The emperor casually glanced at the empress dowager beside him, and recalled every detail of his childhood.
The Queen Mother actually didn't like him. In her eyes, there was no one else except Prince Duan.
When he was young, he asked his father, "Why doesn't my mother like me?"
The father smiled and told him: "It is enough for you to have the father. What does it matter whether your mother likes it or not?"
At that time, he felt that what his father said was right. You can't have your cake and eat it too. As long as he had his father's favor, it didn't matter if he lost his mother.
He is not greedy, so let him share all the love from his mother with his younger brother!
Had he been wrong all along? Did the Queen Mother dislike him not because he had taken away the Emperor's favor? But because he was not the Queen Mother's biological son?
[The Queen Mother gave the Emperor a drug, and he eventually died of weakness. That was all superficial. After the Emperor died, he was replaced, given the antidote, and barely survived, and has been imprisoned ever since.]
emperor:"......"
Why? Why did the Queen Mother do this?
Chu Zhinan: “…”
Yes, why? I also want to know.
Yang picked up a fried meat ball and quickly stuffed it into her mouth, fearing that her daughter would see her and try to grab it.
She is very particular about food and avoids eating certain foods.
Last time, I accidentally got a piece of tofu from her and stuffed it into her mouth. I couldn't get it from her because her hands were so quick that she just grabbed it and stuffed it into her mouth.
Fortunately, it was tofu, which is relatively soft and won’t cause choking. If it was meatballs or something, what would I do if I choked?
[The Emperor forced the Empress Dowager to fake pregnancy in order to give the Emperor a legitimate birth identity. The Emperor was actually born to the Emperor and another woman, but the woman was not mentioned. Prince Duan was the reward given by the Emperor to the Empress Dowager for cooperating with him in the play.]
Chu Zhinan: “…”
No wonder? No wonder the retired emperor took the child away as soon as he was born. It turns out that the emperor was not the empress dowager's biological son.
Yang: “…”
The emperor was really cruel. In order to give his beloved woman's child a perfect identity, he forced the queen to fake pregnancy. This was the greatest shame for a woman. No wonder the queen mother tried every means to drive the emperor off the throne.
Just chase them away, but why do you have to intervene in the Duke of Huguo’s Mansion?
Thinking of what happened to the children, Yang had no good face towards Prince Duan and the Queen Mother. They could even scheme against a newborn baby. This mother and son were not good people at all.
Chu Xiaoxiao was still a baby after all. After watching the excitement for so long, she slowly fell asleep in Yang's arms.
The emperor didn't hear the soft and tender baby voice next to his ear, so he looked over here and found that it was the baby who had fallen asleep.
He must go to the Empress Dowager's bedroom tonight. If he really finds the secret room and his father, he will know whether many things are true or false.
How could such a miraculous little baby be born in the Duke of the Guardian's Mansion? He could actually hear her thoughts, and they were about his fate.
I must ask General Chu to bring the child to the palace more often in the future. I haven’t heard enough of her thoughts.
"Mother! Come! The emperor greets you!"
The empress dowager picked up the wine glass with a faint expression, gestured to the emperor, and drank it all in one gulp.
The emperor had never noticed the hidden look in the empress dowager's eyes before, but when he looked at her today, he discovered that she showed a hint of subtle disgust towards him.
If she is really not his mother, then there is no need to worry about anything.
After the palace banquet, the emperor returned to his bedroom. He waved his hand and a man in black appeared. These were the dragon guards given to him by his father. There were fifty of them in total.
They follow the emperor exclusively and are absolutely loyal.
"Take me to the Queen Mother's Palace and search for the secret room. I want to see it myself."
The Dragon Guards have always lived in the palace, and they basically know the general situation of every palace.
After taking off his dragon robe and changing into ordinary clothes, the emperor was pulled up to the roof by two dragon guards, one on each side.
Eunuch Yuanbao was guarding outside the door and would not let anyone in easily no matter who came.
After the Queen Mother returned to her palace, she took off her phoenix crown and robe, put on comfortable ordinary clothes, and leaned back on the couch.
I drank a few more glasses of wine tonight and felt a little dizzy.
After resting for a while, the Queen Mother suddenly remembered something funny. She stood up and shouted with her eyes closed: "Cai Ping!"
An old maid came in from outside with a mean look on her face. She was the empress dowager's dowry and the one who framed the queen.
In fact, the queen did not hit her. She slapped herself several times, knocking out two of her front teeth, and then cried to the emperor.
At that time, the empress dowager was so angry that she seemed to faint. In order to calm her anger, the emperor banished the empress to the cold palace.
"The servant is here."
Caiping has always been respectful to the Queen Mother and dared not slack off in the slightest.
"Today is New Year's Eve. Let's go visit him. We haven't been there for several days. We need to give him some good rest."
"yes!"
Caiping agreed, supported the empress dowager, and walked to the small Buddhist hall as if she knew the place well. She pressed down the raised toe of the Bodhisattva's shoe, and the lotus platform opened to the sides, revealing a step.
There is a secret room underneath, with dim light shining from inside.
The emperor hiding on the roof was extremely horrified. What the little baby in the Duke of Protectorate's Mansion said was absolutely right. There really was a secret room in the Empress Dowager's palace.
If no one had mentioned this place, he would never have thought that there was a secret room under the Empress Dowager's Buddhist temple.
The Queen Mother and Madam Caiping went down the stairs and walked to a corner of the secret room, where a skinny person was curled up.
His eye sockets were sunken, his eyes were dull and lifeless, and his body was so thin that he was just a skeleton.
If it weren't for the slight rise and fall of the chest, one would have thought it was a mummy, not a living person.
"Your Majesty! I am here to see you."
The Queen Mother walked up to the man and smiled sweetly, as if she were an eighteen-year-old girl.
"Your Majesty! Today is New Year's Eve. Every year at this time we have to reunite as husband and wife, and tonight is no exception. You can't die in bad luck! I am counting on you to live a few more years and accompany me."
**The person didn't seem to react, but slowly closed his eyes which were originally open.
Can't close completely, half open.
"Don't you want to see me? It's a pity that you can't even close your eyes! Your Majesty! No, you should be the emperor now. Is it so difficult to tell me who gave birth to that bastard with you? What's the point of letting her son sit in that position? You have to keep it to be a capable person."
** was like a corpse, without any movement. No matter what the Queen Mother said, he remained indifferent.
"You don't know yet, do you? My Hu'er is in his fiefdom preparing his men and horses, waiting for the right time to come back and drive the son born by that woman out of that position. How can a bastard with unknown origins ascend to the throne?
So what if you put so much thought into him? So what if you arranged for him to be the eldest son? As long as I am here, I will not let him be so proud. My Hu'er is the legitimate son, and he, Li Chenjiang, is a bastard. "
Prince Duan's name is Li Chenhu, and Li Chenjiang is the emperor's name.
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