperor and the queen mother had a dispute at the banquet in the palace. You persuaded him, and the emperor appreciated your talent and made you a concubine Shu, I'm used to pampering Liugong. That's right, right?"

Wen Shuyao snorted, that was the happiest time in her life.Hearing the words, he looked Wei Fengguo up and down, thinking that this eunuch has some vision and thoughts.

Seeing Wen Shuyao acquiescing, Wei Fengguo continued:

"The second year of Wenjing is already a year after the draft. If our family remembers correctly, the imperial concubine at that time was just a nobleman."

"That bitch is only favored by her belly. If it weren't for my child's miscarriage, do you think she could see the emperor at the banquet in the palace?!" Wen Shuyao stood up excitedly, "A small family in the south of the Yangtze River It's just a lowly maidservant, if it wasn't for my child, how could she have the opportunity and ability to become the imperial concubine?!"

Seeing Wen Shuyao go crazy, Wei Fengguo frowned and took a deep breath:

"Xu's family background is naturally not as noble as your mother's, but if, as your mother said, Xu's family is really the late emperor's favorite in this life—"

"When the imperial concubine almost died because of you, the empress, and when the prince Ling Tongzhou died, mutilating the emperor's heir was a capital crime. Why are you still alive today?" Wei Fengguo asked one sentence at a time, "If the Xu family is really the emperor's favorite in this life , then why didn't the emperor get rid of you soon?"

"Hmph—what's the difficulty?!" Wen Shuyao replied naturally, "Of course it's because he cares about his brother."

Seeing Wen Shuyao's words, Wei Fengguo nodded in understanding, folded his hands on his chest, and looked at Wen Shuyao meaningfully.

Wen Shuyao is not stupid, after seeing Wei Fengguo's expression, he suddenly realized something, and stared at Wei Fengguo dumbfounded.

The more she thought about it, the more frightening she felt, Wen Shuyao's face gradually turned pale, her whole body trembled, and she looked at Wei Fengguo in disbelief:

"No, it's impossible, your majesty, your majesty is just, just because your brother holds the power of the world..."

"The queen's power comes from the emperor. If the emperor refuses, how can the queen come to power?"

"No, it can't be like this! If, if... No, it's impossible?! The emperor's favorite person is the imperial concubine! It's that bitch Xu Yingying! It's her! That's right! It's her! Otherwise, the emperor wouldn't Give her such an important position as imperial concubine! I don’t even want to make her son Ling Tongzhou the crown prince!”

Wen Shuyao burst into tears, her lips parted and she shook her head in disbelief. Suddenly she raised her head and grabbed Wei Fengguo, saying:

"You, you said! You lied to me! It's not like this - it can't be like this! The person who loved the first emperor, not the emperor, and, with him is Xu Yingying, it's Xu Yingying!"

"The first emperor did like Xu Yingying, but the concubine, did you ever think about why the first emperor liked Xu Yingying, why he liked you, and even—why did he like today's beauty Li?"

Wei Fengguo looked at the crying woman calmly. In his heart, he had cursed this woman countless times for being stupid, but in the end, seeing the woman in front of him being stimulated and crazy, how much did he feel in his heart? Can't bear it.

It's just that some things have to be done by someone.

Wei Fengguo gritted his teeth and continued:

"You are the Empress Dowager's biological sister. Based on your understanding of the Empress Dowager, why do you think Li Meiren is favored because of a dance? And what do you think about Xu Yingying that makes the Emperor admire her? There are so many beauties in the world, Why does the emperor only favor her, and her son Ling Tongzhou?"

"Enough, enough—you, don't say any more!" Wen Shuyao suddenly pushed Wei Fengguo far away, staring at Wei Fengguo fiercely with tear-filled eyes, "I, I don't want to Listen! You, you get out of this palace! I don’t want to hear it! I don’t want to hear it!”

"Do you know why the first emperor named the child of him and the imperial concubine Tongzhou? You were there when the child was named. At that time, your elder brother was seriously ill. You regained the favor of the late emperor because of taking care of him. "

"If it wasn't for the imperial concubine who was willing to adopt her son to your elder brother to raise him, do you think that the emperor would dote on that child?!"

"No, stop talking, stop talking!"

Wei Fengguo looked at Wen Shuyao's painful expression covering his ears, he gritted his teeth, closed his eyes and said the last sentence:

"Ling 'Tongzhou', Tongzhou, Tongzhou, means 'hibiscus blooms, we stand together in the same boat'. In this life, the only person the late emperor loved the most was actually your elder brother Wen Yining."

"And, whether it's you, the imperial concubine Xu Yingying, or any of the concubines in the palace who were once favored, they are just a substitute for your brother Wen Yining."

"It's just a substitute."

It is rare for the capital to have such a strong wind on July nights in summer. In previous years, even in autumn, there may not be such a strong wind like today.The wild wind blows the flowers and leaves in the palace, and the red flowers and green leaves have been taken away from the branches before the flowering season. In this palace where the night is falling, it is no different from the chilling autumn.

When Wen Yining arrived, Wen Shuyao was no longer in Tongxintang.I heard from the palace people that Empress Dowager Shu was holding a torch and pouring hair oil all over her body, and ran to Nanyuan without looking back.

The lotus pond in Nanyuan was the place where the first emperor had banquets in the palace, and it was there that Wen Shuyao was favored and made a concubine.From his dowry Teng Cong and Concubine Shu, he became Concubine Shu in a single step, pampering the Six Palaces.

That was Wen Shuyao's favorite place to go before, but it's a pity that she lived in the cold palace.Even though it is only a wall away from the Nanyuan Lotus Pond, things have changed and people have changed, and the past is hard to recover.

On the way from Tongxintang to Nanyuan, you must pass Yonghuai Bridge. Wen Yining turned around and rushed to Yonghuai Bridge.The water of Baoyun River is not deep, but it is very fast. If Shu Yao really can't figure it out...

Wen Yining quickened his pace to chase after him, but only saw Wen Shuyao running ahead with a palace lantern in his hand, while running, he looked back at the palace man who was chasing him:

"You don't need to chase me, you, if you chase me again, I will use this palace lantern to kill you."

"Shu Yao—"

Wen Yining caught up and called her, but Wen Shuyao suddenly stopped and turned to look at Wen Yining.In the night, the cold wind blew up and the palace lanterns were on and off, but only Wen Shuyao's pale face was reflected, like a ghost.

"Brother, you already knew that, didn't you?"

what do you know?

Wen Yining was taken aback for a moment, looking at Wen Shuyao's sad face, with tears streaming down his face, and his lips parted.It's like being robbed by yourself because of a piece or two of muffins when you were a child, feeling wronged, but speechless.

Although there are all sorts of doubts in my heart, the ability to stimulate Wen Shuyao to such a state is probably only due to the late emperor.

After all, in this joint palace, Wen Yining believed that there was no one who loved the former emperor more than Wen Shuyao.

In this daze, Wen Shuyao took several steps back, and before Wen Yining could reply, she just bit her lips and gave Wen Yining a hard look, then turned her head and walked towards Nanyuan without looking back. run.

"Shu Yao, be careful—!"

Wen Shuyao turned her head too fast and ran too fast, she didn't notice what was behind her at all - she ran all the way to Nanyuan from Tongxin Hall, crossed Yonghuai Bridge, passed Fengxian Hall and Sanshou, and then went south You can go to Nanyuan.

No matter what the reason was, there, the man she loved the most in this life told her that he would treat her well for the rest of his life.

Wen Shuyao seemed to hear her brother calling her name and telling her to be careful, but why be careful?

The last scene Wen Shuyao saw in this world was the splendid fireworks and roaring explosions all over the sky. The fireworks seemed to illuminate the sky of the entire capital city.

There were countless screams and cries beside her ears, but Wen Shuyao couldn't hear anything, she just turned her eyes, looking at the panic-stricken person running towards her when the fireworks cleared and the smoke fell.

Now, their brothers and sisters really owe nothing to anyone.

Brother, these fireworks are really beautiful, like when he married you, I hid behind the sedan chair and saw those gorgeous and prosperous fireworks, so beautiful that you want to cry, but after all, it has nothing to do with me.