Concubine Qian never thought that her affairs would be exposed. She just found a few people and told them about the Gao family. If something really happened to Concubine Gao, the Gao family would have to bear half of the responsibility.

When he was brought here by Aunt Gao and her men, he looked at the Empress Dowager with resentment on his face.

"Liu, I thought you had let it go all these years, but I didn't expect that after so many years, you are still like this." The Empress Dowager looked at Concubine Qian with resentment. What was there to be resentful about? Her son was only a few years old. At that time, there was nothing to fight for.

Concubine Qian knelt on the ground, looked up at the Queen Mother, and shouted at the top of her lungs, "I am like this? Queen Mother, if the late emperor had not passed away early, leaving us orphans and widows to be bullied by you, who would be kneeling on the ground now?"

The late emperor loved her son so much, much more than he loved the emperor.

The Empress Dowager looked at Concubine Qian coldly, "Back then, you said that back then, I was not afraid. If it weren't for you, the late emperor would have passed away so early. Do you think that the people in the palace didn't know that you helped the late emperor to make elixirs?"

In the past, the late emperor was refining elixirs on the Penglai Island in Fuhai in order to find the secret of immortality, and Liu was by his side every day.

"Have you eaten the elixir that the late emperor ate in those years? Was the late emperor's death really an accident? Liu, you know better than anyone else."

When Concubine Qian heard this, she lowered her head in panic and denied it, saying, "Queen Dowager, these things are just your one-sided words. You can say whatever you want now, but you are the knife and I am the fish."

She was just one step behind. If the late emperor could live a few more years, he would love her so much, with such tenderness and compassion, which was the love she had never felt before.

The Empress Dowager looked at Concubine Qian, and her tone became even colder, as if it had turned into a knife. "Liu, guess why all the high-ranking concubines did not compete for favors back then? Guess why the late emperor did not allow you to leave the Old Summer Palace?"

"Why didn't the late emperor leave a place for you in his mausoleum?" The empress dowager knew it very well. From the moment Liu was imprisoned in the Old Summer Palace, they all knew the answer.

The Empress Dowager did not need Concubine Qian's reply, but her voice was like a sharp blade that cut Concubine Qian's throat.

"I'm telling you, you look 50% like Lady Nian, the one the late emperor loved so much, the one he wanted to force to bury Lady Nian next to the empress's tomb after his death."

"You know this, but you just think that the dead can't compare to you. But you have always been inferior to Nian. You are not as talented as her, and your character is not as good as hers. You are just a fake. How many female students did the late emperor keep in the palace during those years? Haven't you seen them?"

"As for your son, he looks too much like Prince Fuhui. You know, Prince Fuhui was the son that the late emperor loved like a treasure. He had his own bedroom in the Yangxin Palace. It was a pity that he died young."

When the Queen Mother spoke of this, she also fell into memories. In those years, they, mother and son, depended on each other and just wanted to make a living in this palace.

Everyone thought they were lucky, but whoever entered the palace was not lucky?

If they want to stand out and live a good life, they have to fight for it. That's why the Empress Dowager turned a blind eye to the competition for favor among Emperor Qianlong's concubines over the years, as long as it didn't involve human life.

Concubine Qian didn't believe it. Her son was favored by the late emperor and was different from them. They were just jealous.

"Empress Dowager, you can say whatever you want now. If the late emperor had not passed away so early, your lie would have been exposed." There was a crack in Concubine Qian's heart. She always hated people saying that she looked like Nian.

She is not like Nian, but they look similar. She asked the late emperor about it, and the late emperor said that her temperament and character are different from Nian's.

The Empress Dowager sat high on the throne, watching Concubine Qian deceiving herself, "What I said is true. If you hadn't gone to Penglai Fairy Island to take a look, you would have known that what is sealed there is the past of the late emperor and Concubine Nian, not the past of you and the late emperor. Concubine Nian was also buried with him according to the late emperor's will, but the late emperor never mentioned you and your son from beginning to end."

Why is the Penglai Fairy Island in Fuhai locked up until now? Things that the late emperor wanted to store are placed there. It was said that when the time comes, these things will be placed in his mausoleum.

The late emperor was a heartless man, but he also had some affection, but it was too little.

The Empress Dowager didn't want to explain to Concubine Qian, so she just asked Aunt Gao to take Concubine Qian with her.

Yu Suisui sat aside and handed a cup of tea to the Empress Dowager, "Empress Dowager, have a cup of tea to moisten your throat." She had no intention of being present today, so the Empress Dowager kept her.

The Queen Mother took the tea, drank half of it, and then said, "I originally asked you to come here to help me choose some things to send to my sister, but now I'm asking you to listen to some nonsense."

After her third sister reconciled with the man, she felt sorry for the female businessman and wanted to help her.

In addition, her third sister was also going to have a birthday, so she thought of asking Yu Suisui to come over and help choose a birthday gift. After considering so many things, she became hesitant about what to choose and couldn't make a decision for a long time.

"You can choose later, Queen Mother." Although it is fun to watch the show, there are some things she shouldn't watch.

Yu Suisui knew that the Queen Mother was still waiting, waiting for Concubine Geng to come.

It seems that Concubine Qian used to have a clear mind. In this world, the winner is the king and the loser is the bandit. Sometimes, a fight can cost you your life.

When Concubine Geng arrived, it was already afternoon. Yu Suisui accompanied the empress dowager for lunch and then took a short nap.

When Concubine Geng arrived, her face was expressionless.

Now that things have come to this, the Empress Dowager will never forgive her no matter what she says.

She knew that the Empress Dowager hated using human lives as a pretext.

"I have nothing to say. Everything is up to the Empress Dowager." Concubine Geng knelt on the ground and admitted that she was the one who did it.

The Empress Dowager had been with Concubine Geng for many years and knew her a little bit. "Just admit it. You interfered with Concubine Gao's delivery and secretly instigated Liu, almost causing Concubine Gao to have a difficult delivery."

"I have a feud with the emperor and you over the throne, and I have never thought of taking the lives of Wu Zaku and his mother, but you have been remembering this all these years, thinking that I and the emperor have treated you and your son unfairly."

"If it had been you and your son, the fate of me and the emperor would definitely not be what you are facing now."

Neither Concubine Geng nor Hong Zhou had gentle personalities. They were both vindictive and petty.

In the past, the late queen was very good to her and her son. However, because Hongzhou fell ill one year and the late queen did not visit him, Geng felt that the late queen looked down on Hongzhou and that all her previous kindness was just for show.

However, the former queen was also ill that year, and this was to prevent the disease from passing on to the sick Hong Zhou and worsening his condition.

But since then, Geng had been brooding over it and had been dissatisfied with the late empress more than once. Later, after entering the palace, when the late empress was seriously ill, she even advised the late emperor not to visit her, saying that she was afraid of passing the illness to the late emperor.

Later, when the late empress passed away, she was still willing to accompany the late emperor to select female students.

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