Although Emperor Mu handed over the matter of Rong Li's secretly raising a male pet to Rong Cang, Rong Cang did not force Rong Li to tell the truth. He promised to give Rong Li one month to deal with it, so he would not force him to do so within this month. Too tight.
These days, he could sense what Rong Li was planning, and he also knew that he was making frequent moves in the officialdom, but competition in officialdom had always existed and would never disappear.
Even between brothers, father and son, and daughter-in-law, there are no exceptions.
Rong Li has been suppressed by the shadow of the twins for so many years and is eager to take power. He can completely understand it. As for his private life, although Rong Cang did not interfere, he secretly ordered people to pay close attention to him and would not allow him to do anything too outrageous.
Chu Yunfei knew more than Rong Cang, because the queen summoned her to talk.
"Last night, a nun from the priest's office came to see me." The queen sat in front of the couch and drank tea. "She said that someone went to the priest's office to ask questions recently, and she felt uneasy, so she took the initiative to confess some things."
After Chu Yunfei saluted, he sat down and said, "The person who went to ask questions was Mo Yu, who was under the control of my daughter-in-law. On the day of Yan'er's full moon banquet, Dou Huiran complained to her daughter-in-law about something, saying that Prince An had neglected her and was still there. There was a male favorite in the palace, and when my daughter-in-law found out, she had to find out the truth, so she sent someone to find out."
"I have also heard about Prince An's affairs, but the truth of the matter is not that simple." The queen said, a gloomy look appeared on her eyebrows, and she sighed softly, "Our Emperor, he did what he did when he was young. Made a lot of mistakes."
Chu Yunfei was slightly shocked: "This matter is actually related to my father?"
The queen was leaning on the brocade couch, thinking of what happened in those years, and the honor and favor she had received from the Gu family, and smiled mockingly: "It is said that the prosperity of the deep palace is just a dream. The Gu family once had great honor and favor, although now they have received their due. Some ended up, but under the excessive honor and favor, countless innocent people lost their lives in their hands, twenty years... is really a long time."
Strictly speaking, the Gu family has been favored for more than twenty years?
Rong Chen was twenty-six years old. Before he was born, his maternal grandfather was the prime minister of the court. He was inferior to one person and superior to ten thousand people. When the Gu family entered the palace, she was a concubine. She had never suffered any grievances. It rains.
So there is no room for any unsatisfactory things.
Whenever there are ministers in the court who are enemies of them, they will do everything possible to kill them. However, at that time, the Xie family was there to compete with them, and they could not touch the members of the Xie family, so the Gu family would not just Cover the sky with your hands.
"Yun Fei, please leave Rong Li and his wife's affairs alone and let them handle it by themselves." The queen raised her hand to rub her eyebrows, with a hint of boredom in her tone, "Some accounts must be settled, even if it's been a long time. But repaying debts is a matter of course.”
Chu Yunfei hummed: "Yes."
Although she still doesn't know who owes whom, but since there is another hidden secret in the matter, it is indeed not something she can handle easily.
…
Rong Li returned to the palace that night and took the initiative to step into Dou Huiran's yard. This was also the second time he came to her room after getting married. The first time was on the wedding night, when he came to pick up the headband and said, "Good morning." "Have a rest" and left.
Dou Huiran's patience reached its peak after staying alone in the empty boudoir for five months after her marriage.
She didn't plan to make a fuss tonight, but planned to talk to Rong Li calmly. Maybe after the frank talk, their relationship as husband and wife would change - that's what she really thought in her heart.
However, what she didn't expect was that from the moment she stepped into Prince Anjun's palace - or in other words, from the moment Rongli gave her flowers at the palace banquet, all this was planned.
The sun is gradually setting in the west.
The atmosphere in the room was unnervingly oppressive.
Dou Huiran sat in front of the dressing table and looked at the woman with the princess bun in the mirror. It only took five months for a girl who had never left the palace to become a resentful wife in the palace.
Her once delicate and bright face was now pale and haggard, and the loss and hesitation in her eyes could not be concealed. Worry about gains and losses tormented her all the time.
Dou Huiran spent countless nights secretly hiding in the quilt and crying, reflecting on whether her temper was too bad, her reputation was too bad, and she had opposed the princess, so Rong Li didn't like her?
But she has changed.
People can not escape from doing wrong.
She has stayed away from those who instigated her to do bad things. From now on, she just wants to stay in the inner house peacefully and do her duty as a princess. Isn't that okay?
Dou Huiran slowly covered her face...
"Princess, the prince is here." The personal maid hurried in and said in a low voice excitedly, "The prince is here!"
Dou Huiran was startled and stood up subconsciously. Then, as if remembering something, he looked down at his clothes nervously, then turned to look at himself in the bronze mirror, regretting not applying more rouge just now.
Rong Li stepped into the door.
Dou Huiran saw him coming in, raised a smile and went to greet him: "I have seen Wang——"
Before he finished speaking, his voice stopped abruptly.
Dou Huiran's face turned cold as she looked at the young man who walked in behind Rong Li, and her eyes suddenly turned cold.
However, the young man just looked at her calmly, his eyes were indifferent and distant, as if he didn't pay attention to her as a princess.
"Since the prince wanted to have a good talk with me, why did you bring him here?" Dou Huiran said blankly, "Did you bring him here on purpose to cause trouble for me?"
Rong Li walked to the window and sat down. He raised his hand to screen the maid away and said, "You all go out and close the door."
The two maids subconsciously glanced at Dou Huiran, then bowed, turned and walked out.
Dou Huiran stood frozen like a wooden sculpture for a long time before turning around and walking to the window.
Rong Li did not beat around the bush and kept the story short: "She is Su Yao. Fourteen years ago, the whole family died at the hands of your father."
Dou Huiran looked at him blankly, as if he heard wrongly: "Wang...what did the lord say?"
"To be precise, Concubine Gu and your father are both the masterminds." Rong Li said calmly, "I did not marry you because of the crown prince, but simply because I wanted to get the power in your father's hands and make your father pay the same price as the Su family. .”
Dou Huiran's face turned pale, her eyes were fixed on him, and the smile raised at the corner of her mouth was so ugly that it looked like she was crying, "Your Majesty, don't make such a joke with me, I... I don't believe it, I don't believe it, this joke is not funny at all... …”
However, the trembling voice revealed a bit of fear and uneasiness. Dou Huiran turned around and grabbed the boy's arm: "You tell me, none of this is true, none of it is true, right? This is a lie you made up. You lied Me, you must have lied to me..."
"Everything he said is true." Su Yao waved her hand away, her eyes cold and piercing, "My grandparents, parents, two brothers and one sister, as well as my maternal grandparents' family, my uncle's family... a total of six Thirteen people all died at the hands of your father. You have sinned so much that you should be sent to the eighteenth level of hell!"
