Chapter 553 Sweeping Away a Fierce Controversy

Empress Wei was so infuriated that her whole body trembled!

This was not only because Empress Su was shouting thieves in her face, but also because Empress Su was going to use the issue to target Gu Shao as said earlier, Wei Xi’s reputation in the imperial court was far less than Gu Shao’s because she had been practicing a low profile.

And although Gu Shao had gone into the imperial prison himself, because of the empress’s and queen’s special command, he actually had a good time in the prison and was able to exchange news with the outside world at any time.

In other words, he still has influence over the court.

Although this influence was discounted because he himself was not in the courtroom it was still an indispensable aid to the Wei family!

Due to personally leading the wolf into the house, resulting in the assassination of the Crown Prince, Gu Shao currently harbored profound apologies to the Crown Prince, to the Empress, and to the Wei family.

It was so that all the decisions of the Wei family were now supported by him unconditionally.

If Empress Wei now tortures Gu Shao, imagine what those who support the Wei family because of Gu Shao will think and do!

“I’m sorry, Empress Mother!” The Empress clenched her fists hard before she could hold back from pouncing on Empress Su to give her two ear scrapes, she almost gritted her teeth and said, “But since the Empress Mother has said that she doesn’t want to get involved, why do you still have to worry about this? Passed out, don’t know, thought you before twenty years queen do used to, now do the empress dowager but three years of light, feel uncomfortable, hope daughterinlaw to the palace right back to your old man it!”

Empress Su’s smile remained unchanged, “How could it be? I am still not concerned about you all?”

She put down the tea bowl, the smile at the corner of her mouth deepened, “Besides, yesterday I went to your Imperial Grandmother’s side to pay my respects, your Imperial Grandmother may have also asked about the Crown Prince’s situation a good boy, you shouldn’t suspect that your Imperial Grandmother is also interested in that bit of uterine power in your hand, right? ”

Empress Wei could no longer hold back, whisking her sleeve and dropping her tealight, she stood up with an ironclad face and walked out, “My daughterinlaw is busy in the palace, not as leisurely as my mother goodbye!”

He Xiuyi was stunned into silence by this scene, and blessed towards the Empress Dowager, panicked and followed the Empress, almost softly out of the door.

After a long time, she returned to the Qibao Palace, still pale the maid hurriedly made a hot tea to give her pressure, “Your Highness do not worry, the Empress Dowager but what means, there is the Empress Dowager on top of it! On the origin, the Queen Mother is not worse than the Empress Dowager, this Queen Mother in Hui Yi Palace said to leave, the Empress Dowager is not only look at it?”

He Xiu Yi drank a mouth of tea, the face gradually emerged a little color, but the panic between the eyebrows still did not subside much, worried, “Just this time the thing is caused by our palace, I am now the main position of the Palace of Qibao, what happened in the palace is not to be blamed ah! Moreover, did you hear what the Empress said just now? She said that the rules of this Qibao Palace’s palace people were negligent, which is naturally because I’m the master of the palace who is not ruling the palace properly!”

The maid comforted, “Have you forgotten that there is still the old master outside? Who dares to offend the old master nowadays? With the old dowager here, no matter how these two fight, it won’t affect you! Otherwise, wouldn’t you be forcing the old master to fall to the other side?”

He Xiuyi pursed her lips tightly and didn’t say anything, but in her heart, she was very unconfident about her position in her grandfather’s mind but the good thing was that the next development was just as the maidservant said the Empress and the Empress Dowager didn’t very much pursue Xue Concubine’s death, as well as the responsibility for her position as the head of the Qipao Palace.

This was not only because both of them did not want to offend He Wenqiong, but also because the focus of this royal motherinlawdaughterinlaw encounter was not on concubine Xue either.

So to this day at noon, Queen Wei’s side came to the decree, everything is in accordance with the previous HeXiuYi to her report when the oracle to do posthumously Xue concubines, reward his mother’s family, chastisement of serving the palace.

This concludes the matter.

Although it happened that the palace maid serving concubine Xue went to Huiyi Palace to inform on the matter, but in addition, it seems that there is no more news circulating out.

Because Xue’s death did not cause any ripples in the former harem, her family was summoned to the palace in the afternoon to receive the reward I do not know if it was because He Xiuyi helped Xue to say that, Empress Wei did not see them in person, but only let Xinqian appear, and politely mentioned a few words, “I heard that Xue’s family teaches their daughters to be strict from the earlier Sacred Life Festival, quite a lot of discipline to Xue? It is said that the Xue family teaches their daughter strictly, and earlier, during the Sacred Life Festival, the concubine Xue was taught quite a lot of lessons. Xue concubine side of the people said, she has been tossing and turning these days, thinking of you a few advice, last night, Xiu Yi lady listening to the bottom of the people said Xue concubine mood is not right, specifically to comfort, she also hugged Xiu Yi lady crying it.

Xue concubine’s mother and sisterinlaw heard the words are scared not light, panicked kneeling down to ask for forgiveness, only that their own really forced the death of their daughter, no, should not say they forced the death of their own daughter, this year to do the parents forced the death of their children at most by the discussion of a not merciful, do not need to be asked for punishment. But Xue concubine is now not only the Xue family female, but also the emperor’s concubines, forcing the death of imperial concubines, this responsibility they can not afford!

Xin Jian coldly watched them knock the bricks of the temple red, before saying nonchalantly, “The Empress Mother is merciful, and remembering that you are also unintentional, this time as if you know nothing, and say to the outside world that Concubine Xue died of an illness you guys take care of yourselves!”

After such a scare, the Xue family up and down, a word do not dare to say, someone asked, only according to the palace rhetoric, said their own daughters lucky thin, do not do the palace concubine a few months on the death of disease.

They are the mother’s family is certainly terrified, for the four people with Xue concubine a piece of the palace, the blow is even greater.

Since Emperor Duanhua’s deathdefying public blooddrop with King Qing, even He Xiuyi, who had been pacified by her mother’s family not long ago, they, the teenage concubines, had been living in great trepidation.

Now the death of concubine Xue is like a thunderbolt from the sky, so unexpected and naked. Naked. Naked, piercing through all the coverups and selfdeceptions, reminding them of their current situation!

“Why is Empress Xiu Yi also here?” Concubine Xue has been in the palace for only three or two months, and has not yet been favored, naturally there is no heir to the wake, originally only her maid burned some paper, but Tian Bao Lin, Zhong Meiren, and Jiang Cailin all coincidentally came to her wake, they kneeled down for a short time, but I didn’t think that He Xiuyi also changed into plain clothes and came in, the three were surprised, but also a little bit resistant to it, Zhong Meiren took the lead and said, “This place is cold and clear, don’t bump into a nobleman like you! Don’t bump into a nobleman like you!”

“They all entered the palace together, what’s so noble about it?” He Xiuyi knew that they were all distancing themselves now because she had her mother’s family to rely on and none of them did.

In other days, He Xiuyi would have long since walked away, but tonight she did not want to go, kneeling down in front of the spirit of incense, weeping, “I really thought last night that she no longer wanted to die before I left!”

“… What is the use of saying this now?” Tian Bao Lin three people heard, silent for a moment, in the end did not say sneering words again, only whispered, “But I hope she cast a good family in the next life, happy life, life and death do not come back to this palace!”

The night wind rolled in through the halfopen windows of the temple, blowing the burning paper money in the fire pot brightly and dimly, as if concubine Xue’s spirit was echoing the wish.

At this time, Wei Su two families are dragging the tired body to summarize the gains and losses of this day at the court today’s daytime atmosphere of the court is very intense, so intense that not only Qiu Shuxia and Wei Xi on the hand, there are four or five courtiers because of differences of opinion do not agree with each other, and the public fight into a ball.

Fortunately, the Duanhua Emperor has not been on the court this time, or the emperor’s prestige now can not drink these people, but in vain to be angry.

However, even with all the fuss, not much substantive progress has been made.

Today, the Wei family’s public proposal to elect Lu Hehao to the throne was met with resistance from the Su family’s side one can only imagine how difficult it was for the Wei family to clear Lu Hehao’s name.

The Su family’s support of King Su was once again attacked for “usurping the throne”, Wei Xi bluntly said to King Su, “His Majesty summoned His Highness to return to the capital, but it was for the sake of comforting the Empress Dowager. Now that you’ve returned, in addition to going to the Empress Dowager to ask for peace, what is the point of appearing in the courtroom all the time? Those who don’t know, would think that His Highness has come back specifically to usurp the throne! Even if you are not ashamed, you should know how to avoid it, right?”

For his part, King Su said, “I am a member of the clan, so how can I not participate in the discussion of the new ruler? Could it be that the new ruler that Shangshu Wei intends to establish is not even a descendant of my Lu Clan?!”

He had a point, the clan established a clan son, and it was also necessary to ask the Hopi to be witnesses.

Even if there was no one particularly powerful in the clan right now, a new ruler agreed upon by the group of ministers would certainly need to be approved by most of the clan members, even if it was just going through the motions so how come he couldn’t come to the court?

Wei Xi see, and said he, “I heard that yesterday the Prince in the Qingxi Palace but a moment to go, but in Hui Yi Palace hovering for a long time, to the palace door key before retiring? Forgive me for saying so, the king has been succeeded, and now the age has been older, the nephew of the family, the old go to the aunt in front of, in the rite of passage, this is one; second, Hui Yi Palace is now not only only Su Empress Dowager live alone, there are many young egrets serving around, the king often go, inevitably give birth to a lot of rumors and whispers, the bad reputation of the royal family!”

“Wei Shangshu worry too much!” At this time, Jian Xu Bai came out and said, “Yesterday, in full view of everyone, we all know that the king is not alone to go to the harem to see the elders, is accompanied by this marquis. Originally only intended to stay a little in Hui Yi Palace and then leave, but because my wife is pregnant, but no enjoined to enter the palace to see the Queen Mother long time not see my wife and daughter, the heart of the miss, so more stayed in this marquis for a while, so that detailed inquiries about my wife’s daughter’s situation the king of the easygoing, did not urge The Queen Mother is my marquis’ full aunt, caring for my marquis’ family, but what can be rumored? Is it wrong for an aunt to be concerned about her nephew’s daughterinlaw?”

And the other way around, Wei Xi, “It’s not wise for Mr. Wei to set up a concubine Lu He Hao! Although this person is the late emperor’s own son, what he did, but there is a lot of shame on the late emperor shame on the clan shame on the world! Not to mention other things, the deaths of Her Royal Highness and the emperor’s soninlaw were the work of this man. This is the hand of this person! The evidence is overwhelming, who doesn’t know? To kill his aunt with his nephew, and indirectly cause the Empress Dowager to be griefstricken, such an unfilial and unrighteous person, how can he be high up on the throne and be a role model for all the people?”

“If the commoner Lu Hehao really ascends to the throne and becomes the emperor one day, it is said that what goes up must come down, and then the acts of regicide in the country against the family will not abound!”

“So yet what will continue the prosperity and peace of my Da Rui?!”

“What will convince the four barbarians to come to the court in all directions?”

“What will I take to console the ancestors of my Da Rui royal family?!”

Wei Xi said, “When Song Lu’s confession, Yan Hou was also in the temple, how only a few days to remember the fork? Generation of the country’s Grand Princess couple is clearly Yan Hou’s motherinlaw collusion Cui family killed, said Yan Hou’s wife and the Song family have not been amicable, some time ago its halfsiblings died prematurely, but also did not hear Yan Hou’s house has a sad sound out! Whether this matter is Song Lu’s own demise, or Marquis Yan’s wife because of her mother’s grandmother and father’s dislike of her in her early years, her hatred for her stepmother and halfbrother and sisterinlaw, secretly plotting to make the Jiangnan Hall heirless, is also unknown!”

“So if we are to pursue the deaths of the Grand Princess and her wife of the Dai Guo the wife of Marquis Yan should be the first to be imprisoned and tortured!”

“According to this, wouldn’t the Empress be hard to get out of it as well?” Jian Xu Bai sniffed and laughed out coldly, raised his long eyebrows and said in a chilling voice, “Everyone knows that when the late emperor was here, Her Highness the Grand Princess of Dai Guo made things difficult for the empress and empress, so how can we know that the empress did not hold a grudge and intend to take revenge? You should know that Song Lu’s confession at that time, can also be directly referring to the Empress!”

“In that case, before the wife of this Marquis goes to prison, is it not true that the Empress should take the lead in removing the phoenix crown, unclothing the Zhai garment, and returning the golden book and phoenix seal to the Dowager Empress or the Empress Dowager, and go to prison to await the trial?!”

The day’s court meeting ended in this atmosphere of saber rattling what disturbed Wei Xi was that he still had to find time to arrange the ceremony for the descent of Elder Princess Changxing!

It can’t be helped, who made him the Minister of Rites now?