The next morning, Zhou Qiongyue and her family of four went to the palace to mourn. Yuan Bohua also arranged for reliable people to serve his two sons.
Yuan Bohua also suggested and advised his youngest son Yuan Chaokang to pay more attention to his older brother.
After staying at home for a long time, Yuan Bohua truly realized that the most successful person in the family was Yuan Chaokang, who either hung out outside all day or pretended to be a good son next to Yue'er.
So Yuan Bohua felt particularly relieved when he left his eldest son to his younger son. At least he only had to worry about Yue'er.
Yuan Bohua watched the two brothers blend into the group of children. He even muttered quietly, "If only Yuan Chaokang was a little younger, he could still be with Yue'er."
In fact, Yuan Bohua was really overthinking it. Xie Zixin was really busy with her own affairs at the moment and had no intention of dealing with Zhou Qiongyue.
After Zhou Qiongyue entered the palace, she did not go directly to the Empress Dowager's bedroom. Instead, she went to the Wenwu Hall to kowtow to the Emperor before going to the harem.
Because the death of the retired emperor was so strange, the emperor set up the mourning hall for the retired emperor in the Wenwu Hall, which was used for court sessions, in order to show his determination to get to the bottom of the matter.
When Zhou Qiongyue arrived at the empress dowager's bedroom, the people around the empress dowager let her in directly.
As soon as Zhou Qiongyue entered, she saw the Queen Mother sitting by the window with a cup of tea, looking at the scenery outside, wondering what she was thinking.
There were only a few white hairs on his head before, but now almost one-third of them are white.
Zhou Qiongyue felt a little distressed: "Auntie!"
The Queen Mother turned around upon hearing this and saw that it was Zhou Qiongyue. She gently took her hand and said, "Yue'er is here?"
Zhou Qiongyue saw that all the servants in the hall had left, and asked distressedly, "Aunt, what's wrong with you? Could it be that you are still really...?"
The Queen Mother was truly impressed by this girl. She was so old and yet she dared to say anything. She could only reach out and cover Zhou Qiongyue's mouth. After looking around the hall to see if there was anyone around, she quietly released her hand covering Zhou Qiongyue's mouth.
"What are you talking about in the palace?"
Although the Queen Mother scolded with her mouth, her eyes were full of pampering and indulgence.
"I feel so sad seeing you like this." Zhou Qiongyue said as she was about to touch the empress dowager's hair.
The Queen Mother reached out and gently patted Zhou Qiongyue's hand, "You are already so old, but you still don't respect your elders."
The Queen Mother was afraid that her niece would cry when she saw that her hair was mostly white. This girl was just a paper tiger. She looked fierce, but she was actually softer than anyone else.
Seeing that her aunt didn't seem to be suffering for the emperor, Zhou Qiongyue felt a moment of doubt in her heart, but she still chose to cheer her aunt up first, "Aunt, you have to take care of yourself. If anything happens to you, who will support you?"
Zhou Qiongyue felt that after the funeral of the retired emperor was over, she would ask her youngest son and perhaps she would know.
The Queen Mother held Zhou Qiongyue's hand and took her words to heart. "Yes, I must live longer, longer."
The Queen Mother actually did this because she suspected the Emperor's doing. She was a little worried about the Cheng'en Marquisate and Zhou Qiongyue.
The Queen Mother felt that she had not had a good time in her life. When she was young, she hoped that the Cheng'en Marquisate would produce many talented people to support her and her two children.
At that time, Marquis Cheng'en was still a father, so he would not make any big mistakes, and he had no great achievements.
After much difficulty, the eldest brother took over the Cheng'en Marquis Mansion. He was successful and his son became the emperor.
My son...
The Queen Mother would not tell her niece that she suspected her son was a cruel and ruthless person. She was worried that when she was gone, the Cheng'en Marquisate and she would suffer.
Although Zhou Qiongyue came to accompany the empress dowager, as the empress dowager, she also had to kneel down to pay homage to the retired emperor.
Therefore, Zhou Qiongyue often followed the empress dowager to kneel down and pay homage to the retired emperor in the Wenwu Hall.
Speaking of kneeling in front of the spirit, Zhou Qiongyue really felt that she had suffered a great punishment. Not only did she have to kneel for a long time, but she also had to cry frequently, otherwise it would be disrespectful to the emperor.
Zhou Qiongyue felt that in just a few days, her tears were forced to dry up.
Zhou Qiongyue found it so difficult staying with the empress dowager, and life would be even more difficult for the others.
Especially the Empress, when something like this happened, she had a lot of things to worry about, and she also had to kneel in front of the spirit, and could only survive by drinking a large bowl of medicine every day.
The two days actually passed very quickly. With the assistance of Marquis Cheng'en Zhou Wencan and Prince Zhaoxian, the Ministry of Justice had almost finished investigating everything they needed to.
The night before giving the emperor the final result, Zhou Wencan calmly burned a piece of paper he had found privately, and then sat alone in the study in the front yard for the entire night.
In the end, Zhou Wencan decided to pretend that he had found nothing.
When the time set by the emperor arrived, the Minister of Justice, Lord Zhuge, tremblingly presented what he had found.
He kept thinking in his mind that if he could escape this time, he would definitely open the ancestral hall and burn lots of incense to his ancestors, because the things in there were too scary.
The Minister of Justice, Zhuge, was very afraid that the Emperor would kill him immediately after reading this document. Anyway, he knelt there, sweating all over, and dared not move.
Marquis Cheng'en and Prince Zhaoxian, who were kneeling side by side with the Minister of Justice, were much calmer than the Minister of Justice.
The emperor first looked through the items above, and was relieved to see that the three people below had not found any problems with the alcohol. But when he saw the other things, his relief rose again.
It only says that the reason why the emperor often summoned his illegitimate brothers was because of a beauty that he liked very much recently.
This beauty is the concubine Zhen in the emperor's palace. As for Zhen's purpose, she is the emperor's true love, and they dare not investigate or interrogate her without the emperor's will!
So the above paragraph says unknown.
The rabbit nest was released by the Sixth Prince, Prince Li. Prince Li didn't have any bad intentions, but he was naturally timid. When his father took them out hunting and didn't allow the servants to follow, he was afraid that something bad would happen.
So Prince Li had a nest of rabbits released, hoping that his father would catch one at the foot of the mountain and return quickly.
But the rabbit was drugged by the third prince Gong's men. Prince Gong wanted the rabbits to lead his father into the mountains to show his skills. He didn't want to be an idle prince.
The horse ridden by the retired emperor was also tampered with by the people of the fourth prince, Prince Yan. Prince Yan did not want his father to die, he just wanted to be credited with saving the emperor.
The memorial ends here.
But in fact, the wine that the retired emperor drank also had problems. That wine was the wine that the retired emperor liked in his daily life.
That was the emperor's hand and foot. Something special was added to that wine. Drinking it would make people feel dizzy and lack energy. Drinking it frequently would make people feel tired, and in severe cases, they would even feel sleepy.
But it has no effect on lifespan.
The substance added to the wine was not from their Tianyuan Kingdom, and the emperor himself felt that it was foolproof, so he was not worried.
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