Princess Zhou was very satisfied with Gu Yinwei's attitude. The Queen Mother was not even twenty years old this year, and young people must be easy to control. Concubine Tang was hesitant and refused to sit. Princess Zhou said angrily, "Don't embarrass me in front of the Cining Palace."
Aunt Tang sat down slowly.
Gu Yinwei picked up the teacup and drank tea. Princess Zhou did not state her purpose, and she did not say anything either, waiting to see who would speak first.
Princess Zhou felt very uncomfortable, twisting her fat body back and forth.
"Your Majesty, I know you have a lot on your plate and shouldn't have bothered you."
"Princess, you may as well speak frankly."
"Mrs. Tang misses her son so much that she cries day and night..."
Gu Yinwei interrupted her, "If you two want to see the new emperor, I can pass the message on your behalf."
"Fugui, send someone to the imperial study to pass on the message."
"Yes." Fugui assigned someone to pass on the message.
When Princess Zhou saw the eunuch leaving, she felt anxious and her face turned red as if she had been standing in the scorching sun for two hours.
"No need to trouble the new emperor, no need to pass on the message."
"Oh, could it be that the princess and Concubine Tang came to the palace not to see the new emperor, but to see me?"
"It's like this. The Cining Palace occupies a vast area, and the side halls are empty. You don't live in the Cining Palace all the time anyway. Aunt Tang misses her son. If he lives in the Cining Palace, mother and son can see each other more often."
"Mrs. Tang is the new emperor's biological mother. It's probably not appropriate for her to live in a side hall."
"It's best that the Queen Mother thinks this way. Concubine Tang is not familiar with the palace rules. I will be her companion, and she will have someone to talk to."
"Look at the Cining Palace. Is it still habitable?"
"Yes, yes, you, the Empress Dowager, will live in the Pepper Room, and Concubine Tang and I will live in the Cining Palace. We can visit each other more often in our free time, and we can also play mahjong with the Empress Dowager."
"Princess, your words make sense. I should seriously consider moving out of the Cining Palace."
"Yes, yes. You live in the Pepper Room during the day, and you have to run to the Cining Palace at night. How tiring it must be."
"Thank you, Princess, for your consideration."
"It's my duty." Princess Zhou was complacent.
Aunt Tang's face turned pale. The princess was so bold. Didn't she see that the empress dowager was angry?
The new emperor strode in from outside, with his head held high and his chest puffed out, looking dignified.
"Son pays homage to the Queen Mother."
"Get up."
Before the new emperor could sit down, Princess Zhou pulled Concubine Tang towards him.
"Feng'er, your mother is here."
Aunt Tang nodded timidly, tears in her eyes. The mother and son looked at each other, and the new emperor quickly looked away.
"My mother is Empress Dowager Hengle."
Fugui wanted to throw away the whisk in his hand and applaud the new emperor, saying that he spoke well and brilliantly.
Gu Yinwei began to sympathize with the new emperor. His biological father was unkind, his stepmother was unkind, and his biological mother was cowardly.
"Feng'er, the Queen Mother has agreed to move out of the Cining Palace. Your aunt and I will live here from now on. Our family, flesh and blood, can finally be reunited."
"Was this your own idea, Princess, or was it His Majesty's idea?"
"Why? Is my idea bad? Aunt Tang and I will live in the Cining Palace, and the Empress Dowager will live in the Pepper Palace. It will be wonderful for the whole family to be together."
"Since we need to be a family, how can the two princes live outside the palace?"
"Oh my, you finally have a conscience and agree to bring your two brothers in."
"Not only the two princes, but also everyone in the palace and the Yi family."
"Feng'er, you speak in such a harsh tone!" Princess Zhou noticed that there was something wrong with the new emperor's words.
"I will immediately draft an edict to abdicate. Whoever wants to be emperor can do so."
"Feng'er, don't get excited."
Zhu Bifeng ripped off the crown on his head and rolled on the ground: "Go call the four ministers of state protection, the princess is trying to force me to death."
"Everyone in the court, civil and military, knows that I am a concubine's son, and everyone knows that I was adopted. I just finished controlling the flood in the northwest and finally improved my prestige, and you come to force me."
Aunt Tang also started crying. Before the princess came, she coaxed her by saying that she could be taken to the palace to enjoy a good life, so she followed her. Who knew that her coming would force her son into this state?
Princess Zhou was originally going to throw a tantrum and try to gain glory by acting pitifully, but the new emperor fell before her, leaving her with no tricks left and she had to passively accept Zhu Beifeng's verbal attacks.
"Ancestors of the Zhu family, please open your eyes and look at me. I simply cannot survive this!"
The four ministers who protected the country thought that the new emperor was swift and decisive, but now he was lying on the ground crying.
The four ministers Chen, Zhang, Zhao and Li stood beside the new emperor, like four towering trees. The hand that Princess Zhou extended hung in the air, and then fell down in disappointment.
Lord Li picked up the crown on the ground and put it on the emperor. Lord Zhao called the censors and decided to record everything that happened today, then make it into a booklet and distribute it to the people, and then send two hundred storytellers to publicize it.
Lord Zhang immediately sent a message to the princess, and the content of the message was inevitably publicized: "Go and invite Prince Xiaoyao, and tell him that the princess forced the new emperor to abdicate and ordered the Empress Dowager Hengle to move out of the Cining Palace. Ask Prince Xiaoyao if he has any intention of rebellion."
Lord Chen waved his hand and said, "Send me a thousand elite soldiers. I want to see who will deceive my new emperor."
Lord Zhao summoned the casual official and said, "Go call the Minister of Personnel and ask him to carefully examine whether it is reasonable and legal for the princess to force the new emperor to abdicate in the name of filial piety."
Princess Zhou was confused. Her original intention was just to move into the Cining Palace. She didn't want to rebel, nor did she want Zhu Beifeng to abdicate.
The whole situation was in turmoil, and if the prince didn't punish her and expel her from the palace, it would be difficult to appease the people.
It’s over, it’s over. Not only can I not live in the Cining Palace, but I can’t even live in the prince’s palace.
Princess Zhou was frightened. She raised her tearful eyes and looked at Gu Yinwei. She had been watching the whole thing from the beginning to the end, but Princess Zhou knew that she was the one who caused the final result. If she had not gone to invite the new emperor, how could things have developed into the current situation.
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