Two cups of tea later, the nanny returned to the Empress Dowager.
"Your Highness, Your Majesty, and Your Majesty, the old woman just now was a maidservant of Concubine Ling."
"Grand Concubine Ling?" The Empress Dowager narrowed her eyes. "What grudge do I have against her?"
Qiao Wanyou also didn't know who Concubine Ling was.
Not to mention her son, daughter-in-law and daughter.
Fu Ciyi and Yan Funing looked at each other in bewilderment. Even though they occasionally went to the cold palace to visit Concubine Yun, they had never seen Concubine Ling.
For a moment, almost everyone had doubts.
"The Empress Dowager has probably forgotten," the nanny said softly, "Thirty years ago, you personally imprisoned Concubine Ling in the cold palace. Perhaps she holds a grudge and wants to poison the Empress Dowager."
Eunuch Mo also said, "Now that you mention it, I remember that Concubine Ling was imprisoned in the cold palace because she was good at poison. She wanted to harm the Queen Mother, so the Queen Mother imprisoned her in the cold palace."
"So, the old woman's poison was from her. She's always held a grudge against me, and now she's trying to frame me?" The Empress Dowager frowned. "Why didn't she do it sooner or later, but waited until I was so old to do it?"
Why doesn't she believe it?
Long Yi's eyebrows twitched slightly. "Perhaps it's because my brother was in power before, and now that I'm on the throne, she feels she has someone to shirk responsibility for her crimes."
He understood that the Empress Dowager was suspicious of him.
It wasn't said explicitly, but it was for the sake of each other's face.
The Empress Dowager's expression froze. She had to admit that Long Yi was a smart man. No wonder the late emperor passed the throne to him.
Since Long Yi can say this, it means that his suspicion is relatively small.
The world ultimately belonged to Long Yi. In order to minimize the estrangement, she said, "Go to the cold palace and take Concubine Ling with you."
Eunuch Mo immediately took people there.
Yan Funing asked softly, "Does this Concubine Ling have any other special qualities besides being good at using poison?"
Since he's good at poison, that means he has a lot of poisons around him, or he can easily make poisons with some ingredients. Besides poisons, does that mean he can also make antidotes?
In this way, is it possible to quickly remove the poison from my mother-in-law?
The nanny glanced at the Empress Dowager and then reported, "In reply to the Crown Princess, Concubine Ling has been childless since entering the palace. After the late Emperor ascended the throne, she should have been sent away, but the Empress Dowager was kind enough to keep her. I didn't expect that she would actually give birth, give birth..."
He looked at the Queen Mother again while speaking.
The Empress Dowager said in a deep voice, "She actually tried to seduce the late Emperor."
"You should know that although she is younger than the late emperor, she is his concubine mother in name only. This is against ethical principles and moral principles. How can I sit idly by and watch?"
"He was immediately sent to the cold palace."
Having said that, the Empress Dowager also began to doubt Concubine Ling, thinking, could it really be her?
Everyone present was shocked by these words.
Such a question is very embarrassing.
After all, this concerns the reputation of the late emperor.
For a moment, the hall fell silent.
After waiting for a while, Eunuch Mo brought Concubine Ling.
When Concubine Ling arrived, she did not bow but laughed out loud, which surprised everyone.
"What's wrong with her?" Fu Nanyao frowned.
Yan Funing also frowned.
The woman in front of him looked to be in her fifties, but she still had a pretty face when she was young.
Eunuch Mo lowered his voice and said, "When I went to pick her up, I heard Concubine Yun say that Concubine Ling had gone crazy."
"Crazy?" The Queen Mother looked at the visitor carefully.
Suddenly, Concubine Ling pointed at her and shouted, "It's all your fault. You didn't let me be with your son. If you had agreed to let me be with him, maybe he would have had his own children."
"You're crazy, yet you still remember this?" The Queen Mother sneered.
"I'm not crazy, you're the ones who are crazy." Concubine Ling pointed at them one by one, "You're the Queen Mother, she's the Concubine Dowager, each of them has a noble status, and you both have sons, but I don't."
"I don't have a son because when the old emperor took me into the palace, he was already useless and I was only sixteen."
"The best years of my life are gone, gone..."
She sobbed.
Then he said loudly: "I have already said that I have never been favored by the old emperor, why don't you believe it?"
"Why can't I find a man of the same age to fall in love with?"
“As a human being, you must love once.
"At that time, he was the only man in the palace, so I had no choice but to look for him..."
Eunuch Mo asked, "You ordered the palace maid to poison the woman back then, and now you've been caught red-handed. Do you admit it or not?"
Concubine Ling ignored her and just hugged herself tightly: "The cold palace is so cold, there is no love in the cold palace."
The Queen Mother thought she was crazy and that continuing the matter would only affect her son's reputation.
Thinking that her son had already passed away, it would be unreasonable for her as a mother not to stop it if his reputation was damaged.
He immediately ordered Long Yi and others: "Emperor, Empress, please leave. I am exhausted."
Long Yi personally pulled Qiao Wanyou away.
A group of people followed behind him.
Just as they walked out of the temple gate, someone came hurriedly.
All that was heard was this person reporting, "Your Majesty, the old woman who poisoned me committed suicide by hitting herself against the wall after being rescued."
Long Yi and the others did not linger and strode out of the Empress Dowager's palace.
On the way, Fu Beimo murmured, "One is dead, the other is crazy, all the evidence is gone, who should I hold accountable?"
Fu Ciyi and Yan Funing looked at each other.
The couple came to the same idea.
But this was not the time to talk or discuss. The two looked at each other again, and Fu Ciyi spoke first, "Father, Mother, I, Ningning, and I will return to the Prince's Mansion first."
If they go back early, they can discuss what they have seen and heard today. The most important thing is that they still have very important things to do.
Yan Funing pursed her lips, knowing what he meant, and couldn't help but feel nervous.
But now, in front of so many people, she couldn't say anything.
Anyway, I have to bear the consequences of what I said tonight.
As the hours passed, her nervousness grew.
She became even more nervous, especially since there was nothing else to distract her.
"It's not too late to go back after having dinner with mother." Qiao Wanyou kept them.
Now that the family is finally together, she wants to get together more often and talk more.
Long Yi also said, "The titles of kings have been announced. Wen Yu, do you have any favorites?"
Fu Nanyao and Fu Beimo thought to themselves: If he can't even be crowned a prince, what's the point of letting my brother choose the title of king? I don't care!
The two are twins, a boy and a girl, and occasionally have telepathy.
They felt it at this moment, looked at each other in surprise, and nodded in succession, indicating that they had the same idea as each other.
"It's up to your father to decide." Fu Ciyi said lightly.
Long Yi spoke again: "Then let's have dinner together, so that everyone can help you think it over in detail."
"Yes, father." Fu Ciyi agreed.
Qiao Wanyou sighed inwardly. She wanted to have a meal with her son, daughter-in-law and daughter. This Long Yi was really good at making excuses.
Well, don't offend him first, because you still need to persuade him at night.
If you don't give him food, it will be difficult for him to persuade you.
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