Duke Zhen Guo said calmly: "I know you are my biological sister."
"Since you know, what did you do?" Queen Xie could no longer control the anger and unwillingness in her heart. "You know why I asked Xie Shi to go to Yangzhou to quell the chaos, but what did you do?"
Facing the younger sister's anger, Lord Zhen Guo still said calmly: "Tell you, will you still let Xie Shi go to Yangzhou?"
"Of course!" Queen Xie said very firmly, "I won't let Xie Shi ruin the emperor's plan!"
"Then what?" Duke Zhen Guo asked.
Queen Xie was stunned by Duke Zhen's rhetorical question, "What then?"
Duke Zhen Guo looked at Queen Xie and said nothing.
Queen Xie was stunned for a moment before she realized what Duke Zhen Guo had just said, and her face became even more ugly.
"Brother, I am your biological sister!" She gritted her teeth and said, "I am the legitimate daughter of the Xie family, and Xie Wan is just the concubine of the Xie family!"
The Duke of Zhen, who was yelled at, still looked as usual: "She is your sister."
"She is not, she is not worthy!" Queen Xie said with a distorted expression, "How does a concubine have the right to be my sister!"
In front of Duke Zhen, Queen Xie never concealed her jealousy of the late Queen.
"She is the concubine of the Xie family, but she is also your eldest sister."
"She is not." Queen Xie sneered, "She is a lowly concubine, what qualifications does she have to be my sister!"
"No matter how much you deny it, it won't change the fact that she is your eldest sister." Zhen Guogong frowned slightly and said with a somewhat dissatisfied look, "Also, her status is not lowly. She is the queen of Zhou Dynasty and is respected by the emperor. Queen." Duke Zhen Guo always knew where his little sister's pain was, so he said the last sentence deliberately.
Sure enough, the last words of Lord Zhen Guo stung Empress Xie hard, and her expression instantly became ferocious.
"If it weren't for my young age, how could she, a lowly concubine like Xie Wan, be qualified to marry the emperor and become the empress of the world?"
"If it weren't for her, our Xie family wouldn't be able to marry the Zhao family." Duke Zhenguo said with an indifferent expression, "Then our Xie family wouldn't be able to have a queen, and you wouldn't be the queen now."
"Without the eldest sister, the Wang family will marry the Zhao family, so the current queen is Concubine Shu's sister, not you." Zhen Guogong said, "It was the eldest sister who asked the emperor to marry you as his successor before she died. Without the eldest sister, You would not have your current position as queen."
Empress Xie hated people saying that she was the queen because of Xie Wan. She said with a sinister look on her face: "So, I still want to thank her?"
"You have to thank her. Without her, the emperor might not marry you as his successor..."
"Impossible." Queen Xie interrupted Duke Zhen, "Without her Xie Wan, the emperor would have married me as his queen. I am the legitimate daughter of the Xie family. Without the help of the Xie family, their Zhao family..." said Here, Queen Xie did not say any more.
"You want to say that without the help of our Xie family, the Zhao family would not have been able to establish the Great Zhou Dynasty, right?" Duke Zhen Guo finished what Queen Xie had not finished.
Queen Xie said with a cold face: "Isn't it like this?"
Duke Zhen Guo said with a smile: "I am here to tell you solemnly that without the help of our Xie family, the Zhao family will successfully establish the Great Zhou Dynasty sooner or later. It is just a matter of sooner or later."
"It's impossible. Without the help of our Xie family, how could the Zhao family possibly..."
Duke Zhenguo interrupted Queen Xie and said, "It was our Xie family who begged to cooperate with the Zhao family, not the Zhao family who begged to cooperate with our Zhao family. Do you understand?"
Queen Xie couldn't accept this moment, she said in disbelief: "How is it possible..."
"Back then, my father took a fancy to the late emperor's ability and cooperated with Sister Zhao before the Wang family and others. Otherwise, the Wang family would cooperate with the Zhao family, and then the queen would belong to the Wang family." Zhenguo Gong said, "Will we Xie family, or will there be someone else?" Without the Wang family and others, the Zhao family would have succeeded! Cooperating with our Xie family will only allow the Zhao family to succeed in advance!"
"You underestimate the Zhao family too much, and you think too highly of our Xie family!"
"How... is this possible..." Queen Xie always felt that it was because of the help of her Xie family that the Zhao family could successfully establish the Great Zhou Dynasty.
"You were too young at that time and didn't know anything." Duke Zhen Guo took a deep look at Queen Xie and said, "The Zhao family doesn't owe us the Xie family!"
Queen Xie sat on the chair in a daze.
"It was normal for you to know nothing when you were young, but now that you have been the queen for several years, you still don't know anything." Duke Zhen Guo shook his head and said, "My eldest sister has known this for a long time, so she married The Queen has been doing her best to be the daughter-in-law of the Zhao family."
He added, "If it weren't for my eldest sister, I wouldn't have you as the queen, and I wouldn't have the kingship of the country."
Queen Xie couldn't accept that she relied on Xie Wan to become the queen.
"You have always thought that you are the legitimate daughter of the Xie family, and your status is more noble than that of your eldest sister. You feel that it is aggrieved for you, the legitimate daughter, to be the heir, and you feel even more aggrieved that your son is being weighed down by the prince." Zhen Guo Gong thought to his younger sister. Clearly, "You always think that I help the prince but not your son because I don't take your little sister to heart."
"Is not it?"
Duke Zhen Guo did not expect Queen Xie to be so brainless and was very angry.
"Okay, have you ever thought about the consequences if I help your son but not the prince?"
"What consequences will there be?" Queen Xie said nonchalantly, "My son is well-deserved."
"How old is your son?" Duke Zhenguo laughed angrily at Queen Xie's words. "I'm going to stop talking today. If there is no prince, it will not be your son's turn. The emperor will immediately confer the crown prince as the crown prince. What do you think? Can your son compare with Dai Wang? Do you think you are more favored than Concubine Rong?"
The last words of Duke Zhen Guo stung the pain deep in Queen Xie's heart, "How can the Yu family compare with our Xie family?"
"Yes, the Yu family is not as good as our Xie family, but the Yu family is the emperor's mother family." Zhen Guogong said, "The emperor can live without our Xie family, but he cannot live without the Yu family, because the Yu family and the Zhao family have blood relation!"
Queen Xie said nothing.
"Concubine Rong and the emperor grew up together, and they have had a good relationship since childhood. If she hadn't been married to our Xie family back then, Concubine Rong would be the queen now." Zhen Guogong added, "The emperor's love for Concubine Rong should be greater than yours. I know better. You have been married to the emperor for so many years, have you ever competed for Concubine Rong? If it weren’t for the crown prince, Concubine Rong’s son Dai Wang would have been the crown prince long ago, and it’s your son’s turn!"
Queen Xie said firmly: "The prince must be a legitimate son, not a concubine."
"Do you really think that the emperor cares about the legitimate concubine?" Seeing that Queen Xie still couldn't understand, Duke Zhen decided to talk to her carefully today, "The prince was able to be established as the crown prince, not because he was the eldest son, but because he was the eldest son. It’s because he is my eldest sister’s son!”
"Impossible!" Queen Xie felt that Duke Zhen's words were too ridiculous. "The reason why the prince was established as the crown prince is because he is the eldest son. Since ancient times, the prince has always been the eldest son, and he cannot be a concubine. When the Great Zhou Dynasty was first established, it was impossible for the emperor to break the rules and appoint a concubine as the crown prince. "
"Do you think the emperor cares about secular rules?" Zhen Guogong saw that Queen Xie had been married to Emperor Zhou Wu for so many years, but he still didn't understand Emperor Zhou Wu's temperament at all. For the first time, he felt that his younger sister was as stupid as his younger brother. "In all these years, have you ever cared about secular rules when you saw the prince doing things? The censor used to remind the emperor to pay attention to the rules. Do you think the emperor has heard of it?"
"If I hadn't helped the crown prince, the king would have been the crown prince a long time ago." Duke Zhenguo said angrily, "Once the king becomes the crown prince, do you think you can continue to be the queen?"
"If it weren't for my eldest sister, Concubine Rong would have been the queen a long time ago, and you will never be able to be the successor. Don't think that you are aggrieved by being the successor."
Seeing that Queen Xie was still a little unconvinced, Duke Zhenguo had no choice but to take another dose of strong medicine, "Compared with Concubine Rong, you are nothing."
"Brother!" Queen Xie stood up angrily and stared at Duke Zhen with red eyes.
"Not to mention you, not even the eldest sister can compare with Concubine Rong's status in the emperor's heart." Duke Zhenguo saw clearly, "The eldest sister has gained respect from the emperor because of her virtuousness."
"You...mean that I can't compare to that bitch, Concubine Rong, nor can I compare to that lowly concubine, Xie Wan!"
Hearing Queen Xie still say this, Duke Zhen Guo's face turned a little ugly: "That's right, in the Emperor's heart, you are not as good as Concubine Rong, nor as good as my eldest sister!"
Queen Xie angrily pointed at Duke Zhen Guo and shouted hysterically: "Get out, get out of here!"
Duke Zhen Guo stood up and his tone became cold: "Little sister, I didn't expect you to be as stupid as Xie Shi!"
"roll!!!"
Duke Zhenguo did not forget his duty as a minister, and after saluting Queen Xie, he withdrew.
After Zhenguo Gong left, Queen Xie angrily grabbed the tea cup on the table and threw it to the ground. Then, he overturned the table.
Jiang Chuan and the others stood outside the door and were too frightened to go in when Queen Xie was so angry.
When Queen Xie was angry, her expression was very scary, and she was completely without her usual dignity and decency.
After smashing it all around, Queen Xie's inner anger subsided a little.
When the seventh prince came back from school, he saw Queen Xie smashing the Zhaoyang Palace into a mess. He asked with concern: "Queen Mother, who made you angry?"
Empress Xie gritted her teeth and said, "Dong Zhenguo!"
Hearing Queen Xie address his uncle as "Zhen Guo Gong", the seventh prince knew that Queen Xie was very angry with his uncle.
"What did uncle do to make you so angry?"
After he finished speaking, he called Jiang Chuan and the others in and asked them to clean up.
"Mother, let's go to the study to talk."
After getting angry, Queen Xie regained some composure, nodded and went to the study with her son.
The seventh prince personally brought a cup of hot tea to Queen Xie, "Mother, drink some tea to calm down." What on earth did the uncle do to make the queen so angry?
Queen Xie picked up the teacup, took a few sips of tea gracefully, and said coldly: "I didn't expect that in the eyes of his Duke, I, as a queen, would be so miserable. I didn't expect that in the eyes of his Duke, I would be so miserable. This direct sister is actually not as good as that lowly concubine Xie Wan!"
"Mother, what did uncle tell you?"
Queen Xie told the Seventh Prince what Duke Zhen Guo said to her, "Duke Zhen Guo thinks that I am not as good as the bitch Rong Guifei, nor can I be compared to the lowly concubine Xie Wan!"
"How could uncle say that?"
"It seems that it is impossible to count on Duke Zhen Guo." Queen Xie felt chilled, "I am his biological sister, but he treats me like this!"
The Duke of Zhen Guo returned to the Duke of Zhen Guo's mansion with a bad look on his face. When Xie Shi saw this, he was about to laugh at him, but Duke Zhen glanced at him coldly, and he was so frightened that he shut up.
Seeing his father's ugly face, the eldest son of Zhenguo Palace asked hurriedly and concernedly: "Dad, did you have a fight with your aunt?"
"I thought highly of her, but I didn't expect that she was as stupid as Xie Shi." Duke Zhen Guo had always known about Empress Xie's jealousy of the first empress, but he didn't expect that Empress Xie hated the first empress to the point of losing her mind. . He always thought that Queen Xie was a smart person, but after what happened just now, he found that Queen Xie was a confused person.
"Auntie is as stupid as my uncle?" the prince of Zhenguo Palace asked in surprise, "What did auntie say to you to make you feel like this?"
Duke Zhenguo told his son what Queen Xie had argued with him before. After hearing this, the prince of Zhenguo Duke's mansion had a complicated look on his face.
"Auntie, she..."
"I guess she and the Seventh Prince will hold us back in the future." Duke Zhen Guo sighed helplessly, "We can't let her know what we do in the future."
"Dad, what you said to your aunt is a bit excessive. You know that your aunt is most concerned about comparing her to your eldest aunt and to Concubine Rong."
"I said this to let her know her position clearly." Zhenguo Gong said, "Besides, I was not wrong."
"You are right, but with my aunt's pride, she cannot accept it."
"She has to accept it even if she can't accept it, because it's the truth." Duke Zhen Guo sighed heavily, "We spoiled her rotten."
The prince of Zhenguo Palace comforted him: "Dad, my aunt is not stupid, she just can't accept what you said. When she calms down, she will understand your painstaking efforts."
"I hope she can really understand my painstaking efforts." Duke Zhen Guo understood Queen Xie's temperament and knew that she would not understand his painstaking efforts. She would only think that he, his eldest brother, would not help her, her biological sister.
At this time, in the imperial study room of Chengguang Hall.
Sun Kui summoned Queen Xie to Duke Zhen, who reported to Emperor Wu of Zhou that he left Zhaoyang Palace with a gloomy face.
"After Duke Zhenguo left, the Queen got very angry."
When Emperor Wu of Zhou heard this, he smiled half-heartedly and said, "In front of the Duke of Zhenguo, the queen does not hide her temper."
"Your Majesty, aren't you curious about why the Queen and the Duke of Zhen Guo quarreled?" Sun Kui was very curious.
"I can think with my toes why they were quarreling."
Sun Kui asked quickly: "Do you know why they quarreled?"
"What else could we be arguing about? Of course it's about Xie Shi's trip to Yangzhou." Emperor Wu of Zhou said, raising the corners of his mouth and smiling with unknown meaning, "The queen thought that her little thoughts were well hidden."
"What little thoughts can the Queen have?"
Emperor Wu of Zhou did not answer Sun Kui's question, but said: "The Duke of Zhen is a shrewd man, and Xie Wan is also smart, but the queen is not." He stood up and said, "The queen is a person who thinks she is very smart. "
Sun Kui followed Emperor Zhou Wu: "Your Majesty, you mean that the Queen is a smart person."
"That's right."
Sun Kui: I don’t know what the Queen would think if she knew that the Emperor said this to her.
Emperor Wu of Zhou said as he walked to the dining hall: "There are not many women in this harem who are smart."
Sun Kui said silently in his heart: Your Majesty, Liang Zhaoyi must be smart in your heart.
(End of chapter)
