My stepmother is here, all the rebellious sons and evildoers should kneel down!

Wen Qiqi was stunned immediately.

"Auntie, what do you mean?"

"Miss Qiqi, don't you understand what I said? This is not what I meant. It is the Queen Mother's intention. Please come with me and rest first, Miss Qiqi."

The aunts around the Empress Dowager were all very nervous people. They would never say a word more or less.

Wen Qiqi knew that she couldn't get anything out of her aunt. Now the empress dowager let her into the palace without any warning, and then avoided her and didn't allow her to leave. Obviously, this move was tantamount to imprisonment.

"Aunt, can I ask if it was the Empress Dowager who allowed me to enter the palace, or the Emperor?"

Since we are here, we might as well make the best of it, but Wen Qiqi must make things clear.

"It's the Queen Mother."

Auntie answered.

Wen Qiqi felt relieved a little, and then followed her aunt into a house in the courtyard of the Cining Palace. The layout of the house was simple, and the tables were covered with dust. It was obvious that no one had lived there for a long time.

"Miss Qiqi, please stay here for a while. I will change your bedding. If you have any other needs, please feel free to tell me."

After the aunt finished speaking, she turned and walked out. Wen Qiqi called her again, "Aunt, can you tell me whether the Empress Dowager has said that I will stay here for a few days?"

"Never said that."

Auntie answered.

Wen Qiqi's eyes suddenly turned cold, and then she said to her aunt, "Then please tell the aunt and the Queen Mother that Qiqi's child is young and needs Qiqi's company. If there is something that the Queen Mother has not figured out, please figure it out as soon as possible."

After saying that, she sat quietly on the chair on the left, and her whole body immediately gave off an aura that made her look like someone who was not to be messed with.

She is the daughter of the Wen family, so she is not wrong, so naturally she will not bow to anyone.

The Empress Dowager, regardless of her contribution in returning to the capital with a large sum of money and helping the Emperor solve his problems, secretly imprisoned her in the Cining Palace.

This is absolutely ridiculous!

If Wen Qiqi had not seen that the Empress Dowager was old and frail, she would definitely not have given the Empress Dowager such a face today and would have gone to ask the Emperor for everything.

However, there were people guarding the room, and there were no less than ten people coming and going.

Wen Qiqi understood that if she wanted to resist the Queen Mother's intentions, she would have to fight a big war with the people in the Cining Palace.

In this way, even if she was completely right, she could easily fall into the trap of others and be caught by the villain.

"In that case, I might as well stay here for a few days to see who is behind this and what they are up to."

Wen Qiqi lowered her eyes, and must have gone over the recent events in her mind.

There was nothing suspicious about anything.

The emperor was extremely happy about her and Ye Guitu's return, and this time the two of them had made great contributions to the emperor and spent a lot of money to solve the famine problem among the people.

Even if someone whispered something in the emperor's ear, he would not immediately abandon the person just because of such slander, right?

If this kind of thing were seen by outsiders, all the civil and military officials would say that the emperor was cold-hearted.

The emperor is extremely intelligent. Even if he really has some misunderstandings about himself, he would never do such an absurd thing.

It seems that the one who acted on his own initiative was the Empress Dowager herself!

Wen Qiqi looked at the guards coming and going at the door, and suddenly remembered that the Fourteenth Prince said that the Queen Mother seemed to have recently rewarded a young eunuch named Lan Baoer.

Moreover, it was not just an ordinary reward, but a mansion in Kyoto.

In Qiqi's memory, the only person who could be treated so kindly by the Empress Dowager was Lord Yu, who was in the state of hanging beams, besides the little eunuch named Lan Baoer.

The reason why the Empress Dowager rewarded Lord Yu so generously was because she believed that Lord Yu was her savior. So why did she reward this little eunuch named Lan Bao this time?

Wen Qiqi was confused and simply walked out.

"Miss Qiqi, you can't leave here now."

Two Cining Palace guards immediately stopped her. Wen Qiqi did not embarrass them and said calmly, "Don't worry, I won't make it difficult for you. Since the Empress Dowager asked me to live here, I will. But I want to ask you about something!"

"Miss Qiqi thinks highly of us. We are just guards in the palace and cannot guess the master's intentions. We also don't understand why the Queen Mother let Miss Qiqi live here."

The guards of the Cining Palace were completely confused by the Empress Dowager's actions!

On the day Wen Qiqi and Lord Ye came back, the Emperor and the Empress Dowager were very happy. How come the Empress Dowager suddenly turned hostile?

You have to know that the Wen family is an important official in the court. No matter what the Empress Dowager says, she should consider the reputation of General Wen during his lifetime and will definitely not do such a thing because of a trivial matter.

"I've already told you that the Queen Mother asked me to live here, so I will stay here. This is not what I want to ask you about." Wen Qiqi smiled and looked around the Cining Palace calmly.

"I heard that the Queen Mother recently gave a young eunuch named Lan Bao'er as a reward. Have you ever seen this person?"

It turns out that Miss Qiqi was asking about such a trivial matter!

"Of course I have seen him. That little eunuch was very fair and tender. It seems he entered the palace a year ago."

"Yes, yes, yes. I have seen him once. I always feel that he has some scholarly air and looks a bit arrogant. When he first entered the palace a year ago, he did not do his job well once and was punished by the steward of the Cining Palace to stand in the snow. But later he gradually became a favorite of the Empress Dowager."

One of the guards seemed to know more and was more gossipy.

Wen Qiqi stared at this person and continued to ask, "I also find it strange. Anyway, I'm staying here with nothing to do and I'm going to find out what kind of person can marry the Empress Dowager. I'll learn from him in the future!"

"Oh, Miss Qiqi, you should think carefully about why my queen mother locked you up here. You can't learn the things that eunuchs do. They just try their best to please the organization!"

The little guard just now seemed to know more: "I heard that this Lan Bao'er is suitable for the former Lord Yu and her behavior is somewhat similar. After entering the palace, she gradually won the favor of the Empress Dowager."

Wen Qiqi was stunned: "Similar to Lord Yu?"

Lord Yu hanged himself because he reported the corruption in the imperial examination bribes. But this little eunuch's behavior is similar to Lord Yu's. This makes people have to think more about it.

"So that's it!"

Wen Qiqi smiled slightly: "Master Yu has served the Empress Dowager for half his life, so the Empress Dowager is naturally very familiar with it and is used to it. It seems that it is for this reason that the house in Kyoto was awarded to him..."

The young guard said, "In the past, I only favored him a little bit, but I didn't think he was so favored. Now that he said it was the mansion in Kyoto last time, we were all shocked. What a surprise!"