"Accordingly, Prime Minister Xue gave Xue Fangmi to this Madame Sun two years ago and forbade her mother Madame Nan from interfering. How come Madame Sun is helping you today?" After changing a corner and having a maid look around the corner, Xin Fubing asked surprisingly, "Even if she doesn't like Xue Fangmi, isn't she afraid to make Prime Minister Xue angry on this kind of occasion for supporting an outsider? After all, Xue Fangmi didn't actually say anything outrageous today."
Qiu Yelan smiled, "But what I said was also not outrageous. Why Xue Fangmi got mad so quickly? She is a petty person, but she also knows how to act. Don't you think she purposely came after me?"
Xin Fubing didn't waste the recent teaching on how to be a Crown Princess. She immediately understood, "They were both intentional? But why? Is it because of your cousin Ruan's appointment? They picked a fight with you to show the Xue Family's stand?"
"I would say so. Do you kn
There was a brief explanation of the New Year's Eve Dinner.It was not just this dinner. According to the rules that Darui had since they established the dynasty, a royal dinner was divided into a front one and a back one. The front one would be the Emperor hosting the governmental officials. The back one would be the Empress hosting the peeresses.But the two Empresses were fighting power. Neither of them was willing to stay in the back to host peeresses and let the other go with the Emperor to get greeted and respected by the officials.Therefore, after several battles, they decided to compromise and let everybody have dinner together!Of course, the men and women were still divided. Looking down from the top, men were on the left and women were on the right.At this moment, Qiu Yelan was not beside her husband. She could only look at him through the crowd while feeling anxious secretly.Facing the ask o
Although many important officials and peeresses felt that it was too much to regard all people in the Hall as suspects, if all the officials wanted to kill the emperor, the Chu Family couldn't still sit in the imperial chair!In particular, the two empresses also asked men and women to take off their clothes and get checked in the side hall or behind the screen. That was total humiliation!But Empress Dowager Gu and Empress Jiang took the lead in asking several respected ladies to go to the side hall to watch the palace servants undress them and check whether there were any poison things and traces. After that, people had nothing to say, because there was no special treatment for the Emperor's mother and wife, not to mention the courtiers.Naturally, this was because the Empress Dowager's party and the Empress's party did not trust each other.The Empress's party suspected that this was arranged by the Empress Dowager's party, and
Seeing that she woke up, Jiang Yashuang simply bent down and hugged her. After a while, he whispered, "Fortunately you are OK."Qiu Yelan noticed that his voice was a little hoarse, and she knew that he must have been very anxious and was shut out of the palace that night. She immediately moved and let him sit down on the bed. "It's OK. Don't worry about it!" She said softly, leaning on his shoulder.The couple hugged each other for a while, and their emotions finally calmed down. Then Qiu Yelan asked, "What did Dai Cong mean about the witness?""I arranged the witness." Jiang Yashuang sighed wearily, "I wanted to frame Empress Dowager Gu and prove my innocence by the way. As a result, such a big thing happened last night. Who could take care of such twists and turns?"That was true. Compared with the incident that the Emperor was almost poisoned to death in front of the civil and military officials and concubines of Imperial Harem
Jiang Yashuang understood why Zhuang Mo said all that. It was true that he was worried about Empress Jiang's future. But the thing he really wanted to know was whether the Empress' party planned to frame Empress Dowager's party by poisoning the Emperor.Otherwise, he wouldn't add "If Empress Dowager's party isn't found guilty, she'll bring it up again"."Now my aunt and Empress Dowager are investigating it together. I think the one behind it will soon give himself away!" Jiang Yashuang said with a smile.Zhuang Mo realized it meant that the Jiang Family wasn't planning to do so at that moment. That was what he anticipated. After all, finding the culprit at that time wasn't just for a political reason. It was also because Empress Dowager Gu and Empress Jiang were worried about themselves. Under this circumstance, even if they were going to smear each other, they would do it after they found the real culprit.Otherwise, if the culpri
Hearing that, Qiu Yelan was dazed and said hurriedly, "I'm all ears.""Sit down!" Madame Tao looked around and every servant left.Seeing this, Qiu Yelan couldn't help but think, "Do you want me to do something like persuading County Princess Duanrou to marry the Duke of Puyang again?"The Jiang Family had done enough bad things!When she was thinking, she suddenly heard Madame Tao asking, "Before the Lunar New Year's Eve Dinner, you saw someone tossing something underneath the flower tree near you and Fubing. Do you still remember what it looked like?"Did she want to ask this?Qiu Yelan was relieved. She said, "I don't really remember that. Because I heard the sound first and looked back. At that time, it was already underneath the tree. It was snowy, windy, and dark. I didn't see it.""Didn't Fubing say you didn't see it clearly and it was a reflection of the snow?" Madame Tao thought for a
In the central tent, after Kuang Shihan listened to the Imperial Guard's report that his only son asked to see him outside, deep fatigue flashed between his eyebrows.Kuang Qingwu had been foster for several years, but he was the only son of Kuang Shihan. Even though Kuang Qingwu had been resentful since he was recognized as a child, Kuang Shihan had never neglected to care about him. How could he not understand his son's mind?He could guess Kuang Qingwu's intention without asking."This is a punishment for me!" The commander-in-chief of Western Army thought to himself, "In my early years, I didn't care about my adoptive father's kindness. I killed his son-in-law and harmed his descendants. Now my only son even wants me to die. It's just that I robbed my adoptive father's place after I hurt his family. If this rebellious son annoys me to death, what does he think will happen to him?"Kuang Shihan couldn't help looking at the map n
It was still in the first lunar month that all the officials were on leave.However, the matter was very serious, and the two empresses both agreed. Therefore, the great court was held as scheduled.The problem was that although the two empresses were not professional criminal investigators, they were above the ordinary level after all these years of experience in the former emperor's reign and Imperial Harem. What was more, the palace was their home. But they even found nothing till now. How could the courtiers dare to take over easily?Now all the palace servants who served the emperor that night were beaten to death! Even if there was any clue, it would be broken. If this was an ordinary case, the ministers would like to help the two empresses. After all, they presided over it at the first place. They couldn't make any progress, so the ministers would not be blamed for their lack of progress.But this was a search for regicides.
After all, it was not Qiu Yelan's duty to find out the regicide. She talked with Jiang Yashuang for a while and went to the third branch to help when it was the time. Before finding the criminal of poisoning the emperor, it was really inappropriate to take the account of "Qingfeng Ji" to find trouble with the Empress Dowager's party.But precautions averted perils. There would be a time when people used it. Anyway, finding out the king killer didn't need the whole Jiang family.Therefore, most of the daughters-in-law and granddaughters-in-law of the Jiang Family had to continue to do business in the first lunar month apart from visiting friends and relatives.On the way to the third branch, Qiu Yelan couldn't help complaining to her maids. She said, "I read the accounts everyday, and I feel like I'm going to throw up. I went to have a look yesterday, and there was still a room of accounts to check. When will it end?" It was true that this was b