After a moment of silent confrontation, Emperor Dehui suddenly lowered his eyes, took the tea cup and shook it back and forth in his hand. The tea in the cup rose and fell with his movements, like a fierce game, and everything in the world rose and fell with it.
Emperor Dehui stared at the teacup, his eyes incomprehensible, and then slowly said: "I know that the queen is worried about the safety of the royal family, but if I make wild speculations about the Hua family just based on the queen's words, it will really make the courtiers confused. A cold heart can affect the whole body at the slightest touch, and if it is not handled carefully, it may cause unnecessary turmoil."
He paused, and then raised his eyes. A pair of narrow red phoenix eyes were sharp and indifferent, seeming to peel off the Queen Mother's strength layer by layer. "So I hope that the Queen Mother can put the overall situation first and don't bring trouble to the imperial court because of her own selfishness." .”
"Ai's family is in trouble and Chao Gang is in trouble?" the Queen Mother asked in a sharp voice, her originally angry eyes full of shock and disbelief.
Emperor Dehui put down the teacup in his hand and nodded slightly, but did not answer.
Luo Huaizhou looked at the two of them, feeling a deep sadness in his heart.
Connected by blood and close relatives of flesh and blood, this is the most inseparable intimate relationship in the world. We should rely on each other and support each other. But I don’t know when, the discord between the mother and the emperor gradually developed, and it gradually turned into a conflict. And it accumulates deeper and deeper. To this day, this contradiction seems to have reached the point of being irresolvable.
He has been trying to reconcile the differences between the two, but ultimately failed. Now, he no longer knows how to maintain the shaky relationship between the two. In other words, he can't maintain it at all, because he can't make them give up their obsessions, nor can he give them what they are obsessed with. He can only watch helplessly. As they parted ways in the face of power, even at war with each other, they were powerless.
When I was young, I didn't know the feeling of sorrow, but I always felt that the years were long and there was nothing to worry about. Now I know the feeling of sorrow, but I know that things are different and people are not the same. If you want to say it, you will give it up, but you will only sigh and feel sad.
After the Queen Mother was stunned for a moment, her face suddenly became extremely ugly. Her whole body shook as if she had been hit hard, and then she sat slumped on the couch.
She stared at Emperor Dehui, clasping her hands tightly, as if a chilling air was spreading throughout her body, "Okay, okay, the emperor wants evidence, right?" She couldn't help but sneer, her eyes full of ruthlessness and determination. , "Since we want evidence, we immediately ordered the Ministry of Punishment to arrest all the people in the temple and interrogate them severely. Under severe punishment, evidence of the crime will be produced! By then, the truth will come to light!"
"Does the queen still want to torture her to extract a confession?"
As soon as the Queen Mother finished speaking, she heard Luo Huaizhou, who had been silent all this time, suddenly speak. His voice was no longer as clear as before, but more cold.
When the Queen Mother and Emperor Dehui heard this, they were both stunned and couldn't help turning their eyes towards him.
Luo Huaizhou's long eyelashes were lowered, covering up the light in his eyes. The hands on his legs had been clenched into fists at some point, and his joints were glowing with a cold white color.
The atmosphere in the hall froze for a moment, and only the heat rising from the tea cup was still spreading in the air.
Although Luo Huaizhou is not involved in the court situation and has no intention of getting involved in politics, he grew up in the palace after all. He has been in the center of power since he was a child. How could he know nothing about the conflicts between power and power under his influence?
In this game of power, those in power need to check and balance the forces, the vassals need to win over allies, and the profit-seekers find every opportunity to exploit, thus forming a closed loop.
In the Nanling Court, it is even more common to form cliques. The two factions are the Queen Mother and the Left Prime Minister. Once there is any trouble on one side, the other side will attack them in groups, punishing them with words and pens, and even black and white. reverse. As long as they can achieve their own goals and obtain benefits, criminal evidence can be fabricated out of thin air and facts can be distorted. How many people will really care about the truth?
Thinking of this, Luo Huaizhou's Adam's apple rolled slightly, and he felt something sinking in his throat, and his heart gradually became cold.
"What did you say?" The Queen Mother's face changed slightly, and she asked with some confusion, as if she didn't understand what Luo Huaizhou said, and she seemed to think that she heard wrongly.
"The son said," Luo Huaizhou slowly raised his head, his originally clear eyes were covered with a layer of haze. He looked at the Queen Mother intently and said word by word, "The Queen Mother still wants to treat other people like she did to Yue Wan." Why, do you still want to use severe torture to win over?"
The Queen Mother was stunned, and then she understood why Luo Huaizhou didn't come to see her after returning to the palace. It turned out that the girl had complained to him.
The Queen Mother's eyebrows darkened, and she blamed Luo Huaizhou's change in attitude towards her and his previous confrontation with her on Lin Wanwan. She couldn't help but angrily scolded: "That girl is arrogant and dares to speak out against the Ai family. The Ai family only punished her." She has thirty sticks, so she was given a light sentence, but I didn’t expect that she would be so ignorant of praise and dare to complain first!"
Hearing this, Luo Huaizhou shook his head slightly, with a wry smile on his lips, "Yue Wan never told her son anything at all, not even a word about her punishment, but the queen mother likes to speculate without reason. , thinking everyone’s heart so unbearably.”
Hearing this, Emperor Dehui's eyebrows moved slightly. Luo Huaizhou's words seemed to remind him of something, and a touch of sadness suddenly flashed across his eyes.
Luo Huaizhou looked at the Queen Mother with complicated eyes, as if he had swallowed a piece of Coptis chinensis in his throat, and the pain in his heart kept rising. He couldn't help but take a deep breath, and there was a strong sense of disappointment in his voice: "Yue Wan has always behaved in a measured and calm manner. If you hadn't indiscriminately insisted on counting the incident of my son being kidnapped by the gangsters between her and How could she contradict you when Jing Qian is on top?"
After listening to Luo Huaizhou's words, the Queen Mother's eyes subconsciously dodge, and she suddenly felt a little guilty. But as soon as her thoughts changed, she couldn't help but said angrily: "You still said it wasn't the girl who complained?"
Luo Huaizhou's heart sank, and a layer of mist gradually formed in his eyes. His throat moved slightly, and he couldn't hide the sadness in his voice: "Now, even the words my son said have made the queen suspicious?"
Looking at Luo Huaizhou's slightly red eyes, the Queen Mother was shocked, her face changed several times, her eyes glanced back and forth on his face unconsciously, as if she wanted to see some clues from his expression, but she couldn't help but Secretly guessing.
Looking at Zhou'er's expression, it really didn't look like he was lying, but if the girl hadn't told Zhou'er, how would he have known about it? Could it be that some bastard servant in the palace chewed his tongue in front of him? Or... Shi Manzi!
Thinking of this, the Queen Mother couldn't help but frown, and then snorted: "The Ai family didn't notice it on weekdays. They thought that the girl from the Shi family was docile and well-behaved, and could understand the general situation and know how to advance and retreat. But she didn't expect that she was also a pickpocket!"
Speaking of this, the Queen Mother's eyes seemed to have a glint of knife passing by, creating a frosty color, and her tone gradually became colder: "She is holding the southern red agate given to her by the Aijia, and she is chewing it in front of you. But the Ai family had a different look, it seems that the Ai family has to think carefully about this marriage!"
