Zhou Yu came to the bed and half-knelt on the ground with a complicated expression. He held the Queen Mother's hand and said in a low voice, "Grandma."

"Yes." The Empress Dowager nodded slowly and asked, "But I disturbed your personal expedition. How is the military situation?"

"No." Zhou Yu shook his head and said: "We won. I personally led the army to defeat the tens of thousands of troops outside Juyong Pass in one night. Now I only have one general left to completely block it between Yu County and Zijin Pass."

The Empress Dowager was stunned: "Destroyed tens of thousands of troops in one night?"

"yes."

"Haha." The Empress Dowager suddenly laughed, holding Zhou Yu's palm with her backhand and giving her some strength: "Okay, well done! I regret it. I should have let you ascend the throne earlier.

Rather than letting that loser sit on the throne for so many years, after all, this position should have been yours, and the child born to a bitch is just a loser, no matter how noble the father is."

Zhou Yu was stunned for a moment, but did not interrupt the Empress Dowager's words.

The Empress Dowager grumbled: "Do you know that your mother, Hu Shanxiang, was the imperial concubine I personally selected? Sun is too scheming and incompetent, and her background is despicable. She is a sinner, and she coveted the position of the imperial concubine. She had an affair with your father before we got married."

Regarding the relationship, your mother herself was not up to par. She gave birth to two daughters one after another, but she had no children, and because of your father’s rebellion, the one named Sun became the queen in the end.”

"It's good to win, it's good to win. Watching the Ming Dynasty decline day by day has never made me feel better. It's okay, it's okay... I have the nerve to go down to see your great-grandfather, your grandfather and your father.

"

"Grandma." Zhou Yu gently patted the back of the Queen Mother's hand: "Grandma, at any time are you qualified to stand in front of anyone and say that you have done a good job."

"Yes...yes..." the Empress Dowager murmured, and after a while she suddenly took Zhou Yu's hand and said: "Emperor, after all, that man is your brother, your father's son, you

To rescue him..."

"I remember." Zhou Yu agreed with a serious face: "Don't worry, grandma, I will definitely bring the emperor back."

"Okay, okay, I'm relieved now."

The Empress Dowager breathed a sigh of relief. After all, it was the grandson she had watched grow up and the one she had the deepest affection for. Although she had to cooperate with her other grandson in order to stabilize the court and the inheritance of the Ming Dynasty, the old man still felt that

Thinking about it.

Zhou Yu asked: "Grandma, who poisoned you, what did you eat and drink."

"I was poisoned." The Empress Dowager sighed softly and murmured: "I have lived long enough..."

"Is it Queen Mother Sun?"

The Queen Mother suddenly opened her eyes and stared at Zhou Yu: "You really want her to die!"

Zhou Yu lowered his eyelids and said softly: "My grandson is not worried that she is alive. My mother was also killed by her, so how could I not take revenge? I have ordered the execution of those remnants of the Jingnan incident, and her old friend Xu Bin was also killed."

Her grandson is being forced to die, and her living is a threat to her grandson, who might also be poisoned inexplicably like grandma."

"Okay! As expected of the Zhu family!" The Empress Dowager held Zhou Yu's hand harder and harder, her eyes turning red: "Am I poisoned?"

"Yes." Zhou Yu nodded and said, "The people in Taiyuan Hospital have definitely been poisoned, but we don't know what kind of poison they were poisoned or how they were poisoned."

The Queen Mother looked very excited but her voice was very calm: "Is it you or her?"

"Grandma, you should have thought that it couldn't be me." Zhou Yu shook his head and said, "I am ready to die in battle. If there is no grandma in the palace, how can the throne be transferred to the emperor's uncle smoothly? Besides, grandma, you are like

A sea-fixing needle, as long as you are here, Grandma, the Sun family will not dare to cause trouble. I hope that you, Grandma, can live longer than anyone else."

The Empress Dowager suddenly let go as if she had lost all her strength, and murmured again and again: "Yes, yes... it can't be you. It's possible for anyone, but the most unlikely one is you... No, I'm afraid it's the same for Sun."

I was worried that you would die on the battlefield, so I used this method to force you to come back. Killing two birds with one stone is a profound plan."

"What?" Zhou Yu was stunned for a moment. He suddenly realized it before he even thought about it in this direction.

He himself once ordered that if he died in battle, the Queen Mother Sun would be executed to prevent her from causing trouble in the court. But at that time, Zhou Yu's words had an ulterior motive, and the purpose was to further push the courtiers to resist the Queen Mother Sun. He never thought that he would really

Die in battle.

The Empress Dowager was most likely to do such a thing when the Empress Dowager was poisoned. The Empress Dowager Sun herself could not enter or leave the Qingning Palace, but someone could. As long as she asked Empress Qian to help her, it would not be impossible to remotely control someone to help her.

From the very beginning, Zhou Yu never doubted others. He just thought that if the Empress Dowager died, no one in the harem would be able to restrain Empress Dowager Sun.

When that time comes, Zhou Yu will either risk the whole world's disapproval and kill her by force, or he will abide by the rules and meet the Empress Dowager Sun secretly. For Zhou Yu, it will not be a big or small trouble.

It will delay a lot of things.

But now he was suddenly reminded that Zhou Yu had really come to his senses. If it was Empress Dowager Sun who poisoned someone, it would kill two birds with one stone.

"She is still unwilling to let her son return to the throne. Both mother and son are overestimating their own abilities. Whatever it is, I'm afraid I won't be able to survive today."

The Empress Dowager looked outside the curtain: "Here comes someone."

Several eunuchs and maids quickly opened the curtain and knelt in front of the bed: "The Queen Mother."

"According to my decree, the Sun family was favored by the late emperor and became the queen. However, she was jealous and had bad morals. She had no respect for her elders and interfered in politics. Now she even poisoned and killed her mother for personal gain. Her crime is unforgivable. She deprived Sun family of the title of Queen Mother.

He was given poisonous wine and white silk silk, and after his death, his bones were crushed and his ashes were scattered, and he was not allowed to enter the mausoleum."

Not only the palace maids and eunuchs who were kneeling on the ground, but also the imperial doctors who had not left outside the curtain had shock on their faces, and they did not react for a long time.

"Why are you still kneeling?" Zhou Yu looked at the eunuch who was kneeling and unresponsive, and scolded: "Why don't you go and inform the court officials to kill the guilty woman, Cheng Jing, and let the Jinyi guards accompany you."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

To grant the death of the Empress Dowager... Zhou Yu could not make such a decree, but as the elder and the most noble person in the palace besides the emperor, the Empress Dowager would have the qualifications to issue such an edict, not to mention the

The Queen Mother was accused of poisoning and murdering the Queen Mother. The Queen Mother did the last thing she could for Zhou Yu.

As long as there is this purpose, it will not matter whether the Empress Dowager Sun dies today or not. This at least gives Zhou Yu a reason to kill the Empress Dowager Sun without being opposed by the world. The Empress Dowager can see it anyway, even if

I don’t give this purpose myself

Zhou Yu would still kill the Sun family, which would inevitably cause ups and downs in the court and the country. It would be better for her to issue this decree, not to mention that the Empress Dowager also believed that the person who poisoned her was other than the Sun family.

There is no other possibility.

As for the Empress Dowager or the poisoning, it was really not Zhou Yu who did it. If not Zhou Yu, who else could it be? How could anyone else do such a thankless thing besides Sun.

No...it's not that there is no second possibility.

Queen Qian.

Or maybe Empress Qian did it alone. The stupid little woman might have thought that only the Empress Dowager died and the Empress Dowager Sun could come out. Only the Empress Dowager Sun lifted the confinement and regained her rights could she possibly save her husband, so she made this decision.

Such stupidity is not impossible.

In short, what is certain is that the only people who can do such a thing are those from Qingning Palace.

The Empress Dowager's return to glory did not last too long, and her whole body began to decline at a speed visible to the naked eye. Her eyes gradually became dim while lying on the bed, and she kept opening and closing her mouth and talking all kinds of nonsense.

Zhou Yu gave up his position and stood aside, watching the doctors at the Tai Hospital doing all kinds of meaningless first aid. Hang, who was informed, also rushed over anxiously and stayed by Zhou Yu's side.

This time, there was really no way to save the day, until the Empress Dowager completely lost all movement. Zhou Yu slowly knelt on the ground and kowtowed to the old man on the bed.

"Congratulations to the Queen Mother."

"Congratulations to the Empress Dowager on her funeral!"

Several bells suddenly rang in the palace. The already silent atmosphere in the Wenhua Palace became even colder and silent after the bells rang. The Empress Dowager died, the Empress Dowager was sentenced to death, and such a big change suddenly occurred in the palace.

, two women who were like Dinghai magic needles, one was poisoned and the other was sentenced to death. So many changes occurred in this day, which made people a little unprepared.

Coming out of the room, Zhou Yu stood in the courtyard and looked up at the sky and said calmly: "According to the wishes of the Empress Dowager, the funeral in national crisis should be kept simple and speedy without mobilizing troops. Cheng Jing, please cooperate with the imperial concubine to handle the matter properly.

"

Mrs. Hang bowed and saluted: "I will definitely not distract Your Majesty and I will definitely take care of the affairs of the Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager."

"Yes, Your Majesty." Cheng Jing bowed behind him and said, "Your Majesty, what about the Sun family?"

"The person is dead?"

Cheng Jing lowered his head with a smile that couldn't be suppressed at the corner of his mouth: "She's dead. I personally led people to forcefully pour poisonous wine into her mouth. She is already too dead to die anymore."

"Then let's break the bones and spread the ashes."

Cheng Jing said solemnly: "I will definitely keep an eye on it myself."

"Bring Queen Qian and Concubine Wang."

When these two women were brought over, Zhou Yu had already put on white mourning clothes. The two women were brought directly to the bed of the Empress Dowager. Seeing that the Empress Dowager had passed away, she immediately knelt down with her legs weak.

on the ground.

Zhou Yu stood in front of the bed with his hands behind his hands and looked at the two women: "Kowtow."

The two women did not dare to refuse and immediately complied.

"Who gave the poison?"

Zhou Yu stared at the two of them and said in a deep voice: "Although whoever made this debt will be blamed on the Sun family, I suddenly realized that this matter may not be that simple. Qian family, you live in Qingning Palace, but I can't help you."

But you are not grounded and you can come and go at will. If the Queen Mother's poisoning has nothing to do with you, I will not believe it under any circumstances."

"Wang Guifei, I asked you to live in the palace and stay out of other people's affairs, but you went against my will and were in contact with Qian every day. You even made your own decisions and did so many things. Do you really think that I won't deal with you?

?”

"Now, even if the Empress Dowager holds the greatest responsibility for her funeral, the two of you can't escape the relationship. Everyone in the Empress Dowager's palace has taken care of the Empress Dowager for many years without any incident, but you are the one who visits day and night.

The Empress Dowager was poisoned. I can even think that the poison was caused by you two. Although I have no evidence, I don’t need evidence."

"I won't kill you. Since the two of you are sisters and have a deep love for each other, they will depend on each other from today on. I will abolish the position of the Wang family's imperial concubine and lock them in the cold palace to reflect day and night. They will be taken good care of. It will be announced separately.
To be continued...