Concubine Yu adjusted the ring on her finger, her eyes calm and her tone calm, "I don't understand what you are saying."
Shen Xu leaned back in his chair and turned his gaze to the Queen Mother and the Little Emperor. He did not respond to her question and continued, "Not only me, but all the noble families in Rock City, the military officers and sergeants in the prefectures and counties, can't figure out how the current emperor ascended the throne.
How could a foot-washing maid who doesn't even have a family behind her become the Queen Mother?"
The Queen Mother narrowed her eyes and sneered, "Humph, so what if you have a family, so what if you have a background? Those self-righteous, arrogant nobles are all defeated by me.
In the end, it was my son who inherited the throne, and it was I who survived and became the Queen Mother of Haoyue Kingdom."
Shen Xu smiled bitterly and shook his head, with an expression that said, "How pathetic you are!" "If Miss Yu hadn't helped you, you wouldn't even have had the chance to be buried with her."
"You!" The Queen Mother snorted angrily and turned her head away without saying anything.
Pei Zhiyuan frowned. The Yu sisters grew up with him, and he had never heard that they had any intersection with the little emperor and his friends.
He couldn't help but defend her, "No, Sister Qingzhu is the Crown Princess. How could she be planning for the Seventh Prince? It must be the Imperial Master. What did he use to threaten her?"
Shen Xu sighed lightly and continued, “It’s a pity that it wasn’t the Imperial Master who threatened her, but she who threatened the Imperial Master.
Long before the Imperial Preceptor gained favor, the Crown Princess had already hatched a crazy plan.
She shared her plan with a powerless mother and son. At the same time, she also propelled an unknown alchemist to a height beyond his control.
Pei Zhiyuan frowned, obviously unable to accept such an explanation. "Everything is just your guess."
Shen Xu ignored his rebuttal and continued, “The desire for power blinded the eyes of this mother and son, and they fully cooperated with her plan.
Step by step, he deposed the crown prince, killed the king, seized the royal power, murdered his brother, and expelled the royal family.
He thought he had obtained a position above everyone else in the Haoyue Kingdom, but unexpectedly he fell into another trap.
Without the support of a family background, not only is he cursed, but he's even worse off than a powerful official who gained favor early on."
Shen Xu sneered, "Even the Imperial Master is doing better than you guys."
The Queen Mother and the little Emperor looked gloomy and remained silent.
"Even the Imperial Master is ridiculous. He thinks he's above everyone else, with all the power in the government. But he's just acting out a drama that's bringing disaster to the country and the people on the stage he set up.
Your Majesty, you are so calculating."
Concubine Yu raised her eyebrows and said in a cold tone, "Why do you think so?"
Shen Xu looked at Concubine Yu with a complicated expression, covered his lips and chuckled, saying: "Because I found that besides the Imperial Master, the current emperor also likes male favorites.
So why did the Imperial Master forcibly recruit beautiful young boys and detain noble ladies in the capital?
Song Lin suddenly felt his scalp tingling and goose bumps appeared on his back.
He glanced sharply at the little emperor, who was now holding Pei Zhiyuan's hand and staring at him with the same paranoid and sticky look as before.
Song Lin retreated slightly behind Shen Xu's chair, glaring back at the little emperor with a fierce look to warn him.
But the little emperor seemed to be provoking him, rubbing the back of Pei Zhiyuan's hand with his fingertips.
Pei Zhiyuan was stunned when he noticed this, and quickly pulled his hand back and put it behind his back.
This action angered the little emperor, and he turned his eyes fiercely towards Shen Xu, as if it was all her fault that his good thing was interrupted.
Concubine Yu saw everything, and the disdain on her face was fleeting. She responded calmly, "What does that have to do with me?"
Shen Xu took in her expression without missing a single moment, and with a slightly raised lip, he asked her mischievously:
"Then why did you become the Imperial Noble Consort? What does the little emperor want from you?
Are they after your status as a former Crown Princess, or your status as the daughter of a criminal whose family was confiscated and exterminated?"
Seeing that Concubine Yu was silent, Shen Xu continued, “Let’s first talk about the whole story.
In order to maintain the emperor's favor and family prosperity, the wealthy families of all generations had to send their daughters to the palace to be concubines.
The late emperor was particularly fond of General Yu and chose his daughter to be the Crown Princess.
Originally, the candidate for the Crown Princess could be chosen from between the two sisters.
However, the second daughter and Lord Pei were in love with each other, and they had already made their relationship public when Lord Pei achieved fame.
In order to ensure that the family's imperial favor would continue, the old general had no choice but to send his eldest daughter to the imperial palace, where she was canonized as the Crown Princess.
Pei Zhiyuan was slightly surprised when he heard this and asked, "How do you know this?"
Shen Xu answered frankly: "I heard it from the neighbors near your Xuanjingsi Yamen."
He frowned and whispered back, "Don't take it seriously. They can say anything."
"Then tell me if this is true."
Pei Zhiyuan said nothing and agreed.
Shen Xu continued, “Everyone thought this was a happy event, and no one ever asked the eldest daughter what she thought.
But the eldest daughter didn't want to be the Crown Princess. She even set up a shocking plan in order to get rid of the position of Crown Princess.
Last spring, during a hunt, the late emperor was bitten by a poisonous snake and nearly died. The palace doctors were helpless.
Finally, he was rescued by a Taoist priest in the mansion of the seventh prince. From then on, the late emperor favored the imperial priest and became obsessed with alchemy and seeking immortality.
This incident seems accidental, but in fact there is another arrangement.
The late emperor was indeed poisoned, but it was a deliberate act. The only person who had the opportunity to poison the late emperor was the eldest daughter of the Yu family, who was then favored by the crown prince.
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