Yixiu deliberately emphasized the words "son and subject" and "blood of the late emperor", and looked at Zhen Huan with a smile, not panicking at all.

"How dare you!" Zhen Huan was flustered and drove Yi Xiu away, throwing the pair of red gold mandarin ducks out as well. "She knew. How could she know?"

Fu Jia didn't know what was wrong with the Queen Mother, and only thought that the Queen Mother was unhappy with her tough attitude. Only Zhen Huan knew that Heng Ti was not the blood of the late emperor, but the Queen's daughter was the granddaughter of the late emperor, so she was panicked.

But Zhen Huan figured it out after a while. The Queen was just guessing at best and certainly had no evidence, otherwise she would have told Hongli long ago, so there would be no need to beat around the bush with her.

Zhen Huan and Yi Xiu would fight over the princess' marriage every now and then. Zhen Huan wanted Yi Huan to help her, but Yi Huan didn't want to make things difficult for Hong Li, so she refused. Zhen Huan was furious, "I shouldn't have helped you in the first place!"

Yixiu brought Hailan and Gao Xiyue with her to personally persuade Hongli's wife. Although she knew that Hongli cared more about the situation in the court, she was still willing to annoy him to death.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, a message was sent to惢心 who stayed in the palace to get rid of Wei Yanwan, who refused to die in the cold palace, and to give her a chronic poison to make her die from weakness.

Ruyi, who was supposed to hate the Queen for Linglingxiang, was unaware of the incident and even wore her bracelet. She did not care about the marriage. She had no children and Hongli's health was already a big worry for her.

In the harem situation, Yixiu had the upper hand, but the old man Zhang Tingyu still proposed to marry Yixiu's daughter. The reason was that he was afraid of increasing the power of the empress dowager. It was really hilarious.

So when Hongli came to talk to Yixiu about this, Yixiu showed her true colors in front of Hongli for the first time, and looked at him gloomily with a cold face, "Your Majesty is worried about increasing the power of the Queen Mother, so you are not afraid of increasing the power of me, your concubine?"

"Queen! You..." Hongli wanted to scold, but the Queen's gaze made him tremble, as if he had fallen into a snake den, entangled in the coldness and unable to break free.

Yixiu sneered, "The mother of a country is the queen, not the queen mother. I gave birth to the eldest son, and I have the support of the Fucha family. Even if my uncle is dead now, I still have Fu Qing and Fu Heng. I don't know if the Nianhulu Neqin lineage is worthy of being compared with the Fucha family."

Hongli was so angry that he vomited blood, but Yixiu showed no mercy, "I am not the legitimate wife you chose, but the legitimate wife appointed by the late emperor. I have done nothing wrong, and you cannot depose me. If you insist on marrying my daughter, then I don't have to consider the gratitude we have had as husband and wife for more than ten years!"

"Su Ran, call the imperial physician!"

Along with the news of the emperor's serious illness, there was also an imperial decree for Princess Hengti to marry into the Khorchin clan.

Hongli felt the pain in his body and wanted to cut Wei Yanwan and her gang into pieces a hundred times in his heart, but he also knew clearly that he could not confront the Queen in this state, otherwise it was very likely that the Queen would directly support Yonglian to usurp the throne.

He was angry, but he also felt it was reasonable. The Emperor had insisted on giving Langya to him as his legitimate wife in order to gain support from the Fucha clan, and he had indeed gradually gained a firm foothold with the help of the Fucha clan and the Gao clan.

Fucha and Gao were always respectful, unlike Nian Gengyao in the previous dynasty, who was so powerful that he threatened the emperor, sold official positions and titles, and repeatedly offended his superiors. Therefore, Hongli was not very afraid of the queen and Gao until Yonglian grew up and was still very smart and outstanding, and he felt a sense of crisis.

As for the Queen, she managed the harem very well for ten years and had always been on good terms with Concubine Hui Gao. No matter how much he favored Ruyi and other concubines, she would not care as long as he did not trample on her dignity as the Queen.

She was a very qualified and good queen. Hongli had always thought that the queen was neither happy nor sad, neither jealous nor resentful, like a flawless white jade Guanyin statue. Now he knew that the queen would also resent, and for the sake of her daughter, she would even not hesitate to make him jealous.

Hongli became even more resentful. The empress was his wife, but she had never cared about him, and she didn't even care much about the Fucha family.

All she cares about is her children and her throne as queen!

Yixiu, who was hated by Hongli, was at Zhen Huan's residence at the moment. She asked with a smile, "I wonder if the Empress Dowager will personally arrange the marriage of Sister Hengti, or will she let me do it?"

Snapped--

In front of Yixiu, Zhen Huan waved her arm and threw everything on the coffee table to the ground, "The Queen is so proud now!"

"I dare not." Yixiu said hypocritically.

"Get out of here!" Zhen Huan was furious, but she had no choice but to drive Yi Xiu away and hugged Heng Ti and cried, "I'm sorry, I can't protect you. I shouldn't have done that!"

"Mother! Let's not talk about the past." Although Hengti was also very sad, he still wanted his mother to spend her remaining years in the palace. He didn't want his mother to offend the emperor and empress because of a marriage that could not be changed.

Heng Ti: "Mother, listen to me. Although I have married to Mongolia, I can still be a helper to you. My brother and his wife will be more respectful to you in the future."

"Respectful?" Zhen Huan had tears on her face and showed a mocking smile, "Mother, why do you want them to be respectful? Besides, you saw your sister-in-law's attitude just now. They are all ungrateful and white-eyed wolves."

Hengti: "Mother~"

How could Princess Hengti, who had been spoiled since childhood, understand these entanglements of power and grudges? Zhen Huan had never thought that her daughter with her lover would marry far away in Mongolia in the future. Seeing her daughter pretending to be strong but not understanding the interests involved, she felt sad.

The mother and daughter hugged each other and cried bitterly. Hengti hugged Zhen Huan's neck and nestled her head on her shoulders and neck, breathing in the scent of her mother that she would hardly smell again. She secretly vowed in her heart that she must become the pillar of support for her mother.

At night, Yixiu played chess with her two daughters Chenghuan and Wuyou in her room. "In the blink of an eye, you are already thirteen years old. You will be married in two years."

Cheng Huan was unhappy: "My Queen Mother, I don't want to get married. I want to stay by your side."

Wuyou: "I don't want to get married either."

"It's okay to keep you for a few more years. Apart from the Khorchin tribe, other Mongolian tribes don't dare to come and ask to marry the legitimate princess." Yixiu dropped a white piece, "It's your turn."

Cheng Huan Wu You looked at the chessboard in front of him and exchanged glances, "My son lost. My Queen Mother, you are so amazing. You are good at both calligraphy and chess."

Yixiu smiled faintly, touched the fair and tender faces of her two daughters, and said in a rare relaxed tone: "You don't need to be so strong, just do what you want to do."

"The emperor's sister-in-law and her two nieces really have a deep mother-daughter relationship. It's really enviable!"

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