"After all, you are cousins. It's better for brothers to get along with each other, otherwise you will grow old and lonely..."
Very miserable.
The Empress Dowager said this and looked at her grandson.
Long Chi'an had no choice but to raise his hand and respond: "Chi'an will follow the teachings of the Royal Grandmother!"
A few of them chatted a little more about the Empress Dowager's situation.
Considering that the Empress Dowager, Princess Shuyun, and Long Chi'an were related, they probably had a lot of intimate conversation to share. Yan Funing said goodbye, "Empress Dowager, my husband and I want to go for a walk outside."
"Go ahead." The Queen Mother said in a gentle tone.
When leaving, Fu Ciyi glanced deeply at Long Chi'an.
His intuition told him that this person would not let it go just because of the Queen Mother's words.
The couple left the Empress Dowager's palace. It was still early, and since they were going to have dinner in the Empress Dowager's palace tonight, it was not appropriate for them to return to their own residence. They looked at each other.
They both thought of the same thing.
Cold Palace.
So, they walked towards the cold palace tacitly.
When they arrived at the cold palace, they saw Concubine Yun watching Concubine Ling dance.
It was a very cold day, but Concubine Ling danced barefoot on the stone slabs.
"What's this for?" Yan Funing was puzzled.
Concubine Yun sighed, "She is dancing for her beloved."
"Can your body handle this kind of dancing?" Yan Funing couldn't help but worry.
"She jumped even though she couldn't handle it. Once she fainted, she stopped." Concubine Yun said, looking at Fu Ciyi and Yan Funing with a smile. "What happened to the Empress Dowager? Just now, I saw Eunuch Mo personally leading people to take Aling away."
Fu Ciyi said bluntly: "Someone poisoned her. I suspect it was Concubine Ling who did it."
"It's ridiculous! A-Ling has been nearly insane for thirty years. How else could she possibly poison someone?" Concubine Yun shook her head and sighed. "In fact, every woman who enters the palace walls suffers."
As she spoke, she ordered Concubine Ling's old maid to keep an eye on her master, while she took Fu Ciyi and Yan Funing to her residence.
Entering a residence, she sighed deeply, "Everyone says the imperial family is great, but what's so great about it? Only those who have experienced it know that within the imperial walls is a cannibalistic place."
"How many women have fought tooth and nail for a man?"
"How many women have plotted to harm others in order to gain the favor of this man?"
"How many women sit around doing nothing all day, thinking of either harming others or saving their own lives?"
"How many women have spent their late nights in misery, venting all this hatred on other women?"
"Little did they know that the root of all this lies in one person."
At this point, she smiled and said, "Just treat me as an old woman complaining casually."
"I will keep in mind what the Concubine said." Fu Ciyi said solemnly.
He understood what Concubine Yun meant. She was saying that there were many women around the emperor, and all the wars among women were caused by the emperor.
If he ever sits in that position, there will only be Ningning in his harem.
Such is the harem problem that only emperors have.
Concubine Yun nodded with satisfaction: "You are a good person."
Raise your hand and ask them to sit down.
Yan Funing sat down and asked, "Grandma Yun, how much do you know about the fire in Prince Jin's mansion?"
Concubine Yun said, "The fire started at night. The flames shot up into the sky, and I could see them from the cold palace. I heard that it was the Princess Jin's courtyard that was burning, and my heart was in my throat. I don't know much else. Later, I heard that the Prince of Jin missed his 'deceased wife' so much that he rebuilt the courtyard on the original site."
All three of them sighed.
After a moment, Concubine Yun changed the subject: "A Ling is a few years younger than me. When she entered the palace, she was very innocent. But not long after, our emperor at that time had a health problem, and it was necessary to appoint a crown prince."
"The candidate for the crown prince was initially favored by your father. The late emperor was the eldest son, and he had many people supporting him."
"Later, the old emperor passed away, and Aling became a widow, just like us."
"Those of us who have been favored by the old emperor naturally don't have any other thoughts. She is different. During the early stages of the selection process, she fell in love with the late emperor, who was still a prince at first sight."
"Who would have thought that the old emperor would take a fancy to her and she would become the late emperor's nominal concubine mother."
"In fact, the late emperor once told the empress dowager about who he liked, but the empress dowager didn't take it to heart."
"If the Empress Dowager had proposed to the old Emperor at the beginning of the selection process which concubine to choose for her son, there would have been no such thing later."
"No more talking." Concubine Yun waved her hand.
Afterwards, the three of them chatted about some casual family matters.
Seeing the golden crow setting in the west, Fu Ciyi said goodbye and left with Yan Funing.
When they left, Concubine Ling was still dancing.
Her toes were already rubbed raw and bleeding, but she was still jumping.
When Yan Funing passed by, she made faces to scare her.
"Husband—"
Yan Funing was so scared that she hid in Fu Ciyi's arms.
Concubine Ling raised a finger and said jokingly, "Little girl, you are so beautiful, don't enter the palace! The fate of entering the palace is very miserable, very miserable, very miserable, miserable..."
Fu Ciyi frowned, put his arm around Yan Funing's waist, and took her out of the cold palace.
While walking in the long, deserted corridor, Yan Funing remained silent for a while.
Fu Ciyi took her hand and said, "Be with me. When I enter the palace, you will follow me. But I promise that our future will be good."
In fact, what Concubine Yun said was similar to Concubine Ling’s warning.
It means that men should not let women down.
He swore that from now on, she would be the only one by his side!
He would never do anything to let her down, so their future should be something they could look forward to and fantasize about, and there was a high chance that it would come true.
"Well, I believe you." Yan Funing nodded.
All she had to do now was to trust him.
In fact, he was vaguely uneasy in his heart. If he became the crown prince and then the emperor in the future, everyone in the world would hope that he would have a full harem. This would be conducive to the so-called expansion of his family and would be beneficial to the stability of the country to a certain extent.
Don't think about it. Sometimes there is no need to worry about problems that have not occurred.
Thinking of the series of questions that weighed on her mind today, she lowered her voice so that only the two of them could hear, "It's true that the old woman who poisoned the woman was once Concubine Ling's maid. It's also true that Concubine Ling was once skilled in poison. What's wrong is that the mastermind behind this couldn't possibly be Concubine Ling."
It’s all because Concubine Ling is really crazy, not just pretending to be crazy.
But even if she was pretending to be crazy, now that the late emperor is gone, what reason does she have to poison the empress dowager?
"In this game, the person behind the scenes had already thought of the subsequent moves when they made their move." Fu Ciyi said calmly, "The most likely possibility is..."
He deliberately kept it a secret.
"I have someone in mind, too. My husband, please speak first."
"Ningning speaks first."
"It's actually quite easy to guess. The basis for my guess is very simple. If the Empress Dowager were to die, the person who would benefit the most would be the biggest suspect."
"I guessed it was her."
"Now we have no evidence."
"The most direct witness is gone. I'm afraid the person behind the scenes has destroyed all other evidence as well."
Yan Funing suddenly thought of something: "My husband, the Empress Dowager really dislikes Mother. You said that Mother was poisoned because of her, wasn't it because of her?"
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