Chapter 128 Remnants of the Former Dynasty
The Queen Mother hardly slept last night and only dozed off in the early morning. When she heard the news from Prince Rong's mansion, her eyes went dark and she fainted.
After the imperial physician woke the man up, she would send someone to see Prince Rong. After thinking about it, she finally came to Prince Rong's mansion in person.
What he saw was Shi Yu sitting quietly at the table.
She looked obviously relieved, but soon her face turned stern again, "Who did you offend? Why is there another assassination?"
I heard you were seriously injured and unconscious. If you were injured, why didn't you just lie down in bed?"
Her reactions gave Shi Yu the answer in his mind.
Dong Zang hurriedly said, "Please forgive me, Queen Mother. The rumors are wrong. An assassin did enter the palace last night. However, the prince was in a coma due to an old illness, not because of an assassin's injury."
The Queen Mother looked at Shi Yu and saw that although his face was pale, he did not look seriously injured. She snorted and said, "Return to the palace."
He didn't care why the rumor was wrong, as long as he could confirm that Shi Yu was okay.
"I thought that your majesty the Queen doesn't want me anymore." Shi Yu's voice sounded from behind her.
The Queen Mother's body stiffened, and her eyes suddenly became moist.
Ever since she poisoned Shi Yu three years ago, he never called her mother again. She thought she would never hear the word mother again in her life.
The Queen Mother gathered herself together and her voice returned to its cold, hard tone, "I was nearly forty when I had you. You are the child I risked my life to give birth to.
Whether you want to acknowledge me as your mother or not, I am your mother, and you can never break away from me."
After saying these words, without waiting for Shi Yu to say anything else, the Queen Mother brought a group of people back to the palace, and the imperial physician she brought with her was left to see Shi Yu.
Since he was pretending to be injured, Shi Yu sent the imperial physician away.
Wei Qingyan came out from the secret door and sat down in front of him. "From what the Queen Mother said, she doesn't know your background."
Shi Yu was stunned. He had always thought that the Queen Mother knew, but it turned out that she didn't know?
"Then why is she so indifferent to me?"
This question had been carefully considered by Wei Qingyan when he decided to test the Queen Mother. "The Queen Mother's attitude towards you changed three years ago. Let's think about what you did three years ago."
"Three years ago, I went to Huangshaling to find you, and then sent troops to Beiling to avenge you.
Half a year later, Beiling surrendered. I followed the method left by the fat monk and offered my soul fire. My hair turned white overnight, I became sick and weak, and my military power was taken away.
The Empress Dowager summoned me to the palace. I thought she would feel sorry for me, but she whipped me. After that, I went to the palace to see her again, but she refused to see me and asked Nanny Wang Chun to tell me that she didn't have a son like me.
I realized she might know my life story, so I knelt outside the Cining Palace for two days, hoping to see her. But after I passed out from kneeling, she gave me a bone-breaking poison and told me not to enter the Cining Palace again.
He spoke slowly, analyzing the past bit by bit in his mind.
"Jingzhe said to Du Xueyi, 'The Queen Mother poisoned you because you were a homosexual and she was disappointed in you.
I had always thought that even if a mother was disappointed in her child, she would not be so disappointed.
Now that we have confirmed that she still cares about you, we can rule out the possibility that she was angry with you because you went to Huangshaling to find me.
So the turning point in her changing attitude towards you was when you sent troops to Beiling.
Coming back to the point, let's think about the fact that Nanny Wang Chun was a maid who followed the Empress Dowager when she was still a girl. It is very likely that she did not betray the Empress Dowager later, but was a pawn placed by others next to the Empress Dowager from the very beginning.
The Beiling commander Su Fu is a remnant of the previous dynasty, and the Xie family is also a big family of the previous dynasty. Is it possible that Nanny Wang Chun is actually also an old person of the previous dynasty, and her master is a remnant of the previous dynasty.
You killed Su Fu, a remnant of the previous dynasty, and what leverage did the remaining remnants of the previous dynasty hold on the Queen Mother that forced her to treat you like this? Was it revenge for Su Fu?"
This guess is bold.
But it makes sense.
Seeing that Shi Yu did not refute, Wei Qingyan continued, "If that's the case, then the Great Wei still has remnants of the previous dynasty."
This is a scary thing.
When it comes to family and country, both of them look very solemn, and their personal feelings are temporarily put aside.
Shi Yu said, "The Crown Prince was retaliated for destroying Princess Yu's manor. If it is true as we speculate, then the people imprisoned in Princess Yu's manor are most likely prepared for the people behind her, that is, the remnants of the previous dynasty.
The ones who truly want to use like to cure like are the remnants of the previous dynasty, and Princess Yu and the others are just a cover. Or perhaps they have indeed used the method of using like to cure like, but they just don't have to do it every 49 days."
This makes sense. Princess Yu clearly doesn't have any serious illness, so why would she be obsessed with such a cruel and inhumane thing?
It also makes sense why the prince suffered such revenge. The person behind the scenes did not hesitate to expose Lord Xu and Nanny Wang Chun. You know, it is not easy to place people around the prince and the queen mother.
Perhaps it was because Zhuangzi was the source of survival for the remnants of the previous dynasty, and the prince destroyed his source of survival, which was equivalent to cutting off his life.
He would certainly build another manor to meet his own needs.
Shi Yu figured it out and immediately asked Dong Zang to tell Wang Gangzheng to check how long it would take until the next 49 days of treatment.
Dongzang came back soon. According to the testimonies of Princess Yu and others, there were still eleven days before the next day of treatment.
They had previously requested that the victim's body be purified before being used to treat illnesses, but now that the manor was destroyed, the man was unable to purify the captured person for forty-nine days.
But since there is a purification requirement, even if that person cannot do it in forty-nine days, they will definitely try to arrest him in advance.
Shi Yu hurriedly said, "Tell Gong Mingcheng to pay close attention to the problem of missing people in the capital. Our people should also disperse and pay more attention to the surrounding villages."
Dongzang received the order and went to work without stopping.
The capital city is so big, it is not easy to defend it with just these people.
Wei Qingyan immediately stood up and said, "I'm going to check on the Liu family and Princess Yu's family too. The servants at Zhuangzi all said that the only men there were Liu Huan and Magistrate Luo who occasionally visited.
Since it takes 49 days to cure an illness, and Magistrate Luo is far away in Linzhou and only comes once a year, we can rule out the remnants of the previous dynasty disguising themselves as him."
Then only Liu Huan is left.
If the remnants of the previous dynasty have been pretending to be Liu Huan and hiding in the Liu family, the Liu family might be able to find something.
"I'll go with you." Shi Yu held her hand.
Wei Qingyan smiled at him, "Okay, but I'll have to wait a little longer to go to Dajue Temple to check your background."
It seemed that every time he wanted to investigate this matter, something else happened, occupying Wei Qingyan's time and energy.
She felt a little guilty.
Shi Yu patted her head and said, "It's okay. Things will eventually be over. Let's focus on the important ones."
If the remnants of the previous dynasty just wanted to survive, they would definitely choose to stay away from the capital instead of staying under the emperor's nose. They would also most likely involve the empress dowager, and their only goal would probably be to seize the country.
So many soldiers died in the past to bring about the peace of the Wei Dynasty today. It must not be destroyed by the remnants of the previous dynasty.
As a prince of the royal family, Shi Yu feels that it is his duty to protect the people, while Wei Qingyan was once a great general who defended her country, and protecting peace has become her instinct.
That night, the two men dressed in night clothes and entered the sealed Liu Mansion.
However, they didn't expect to meet such an unexpected person in Liu's mansion.
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