Chapter 161 Madam Wei's Sweetheart
Madam Wei was silent for a moment before she said, "Back then, Xu Fengyi from the Eastern Palace was my cousin. I had something on her, so she had no choice but to help me."
"How could an eighth-rank Fengyi hide this from everyone, inform Li Shuyi, and keep an eye on the actions of the Queen and others?"
Lan Shu didn't believe it.
Madam Wei straightened up slightly, her emotions calming down, "Because her secret is that she had an affair with a guard in the palace.
The guard was afraid that their affairs would be exposed, so he had to cooperate. They had secret meetings every day, and they had something to hide, so they acted with extra caution.
They recruited many low-ranking eunuchs and palace maids. The lowest-ranking eunuchs and palace maids in the palace did menial work in various palaces, moving around in such a humble manner that they were almost invisible.
In the eyes of their masters, they may be as insignificant as weeds on the roadside, so naturally they won't pay much attention to them, but they can help with many things."
She raised her eyes to look at the emperor and changed the subject, "Your Majesty only has Concubine Shu in his heart and favors her exclusively, but he still obeys the arrangements of the late emperor and the empress dowager to fill his harem.
Your Majesty, have you ever thought about whether the women who were sent to the palace were willing?
My cousin and the guard were originally going to be engaged, but Your Majesty broke them up. Your Majesty not only ruined her marriage, but also never treated her sincerely, allowing her to wither like a flower.
She naturally hates Your Majesty, and so does the Queen. If she weren't jealous of Your Majesty's favor for Concubine Shu, how could she have attacked the two children?"
"I have never forced anyone. It was their families who sent them into the palace." The emperor's eyes were gloomy.
He did not deny that he had treated the women in the harem badly. He had never concealed his feelings for Lan Shu, which was something they should have thought of before entering the palace.
But there were some things he chose to turn a blind eye to.
This was true for Li Shuyi and also for Xu Fengyi.
"Were you responsible for the deaths of Xu Fengyi and the guard?"
When he discovered the affair between Xu Fengyi and the guard, he was going to execute them both, but that day he happened to receive a letter from the secret guard.
At that time, Lan Shu had been away from the palace for two years. His men had been guarding the Yin-Yang Road for two years before they got a little news that Lan Shu was safe.
Thinking of Lan Shu, he felt sad and spared their lives.
Only the guard was transferred out of the palace. Not long after, Xu Fengyi died of depression, and the guard followed him.
He didn't care about the deaths of the two people who betrayed him.
Now I think that Madam Wei must have taken action because she was afraid that what happened back then would be exposed.
If he had known that they would dare to participate in the substitution of the royal heir, he should not have been so kind to them.
Madam Wei did not deny it, "Instead of letting them go their separate ways, I would rather send them to the underground to reunite. I am doing them a favor.
Although it was their families who sent them to the palace, as women, how could they resist the family's decision? "
Madam Wei pitied herself and said, "Just like the general wanted to disguise my daughter as a man, my persuasion was useless, so I could only think of finding a child as a substitute.
The minister admitted that she had been too harsh on the princess.
But she will go to the battlefield in the future. I am strict with her and have high expectations of her, isn't it because I hope she can be more capable and save her life? "
“If you hadn’t given her the thunderbolt yourself.
If you hadn't gone to Huangshaling but didn't look for her body.
We really believed what you said.”
Wei Qingyan walked out from behind Shi Yu and stood in front of Madam Wei.
"You're trying to change the subject by saying this, what are you trying to hide?
You had other people helping you back then, right? Otherwise, how could you have hidden it from General Wei and the others who were guarding outside the delivery room?"
Madam Wei's eyelids twitched slightly, "I've already said everything I should and shouldn't have said, so there's nothing left to hide.
As for why I was able to hide it from the general..."
She smiled bitterly, "That's because the general, like Your Majesty, has someone in his heart that he's thinking about, and he hasn't come to my room once in ten days or half a month.
Naturally, they didn't know that I had dug a secret passage leading to the outside of the room under the pretext of digging in the garden, and that the princess was sent to the delivery room through the secret passage."
Madam Wei has a bad relationship with her father. Her eldest sister has also said so. Everything seems to make sense, but Wei Qingyan still feels something is wrong.
What Madam Wei did back then was too smooth. The smooth defense of the palace was like a decoration. Did Xu Fengyi and the guard really have such ability?
If this were true, how could their affair be discovered so easily by the emperor?
My father fought on the battlefield for a long time and was able to win repeatedly. It was not only because of his martial arts, but also because of his vigilance and wisdom.
She suddenly thought of her father's arrangement for her to fake her death. Why did her father do this, or did he know her identity from the beginning?
But for what reason did he pretend to be ignorant? Or was he afraid of something?
But at that time, my father was already the general who protected the country. What else would he be afraid of and tolerate Madam Wei's behavior?
Wei Qingyan's mind was working rapidly, and suddenly, her heart stopped and her pupils shrank slightly.
"You were just speaking up for Xu Fengyi, but you were actually speaking up for yourself, right?"
Wei Qingyan bit the tip of his tongue hard to calm himself down.
She squatted down, her dark eyes fixed on Madam Wei, "Because you can't stay with your beloved forever.
I have checked you out. Your family members don't know that you have a lover. Also, when the Queen Mother arranged for you to be married to General Wei, you didn't resist your family members.
Your personal maid at your mother's house was not Nanny Qiu who came with you as a dowry to the General Protector's Mansion, but a maid named Hongyu.
She was your personal maid and must have known what was in your mind, but she died not long after the Queen Mother arranged your marriage.
You are quite favored in your mother's family. Even if the Queen Mother arranged the marriage, according to the normal practice, if you don't want to, you will make a scene with your loving parents. But you didn't!
It just so happened that Hongyu, who had always been in good health, died of an acute illness. This made me curious, who is your sweetheart?
Would it make you willingly kill Hongyu, the girl you grew up with, just to hide his existence?
Because if General Wei knew that your beloved was the late emperor, he would definitely not marry you, right?"
At that time, there were not many people that my father could worry about.
There are even fewer people who can get the Queen Mother to arrange a marriage between Madam Wei and my father.
Most importantly, she noticed one thing.
Whether Xu Fengyi entered the palace or married her father, it was all based on the emperor's order and then the family's execution.
But Madam Wei only blamed her family and never showed any dissatisfaction with the emperor's order.
She had just condemned the emperor, so was she still afraid of being punished for disobeying the emperor's order?
She's not afraid, she really doesn't blame the emperor's order.
Because at that time, whether it was to let Xu Fengyi enter the palace or to let her marry her father, it was the late emperor who actually issued the decree.
Taking all these into consideration, the only person Wei Qingyan could think of as Madam Wei’s lover was the late emperor!
After what happened to the old lady of Marquis Anyuan, the image of the late emperor in her mind was no longer the upright gentleman he used to be.
He could use the old lady of Marquis Anyuan to win over Du Changyuan, and perhaps he could also use Madam Wei to monitor his father.
In the imperial palace, only the late emperor could conceal the secrets from the then crown prince, the crown princess and the then queen, and help Madam Wei accomplish her goal.
Wei Qingyan's clenched fists were trembling slightly. The one who was truly afraid of the Wei family was not the current emperor, but the late emperor whom his father had supported all his life!
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