"What?" Ms. Cui raised her head slightly and looked at Zhao Zongheng, as if she was a little confused by his sudden mention of such an unrelated matter.
"My mother has always been indebted to you. She has taken care of everything for you since you entered the palace. Even your father has resentments." Zhao Zongheng looked at Cui calmly and said, "How do you think you got the prosperity?"
Chong, how did you get the position of Queen Mother?"
Empress Qi felt that she was unworthy of the Cui family and paved a very broad road for her.
She personally selected the queen for Zhao Zongheng, who was the daughter of the Si family.
The prosperity of the Si family at that time was the best help for the new emperor. She knew that she was seriously ill and might not be able to see that day, but she did not want to make the emperor suspicious, so she asked the late emperor to leave an edict and order Zhao Zongheng to succeed to the throne.
Welcoming the queen into the middle palace.
And for Cui...
"The Queen Mother never knew your plans, and she only left one sentence to me in the end." Zhao Zongheng lowered his eyes and looked at Mrs. Cui and said, "The Queen Mother asked me to promise you prosperity, wealth, and a stable life."
This is why even though Zhao Zongheng had doubts about Ms. Cui and even felt disgust in his heart, he still respected her as the Queen Mother and promised her a lifetime of kindness.
Ms. Cui was stunned when she heard Zhao Zongheng's words, murmuring and shaking her head: "I don't believe it... I don't believe it..."
"She was clearly the one who harmed me!" Ms. Cui said fiercely and firmly.
"That is the queen mother's palace, how could you not understand?" Zhao Zongheng's eyes were filled with disappointment, and he stared at Cui and said: "That day, my father came to see my mother and the queen met me on the way. He asked me about my studies and scolded me in many ways.
That’s why I turned around and left.”
"The emperor and his mother have been very close as husband and wife for many years. If he did not see his mother in the palace, he would go to the palace to look for her and wait." It is better to say that it is the emperor's petty thought to hide and tease Empress Qi.
"It was you who had the evil thoughts yourself and used such methods. In the end, you suffered the consequences, but you blamed others for everything."
"Ms. Cui, you are the one who deserves to die."
"..."
No one thought that the truth of the matter would be so ridiculous.
In the end, Cui screamed like a madman and was taken away. Zhao Zongheng ordered people to thoroughly investigate the death of Queen Qi.
With Cui's arrest, everyone around Cui was put on trial, and the truth about Empress Qi's death was finally revealed. But what people didn't expect was that Cui might be suspected of meddling in the death of the late emperor.
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The government and the public were shocked when these incidents came out.
Overnight, all the court officials involved with the Cui family were investigated and dealt with, and the turmoil lasted for half a month.
The last time Sin Ningchi went to see Mrs. Cui, she was locked up in a cold palace, all her fine clothes and jewelry were stripped off, and she sat haggard and motionless in the corner.
The sound of the door being pushed open startled Mrs. Cui. She rolled her eyes and slowly raised her eyes to look at Si Ningchi. The figure surrounded by people who stepped into the house looked as dignified as ever.
"I'm here to see off the Queen Mother." Si Ningchi raised his lips and smiled at Cui, and the last four words of "The Queen Mother" were extremely sarcastic.
"You win." Mrs. Cui's voice was hoarse, and she looked at Si Ningchi as she twitched her lips and seemed to have accepted her fate: "It is really a blessing for the Ai family to have the Empress take such pains to put on a show."
"Since you know that I am just putting on a show, how can the Queen Mother dare to return to the capital?" Si Ningchi did not refute, and openly admitted that this was her fault.
Mrs. Cui was silent and smiled as if she had thought of something: "The Ai family just don't understand, how did the queen find someone so similar to the Ai family?"
Si Ningchi slowly walked towards Cui and said, "It's just a face, so why not?"
Cui suddenly seemed to have thought of something. She clenched her sleeves and stared at Si Ningchi with a sneer: "The queen is really willing to give up. In order to convince the Ai family, she actually let the emperor favor others, so she is not afraid of raising tigers.
?"
"The Queen Mother is joking." Si Ningchi smiled and said to Cui: "Who told you that it was Zhao Zongheng who favored your concubine?"
"The emperor is just a status."
Having said that, there is still something that Cui doesn't understand.
She widened her eyes, never expecting that even this step of Si Ningchi was just an act!
Si Ningchi stood in front of Cui and said: "Cui, you should know that I will not let you live. It would be too painful for you to kill you."
"Are you satisfied with the feeling of being ruined now?" Si Ningchi said with another smile: "The emperor gave you poisonous wine and white silk, but I don't want you to die so honorably. You have to taste the pain of losing a son.
It’s not here anymore.”
"Then try the pain of caesarean section and give birth to a child."
Sining Chi's eyes flashed with cruelty, and he waved his hand casually, and someone came forward to capture Cui.
Ms. Cui's scalp went numb, she was sweating all over thinking of Si Ningchi's many methods and struggled: "Let go of Aijia! Aijia is the Queen Mother of Tianqing Kingdom! How dare you abuse lynching, Siningchi! Let go!"
Si Ningchi seemed as if he hadn't heard anything, and turned sideways to face Cui with a bright smile: "Empress Dowager, it's been a good journey~"
In the end, Cui was tortured to death. Zhao Zongheng knew nothing about it. Perhaps he knew that Si Ningchi would not let Cui have an easy time, but he never asked in detail. All Cui's close associates were executed, and there were many court officials in the court who were implicated.
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Zhao Zongheng has been busy for a long time, and Si Ningchi is about to give birth.
"What do you think of this pattern?" Concubine De held an embroidery and handed it to Si Ningchi and asked with a smile.
"Your embroidery is not as good as mine." Before Si Ningchi could speak, Concubine Shu next to her glanced at her and couldn't help but laugh.
"..." Concubine De rolled her eyes at her, lowered her eyes to see Concubine Shu's embroidery and was happy: "You are nothing more than that."
The two of them didn't like the patterns embroidered by each other, but the quarrel was unprovoked and made people feel lively and warm.
Finally, Si Ningchi looked at this and that, and said calmly: "They don't look very good, so let the embroiderer do the embroidery."
Concubine De and Concubine Shu stared and gritted their teeth, saying unconvincedly: "Empress, this is for the little prince who is about to be born, so naturally I have to do it myself. This is the wish of concubine and others.
"
This proposal was made by Concubine De, to embroider a quilt for the little prince. This quilt was originally prepared by the elders, but now that Cui is dead, Si Ningchi and the Si family have also broken up.
The little prince's bag was ready by the emperor, but Concubine De turned around and took over the matter.
"Okay, okay, you are so thoughtful..." Si Ningchi agreed with a helpless smile. Just as he was about to speak, his face suddenly changed and he stretched out his hand to hold his stomach.
"What, what's wrong?" Concubine De and Concubine Shu saw that Si Ningchi had stopped talking. When they saw her behavior again, they were so frightened that they turned pale and said, "It's about to give birth!?"
"Quick, call the imperial doctor!" Concubine Shu was also at a loss and shouted hurriedly.