noffsinger Chapter 726 The Empress Dowager Goes Crazy Too
Chapter 726 The Empress Dowager Goes Crazy Too
Xie Shang and Jiang Fenghua arrived at Shoukang Palace together and met Prince Kang.
The two of them watched from afar and saw Prince Kang limping and pushing the Empress Dowager for a walk in the yard.
The Empress Dowager took Prince Kang's hand and said, "Kang'er, please sit down too. Your legs are not convenient for you. Let the palace maid push you."
"My son likes to push his mother for a walk himself." Xie Kang smiled, "Is mother feeling better?"
"Much better. The palace physician comes to check my pulse every day."
Xie Kang added: "Mother and son, please move out of the palace. I will go and ask the emperor..."
"I'm not going anywhere. As long as he doesn't let Minmin and Yun'er go, I'll stay in Shoukang Palace." The Empress Dowager said in a deep voice.
Xie Kang added: "Yun'er and Minmin did something wrong. They deserve to be punished. The emperor cannot be blamed. The emperor also has his difficulties."
"No matter what, I can't let Minmin and Yuner suffer outside forever."
Jiang Fenghua held Xie Shang and whispered, "Prince Kang is really filial to the Empress Dowager. Has he always been like this?"
Xie Shang didn't know either. "The Empress Dowager has always wanted to give the throne to Prince Kang, so my father has always been resentful of her. She doesn't like my father. In her heart, she only has Uncle Kang as her son."
He raised the Grand Empress Dowager in Shoukang Palace because her identity was indeed the Grand Empress Dowager. When she returned to Beijing, the Grand Empress Dowager would definitely live in the palace. This was what he should do. After all, he had to call the Grand Empress Dowager "Grandmother" because this was "filial piety."
Jiang Fenghua's eyes flashed with doubt, and he leaned close to Xie Shang's ear and asked, "Do you think Prince Kang really doesn't know what the Empress Dowager did with his son and daughter?"
Does she mean that Prince Kang is really trustworthy?
Xie Shang sneered, “What do you think!” Xie Yun was just a young man who dared to wander around and make trouble between the Southern Kingdom and the vassal state. No one knew what role Xie Kang played.
If Uncle Kang disregarded the interests of the people of the Great Zhou for the sake of the throne, he would not be what he appeared to be.
Jiang Fenghua's intuition was that Prince Kang was not as elegant as they saw. After all, he was once a man who wanted to be emperor, but he just didn't get it.
Since he couldn't win the fight, he made himself into a person who was forced to become the emperor and pushed everything onto the Empress Dowager. He said that it was his mother who wanted him to be the emperor and he didn't want to be the emperor. In this way, the late emperor would definitely let him go and would not really blame his mother for these things.
The mother's role at most is to favor her younger son. In this way, big things become small and small things become nothing. This is what smart people do.
Xie Shang brought Jiang Fenghua closer, and the couple pretended nothing had happened. Xie Shang said, "Meet the Imperial Grandmother."
Jiang Fenghua bowed slightly and said, "I pay my respects to the Empress Dowager."
The Empress Dowager glanced at the two of them, her eyes full of anger. Thinking of the day when Jiang Fenghua was so angry that she vomited blood, she hated him, "What are you doing here? Are you here to laugh at me?"
The couple didn't feel embarrassed, but others were. Xie Shang asked, "Have the Empress Dowager and Uncle Kang had dinner?"
The Empress Dowager looked at him coldly and asked, "Why doesn't the Emperor send me to do hard labor as well?"
Xie Kang smiled and said, "We just ate. The emperor and the queen have also eaten, right?"
Xie Shang's mouth twitched, and he said with a fake smile: "Grandmother, what are you talking about? No matter how big a mistake you made, I will respect you. I have said that as long as you are willing to come back, you will always be the most honorable Grand Empress Dowager of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and I will take care of you in your old age."
The Empress Dowager changed her approach: "In this case, you should return Minmin and Yun'er to me. I need them to accompany me. I can't live without them."
Xie Shang said, "Grandmother, you really need someone to entertain you. I asked other princesses and princes to come to the palace to talk to you. Xie Minmin and Xie Yun have caused great suffering to the people of Qingzhou. They have done something wrong and must be punished. Someone from the royal family must also give an explanation to the people. I really can't let them go now."
“You…” The Empress Dowager was so angry that she threw the tea bowl on the stone table. “The Emperor has no regard for brotherly love. He is exactly like your father. Back then, he…”
Xie Kang hurriedly stopped her, "Mother, it's been decades, let's not talk about the past. Brother Jing has passed away, and Shang'er is also following the laws of the Great Zhou. He only let Minmin and Yun'er do hard labor to atone for their sins, which is already a mercy. They embezzled disaster relief funds, which is a capital crime. The emperor showed them leniency, and we should be grateful."
Xie Shang did not say much to the Grand Empress Dowager, "It is still Uncle Wang who understands my painstaking efforts."
The Grand Empress Dowager glanced at Jiang Fenghua and said, "Kang'er, please take me back to the palace! I, like the Empress Dowager, need to stay away. Only a woman with the Emperor's support dares to be arrogant. She has no filial piety or respect. She claims to be from a family of scholars, but in fact she is arrogant and rude."
In their hearts, Jiang Fenghua is a vixen who seduces the emperor. Not only is she beautiful, but she is also extremely arrogant.
Jiang Fenghua just thought they were jealous of her beauty. Humph! If it wasn't related to the Xie family's kingdom and her children, she wouldn't bother to find out who was behind it. The Xie family's life-and-death struggle had nothing to do with her.
She did not pay her respects to the Empress Dowager and the Grand Empress Dowager, nor did she come to pay her respects and serve them in the morning and evening. She was the most comfortable Empress Dowager, and all of this was allowed by Xie Shang, which indeed saved her a lot of trouble.
However, if the Empress Dowager and the Grand Empress Dowager stood up and accuse her of being unfilial to them, she would not be able to escape this charge.
Jiang Fenghua said in a deep voice: "Grand Empress Dowager, please stay. Don't you feel guilty about killing so many people?" She was criticized and slandered without even provoking her, so she didn't need to be polite.
The Empress Dowager asked someone to stop the wheelchair, "Jiang Fenghua, you are so outrageous."
"I have the Emperor's support, so I dare to act presumptuously. Didn't the Empress Dowager say these words herself?" She was so angry that she wanted to ask the question in a proper manner, but the Empress Dowager just liked to speak in sarcastic terms.
"Get out of here and never come back to me again." The Empress Dowager was so angry that she wanted to vomit blood again.
Xie Kang quickly helped her calm down, "Mother, are you okay?"
He added, "Your Majesty, please take the Queen away quickly. The Grand Empress Dowager has finally recovered. She is old. The imperial physician said that the Grand Empress Dowager cannot be angry anymore. The Queen is also the daughter-in-law of the royal family. She should have basic etiquette. After all, the Grand Empress Dowager is the elder. How can the Queen be so rude? Don't come to Shoukang Palace in the future. Your Majesty has ordered that the Queen does not need to pay respects to the Grand Empress Dowager and the Queen Mother. She must understand the basic etiquette of respect and inferiority!"
Xie Shang glanced at Jiang Fenghua. Didn't she come here to ask about something? If she angered the Empress Dowager, it would be even more impossible for her to know.
He said, "I will call the imperial physician to come and have a look at the Empress Dowager."