Ciqing Palace, just after Zishi.

Now that the summer is getting deeper, ice cubes are placed in each palace and pavilion so that the nobles can have a peaceful sleep.

Queen Mother Chen did not receive such treatment when she was in the palace. Now she enjoyed a rare cool summer night and fell asleep early.

At this time, the eunuchs and maids who usually served him had already left.

Empress Dowager Chen stretched her neck and showed off her hair, resting peacefully on the bed.

Inexplicably, a look of uneasiness began to appear on his face, and his eyebrows gradually furrowed, as if he had a nightmare.

Suddenly feeling palpitated, Queen Mother Chen opened her eyes.

She rang the bedside bell a little tiredly, preparing to ask the palace servants to bring some water.

But after waiting for a while, the palace maid was not there.

Instead, an unexpected person came in.

Queen Mother Chen blurted out: "Mother, why are you here?"

Her eyes were full of caution as she looked at her slightly older mother, who slowly walked in from the outside.

In the past few days, the Chen family has repeatedly sent people to contact her, but she refused them all without showing any kindness.

Now her mother has entered Ciqing Palace! How did she get in!?

Mother Chen looked at her daughter with a complicated expression.

But she didn't explain the problem, she just gently sat on the edge of the bed and said: "The Queen Mother has lost a lot of weight."

Queen Mother Chen frowned, stepped back, and shouted outside: "Here comes someone!"

This time, no one was called.

Mother Chen held the Queen Mother Chen's hand and said with pity: "I am the one who recruited Chen into the house, so you will still give me this face."

"Come, mother will dress you up. Let's go to the main hall. Mother has something to tell you."

Queen Mother Chen looked at her mother blankly.

She was not a stupid person, so she understood immediately without calling anyone.

Why should Chen give me face? It’s not like there is no one else in the palace.

This is clearly a story repeating itself.

When she was driven to the cold palace, the Chen family sold her out like this.

It's even more the same now... If she goes to the main hall, the people waiting for her will probably be Li Shi, Li Jin and Feng Bao.

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but smile miserably.

Seeing that Chen's mother was about to dress her up, she suddenly calmed down her emotions, sat up, and said sternly: "Get dressed for me!"

Mother Chen was silent for a while and then nodded.

The two of them looked at each other in silence and waited in silence for a long time before they found the crown uniform and started to put it on.

The Queen Mother's imperial attire is only worn when she is enthroned, when she visits the temple, and when she attends court meetings. Now that she has this requirement, she obviously treats this time as a unique time.

Empress Dowager Chen allowed her mother to dress herself up and took the crown with her own hands.

Its crown is round and round, made of jade and decorated with nine dragons and four phoenixes. It is extremely precious.

After she was dressed, she gently supported the Twelve Flower Trees on the crown, and took the lead to move: "Let's go, I want to see who is paying my respects at night."

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The main hall of Ciqing Palace.

Queen Mother Chen met the second unexpected person tonight.

Turns out to be the emperor!

After Chen's mother retired, there were only two people in the empty hall: the emperor and the empress dowager.

Zhu Yijun took a look at Queen Chen's uniform and tried to figure out her state of mind.

But he showed enough etiquette on his face: "Your Majesty, Jun, pays homage to your mother."

Empress Dowager Chen also looked at the emperor intently, with a confused expression.

She thought it was Mr. Li who was waiting for her, but she didn't expect that it was the young emperor whom she even liked.

Looking back from outside the palace, Empress Dowager Chen's doubtful gaze returned to the emperor.

Is the emperor taking the lead on behalf of his biological mother?

Or is the inner court simply under the control of the emperor?

Empress Dowager Chen nodded slightly and said tentatively: "The emperor came to look for me at night, which is not in line with etiquette. I don't know why he came."

But the emperor's answer was not what she expected.

Zhu Yijun prostrated himself again, as if he had thousands of emotions: "My child, I came here to question my mother!"

Queen Mother Chen was noncommittal and waited for him to continue.

Zhu Yijun continued: "Mother, that Gao Gong bullied the Chief of Ceremonies, coerced the Lord, and bullied my biological mother. Didn't he rely on the power of the queen!"

"Now, Gao Gong is saying the right thing in the court, using ministers to suppress the king, making the children miserable. It is bitter and unbelievable. It is the mother's instruction!"

"I haven't been able to sleep for several days. I tossed and turned all night long. Today I can't help but ask my mother!"

"Mother! Am I neglecting my son?"

Zhu Yijun knows very well what is preemptive and preemptive.

Even if he wanted to force Empress Dowager Chen, she couldn't do it forcefully.

It is very important to take the moral high ground from the very beginning.

People are the best at brainwashing themselves.

If she is not put into a situation where she is wronged, her mentality will rebound strongly when she is forced - I am White Lotus, why are you bullying me?

At that time, if his emotions got the best of him, he saw that the situation was over, and he crashed to death in the palace, Zhu Yijun would be covered in yellow mud, and he would be either shit or shit.

Once someone suffers from something like this, it will be a lifelong political stain.

Any gossip, unofficial stories, or conspiracies will burrow under his butt like flies.

It can be said that if Empress Dowager Chen dies here tonight, outsiders will think it was him, no matter whether he did it or not.

At that time, not to mention that the power will be affected, even Gao Gong will seize on this flaw and struggle to the death.

Even the scholars, officials and civil servants all over the world would put a big question mark on him as the emperor.

Under such conditions, not only is it difficult to move forward, it is at least twice as difficult.

So, this is his only concern tonight.

He must force Queen Mother Chen gently and never do anything intolerable.

Empress Dowager Chen was dressed in a royal robe, looking calm and relaxed as she walked closer.

She looked the emperor up and down.

Good son, indeed a good son.

Before you knew it, there was such a huge trend.

She originally thought she was here for the Li family, but now it seems that she has underestimated this holy king.

Empress Dowager Chen said expressionlessly: "The emperor is naturally my son."

"It is precisely because he is my son that I have to supervise the country for the emperor and make good use of old ministers. The emperor is still young and is worrying too much."

She naturally knew that the emperor had come here with a reason - everyone inside and outside Ciqing Palace probably belonged to him.

But if you want to find fault with her, she won't admit it.

At worst, it's just a piece of white silk. She has been waiting for three years in the cold palace.

It can't get any worse.

But Zhu Yijun didn't want to see her pretentious.

He directly removed all disguises, looked at Queen Mother Chen and said in pain: "I know that the two palaces are not getting along, and there is a reason why my mother did what she did."

"But...what's wrong with the child?"

He raised his head stubbornly and looked directly into the eyes of Empress Dowager Chen: "My biological mother is my mother, and my aunt's mother is even more so."

"The dispute between the two palaces now is like a war between heaven and man in a child's heart!"

"The child also wants to serve his mother filial piety and let the two elders enjoy all the honors."

"Mother, if there is even the slightest chance, please don't trap your child in an unfilial place."

"The heart of the fist is a clear lesson from my mother!"

This is really unreasonable.
To be continued...