The empress dowager's tent is not far from the king's tent, but now there are crowds of people on the other end, and all the court officials and guards are concentrated there, but there are only a few little palace maids watching on this side, so quiet that they can even hear the sound of the wind.?

When I walked over, the wind was in full swing. I only watched the grass on the valleys on both sides growing lushly. As the wind continued to rise and fall, it was like waves of green waves rushing to the top of the valley. I looked at the scenery and stopped for a while. The little palace maids had already seen me and hurried over to salute me respectfully.

I just said a few words to them and walked to the door.

The people inside seemed to hear my footsteps and said, "Don't urge, the things that the Queen Mother ordered will be ready soon."

I lifted the curtain and walked in. I saw Madam Gui tidying something with her back to me. I just stood quietly behind her. At first, she didn't seem to care much, and slowly she seemed to feel something. She looked back at me and immediately seemed to be shocked: "Scared, Yue-Master Yue?"

I walked up with a smile: "Madam Gui."

"You, why are you here?"

"I heard you are too busy here, come and help."

"Uh, no, no."

As she said, she hurriedly packed several scriptures of the Queen Mother and some simple tools together, and was about to pick them up. I smiled slightly and said, "The Queen Mother has been taking care of the emperor in the tent, and she hasn't even come back to rest here."

"Yeah, yeah."

"It's true, mother and son are in love."

When Madam Gui listened, her face became a little strange again, but she still smiled reluctantly and said, "Yes, mother and son are in love."

Somehow, it seemed that this time she was particularly nervous when she saw me, and she didn't even want to spend too long with me alone. As she was talking, she had already walked to the door and was about to lift the curtain, but I was behind her and slowly said, "But who is the person who really should be in love with the Queen Mother?"

Madam Gui's hand suddenly froze there.

The wind was whistling outside, but the tent suddenly became so quiet that it was gone.

After a while, she turned her head stiffly and looked at me. She seemed to be greatly shocked, her face turned pale. After looking at me for a long time, she spoke with difficulty: "How could you - you, what did you say?"

“…”

"You, don't talk nonsense!"

"Don't worry, Madam Gui," I slowly walked up to her and said, "I have already let the people outside go away. Today I came here because I wanted to ask Madam Gui in person. Because I know that if I ask the Queen Mother, she may not be able to say it, but - I believe that every time I say it, it is a knife in her heart."

When I said this, a look of pain appeared on Madam Gui's face.

I said softly, "So, I'll ask Madam Gui."

She looked at me and became more and more panicked. She hurried to the table and put down the things, but it seemed that she had already spent a lot of effort and was panting: "I, I can tell you very much, I don't know anything!"

I walked behind her and said calmly: "Madam Gui, if you really don't know anything, then when the Queen Mother was in a fever, had nightmares, and talked nonsense, you wouldn't interrupt the Queen Mother's words."

As soon as he heard this, Madam Gui's face froze.

I walked over slowly, calmed my tone and said, "Madam, I, Yue Qingying, are you aware of who I am. I think you should know it in my heart. I will not harm the Queen Mother, there is no doubt about this."

"..." Madam Gui was silent and didn't say anything.

"Actually, I have guessed the truth of the matter. Now I just want to confirm my guess."

“…”

"Because of this incident, it has a big impact."

“…”

"It's not just the Queen Mother, but the current emperor, perhaps the whole world will be overthrown for this."

“…”

"It really came to that point, the court was in turmoil, wars were everywhere, countless people died, Madam Gui, will your conscience be peaceful?"

What I said was heavier than the other, and all of them were pressing on the old man who was frowning, pale, and trembling with his fingers. I even felt that she was trembling constantly. Finally, she took several steps back as if she was about to collapse and fell to the edge of the bed: "Stop talking!"

“…”

Looking at her appearance, I knew that my goal had been achieved.

If a person wants to lie, or insist on a lie, he needs to build a solid barrier in his heart to resist the impact of conscience brought about by lying. No matter whether the lie is good or bad, the first step to let her tell the truth is to break the barrier in her heart.

I slowly walked up to her, gently held her shaking hands, and said softly: "I know, it has not been easy for you to keep this secret over the years."

“…”

"The Queen Mother, it's even more difficult."

“…”

"However, the Empress Dowager has been vegetarian and chanting Buddha's name for so many years, and has tortured herself with such loneliness in Linshui Pagoda for so many years, but she has not easily said it. She just doesn't want to hurt others."

“…”

"And now, if this matter is exploited by some people, it is possible to hurt more people. Will the Queen Mother do this?"

Madam Gui looked down at me, her eyes almost completely broken. She took a long breath and finally said slowly, "What are you asking?"

My heart was only let go of this moment.

But I really have to ask, in fact, it is not only the hurt others, but also some empathy. I hesitated for a moment and finally said, "The Empress Dowager's child is not--, right?"

Madam Gui gritted her teeth and finally, slowly nodded.

Although I had already guessed it, my heart was still thrilled when I saw Madam Gui admit it like this.

real!

It's actually true!

"Why?"

"Why?" Madam Gui repeated these three words, but looked at me with some amusement: "You are also a mother who used to be a mother, you should know why."

“…”

"No woman would want to have such a thing."

"..." My heart sank. When the Empress Dowager sat quietly in the Linshui Pagoda and said to me the words "He is my evil ghost Yasha", the pain in her eyes was ashamed but could not be extinguished. I seemed to understand it all at once.

I said softly: "Yes, the Supreme Emperor?"

"..." Madam Gui didn't say anything, but also agreed.

"Why did he do this?"

Madam Gui sat there, shook her head gently, and said, "I don't know, until now, I don't know why. At that time, it was more than 20 years ago, Empress Zhaolie, Concubine Xian, and the Empress Dowager who was also the Imperial Concubine. They were all pregnant at the same time. Although the Emperor, the Supreme Emperor, did not issue an edict at that time, I heard that he had already given an oral order, and whoever gave birth to the prince first would be the prince of the Celestial Empire."

"Oh?" My heart sterned.

According to the order of the elders and young people, it was naturally the virtuous concubine at that time, that is, the later Queen Yin. Her child was the first to be born, so Pei Yuanxiu became the crown prince.

Then, what does it have to do with the Queen Mother’s children?

When she heard me ask this, Madam Gui's hand trembled in my hand and said, "Actually, the Queen Mother doesn't care about this either. She just cares whether her child can grow up well. But--"

"But what?"

"But," said Madam Gui, with a look of horror in her eyes: "On the day the Empress Dowager gave birth, a fire suddenly ignited in Gui Palace!"

"ah?!"

My heart thundered violently - the fire in Gui Palace! That is, the fire that burned Queen Zhao Lie to death!

Although I had heard before that Queen Zhao Lie encountered misfortune while pregnant, I never expected that it was like this, and the Empress Dowager was still giving birth at the same time at that time!

I hurriedly grabbed her hand: "Then, Queen Zhaolie--"

Before I finished speaking, I immediately woke up and realized that Queen Zhao Lie had passed away, which was a fact that had existed a long time ago. However, when I recalled the tragic moment of the time, a pregnant woman died in the fire. The pain and despair that people who had never experienced it could not imagine.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but think of the night that I could never forget, and I couldn't help but tremble slightly.

Perhaps, this harem has never lacked such a hurt woman.

I sat silently on the edge of the bed. It took me a long time to calm down and asked, "What about it later?"

"Later, the Empress Dowager woke up the next day and found out what happened to Guigong. She was very weak at that time, but she had a deep relationship with Queen Zhaolie, so she still had to hold on and look at it. But at that time, she realized that the surroundings had been guarded, which was ordered by the Emperor."

"Why, guard?"

"I don't know this." Madam Gui shook her head and said, "At that time, because of the fire, the palace was very chaotic, and the empress dowager had no energy to take care of more things. She could only wait for the Supreme Emperor to come to ask what happened. It was not until three days later that the Supreme Emperor came to Ning'an Palace to see her."

"Then what?"

"Then..." Speaking of this, a crack-like wound appeared in Madam Gui's eyes, and she said, "Then, after the Supreme Emperor left, the Queen Mother appeared, and her child was replaced."

"What?!"

I was shocked: "Is it replaced?"

"Yes, it's been replaced." Madam Gui nodded and said, "Actually, at that time, I and the wet nurse who took care of the prince, we didn't think there was anything wrong with it, but when the Queen Mother saw it, she insisted that the child in the cradle was not hers."

"..." There was a violent shock in my mind, as if someone had hit me hard from behind with a heavy hammer.

Did the Queen Mother’s child be replaced?

To be precise, was it replaced by the Supreme Emperor?

Why did he change the Empress Dowager's child?

If the Empress Dowager's child was replaced by him, then where did that child go? The one who was exchanged for the Empress Dowager is naturally the current one - then where did he come from?
To be continued...