The Empress Dowager sneered: "I am afraid of her?"
Yan Funing smiled and said, "It's good that the Empress Dowager isn't afraid of her. If that's the case, the Empress Dowager needn't be bothered by the two Concubines coming over. On the contrary, they were once like sisters in the harem, so today is a good opportunity to catch up."
The so-called reminiscing about the past means talking about what happened in the past.
Tell the truth and make it clear.
The Empress Dowager was helpless.
In the current situation, no matter how she ordered Gu Zhong to resist, it would be useless. What if Long Yi really ordered him to be castrated...
For a moment, I felt confused.
His brows were furrowed, and his mood was written on his face.
Yan Funing glanced at her and asked, "What is the Empress Dowager thinking about?"
"If I don't want to say it, then I won't say it. You are such a rude woman." The Empress Dowager snorted coldly.
At this time, Long Yi and Yan Funing said, "I also approve this matter."
"Thank you, father!" Yan Funing thanked him.
Soon, palace maids went to the Empress Dowager's palace and the cold palace respectively.
The Empress Dowager was carried by four eunuchs in a sedan chair and arrived at the Empress Dowager's palace first.
The scene before her shocked her: "Is someone stealing?"
The palace maids, nannies, and eunuchs all stood with their heads hung, looking as if they had done something seriously wrong.
"My Queen Mother, someone did steal." Qiao Wanyou bowed.
Fu Ciyi and others followed suit and saluted.
Long Yi personally went to help the Empress Dowager: "Mother, please take a seat."
The Empress Dowager hummed, looked at the Emperor Dowager with provocative eyes, and said to Long Yi: "You are a filial son, and you are worthy of the late emperor passing the throne to you."
After sitting down, the Queen Mother looked at Qiao Wanyou gently: "What was stolen?"
"There are so many things stolen that I can't tell you all at once." Qiao Wanyou said.
Steal poison.
Stealing men.
Stealing children.
Stealing a position.
Things like this are hard to explain at the moment.
Of course, she would not say anything until the matter was clarified in public. After all, there should be evidence when speaking or doing things.
The Empress Dowager nodded and said, "Thefts in the palace can be minor or major. If it is a major incident, it should be punished more severely. Emperor and Empress, please take a seat."
"Yes, mother."
Long Yi and Qiao Wanyou both sat back in their original seats.
On the main seat sat the Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager, one on the left and one on the right.
The Empress Dowager, who used to be so domineering in her own palace, immediately lost a lot of momentum when she saw the Empress Dowager.
In addition, Long Yi was obviously not on her side at the moment, so her face turned ashen and she didn't say a word.
Whatever she said at this moment would be investigated, so she might as well not say anything.
Everyone waited for a long time before the two concubines in the cold palace were finally invited over.
Since the eunuch who came to invite them only said that the emperor invited them over but did not explain why, the two were still confused when they arrived at the Empress Dowager's palace.
Concubine Ling laughed, spun around and started dancing again.
Yan Funing walked over quickly and whispered, "Please forgive me, Grand Concubine. I have already told my father that you are not crazy."
"This..." Seeing that the Empress Dowager was also here, Concubine Ling was extremely panicked and hurriedly hid behind Concubine Yun, "Sister Yun, save me!"
Concubine Yun frowned and looked at Fu Ciyi and Yan Funing: "What's going on?"
Fu Ciyi said gently, "Don't worry. I called you two here today to serve as witnesses. Father will not punish you."
The two imperial concubines were still confused for a moment.
Long Yi said, "Come here, please take a seat."
Soon someone brought in two chairs.
Long Yi raised his hand and invited the two imperial concubines: "Please take a seat quickly."
Upon hearing this, Concubine Yun and Concubine Ling finally felt relieved.
After all, the current emperor addressed them respectfully as "you" and asked them to take a seat, so it was obviously not a request for accountability.
Seeing that it was time to sort things out, Yan Funing walked to the door of the bedroom and said to Eunuch Han, "Excuse me, Eunuch, please bring me the green-faced, fang-toothed mask."
Eunuch Han smiled and took out the mask from his wide sleeves: "Princess, I always carry it with me."
"Thank you, eunuch!"
"You're welcome."
Eunuch Han smiled.
Yan Funing nodded and returned to the main hall.
Long Yi said in a clear voice: "Wen Yu Fu Ning, go on."
The young couple looked at each other, and Fu Ciyi raised his hand, signaling Yan Funing to speak first.
Yan Funing stepped forward and said, "More than ten years ago, when my father and mother were still the Prince of Jin and his wife, a fire broke out in the Prince of Jin's mansion."
"The fire didn't start for no reason. Half a month before the fire, early one morning, my mother went to pay her respects to the Empress Dowager and accidentally caught her having an affair. The man in question was standing in the courtyard at that moment. His name was Gu Zhong."
Yan Funing told her mother in detail what she had heard and seen that year.
Then he continued, "Since then, my mother has often been threatened by people using this green-faced, fang-toothed mask."
"Why use this mask? Because they were poisoned with a blinding poison. This poison works wonders when combined with intimidation."
Yan Funing said this and looked at Concubine Ling.
"Lady Ling, after you were banished to the cold palace, did all the poisons you used disappear?"
Concubine Ling nodded. "Yes, it's gone. My former maid told me that not a single bit of it is left. And the mask the princess is holding was found in my current residence. The villain was looking for poison and accidentally left it behind."
"You were the one wearing the mask and scaring people back then, weren't you?"
Yan Funing walked up to Gu Zhong holding a green-faced, fang-toothed mask.
Fu Ciyi followed Yan Funing closely to prevent Gu Zhonggou from doing anything desperate.
Gu Zhong bowed his head and said, "Princess, I admit that I have a secret affair with the Empress Dowager, but I cannot do such a thing as wearing a mask to scare people!"
Yan Funing smiled, grabbed the mask and gestured it in front of Gu Zhong: "It doesn't matter if you don't admit it. I guess it was you who poisoned my mother back then. You poisoned my mother on the orders of the Empress Dowager."
"You little shrew, you are talking nonsense!" the Empress Dowager shouted.
"To determine if he is lying, we can order someone to check the residence in the valley for any poison." Yan Funing said calmly, then turned to ask Long Yi, "I ask for your permission, Father."
"Come here, search." Long Yi ordered.
"yes."
Pang Gaozhuo responded and led the guards inside.
Seeing this, the Empress Dowager turned pale.
This Long Yi not only ordered the eunuchs to surround her bedroom, but also dispatched the imperial guards.
The development of the matter was beyond her expectations. If it continued at this pace, then the blood test that year...
If the blood test was brought up again today, even if she had someone in the Imperial Hospital...
But there is one biggest variable at hand, and that is Yan Funing.
This person was able to heal the late emperor's arm, which showed that she had some medical skills. If she were to preside over the blood test, the situation would be different.
Then she thought that fortunately what Qiao heard back then were only the ones she had just repeated. She had no choice but to admit that she had secretly kept a lover and push Gu Zhong out.
Just a man.
That's the end of the matter.
In this case, at most she would be considered to be doing something unfair to the old emperor, as she was still the honorable empress dowager and the biological mother of the current emperor.
What is reputation, what is a man?
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