When the empress came to her senses completely, she learned that Li Gong had been sent to southern Xinjiang by the emperor. Everyone in the family followed him, and his concubine also left the capital with him.
She wanted to find the then Wen Po and ask the palace maid what was going on, but everyone in the delivery room was gone. Even most of the palace maids and eunuchs in Kunyi Palace had been replaced, so the Queen concluded that the truth must be what she thought.
From then on, the relationship between the emperor and the empress gradually became estranged. The emperor did not know that the empress misunderstood him. After all, he had three palaces and six courtyards.
In the first two or three years, when the queen treated her biological son Li Yu very well, the emperor felt that it was because her body was not as strong as before due to childbirth, so he did not like the child.
As the saying goes, mother is more valuable than her son, so it is natural for her legitimate son to be the crown prince. When Li Yu was three years old, the emperor named him crown prince.
I thought that the queen would be kind to Li Yu because of this, but it turned out to be the opposite. The relationship between mother and son became increasingly bad, and the emperor was puzzled to understand it.
It was not until later, during a quarrel, that the Queen accidentally let the matter slip, and the Emperor was greatly shocked, and did he know the root cause.
However, despite the emperor's various explanations and the testimony of Ruan Geng, the empress did not say anything. In fact, she did not believe it at all and thought that the emperor and his ministers were colluding to fool her.
After ten years, Li Gong finally came to Beijing. Ruan Geng saw that the queen was indifferent to Li Yu but doted on Li Minghui. She clearly took the fake as real and the real as fake.
After what happened today, I am afraid that the Empress will feel more pity for Li Minghui, and I am afraid that she will become more and more resentful towards the Emperor.
What should we do? Ruan Geng suddenly remembered what his little breast dumpling once said: People, sometimes we just think too much and think too complicatedly. Things that can be easily solved must take seven or eight detours.
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Speaking of this, it was a misunderstanding. Ruan Geng had an idea, and the person who tied the bell needed to untie it.
Having such a rare opportunity, Ruan Geng decisively advised the emperor to speak clearly in front of the parties involved.
For the sake of the royal family, the emperor dismissed everyone except Ruan Geng, the only outsider who was retained as a witness.
Li Gong was stunned. He did not expect to encounter such a scene. The emperor knew it well but did not openly talk about it and directly demoted him to southern Xinjiang.
Although he was in southern Xinjiang, Li Gong still knew more or less about the news in the capital.
It is no secret that the Empress does not want to see the Crown Prince Li Yu. Li Gong knew why this happened, but he still sighed sadly every time he thought about it.
At that time, Li Gong would brave the world and come up with this trick because the doctor said that his princess had a boy in her belly.
Li Gong was actually very unwilling to fail to ascend the throne. From the time when he desperately married a concubine as his concubine, he calculated to obtain the imperial power.
No matter whether the queen is a boy or a girl, Li Gong will replace the child with his own son. After he is canonized as the prince, he will try his best to let the emperor's brother return to the west.
At that time, Li Gong, as the emperor's uncle, assisted the prince in ascending the throne. He did not ascend to the throne but still had real power. It was only natural that he would return the power to his son when he grew up.
Things developed far beyond Li Gong's imagination and went so smoothly that it was unbelievable. When the queen was pregnant, his princess was also pregnant. The right time, place and people were all present, so it was the best time.
Li Gong tried his best to calculate everything except that the queen gave birth to a child, but his princess gave birth to a daughter.
The imperial brother could not be allowed to have a legitimate son, so after receiving the news, Li Gong decisively exchanged his daughter for his son.
Unexpectedly, at the critical moment, Ruan Geng would do something bad. Not only did he attract the emperor and catch him off guard, he also immediately captured Wen Po and interrogated the palace maid on the spot.
After it was confirmed that the queen had given birth to a child, the emperor did not hesitate to change the child back with his own hands.
The emperor cared about the brotherhood and suppressed his anger and drove Li Gong out of the capital.
Until that day, for the first time, Li Gong saw his always kind-hearted emperor really angry. He also saw what the emperor's wrath was. All the servants in the delivery room, including the suspicious people in Kunyi Palace, were uprooted and more than a hundred people were killed.
Landed.
It is said that it was the largest number of executions in the history of the palace. The bright red blood stained the floor tiles, and the young eunuch washed them for three days.
Ten years later, the emperor brought up the old matter again, and Li Gong was caught off guard.
Facing the emperor's brother's sharp gaze, Li Gong knew very well that he was under his nose now. If he dared to make any trouble, he was afraid that he would not be able to return to Southern Xinjiang.
People had to bow their heads under the eaves. Li Gong did not dare to lie and answered all questions, allowing the Queen to hear the truth of that year with her own ears.
It is impossible to have peace of mind, but Li Yu is indifferent on the surface. His heart has been scarred by the empress, his biological mother.
The Queen couldn't believe it, but when Li Gong told the story, the original scene was still vivid in her mind, and many unreasonable things now seemed reasonable.
Turning to Li Yu, he was her biological son, but for the past ten years, she had tortured him like a demon. The queen couldn't bear the stimulation and fainted.
When Ruan Geng left, the imperial doctor was examining the patient, and the queen had not yet woken up.
Ruan Mianmian couldn't help but let out a long sigh when he thought about this. Jiu'er and Hongyu couldn't help but look at each other when they heard their princess's repeated long sighs.
I don’t know what the old marquis said to the princess. After returning to the Yanlong Courtyard, Ruan Mianmian went straight to her room. She didn’t even change her clothes or make up. She just sat with her hands on her chin, sighing and saying nothing.
"Princess, please change your clothes and wash your face quickly." Hongyu took the basin from the maid's hand.
Jiu'er stepped forward and touched Ruan Mianmian's head and asked with a smile: "What makes our Princess Linglong so nervous?"
"It's nothing, just random thoughts." Ruan Mianmian came back to her senses and finally showed her signature smile, "You seem to be a little anxious."
"I know I can't hide it from the princess. After you freshen up, go and see the old lady and the third lady." Jiu'er reminded.
Ruan Mianmian asked Hongyu and Jiuer while asking, "Is mother in her room?"
"Not in the house, the third lady went to Fu'an Hall." Hongyu replied.
"No wonder I haven't seen her since I came back." Ruan Mianmian suddenly frowned, "Why is mother going to Fu'an Hall at this time?"
Jiu'er said: "I just went out to listen to the maids saying that the inconsolable one came back crying and asked someone to send a message to the third master. After going to Lanyuan, the third master came back and quarreled with the third lady."
Ruan Mianmian's face darkened, but Gu Ling'an was making a fuss again. This person had no idea and wanted to die, so I would help her.
"Let's go." Ruan Mianmian raised her feet and stepped out of the door, with Jiu'er and Hongyu following closely behind her.
In Fu'an Hall, Mrs. Ruan looked at Ruan Qi and Gu Ling'an who were kneeling on the ground with a cold face.
Zhou Yunning was sitting under Mrs. Ruan, her expression was the same as that of her mother-in-law.
Grandma Yun, who was standing next to her, looked worried, but she really had nothing to say.