Chapter 329 Appealing to Emotion
As autumn had already arrived, the leaves of many trees in the palace had begun to turn yellow and dry, and the ground was covered with fallen leaves. The masters had all left, and the palace was mostly empty, with few palace servants to be seen.
As the queen walked along, she actually saw some signs of restraint.
In Ci'an Palace, everything remained the same.
Huo Jinchi did not hide the fact that he had exposed her crime from her. He had already talked to the Queen Mother about it before leaving the palace.
The Empress Dowager was of course furious about this, but she was now half paralyzed, and everyone in Ci'an Palace was under guard, so there was nothing she could do except get angry.
She drove Hawking away and refused to see him again.
This time the Queen came and met the Queen Mother smoothly.
After not seeing her for a few days, the Queen Mother seemed to have lost a lot of weight, had more white hair on her forehead, and her spirit and energy were not as good as before.
He was sitting against the head of the bed, looking very calm. When he saw the empress coming, he waved at her, motioning her to come and sit.
The queen sat down beside the bed and felt sorry for her when she saw her like this.
But when she thought of Yun Qin's words, the Fang family and Zhao Ning, her heart hardened again.
"It's rare, it's rare that you still think of coming to see me." The Queen Mother's voice was still vague, but her eyes were gentle when she looked at her.
The queen nodded and held her hand. "Aunt, how are you doing recently?"
The Queen Mother's eyes dimmed a little after hearing this. "What's good or bad? Just stay alive."
After spending a few days of anger and madness, the Queen Mother has now somewhat accepted her fate. Once a person accepts her fate, her mentality will become much calmer.
Some of it even decomposed.
At least now she doesn't have to recite Buddhist scriptures several times before she can fall asleep, and her dreams are no longer filled with evil spirits and monsters. She can now read a few lines of the Buddhist scriptures that she used to only seek peace of mind.
The Queen Mother glanced at the Queen's face again and asked, "What happened?"
There is a certain degree of determination in his tone.
This is easy to guess. Once the unfilial son's edict comes out, it would be strange if the court didn't cause an uproar.
"Aunt, do you know everything?" The Queen continued, "The previous dynasty was really chaotic. Father first made some ministers kneel outside the study, and then somehow instigated a censor to criticize the emperor. It was really ugly."
The Queen Mother snorted coldly when she heard this. She couldn't speak clearly now, so she didn't like to speak.
"If things continue like this, Qingxue is really worried that the emperor will get angry and punish father." The queen worried.
"He dares!" the Queen Mother shouted coldly.
The queen looked bitter, "Why wouldn't the emperor dare? Didn't he lock you up?"
This made the Queen Mother look even uglier.
At this point, the Queen did not continue to beat around the bush and said to the Queen Mother: "Aunt, the conflict between father and the Emperor still needs you to resolve. Just think of it as a pity for Qingxue and help father."
"I'm a useless person now, how can I help?" The Queen Mother said as she hammered hard on her disabled left leg.
The queen quickly grabbed her hand, stood up and knelt beside the bed.
"Aunt, please don't be like this. Qingxue feels sad when she sees you like this." The Queen's face was filled with sorrow like never before. "I don't need you to do anything. I just ask that you, aunt, can issue a confession of guilt like the Emperor did. This matter will surely be resolved."
After hearing this, the Queen Mother stared at her in a daze for a few seconds, then shook her hand away and said angrily, "Get out! Get out!"
The empress staggered after being thrown by her, and fell to the bedside, begging, "Aunt, please think about my father and me. A confession of guilt can not only save the Fang family and the emperor, but also restore your reputation. Please write it!"
The Queen Mother's chest heaved violently with anger. She pointed at her, unable to utter a word in her excitement, "You, you..."
"Qingxue, please, aunt!" The queen's voice became more and more sad.
"Get out, get out!" The Queen Mother was speechless and could only shout.
The queen wanted to persuade her again, but was stopped by Madam Sun. "Your Majesty, the queen mother has just gotten better. Please stop irritating her. Go out first. Please go out. I beg you!"
The Queen took one look at the Queen Mother, who was pounding the bed with furious eyes, and knew that today was not the day for her to succeed. She stopped talking and instead helped herself to Lanying's hand and stood up.
She looked at the Empress Dowager again before leaving Ci'an Hall crying.
Not long after walking out of Ci'an Palace, the sadness on the Empress's face faded a little. She turned her head to look at Ci'an Palace and sighed deeply.
"I'm afraid the Queen Mother won't agree so easily." Lan Ying whispered.
The queen held her hand and said, "I thought about this outcome before I came here. Don't worry, there are still a few days. If appealing to her emotions doesn't work, then we can only reason with her."
She hoped that the Queen Mother would nod her head sooner. She really didn’t want to hurt her feelings anymore.
"Your Majesty is right." Lan Ying felt that the Queen's steps were unsteady, and hurriedly said, "You have been traveling so long, I will help you to rest first."
The queen nodded with a pale face.
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Two days passed in a flash, and the empress had not returned to the palace yet, but Yunqin's premonition came true.
As expected, when all other methods failed, the Fang family turned their attention to Yun Qin and began to submit memorials to the emperor, saying that Yun Qin was jealous and domineering.
Huo Jinchi ignored all of this, and then began to escalate his accusations against Yun Qin, comparing her to Zhao Zhaoyi of the previous dynasty.
There were even officials from the Qintianjian who said that when they observed the sky at night, they found that Huo had entered the Heart Constellation. The Heart Constellation represents the emperor, and Huo entering the Heart Constellation means that even the emperor will be in trouble.
This planet that brought disaster to the country naturally fell on Yun Qin's head.
So all the bad things that happened during this period, including the Empress Dowager's stroke, the Emperor's decree to imprison the Empress Dowager, and all the things that were unfavorable to Huo Jinchi and caused turmoil in the court, seemed to have found their reasons.
Some of the court officials who originally did not believe in the situation began to turn against the emperor and submitted memorials to persuade him not to repeat the mistakes of the previous emperor.
When Yunqin heard this, she wanted to roll her eyes on the spot.
That is Mars. No matter whether it enters the Heart Constellation or something else, it is all normal astronomical phenomenon, stupid human!
But she couldn't go to the morning court to teach them about astronomy.
Not long after Yunqin received the news, Huo Jinchi sent someone to ask Yunqin to go to Yuqian.
People who were already somewhat uneasy about this matter became even more uneasy.
"What does the emperor want the empress to do? These are all nonsense. The emperor can't believe it, right?" Dan Xue, who has always been introverted, was a little panicked.
Rong Xin had been through many storms, after all, and was much calmer than them. "Don't talk nonsense. If the emperor really believed this nonsense, he would not have invited the master to come, but would have directly issued an order to punish him."
"Rong Xin is right." Yun Qin picked up a jade hairpin and put it on her head, saying, "The emperor may have something to tell me, so you should stop imagining it."
Rong Xin picked up a Phoenix-headed and pearl-shaped Flow Speed and gave it to Yun Qin to wear. Then he helped her up and said to Dan Xue and Ting Chun, "I will go with the master to the front. You keep an eye on the palace and don't let them spread rumors!"
"Don't worry, sister." The two said quickly.