Early the next morning, Zhao Shun and Shen Qinglan arrived in Da Nei in a carriage.

Zhao Shun went to Ningde Hall to visit His Majesty, while Shen Qinglan went to Zening Hall.

As soon as she arrived outside Zening Hall, she heard the angry reprimand of the empress dowager.

"You useless thing! What use are you! When the Ai family was threatened and humiliated, where were you? If your emperor brother was still there, how could the Ai family be constrained by others!"

"The Ai family broke their hearts because of you, but you just don't live up to it! You are the first emperor's son, and you are not as good as your cousin! Are you worthy of the first emperor!"

"After such a big incident, you still look leisurely, how can you tell the Ai family to calm down?"

……

Shen Qinglan was not in a hurry to enter the door, but stood at the door and waited for a while.

About a quarter of an hour later, the empress dowager in the hall roared angrily: "Get out, Aijia doesn't want to see you!"

Not long after, Zhao Su went out with a tired face.

Shen Qinglan saluted and said, "I've seen King Su."

"Sister Wang is here."

Zhao Su simply returned the gift, and then asked, "Is Mrs. Wang here to visit the queen mother?"

Shen Qinglan nodded, "My prince is worried, so he asked me to come and have a look."

"The queen mother is not in a very good mood now, thank you Mrs. Wang." Zhao Su said.

"It's okay, there are some things that you don't want to say, so I, a bad guy, have to go all the way." Shen Qinglan said.

Zhao Su smiled helplessly, "Thank you Mrs. Wang."

"You don't have to be polite, King Su, I'll go in first."

Shen Qinglan saluted again, turned around and entered the hall.

Above the main hall, the empress dowager also looked tired.

Shen Qinglan couldn't help recalling the first time she saw the Empress Dowager. At that time, she was still the empress of the world, with a bright future for her son, and a loving and harmonious husband by her side.

Today's empress dowager still has the same face, exquisite makeup, meticulously combed hair, and equally gorgeous and generous clothes, but her heart is broken.

"I have met the empress dowager myself." Shen Qinglan bowed respectfully and knelt down.

The empress dowager asked without raising her head, "What are you doing here?"

Shen Qinglan stretched out her hand, and Fu'er on the side immediately stepped forward and helped her stand up.

"Empress Dowager, the lord is worried about your phoenix body, so I asked my concubine to come and visit you." Shen Qinglan said.

"Visiting? You're clearly here to see the Ai family's joke, right?" The empress dowager sneered, raised her head and said, "How is it? You husband and wife should be satisfied now, right? Look at Zening Palace, it's just a gorgeous prison now. Aijia has no power to return to heaven, you can go back."

Shen Qinglan smiled and said: "No matter what, the Empress Dowager is still the Empress Dowager, and she is still the prince's aunt, His Majesty's aunt, and the most proud daughter of the Jiang family."

"The Jiang family... you bitch... when did you get close to the empress and encourage her to betray the Ai family?" the empress dowager asked.

"To tell you the truth, the reason why the empress stayed in Linyuan was to help us get rid of the ladies from the official family that you sent in. The empress is smart, and she doesn't need to talk too much. If your majesty suffers, she will also fall into the abyss." Shen Qinglan said.

"You treacherous and cunning villains, stealing the country behind the Ai family's back, being unfaithful and unfilial, blame the Ai family for being too naive. If I knew this, the Ai family should not have accepted Zhao Shun into the palace that day, and Jiang Chuo should not have done it." Empress, the most inappropriate thing is to make you Zhao Shun's concubine." said the Empress Dowager.

Shen Qinglan sighed softly, "The empress dowager always thought that His Highness the Sixth Highness should be the candidate for the new emperor, but you never thought that His Highness the Sixth Highness, as a legitimate son, if the late emperor intended him to inherit the great line, he would not There is no need to entrust Zhao Shun."

"What do you mean? What qualifications do you have to put your beak on His Highness the Sixth Highness, the prince from the middle palace?" The Empress Dowager said angrily.

"The concubine didn't mean that, the empress dowager misunderstood. In fact, there is one more thing, the empress dowager has been kept in the dark, and that is the death of the late emperor." Shen Qinglan said.

Hearing this, the Empress Dowager's hands couldn't stop trembling, and she asked: "Could it be that Zhao Shun and Zhao Bai were responsible for the death of the first emperor?"

Shen Qinglan had no choice but to say, "No, someone else killed the late emperor."

"who is it?"

"At the beginning, the late emperor invited Taoist priest Xiuyuan because he was unwell, and Taoist priest Xiuyuan had already diagnosed that the illness of the late emperor was caused by poisoning. It was a slow poison, which was not easy to detect at the beginning, and after a long period of time, it would cause the poisoned person to collapse and die. Later, the first emperor also found out the truth, and the poisoner was none other than the crown prince Zhao Feng at that time." Shen Qinglan said.

"You talk nonsense!"

The empress dowager's eyes widened. She didn't believe Shen Qinglan's words at all, not a word of it.

"Later, the late emperor found out that the second prince, Zhao Ying, was about to rebel, because he didn't want the world to know the truth about his death, and wanted to give the late prince a face, so the late emperor borrowed the second prince's hand to give the late prince a break. "Shen Qinglan said again.

"No, it's impossible! It's simply impossible!"

The Empress Dowager shook her head in panic, stood up slowly, pointed at Shen Qinglan and continued: "Mrs. Shen, how dare you talk nonsense and slander the first prince!"

"The Sixth Highness also knows these things, otherwise, how could the Sixth Highness not fight or grab? He and the late prince are brothers. Even for the late prince and the late emperor, he will fight hard, even if he can't succeed in the end." Shen Qinglan road.

The empress dowager was panting heavily, her chest rose and fell, she just felt that she was about to be suffocated to death.

She sat down slowly, still muttering those two sentences: "Impossible...it's impossible..."

"As for why the first prince murdered the first emperor, as far as I know, it should be because of Jing's instigation. The entire Jing family is looking forward to the first prince's ascension to the throne, and the first prince's concubine has long been impatient to ascend the queen's throne. The previous prince himself also coveted the throne, wishing he could take the late emperor and replace him." Shen Qinglan said.

"You're talking nonsense! Feng'er is the most filial child, he can't do that!" said the Empress Dowager.

"The most filial, but also the most ambitious. Come to think of it, the first prince was taught by the queen mother since he was a child, and he will be a virtuous monarch in the future? Because of this, the first prince Zhao Feng thought from a young age that he would definitely be the emperor in the future. Whether you are virtuous or not is another matter. The Empress Dowager’s virtuous reputation was known all over the world, but in fact, you cared too much about the future of your children, so you have been unscrupulous. Your Majesty didn’t want to argue with you. It’s you, step by step. This drove me into a corner." Shen Qinglan said.

"Ah……"

The empress dowager sneered, "Why should the Ai family believe your words? Have you forgotten how you became a princess in the first place?"

"I don't dare to forget my body for a day, and my prince also dare not forget the kindness of the queen mother. Therefore, since your majesty ascended the throne, you have been setting up plots to murder, but the prince has never held grudges against you." Shen Qinglan said.

The empress dowager lowered her eyes and remained silent for a long time.

Shen Qinglan sighed softly again, and said: "Empress Dowager, I have already said what I should say, and I will leave first. Don't worry, you will always be my Queen Mother. I also hope that you can take care Feng Ti, because only in this way can His Majesty stop everyone's talk, and His Highness the Sixth Highness will have the face to continue to be the prince of our dynasty. For His Highness Sixth, and for the Jiang family, I also ask the Empress Dowager to let go of the grudge."

After all, Shen Qinglan saluted and left Zening Hall.

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