In Renshou Palace, Empress Dowager Zhuang is handling the backlog of official duties in recent days.

After all, she was old and had been seriously ill for a long time before she recovered. It was only then that she finally realized more deeply how difficult it was to recuperate in the countryside.

Leprosy is not an ordinary cold. The contagiousness alone makes everyone afraid. I don’t know how those two silly men dared to take her in.

Besides, the family’s conditions were obviously very poor, and I had to keep a patient after eating the whole meal.

Empress Dowager Zhuang sighed.

"Empress Dowager, have you remembered your days in the countryside again?" Eunuch Qin asked with a smile.

"Yes." Empress Dowager Zhuang did not deny it, "At that time, they lied to the Ai family that they had tuberculosis and told the Ai family not to go out, so as not to get sick to the villagers."

Eunuch Qin was surprised: "Did you really believe it?"

Empress Dowager Zhuang sighed, "Can the Ai family not believe it? The Ai family remembered nothing at that time."

When Eunuch Qin thought, he was also: "What...what later?"

Empress Dowager Zhuang recalled: "Later, after about ten days and half a month, they had dinner with the Ai family."

"Ah..." Eunuch Qin was surprised, "Is healed in half a month?"

"No." Empress Dowager Zhuang shook her head, "It's just that it's not contagious. I continued to take the medicine and took it for half a year."

Most people would not do this. Even if leprosy is cured, they will be avoided like snakes and scorpions.

"Miss Gu and Xiao Xiu treat you sincerely, and I am happy for you." Eunuch Qin's words came from the heart. He met the Queen Mother when he was sent to the cold palace.

He was a little eunuch in the cold palace. He was attracted by the virtuous queen and wanted to serve him.

Later, Empress Xiande left the cold palace and was taken out together. In the blink of an eye, he had accompanied the Empress Dowager for decades of ups and downs.

There are many people who curry favor with the Queen Mother, but few people who really feel sorry for the Queen Mother and do not ask for anything in return.

If the Empress Dowager is not the Empress Dowager, then they will not be the ones that the Empress Dowager sees.

Miss Zhuang always complains that the Empress Dowager loves Miss Gu more than her family, but Miss Zhuang doesn’t think about it. Is she really as much as Miss Gu’s sincerity to the Empress Dowager?

I walked alone and lonely for most of my life, and the heights are so cold. Who would have thought that I would meet so many caring people in my twilight years?

"It's Xiao Xiu..." Eunuch Qin also saw something wrong between Empress Dowager Zhuang and Xiao Xiu Xiu. Although he was the empress dowager's confidant, the empress dowager did not tell him everything.

He guessed half of the Queen Mother’s thoughts, but he couldn’t guess the other half anyway.

"Is it because he looks like the deceased little marquis?"

He asked carefully.

The Empress Dowager had never poisoned Mr. Xiao, but the emperor did not believe it, and Mr. Xuanping did not believe it, and people in the world did not believe it, but I was afraid that even the Zhuang family members thought it was the work of Mr. Zhuang.

The difference is that the banker will not blame the empress dowager.

But I was always so wronged that the Empress Dowager was afraid that she would feel a knot in her heart when she saw someone so similar to Mr. Xiao.

Of course, this is what Eunuch Qin thinks. It is unknown whether the Empress Dowager thinks so.

"Ai family..." Empress Dowager Zhuang was about to say something when a panicked voice from the palace maid came from outside the study, "Your Majesty! You can't go in!"

"I am the emperor! The whole world is my! A mere Renshou Palace will block the door once or twice. Do you want to rebel?"

It was the emperor's angrily shout.

Empress Dowager Zhuang frowned impatiently and gave a wink at Eunuch Qin.

Eunuch Qin walked out in a whisk and said to the palace maid: "You retreat." He bowed to the emperor again, "Your Majesty, please."

"snort!"

The emperor glared at everyone coldly, shook his sleeves and entered the study room of Empress Dowager Zhuang: "The Empress Dowager is such a good method! She is not idle in recuperating in Renshou Palace, so she has to give me ugly look! Will the Empress Dowager be ashamed of me to be purified for one day?"

The eunuch Qin who chased in looked at the empress dowager, and then looked at the pale-faced palace servants in the room, and their faces became very ugly.

Empress Dowager Zhuang said indifferently: "You all retreat."

"Yes." Eunuch Qin and a member of the palace retreated.

Empress Dowager Zhuang glanced at the emperor expressionlessly and threw the note in her hand on the table: "What are you crazy again!"

The emperor sneered: "I should ask the Queen Mother this, what is the madman? Isn't you enough to do so? Is it not satisfy to control half of the country? Isn't it fun to force my mother to the temple? How cruel do you have to be? Do you have to kill all the people around me one by one?"

Empress Dowager Zhuang frowned and said, "Who has the Ai family killed?"

"Ha!" The emperor stood at the desk, looking at the dignified and majestic Queen Mother Zhuang and sarcastically, "Which Queen Mother did this show? Is he still not sure if he has done it?"

The coldness flashed through Queen Mother Zhuang's eyes, but her expression was still neither salty nor light: "The Ai family has done too much, I don't know what you are referring to."

The emperor laughed angrily: "I finally admit that you are a crazy and vicious woman! If you have anything, come to me! Why did you kill Zhang? Why did she mess with you!"

"Parent Zhang?" Empress Dowager Zhuang frowned strangely.

The emperor pointed his hand at Empress Dowager Zhuang: "Stop pretending! Last night, Zhang was summoned by the Empress Dowager to Renshou Palace, and when he returned, he committed suicide by hanging his beam! The Empress Dowager dares to say that you didn't kill him!"

Empress Dowager Zhuang sneered, raised her eyes lightly, and curled her lips as if mocking and ridiculing: "So what if it was killed by the Ai family?"

She slowly stood up, walked out from behind the desk, and walked towards the emperor step by step, "Can you destroy the Ai family or kill the Ai family? Even if the Ai family kills all the people around you, what can you do to use the Ai family?"

"You poisonous woman!" The emperor raised his hand!

"His Majesty!"

Xiao Liulang quickly walked in, threw away the crutches, hugged the emperor's hand, and blocked Queen Mother Zhuang behind him.

Seeing the young man suddenly blocking him, Empress Dowager Zhuang was stunned for a moment.

The young man had a thin body and poor legs and feet. He did not hesitate to stop the emperor's courage.

The emperor was furious: "Xiao Liulang, get out of here!"

"Not the Queen Mother." Xiao Liulang said solemnly. He did not give in and did not let go. "Not the Queen Mother, he was the minister. Last night, it was the minister who called Zhang to come over, and it had nothing to do with the Queen Mother."

The emperor was so angry that he was about to explode: "Even you talked to her! One or two of you... are all aimed at her! Xiao Liulang! You are the new top scorer I have chosen!"

Xiao Liulang said seriously: "I am Your Majesty's minister and Your Majesty's top scholar. It is precisely because of this that I do not want to see Your Majesty make mistakes. What Your Majesty does today will be recorded in the future. Your Majesty is a wise ruler. You should be successful in your achievements and be remembered forever. You should not ruin your reputation for a hundred years because of impulse."

The emperor asked sadly and depressedly: "Are I wrong? Am I wrong!"

Xiao Liulang said: "Your Majesty is not wrong, and the Empress Dowager is not wrong. The wrong thing is me. I shouldn't come to Zhang to find the matter. If Your Majesty wants to blame me, I will blame me. It was me who killed her."

"You...you..." The emperor was so angry that his eyes were blood-red and his whole body trembled.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, you must hear what happened." Eunuch Wei entered the house and advised him.

His Majesty endured the emotion that might be rampant at any time and nodded: "Okay, you said, what do you mean by looking for Zhang? Why did you kill her!"

Xiao Liulang cannot say that he is investigating a case fourteen years ago. The timing is wrong and the evidence is insufficient.

Xiao Liulang thought for a while and said, "I am giving her something to her for someone else. When I returned it to her, I found that she was in a bad mood."

This is the truth. Zhang Zheng was in a bad mood when he got the broken inkstone on the side, but Xiao Liulang didn't think too deeply at that time.

Now if you take a closer look, I am afraid that there will be a deeper bond and relationship between Zhang Zhenshi and the old priest wine than I imagined.

"Who are you delivering things for?" asked the emperor.

"I can't say it." Xiao Liulang said.

Could he not guess if he didn't say it?

How many people can work in the palace to send messages to the palace in person? Since it is a conclusion with Zhang, he must be about the same age as Zhang.

A name is about to come out.

"Turn Huo Jijiu!"

"Save it off! Do you want me to send Huo Jijiu to the Queen Mother's bedroom? Follow me to the imperial study!"

"Yes." Xiao Liulang then let go.

The old priest was summoned to the palace.

The emperor did not give him the opportunity to confess with Xiao Liulang, so he directly asked someone to take Xiao Liulang down, and then began to interrogate Zhang's relationship with the old priest.

The emperor did not tell the old priest that Zhang Zhang was dead.

But what kind of person is Lao Jijiu?

You can guess something is wrong even if you guess.

Most people try their best to clear their relationship with the female officials in the palace when interrogating them. After all, blaspheming the female officials is a serious crime, but Lao Jijiu thinks this is not simple.

He said without thinking much, he had an unknown past with Zhang Shishi, and there was a token of love between them. Last night, he asked someone to return the token to her, which was considered to have an understanding of each other's relationship.

The emperor's eyes turned cold: "Why is it over? Is it because of the Queen Mother?"

"I dare not! I am because... I am not long after my life..." The old priest began to pretend to be sick and sell miserable, and she was crying and white lotus methods. "...If your Majesty doesn't believe it, you can call the little genius doctor, and she diagnosed the terminal illness for the old priest."

...

After coming out of the imperial study room, the old priest met Xiao Liulang who had been waiting for a long time.

"I'm sorry, I've implicated the teacher." Xiao Liulang said guiltily.

Lao Jijiu sighed: "It's not your fault, it's because I'm not thinking well."
To be continued...