Mrs. Xu didn't expect that Qin Zhao was not only not angry, but also spoke so calmly, and was a little stunned for a moment.
She breathed a sigh of relief and planned to leave.
Qin Zhao stopped her and said, "I have something to ask you, just tell the truth."
Mrs. Xu quickly responded.
"Have you ever seen your mother's body?" Qin Zhao asked the first question.
Xu shook his head: "No."
"Then how did you know that your mother passed away?" Qin Zhao asked again.
Xu didn't seem to expect that Qin Zhao would ask such a question. She was stunned for a moment and then said: "The woman remembered that my wife suddenly left home that year, and the master chased her out. About half a month later, the master came back, and only brought back the wife."
The memorial tablet. The master said that the lady has gone."
As for what exactly caused her death, she didn't know, and the master never told her.
For her, the death of her wife meant that she had the opportunity to ascend to the throne. She was so excited about this that she couldn't sleep well for several nights.
Qin Zhao was silent.
Mrs. Xu thought she didn't believe it, so she added: "A civilian woman really doesn't know why my wife left home suddenly."
"Did mother say anything to you before she left?" Qin Zhao asked again.
Mrs. Xu thought about it carefully and then said: "Madam once specially called the civilian woman over and explained a few words. She just wanted to take good care of the master in the future. Madam also said that she should not treat Empress Bo..."
Her voice became lower and lower.
After the madam left, she still treated Qin Zhao poorly, because Qin Zhao's existence reminded her all the time that she was once just a concubine, and her superior position was just the position given by the madam.
She eventually replaced Zhou and became Qin Shaowen's stepmother. After all these years, Qin Zhao surpassed Qin Shuang and became the most noble concubine in the dynasty.
Even if Qin Zhao wanted to cause trouble for her today, she would have nothing to say.
"Without my mother's support, how could you, Xu, have ascended to the throne?" Qin Zhao curled his lips sarcastically.
Mrs. Xu bowed her head and knelt on the ground: "It's the fault of the common woman. The empress has resentment and came against the common woman. Shuang'er is innocent..."
"Qin Shuang is not necessarily innocent. You mother and daughter just didn't expect that one day the Imperial Palace would become a noble concubine. Times have changed. Since your mother was tolerant to you back then, I will not criticize you harshly anymore. You can just serve your father well in the future. Get up."
"Qin Zhao opened his lips calmly.
If we really want to investigate, she is the real culprit who caused her mother's early death. The Xu family and her daughter have to be ranked behind her. How can she have the face to blame the Xu family and her daughter?
After Mrs. Xu left the ancestral hall, Qin Zhao looked at Qin Shaowen from a distance.
To unlock Qin Shaowen's seal, her hope still rests on Ding Lian. Only by unlocking Qin Shaowen's blocked memory can she know where her mother was buried after her death.
I hope she will have the opportunity to pay homage to her mother's grave during her lifetime.
Qin Zhao himself also knew that her appearance would not be helpful to Qin Shaowen's condition. On the contrary, her appearance would aggravate Qin Shaowen's condition.
When she left the Qin Mansion the next day, she did not see Mother Chen.
However, Qin Shuang burst into tears the moment she walked out of the Qin Mansion, and Mrs. Xu also burst into tears.
As a bystander, Qin Zhao could not understand the grief of their mother and daughter when they parted, but he was also moved by this scene.
As the carriage drove away, Qin Shuang raised the curtain and stared at Mrs. Xu who was standing in front of Qin's house.
Qin Zhao thought that if her mother was still here, she would definitely be reluctant to leave her when she returned home.
At this moment, she actually envied Qin Shuang for being a mother-in-law.
It wasn't until she walked through the busiest street in Kyoto and couldn't see Qin's house anymore that Qin Shuang was willing to put down the car curtain and sit aside in a daze, as if she had lost her soul.
The road back to the palace was smooth, and until he entered Jinyang Palace, Qin Zhao actually felt as if he was returning home.
Xiao Atom arrived in Qin Zhao's arms as soon as possible. He seemed to sense that she was a little tired. The child obediently sat in her arms and played with the nine rings.
Qin Zhao thought she was not smart, but because of her strong memory, after Xiao Atom dismantled the nine-link ring, she put the nine-link ring back together again.
Xiao Atom couldn't help but clapped his hands, applauding: "My mother-in-law is so amazing."
Qin Zhao pinched the child's face, knowing that the child was trying to make her happy. She handed the little atom to Baozhu and said, "I'm a little tired. Let's go and rest for a while."
Xiao Atom watched Qin Zhao enter the bedroom: "What's wrong with the concubine?"
Baozhu remembered that Qin Zhao had been in a very low mood since talking to Chen's mother: "The imperial concubine has something on her mind. Once she figures it out, the imperial concubine will not be sad anymore."
Xiao Atom didn't ask any more questions after that, and he continued to play with the Nine Links.
Baozhu looked at it and was secretly speechless. She thought that His Highness had only done it half-heartedly when he dismantled the Nine Links. This time, she knew that it was not a coincidence when she saw His Majesty dismantling the Nine Links step by step.
When Xiao Ce came over, Baozhu was playing with Xiao Atom, but Qin Zhao was nowhere to be seen.
"Where is the imperial concubine?" Xiao Ce did not look at the child, and the first person to ask was Qin Zhao.
"The imperial concubine did not have a good rest last night and is resting now." Baozhu's implication was that he hoped that the emperor would not disturb the imperial concubine's rest.
As a result, they saw the emperor striding past them and heading towards his bedroom.
Xiao Ce went to the bed and saw that Qin Zhao was indeed sleeping, but she was asleep with her brows furrowed into the word "Chuan", as if she had a lot of things on her mind.
He sat quietly for a while before leaving the dormitory and calling Baozhu over to ask questions.
"Is your concubine unhappy in the Qin family?" Xiao Ce asked directly.
Baozhu said na na: "Maybe it's because the master's condition has worsened, and because the queen misses the madam, the mood of the imperial concubine is a little low?"
Regarding the conversation between the imperial concubine and Mother Chen, she could not tell the emperor.
Fortunately, Xiao Ce didn't ask any more questions and left Jinyang Palace.
That night, Qin Zhao was turned over.
In the past, Qin Zhao would have returned to normal after taking a nap, but this time he was still groggy and unmotivated.
The moment Xiao Ce saw Qin Zhao, he knew that she was not in a high mood. After dinner, he was rarely in the mood and took Qin Zhao to eat.
"I heard from Baozhu that your father's condition has worsened? Do you want me to send an imperial doctor to see you?" Xiao Ce rarely took the initiative.
Qin Zhao slowed down and said, "I have asked Miss Luo to see my father's illness. There is currently no cure for my father's disease. Luo Qing told me that I will go to see my father from time to time. Thank you for your concern."
Xiao Ce nodded slightly and chatted: "What kind of person is your mother?"
He only knew that the Queen Mother Guo was a gloomy person, and that the Queen Mother was his biological mother. A mother who Qin Zhao could remember must be a very gentle woman, right?
Qin Zhao thought of Zhou she had seen in her dream, and her memories of Zhou all came from dreams.
"I remember that my mother was very gentle and beautiful, but those memories are from my childhood and are a little blurry." Qin Zhao said and smiled: "My mother is a very good person.
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She is a mother who is willing to protect her with her life.
