Chapter 389: Died from greed

The news that the fifth prince was assassinated and the black-armored cavalry entered the city to surround the prime minister's mansion had spread throughout the city.

The Wenfu, which was in the whirlpool of the storm, was as calm as the eyes of the storm. Everyone firmly believed that the parents would bring back good news... Of course, they couldn't believe it, because the huge prime minister's mansion was surrounded and could not fly.

Before the black armored cavalry surrounded, Prime Minister Wen had already received the news that he entered the forbidden palace first and handed over the sign to see the Empress Dowager.

The Empress Dowager Wenzhuang did not avoid it. In just two quarters of an hour, a tall palace maid appeared in front of Chengtian Gate, showed the Empress Dowager's jade plaque to the gate guards, and led Prime Minister Wen into the palace.

While walking in, Wen Yanbo secretly looked at the kind palace maid. Halfway through the way, he finally couldn't help asking, "What's your name?"

The palace maid whispered: "My servant is Nianyao."

"Oh..." Wen Yanbo pondered for a while and asked softly: "You have always been in the palace?"

The palace maid looked at him strangely, but she still reluctantly replied: "No," and after that, she stepped up and walked towards the Cining Palace, obviously not wanting to talk to him.

Looking at her back as she was leaving, Wen Yanbo smiled bitterly and murmured: "It seems that this child is not wronged." After that, he quickly followed.

This time, Empress Dowager Wenzhuang did not change into the empress dowager's clothes in the Zen room, but was serious about her, and met him in the Yang Nian Hall of Cining Palace.

Looking at the old empress dowager who was wearing a palace outfit, leaning on a dragon head crutch, and as deep as autumn water, Wen Yanbo was silent for a moment with a complicated expression. Finally, he lifted the lower collar of the official uniform, pushed the gold mountain, turned the jade pillar, and knelt down tremblingly: "Old minister Wen Yanbo, kowtow to the Holy Empress Dowager, the Empress Dowager, the Empress Dowager, a thousand years old, a thousand years old..."

The expression of Empress Dowager Wenzhuang did not fluctuate because of Prime Minister Wen's long-term kneeling. Her eyes were bent in the endless darkness outside the door. After a long time, she said calmly: "If you had been like this in the early years, how could you have ended up in the field like this today?"

Wen Yanbo bowed down and said, "Originally, the old minister always thought that the Li family could do it, but my Wen family had no reason not to do it."

Empress Dowager Wenzhuang smiled slightly and said, "I am not greedy and seek death."

Wen Yanbo laughed terriblely, without saying anything. After a long time, he heard the old lady say slowly: "You are here to look for me now. What else can I expect except to live a life?"

Wen Yanbo heard the old empress dowager's implicit meaning and slowly looked up and said, "The Queen Mother has forgotten many things, but I don't know if you forgot the promise you made when you arrived in my mansion?"

Empress Dowager Wenzhuang's expression slightly darkened and said coldly: "Don't say anything to promise. Have you done little to break your trust in me over the years?" As she said that, she turned the dragon head to the ground and knocked her gently, and said angrily: "I won't say it far away, just talk about this time, why did you have to attack Yutian? Have you forgotten the four words "Everyone is safe" that I repeatedly reminded me?"

Wen Yanbo said with a grim expression: "Everyone is safe? Well, let's not talk about the past grudges. Just say that this time, your good grandson has brought people to our mansion to kill my Mr. Xixi to the door of the mansion, and forced him to death to the barbarians, which ruined our Wen family's reputation for a hundred years. I dare to ask the Queen Mother, is it tolerant, but who is not tolerant?"

Empress Dowager Wenzhuang's expression turned dark, and her gray hair remained motionless under the light. She pondered for a long time before whispering: "It's just your own fault."

Wen Yanbo stared at his eyes wide and suddenly roared in a low voice: "Aunt, do you really want to watch our Wen family disappear..."

Empress Dowager Wenzhuang's expression became tight and she interrupted him quickly, saying, "Don't talk nonsense, otherwise there will be no room for revolt!"

Wen Yanbo listened to the fact that he had a family, his attitude softened and he recalled emotionally: "In that thrilling day nineteen years ago, you came to my mansion alone. The old minister will never forget the situation when you met your father and cried bitterly."

As he said that, his eyes were red, he looked at the old empress dowager and choked and said, "It was at that time that my nephew realized that you were the sister of my father and my dear aunt. If it weren't for this, the old minister would not have stood so firmly on your side and Your Majesty... I thought that my relatives could have a stable life, but who would have thought that my wife and children would be separated now? Aunt, you can't forget our Wen family..."

"Enough!" The old empress dowager leaned heavily on her crutches and said slightly with white hair: "I am not a three-year-old child. You might as well put away this hypocritical appearance and leave yourself some of the last dignity of the prime minister..."

Wen Yanbo saw his little plot, and was exposed directly by the old empress dowager, and he couldn't help but speechless. The old empress dowager said quietly, "You said too, if it weren't for the old man visiting, you wouldn't know that there would be an aunt like me in the world!" The empress dowager said angryly, "At that time, Lao Man was just an illegitimate daughter who couldn't even enter the house. She was forced to enter the palace by chance and got favored by the late emperor and gave birth to a son, which made her a little change."

Empress Dowager Wenzhuang reached out and pointed at Wen Yanbo, sneered: "And all this is not something you have received from your Wen family."

Wen Yanbo also raised his neck and said unyieldingly: "But can you not admit it? Without the full support of our Wen family, the fifth prince of that year or the current emperor would not be able to stand in the court and strive for the Yuyu!" As he said, his hands gestured: "And, without my secret support, how could you disperse the Qin clans in the nine provinces, take root and sprout without being noticed by the Li family?"

Empress Dowager Wenzhuang said in a deep voice with a look of discomfort: "The stupidest thing that Lao Shi has done in her life is to cooperate with you, a seemingly smart idiot."

Wen Yanbo was extremely smart and could not hear others say that he was stupid. He was suffocated when he heard this and said, "I don't know where the old minister is stupid, so I'll ask the Empress Dowager to instruct me!"

"Greed! Never ending greed! You, your Wen family, have all died of greed!" The Empress Dowager Wenzhuang said with a angrily brow and said, "Did you give me less old body in the past twenty years? If you don't have old body, do you think Prime Minister Li would be assassinated for no reason? Prime Minister Jiang would retire so easily? Can you become the chief minister of the dynasty so smoothly?" These are all public cases. No one can tell the right and wrong of the past, and the old empress dowager would not be afraid that he would gossip everywhere.

Wen Yanbo swallowed his mouth and said, "So... I said why did you get help from God at that time? You would have been promoted to three levels within two months and reach the sky."

The old lady was angry and continued to scold her in a low voice: "You said you hope to get Mo Yu. If you didn't break up her good fortune by yourself, you thought that with your embroidered pillow and a straw-clad deed, you could have the unparalleled Princess Mo Yu recommended her pillow? Dreaming about you..." The old lady spat fiercely, obviously very entangled with this matter.

Wen Yanbo said pale and said, "Mo Yu...Mo Yu... doesn't you really like me?" His face was full of depression and loss, and his body was hunched over.

Empress Dowager Wenzhuang spat and said, "How can you compare to that person from head to toe?"

Wen Yanbo's mouth trembled violently for a few times, and finally said dejectedly: "It seems that I was arrogant in the past, but I would like to ask my aunt to save the Wen family because of the relationship between the broken bones and the tendons..."

The Empress Dowager Wenzhuang no longer had the interest in cursing. Her upper body was obviously hunched over, and her voice became helpless: "It's not that I don't want to help you, but this time you made a big fuss, and my royal family can no longer tolerate you."

Wen Yanbo hissed and heard the words, "It's not the royal family, it's Qin Yutian! As long as you can stop Qin Yutian's revenge, our family can survive this... I know, he listens to you the most."

Empress Dowager Wenzhuang sneered and said, "If he could still be at the mercy of his elders, it would be disappointing me." Looking at Wen Yanbo calmly, the old lady said in a deep voice: "You are my past, he is my hope, it's that simple."

Wen Yanbo was stunned by the old empress dowager's resolute tone and murmured, "Do you really want to give up your family?"

The old empress dowager closed her eyes for a long time, but she said word by word: "I am the empress dowager of the Qin Dynasty and the grandmother of the royal family. She has no other identity."

Wen Yanbo lowered his head and was silent for a while, sighed and said, "Yellow Liang must wake up in his dream, and the right and wrong will be gone." When he looked up again, he looked calm and determined. He was afraid of the dust on his body, so he stood up tremblingly, and smiled at Empress Dowager Wenzhuang and said, "Since the old empress dowager is not willing to recognize this relative, then our Wen family will not force it." He said proudly: "The kneeling just now is thanking my aunt for help for twenty years."

The Empress Dowager Wenzhuang picked up the somewhat scattered white hair, picked up the teacup and took a sip, and said lightly: "It seems that Prime Minister Wen is going to negotiate with Lao Shi."

Wen Yanbo nodded and laughed at himself: "Yes, the old minister has colluded with you for twenty years, and there are still some things that can be seen." As he said that, he stretched out his thin and dry right hand, bent and pointed, "For example, Qin Yutian's true identity..." Bent and bent and said, "For example, you played the disgraceful role in the battle for the throne of the kings."

"For example, the truth about Princess Mo Yu's marriage back then..." Wen Yanbo was still criticizing him, but he heard the old lady shouting: "Enough, let's talk about your conditions!"

Wen Yanbo's mouth curled slightly and he laughed softly: "I want to protect the incense of Wen's family, Wen's family... cannot be removed from the list."

"Discussion!" Empress Dowager Wenzhuang said coldly: "Where can there be a finished egg under the collapse of the nest?"

Wen Yanbo's heart skipped a beat. In fact, he was just saying that he wanted to see if this old empress dowager who had created many miracles could create miracles again. The only luck was broken, and he felt relaxed in his heart and said softly: "Leave a trace of remnant to wait for a comeback?"

Empress Dowager Wenzhuang did not refuse this time, and thought for a moment and asked, "Who do you want to keep?"

Wen Yanbo had a long plan and simply said, "Mingli, my second son."

Empress Dowager Wenzhuang closed her eyes and pondered for a moment, and said softly: "Switch to Mingyi."

Wen Yanbo's face stopped and he paused for a moment and said in a low voice: "The child Mingyi is already stupid, so let's keep Mingli."

Empress Dowager Wenzhuang said without comment: "As a father, you don't want to sacrifice any son, and this old body understands it very well..." After a change of the subject, he said lightly: "But don't treat others as fools. Even if Mingyi deceives the world for a while, it doesn't mean he can never be exposed." He sighed in his heart and said: "Just like me, I will eventually be defeated or even broken into fame..."

Wen Yanbo's breathing became rapid, and after a while he was difficult to say: "In fact, it's not the case... No one knows his son, but Mingyi's child is filial, smart, and persistent. If the whole family dies and only leaves him, he will fall into endless revenge throughout his life, and it is likely that the last bit of my Wen family will be ruined."

He said with a difficult smile and said softly: "Mingli is different. He is greedy for life and fears death, timid and cowardly. If he can live a life of silence, he will definitely be careful to hide his name... Although he is a little ashamed, he can at least pass on my Wen family."

Empress Dowager Wenzhuang was slightly moved and said, "It seems that you have thought it through carefully, and I agree."

Wen Yanbo bowed to the end after hearing this, saying, "Thank you, the Empress Dowager, for mercy. I will leave. Let's see you again in the next life..." After saying this, his body was even more hunched and he looked much thinner.

Looking at his ugly figure, Empress Dowager Wenzhuang relaxed her heart and finally couldn't help but whisper: "Actually, you can stay in the palace for the time being, no one can take you away."

Wen Yanbo smiled gratefully and shook his head and said softly: "I am almost sixty years old, my soul is scattered and my oil is gone. How can I seize the vitality of my children?"

Empress Dowager Wenzhuang looked at him deeply, nodded tiredly, and waved: "Go along the way."

Wen Yanbo tidied up his clothes and said with a clear laugh: "The Empress Dowager doesn't need to worry about it. The old minister has been in power for twenty years. He has enjoyed all the glory and wealth of this world, and he has long had no regrets."

Empress Dowager Wenzhuang did not speak anymore, and watched him leave Cining Palace with a steady look, then sighed with fatigue and stood up tremblingly with a cane. Eunuch Qiu quickly stepped forward to support him. The old lady walked in and asked in a blank voice: "You said that the good in Buddhist scriptures will be rewarded with good deeds, and evil deeds will be rewarded with evil. Does it really exist?"

Eunuch Qiu thought for a while and said, "I think it's probably there. Otherwise, the eighteen-level hell will be arranged in the underworld?"

Empress Dowager Wenzhuang was slightly stunned when she heard this, then nodded and smiled, "You old guy, you see things differently from others." Eunuch Qiu was about to make some fun, but she heard the old lady say quietly, "If this is true, then I must go to hell."

Eunuch Qiu shook his head and smiled, "It's not your turn to go to hell. The people of Daqin all say that you are the living Bodhisattva today."

Empress Dowager Wenzhuang shook her head and chuckled softly: "Old man can deceive the world, but can't deceive ghosts and gods. What's the use of even the birth of Buddhas in thousands of families?"

Eunuch Qiu is the personal old eunuch of Empress Dowager Wenzhuang. He is very clear about the past. Because the Empress Dowager has never let him leave Cining Palace, he is afraid that he will talk nonsense everywhere. After hearing the Empress Dowager Wenzhuang's words, he naturally can understand her current mood. After pondering for a while, he said softly: "In order to survive, I can't say who is right or wrong."

Empress Dowager Wenzhuang nodded and murmured: "But it doesn't matter now, because whether I can survive or not will have a greater impact on the Qin family."

Eunuch Qiu said in panic when he heard this: "Empress Dowager, you are the Dinghai Sword Needle of the Old Qin family, so don't be able to think about it..."

Empress Dowager Wenzhuang couldn't help but smile, "What are you saying? I'm not tired of living." Eunuch Qiu hurriedly said, "That's the old slave who heard it." Just as he was about to pick up his mouth twice, he heard the old queen say gloomy: "Even if you die, you will pull Li Hun's old dog to clear the way for my good grandson."

The old eunuch shivered and helped the Empress Dowager Wenzhuang into the dormitory. He quickly changed the subject and asked: "Do you think Prime Minister Wen will go to find Li... Old Dog?" He was worried that Wen Yanbo would rely on Li Hun for the sake of being content.

"No." Empress Dowager Wenzhuang insisted on the railway track: "If he were willing to live under the jurisdiction of others, Wen Yanbo would not have fallen to this point today."

The old eunuch was silent. The old empress dowager picked up her pen and wrote a few lines of words on the paper, put them in an envelope, and ordered in a deep voice: "Take my jade plaque out of the palace, and then give this letter to Yutian. If he agrees, he will send the Wenmingli out of the city."

"What if I don't agree?" The old eunuch heard the uncertainty in the tone of the empress dowager and asked nervously.

"Leave it to fate..." The old empress dowager closed her eyes and murmured: "A king should not obey anyone's instructions. He should let his heart decide the direction."
Chapter completed!