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

"The Queen Mother is ill?"

The emperor looked at the young eunuch in the Cining Palace in confusion, and the young eunuch lowered his head guiltily.

"Yes. The Empress Dowager just heard that something happened to the daughter of the Wen family. She was so angry that she has been lying in bed to rest... The Empress Dowager also said that the Emperor should not... should not blame himself too much."

The emperor's face turned pale at the young eunuch's words.

The Empress Dowager and the Wen family have a close relationship, but now she is old...

"Your Majesty, the Empress Dowager said that Your Majesty should go back to the Cining Palace. The Empress Dowager is very upset and cannot feel at ease until she sees Your Majesty."

The young eunuch gritted his teeth and said this.

The emperor looked at him coldly, and the little eunuch was so scared that he swallowed his saliva.

"The Empress Dowager is ill, so I'll ask the imperial physician to come! Am I an imperial physician? Can I cure illnesses? Everyone in the Cining Palace is trying to coax the Empress Dowager and obey her. There is not a single person who can serve their master wholeheartedly!"

"Emperor calm down!"

The young eunuch kowtowed and admitted his mistake, and ran away without saying another word.

He had never seen Wen Qiqi before. He had only seen a woman in the room and a young eunuch dressed in women's clothes, who seemed to be Xiao Lengzi, who had just entered the palace...

The Queen Mother was extremely anxious.

At this point, no matter how my aunt tried to persuade me, I was still restless.

Wen Qiqi was actually poisoned to death?

Who did it?

Who dared to do such a bold thing in the Cining Palace?

Aunt Jin followed the Empress Dowager as she paced in the Cining Palace, and kept persuading her, "Empress Dowager, please take a break! You've been walking for half an hour, be careful not to get a backache."

"How can I sit still? Fuchun, I feel so uncomfortable! Hey... I have been friends with the Wen family for many years. Even though I know Qiqi is a spy and she almost killed my old Thirteenth... I have never thought of killing her!"

The Queen Mother covered her heart with her hands and said frankly that she was having difficulty breathing.

The aunt was busy patting the Empress Dowager's back and comforting her, "Empress Dowager, you have to calm down! At this moment, the Emperor is probably dizzy with anger and guilt! When the Emperor comes later, if he blames the Empress Dowager, don't take it to heart."

"Blame me... I let Qiqi enter the palace, hoping to expose General Ye and the Fourteenth Prince! Qiqi doesn't repent... and she refuses to tell me the truth, so I let her copy the scriptures!"

The Empress Dowager began to stamp her feet and touch her chest, but she did not dare to cry out loud.

"I didn't really intend to take Qiqi's life! The person who secretly attacked her definitely didn't mean what I wanted!"

"Yes, yes, yes... Empress Dowager, please don't worry. I have been by your side for many years. I know how the Empress Dowager feels about the Wen family. I also know that although the Empress Dowager has put Wen Qiqi under house arrest, she has never done anything cruel to her! You won't do it, let alone do it!"

The aunt helped the Queen Mother sit down, and a look of despair gradually appeared in the Queen Mother's eyes.

"You believe me, but will His Majesty believe me? In His Majesty's heart, I am afraid I have become an ungrateful, cruel and merciless queen mother!"

At that time, the late emperor had many concubines in the harem. The empress dowager relied on her intelligence and means to become the emperor's favorite concubine in one fell swoop, and then gradually became the empress, and finally shared the beauty and favor of the harem with Concubine Xiao...

It has been a long journey.

The emperor was born when the empress dowager was 20 years old. When he was four or five years old, he began to remember some things.

He knew all the stories about the Empress Dowager fighting alone against many concubines in the harem.

But the Thirteenth Prince is different.

The Thirteenth Prince was born with a royal golden spoon in his mouth after the Empress Dowager's position in the harem became increasingly solid.

In the eyes of the Thirteenth Prince, it seemed as if his father and his Empress Dowager had always been so loving and affectionate. Concubine Xiao was the late emperor's favorite woman, and the Empress Dowager was the late emperor's most indispensable empress!

Therefore, the Empress Dowager always felt that, as a mother, her image in the eyes of the Emperor was far less gentle, kind, noble and elegant than in the eyes of the Thirteenth Prince!

After the emperor ascended the throne, the empress dowager fell seriously ill again.

Lord Yu took care of the patient day and night during that serious illness. The Emperor and the Thirteenth Prince also invited famous doctors from all over the world, and they even wanted to ask the ancient doctor Hua Tuo for medicine.

Finally, the Queen Mother came back to life.

But since that serious illness, the Empress Dowager's temperament changed drastically.

Aunt Fuchun, who had been with the Empress Dowager for many years, said that since her serious illness, the Empress Dowager was no longer the "Empress" who had no rival in the harem.

It was also after that illness that the Empress Dowager became extremely dependent on Lord Yu, who took good care of her.

Lord Yu hanged himself. Although the Empress Dowager felt that Lord Yu had brought it upon himself, the pain and reluctance in her heart made her slightly dissatisfied with the Wen Mansion, both overtly and covertly.

Like a child who is angry, he knows it is wrong but he just can't help it.

The Emperor personally persuaded the Empress Dowager twice, but the Empress Dowager said frankly that she was old, and the eunuchs around her were not effective. Either the tea was too weak or the incense was too strong. It was probably impossible to find someone like Lord Yu.

In fact, before Lord Yu hanged himself, he returned to Beijing and lived out his days in his mansion.

The Empress Dowager was also served by others.

The emperor understood that the empress dowager still had attachment to Lord Yu. After all, when Lord Yu was alive, he often returned to the palace to visit the empress dowager, sometimes once every ten days, and sometimes three or five times a month.

After Lord Yu's death, the Empress Dowager felt as if all her energy had been drained away. Until recently, Blue Pearl appeared by her side and became her new favorite.

The Empress Dowager once told the Emperor that her current personal eunuch, Lan Baoer, was very much like Lord Yu in terms of both speech and actions.

Sometimes, after taking a nap, I would wake up and hear him calling me "Queen Mother" and then patting my shoulders and talking to me to relieve my boredom. I would feel that life was much better.

The emperor just felt that the empress dowager was old, so anyone who could make her happy would be rewarded more.

On the other side, the emperor looked at "Blue Baby" prostrating himself and refusing to raise his head, and he felt more and more puzzled.

"Lan Baoer, you said you were wronged, then stand up and explain yourself clearly. I will not wrongly accuse a servant, but I will not let a scheming villain go just because of the Empress Dowager!"

Lan Baoer said frankly that the emperor was a great king and she was just a rat, and she did not lie at all.

Wen Qiqi smiled slightly.

"Your Majesty, since Lan Baoer said that he had nothing to do with this matter and it was just a misunderstanding, I think he didn't mean it."

As soon as these words came out, Lu Xingcheng's body tensed slightly and he raised his body slightly.

It seems that Wen Qiqi, the former mother, was also short-sighted and did not recognize her former adopted son!