Chapter 325: Regent

The voice of an spy came from outside, and Xu Zifan strode into the room. As soon as the queen mother got up to meet her, Furong knelt down and slammed her head three times, and said loudly, "The regent! There must be a hidden secret about the poisoning of the emperor. How can a little court lady dare to poison the emperor? The regent? , The emperor treats you as a teacher, respect it everywhere, and ask the regent to read about the love he has been educating the emperor for so many years and thoroughly investigate this matter!"
The queen mother's face became cold, "Where can you speak? The letter of the attendant stated in the suicide note that all three wine glasses were poisoned. How come the emperor and the queen are the only ones who can handle it? I can’t get rid of you. Come here, arrest her and her maidservant, and interrogate them severely!"
"Slow. Don’t be anxious about the Queen Mother, there are many doubts about this matter. Since it is said to be the poison from the book of attendants, how can the imperial concubine predict it in advance? The imperial concubine and the emperor have a deep friendship and should not be the poisoned person. Okay, at least you can't torture the imperial concubine until the emperor wakes up." Xu Zifan went to see the emperor in the inner room, then sat down and said, "What happened?"
Furong immediately seized the opportunity to tell the story of inviting the queen to reconcile to the poisoning of the emperor. She also emphasized the results of the investigation. All kinds of evidence showed that Shi Shu was the poisoned person. However, Shi Shu was dead. There was no evidence for death. Write down such a suicide note.
Xu Zifan frowned and looked at the queen mother. After looking at her for a long time, he said, "If Chen remembers correctly, Shi Shu has never done anything bold and extraordinary in the past ten years by your side?"
The queen mother was nervous, and replied sentimentally and angrily: "Yeah, the Aijia didn't expect that she would do such a stupid thing, it's really it, and it hurt Yang'er."
Xu Zifan looked away and suddenly said, "Xiao Shunzi, take someone to search the room of the book, and you can't let any suspicious clues go. This king wants to know where her medicine comes from, who she has been in contact with, and what happened. Lord Guan, don't miss any clues."
"Yes, prince!" Xiao Shunzi immediately led people forward. The Queen Mother felt tight, and then she felt nothing suspicious, and relaxed. Her medicine has been hidden in a secret compartment, only she knows it, and she only gave it to the attendant book. It has not been revealed to anyone, and it is impossible to find her.
The Queen Mother waved back most of the palace people, leaving only a few of them masters and close ones, and then said to Xu Zifan with red eyes: "What is it to do now, can the regent have regulations in his heart? The country cannot be ruled for a day. , But Yanger he... I don’t believe that he has no hope. Find the genius doctor, the genius doctor who has treated me, and he is optimistic about Yanger. We can’t give up on him. As for the government, it’s better to discuss with me as before. Later..."
Xu Zifan set his hand, "You don't need to worry about the affairs of the court and the Queen Mother. The ministers and ministers have their own regulations. Now it is the first thing to find out who murdered the emperor. If the emperor wakes up, he will definitely make the same decision. The queen mother has just taken care of her body. , The emperor and the queen had something wrong again, presumably the queen dowager was extremely sad, the queen mother still took care of her body quietly. The ministers also knew that the queen mother had a motherly heart for the emperor, and he was sure to rest assured that the emperor would take care of the emperor with peace of mind. Will handle it."
The queen mother's heart went up and down with his words, and finally fell to the bottom. This is not right! All this was different from what she had expected. She wanted to kill the emperor and let the emperor and grandson intervene in the government, but the emperor was abolished, but the emperor and grandson were gone. Xu Zifan did not intend to let her touch the government. Why did Xu Zifan refute her without hesitation? He didn't even say a word about her, which was very different from six years ago.
Suddenly someone came to report that a porcelain vase of poison and a thick letter were found in the secret place in the attendant study.
Xu Zifan glanced at the letter in Xiao Shunzi's hand, "Read!"
Xiao Shunzi said loudly, "If the Queen Mother kills me, this letter is the only evidence against the Queen Mother..."
The queen mother buzzed her head and she couldn't hear anything. How could she write this? !
This letter was of course not written by the attendant. She was timid, and even buried the porcelain bottles containing the medicine. For fear that there would be a trace of abnormality left, where would she dare to hide things in her house? Both the porcelain vase and the letter were placed by Mo Yun. She went to read the suicide note after the queen mother died, and then wrote a letter imitating the handwriting of the servant book. The letter explained the ins and outs of the Queen Mother instructing the servant to poison the emperor. If she is alive, she will naturally destroy the letter afterwards. If she is killed, then she hopes that someone will find out the letter and know the murderer.
Mo Yun also found a special piece of paper from the unburnt fragments collected these days, and only the queen mother is in use in that paper palace. She took a chance to stuff the scraps of paper into the gap under the bookcase, just as they happened to fall in when it was burning. When the Queen Mother came into the inner room to see the Emperor and Empress, she unwittingly told Xiao Shunzi these things along with the location of the Queen Mother's secret grid.
After hearing this, Xu Zifan turned his head and saw Mo Yun glanced at the queen mother, he ordered Xiao Shunzi to search the queen mother's palace. The queen mother was furious. She never thought that Xu Zifan would not show her face so dignifiedly. If the queen mother was searched by those guards in the palace and saw Xiaoyi, how would she see people in the future? !
But Xiao Shunzi followed Xu Zifan's order and took the people away. Xu Zifan ignored the empress dowager's ugly face, and asked someone to invite the prince of the clan and the prime ministers to enter the palace together to deal with the matter. When Xiao Shunzi found five bottles of harmful palace secret medicine from the secret compartment, and found the fragments of calligraphy under the bookcase, the evidence was conclusive when the queen mother ordered the servant book to poison and falsify the suicide note! Two of the three wine glasses are poisonous, why the queen mother's purpose is self-evident, as Furong said, she wants to kill offspring!
Xu Zifan furrowed his brows and said in a deep voice, "Please go to the side hall to rest, the Queen Mother, we will discuss this matter when the ministers arrive."
He made it clear that he was going to do business, and the queen mother stared at him incredulously, furiously, "The regent, this is planting and framing! How can the Ai family poison the emperor? That is the flesh and blood of the Ai family!" She paused and then again. Said, "Zhong Qian, you and I have known each other for more than 20 years, don't you believe me? Don't you know how much I paid for Yang'er? How could I harm him?"
Xu Zifan glanced at the list of exhibits and shook his head: "The evidence for your murder of the emperor is solid, and you have been like the emperor in the past half a year. It may not be impossible for you to kill him. It is useless to say more, the emperor is only temporarily unconscious. When the emperor wakes up, he will tell his ministers what to do. As long as the queen mother waits at ease, send the queen mother to rest."
Furong hurriedly stepped forward, "The Regent, since the queen mother killed the poison, she must have an antidote, please let the Regent let her hand over the antidote!"
Xu Zifan looked at the Queen Mother, and the Queen Mother looked at him pleadingly, "I did not poison, it was not me who did it, Zhong Qian, you believe me, you can't lock me up and let the real murderer succeed, Zhong Qian..."
Xu Zifan waved his hand, and the two mothers clamped on the queen mother one by one, and took her down forcefully, and then Xiao Shunzi arranged eight guards to guard the side hall, not allowing the queen mother to go out. The queen mother was furious in the Piandian. Her plan was obviously successful. Everything was reasonable. Why did the letter from the Shi Shuzang pop up? Before she could enjoy the joy of victory, she fell from the clouds to the bottom, which was completely different from what she expected!
Something must have gone wrong, everything was out of her control, and the biggest loss of control turned out to be that Xu Zifan didn't protect her at all, and he didn't even care about her at all! She couldn't figure it out. Xu Zifan asked a genius doctor to treat her and help him return to the palace. He was always fine, right? Why is she suddenly selfless at this moment, and will convict her when she sees the evidence?
She forced herself to calm down and carefully consider whether there was anything unusual around her. There have been too many things in the past six months, as if all the misfortunes are concentrated together, more than the sum of the bad things she encountered in the previous thirty years. She thought everything was reasonable and reasonable, but when she thought about it, she felt strange, as if there was a thread in everything.
The more she thought about it, the more chaos she got, her head was like a mess, and she got a headache. She simply no longer thought about the details, but about the result of the whole thing. Now that the emperor is abolished, the queen is abolished, and she is also abolished, who will be the ultimate beneficiary? Those royal clans? The emperor's brother?
Impossible. Xu Zifan abolished their power six years ago when she helped her seize the prostitute. She has been suppressing them for the past six years. They can't be able to make trouble, so who else?
After deliberation, she came to the most unwilling conclusion to admit that they were all abandoned, and only Xu Zifan benefited the most! He is the regent, and the emperor has a sickly couch. If he does not abdicate, he can only be Xu Zifan's puppet. Xu Zifan has the final say. The queen mother covered her face and didn't want to believe it. She thought that Xu Zifan had been obsessed with her for more than 20 years. She hooked her fingers to make the regent, who was feared and awed by the world, listened to her.
She thought that during this period of time, in order to return to the palace and put down her body to please Xu Zifan in every way, a huge sense of shame spread all over her body. After identifying Xu Zifan as the person behind the scenes, she thought about everything that had happened in the past six months, and her back was chilly. In the past six months, all the useful people around her have disappeared, and the people around the emperor have changed almost all the time. She always thought this was the result of their mother and son fighting and losing each other, but what about Xu Zifan's control?
And Chaotang, think about how long she hasn't learned about Chaotang? After the emperor was injured, the memorial lineup was criticized by Xu Zifan. She once asked the Fu family to target Xu Zifan’s forces and get rid of many people, but now that I think about it, Xu Zifan didn’t react at all, but the emperor was very rude to the Fu family after that. . Does this mean that her news is wrong and that she is the emperor's people? Then it makes sense for their mother and son to be tit-for-tat!
Although there is no evidence for many things, she has a strong intuition that Xu Zifan did it. After all, Xu Zifan instigated their mother-child relationship more acceptable to her than his son's unfilial piety. But the most frightening thing is that even if she was sure that Xu Zifan did it, she could not find the slightest trace of Xu Zifan's intervention. This shows that she did not know this person at all. She used to think that she could control Xu Zifan because she was self-righteous. Nian Peng Chaotang might have prepared it for himself, and their mother and son are his pawns!
When suspicion attacked, Xu Zifan's every move turned into another intention. The queen mother is a self-proclaimed clever woman. Suddenly she found that she was someone else's from start to finish. She also pretended to be affectionate and thought that the person had a deep friendship with her. This kind of shame made her want to find a place to sew in!
What followed was hatred, an overwhelming hatred, she hated Xu Zifan, the man who played her between the palms of her thighs! There is also Mo Yun. Since Xu Zifan has no good intentions, the Mo Yun he sent is definitely not a waiting person. Isn't the accident with the people around her happened after Mo Yun came? How can outsiders find out her power so quickly?
The queen mother seemed to have found her vent all at once. She opened the door and said with a cold face: "The Ai's family is still a queen mother, not a prisoner. Ask the Ai's people to come and serve, and the Ai's family will change clothes and makeup!"
The eight guards outside the door were all from Xu Zifan. They saw that the queen mother's hair was a little messy, and they might see the prince of the clan after a while. The dressing and dressing were normal, so they didn't think much about it, and allowed the court ladies next to the queen mother to enter.
Mo Yun took the three little palace ladies into the door. As soon as he entered the door, he noticed that the Queen Mother's eyes were wrong, and immediately gestured to the guard with his hands behind him. The guard yelled: "Wait a minute, the regent sends Mo Yun a question, go quickly."
Mo Yun put down the things in his hand and bowed, "Empress Mother, the slave and maidservant will go back."
The queen mother's face sank, she strode towards Mo Yun and shouted to the three little palace ladies: "Grab her!"
The three little palace ladies are Mo Yun's people, so naturally they don't listen to the Queen Mother. Mo Yun quickly stepped back to the door and tentatively said: "The Queen Mother, the regent, the slave and maidservant used to be just questioning, and the slave and maid will not talk nonsense."
The two guards drew their knives and crossed them at the door, separating the queen mother and Mo Yun. The queen mother stared at Mo Yun and gritted her teeth and said: "You are a slave who is betrayed by the master. You must be the one who framed the Aijia, and the Aijia can't spare you!"
Mo Yun knew that so many things had happened. As the queen mother, as the party concerned, as long as she jumped out of the overall situation and looked at the results, it was not difficult to guess who was the winner. In the past, it was just that the authorities and fans had her constant confusion and guidance. . After testing out the Queen Mother's current thoughts, Mo Yun didn't need to talk to her anymore, and turned around without saying a word.
The queen mother was stunned for a moment, and then she was angry. She guessed that it was one thing, and it was another thing to see Mo Yun ignoring her with her own eyes. She always thought that she was aloft and the most noble woman in the world. She did not expect that even a Mo Yun would not put her in her eyes. This was a huge blow to her self-esteem. She pointed to Mo Yun and ordered, "You take her Grab it, didn't you hear it? You want to disobey the will? The Aijia is still the queen mother!"
The guard said coldly: "Please go back to the room."
No matter what the Queen Mother said, the guards responded with this sentence. Obviously, these guards were also ordered by Xu Zifan, otherwise it would be impossible to hesitate at all. The empress dowager's heart sank again, how many people in the palace were dictated by Xu Zifan? Their mother and son only care about fighting each other, how many things did they ignore?
She can only pin her hopes on the emperor now, and the emperor will still wake up. As long as she and the emperor explain all the misunderstandings, the emperor will definitely not let Xu Zifan go. There are clan princes and several important ministers, should they help the emperor get rid of Xu Zifan for such a big matter? And as soon as Xu Zifan fell, the power in his hand could be distributed to other ministers, so she didn't believe those princes and ministers could not see clearly the good things related to the interests. This was her last hope.
While waiting for the minister to enter the palace, Xu Zifan went into the inner room to see the emperor again. The emperor’s coma was caused by a sudden weakness and severe pain. At this time, the effect of the medicine was finished, and he took the medicine of the imperial physician. The situation has stabilized. Xu Zifan tucked his quilt and took the opportunity to press several acupuncture points. He woke up as soon as he took his hand back.
Lotus next to him hurriedly rushed over and said excitedly: "The emperor! Your emperor, you finally woke up, I'll call the emperor!"
The emperor blankly watched Furong ran out to call for the doctor from the back, frowning slightly, "What's wrong with me? Regent, why are you here?"
Xu Zifan solemnly said: "The emperor, you and the queen have been poisoned on their wine glasses. This poison is overbearing. The imperial physician diagnoses that you and the queen can only linger on the bed and the decoction will continue in the future."
The emperor was struck by lightning, and remembered everything. The intense pain in his body before unconscious made him agitate, and then his face became pale and he couldn't agree with him: "You said I will linger on the bed? No! Impossible!" He tried. He got up while propped on the bed, but he didn't have the strength at all, he fell back when he got up a little bit, and only such a movement made him breathless, and his body was very weak.
The imperial doctor rushed to see the emperor and said the same things. His life was saved, but in the future, he could only linger on the sickbed and could no longer move freely. Their entire imperial hospital had no choice. The emperor clenched the quilt tightly and stared at Xu Zifan fiercely, "Who is it! Who poisoned me?"
Xu Zifan said: "The evidence of the people found all point to the queen mother, but the emperor, the queen mother has a motherly heart for you, and will definitely not harm you like this, you..."
"Enough! It's her! It must be her! What kind of motherly heart? Only you can believe her nonsense, she is a femme fatale!" The emperor suddenly understood the two wine glasses, "She must be thinking Poisoned me and Furong, it must be! I know her best. She used me to be in power at the beginning, but now that I don’t listen to her, she wants to get rid of me and use the queen’s child as her queen mother! She is here! Where? Get me up, get her up!"
The emperor had thought about this before he was born, and wondered whether Fu Qiuwen would threaten his status when giving birth to a child. Coupled with the resentment caused by Xu Zifan's "mother-hearted heart", he immediately harmed the queen mother. He is convinced of his affairs. In his eyes, the queen mother is such a person, and he did not guess wrong, Xu Zifan just showed evidence of what they did.
Xu Zifan said to the emperor: "You calm down, the queen mother is in the side hall now, and the minister has invited the clan prince and several important officials into the palace, and the minister will bring them to see you later."
Xu Zifan led everyone out, deliberately leaving Furong with the emperor. Furong knelt by the bed, tightly holding the emperor's hand and tears streaming down her hands. Her true feelings were revealed, she was really regretful and afraid. But the matter is now, she can only find a chance to pick herself out and kill the queen mother. She mournfully told the emperor what the queen mother said and deeds after he was poisoned, that the queen mother wanted to co-administer the affairs with the regent, that the queen mother wanted to lock her up, that the queen mother had forged the suicide note and so on.
The most important thing is that she analyzed the current situation for the emperor, and the hospital had no way to deal with the poison. The only hope for detoxification lies in the queen mother. The queen mother was bitten to death and refused to admit it, and no antidote was found in the queen mother's bedroom, so the only way to go is to interrogate the queen mother. It’s just that the queen mother is the emperor’s biological mother. I’m afraid that the princes of the clan and the ministers will not agree to this. What’s more, the relationship between the regent and the queen’s childhood sweethearts does not guarantee that the queen mother will not be interrogated. Go down to do this in private.
The more the emperor listened, the hatred in his eyes became heavier. He had no blood and affection for the Queen Mother. He made a gloomy decision, "Just do what you said, and find the antidote!"
Five princes came from the royal clan, three were the emperor’s uncles, two were the emperor’s brothers, and six important ministers, including the prime minister and general Zhen Guo, also arrived. Xu Zifan ordered Xiao Shunzi to tell them the cause and effect, told the Taiyuan Hospital to tell them the diagnosis, and showed them the evidence they found, and then he brought them in to visit the emperor.
The princes and ministers were always in shock. The iron evidence was there. If the queen mother could turn around, then the emperor filial piety moved the sky. However, the emperor didn't intend to protect the queen mother. He didn't even see the queen mother, and directly ordered the queen mother to be locked in a dark room for reflection. No one has an opinion, but they are also amazed by the cruelty of the mother and son. A dark room is a small room without any light. There is nothing in it. Will the Queen Mother be crazy if she is locked in it? The emperor really got the true biography of his mother.
The emperor also ordered them to find a world-famous doctor and enter the palace to treat him. There should always be an antidote to poisoning. He firmly believed this. Before, the empress dowager was so weak that she could faint from time to time. Why couldn't he?
The emperor had just been poisoned, and he did not want to abdicate or give up the chance to heal. No one can object, but everyone knows that there is little hope and the body has collapsed. How can there be an antidote to restore the body? Thinking of asking doctors and medicines with great fanfare, the news will surely be leaked. How much trouble will it be when people are uneasy and cause trouble? Everyone frowned, only the Emperor's two brothers were happy.
They were defeated in the conquest, but now the emperor has become an invalid, he must not be cured, and will have to abdicate after a while. The emperor has no sons, isn't this their chance? Even if they are not the emperor, it is good to adopt a son to the emperor. The two looked at each other and they became rivals at this moment.
The emperor collapsed suddenly. The panic and fear in his heart were greater than anything else. He was only anxious to heal his body and get revenge. He was not sensitive to political affairs. Anyway, the regent was approving memorials on his behalf in the past few months, and the ministers discussed with the regent. For government affairs, just report it to him after discussing it, and there is no need to make any changes. He told them to govern as usual in the future. The minister on Xu Zifan's side was naturally happy. Some felt it was wrong. But thinking about Xu Zifan's power, he didn't want to be the first to oppose it. That was the matter.
All matters around the emperor were naturally taken care of by Xiao Shunzi, and the harem palace affairs were handed over to Furong, and the queen would send them back to her palace for good care. After saying this for a long time, the emperor was obviously weak and unable to fight, so Xu Zifan and others retired.
The queen mother was still waiting to resolve the misunderstanding with the emperor. She found the most suitable reason for everything. She even thought of an excuse to push the poison to Mo Yun, but she did not expect that she would only wait for four strong men. Mother, shut her up and shut her into the dark room!