The palace was full of eunuchs from the imperial kitchen who were eager to make some money. Nanny Hua took the banknote, told Su Qi to wait for her, and left quickly.
Su Qi took out a handful of candy from her cloth bag and handed it to everyone.
Among those sitting in the sun was an old woman with silver hair, thin and kind, dressed in coarse cloth.
Sitting in the sun seems to be warmer this way.
She stared at Su Qi intently, and after a long while she asked:
"Whose family are you from?"
Su Qi asked uncertainly, "Empress Dowager Rong Yue?"
"Call me Grandma Rongyue." The old woman had her white hair tied up with a wooden hairpin. She sat upright on a wooden stool, but she still had an indescribable dignity.
"I am the daughter-in-law of Prince Zhan."
"It's still that bitch's granddaughter-in-law. Bah." An old woman threw the candy given by Su Qi on the ground and kicked it twice in disgust.
Su Qi just pretended not to see it.
Empress Dowager Rong Yue stared at Su Qi for a long time before she smiled. "You really do look like the same person."
"who?"
"Someone I admire very much. It's not that we look alike, but you both share that same spirit." Empress Dowager Rong Yue looked up at the distant sky, her thoughts drifting far away. "She always said I was too soft-hearted and that I thought too highly of others."
"Ancestor Rong Zhen?" Su Qi thought of this person. It seemed that he was really a fellow villager.
"You know that too?"
"I heard that he hated Elder Rong Zhen very much."
"Ancestor Rong Zhen couldn't stand other people's shameful means. He disliked her even more, but she was deeply loved by the late emperor. The late emperor was extremely filial to Ancestor Rong Zhen, but he doted on her secretly." Empress Dowager Rong Yue slowly talked about the past.
She turned her head and looked at Su Qi again.
"What do you want me to do?" Rong Yue pointed out Su Qi's purpose in one sentence.
Su Qi was surprised at how straightforward Empress Dowager Rong Yue was, but she did not hesitate to ask for help.
The old ladies nearby were all shocked. They thought Su Qi was helping her husband to disrupt Dong Qi.
Baizhi jumped onto the roof and quietly hid among the outstretched branches and leaves of the banyan tree.
Watching the movements near the cold palace.
"Are you planning to replace the emperor?" Empress Dowager Rong Yue was dumbfounded. She thought to herself, this woman is so bold.
Su Qi smiled calmly, "Dong Qi will be destroyed by these people sooner or later. We are all descendants of the Long family, why does he have to sit in this position? If it weren't for the old witch and her son, my husband and his family wouldn't have been separated for decades."
"My mother-in-law hasn't met Prince Zhan yet." Su Qi didn't care about the change of emperor.
Rong Yue was a little confused. She didn't know what to say to Su Qi. This was a treasonous act.
"But, but what would the late emperor do if he knew about this? I would be too ashamed to see him when I die." Rong Yue had that man in her heart, even though she knew that man preferred the enchanting and charming woman.
Su Qi was so angry that she almost scratched her neatly combed hair. How did the Empress Dowager Rong Yue survive the palace fight?
Logically speaking, he shouldn't have survived the second month.
"Empress Dowager Rongyue, I think the late emperor's coffin is about to collapse. To be honest, when I came here, I heard that the Empress Dowager and several guards were doing something."
Su Qi sighed and said:
"I just happened to see her doing something nice. Now I have no choice but to rebel. The Queen Mother is supposed to be old, but I didn't expect the fighting to be so fierce."
"Never mind. I'll get a stye tomorrow."
Su Qi deliberately covered her eyes, and through her fingers she saw Empress Dowager Rong Yue staring blankly with her eyes wide open. The other people around her all looked like they were stunned.
The old woman who had earlier dropped the candy on the ground bent down and picked it up.
His eyes rolled around, "Is what you said true?"
"Am I making this up? How come the grass on the late emperor's head is greener than the grass in the imperial garden?" Su Qi wanted to say something else.
Rong Yue's face darkened.
She hurriedly stopped Su Qi from talking nonsense, for she was afraid that the late emperor would be so angry that he would lose his soul.
"I promise you." Empress Dowager Rong Yue stood up and went to a corner of the wall. She scraped with a small shovel for a long time before she took out a black token. She then asked Su Qi for some paper.
He bites his fingers as soon as he opens his mouth.
Su Qi stopped him and said that he had prepared brushes and ink.
Empress Dowager Rong Yue didn't think much of it and wrote a letter to Su Qi to deliver to Prince Zhi's mansion in the capital. "Prince Zhi is my son. He has a troop of soldiers under his command. He also has some power of his own. He cannot go against the emperor."
"With the assistance of Prince Zhan's Mansion, everything will be fine."
Empress Dowager Rong Yue gave several more instructions.
Su Qi took the token and spoke a few more words to them. Aunt Hua was carrying a cloth bag of rice, some pork, salt, sugar, and other things.
Su Qi went into the kitchen to check, and while Aunt Hua was out, she left some eggs and flint in the space, as well as some snacks like meat and dried fruits.
After putting these aside, Su Qi went out with Bai Zhi and Aunt Hua.
In the harem.
No one paid attention to them. The Queen saw Su Qi and the other two in the Imperial Garden. The housekeeper came over to ask about it, but Nanny Hua made up an excuse to evade them.
When the queen heard that it was the queen mother's intention, she remained silent.
After all, the Queen Mother has the final say in the harem.
Previous dynasty.
In the court, everyone was arguing like a chicken with black eyes.
Several factions were arguing.
Some of them were originally the emperor's people, but now seeing that the War King was obviously falling apart with the emperor, they naturally stood on the War King's side.
This made the emperor very angry.
He wanted to seize the opportunity to capture the two generals while they were returning to Beijing to report on their work, and thus reduce the influence of the War King's army. However, he did not expect that the War King had been in Tianshan for many years, and the army still obeyed him.
"Prince Zhan, do you really have to go against me? The evidence of their corruption and abuse of power is solid, how can I shield them against my will?" The emperor pinched his brows. He did not expect that Prince Zhan would rush over with Gu Beiheng.
The King of War stood below in his military uniform, and next to him was Gu Beiheng, who looked exactly like him.
"Your Majesty, I just have doubts. I suspect that Lord Wu has framed loyal and good people, and his heart deserves death." As he spoke, Prince Zhan came to Lord Wu who was collecting evidence.
A pair of sharp eagle eyes stared at him, making Lord Wu frightened.
Meeting the War King's probing and threatening gaze, his knees gave way and he knelt down.
"Please spare us. We really didn't frame General Lou and General Liu. All the evidence is irrefutable. They were the ones who were corrupt and perverted the law first."
After kneeling down, Lord Wu didn't dare to meet the eyes of the King of War.
The War King pulled off his black hat.
He said coldly, "I also have evidence that Lord Wu is rebelling, and I have ordered people to search the mansion."
All the civil and military officials were shocked, knowing that things had changed in Dongqi.
The War King, who had always supported the emperor, had a falling out with him.
The emperor hadn't expected the War Prince to threaten his men in court; he knew the evidence was fabricated. At the emperor's behest, the Supreme Court Minister also forced Generals Lou and Liu to sign the humiliating agreement.
"Come here, arrest the War King who despises the imperial power and forms cliques for personal gain." The emperor was furious.
The Royal Guards surrounded them.
The emperor also ordered people to go to the harem and ask the empress dowager to bring Su Qi and the guards over.
How could he know that the Queen Mother was very busy at the moment.
No time at all.
Having a lot of fun playing with those guards.
One of Su Qi's medicines was the antidote to the Queen Mother's body, which made her smell the aphrodisiac.
The imperial guards surrounded them, armed with swords and red-tasseled spears.
Gu Beiheng drew out a soft sword from his waist. Most people couldn't detect his soft sword at all.
All the civil and military officials in the court retreated to the side, wondering who to side with. If these two were to fight, they had to decide quickly, otherwise the slow-moving ones would be marginalized.
Duke Lu and Prime Minister Zhou looked at each other in the air, and both of them made up their minds.
The War King kicked Lord Wu in the neck, then thought of the contents of the letter. He didn't expect the emperor to act so quickly, and he wanted to break the emperor's neck with his own hands.
He took a brisk step forward.
The emperor was startled and took a few steps back.
"King Zhan, what are you going to do? Rebellion?" The emperor was shocked.
The chief eunuch shouted, "Come here, protect the emperor."
The War King snorted coldly, "He is not the emperor."
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