Ji Wenxuan was able to refuse the forced marriage of the eldest princess of Hengyang for the sake of his wife. It seems that he was not a person who was so indifferent to family ties as he said, but his attitude was firm and he was not moved by the pile of advice given by Sheng Shaoqing.
It’s really a headache!
"System, I want to record Wenxuan's recent itinerary."
[The Office and the Disciplinary Office are two points and one line.]
[Today’s new location: Imperial Study Room.]
Sheng Shaoqing: "…………"
"Then did he do anything unusual, or did his subordinates do anything strange?"
[What is the host’s definition of exception?]
"That is, have you done anything unusual?"
【If this is the case, his current behavior is very abnormal.】
Sheng Shaoqing:???
[After returning home, he changed his clothes and went to Princess Linyang’s mansion.]
Sheng Shaoqing was puzzled by Ji Wenxuan's operation. Is this the difference between the god of learning and her?
Just like every time she was still calculating carefully step by step, Xueshen had already skipped all kinds of troublesome steps to get the answer.
Sheng Shaoqing thought hard for a long time, but couldn't figure out why Ji Wenxuan did one thing in front of her, then turned around and said another.
While saying that he didn't care about Ji Baochuan's life or death, he ran to Princess Linyang's mansion to see Ji Baochuan.
Forsythia walked in again at this time, "Queen Mother, Mrs. Li would like to see you."
Sheng Shaoqing woke up and said, "It's only been a few days and you can't bear it anymore?"
Forsythia didn't understand what the Queen Mother meant and just smiled awkwardly.
"Just say that Ai's family is exhausted and he's gone."
Forsythia continued, "Mrs. Li said that if you don't see her today, she won't be able to kneel down until you see her."
"Why is there another person who threatens me in such a stupid way?"
Sheng Shaoqing herself admits that she is full of rebelliousness, and she is always willing to accept the soft rather than the tough. It would be fine if others are willing to negotiate with her. The more people use this method of forcing her and kidnapping her morally, she will never
There will be resistance from the beginning.
"If she wants to kneel, let her kneel, prepare some good mats for her, give her the Ai family's big cloak, and let her kneel for an hour or two before coming in."
Forsythia heard that Sheng Shaoqing meant to anger Mrs. Li, so she followed the Queen Mother's instructions and went to do things.
Mrs. Li looked happy when she saw Forsythia coming out, "Did the Queen Mother let me in?"
Forsythia looked at the humble appearance of Mrs. Li, who used to be so proud, and felt a bit of sadness in her heart. If one day the Queen Mother also annoyed her, would she refuse to see her like this?
Forsythia dismissed the chaotic thoughts in her mind and secretly comforted herself that the Queen Mother would definitely not do this to her. She shook her head at Mrs. Li and waved to the female historians behind her, asking them to step forward.
Mrs. Li looked puzzled as the female historians put thick cushions under her knees and covered herself with a very thick white fox cloak.
"The Empress Dowager ordered that since Mrs. Li wants to kneel for a long time, the Ai family cannot bear to violate her wishes, but for the sake of Mrs. Li's rich and noble body, these extra things have been added for you, so you can kneel here."
After Forsythia announced her decree, she turned around to leave, but Mrs. Li suddenly rushed over and pulled the hem of her skirt, "The Queen Mother, did the Queen Mother really say that?!"
Forsythia leaned over and gently opened Mrs. Li's hand and said, "The Queen Mother has spoken, and this servant dare not lie."
Mrs. Li dejectedly let go of her hand, and as soon as it touched the ground, she was trembling with ice at the touch between her fingers.
Forsythia looked at Madam Li with some pity and said, "Madam, just think about it here."
Mrs. Li's personal maid, Shi Siyun, also felt distressed and helped Mrs. Li back to the cushion. She had long told her master that it was useless to beg the Queen Mother now, but the master still insisted on coming. This was in vain, and she used her own warmth.
After touching someone else's cold ass with her face, the Queen Mother may not take Madam to heart anymore.
Mrs. Li silently knelt on the soft cushion. Perhaps this means that good will be rewarded with good and evil will be punished with evil. It is not that there will be no retribution. The time has not come yet. Now she is just paying the price for what she did in the past.
The late emperor was indeed right about the person. Feng Qing was indeed more like a mother of the country than she was.
Mrs. Li smiled bitterly, straightened her kneeling posture, and closed her eyes, hoping that time would pass faster.
Siyun was not even seated by Mrs. Li, but her master was kneeling. She, a slave, couldn't stand and watch the joke, so she knelt down obediently with Mrs. Li. However, she was not treated as well as Mrs. Li and could only stand on the cold ground.
She waited anxiously for the Queen Mother to change her mind.
"Master, I want my maid to tell you that you shouldn't have come today. You and the Queen Mother have already had a bad relationship before. Why bother coming here now and letting your face be trampled on? You have the Li family behind you."
, What is behind the Queen Mother? As long as you stick close to the Li family, you can still stand tall in the palace!"
Mrs. Li scolded, "What do you know!"
Siyun felt aggrieved: Of course I don’t understand, but I understand that my knees are cold and painful.
I don't know how much time passed, but when Mrs. Li seemed to be able to see her dead mother in front of her eyes, she finally heard the sound of a "squeak" door opening coming from the inner hall, "Mrs. Li, the Queen Mother invites you."
When Mrs. Li just stood up, she suddenly felt dizzy. Even though she was covered with a big cloak, there were soft cushions under her knees. She didn't know how long she had been kneeling. When she woke up from her dazed state, she just felt that her whole body was
It was cold, and her legs from the waist down were no longer her normal.
When she approached the inner hall with Siyun's support and was about to kneel down to salute the Queen Mother, the Queen Mother said warmly, "I have been kneeling for so long just now. There is no need to kneel now. Forsythia, please watch your seat."
Mrs. Li was confused by Sheng Shaoqing's attitude, but she could only be arranged to sit under Sheng Shaoqing's head.
"Queen Mother, my concubine..."
"Do you know why the Ai family made you kneel for so long?"
Mrs. Li had already thought about the countermeasures when she came in. She lowered her head and said, "It's my fault. I should have come to see the Queen Mother as soon as I came out of Yeting Prison. Later, thanks to the Queen Mother's forgiveness, I allowed my concubine to move to Yilan Court. It should be even more important."
I came to express my gratitude, but I was ill due to illness a few days ago, and I was afraid that the Queen Mother would be affected by her illness, so I..."
Seeing that she completely misunderstood what he meant, Sheng Shaoqing said helplessly, "Wrong."
Mrs. Li was speechless. It had been a long time since she tried to figure out other people's thoughts, and her skills were rusty. What's more, the style of the Queen Mother was completely different from that of the late Emperor, so she didn't know if her method would work.
"As a palace concubine, you colluded with outsiders to steal the palace's property. The first crime is; secondly, you asked for permission when you asked for permission. Why did you kneel down and force the Ai family to do this?!"
Mrs. Li looked confused and said, "I am... I am afraid... I am afraid that the Queen Mother will not summon me, so I made this move..."
Isn't this sentence a common code word in the palace?
If she doesn’t meet, she will kneel down until she is willing to meet. Will this person understand that she means that she must meet and express her determination to meet?
Could it be that he was punished to kneel because of these words???
Then it’s too much of a loss for her???
"The Ai family can let things go in the past, but what happens in the future depends on your choice."
Mrs. Li knew that the Queen Mother was going to talk about something serious, so she said seriously, "This is what I am here for today."
These days she tossed and turned, thinking over and over again. Even if the Queen Mother had plotted against her, she had no other choice but to get on the Queen Mother's boat. After all, the Li family's plot could be found out in just a few days, and the Queen Mother was holding back.
Apart from other unknown reasons, I am afraid that I also want to give myself a chance.
From the time she was inexplicably released from Yeting Prison to the time she moved into Yilan Court, her life seemed to be the same as before. Those nightmare days gradually disappeared from her mind like a dream, but she knew in her heart that she could no longer
Understand that the person who can make her have everything as before today and make her have nothing tomorrow is the Queen Mother.
After such a painful lesson, she finally understood that the days when she had the final say had ceased to exist the day the Queen Mother became the Queen Mother, and the late Emperor had probably already figured this out.
She seemed to finally understand that the pity in the late Emperor's eyes when he passed away was like looking at a cicada, waiting for her to destroy herself.
Li was already dissatisfied with herself, and her younger brother kept putting pressure on her. As long as the Queen Mother knew that her leaking the secret ruined everything, Li would destroy herself in an instant.
It would be better to risk our lives and together with the Queen Mother, there is still a glimmer of hope for survival.
"I ask the Queen Mother to step aside. I have something secret to tell you."
Sheng Shaoqing understood and waved everyone to leave.
Only Siyun, who was beside Mrs. Li, hesitated and refused to retreat. Seeing his master's sharp eyes glancing at him, he hurriedly followed Aning and Forsythia out.
Mrs. Li's knees, which had been resting for a while in the palace, were no longer stiff. After everyone left, Mrs. Li immediately knelt down in front of Sheng Shaoqing.
"I am guilty!"
Sheng Shaoqing didn't say anything. He only raised his hand to take the tea cup on the table, gently pushed the lid of the cup, blew on the foam, took a slight sip, then stared at Mrs. Li and said, "The sage said, you can correct your mistakes if you know them, and there is no greater virtue.
.”
Mrs. Li nodded slightly and continued, "Isn't the Queen Mother curious about why I stole?"
"Although I am not from a famous family in Beijing, I am from a famous family. How can I be so shameless?"
Sheng Shaoqing asked doubtfully, "Isn't it to raise military funds for the Li family, support the troops, and go south to attack Jingjing to restore the glory of the Li family?"
Mrs. Li nodded, "This is just one of them."
Now it was Sheng Shaoqing's turn to remain silent. She thought this reason was outrageous enough, could there be something more outrageous?
"Since the Jin Dynasty, the Li family has been among the upper-class families. When they were completely victorious, they were known as the "Li family's half dynasty". Most of the important officials in the court at that time were from the Li family, otherwise they had some twists and turns with the Li family.
relationship. Even now, many aristocratic families still have the blood of my family, Li."
"Later, the world was divided into three parts, and the Jin Dynasty royal family was forced to go south. The founder of Nanjing just changed the position of the Jin Dynasty. Since then, the Li family has become worse day by day, and it has split into many
Branches, some people even changed their surnames to avoid disaster and became descendants of other families."
Speaking of this, Mrs. Li sneered, "I am the only Li family in Jiangzhou who still retains the name of the Li family, but it has fallen from a first-class family to an inferior one now. But every generation of family heads tries to restore their ancestral lineage."
The foundation is our own responsibility, and even if a foolish old man can move mountains, I, the Li family, may not be able to do so."
"It's a pity..." Mrs. Li paused, "They are becoming more and more obsessed. If the daughters in the family are of some use, they will be used for marriage. This is especially true for husbands. They are proud of gaining power and wealth, and this is why concubines get married.
Come to the palace."
"I used to be in such an environment. Although I felt something was wrong, I still enjoyed it peacefully... It wasn't until I was in Yeting Prison a few days ago that I finally figured out why I was still in prison after the family had spent so much effort planning this.
Living a miserable life."
"If you don't stand upright, how can you convince the public?"
"If this method is used to revitalize the family, the ancestors from a hundred years ago may be angry and come back to life from their ancestral graves."
Mrs. Li said that she was so old and licked her chapped lips due to dry mouth. Sheng Shaoqing frowned and saw her miserable state. He couldn't help but feel pity and handed over the teacup in his hand.
Mrs. Li looked up in shock, but she didn't dare not accept it. She took it tremblingly, took a symbolic sip, and quickly thanked her.
"Later, the Li family themselves were divided into two factions. One group advocated taking advantage of Northern Liang to attack Nanjing, while the other advocated relying on Nanjing and slowly trying to conquer Northern Liang."
"Then your brother is in the first category?"
Mrs. Li nodded, "Although I am a prostitute, I have gradually understood the obsession of the family, but..."
Sheng Shaoqing continued, "You can't resist the coercion of your family's nurturing grace, and the inducement of your future position as Queen Mother, so you resort to dangerous tactics to find a good future for yourself. Is Ai Jia right?"
Mrs. Li smiled bitterly and said, "The Queen Mother knows things like a god, so I'm willing to take advantage of you."
Sheng Shaoqing was silent for a long time, and Mrs. Li might not have spoken for a long time. After a while, Mrs. Li sighed and said, "I finally understand why the late emperor chose you to be His Majesty's adoptive mother instead of someone else."
"The Queen Mother has no family to support her. Others may see it as a shortcoming of the Queen Mother, but in His Majesty's eyes, this may be your greatest advantage. Only you will fight to the death for His Majesty wholeheartedly."
Sheng Shaoqing also smiled bitterly. Even though the late emperor had exhausted all his agencies, he didn't expect that a system would send her Sheng Shaoqing.
"I came here just to find a way out for myself."
"What are you doing?"
Mrs. Li bowed down again and said, "The Queen Mother spared my life and let everything remain as before. Naturally, I want to repay the favor. I have told the Queen Mother everything I know. I want to remind the Queen Mother that now it is not just the Li family."
I am afraid that many children from aristocratic families have been involved in this family matter, and the whole family will be affected by it. If the Queen Mother wants to deal with it, she will be faced with many obstacles."
"Also, sometimes, what the Queen Mother hears and sees may not be true."
Mrs. Li's words awakened Sheng Shaoqing. Ji Wenxuan openly told him that he had severed relations with Ji Baochuan, and then turned around and quietly went to find his daughter. Among them, one of the two things he heard and what he saw must be a lie.
of.
And from all the signs, it seems that the matter of severing relations is probably fake.
Ji Wenxuan acted like this in front of her. If the system hadn't told her that the little old man sneaked away to see his daughter, she would have almost believed that Ji Wenxuan had given up on Ji Baochuan.
She believed it, and so did others...
Then, for Shen Gui, Ji Baochuan will lose its use value!
How could a family's abandoned son rely on her to control Ji Wenxuan?!
Sheng Shaoqing wanted to understand this, stood up and said excitedly, "I understand!"
