Chapter 150: There Are Surely Geniuses in the World

The next day, Xie Wuzheng entered the palace to have an audience.

He was brought into Huanhua Hall by the palace servants, saluted and greeted, Yun Fenghuang sat on the head, looked at him, saw his face was gray and defeated, and he had already figured it out, waved back and forth, and asked himself: "Brother Twenty-one All these years, I have deliberately alienated and neglected close bloodlines, but what is the reason?"

"..." Xie Wuzheng lost his composure and reliability when he met his cousin in the past two years, like a fish thrown ashore, he opened his mouth but made no sound, only a choked sob rolling out of his throat.

"It seems that you also know about the dew trap." Yun Fenghuang sighed, with a gleam of water in his eyes, and said softly, "I always thought that even if my aunt and mother were at odds in the early years, you and I are related by blood. Before the collapse of the Xie clan, we also benefited from each other. After the collapse of the Xie clan, we depended on each other for life. What else can we not talk about? Now it seems that Brother 21 still doesn't trust me!"

Xie Wuzheng staggered, then slowly knelt down without saying a word.

Seeing this, Yun Fenghuang asked himself: "Is the person behind you Ji?"

"...Yes." Xie Wuzheng tilted his head to one side as if he couldn't bear it, and there was some disbelief in his hoarse voice, "Is this what Ji told the empress, or where did the empress find it?"

"The Ji family has assisted Brother Twenty-one for many years, but never gave Ben Gong a chance to repay her as a younger sister." Yun Fenghuang said calmly, "How could he take the initiative to expose it? As for asking, Brother Twenty-one is too young Look at me. Brother 21 may have a grudge against me because of those trivial grievances back then, and can't trust him. But Bengong has never had any doubts about brother 21. Otherwise, it wouldn't be me Gong boasted, if I had suspected Brother Twenty-One earlier, how could Brother Twenty-One have deceived me to this day?"

"I have never inquired about your behavior in private."

"Because this woman in this palace, who has changed her surname to Yun, has a deep love for Xie's family, and she can't forget it! What's more, brother twenty-one is the eldest son of Xie's family?"

"According to the rules, Xie's hatred is worthy of your revenge."

"It's up to me to report it or not. After all, from the name, my father's family is the Yun family, and my husband's family is the Gongxiang family."

"I want to recognize Xie's grievances and hatred, but the law doesn't even allow it."

"Is not it?"

"So aside from other things, it's impossible for me to doubt anyone in Xie's matter, and it's impossible to doubt Brother Twenty-One."

"I don't trust anyone, and I won't distrust brother twenty-one."

She picked up a record with a lot of bloodstains from her hand, with no joy or sorrow in her eyes, she said calmly, "Unexpectedly, the authorities are obsessed, and the one who really knows the true face of Brother Twenty-one is still an enemy!"

"Slap!"

The record was thrown in front of Xie Wuzheng, the noble concubine said slowly: "As a descendant, the Gu family is a wealthy family with military achievements. They are deeply rooted in the previous dynasty and in the harem. After many years, they have I have never taken any advantage in Bengong's hands. Even, it was made by Bengong again and again. Since I entered the palace, except for the matter of the Xie family, only Bengong has stabbed them. There is no room for Gong to stab the knife. However, their thorough investigation of Brother Twenty-One in private was solid, and they gave Ben Gong a knife!"

"This knife hurts me even more and deeper than when my sixth sister had an accident... After all, even though I was young at the time, I was helpless and at a loss, at least my parents, brothers and sisters-in-law Here, the family is also here. Even if the big house secretly contributes to the trouble, at least my parents, brother and sister-in-law can handle it."

"There is also my aunt who is far away in the imperial capital, willing to lend a helping hand."

"And right now, this palace is almost unaccompanied."

"Brother Twenty-One is the most valued blood relative, the most trusted relative, and the least suspicious close person of the Palace... but he is a helper for tigers, helping the evildoers... In contrast, when I was twelve years old, I felt that the sky had collapsed and the earth had fallen. The nightmares seem to be all hypocrisy."

She said these words calmly.

In fact, since Xie Wuzheng came in, the imperial concubine has never been excited.

But he was sweating coldly, and it was difficult for him to breathe.

Xie Wuzheng has seen a noble concubine calm down like this. When Mrs. Xie died, when Gu Zhen came to visit her, she was also instantly calm like this.

"Your Majesty must hate me to the core." Xie Wuzheng was silent for a while, then laughed a few times to himself, and said in a low voice.

Yun Fenghuang listened, but shook his head, and slowly said: "Hate to the core? No, at least not at the moment. Right now, I don't have much free time to hate you or anyone. I just want to deal with the aftermath."

She leaned back, stared at Xie Wuzheng who was lying on the ground, and said calmly, "You can't hide it anymore. No matter how cruel and ruthless I am, I have never treated my own people badly. Let alone Xie's recent decline." , Forget and Li'er haven't grown up yet, even if you help an outsider to stab me, I'm not you, and I don't want to do what the relatives hurt the enemy! So, don't take chances, if I will never let you go, do you still expect outsiders to show mercy to you? Tell me from the beginning to the end, maybe I can turn the tide."

"Otherwise, you should know that you are able to have today, whether it's marriage, future, or someone willing to silently support you behind the scenes, it's all because you are my brother."

"Without Ben Gong, you are nothing!"

"Even if you have coaxed Sui'an well all these years, but...without this palace, do you believe that you can't even keep your status as a son-in-law?"

"Even if it is saved, it is still unknown whether to live as a son-in-law or go down under the name of a son-in-law!"

"That's all I've said, you can do it yourself."

Xie Wuzheng lowered his head, not daring to look at his cousin, and said in a hoarse voice: "Chen... I have no other choice..."

"I don't want to and don't have time to listen to your reasons and ideas." Yun Fenghuang said softly, "Maybe Ji tricked you into boarding the boat, but at least at the beginning, you must have moved your mind and were willing to cooperate. Otherwise, even when I was only a concubine, I would have dismissed them as long as you reminded me in private! Ask yourself, if you didn’t have your own will, you, or the remnants of the Ji family, would be able to hide it from me. many years?"

"Or do you think that my palace's achievements in the palace over the years are all won by the grace of His Majesty?"

"..." Xie Wuzheng was silent for a moment, then suddenly straightened up. The two generations of Xie's descendants all have good looks. Now that they are sitting up, their shoulders are wider and their waists are thinner, and their demeanor is more elegant. It's just the strong hatred in his eyes, Resentment, but destroyed this innate good looks, "Yes, your mother guessed right! After all these years, I have regretted it. But at the earliest time, I was willing to cooperate with the Ji family. After all At that time, Ding Xingwang was a member of the Xie family, and as the fourth wife's concubine, not only did the fourth wife and the first wife have always had a grudge, but how could the fourth aunt be willing to allow the first wife to take over your favor, so that she was called a de facto wife, Is it not embarrassing?!"

"If it's not forced to, the empress will not lift up anyone, will she?!"

"So the empress said that without you, I am nothing, but it is actually wrong."

"It should be said that without the Ji family, the minister is nothing!"

Yun Fenghuang's face suddenly changed.

It's not because of Xie Wuzheng's indignant words, but he guessed in an instant: "You...you just came to the Imperial Capital?!"

Seeing Xie Wuzheng sneer, she finally revealed a hint of shock, "So, the reason why Brother Eleven was plotted at the beginning, and you got into His Majesty's eyes through the matter of Dengwengu...is it Ji?"

"Your Majesty is lucky. She was born to be loved by her father and mother, and she was protected by a smart and capable mother like my fourth aunt. From childhood to adulthood, except for the fact that the matter of the sixth sister caused you a big loss, she has always had no disadvantages." Xie Wuzheng With a ferocious face, he said in a cold voice, "But how can you understand the despair and helplessness of the Chen family?!"

"Originally, the fourth aunt has already firmly held the end of the big room."

"Even what happened to Sixth Sister didn't shake her status as a real wife."

"All the concubines were sent to the imperial capital, and they were exiled from the family. Not only were they able to stand up, but they also became the emperor's favorite... The news was sent back to the Northland that day. Grandparents and your four families are certainly very happy. My darling Fang... but my first wife only feels that there will never be a bright future!"

Yun Fenghuang looked at him as if he was looking at a fool: "Where is the Xie family's property, how much can there be after fighting and fighting? How can I measure the benefits brought to the family by being lucky enough to get the favor? The grievances and grievances in the past , no matter how profound it is, could it be that the support I have given over the years is not enough to make up for it?!"

Xie Wuzheng smiled bitterly and said: "Enough! But this is because the minister has succeeded as the Lord! Otherwise, what does this gold, jade, and bright future have to do with the minister!?"

"Brother Eleven is old and flirtatious. When it comes to being the son-in-law of the royal family, isn't it more suitable for a young and clean minister? But although the empress listed the minister as a candidate, it was because the lintel of the Xie family was too low at that time, and the empress was worried. Brother Eleven alone is not safe enough, so I asked the minister to make up the numbers!"

"Actually, what the empress really wants to support is Brother Eleven, isn't it?"

"After all, Brother Eleven is the second wife. Although the second aunt has some complaints about the fourth aunt taking over the three sisters-in-law, she is not the eldest daughter-in-law after all."

"That's why the empress is not worried that the second wife will seize power with the fourth wife after she becomes a son-in-law."

"It was at this time that the Ji family approached the superior minister. They did not threaten or intimidate the minister, but only asked the minister calmly. It was for the good of the empress, and they sat back and watched the empress support the eleventh brother as a son-in-law. Being thrown far away, it takes a long time to look at the face of the empress, and even the face of the eleventh brother; I still think about myself, my parents, and the big house, and with their help, take away the opportunity of the eleventh brother, Becoming the royal consort, and from then on, you will rise to the top?!"

And of course he chose the latter.

"Your Majesty, do you still remember that after Brother Eleven's accident, you specially summoned your ministers to the palace to see the ins and outs?" Xie Wuzheng sighed deeply. Responding, even in private, let the minister practice in front of them many times, striving to be perfect... The minister really got away with it. On that day, the minister walked out of the palace gate, and his back was wet with sweat. That is This is the first time I regret it. I used to suspect in private that as the eldest daughter-in-law, even if my mother was not as smart as my fourth aunt, she was born a lady and knew the basic rules of family management. Why was my fourth aunt usurped power for many years? Nothing to do? It wasn't until that time, when the empress reacted sharply and the Ji family had no plans left, that I didn't know that a mediocre person is a mediocre person."

"I just realized that there are indeed geniuses in the world."

"It's a pity that Chen's mother is not, and neither is Chen."

"At that time, I was thinking, did I do something wrong? As the empress said, even if the empress deliberately suppressed the big house because of the grievances between our mothers, she would not do evil things, or even leak some benefits through her fingers. Will be with Dafang."

"It's better than seeking skins from outsiders and tigers."

"But the Ji family also expected the minister's retreat. They...hehe...they pretended not to know, and only secretly arranged for someone to lead the minister to see the top glory and wealth in the world..."

"I... only enjoyed it for a few days, and then changed my mind about confessing to my empress."

"There are countless benefits in this world that I have never heard of or seen before. If the minister is facing the empress, will the empress support the minister and let the minister be like you, ascend to the sky in one step, and become one of the most honorable and powerful people in this great dynasty from now on?" One?"

"Presumably the empress will not."

"Because the empress didn't care about the minister earlier, she might have been a little bit repulsive. Whether it's the empress or your majesty, the earliest change of attitude towards the minister was after Deng Wengu's incident... because the empress and your majesty think that the minister is a good man. .”

"Once the real level of the minister is exposed, the empress may feel that the minister is not bad in nature and is a good person, but she will not give the minister such a good opportunity as the Lord Shang, let alone support the minister to a high position."

Xie Wuzheng smiled self-deprecatingly, "Since ancient times, there have been very few people who can see through the world of mortals and riches. I am a mediocre person who can't even compete with Shangzhu. How can I do it that countless heroes can't do?" What about the matter? I...want a share of this sprawling wealth, no matter if I earned it by my real skills, or by being a puppet."

"..." Yun Fenghuang listened silently, until now, he sighed quietly, "At that time, my palace was only fifteen, and I just entered the palace. It will give the Ji family an opportunity to take advantage of. This miscalculation is not a crime of war."

She restrained her mind and said slowly, "Since the Ji family bought you early in the morning and promised to help you to be the lord, then the matter of Princess Sui'an's infertility is probably related to this?"

"..." The muscles on Xie Wuzheng's face twitched, and after a moment, he said shyly, "Your Majesty has a keen mind, as long as you get rid of your bloodliness, you can't hide anything."

He closed his eyes and nodded vigorously, "Not bad!"

Yun Fenghuang sighed softly, but he didn't get angry so far, he just said: "You said you are a mediocre person, but I don't think you can compare to ordinary mediocrity. Lord Shang is certainly your most important opportunity, but The bloodline with the eldest princess is the trump card to save your life for the rest of your life, but if you have a son and a half daughter with the eldest princess, the only one who knows the truth now is this palace, even your majesty, for the sake of your nephew, you have to Be merciful. You don’t fight for other things, how can you not fight for this point?! Dafang named you ‘Wu Zheng’, and you are not really indifferent to the world, how come you don’t know when it’s time to fight?”

Xie Wuzheng remained silent.

At this moment, the noble concubine said softly, "So, don't forget, considering your age, you are the heir arranged by the Ji family before you became the Lord?"

Xie Wuzheng's body stiffened for a moment, and then he gave up all relaxation.

He didn't argue, but asked in a daze and unwillingly: "Your Majesty...how did you think of it? That child...is obviously very similar to his grandfather. Moreover, Brother Ten did have such an illegitimate son living outside. The trustworthy minister is also because of the evidence of the Jiang family's uncle. The Jiang family is your direct relative, how could it be possible for the minister to confuse the tenth brother's blood? It's just that the tenth brother's child has long since disappeared in the rebellion. The minister thought This child, Chen, is about the same age as him, and his appearance is also somewhat similar, no matter how good Li Daitao is, he can't be stiff. If the empress thinks about it in a few days, it's fine, but at this moment... at this moment, how did the empress know?"