Chapter 327: Regent

A few days later, when Xiao Shunzi once again entered the secret room to give the Queen Mother a bigu pill, she found that the Queen Mother had a mental breakdown and was on the verge of madness.
Xu Zifan received the news and ordered her to be sent to the dungeon, and then went to see her alone.
The Queen Mother was lying on the floor of the cell, immersed in pain and regret. When she saw Xu Zifan, she was instantly excited, but she didn't even have the strength to turn around. She could only stare at him and question, "You dare to come to see me? You killed our mother and child. In this way, you are shameless!"
Xu Zifan walked into the cell, stopped a step away from her, looked at her condescendingly, with an indifferent expression, as if looking at the dead, "Shameless? How can it be your mother and son? If I'm not mistaken, you hire my daughter. The first step to deal with me, right? The emperor takes charge and gathers power. When my power is eliminated by you, he will push all the bad rumors of these years on me, and then severely punish me to earn a good reputation for the emperor. Finally, I am afraid. My daughter and I will all end miserably, won't they?"
The Queen Mother widened her eyes in disbelief, "You, how did you know?"
"Xu is blessed by God."
The queen mother immediately thought of what Furong had said to the emperor that the true dragon emperor must be blessed by heaven, and she shook her head, "No, if you ascend the throne, you are seeking to usurp the throne. The civil and military officials will not let you do this, you can't..."
Xu Zifan said indifferently: "How long have you not learned about the court? In today's court, nine out of ten officials have submitted to me. I want to enthroned, and no one opposes it."
"You nonsense! I don't believe it! It's as easy as you said, how could you still keep us?"
"Naturally... I want to see you in pain." Xu Zifan's mouth raised a mocking smile, "Now you are still the queen mother, your son is also the emperor, and even the queen is your niece, but because of your ambition, Your family is reduced to a vain name without real power, and even suffering every day. Are you satisfied with all this?"
"You! It's you who hurt us! It's you!"
Xu Zifan shook his head, "Why? I never took the initiative. From beginning to end, I just helped to add to the flames. Is it your idea to poison you? Or is the emperor not jealous of you? You still deceive yourself and others, are you? Only by deceiving yourself and others in this life can you feel happy?"
The queen mother's face changed and she said excitedly: "Xu Zifan! You lied! Do you dare to say that your feelings for me were not true? Do you dare to say that your maintenance of me over the years is not true? I did not deceive myself, the one in your house Yulan is the evidence. If you are ruthless to me, how can you find a substitute?" She can’t accept Xu Zifan’s attitude. If she can’t accept the attitude of Xu Zifan for more than 20 years, she will be passionate. If everything is false, then she is not a joke. ?
Xu Zifan chuckled lightly, "Substitute? Yulan is my righteous sister, who told you...she is your substitute?"
Without waiting for the queen dowager to argue, Xu Zifan said to the outside world,
It’s not good to take Yulan over to see the queen mother. There is not much time for the queen mother. It’s not good to have this kind of misunderstanding when she is dying. By the way, take another mirror, otherwise how does the queen mother know herself? Does it look like Yulan?"
"Yes." There was no one outside the cell, but there was a female voice.
The queen mother was a little familiar, but she didn't have time to think about it, she kept shaking her head in fear, "No! I don't look in the mirror, I don't look in the mirror! Xu Zifan, you can't do this to me, we are childhood sweethearts, you can't! You hurt me, you I'm sorry, you made me like this, you it!"
Xu Zifan wondered: "Didn't you make you like this yourself? The genius doctor told you that you can be cured after three years of meditation and recuperation. If you have been treated in a hurry, you may have troubles. It is not that you personally tell him to heal as soon as possible, no matter what method. Doesn’t matter? Why do you blame me now? Besides, you and my childhood sweethearts, we had talked about marriage back then, and the prince suddenly asked the sage to marry you as a concubine. Is he really forcing you to marry you? I heard that back then At the Baihua Banquet, you...designed him to see your disheveled appearance, just because your Fu family wants to climb him, you also want to be a master, don’t you?"
The queen mother's eyes widened in shock, her voice trembling, "You, how did you know? When did you know?"
"What do you think?"
"You knew it from the beginning? How could it be? How could it be? Then why did you help Yang'er win the throne? Why protect our mother and son everywhere?"
"What do you think?"
"No, it's impossible..." Xu Zifan didn't answer directly, but the queen mother thought more. When she saw that Xu Zifan’s parents passed away and her family power was greatly reduced, she turned to seduce the prince to be the prince’s side concubine. She was forced to act in front of the Xu family brothers and sisters and asked Xu Zifan to resist the decree. Xu Zifan did not see her. He also scolded Xu Zifan for being weak to make Xu Zifan guilty. Later, the married man didn’t contact him again. Unexpectedly, Xu Zifan actually became more and more valued by the emperor based on his own ability. She naturally wanted to win over such an important minister, so she deliberately let him see her unhappy in the palace until the emperor drove him. Beng, she used Xu Zifan's feelings and guilt to let him the throne and protect their mother and son for many years.
But Xu Zifan now says that he knew it early, so wouldn't she be like a jumping clown for so many years? ! It was not that she used Xu Zifan, but Xu Zifan used their mother and son to become the regent and control the government. These important decisions were made by Xu Zifan. Aren't their mothers and sons puppets? She has devised so many tactics carefully. She thinks she is incomparably intelligent and can be compared with the famous queen mother in history, but it turns out that she has always been under the control of Xu Zifan, acting like an actor, she is simply an idiot!
Yulan was picked up, and she slowly walked into the cell with a mirror. The queen mother looked at her subconsciously, staring at her face desperately, but she didn't find any similarities with her at all. Xu Zifan smiled at Yulan and said: "Yulan, the queen mother mistakenly thought you were her substitute. This is an insult. I think it's better not to let her misunderstand."
Yulan smiled slightly, "The prince said that this woman is less than one-tenth of me. It is really insulting to let me be her stand-in." She stepped forward and pointed the mirror at the queen mother. Compare it?"
"Ah! Ghost--" The queen mother caught the face in the mirror unexpectedly, screamed in fright, and closed her eyes suddenly. She saw a monster with wrinkled face and gray hair. That face was sparse eyebrows, sunken eye sockets, chapped lips, and wrinkled. It was as terrible as a ghost. How could it be her? How could it be her?
Yulan smiled again. She was a stand-in for the Queen Mother. She once saw a portrait of the Queen Mother when she was young. At that time, the two of them had five-part portraits. If they were deliberately dressed up, they even had seven-part portraits. But then she was cheerful, took care of the business, her eyes sharp and confident, with her own temperament and demeanor in her every move, and gradually became less and less like the Queen Mother, probably because she lost the charm and dressing again. It's a different style, so there is no sense of substitute.
What's more, after falling into the water, the queen mother's body deteriorated, her face was not good, and she gained a little weight during the recuperation period. After half a year, her appearance has changed a lot from the portrait, and she has lost that beauty. There is no similarity. Looking at the aging face in the mirror, and comparing it with the extravagant and beautiful Yulan, the impact is almost doubled. The queen mother was shaking with fright, and she kept shouting "impossible", tears streaming down her mouth. With a full face, I can't accept what I am now.
Yulan looked at Xu Zifan, Xu Zifan nodded, and she walked out with the mirror. The queen mother cried bitterly for a long time, opened her eyes and saw Xu Zifan as if grasping the straw, insisted: "This is impossible. I can't be stupid for so many years. I don't believe everything is fake. You, your backyard is empty, why? Tell me! Why are you telling me?"
Xu Zifan raised his eyebrows and looked out, "I said, I'm waiting for someone who is destined. If you haven't met, you don't need to marry. Coincidentally, now I really have a destined person, do you want to see?"
The queen mother stared at him, "You lied! Who are you? You must be lying!"
Xu Zifan walked to the door of the old house, "Mo Yun."
Mo Yun was stunned for a moment. After reacting, his heartbeat speeded up, and he appeared in front of Xu Zifan slowly. Xu Zifan took her by the hand and walked to the front of the mother, and smiled, "Do you still know? People who make me tempted by Xu Zifan will naturally have extraordinary skills, not just like anyone, you are a little smart ...Tsk, it's not enough."
The queen mother widened her eyes in disbelief, "Mo Yun?!!!"
A court lady! A court lady who has never been seen by her by her side! Turned out to be Xu Zifan's sweetheart? !
This palace lady wiped out all her power. The power she had been in for more than ten years was wiped out by Mo Yun for half a year. The mother Wen and those confidants beside her must have died at the hands of Mo Yun, and the estrangement between her and the emperor was indispensable. Mo Yun's shadow, is this what Xu Zifan is talking about?
She thought that Mo Yun was an ant that could be pinched to death at any time, but she was led by Mo Yun's nose all the time, and she even trusted Mo Yun and entrusted her with an important task. How stupid she was? ! A predestined person, a tempted person, Xu Zifan would rather fall in love with a palace lady than her. In their eyes, she is just a complete idiot!
"Puff--" The queen mother's heart was stirring, and she spouted a mouthful of blood.
Xu Zifan protected Mo Yun and backed away, and said indifferently, "I will reunite your family in a few days." After speaking, he took Mo Yun and left.
The queen mother stared at the hands they shook, Xu Zifan held the court lady while she was lying in the dungeon with wrinkles. The young and sweet smile of the young girl appeared in the mind of the Queen Mother. As her ambitions all changed step by step, she took the wrong path. If she had married Xu Zifan at the time, she would have an affectionate husband, a noble status, and a happy family, how could she have fallen so miserably today?
It was at this moment that she clearly realized that her conspiracy for more than 20 years was just a joke. She also killed her only flesh and blood and her grandson. Everything was her own responsibility. She couldn't even compare to a palace lady. !
Overwhelming pain and regret spread in her heart, and the constant writhing emotion made her spit out another mouthful of blood, dying to lie there, experiencing the piercing pain. It turned out that everything she wanted was once so close to her, but she personally abandoned it...