Chapter 435 - 435: The Empress Dowager Knows the Truth
Chapter 435: The Empress Dowager Knows the Truth
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In the Purple Mansion Hall, Emperor Jingxuan was reviewing memorials. Eunuch Quan rushed to the door. “Your Majesty, I have something to report!”
Ever since Emperor Jingxuan was poisoned last time and Eunuch Fu had contributed by siding with Princess Jingning to protect him, Eunuch Quan had almost become invisible beside Emperor Jing Xuan.
Now that he finally had some news, he naturally had to show his face to Emperor Jingxuan.
“What is it?” Emperor Jingxuan asked.
Eunuch Quan walked in and bowed. “The Empress Dowager was a.s.sa.s.sinated!”
Emperor Jing Xuan’s expression changed. “Is the Empress Dowager injured?”
Eunuch Quan hurriedly said, “I heard that Lord Wei arrived in time. The
Empress Dowager is fine.”
Emperor Jing Xuan was relieved and said calmly, “Leave.”
Eunuch Quan was stunned.
Was that it?
Shouldn’t he send him to welcome the Empress Dowager at the entrance of the palace? Or should he wait for the Empress Dowager to return to Yongshou Palace before reporting to His Majesty?
Eunuch Fu glanced at him indifferently.
Eunuch Quan left unwillingly.
Emperor Jing Xuan picked up the memorial that he had been halfway through reading. “Summon Wei Ting.”
Wei Ting escorted the Empress Dowager back to the palace. When he heard that Emperor Jing Xuan had summoned him, he immediately came.
“Your Majesty.” Wei Ting bowed.
Emperor Jing Xuan looked at the blood on his clothes and shoes and asked calmly, “I heard that the Empress Dowager was a.s.sa.s.sinated. You appeared in time and chased away the a.s.sa.s.sin. Do you recognize him?”
Wei Ting shook his head. “No. That group of a.s.sa.s.sins was very cunning. Seeing that they couldn’t defeat us, they fled on their own. I was worried that it was a decoy strategy to lure the tiger away from the mountain, so I didn’t dare to chase after them rashly.”
Emperor Jingxuan asked, “Why did you appear nearby?”
Wei Ting said seriously, “I met a senior brother of the Dragon Temple at the entrance of a medicine shop in the evening. I heard from him that Abbot Yuan was sick, so I went with him to visit him. Halfway there, I heard the Imperial Guards shout, ‘Protect the Empress Dowager.”‘
Emperor Jing Xuan’s expression did not change at all. “I heard that you even saved Qin Canglan’s granddaughter?”
Wei Ting’s handsome face darkened. “It was too dark and I didn’t see clearly… I thought she was the Empress Dowager’s palace maid… If I had known…
He didn’t finish the sentence.
However, with the regretful expression on his face, anyone could guess that he did not want to save the Qin family at all.
Emperor Jing Xuan asked Wei Ting to go back first and called the commander of the Imperial Guards over.
“Have you found out who did it?” he asked.
The commander of the imperial guards knelt down and begged for forgiveness. “Your Majesty… the clues are gone…’
Emperor Jing Xuan frowned. “What do you mean by no clues?”
The commander of the Imperial Guards braced himself and said, “After Lord
Wei and his subordinates repelled the a.s.sa.s.sins, the two of them escorted the Empress Dowager back to the palace first. We carried the corpses of the two a.s.sa.s.sins onto the horse and planned to bring them back to see if there were any clues on their corpses. But… but that group actually turned back and s.n.a.t.c.hed the corpses away…”
In a dark alley, a carriage turned sharply and stopped. The person in the carriage rolled down with a plop.
Then, he jumped up and pointed at a black-clothed and masked coachman. “Hey! Yuchi Xiu! Do you know how to drive a carriage!”
Yuchi Xiu said arrogantly, “It’s your fault for not being able to sit steadily!”
“Isn’t that because you didn’t untie me?
“Can’t you loosen it yourself?”
Of course, Fu Su could loosen it himself. This kind of lousy rope could not tie him up, but he was not home yet. He had to put on a show!
Fu Su was a loyal secret guard and would definitely obey his master’s orders.
Yuchi Xiu was different. He was used to being sneaky and lazy. If he could be lazy, he would be lazy. Wei Ting couldn’t even see him, so what was the point of acting?
“I’m leaving!”
Yuchi Xiu threw the horsewhip into Fu Su’s hands and swaggered away.
Fu Su looked at a certain someone in disbelief. “Hey! Where are you going!”
Yuchi Xiu had long disappeared.
Fu Su turned to look at the carriage.
The other corpse in the carriage also easily broke the rope with his internal strength. He casually tore off his black night clothes, revealing a clean white
shirt.
Then, he put on the white bamboo hat and left without looking back.
Fu Su gritted her teeth. “Only you know how to leave, right? I’ll leave too! I don’t care anymore!”
With that, he threw the whip on the ground and pulled his head in another direction.
Ten seconds later.
He walked back with a dark expression, picked up the horsewhip, and drove the carriage back resentfully.
Su Xiaoxiao entered the palace again early the next morning to take the Empress Dowager’s pulse.
After being a.s.sa.s.sinated last night, Wei Ting escorted the Empress Dowager back to the palace. When they pa.s.sed by Scholar Street, Su Xiaoxiao went home.
As there was an “outsider” like Wei Ting, the two of them did not have any private interactions.
The Empress Dowager had been holding it in all night and was about to have a problem.
“Eunuch Cheng, please bring everyone out first. I’m going to treat the Empress Dowager.”
Su Xiaoxiao didn’t like to be disturbed when she was treating illnesses. This had always been her habit, and it was the same for treating Emperor Jingxuan.
No one suspected anything and followed Eunuch Cheng out of the bedroom.
The Empress Dowager sat on the phoenix bed and let Su Xiaoxiao take her pulse. She said calmly, “Tell me, what happened last night?”
Su Xiaoxiao looked innocent. “What do you mean?
The Empress Dowager snorted coldly. “Don’t play dumb with me. I’ve eaten more salt than you’ve eaten rice! When I was scheming, your parents weren’t even born!”
Su Xiaoxiao blinked.
Alright, she was indeed not as old as the Empress Dowager in her previous life and this life.
Su Xiaoxiao chuckled. “You can tell?”
The Empress Dowager looked disgusted. “Do you really think I’m blind with your acting skills?”
However, she was about to be blinded by this girl’s harsh acting skills.
The Empress Dowager said calmly, “You arranged the a.s.sa.s.sin, right? How dare you! You actually dare to a.s.sa.s.sinate the Empress Dowager of a country!”
Su Xiaoxiao sighed helplessly. “Sigh, Empress Dowager, actually, I have my difficulties.”
The Empress Dowager said coldly, “Everyone says that!”
Su Xiaoxiao said seriously, “Really. Didn’t you want to ask about the father of Dahu, Erhu, and Xiaohu yesterday? Where did the young princess live all those years? In the Wei family.”
The Empress Dowager’s expression changed. “What?”
Su Xiaoxiao looked at her and said, “The father of the three children… is Wei Ting. ”
The empress dowager sat up straight in shock. “Wei Ting?!”
Su Xiaoxiao said, “It’s not what you think. Wei Ting is the nominal father of the three children. They are the children of the young princess and the sixth son of the Wei family.”
Su Xiaoxiao told him about the young princess being saved by the Wei family.
Although she had already accepted it in her heart, the Empress Dowager’s heart still ached when she knew the entire truth.
The Wei family did not do anything wrong with the young princess, be it hiding the news that the young princess was alive from her or breaking up the marriage between the young princess and the Wei family’s sixth son.
If it were her, she would do the same.
Old General Wei and Matriarch Wei only hoped that everyone would survive safely.
She was useless. She could not protect her son or her daughter-in-law and grandchildren.
Su Xiaoxiao didn’t say anything about this.
It was hard to say that the Empress Dowager did not do her best back then. Perhaps she had expected her youngest son to be so ruthless..