All the maids and eunuchs in the hall looked at Queen Mother Zhou in panic after hearing this. Queen Mother Zhou frowned and pondered for a moment, then waved her hands and said: "Everyone, please go out. Since the Queen has something to say, the Ai family should listen to what she has to say.
But you don’t have to be afraid, you are from Changchun Palace, no one can touch you.”
After hearing this, Empress Zhang laughed loudly, the sound was shrill and shrill, making people feel hairy. All the maids and eunuchs in the hall hurriedly exited the hall, and several maids around Empress Zhang also left and closed the hall door tightly.
The room was eerily quiet. Queen Zhou walked to the chair step by step with a cane and sat down. She raised her head and looked at Queen Zhang. Queen Zhang was still looking at her with a smile on her face.
"Grandma, should you confess yourself, or should I tell everything?"
Queen Mother Zhou said coldly: "The Ai family doesn't understand what the queen is talking about."
Empress Zhang nodded slightly and said: "Okay, it seems that you are unwilling to say anything, so I have to say it. Grandma, sit tight, I will say it."
Empress Dowager Zhou stared at Queen Zhang coldly, thinking about how to deal with it. It didn't look like Queen Zhang was being cryptic. Did she really know the inside story? What should she do? Impossible, how could she know the inside story? Besides,
, so what if you know? What if the Zhou family presented a woman to the emperor? What if she is angry and jealous?
"Old Queen, I want to tell you a scary story. By the way, in Baoding Prefecture of the Ming Dynasty, there was a famous brothel in Baoding Prefecture, called Wanchun House. In this Wanchun House, there was a famous brothel called Xiao
Jasmine..." Queen Zhang said in a sweet voice.
"Queen, why are you talking to the Aijia about this? The Aijia don't have time to accompany you to fool around!" Queen Mother Zhou interrupted in a deep voice.
Empress Zhang smiled and said: "Do I have time to fool around with you? The old grandmother listened patiently. This story is very exciting. This little Jasmine is only eighteen years old and has a good appearance, so she attracts bees and butterflies and wins.
She had countless benefactors and was famous for a while. One day, this little Jasmine suddenly disappeared and was redeemed by someone to become a good person. Do you know who the person who redeemed her was, Grandma?"
The old Queen Mother Zhou stood up and walked out, saying in a cold voice: "Queen, the Ai family must tell the emperor what happened tonight. Please let the emperor make a decision. You broke into my Changchun Palace in the middle of the night, said crazy things, and were rude to the Ai family.
Please give your opinion, Your Majesty..."
Empress Zhang's voice turned cold and she said in a deep voice: "...Old grandmother, the person who ransomed this little Jasmine was a family named Zhou in the capital. It was also my Lord Marquis of the Ming Dynasty. One of the two brothers was named Zhou Shou.
One is called Zhou Yu. They are my relatives from the Ming Dynasty, so my grandmother must know them, right?"
The old Queen Mother Zhou stood there in shock, looking at Queen Zhang in disbelief.
Empress Zhang walked slowly with her hands behind her back and continued: "The Zhou brothers redeemed little Jasmine into the mansion and gave her a new name called Wan'er. Hey, Wan'er, such a vulgar name. Then, these two brothers
The people sent this Wan'er to the palace. They lied that this Wan'er was a daughter of their Zhou family. After entering the palace, the woman got the opportunity to seduce the emperor and fascinated him. Queen Mother, this story is wonderful.
Wonderful?"
The old Queen Mother Zhou turned pale and said in a deep voice: "Queen, you are slandering people out of thin air. You will be punished for talking nonsense. As a queen, how can you talk nonsense and disregard your decency?"
Empress Zhang sneered and said: "Old grandmother, you are so stubborn even when the Zhou family is about to die. This palace has already investigated everything about your affairs. The Zhou Waner you brought to the palace is not a member of your Zhou family at all.
In your genealogy of distant relatives of the Zhou family, there is no Zhou Waner at all. Where did this Zhou Waner come from? Tell me."
Empress Dowager Zhou breathed a sigh of relief and said with a sneer: "Of course we can't find out, because Wan'er is Zhou Ying's illegitimate daughter, so she recognized her ancestor and returned to the clan. It turned out that the empress came to investigate for this reason. What a joke."
Empress Zhang laughed and said: "Illegitimate daughter? Well, this reason is reasonable. But I have a portrait here. The old queen can identify who it is."
Empress Zhang took out a folded piece of drawing paper from her sleeve and unfolded it under the light. Empress Zhou squinted a few times and recognized that what was drawn on it was exactly what Wan'er looked like before she was disguised.
"This is a portrait of little Jasmine painted by a romantic young man from Baoding Prefecture. If the old Queen Mother was not blind and confused, she would have recognized it. Of course, you can continue to deny it. It doesn't matter, I have more than a dozen here.
There are two confessions. One is the confession of Li Yuxiang, the mother of Wanchunlou, Baoding Prefecture, who confessed that after the snowstorm at the beginning of the twelfth lunar month, the Zhou family from the capital paid a large sum of money to ransom Little Jasmine. There is also the confession of Zhou Fu, the carriage driver of your Zhou family, who confessed that you
The date when my nephew Zhou Ying went to Baoding Mansion and the fact that he had an extra girl after he came back. There is also the confession of Yunxia Pavilion makeup artist Qin Yunniang, who confessed that she was invited to the Zhou family to do makeup for a female professor. You took it
I asked her to apply makeup on the portrait of me when I was young, so that Wan'er's appearance would look exactly like what I looked like when I was young."
After hearing these words, Queen Mother Zhou trembled a little and seemed to be unable to stand.
"Don't be anxious, there are more. There are many related confessions, all from the relevant people. I don't want to talk about them one by one. The Queen Mother is well-informed and sensible, and she can read them herself. The Queen Mother will take her time to read them clearly.
These people have signed and pledged their signatures and can be brought forward to testify at any time. Do we still want to deny it, my ancestor?"
Empress Zhang magically took out a stack of confessions filled with words and handprints and threw them on the table. Mrs. Zhou moved over with difficulty and looked through them one by one. It was indeed the confessions of a series of related people.
There are various signs that the Wan'er next to her is the brothel girl, Little Jasmine, and all this has been completely controlled by the queen.
The old Queen Zhou almost fainted. After a long time of fussing, she was deceived by her brothers. After a long time of fussing, she was kept in the dark. Her two brothers actually got a brothel prostitute to pretend to be. No wonder she was pretending to be a prostitute.
Wan'er felt a maturity that was not commensurate with his age, and Wan'er showed a sense of debauchery and vulgarity from time to time. He thought it was the result of Wan'er being used to staying in the market.
"Old Queen Mother, your Zhou family's methods are really powerful. It's really unexpected that the Old Queen Mother is so old and follows them into chaos. Taking advantage of the Emperor's feelings for me, you came up with such a method. Needless to say,
, the old Queen Mother must have done a lot of work. Only you, Queen Mother Zhou, know how I behaved when I was young, so you can teach that vixen how to seduce the emperor. Old Queen, you are really old-hearted. When you are old, you are still...
Understand what a man is thinking."
Queen Mother Zhou's body was trembling slightly, trying hard to prevent herself from collapsing to the ground.