Chapter 447: Emperor Yongping Covers His Ears to Steal the Bell (Edited)
After the morning court session the next day, Chu Chengyi still went to Yu's study to help Emperor Yongping review memorials.
Chu Qinshu immediately took out the breakfast that Xiao Jin had prepared today.
She also left the space.
After breakfast, Emperor Yongping asked everyone in Yu's study to leave, leaving only three people from three generations inside.
"Zhang, the emperor gave her the white silk."
Emperor Yongping knew that someone from the East Palace was keeping an eye on the Cold Palace yesterday.
"Although she was demoted to a commoner, she has done a great service in giving birth to an heir to the royal family, so my father wants to bury her in the imperial mausoleum."
Emperor Yongping looked at Chu Chengyi as he spoke, as if he was worried that he would object.
But Chu Chengyi just listened quietly, with a blank expression on his face.
But he was far from being as calm as he appeared.
How could a concubine who had long been demoted to a commoner be buried in the imperial mausoleum?
Which ancestor set this rule?
It seems that my father still has feelings for Zhang.
Unfortunately, my poor mother was devoted to my father and gave birth to three sons and one daughter for him. The two sons and one daughter who died young were all related to Zhang.
My father never gave my mother an explanation and always favored Zhang.
His mother could swallow this, but he found it hard to swallow.
“Father…”
"Listen to what your father has to say first. Burying Zhang in the imperial mausoleum was not just your father's wish, but a rule set by our ancestors.
The Zhang family was the hero who helped the ancestors of the Chu family establish the Sheng'an Empire. According to the agreement made at that time, the position of empress must be a daughter of the Zhang family from generation to generation.
But your father had a crush on your mother and was unwilling to marry the daughter of the Zhang family to be his queen.
Your grandmother followed your father's wishes and only asked that a place be left for the Zhang daughter in the imperial mausoleum according to ancestral rules.
Father promised it back then, and now he can’t go back on his word.”
Emperor Yongping explained the reason why he had to do this, hoping that Chu Chengyi would understand him.
He went to the cold palace to ask Zhang yesterday because he wanted to hear more information about the treasure map and the jade pendant from Zhang, and he also wanted to find out the identity of Zhang's ancestors.
Although the Zhang family had done a favor to the Chu royal family, and the Chu royal family had passed it down from generation to generation, he simply didn't want to believe it.
Because of the Zhang family's performance in recent decades, they do not have the wealth and loyalty that their ancestors were said to have. They are good for nothing except using the remaining influence of their ancestors to threaten the royal family.
The jade pendant and the treasure map have always been the Zhang family's proof of their ancestors' wealth and even more so of their assistance to the royal family.
What if these things did not belong to the Zhang family? Would it prove that the ancestors of the Zhang family did not provide much help to the Chu royal family?
In this way, he could disobey the rules set by his ancestors and even disobey the agreement he made with the Queen Mother.
But Zhang's answer obviously made him disappointed and helpless.
Chu Qinshu's inner voice reminded him that Zhang could not be kept any longer, so he had no choice but to deal with her first.
At worst, he could just follow his promise and bury her in the imperial mausoleum, then dig her out when he found evidence that the jade pendant and the treasure map did not belong to the Zhang family.
"What about my mother? Is it her destiny that she can't escape Zhang in her life or death?"
Chu Chengyi's tone was not very good, and there was some anger on his face.
Chu Qinshu sat in his arms, not knowing whether to continue listening or to go into the space immediately.
[Your Majesty, you must know that this is Grandmother's strategy to delay the attack, right?]
[I don't want to marry Zhang's daughter to be the empress. As long as I agree to let Zhang's daughter enter the palace, I can get rid of the empress later. The empress dowager is Zhang's daughter. Is it difficult to make Zhang's daughter the empress? ]
Chu Qinshu wanted to go into a quiet space, but couldn't help complaining.
Chu Chengyi felt that what his daughter said made a lot of sense. He did not continue to question Emperor Yongping, but gave him a look that showed his own understanding.
Emperor Yongping thought about it and felt that he knew his own mother well and she was not the kind of person who would say one thing and do another.
"Your mother is the empress, and she is buried in the same place as your father. Zhang is buried alone. Even if she goes there, your mother will not be able to meet her."
When Emperor Yongping said this, he did not dare to look at Chu Qinshu. He still felt a little guilty.
"I have always remembered that Zhang bullied my mother. Does your father still remember?"
Chu Chengyi did not agree with Emperor Yongping's statement.
"How can you understand the jealousy in the harem?"
No emperor would admit that there was unrest in his harem, and Emperor Yongping was no exception.
"Father, do you still remember how my only sister and two brothers died young? My mother has never been jealous."
Chu Chengyi knew how he survived. If his royal grandfather had not decided that the eldest grandson would abdicate at the age of three and let his father ascend the throne, he would probably have disappeared from this world.
[Shu'er knows, they were all killed by Zhang. The most pitiful one is Shu'er's royal aunt, who was suffocated to death by Zhang's people.]
【It is said that if Zhang wanted to become the empress, she could just kill the legitimate son, but she even killed the legitimate daughter, which shows that she is a ruthless person with no bottom line.】
[If the Empress had not been more ruthless than her, and if the Grand Empress had not passed away, Zhang would definitely have taken the throne of Empress.]
[Alas, if Zhang really was the empress, my father might have died long ago, and it would have been even more impossible for Shu'er to be born.]
Before Emperor Yongping could even open his mouth, he was stunned by Chu Qinshu's inner voice.
How is that possible?
How could Zhang be so bold?
"Aren't they all sick and incurable? The imperial physician's diagnosis and medical records are still kept in the Imperial Hospital and can be checked at any time."
Emperor Yongping would never believe that his two legitimate sons and only daughter were killed by Zhang.
How could he, a dignified emperor, be toyed with by a woman like this?
"Father, do you still remember the female doctor who was bribed by the Queen on the day Shu'er was born? A little female doctor was able to kill the Crown Princess, let alone the Imperial Physician?"
Chu Chengyi had already checked the medical records of his younger sister and older brother.
The records are so detailed that there is no trace of any flaws.
【Daddy is right, female doctors work for profit, and imperial doctors work for both profit and power. As long as you dare to give the chips, you don't have to worry about not finding a brave imperial doctor.】
【Moreover, the imperial physician who helped Zhang at that time died in an accident afterwards.】
[With the support of the great empress, and the help of the Zhang family to deal with the aftermath, Shu'er's empress is no match for her.]
[Shu'er's grandmother trusted the emperor too much. In addition to managing the harem for the emperor, she also gave birth to four children for the emperor. Unfortunately, they were killed by the emperor's concubines in the end.]
[Shu'er's grandmother is a bit of a love-sick person. She has been with the emperor for more than 20 years, but has never enjoyed a single day of happiness.]
Chu Qinshu felt sorry for her own father, and also felt a little sorry for her royal grandmother.
Therefore, she must help her father with whatever he wants to do.
After thinking about it, she started to make arrangements with the small gourd using her mind.
An Moyue was watching her video in the study. Xiao Hulu didn't dare to stay with An Moyue, so he helped Xiao Jin with the work outside.
Of course it had to carry out what Chu Qinshu told it to do.
However, before it could plan what to do, An Moye took over its job.
Emperor Yongping was already stunned at this time, he knew that Chu Qinshu's words were always true, today he was just covering his ears and pretending not to hear.
But getting him to believe that what Zhang had done, and the Queen Mother's handiwork, and even that the Queen he loved deeply had passed away abnormally, was more difficult than letting him die immediately.
"Zihuan, let the past be the past."
Emperor Yongping really didn't know what to say. At this moment, he was panicked and confused.
"As long as your father no longer insists on burying Zhang in the imperial mausoleum, I will no longer pursue the past."
Chu Chengyi is a person who values kinship very much. He had already wiped out all the members of the Zhang family. Although he did not kill the empress and her maternal family personally, Zhang was indeed the only murderer left who killed his mother and his royal brothers and sisters.
As long as Zhang could not enter the imperial mausoleum, he could find a way to throw her into a mass grave.
In this way, the revenge for his mother and his royal brother and sister would be completely avenged.
"Zihuan..."
"Your Majesty, I am here to see Your Majesty."
Emperor Yongping wanted to continue covering his ears and listening to the bell, but just as he opened his mouth, he saw Zhang, dressed in gorgeous clothes, walk into Yu's study.
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