Chapter 139

In the Ciqing palace, Du Ruo held his hand to one side, his eyes locked.

There was no one in the hall at the moment. Du Ruo couldn't help asking: "princess, what about that old maid in waiting Is that true

Recently, the Yang family has blossomed everywhere. Before the killing and being killed of their grandson is over, Yang Shoufu's wife is dragged into the water. The crime of murdering the former queen is different from that of killing a civilian.

Especially when it comes to the Queen's dystocia. When empress Zhong was pregnant, her fetal image was unstable. When she started early, the crown prince was weak at birth. As a result, empress Zhong left behind her illness and died two years later. According to the old palace maid, Queen Zhong would not have given birth prematurely. She used a piece of porridge and suddenly started it. On the day of production, it was very smooth at first, but later it was wenpo's deliberate delay that caused empress Zhong's poor production and great vitality.

It's murder to do something when a woman gives birth. If the old maid's words are true, then Mrs. Yang will face more than prison.

Cheng Mingjin stood in front of the crowd and said, "it's true that she must have broken the needle in the air. However, after so many years, it is not easy to review even the real evidence. What we really need to see is the emperor's attitude. "

Of course, Du Ruo is facing the East Palace and the crown princess. Not to mention the position of the East Palace, it is difficult for Du Ruo to have a good impression on the Yang family just because Mrs. Yang used her hands and feet when empress Zhong was in labor. When a woman gives birth to a child, she steps into the gate of death. When she gives birth, she has no time to pay attention to other things. She has no power to protect herself. It's really vicious and insidious to harm people at such a time and to bribe the midwife to delay time. Du Rutong, a woman, instinctively spurns this kind of behavior.

If it's true, it's clear that Mrs. Yang has no reason not to pay for her evil deeds. Du Ruo frowned and thought again and again, but still felt uneasy: "princess, do you think your majesty will make the decision for the former queen, punish Mrs. Yang and avenge the former queen?"

Revenge on the emperor? Cheng Yujin didn't like it at all. If the emperor wanted to, when empress Zhong was having a difficult labor, he should have been suspicious and traced down. But the Emperor didn't, and he had been married to empress Yang for more than ten years.

You can't count on people when they were in front of you, let alone after 20 years of death? Cheng Yujin stabbed another needle, turned her finger, and pressed the thread and the last needle together: "justice belonging to the former queen will surely come, but it is not up to her majesty."

Du Ruofu to the heart, know Cheng Yujin did not say the second half of the sentence.

It's the prince.

We will trace queen Zhong's affairs many years later. We will collect human and material evidence in many ways, and keep the evidence for many years. At the right time, we will announce it to the world. There is only one person who will do so and has the ability to do so.

Moreover, the timing of the old maid's grievance was also very opportune, just on the fifth day of Dali temple's investigation of Yang Xiaoyu's case. The case of Yang Xiaoyu is not difficult to investigate. What is really difficult is the relationship behind it. The emperor, the crown prince and the chief assistant are in a stalemate, and there are centrists standing around. The investigation results of Dali temple are very difficult to handle.

As a result, in the middle of the 10th day, the story of Queen Zhong suddenly broke out. At this moment, the Yang family was on the cusp of the storm, and suddenly it broke out that they were suspected of murdering the former queen, which attracted a lot of discussion inside and outside the palace. Once the case of empress Zhong is true, Mrs. Yang will not escape the blame. This is no different from smashing a hammer on the head of the Yang family and turning the situation of tripartite confrontation in an instant. The balance of power has weakened the influence of the Yang family. We can look forward to the final outcome.

Cheng Yujin is basically sure that Li Chengjing must have arranged for the old maid of honor and the evidence she brought out. But the time originally planned may not be now. Yang Xiaoyu's strangulation was too sudden, and people didn't expect it. Li Chengqian was also very surprised, but the time was fleeting. Li Chengjing made a quick decision and immediately threw out queen Zhong's card.

The outside world's political struggle is bloody and cruel, but the East Palace is still peaceful. Cheng Yujin recuperates and takes care of her two children. Little by little, she recovers her vitality damaged by childbirth. When Li Chengjing comes back in the evening, she just accompanies her to take care of her children and chat with her, seldom mentioning the ups and downs outside.

Cheng Yujin knows that Li Chengjing doesn't want her to worry about things outside. She also takes the time to recover. However, not being involved does not mean that she does not know that Cheng Yujin will still listen to the movements of Hougong waichao during the daytime.

Cheng Yujin embroidered the coats for the two children. Du Ruo immediately took them and folded them carefully. Cheng Yujin rubbed her wrist and sighed: "this is the duel between your highness and Yang Shoufu. We just wait."

This is really the war between Li Chengjing and Yang Fucheng. The prince and the first assistant, the East Palace and the rear family are facing each other. The small officials and the small families dare not get close to each other. Gods fight, mortals suffer, within ten days, some people always wait and see, dare not stand in line, but also one family after another to declare their end. It's dangerous, but once it's done, it's the work of the dragon.

Moreover, the Yang family has gone. The Yang family has been stagnant for many years, but the crown prince is on the rise. One is dispersing, one is popular, one is crumbling, and the other is moving forward. After Li Chengjing used queen Zhong's mace, he beat the Yang family.Yang Tianliang, who dares to go through the door of his family for a few days, has lost his reputation. Ten days later, the Dali temple came up with the result that Yang Xiaoyu, the grandson of Yang Shoufu, forcibly robbed min's daughter and killed her brother in the street. Afterwards, she returned the daughter, who held a grudge and strangled him with her belt.

Death in a woman's bed can be regarded as karma and reincarnation.

When the emperor saw the result, he was very disappointed with the Yang family. In the early court, he denounced Yang Shoufu for his poor governance. Originally, it was said that Yang Fucheng would be suspended temporarily and restored to his original post after the investigation of Dali temple. But now, Yang Fucheng has been suspended indefinitely, and the date of his restoration is far away.

At the same time, the grievance of the old palace maid was also handed over to Dali temple for verification. The person in charge of this matter is still the prince.

After learning that Yang Fucheng had been suspended indefinitely, empress Yang immediately went to Qianqing palace to plead for mercy, but the Emperor didn't see her. Empress Yang knelt outside for two hours, but the emperor never came out to see her.

Empress Yang knelt on the hard white marble ground for two hours. When she went back, she couldn't even walk. Therefore, the emperor asked empress yang to live in the Kunning palace to recuperate. If she had nothing to do, she would not walk outside. This purport seems to sympathize with empress Yang, but in fact, it's disguised and forbidden her feet.

The empress's knee was damaged, so she couldn't serve the sick. Cheng Yujin took the place of empress Yang and went to serve the sick empress dowager. When empress dowager Yang suddenly heard that Yang's only child had died miserably and that Yang's incense was about to die, she was so angry that she vomited a mouthful of black blood. After hematemesis, Empress Dowager Yang's condition obviously went from bad to worse.

Especially recently, Yang Fucheng was suspended, Mrs. Yang was involved in the murder, and empress Yang was banned from her feet in disguised form. The news came that one by one, empress Yang's condition was getting better.

Now, as if they had been opened to the public, the good news of the Yang family came one by one. The imperial doctor originally told the Empress Dowager not to worry about it. Cheng Yujin nodded and wrote it down at that time. As soon as she turned around, the slightest disturbance of the Yang family would spread to the Empress Dowager.

Empress Dowager Yang's illness did not improve for a long time, and even worsened. Cheng Yujin was very worried about this. All kinds of drugs were sent to empress dowager Yang as if they were free of money. No matter what the prescriptions were, they were all fried and pasted.

The bitter taste of the cining palace never dissipates day and night. When empress dowager Yang wakes up from a dream which is not stable, she can smell the long bitter taste of Yin tide at the tip of her nose.

At the moment, the palace is very quiet, and there are few palace people. Empress Dowager Yang made a sound. After a while, the curtain was lifted. Standing outside the curtain of the bed, Cheng Yujin nodded to empress dowager Yang and said, "empress dowager, you wake up. How are you feeling? "

Empress Dowager Yang struggled hard. It seemed that she wanted to get up. Cheng Yujin still stood still. She just winked, and the maid in waiting helped her sit up. The so-called personal service is just the work of the palace people. Don't expect Cheng Yujin to do it by herself.

The palace maid brought Cheng Yujin a round stool. Cheng Yujin sat by the bed of Empress Dowager Yang and asked with a smile, "empress dowager, the medicine is ready. Do you want to use it now or later?"

After drinking medicine again, even though empress dowager Yang was over the age when children were afraid of hardship, it was not a good experience to drink medicine as soon as she woke up. Empress Dowager Yang, with a gloomy face, said, "just wait."

"Good." Cheng Yujin nodded her head and said, "take care of the fire of the medicine stove. Keep the medicine warm all the time. Never let it cool. If the time is too long, it will damage the efficacy, then pour it all out and fry it again. "

"Yes."

Empress Dowager Yang looked at all this and gave a cold smile.

"You all stand down." Empress Dowager Yang pulled the corners of her mouth and said darkly, "I have something to say to the crown princess."

The palace people all looked up at Cheng Yujin. Cheng Yujin raised her hand, and then they stepped back.

Empress Dowager Yang does not smile. Her eyes are full of cold light: "the crown princess is very powerful. Even the people in the mourning palace will listen to your orders."

"I dare not." Cheng Yujin sat upright on the round stool with her hands folded. Her broad skirt folds spread out on the ground like a peacock. She said, "my son is just learning three points from the Empress Dowager."

Now there is no one else in the palace, and Empress Dowager Yang is too lazy to fight with Cheng Yujin. She directly asks, "who is driving all this?"

Empress Dowager Yang is not a fool, on the contrary, she can go to today, no one can underestimate her cruel and heartless. The public opinion is so one-sided that everything is closely linked, from a grain of snow to a snowball. If there is no manipulation behind it, Empress Dowager Yang will be the first not to believe it.

Cheng Yujin did not answer. Instead, she raised her eyebrows and asked with a smile, "who does the Empress Dowager think it will be?"

Who will be able to promote such a big trend of public opinion, have the patience to let many ministers in the court declare their positions one after another, put pressure on the emperor and the Yang family, and still keep the evidence of Queen Zhong in their hands for many years?

Empress Dowager Yang had the answer in her heart for a long time. Now she saw that Cheng Yujin didn't deny it at all, and her heart was completely clear. Empress Dowager Yang tugged at the corner of her lip, and said, "it's you. Also, besides you, who else would hate the Yang family to death and wish it would fall down. "

"I can't agree with the Empress Dowager." Cheng Yujin straightened her sleeves and looked up at empress dowager Yang with a smile. "It's not us who hate the Yang family. It's more than us who want the Yang family to fall."Empress Dowager Yang was stunned. Cheng Yujin looked at her and said slowly, "when the avalanche happened, did the Empress Dowager think that it was just the power of one person? Everyone who pushed behind, everyone who stood idly by, wanted to bring down the Yang family and make justice known to the world. "

Empress Dowager Yang was silent for a long time. After a long time, she said with a smile, "I think I've been careful and solemn for many years, and I've done a lot of hard work. It turns out that there are so many people outside who can't bear to see the mourning family and the Yang family?"

"Hard work and high achievement?" When Cheng Yujin heard this, she also gave a slight smile and said, "the Empress Dowager actually felt that she had been working very hard for many years. It's not bad to say that. It's just that the work is done to the Yang family and the work is done to herself. The Empress Dowager steps on the clouds and kills whatever she wants. How can she see the numerous corpses under your feet, and how can she care about those people who have sacrificed innocently for your own sake? "

"Oh." Empress Dowager Yang disdained, "when AI family was in the back palace, you were not even born. Now, you're just a child. How dare you talk in front of the mourning family? "

"I dare not." With a soft smile on her lips, Cheng Yujin gently opened her lips and said, "my son is just complying with heaven's destiny and realizing what they have expected for many years."

Empress Dowager Yang choked hard. No matter how fierce her words were and how brilliant they were, we can't deny that now the Yang family has fallen down. Even empress dowager Yang is old, and is teetering at the top of the harem. Even the maids in the palace who once did not look in the eyes are still in command. The era of belonging to the Yang family has come to an end. Even if the Empress Dowager Yang was the empress of two dynasties, and even if the power of the Yang family at the peak of her reign was no different, she would not be able to resist the rebellion and the separation of relatives. Three generations of single biographies died and the incense was about to be cut off.

Empress Dowager Yang was very sad. She had known this before. What did she work so hard for these years? What did she work so hard to pave the way for the Yang family? Even if it's left to wanzhiguan, who has the right?

Yang Xiaoyu died. Yang Shilong is nearly 40 years old. It's not realistic to have another son at this age. Even without Cheng Yujin and Li Chengjing pushing behind, the collapse of the Yang family will happen sooner or later. Empress Dowager Yang hated the woman who killed Yang Xiaoyu. She just wanted to eat her flesh and drink her blood, and cut her to pieces. However, people outside called her a martyr and clamored to redress her injustice.

It's ironic. In fact, Empress Dowager Yang had some regrets in her heart, but in front of Cheng Yujin, she still looked tough and sneered: "the crown princess should worry about herself. You think if you knock down the Yang family, you'll get a good job? Save it, the birds are gone, the good bow is hidden, the cunning rabbit is dead, the running dog is cooked, the Yang family is down, and you are next. "

"I don't need the Empress Dowager to worry about that." Cheng Yujin was unmoved and said, "it's family business between the prince and His Majesty in any case. After all, the Empress Dowager and the first assistant are surnamed Yang, but both her highness and my child are surnamed Li, don't you think? "

This sentence can be said to poke into the pain of Empress Dowager Yang. The cold expression on empress dowager Yang's face could not be maintained. She spat coldly: "it's just an ominous person. Born in May, even if she can grow up, she will be lonely and lonely all her life. When he was born, he should not be soft hearted. "

No matter what empress dowager Yang said before, Cheng Yujin kept smiling, and her tone was always friendly. But after hearing what empress dowager Yang said about Li Chengjing, Cheng Yujin suddenly felt a nameless fire.

Cheng Yujin's smile can't help but be restrained. Her eyes are clear. When she smiles, she looks like a picture. Only when she doesn't smile can she show the cold frost in her eyes: "the empress dowager, relying on her grandmother's seniority, signals to comment on the fate of others. Your highness was said ominous when he was born, and you said ominous before my child came out. You see, empress dowager, you've done too many evil things, and you've brought yourself evil consequences. The Yang family is extinct. So are you, Empress Dowager. "

Empress Dowager Yang's eyes widened and said in a hurry: "you..."

"The Empress Dowager always says that other people are unlucky. This is true for her royal highness and for my children. Maybe it's really bad for the Empress Dowager. All your descendants are dead, and we will live well, longer than you, thousands of times longer than you, alive. "

This is the pain in Empress Dowager Yang's heart. For many years, no one in the harem dared to mention it. Even empress Yang avoided it everywhere. Now, Cheng Yujin opened all the wounds and put them in the sun. Empress Dowager Yang was so angry that she coughed. She coughed for a long time. When she finally came over, she could smell a fragrance from the tip of her nose.

Sometimes, olfactory memory lasts longer than visual memory. The fragrance was so long that empress dowager Yang felt relieved. Even though she deliberately let herself forget, her grief immediately brought her back to that day.

The day her own son died in vain.

Her son was also the crown prince. That day, as usual, the son and Empress Dowager Yang invited an to go out for an appointment. At that time, Empress Dowager Yang was still queen. She prepared fresh fruits and vegetables in Kunning palace, waiting for her son to come back from the banquet. But in the afternoon, before she heard from her only son, Empress Dowager Yang received a message from her servant saying that the princess would like to invite her.

Empress Dowager Yang didn't think much about it. She just picked it up and went to Changchun palace. That day, the imperial concubine was wearing a light white dress. When empress dowager Yang saw her, she asked strangely, "why does the imperial concubine wear such a plain dress?"

The imperial concubine looked at her and said with a smile, "I heard the news of an old friend by chance. As an old friend, I was sad and couldn't bear to wear bright clothes."Empress Dowager Yang hissed in her heart and did not ask much. Who can know that she was only drinking half of the tea when she suddenly received the bad news from the eunuch that the eldest son of the emperor had an accident and died on the spot. The only son of Empress Dowager Yang was killed by Rong Wang, the son of the imperial concubine.

Empress Dowager Yang remembers clearly that the spice that the imperial concubine ordered in Changchun palace that day was exactly this flavor.

Empress Dowager Yang was suddenly frightened, her heart contracted tightly, and she couldn't speak for a moment. That's her only son. She's really connected in the world. If her son had not died in vain, how could empress dowager Yang have summoned Li Huan to Beijing to surrender her throne to others. If not for her only son's death, why did empress dowager Yang support the Yang family all these years? Those resources were originally left to her parents and children.

Probably because her son died, Empress Dowager Yang had no root to rely on, so she could only desperately subsidize her younger brother, trying to pull her younger brother and nephew to rely on her.

This is the eternal pain in Empress Dowager Yang's heart. No one dares to mention the princess and King Rong, let alone the prince Huaimin. After a long time, Empress Dowager Yang almost forgot these things, but the familiar taste immediately brought her back to the pain of her son's death, which almost made her unable to breathe.

She didn't forget, she just didn't dare to think about it.

There are so many people and their eyes are confused that empress dowager Yang suddenly finds out that Cheng Yujin is also wearing a plain white dress today, and only embroiders flowers on her sleeve.

In the curling fragrance, Cheng Yujin in front of her coincides with the imperial concubine of that year. Empress Dowager Yang was in great pain. She pointed to Cheng Yujin and her fingers kept shaking: "you Why do you know this dress? "

With a smile on her lips, Cheng Yujin said, "lady, what are you talking about? I'll serve you. I'll wear plain clothes. I can't bear to wear bright clothes."

When empress dowager Yang heard the second half of the sentence, her eyes were dark and she almost fainted. Cheng Yujin stood up and looked down at the Empress Dowager who fell on the bed. She glanced and walked out with a wave of her sleeve: "come on, the Empress Dowager is ill. Feed the Empress Dowager with sleeping pills. "

From the perspective of Empress Dowager Yang, the figure of Cheng Yujin leaving is especially like her arch rival, Princess Renzong.

Smelling the familiar smell between the nose, the plain shadow swayed back and forth in front of her eyes. In a trance, Empress Dowager Yang almost thought that the princess was alive again. She crawled back from hell to find empress dowager Yang for revenge.

Empress Dowager Yang fell into convulsion and completely fainted.