in2ebook Chapter 120 The other one is also your biological child
Chapter 120 The other one is also your biological child
Chapter 120 The other one is also your biological child
"Do you take to heart what I told you a few days ago?" she asked Quan Ji, "It was on the night of the 15th day of the twelfth lunar month."
Quan Ji had not had breakfast and was feeling hungry. He had just picked up his chopsticks to pick up some food when he suddenly heard Empress Dowager Li change the subject to this. He could not help but put his chopsticks down again, looking quite impatient.
"What do you want to say? Remind me that the fourth young lady of the Ye family is the one that the Emperor personally protects? How is that possible! Xiaohan, are you having a seizure? Otherwise, how could you have such an idea? And how could you make up such a story?"
A few days ago, Empress Dowager Li told Quan Ji about kneeling in Yanhua Palace on the night of the 15th day of the twelfth lunar month. Not only did she say that she was asked to kneel, but she also said that Ye Wenyan lived in Yanhua Palace, and she also mentioned that Yunchen Quan Qingcheng, Lian Shi, Zhuier and others ridiculed her. She didn't dare to say these words to others, but she had to tell Quan Ji. Now that the late emperor is gone, they are orphans and widows, and can only rely on the regent to survive. Quan Ji is her only support.
But Quan Ji didn't believe her words! The Emperor chose Ye Wenyan? How terrible is this, how is this possible?
Quan Ji felt that even if the sky of this continent collapsed, such a thing would never happen.
"Last time you said something like this to me, we had an argument. You brought it up again today. Do you want to quarrel with me again?" He asked Queen Mother Li, "What exactly do you want to do? Although the East and West Palaces coexist now, I am here to serve in the court, and you have never been treated unfairly. What else do you want?"
"I don't want to do anything!" Empress Dowager Li was anxious, "Quan Ji, why don't you believe me? What I said is true, I experienced it myself, if you don't believe me, ask Baochan! She accompanied me that night, and she experienced everything I experienced."
The Regent still shook his head, "Baochan is your man, so he is of the same tongue as you. What can I get out of him by asking him?" "But what I said is true!"
"Whether it's true or not, I don't want to hear it anymore. Since you've set up a table of food, you should let me eat it properly. If I can't even have a good meal here, why would I come here? Wouldn't it be better to just go back home?"
Empress Dowager Li was silent. When the late emperor was alive, she could still discuss things with this brother. But now that this brother has become the emperor's uncle and the regent, she no longer has the confidence to discuss things with him. They, mother and son, still have to rely on him!
"Okay, I won't say anything more. Just eat your meal!" She sat aside and served the food to Quan Ji herself.
Quan Ji looked like a scholar, but no one dared to really regard him as a scholar, not even Empress Dowager Li.
After eating half of the meal, Quan Ji finally put down his chopsticks and asked Empress Dowager Li, "What are your plans?"
Empress Dowager Li was stunned. "Plan? What do you mean?"
"What are your plans for Qinglu's matter?" Empress Dowager Li's heart trembled. She was most afraid that this person would bring up this matter. No matter how hard she tried to avoid it, she still couldn't escape it.
So she had no choice but to bite the bullet and said, "The third young lady of the Ye family is pregnant. I think it would be best if she could give birth to a boy. In this way, we can force the current little emperor to abdicate in the name of the late emperor's grandson. Anyway, neither of them will be in power. It makes no difference to the court officials whether it is him or our grandson." When she said this, she glanced at Quan Ji cautiously, but unfortunately Quan Ji was a man who never showed his emotions, so he could not tell anything.
"Are you so sure that the baby will be a boy?" Quan Ji said, shaking his head. "I asked the imperial physician, and he said that there is a 70% to 80% chance that it will be a girl. What are you going to do then?"
Empress Dowager Li's expression became worse and worse. "What do you think we should do?"
Quan Ji was waiting for her to say this: "In my opinion, since there is no hope for Lu'er, why not consider another one. They are twins and look exactly the same. We can replace them silently and no one will be able to tell." "Are you giving up just like that?" Queen Mother Li looked at Quan Ji, feeling panicked and unwilling. "We have trained him for so many years, are you willing to give up just like that?"
"What can you do if you are unwilling?" Quan Ji frowned and said with dissatisfaction, "I didn't let you have a child at the beginning, but you insisted on having two children in your lifetime. You sent one of them out of the palace to me and kept the other one for yourself, but look at what the child you raised has become? I have reminded you more than once to pay more attention to Gu Lu'er and not let him do whatever he wants outside. But did you listen to my advice? Have you controlled him for so many years?"
"I am in the palace and he is outside the palace, how can I really control him?"
"As long as you really want to manage him, there is nothing you can't manage. Even if he lives outside the palace, you can send secret guards to keep an eye on him, and then send an old eunuch to follow him. In short, as long as you think of a way, there is nothing in the world that cannot be done. Just like what I said, as long as we do it, we will definitely succeed."
"What if I don't do it?" Empress Dowager Li said coldly, "He grew up by my side, I can't just give up on him. Quan Ji, if I don't do what you said, what else can you do to me?"
The Regent took a deep breath, "Xiao Han, the other one is also your biological child, and was also born from your belly. There is no relationship between them, why can't you get over this?" He stood up, "If you really don't want to make plans for the other one, then forget it, I have a son of my own!"
"You dare!" Empress Dowager Li also stood up and clenched her fists tightly. "Quan Ji, you dare!"
"There's nothing I'm afraid of." The jade-faced scholar sneered, "I'm originally from the Quan family. The royal family establishes the youngest son instead of the eldest son. The throne should have been mine. It was my mother who was incompetent and angered my father, so I lost the throne. I can't let my son follow the same path as me, so I have to plan for my descendants. Li Xiaohan, if you do as I wish, you will still be the queen mother. If you go against my will, then you will have no role in the future of the Quan family." Queen Mother Li slumped into a chair, feeling a chill in her heart.
"You are unwilling to accept this? Was it because you were unwilling to accept this that you stayed with me in the first place? He took your throne and me, so you have been planning to take it back sooner or later? Now you have won half of the battle. He will never know until his death that Lu'er is not his biological child, and he will never know until his death how much humiliation his successor queen has brought upon him. Do you feel relieved? Quan Ji, let me ask you, why did you come to me in the past? Was it because you couldn't forget the past as you said, or was it just to humiliate the late emperor? Or... or did you just want me to give birth to a child for you who can inherit the throne in the future? Quan Ji, how big a game have you played?"
The regent was silent for a while, and finally softened his temper, "Xiao Han, you misunderstood me. I was just doing it for you. As for the child, you should remember that I didn't agree with you giving birth to it."
Queen Mother Li recalled the past and remembered that Quan Ji had strongly opposed her giving birth to a child, believing that it would bring danger to her. Thinking of this, she felt a little relieved and relaxed her previous stalemate: "I will seriously consider the matter you mentioned and will give you an answer by the New Year at the latest. As for what I said, I also hope you can take it to heart, because what I said is true. If you don't believe it now, you will regret it sooner or later."
Quan Ji started to get annoyed again, subconsciously waved his sleeves, and left a message: "Okay, I know. You take a rest first, I'm leaving."
He strode out of the room without a trace of reluctance.
Queen Mother Li sat in a chair and watched him leave. She heard the door slam and felt that everything she had hoped for all these years had come to nothing. Now that even this person was going to be disappointed, what would she, Li Xiaohan, have left?
After the Regent left, a young eunuch from Yong'an Palace followed him out carrying a bucket of water. He was the one who stopped Lian Shi and Zhuier at the gate of Yong'an Palace that day.
The two soon reunited, and Quan Ji asked him, "On the night of the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, was the Empress Dowager really summoned to the Yanhua Palace?"
The young eunuch nodded, "It is true. The Emperor came to call her personally. The Empress Dowager was about to go to bed at that time." "When did she come back?"
"He came back at daybreak, and was carried back by Miss Baochan."
"Do you know if he really went to Yanhua Palace?"
The young eunuch thought for a moment and shook his head again, "I don't know. Because no one dared to follow, and no one dared to go to Yanhua Palace to inquire. But after the Queen Mother came back, she issued a gag order. Anyone who talks too much about what happened that night will have his tongue cut off."
Quan Ji paused for a moment, then said, "I understand, you can go back now!"
After the young eunuch left, he stood there and looked in the direction of Yanhua Palace.
Because Yanhua Mountain is very high, it can be seen from any corner of the palace. Being visible is one thing, but seeing it clearly is another. Just like what the young eunuch said, no one dares to approach that place when they have nothing to do, and no one can find out anything they want to know from that place.
Unless Yanhua Palace takes the initiative to say it, that place is an iron wall and a fairy mountain that cannot be destroyed even by a million troops.
What should we do if what Li Xiaohan said is true?
Quan Ji fell into deep thought.
Ninety-five miles outside Lin'an City, the Li family's ancestral tomb collapsed. The clan members who were guarding the tomb rushed to Lin'an City overnight to inform the Li family to return quickly.
The Li family went back and forth, held a family meeting, and finally decided to let Li Zhiyuan go to the palace to meet the Empress Dowager.
Li Zhiyuan is the biological brother of Empress Dowager Li, born from the same father and mother. Before she entered the palace, the relationship between the brother and sister was very good. Even after she entered the palace, in addition to the help of Quan Ji, she also relied on Li Zhiyuan's support to get to where she is today.
Yong'an Palace had just sent the Regent away and immediately welcomed the Empress Dowager's brother.
Normally, relatives entering the palace must be informed through various levels and the Ministry of Internal Affairs must be informed in advance. But now there is no queen in the harem, and the Queen Mother of the West Palace is the only one in power, so the Li family entering the palace is not so particular, and there are fewer cumbersome procedures. The ancestral tomb collapsed, which is a big deal for any family. Li Zhiyuan originally wanted to discuss the reconstruction of the ancestral tomb with his sister when he entered the palace. As a result, this incident reminded Queen Mother Li of the recent collapse of the Renwang Palace for no reason, and also reminded of the day when she ordered the female guards to surround and kill Ye Wenyan, but the whole army was wiped out...