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In just two days, it will be New Year's Eve, the last day of this year, and the first seven years have truly come to an end.
Luoyang City is filled with smoke everywhere, and the air is filled with the smell of soot from burning bamboo slips, burning paper and incense, mixed with the aroma of various barbecues. When there are more people offering sacrifices, the smoke accumulates and becomes pervasive. You can smell that special smell everywhere
Yes, the smell of praying to ghosts and gods.
Even the palace is no exception.
When offering sacrifices to the ancestors of the Cao family and the famous empresses and concubines, Emperor Cao Fang wore a tiara and performed the sacrifices meticulously. But when Empress Dowager Guo offered sacrifices to her deceased mother, Cao Fang left.
After all, Queen Mother Guo's late mother was not a member of the royal family, and Queen Mother Guo did not want to argue with her.
The last time Empress Dowager Guo was angry about her late mother, it was because she was sad and crying, and Cao Fang actually sneered from the sidelines, which angered Empress Dowager Guo. Empress Dowager Guo lost her father in her early years, and her mother and she depended on each other for life, and there was so much sadness and suffering.
She had such spicy memories, so she was particularly concerned about it and missed her mother very much.
But today, Cao Fang just walked away without showing any ridicule, not to mention that it was already the Chinese New Year, so Queen Mother Guo endured it and did not have an attack.
At noon, Queen Zhen Yao held a banquet in Zhaoyang Hall and invited Queen Mother Guo and the emperor to have dinner. Queen Mother Guo usually lives in the Ganoderma Palace of Xiyou Garden in the north. Although Xiyou Garden also belongs to the palace area, it is far away from the courtyard of Taiji Palace and the Taiji Palace.
Places such as the West Pavilion at the back of the hall are relatively far away, and mother and son rarely have daily meals together.
Now, in the presence of the Queen, the family banquet was held in Zhaoyang Hall in the middle, and Queen Mother Guo and Cao Fang came to attend.
Even though Empress Dowager Guo was angry with Cao Fang, Cao Fang was still her adopted son in name, so it was best to maintain the superficial relationship between mother and son.
At the family dinner, the person with the most smiles turned out to be Zhen Yao.
She is the queen, but Cao Fang has no real power and has a bad relationship with her. On this festive occasion of getting rid of the old and welcoming the new, she can only help her with a smile. Zhen Yao and the Queen Mother Guo are relatives, she should really hope
Queen Mother Guo and her son are in harmony.
"Dong dong dong..." The sound of drumming came from the distance. Zhen Yao said in a childish voice: "This is the people in the palace driving away the ghost of epidemic disease. Next year, the Wei Dynasty will be able to have good weather and good weather, and the country will be peaceful and the people will be safe. Let the people
Less hunger and pain.”
Empress Dowager Guo praised: "The empress is wise and caring about the people."
Although Cao Fang's expression was a little solemn, she appeared calm.
At this moment, the palace maid came up with a night's vegetable soup and placed it on the tables in front of Cao Fang. Cao Fang's face suddenly changed! His young face instantly turned pale, and his eyes were filled with shock and excitement.
fear.
Empress Dowager Guo felt Cao Fang's reaction and couldn't help but glance at him sideways. She saw him staring at the vegetable soup in front of her. The vegetable soup was red!
Cao Fang was stunned for a moment, then turned to look at Queen Zhen Yao and said fiercely: "You actually poisoned me, do you want to poison me to death?"
He suddenly stood up from the banquet, picked up the vegetable bowl, and threw it at the queen without any warning! There was a "clang" sound, and the vegetable bowl, along with the dishes and soup inside, hit the tables in front of Zhen Yao.
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Then Zhen Yao exclaimed "Ah", the bowl was smashed into pieces, and the vegetables and soup inside were splashed all over Zhen Yao. Then she covered the fingers of her other hand with her horrified hand, only to see the peeled
Her delicate onion-like fingers were scratched, and blood immediately flowed out. She subconsciously put it in her mouth.
Everyone was shocked. The eunuchs and maids did not dare to express their anger, and stood there dumbfounded. Looking at the soup on the ground that looked like blood, and the poisonous wine was indeed red, people seemed to be waiting for an imminent betrayal!
After a while, Queen Mother Guo, who was still kneeling at the banquet, finally came to her senses. She turned her head and glanced at the palace maid standing next to her blankly, and said, "Bring over the vegetable soup."
"Here." The palace maid came over cautiously and gently placed the other bowl of vegetable soup she had just brought on the tables in front of Queen Mother Guo.
Queen Mother Guo frowned and glanced at Cao Fang, picked up a spoon, scooped out a spoonful of the red soup, then brought it to Zhu's lips, and drank it without hesitation.
"How could the queen poison her? She is your queen!" Queen Mother Guo swallowed the dish and looked at Cao Fang coldly.
Then she picked up her chopsticks and picked out a dish from the bowl. She moved the chopsticks towards Cao Fang and gestured, "This is amaranth. It tastes pickled. Shouldn't the soup be red?"
Zhen Yao said aggrievedly: "There are few vegetarian vegetables in winter, either cabbage or radish. I was afraid that Your Majesty would get tired of eating it, so I asked someone to take out some of the amaranth that had been pickled and stored. I didn't want to anger Your Majesty."
When Cao Fang saw this, her face turned blue and white, and she was speechless. As a teenager, he had a very complicated look in his eyes, including worry, fear, and embarrassment, all mixed together.
A bowl of amaranth can make him react so much, he must be feeling guilty!
Of course he was involved in the plot to murder Qin Liang and was a key figure in it! Does this make him scared?
Cao Fang didn't explain. She flicked her wide sleeves and walked away angrily.
Seeing his attitude, Queen Mother Guo became furious and her voice changed: "Stop! Do you still have any etiquette in front of me?"
Cao Fang ignored Empress Dowager Guo and walked out of the palace gate.
Queen Mother Guo exhaled a long breath, but still could not relieve the anger and anger in her heart. Queen Mother Guo forced herself to walk to the Queen, knelt down beside her, reached out to grab her hand and looked at it: "Apply some medicine later.
.”
Queen Zhen Yao didn't say anything. When she looked again, she buried her head with tears streaming down her face. Maybe she was sad, or maybe she was frightened just now. Although Zhen Yao is the queen, she is not very old, just over ten years old.
Girl, how can I bear such a sudden and rough treatment?
Queen Mother Guo didn't finish her meal, but she was very angry!
She was originally very dissatisfied with what Cao Fang had done. She had just endured it for the past few days. Now she felt that she had almost completely lost control of her mood, like a group of wild horses running wild in a small area, unable to find an exit.
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Cao Fang's thinking was rather simple. He thought that the powerful ministers colluded with internal and external forces and could poison him to death? Let alone killing the emperor, even deposing him as emperor would not be that easy at this time.
Queen Mother Guo paced back and forth, immediately called Zhang Huan and other entourage, and walked directly from Zhaoyang Palace to the West Pavilion in the south.
Emperor Cao Fang usually lives here, but he is not here at this time. People around him saw that Queen Mother Guo was so angry that no one dared to speak. However, Yu Wan and Zhang Meiren, whom Cao Fang loved very much, were here and came out when they heard the news.
If you can't touch the emperor, then touch the people around him whom the emperor cares about! This is a regular method of royal punishment. Emperors in the past often did this to princes.
What's more, Yu Wan and Zhang Meiren were not unjust. They had always been arrogant and arrogant, and they often slandered the Queen! They said so many bad things that they could probably be written into a book. Queen Mother Guo looked coldly at them from
Scanning across their faces. I don't know if it was the cold weather, or they had a premonition of something bad, and they shivered vaguely.
After Zhang Meiren was beaten last time, she learned to be afraid and has restrained herself somewhat. Only Yuwan is still very arrogant, and Cao Fang's favorite person is her, and her name seems to have been given by Cao Fang.
Empress Dowager Guo stopped and stared at Yu Wan and said, "You don't know the superiority and inferiority of superiors and inferiors, and you try your best to slander. What crime should you do?"
Yu Wan hurriedly said: "I don't have any concubine!" She hurriedly cast a look at Zhang Meiren for help, and then winked at the palace maid next to her.
Empress Dowager Guo immediately said: "Who dares to report the news? Someone comes and drags Yu Wan to the exposure room and beats her thirty times with a stick as a warning to others."
Eunuch Huang Yan and others responded, immediately rushed forward and caught Yu Wan. Ignoring her pleas for mercy, several eunuchs dragged Yu Wan away.
The exposure room was a place in the palace where cloth was dyed, washed and dried. It was often used to punish the palace maids and eunuchs, and many people died in it. Therefore, the place was very taboo for the palace maids and eunuchs. I heard it was also haunted. Unless it was a last resort, who would
I also don’t want to be on duty for exposure of houses.
When Queen Mother Guo heard Yu Wan's wailing, she still felt resentful in her heart, but for a while she had no other choice but to relieve her bad breath.
After she left the West Pavilion, she came to Zhaoyang Hall and continued to talk to the queen. Unexpectedly, the eunuch Huang Yan hurried over after a while and reported: "Your Highness, that Yuwan is weak and can't even breathe.
Beaten to death!"
When Queen Zhen Yao heard this, she was shocked and said in a trembling voice: "Your Majesty will never forgive me."
Huang Yan hurriedly knelt down and said: "Your Highness, please punish me."
Empress Dowager Guo frowned and said: "Get up, I asked you to beat me, what are you guilty of?"
After she finished speaking, she sighed, feeling that her heart was in a mess, and her expression became gloomy. Even though Queen Mother Guo was upset and resentful these days, she didn't want to kill someone today. Something went wrong, and she didn't want it.
But on a day like this, the dignified queen was treated like this and even saw blood. Couldn't Cao Fang have done too much?
...Cao Fang also rushed to the exposure room at this time. Looking at her concubine lying motionless on the ground, she hurriedly knelt down beside her and picked her up, "Xiaowan, Xiaowan." Cao Fang called her, but she couldn't hear her anymore.
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Yu Wan's body was not stiff yet, but still soft, as if she were alive. Cao Fang reached out and patted her face gently, then put her finger between her nose, and then realized that Yu Wan was really dead!
Cao Fang put her down and wanted to continue hugging her, looking at a loss. He raised his head and wanted to cry, but his mouth was open but no sound came out. When he raised his head, he could only see the cold and white snow on the eaves of the palace.
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The surrounding attendants all had sad expressions on their faces and looked at the emperor silently. Cao Fang was so sad that he couldn't extricate himself.
After all, they were close people, and Cao Fang's feelings were very intuitive. Compared with the imprisonment of Li Feng, Xu Yun and others who were loyal to him, the sadness caused by Yu Wan's death was more powerful.
Cao Fang thought again that he was the emperor and a majestic emperor, but he couldn't even protect his beloved woman! The temptress was not killing Yu Wan, but killing Cao Fang's heart.
What kind of emperor is this? He hates and wants to immediately kill the powerful ministers and take back his own power. At this moment, he wants to kill people, kill them until rivers of blood flow, and let thousands of people be buried with Yu Wan!
In grief and anger, Cao Fang's face turned red and she shouted angrily: "The relationship between mother and son will be severed from now on!"