Changsheng: Peak at the Beginning

Chapter 1097 Zhen Huan Enlarged to 23

The empress dowager was left with nowhere else to go and could only rely on Longkodo of the previous dynasty.

After all, the Tonggiya clan once had the "good reputation" of Tong Half Dynasty. Even though they are now in a slump because of betting on the Eighth Prince's party, the leader Longkodo made the right bet. It happened that the next generation of the Tonggiya clan did not have anyone who could establish his own clan, so Longkodo had quite a few vassals.

But Jiang Xinxin would not give the empress dowager any chance to make a comeback. Even if she allowed the Fourteenth Concubine to take the empress dowager's secret letter out personally, she also arranged for someone to expose the matter to Big Fat Ju.

Da Pangju was already worried about the Fourteenth Concubine, and they had stationed quite a few people in her house. By the time the Fourteenth Concubine finished reading the letter, before she had time to send it out, the letter was already in Da Pangju's hands.

Although the empress dowager was somewhat desperate, she had not completely lost her mind and did not say much in her heart. She just asked Longkodo to secretly take care of the Fourteenth Prince who was imprisoned in the imperial mausoleum for the sake of their past feelings. She also wanted Longkodo to help take care of the children in the Fourteenth Prince's house because she was worried that the emperor would do something to the children.

Fat Orange looked at the Queen Mother's paper full of concerns about the Fourteenth Prince, but saw that she had no trust in him at all. He laughed so hard that he couldn't help but shed two lines of tears.

"In this life, I really have few family connections!"

After all, he was the emperor. While Big Fat Orange was grateful for himself, he also found a perfect excuse for the changes in Jiang Xinxin since she entered the palace - she had been completely abandoned by her relatives.

Therefore, in the eyes of Big Fat Orange, all of Jiang Xinxin's self-centered behaviors are self-help.

Suppressing Concubine Hua was to protect her own status and dignity from being infringed; breaking with the Queen Mother also ensured that nothing the Queen Mother did would implicate her; opposing the selection in the first year of the imperial court seemed to be to protect his reputation, but in fact it was to protect her reputation as the Queen.

Big Fat Orange deliberately ignored the fact that Jiang Xinxin had also broken up with him, and only wanted to remember that Jiang Xinxin and he were in the same boat.

The Empress Dowager's letter was eventually delivered to Longkodo as it was. However, ironically, Longkodo did not take any action. Well, it was not that he did not take any action at all, after all, he gave Fourteenth Concubine 20,000 taels of silver.

However, Big Fat Orange did find out a lot of things about Longkodo through this. For example, the concubine named Li, whom Longkodo was said to have promoted even at the cost of deposing his own cousin, actually looked 50% like the empress dowager in the palace!

Big Fat Orange was so angry that his eyes went dark. In those years, Li Si'er's reputation for arrogance and domineering had spread throughout the capital. It was only because the late emperor took his maternal family into consideration that Longkodo was not punished.

But in those years, Li Si'er went out to visit guests in the name of Mrs. Longkodo quite a lot!

When Big Fat Orange received the news, he laughed so hard that tears came out of his eyes. He couldn't wait to go to Shoukang Palace. When he saw the Queen Mother, he remembered to send his attendants away.

"My dear mother, please write to Longkodo and ask him to take care of my fourteenth brother and his children and wives for the sake of our old friendship. Longkodo did give my fourteenth brother and his wife 20,000 taels of silver, but other than that, he did nothing else. I'm afraid Longkodo will disappoint you."

The gloating on Big Fat Orange's face was not concealed at all. The Queen Mother was shocked to realize that her affair with Longkodo was exposed in front of her son. For a moment, she felt ashamed and angry, but she was still thinking about her youngest son who was suffering in the imperial mausoleum and his grandchildren who had no one to take care of him.

The Queen Mother panted and struggled to get up from the bed. She sat up on the pillow and firmly denied that she had ever looked for Longkodo. "What are you talking about, Your Majesty? How can I, a woman in the deep palace, have a relationship with the governor of the Nine Gates?"

At this time, the Queen Mother had not yet presented the pickles that Longkodo had brought into the palace to Da Pangju. She could only bet that Da Pangju somehow saw the letter that she had asked her daughter-in-law to take out, and she was sure that the letter was written in a complete manner and did not contain any evidence.

The Queen Mother firmly denied it, and Big Fat Ju would not insist on this point. He just smiled and said, "A few years ago, Longkodo had a concubine named Li who was very favored. Longkodo not only favored her concubine and killed his wife, but also turned his cousin, his legal wife, Hesheli, into a human pig, just to please Li."

"My Queen Mother, what do you think about this?"

The empress dowager certainly knew about this, but that was a critical period in the fight for the throne, and she still needed Longkodo's help, so she could only try her best to ignore Li Si'er's existence. Now that her own son brought it up again, the empress dowager still couldn't help feeling a little angry and ashamed.

"The Queen is the mother of all people in the world. She should be in charge of all the ladies inside and outside the palace. I, the Queen Mother, am now lying on the bed dying. What do you think I should do? What can I do?"

Knowing that the Queen Mother would not easily reveal anything, Big Fat Orange said directly: "Today I found out that the reason why Li was so favored was because she was 50% similar to the Queen Mother."

As he spoke, Big Fat Ju couldn't help but frown. He recalled the scene when he was six years old and hiding in Yonghe Palace, he saw the Empress Dowager Defei hugging Longkodo. After that day, his beloved sixth brother fell seriously ill and died within a few days.

It was Empress Dowager Defei who blamed him for the death of the sixth child, but he didn't care about it at all and let his biological mother throw dirty water on him.

But at this moment, he felt that the time had come to speak out about that matter.

"The day before my sixth brother fell seriously ill, I had already noticed that he was not feeling well, so I quickly went to Yonghe Palace to tell the Empress Dowager about this."

"But I didn't expect that there would be no one in Yonghe Palace, and I didn't expect that among the people who came in later, there would be a Longkodo."

The Queen Mother didn't need Big Fat Orange to explain the rest of the things, she had already remembered the truth of the matter. She was struck by lightning, her face turned pale as paper, and she opened her mouth while trembling all over, but no sound came out.

The Queen Mother burst into tears unconsciously, which was a really pitiful sight, but Big Fat Orange just felt happy. The depression that had accumulated in his heart for many years seemed to be released with the tears on the Queen Mother's face.

"The Emperor is the Son of Heaven."

"No matter how the Empress Dowager suppressed me over the years, I never worried that she would choose my fourteenth brother, because at least the Eighth Brother and his wife knew what Li, who was by Longkodo's side, looked like. Do you think that with the Eighth Brother's cautious and meticulous mind, he would not be able to guess the grudges between you and Longkodo?"

"In this case, can Old Fourteen's background still be clear?"

Big Fat Orange came here today to let the Queen Mother deal with Longkodo personally, so no matter how pitiful the Queen Mother was, he hardened his heart and said the last words: "Empress Dowager, Longkodo cannot satisfy me. Just because he dared to hide the Manchu and Mongolian imperial edicts, he should have been killed long ago."

The fat orange turned and left, and the queen mother hurriedly called out: "Emperor, the fourth brother!"

"Mother is innocent. Even though she had a past with Longkodo, she has never betrayed your father!"

"Longkodo lied to my mother! He said that the late emperor didn't like blue clothes, so my mother wore a light blue dress during the selection. I didn't expect that the late emperor would like her at first sight!"