Chapter 388 The Empress Dowager Hangs from a Beam

It wasn’t as if Empress Wei didn’t actually suspect that the Lu family wasn’t the real culprits.

But at that time, when the King of Liang presented the evidence for the Grand Princess of Jin to look over, she accompanied her, and happened to recognize that among the things of Xiyu, there were two that were precisely the ones that she herself had rewarded Huang with in her early years – this she had to say!

Because if the spread of smallpox is only Jian Xubai’s father and daughter, as well as the subordinates of the Duke of Yan’s residence, no one will suspect the Empress.

However, Emperor Duanhua’s concubine’s second son had also been tricked, and Empress Wei had discovered the suspicion but did not immediately reveal it, so what if someone suspected her later?

Although it was said that at the moment, the second prince could not threaten the crown prince at all, but such things as royalty could not be told clearly.

Furthermore, that incident with Han Ji has always been a problem for the Empress.

Even if Emperor Xianjia went, from the attitude of Emperor Duanhua towards her, she should not know at all – but the Empress still did not dare to take it lightly, after all, Shentu Noble Consort of the current dynasty is a ready-made example, when she was in favor, the Empress Dowager and Emperor Xianjia were crushed as if they were nothing, who wouldn’t have thought that the one who would be living in Mingren Palace in the next day would surely be this Noble Consort?

And the result?

The body is lost, and there are countless other people involved.

Empress Wei didn’t want to lose all her credits, so she naturally had to pay attention to such details.

This will be Gu Shao about the real culprit behind the speculation, so that the Empress Wei headache, “Take care of the meaning of the phase, the real culprit behind the scene may really be with the Su Xiang two king has a relationship, after all, his majesty just ascended to the throne, and did not treat anyone, in addition to the two king, who will let go of a good day not to, and tortured out such a big thing to it. It’s just that on one hand, third brother didn’t find any evidence; on the other hand, the royal aunt of Jin Kingdom only made a big fuss for third brother to burn the fire to the two kings of Su Xiang, and his majesty has only persuaded the royal aunt’s anger easily, so how can he mention it again at this moment?”

Especially since she didn’t want to bring it up herself – otherwise the Grand Princess of Jin, while she might not whip her like she did her nephew, she certainly wouldn’t have much goodwill towards her.

Empress Wei knew that Emperor Duanhua respected the Grand Princess of Jin, but she did not want to rashly cause this aunt to be displeased.

Besides, the Dowager Empress is still around, would she like to see her own daughter not doing well with her own grandson?

But if she doesn’t mention it, Empress Wei doesn’t feel at ease, after all, this world is her husband’s now, and will be her son’s in the future – according to the implication of Care Shao’s words, if she follows the guidance of the real culprits behind the scenes, and treats the Lu family as the main culprits, it will not only weaken the power of the Duanhua Emperor’s direct lineage, but even worse, who knows whether the real culprits behind the scenes still have a backhanded plan, and use this incident to cause chaos in the entire courtroom. Use this incident to cause chaos in the entire court?

The two kings of Su Xiang were only inaugurated after last year’s mid-autumn festival, counting less than a year so far.

Due to Emperor Xianjia’s relatively gentle handling of the situation before, as well as the fact that Emperor Duanhua hadn’t made any major moves so far since he came to power, the blow to the power of these two kings themselves wasn’t actually fatal, even though it counted as a failure the year before.

Duanhua Emperor, who ascended the throne only a year ago, said that he was already completely unafraid of these two brothers …

Empress Wei sighed, her husband’s qualifications as a ruler were far worse than Emperor Xianjia’s.

Therefore, even if Gu Shao was speaking this way in order to protect the Lu family and the Lu clan, Empress Wei didn’t dare to gamble in the end.

After all, if you lose this kind of thing, it’s a change of dynasty.

“Saying is definitely to tell His Majesty, just … how should I put it?” Empress Wei was pondering, but outside a palace maid walked in and carefully reported, “Your Highness, Shangshu Lu has written a letter in blood and entrusted the forbidden guards to forward it to His Majesty!”

Empress Wei’s brows jumped as she said, “What does the blood book say?”

“Lu Shangshu … uncovered that Lady Yan had an affair with Su Shaoge, the brother of Marquis Jiguo . Affair!” The palace maid knew that the Empress was on good terms with Song Yixiao, so she said this with quite a bit of trepidation.

Before the King of Liang to the Duanhua Emperor and the Grand Princess of Jin said this matter, the Empress was not there, so she is still the first time to hear this rhetoric, sniffing anger and laughing, “This is really coincidental! Lu Yicheng’s second daughter-in-law Xu’s, only to expose Lu Yicheng’s daughter Lu’s with the Boleung Marquis too close, Lu Yicheng followed the foot on the Song sister-in-law with Su Shaoge had an affair? Is it possible that this husband and daughter-in-law are specializing in catching adultery? Adultery. Is it possible that these two are specializing in catching adultery?”

Seeing that the courtesan had nothing else to report, Shi Wan signaled for her to leave first, then said to the Empress, “This Lu Shangshu is really confused, he is an old man before His Majesty, why should he ask His Majesty for anything, and His Majesty can’t be lenient with him? Once this bloody letter is publicized, how can His Majesty still protect him?”

“I’m afraid that he thought that the Lu family’s smallpox was Song’s handiwork.” Empress Wei’s face turned blue as she said, “Realizing that the Lu family is no longer fortunate, he thought that even if he were to die together, he would still want to retaliate against sister Song – only that he couldn’t do anything about sister Song at the moment, so he chose this kind of private love between a man and a woman that he couldn’t clearly understand, even if he found out clearly that there was nothing wrong with sister Song’s relationship with Su Shaoge, how could he still have the face to go out in the future? Even if it is finally found out that the relationship between sister Song and Su Shaoge is clean and innocent, how can a lady of the country still have the face to go out in the future if she is rumored to be like that?

That’s why the Empress understood Song Yixiao and knew that she wasn’t the kind of person who would die to prove her innocence after being wronged.

If you were a gentle and virtuous woman, you’d be afraid to go to bed with this kind of thing. Hanging!

However, Empress Wei’s anger at the moment wasn’t to hold a grudge for Song Yixiao, she hated Lu Yicheng for being brainless!

She and Gu Shao are thinking of clearing up the Lu family’s wrongdoing, so as not to be caught in the real culprit’s scheme, Lu Yicheng came to such a hand – so that even if it is immediately clear that the Lu family has nothing to do with the smallpox, there is no room for maneuver in the future feud between the Duke of Yan’s residence and the Lu family!

Would Jane Void White be able to stand someone cuckolding him on the head?

He can stand it, but the Grand Princess of Jin and the Empress Dowager can’t stand it either, okay?

However, the trouble caused by Lu Yicheng’s move is not only in the future: although this incident did not force Song Yixiao to go to the . Although the incident did not force Song Yixiao to hang herself, Empress Su immediately dispatched the palace staff to hang herself. The first thing I’d like to say is that I’m not sure I can do this!

The Empress Dowager had a very good reason for hanging herself from the palace beams of the palace – she wanted to use her death to reassure Emperor Duanhua of her nephew’s character!

… Fortunately, the Empress Dowager’s eldest palace maid, Fang Yu, sensed that something was wrong and led the men in time to break open the door of the temple to save the Empress Dowager.

Even so, this matter had spread up and down Cui Hua Mountain in the shortest possible time!

“Emperor, the empress dowager is also your first mother!” The Empress Dowager personally rushed to visit her daughter-in-law, and then called Emperor Duanhua to the side hall, sighed and said, “Consider it, for the sake of your father’s father, at least let her live a peaceful and stable life in her twilight years, okay? After all, it is the person who accompanied your father through thick and thin!”

Duanhua Emperor this will simply want to vomit blood, although he and the first mother is not close, can even be said to be very distant, but he absolutely did not have the idea of forcing the first mother to die, okay?

This time, it is clear that Lu Yicheng is the one who made things happen – yet all the discussions inside and outside point to him, the emperor, being ungrateful to his first mother, or else why would the Empress Dowager choose to kill herself just for the sake of a courtier’s revelation? I’m not sure if you’re a good person.

This is obviously the emperor to the first mother is not good, do the empress dowager in addition to the death of the nephew has no other way to cry for justice!

Duanhua Emperor held back his anger to the Empress Dowager expressed his respect and awe for Empress Dowager Su, saying that he absolutely did not mean to lay hands on the Su family, and even more so, he did not instruct Lu Yicheng towards his cousin’s head to buckle the green hat of the implication that all of this is all the sins of Lu Yicheng, and that he will absolutely make this ungrateful vassal pay the price …

After easily coaxing away the Dowager Empress, Emperor Duanhua went to visit the Empress Dowager, who was still in a coma, and almost instructed the left and right of the Empress Dowager one by one, fully demonstrating his filial piety and thoughtfulness before he dragged his tired body back to the palace where he lived.

“Minister Gu?” Originally thought that he could take a good breath, who knew that just before reaching the door of the palace, he saw Gu Shao waiting in the court, Duanhua Emperor’s heart was exhausted, “Gu Xiang is here, is there something wrong?”

“Your Majesty, Lu Yicheng is gone.” Gu Shao looked grave, “He took the hemlock poison himself.”

“Good death!” Emperor Duanhua originally had some favoritism for Lu Yicheng, but this time this subject did things that were too pitiful, especially pitiful to him as the emperor, being angry, he naturally did not have a good word to say, “Is the rest of the Lu family still alive?”

Gu Shao sighed, “Your Majesty, I have asked the eunuchs, Lu’s family have never been out of flower, some days ago, before Miss Jane was out of flower, Lu Yicheng occasionally met with Mrs. Yan on the road, greeted each other, spoke, and did not have any special protection or scruples. You say if the Lu family is really the mastermind, could it be that they resent Mrs. Yan to the point that they would not hesitate to lose their family to harm Mrs. Yan?”

He added, “I went to Lu’s house when I got the news, and Lu Yicheng was already dead – to be honest, I was very skeptical as to whether or not he was self . I was very skeptical as to whether or not he had killed himself! Because I originally wanted to ask him why he slandered Mrs. Yan and Su Shaoge in the past!”

“Speaking of which, Lu Yicheng is also an old man who has followed me.” Emperor Duanhua heard this, and after a moment of silence, he said, “Even if the smallpox thing this time is really their family’s doing, I will always keep one or two of his underage grandchildren in my lap to protect their Lu family’s lineage, in order to fulfill the love between ruler and subject over the years. In that case, this time the matter of forcing the mother to hang herself from a beam really shouldn’t have been done by him!”

“Your Majesty is kind and generous!” Gu Shao said, “That’s why I very much suspect that the real culprit behind the scenes is not small in his schemes!”

At this juncture, the phrase “not a small plan” was enough to make Emperor Duanhua realize.

The emperor was silent for a moment and said, “The dowager empress is old, my imperial aunt, and Gu Xiang also knows: my imperial aunt has never been involved in politics, but she loves her little children the most.”

“I think this is a big matter and must be thoroughly investigated to the end!” Gu Shao said, “There’s no impermeable wall in the world – the reason why His Highness King Liang was thwarted before was because of empty promises in the end!”

The King of Liang’s speech of the end there, Gu Shao is not stupid, how will directly persuade the Duanhua Emperor to the two inherited out of the younger brother to lay hands on it?

So he took a step back and suggested instead that Emperor Duanhua find out the evidence, and with the evidence, even if it was the Grand Princess of Jin, then there was only the part of pleading for her daughter’s son-in-law, where there was still a reason to violently beat up the person who made the suggestion in public?

However, half a day later, when Emperor Duanhua discussed this with King Liang, King Liang reminded him, “If it was just a matter of time before, now that the Imperial Aunt did what she did to beat up my younger brother, the reason for this has long since been rumored! Now that your brother has found the evidence, will the imperial aunt or anyone else think that your brother actually listened to my brother’s advice, but in order to take care of your aunt’s face, he made up a piece of evidence?”

Emperor Duanhua mused, “Then what do you mean?”

“Why don’t you take the payoff from the bottom of the cauldron?” The King of Liang narrowed his eyes, “Otherwise, if the Queen Mother was saved only after hanging from the beam, and if anyone says anything unfavorable to the Su family or King Su now, and if the word gets out, it’s no different from forcing the Queen Mother to die again?”

At the same time, inside the other courtyard, bell was so angry that her whole body trembled, “Lu Yicheng this old thief ！！！！ He clearly wants to ruin Missy – it’s true that it’s not a family that doesn’t enter a family, this old thief’s malicious intentions, what’s the difference with the Pang’s back then?!”