Chapter 214 At Least There Is a Tray
"But I didn't expect that when he was poisoned and you were missing, my father would give the Bu family the military power and promise never to take it back. That's when I knew that my father had seen through everything we did."
"Hahaha, so what if I saw through it? He was doomed, but he would rather die than pass the throne to me. In the end... I just watched him die from the poison right before my eyes."
Just as the two were listening to the emperor's words, the Queen Mother was brought over by Xiao Hanfei and his men. After bowing to Xiao Yulan and Bu Ruo, she said, "I think... the Emperor's uncle might want to see the Queen Mother one last time."
"Also, the Imperial Aunt asked me to go to the ancestral temple and get the tablets of our ancestors, and I did as well."
Bu Ruo looked at the tray carefully held in the hands of the guards behind Xiao Hanfei and the neatly arranged tablets on it, and couldn't help but think of the ancestors of the Bu family.
Hmm... Bier seemed to have put them in a sack of garbage and carried them back to Prince Zhan's Mansion. The ancestors of the Xiao family were treated really well. At least they had a tray, and everything was neatly arranged.
At Bu Ruo's instruction, Xiao Hanfei placed the ancestral tablets on the table one by one, and knelt down respectfully and kowtowed three times.
The empress dowager has been staying in the palace since the emperor ascended the throne. She neither cares about the harem nor the emperor, and she rarely even leaves her own palace.
Xiao Hanfei looked at the empress dowager's gradually clearing eyes and continued, "Uncle and aunt may not know, but I was shocked when I went to the empress dowager's palace just now. Her palace was full of talismans and little people. The whole person was crazy and muttering to himself. I don't know what they were saying. It was very scary."
Bu Ruo had only seen the Queen Mother twice. Once was in the illusion in the bamboo forest, where he saw how she forced Xiao Yulan's mother to death. Another time was at the palace banquet held to celebrate her birthday shortly after she returned. Today was the third time.
The empress dowager knelt on the ground and looked at everyone in the bedroom. She suddenly burst into laughter, then pointed at the emperor who was unable to move on the bed and cursed him.
"You're a piece of shit! Xiao Jin, you're a piece of shit! I helped you take the throne, but why can't you defeat her son? How could I have given birth to such a fool like you? How could I have given birth to such a fool like you..."
"I did everything for you, but in the end, you still lost to Lan Yun's son. Why? Why?!"
"Why is Lan Yun so lucky to receive all his love? But I love him too. Why can't he just look back at me?"
Xiao Hanfei looked at Bu Ruo and Xiao Yulan, and seeing that they didn't let him out, he shamelessly found a chair and sat down.
Watching the fun and listening to gossip were his favorite things to do outside.
Bu Ruo smiled and glanced at the tablets of the Xiao family ancestors on the long table beside her. She said with her spiritual sense, "Ruo'er felt that it was quite boring for the ancestors to stay in the ancestral temple all the time. Today, I specially asked my sixth nephew to invite you all over to watch the fun."
The ancestors of the Xiao family looked into the bedroom, and after they knew what was going on, they couldn't hide the excitement in their eyes.
The founding ancestor stroked his beard and said, "See, I told you Ruo'er is the most filial. He even invited us to come and see such a big thing."
Second Ancestor: "Among so many daughters-in-law, granddaughters-in-law, and great-granddaughters-in-law, I like Ruo'er the most."
The third ancestor said: "It is a blessing for the people of the Great Zhou to have this couple."
Xiao Yulan listened to the words of the Xiao family ancestors, then looked at the smug look in his wife's eyes...his forehead twitched slightly.
She is about to become a mother of two children, but she is still so naughty.
Xiao Yulan took a deep breath and looked at the Queen Mother who was slumped on the ground. Her voice was icy cold: "Back then, it was you who forced my mother to death."
"Yes, it was me." There was madness in the Queen Mother's eyes. "I said I wanted to use her to threaten you, but she refused. I saw her jump from the bamboo house that the late emperor built for her. It was me who forced her to death."
"Who made me occupy the late emperor all this time..."
"I fell in love with the late emperor at first sight. I liked him even before he was crowned Crown Prince. I asked my father to arrange for me to marry him, but I never expected that on the day he was crowned Crown Prince, he would actually ask for an imperial decree at the morning court to marry your mother as Crown Princess."
"I'm not willing to accept this. I've appeared before him intentionally or unintentionally on various occasions and at palace banquets. Even though we've never spoken alone, he must have had an impression of me."
"Until that time, your mother, who had been traveling abroad, returned. He only had eyes for her. I don't understand why I couldn't get his eyes to stay on me despite trying so hard for so long, but your mother... could easily gain his undivided love."
"Why does she, why does he..."
Bu Ruo tapped the table lightly with her fingers: "Perhaps...this wasn't the first time they met at that palace banquet?"
"What did you say?" The Queen Mother looked at Buruo in shock and wanted to pounce on him, but was pinned to the ground by Xiao Hanfei's personal guard and could not move. Xiao Hanfei also quickly stood up and stood behind Buruo like a servant.
"Hold her down. Don't let this crazy woman hurt the Imperial Aunt in the slightest."
Bu Ruo looked at the madness and confusion in the Queen Mother's eyes and said, "Did you know that the late Emperor was once sent to the south to control floods?"
The Queen Mother nodded blankly. "How could I not know? I know everything he does... When he was sent to control the flood, he wasn't even the Crown Prince yet."
Bu Ruo looked around at the people and the memorial tablets in the bedroom before slowly speaking, "When the late emperor was managing a flood in the south, he tried to save a child and fell into the turbulent river and was swept away. It was the late empress, who was traveling with her grandfather, who rescued the child."
"The late emperor was later taken away by the secret guards who came out to look for him while he was recovering from his injuries. The late emperor was afraid that someone with ulterior motives would know his identity and cause trouble, so he had no choice but to leave with the secret guards temporarily, thinking that he would come out to look for him after he had settled down."
"He was washed away by the water and had no valuables on him. He could only leave his unfinished bamboo hairpin there, hoping that the other party would understand his feelings and wait for him to come back."
"But the late emperor didn't know that the late queen was just there for fun, admiring the scenery while waiting for her family to visit her friend's grandfather in the next town. The small courtyard they lived in was only rented temporarily."
"When the late emperor controlled the flood and returned to look for people, it was already a month later. The late queen had already left with her grandfather. And this unspoken love, with neither of them knowing the other's identity, could only be buried deep in their hearts."
"After all, one of them is a prince, and it's impossible for a prince to marry an ordinary person as his princess. And the other is the daughter of the prime minister, and it's impossible for the prime minister's daughter to marry an ordinary person. With these thoughts... the two of them missed each other forever."
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