Confidante Saisuke

The prince has come to Luoyang City.

However, it is not as usual to visit His Majesty the Emperor and the Empress.It's for an apology.It is said that the attendants around the prince were ordered by him to kill the doctor who was treating the emperor. When the court prime minister tried the case, he found hundreds of armors from the prince's mansion in order to search for the weapons used by the attendants in the assassination.It turned out that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, who was full of benevolence, righteousness and morality, turned out to be a man with evil intentions.Hearing the crowd's discussion on the street, Shangguan Wan'er lost the mood to go to Xuancheng and returned to the palace.

"Tianhou, I heard outside the palace that His Highness the Crown Prince was framed, right?" Shangguan Wan'er asked Wu Meiniang when she saw Wu Meiniang.

Wu Meiniang was smiling and stretched out her hand towards Shangguan Wan'er, after hearing what she said, she withdrew her hand to take the teacup on the case, and asked calmly, "Who said the prince was framed by someone?"

"His Royal Highness is an upright person, besides, he has always been filial to the emperor and you, so he would not do such a thing. There must be a villain who framed him." Shangguan Wan'er came to Wu Meiniang and knelt beside her.

"Wan'er, as the saying goes, you know the face but you don't know the heart. What's more, the affairs in the court are more complicated. If you don't understand, don't talk nonsense. Whether the prince is framed or not, the prime ministers will find out. Don't care about these things." Wu Meiniang swallowed the tea slowly, looking at the memorial on the case.

Hearing what Wu Meiniang said was righteous and strict, Shangguan Wan'er had nothing to answer, she paused for a while and asked: "Tian Hou, you also believe that the crown prince is innocent, don't you?"

Wu Meiniang was impatient for a long time, she held back her anger and said, "Didn't I tell you, whether the crown prince has done anything wrong, of course, the prime ministers will find out. Before the facts of the case come to light, we can't jump to conclusions. Wan'er, these are the court's You don’t have to worry about the business, just go and play with yourself.”

"But, you are the mother of His Highness the Crown Prince..." Shangguan Wan'er listened to Wu Meiniang's every word and every word was reasonable, although she felt that what she said was right, but as a mother, she should naturally support her son.

Before Shangguan Wan'er finished speaking, Wu Meiniang slammed the teacup onto the pillar and smashed it to pieces. She turned her head to look at the startled Shangguan Wan'er, grabbed her by the shoulder, and said word by word: "Shangguan Wan'er, let me say it again!" , you don’t need to worry about these things.”

Seeing Wu Meiniang's expression as if she was about to eat her, Shangguan Wan'er was startled and frightened, all the cruel things about Wu Meiniang that she had heard before rushed out of her mind.She remembered what the scholars in the Chongwen Museum said, the empress would never be reconciled to seeing the prince take power, she would definitely try every means to stop the prince.

While her mind was in confusion, Shangguan Wan'er heard Wu Meiniang's deep voice: "Wan'er, what are you thinking?"

Shangguan Wan'er lowered her head in panic, "I didn't think about anything."

Then, someone picked up her chin, facing Wu Meiniang's expressionless face: "Answer me."

Enraged, Shangguan Wan'er also forgot to be afraid, and said loudly: "Wan'er is thinking, would the Queen of Heaven dare to swear that the Prince's matter has nothing to do with the Queen of Heaven?"

With a slap, Shangguan Wan'er was slapped to the ground by Wu Meiniang: "Presumptuous! How dare you speak to me in such a tone."

Regardless of the burning pain on her face, Shangguan Wan'er looked at Wu Meiniang stubbornly: "Tianhou, tell me that the matter of His Royal Highness being framed has nothing to do with you."

Wu Meiniang's eyes were cold, she got up abruptly, walked to the window, and said slowly: "I know about my affairs in my heart, and I don't need to tell anyone. On the contrary, it is you, Shangguan Wan'er, you have to know your own identity, What to say and what not to say, think about it in your mind first. You, don’t just do whatever you want just because I like you. Bengong’s patience also has a limit. "

My own identity?What is my identity?Shangguan Wan'er stood up and looked at Wu Meiniang's back, her words were full of disappointment: "Please tell the queen clearly what Wan'er is in the queen's heart?"

Hearing that Shangguan Wan'er finally stopped pestering Li Xian, Wu Meiniang breathed a sigh of relief, and turned around to comfort her with gentle words: "Wan'er is naturally the person I like, the one who will accompany me to pass the loneliness and loneliness. The matter in the court , Wan'er doesn't understand, just ignore it, just stay quietly by my side, okay?"

Shangguan Wan'er bit her lip and lowered her head, silent.Wu Meiniang stepped forward, hugged her in her arms, and kissed the top of her head: "Wan'er be good, don't think wildly, okay?"

Shangguan Wan'er resisted the inner struggle and nodded.Wu Meiniang smiled.

When eating dinner, Wu Meiniang saw that Tuan'er was serving by her side, and asked casually, "Is Wan'er eating in the side hall by herself?"

Unexpectedly, Tuan'er replied: "Ms. Shangguan has been out of the palace with Cheng Yiwei since she came out here in Tianhou. Around [-], Cheng Yiwei came back alone. She said that Miss Shangguan stayed outside the palace and would not come back for the time being."

"Bastard." Wu Meiniang was furious when she heard the words, "Call me Cheng Yiwei."

Tuan'er hurried out to call Cheng Yiwei.Cheng Yiwei also expected that Wu Meiniang would ask her early in the morning, but she couldn't resist Shangguan Wan'er, now seeing her passing, she was secretly anxious.

"Cheng Yiwei, Wan'er has never learned the rules of the palace and is not sensible. Since I sent you to serve her, I just want you to remind her not to make mistakes. Why do you ignore Wan'er and leave her alone? Stay outside the palace?"

Cheng Yiwei knelt on the ground and did not dare to raise her head: "The Queen of Heaven, the maidservant also told the girl, but the girl insisted on staying outside the palace and refused to come back. The girl said that there are some things that she can't understand in the palace, so she wants to stay outside the palace and think about it." Come back after clearing it up. The slave girl thought that girls used to go to Princess Xuancheng's place, and nothing happened, so she came back first, thinking about making plans after the day is over."

Li Xuancheng, Wu Meiniang gritted her teeth and called out the name of the daughter of this former enemy.After a long time, Wu Meiniang snorted: "Neglect of duty is negligence of duty. If you dare to quibble, go and kneel in the yard by yourself, and wait until you understand it before getting up."

The next morning, Wu Meiniang got up to wash and wash, and asked Liu Niang to come over and have breakfast together.

"Going out of the palace?" Liu Niang couldn't believe her ears, "What is Tianhou going out of the palace for?"

Wu Meiniang smiled leisurely: "I really want to see what the daughter of Concubine Xiao Shu is capable of, to provoke Wan'er over and over again. Back then Concubine Xiao Shu was the defeat of my palace, but I don't believe how capable her daughter is. .”

It was Shangguan Wan'er again.Liu Niang sighed: "Tian Hou, forgive me for talking too much. The Queen of Heaven has spent too much time on that Shangguan Wan'er. According to this old slave, Shangguan Wan'er is not so gentle. If the Queen of Heaven wants to find someone to accompany her, it is better to choose someone else. .”

"That's another matter." Wu Meiniang took the tea brought by the maid, rinsed her mouth, and said while cleaning her hands, "In this world, there are only things that I don't want, and there is nothing that I can't want, let alone Someone came to grab it."

Liu Niang led the maid to change Wu Meiniang into casual clothes, and the group went straight to Xuancheng's mansion.

When they reached the gate, two attendants disguised as soldiers of the Habayashi Army stepped forward and knocked on the door. A young servant opened the gate slightly to see who was coming, and the attendant reached in and pushed the young servant to the ground.Before the boy could yell out, a long sword was already resting on his shoulder.Another attendant opened the door, and then Wu Meiniang and Liu Niang walked in.

Entering the main room, Xuancheng was playing the piano with Shangguan Wan'er.Xuancheng sat behind Shangguan Wan'er, held Shangguan Wan'er's hand in both hands and taught her how to play the piano.The light at the door suddenly dimmed, Shangguan Wan'er looked up and was greatly surprised, it turned out to be Tianhou.

Wu Meiniang looked at the two of them, sneered, and sat down in front of the hall.The maid following behind hurriedly took out the tea cups, tea leaves and hot water that she carried with her to make tea for Wu Meiniang.

"Xuancheng didn't know the empress was coming, so I was far away to welcome her. Please forgive me." When Xuancheng saw Wu Meiniang, he got up and stood, and when Wu Meiniang sat down in front of the hall, he went forward to salute.

Wu Meiniang glanced at Xuancheng, then turned to look at Shangguan Wan'er who was still sitting at the table, and asked with a smile, "What? Wan'er, you don't want to see me, you don't welcome me?"

Seeing that Shangguan Wan'er couldn't get up to salute, didn't raise her head, and didn't answer, Xuancheng was very anxious.After listening to Shangguan Wan'er's story yesterday, she realized that Wu Meiniang didn't like Shangguan Wan'er coming to her, and that Shangguan Wan'er even contradicted Wu Meiniang because of the prince.The ministers of the DPRK and China did not dare to disobey Wu Meiniang, so Shangguan Wan'er would be seeking her own death by doing so.After finally appeasing Shangguan Wan'er and persuading her to agree not to cause trouble again, who would have thought that she became stubborn again.

"Wan'er, don't be rude to the empress, get up and apologize to the empress." Xuancheng couldn't bear it, and pretended to scold Shangguan Wan'er.

"What did Tianhou come to sister Xuancheng for?" Shangguan Wan'er still didn't get up, she only raised her head to look at Wu Meiniang.

Wu Meiniang smiled lightly, picked up the teacup and took a sip unhurriedly: "Didn't Wan'er say that she learned etiquette from Princess Xuancheng? I don't think she is doing very well."

"It's all Xuancheng's fault." Princess Xuancheng was afraid that Wu Meiniang would punish Shangguan Wan'er, so she hurriedly said, "Xuancheng himself doesn't understand etiquette, and he didn't teach Wan'er well, so I hope the empress will be happy."

"Very good." Wu Meiniang looked at Shangguan Wan'er who was frowning playfully, "Since you admit that it was your fault, I won't punish innocent people. Come on," waited for two maids to come forward , Wu Meiniang ordered, "Twenty palms."

Shangguan Wan'er was shocked, seeing that the two maids really started hitting Xuancheng's cheeks one by one, she got up and was about to run over to stop her, but she was stopped before she even lifted her foot.

"Tianhou, Tianhou," seeing Xuancheng's cheeks swollen, Shangguan Wan'er cried out, "Tianhou, Wan'er was wrong. Tell them to stop quickly. Stop quickly."

Wu Meiniang asked her with a smile: "Wan'er really knows she's wrong? Then tell me, where did you go wrong?"

While speaking, the slaps were over, Shangguan Wan'er looked at Xuan Cheng's already bruised face, wept and said: "Wan'er shouldn't have left the palace...shouldn't have stayed outside the palace...shouldn't have saluted the queen..." At the end, she was sobbing so hard that she slowly knelt down on the ground covering her mouth.

Wu Meiniang just got up, walked in front of Shangguan Wan'er, lifted her chin, looked at Shangguan Wan'er who was streaming down her face and said, "Very good. Since Wan'er knows she's wrong, she should correct it if she knows it. Follow me Go back to the palace."

Shangguan Wan'er kowtowed to the ground with tears in her eyes: "Tian Hou, sister Xuancheng was punished because of Wan'er, Wan'er begged Tian Hou to allow her to give her medicine before returning to the palace."

Is this what you know is wrong?Wu Meiniang's anger rose again when she got down, but seeing Shangguan Wan'er crying pitifully, she still held her breath and supported her by the shoulder: "Remember what you said yourself."

After Shangguan Wan'er nodded, Wu Meiniang left with a group of people.

After leaving the door, Wu Meiniang said with a smile: "I thought Wan'er was so stubborn. Seeing how she was crying all of a sudden, if she really wanted to see torture being carried out in the palace, she would have to have nightmares at night. But, " Wu Meiniang's face paled, "Wan'er cares too much about Li Xuancheng."

Back in the palace, before Wu Meiniang changed her casual clothes, Tuan'er went forward to report that the emperor sent someone to invite her to Zhenguan Hall.

The overall situation has been decided, what else is there to say.Wu Meiniang changed into palace clothes in an orderly manner and went to Zhenguan Hall.

"Meiniang, what are you going to do with Xian'er?" Li Zhi was exhausted now, and only hoped to save Li Xian's life.

"Conspiring rebellion for the sake of a son of man is not tolerated by heaven and earth. For such a man who has no ruler and father, your majesty, you must kill your relatives righteously, and you must not be lightly forgiven." Wu Meiniang stood in front of Li Zhi's bed, condescending, with awe-inspiring righteousness.

"Meiniang, because he is your son..." Li Zhi also expected that Wu Meiniang would never let Li Xian go, but when things came to an end, he still had a glimmer of hope.

"Your majesty," Wu Meiniang stopped Li Zhi's words in a loud voice, "I think the emperor is sick and confused. How could Li Xian be my son? I am not blessed to have such a good son."

"Meiniang, unexpectedly, after so many years, you are still brooding. Even if Xian'er grew up beside you from the womb, and he has always regarded you as his biological mother, you still refuse to forget the past." Li Zhi shook his head. , very disappointed.

"I will never forget that my good sister and my good husband were lying on my bed to have fun, and I will never forget that my good niece also seduced my husband and wanted to replace me as queen, I My good nephew ruined my unmarried concubine and made my son the laughingstock of the world. Now, the son born to my sister and my husband occupies the crown prince position of my own son. Your majesty, what do you say Who should I settle these accounts with?" Wu Meiniang stared at Li Zhi with sharp eyes.

"Empress," Li Xian walked in slowly from the outside, his face pale, "Our ancestors have passed away, and all the sins are borne by Li Xian alone."

Li Zhi closed his eyes in despair.