With just one sound, all the efforts have been in vain. The Queen Mother's sleep was already very light, and this voice made the Empress Dowager Wei open her eyes.

"Who's coming?" Empress Dowager Wei asked.

"It seems to be...... Concubine Rong. The female officer frowned and replied, this Concubine Rong is really annoying. Running at this time, isn't it tossing the Queen Mother? And it's also tossing everyone. As soon as she came, she always chattered and said a bunch of words, and every time she left, the Queen Mother sighed for a long time, and was unhappy for a long time. The Queen Mother is not happy, and these people who serve are not happy either.

"Oh? Yourong is here, tell her to come in and talk. Empress Dowager Wei sat up, her niece and nephew were very fond of her. There are so many nephews and nieces in her mother's family, only Wei Yourong is what she wants, and the others are all waste. It's a pity that this niece is also a miserable girl, and I'm afraid she can only be an imperial concubine for the rest of her life. In the future, she will just be an imperial concubine. In the future, the emperor will not be her son, and there will be no place in the harem, so it must be a bleak evening.

Without waiting for the palace maid to speak, Concubine Rong had already opened the curtain like a gust of wind and entered. In the queen mother's bedroom, Concubine Rong came and went freely, familiar like her own Rongxiu Palace. Only she can come and go here freely to speak, and even the emperor does not dare to do so.

"Auntie!" Wei Yourong has always maintained her previous title, and the title of this aunt also highlights the difference in her identity, and it has brought the family relationship between the two closer. So she never changed her words, even if someone reminded her that she needed to change her words, she didn't pay attention to them at all.

"You're here. Why did you come here on this big night? It's hot during the day, go to bed early at night, or your brain is very chaotic during the day, and the emperor asks you absent-mindedly when you accompany you, and the emperor doesn't blame you. Empress Dowager Wei squinted her eyes and said with a smile.

"Your Majesty? How can he have time to ask me to accompany him now? Recently, there have been a lot of things in the DPRK and China, and I am busy every day, how can I have the time to pay attention to me? Besides, if there is time, there are also new darlings who have just entered the palace, how can he look at those of us with yellow faces. Concubine Rong was only slightly blessed, and then sat down beside the soft couch.

"Hehehe, you look like you're angry with someone. The emperor is very good to you, as far as I know, he stayed in your palace for three days and two days. But what you said makes sense, the emperor is also old, and his body is always important. The eighteen or nineteen-year-old concubines who came into the harem are indeed young and beautiful, no wonder the emperor likes them. But you also have to take care of your body. You have to mention it to the emperor when you go back. People who are almost 50 years old should pay attention to maintenance. Empress Dowager Wei smiled and reached out to touch her nephew's hand.

Wei Yourong said angrily: "Auntie, is this asking me to make the emperor unhappy?" How can I say such things? The emperor is just taking pity on me for my aunt's face now. I'm annoying him with these words? Isn't that self-deprecating? If you want to say that it is also the queen and Concubine Mei, they are now walking with their heads held high, like an old hen, and they are very proud. That's what they should say. ”

Empress Dowager Wei frowned and said, "Look at you, kid, and say these things again." The emperor's body is the foundation of the Great Zhou Society, so it's not for you to play a little temper. I know you're bitter, but the emperor doesn't have anything to say about you. Thou shalt not be angry with the emperor. ”

Wei Yourong smiled and said, "Auntie, I just said it casually, am I such a bad person?" Is my aunt still sore? I'll beat it for you, I learned the tricks from others, the emperor is very useful, and my aunt will be used. ”

Wei Yourong squatted down, waved his fists, raised them high and slowed down, and gently pounded them on Empress Dowager Wei's shoulders and arms. Let's be honest. In terms of techniques, Wei Yourong is not as good as the palace maid next to the Queen Mother, but the Queen Mother Wei is still smiling. The niece is filial and good, and nothing else matters.

"You didn't come to me so late to beat my arms and legs." Empress Dowager Wei asked with a smile.

Wei Yourong stopped his hand, the smile on his face slowly converged, and he let out a long sigh, looking like he wanted to say something and stopped.

"What's wrong? Who messed with you? Your Majesty? Don't be greedy. The emperor has treated you very well. You have to be content, you see? We women, especially the women in the palace, must know how to advance and retreat, and we must know how to be proportionate. Empress Dowager Wei said earnestly.

Wei Yourong said angrily: "Who does my aunt think of Yourong?" Is Yourong so unaware? I'm just worried about something else. ”

"Oh? What's that? Tell me about it, and I'll enlighten you. The old queen mother smiled.

Wei Yourong turned his head to look at Empress Dowager Wei and said softly, "Does my aunt know about the things outside?" In the past few days, the court has been in turmoil, and the prince drowned Kang Zizhen, the prefect of Hangzhou, in Hangzhou. The ministers clamored to punish the prince severely, and there was a lot of uproar. ”

Empress Dowager Wei frowned and said, "This matter? How could I not know? The prince is also too willful, how can he be so casual. Kang Zizhen is an official of the imperial court, how can he say that he will kill him? Doesn't this treat the law as nothing? The ministers, of course, quit. Our Great Zhou has always attached importance to the rule of law and the rule of law, and benevolence and forgiveness have come first. Even if a doctor is at fault, he is probably the main one who forgives. Even if you deserve to be killed, you must obey the law and act according to the rules. Where did the prince put the court in this way? It's a bastard. ”

"But aunt, this time the ministers made too much trouble and said that they would severely punish the prince. I'm afraid they want the prince to pay for his life. Is this worth it? That's the king. If the emperor really listened to them, wouldn't it be ...... Isn't it...... Want to leave a handle for the ages? The prince is the emperor's own brother. Wei Yourong said softly.

Empress Dowager Wei's face changed color, and she sat up with a frown. He said in a deep voice: "Yourong, what do you care about these things?" The emperor has his own reasons for doing things, if the prince's actions really cause public anger, what if he is severely punished? Is the prince important or is my Da Zhou Sheji important? The prince acted willfully this time and gave the emperor a problem. If the ministers refuse to give up, what punishment should not be done to appease the wrath? I gave birth and raised the prince, so I naturally don't want to see bad results. But everything is based on the society and the country, and whoever endangers my Great Zhou Jiangshan society is a sinner through the ages. It's you, what do I tell you on weekdays? so that you should not get involved in government affairs. Harem politics is the most unforgivable, and I have long been strictly ordered not to touch this bottom line. If you do, what about Concubine Mei? Wouldn't she do the same? She is Lu Zhongtian, and she won't mess up in the future? ”

Wei Yourong was so frightened that he knelt down and kowtowed: "Aunt is angry, my niece is definitely not trying to interfere in government affairs, my niece is just ...... I just feel sorry for the princess. Sister Ah Kui is her nephew's best friend, and she has worked hard with the prince for so many years. If the prince is severely punished this time, won't she also be implicated? I am good friends with her, how can I be indifferent to such a thing? ”

The old queen mother frowned and said, "She begged you?" You want to come and intercede with me? ”

Wei Yourong hurriedly said: "No, no, no, she didn't ask me, I just learned that she came to the capital, so I asked her to meet." She was now very haggard, and her hair was much grayer. Hey, it's pathetic, I'm so ...... I can't bear it. ”

Empress Dowager Wei said in a deep voice: "The prince made a mistake, and she is also responsible. She should be a husband and a child, and she should be a virtuous person. It can be seen that she does not persuade the prince on weekdays. This time there was such a big thing, only to know that I regretted it, but it was too late. Didn't she come to the palace to see me when she came to the capital? What a big shelf. ”

"No, no, aunt, the princess wants to enter the palace to see the queen mother, but she takes into account that she will enter the palace to see the queen mother at this moment, which can't help but make people suspicious, and think that she is here to plead with the queen mother. In fact, she came to Beijing this time because Xiaojun mainly gave birth, and she didn't worry about coming to Beijing with her, and it had nothing to do with the prince's affairs. The princess said that since the prince made a mistake, the emperor could not punish him too much. Although she is sad and sad, the law of the country is greater than the sky, she will not interfere with the handling of the law of the country, nor will she come to embarrass the Queen Mother. Concubine Rong said hurriedly.

Empress Dowager Wei nodded slowly and said, "This is like words, she also understands righteousness." The fact that she can think like this shows that she still knows how to advance and retreat. ”

Wei Yourong said: "Sister Ah Kui has always been reasonable, and you don't know it, aunt. When I gave birth to Hao'er, I was depressed and scared to death in the late stages of pregnancy. The whole body was swollen, and the whole person was about to collapse. If she hadn't enlightened me for two sessions and accompanied me through that difficult time, I am afraid that I would have died at that time. So this time when she encountered such a thing, she naturally couldn't do it, and always wanted to help her. The aunt wanted to blame her niece, and the niece also admitted it. ”

Empress Dowager Wei nodded and said, "This is a kind and righteous act, I don't blame you." But you're exaggerating, so where is it so serious? Punishment is natural to be punished, but not fatal. You seem to be going to kill the prince by decree, how can this happen? In the end, it's just a mistake to kill a prefect. Besides, that Kang Zizhen was at fault first, and he was disrespectful to the prince first, so he should be punished. In the final analysis, this Great Zhou world belongs to the Guo family, and a prefect is so domineering, where is the royal majesty? The prince scared and scared him, but he accidentally drowned him, how could he worry about his life? ”

Wei Yourong looked at Empress Dowager Wei quietly, and said softly, "Haven't you heard of it?" The civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty did not believe that it was the prince who killed Kang Zizhen by mistake. Indeed, even if the prince really killed Kang Zizhen in anger, there would be no worry about his life. But you know what? Now in addition to the crime of deliberately killing Kang Zizhen, the prince has also been charged with several crimes, one is to despise the court and the emperor, saying that the prince did not take the emperor and the court in his eyes at all. The second is that the purpose of the prince's killing of Kang Zizhen was to resist the new law of the imperial court and deliberately sabotage the implementation of the new law. said that Kang Zizhen was sent to implement the new law in Hangzhou, and he had a difference of opinion with the prince on the matter of the new law, so the prince killed him and broke the cold water for the new law. Auntie, you know that the emperor wants to make great efforts to implement the change of the law, and this is what the emperor has been talking about every day for more than a year. If the emperor really thinks that the prince is deliberately going against him and deliberately destroying the new law, isn't that openly arguing with the emperor? How can the emperor tolerate him? Even if there is no worry about his life, if he is assigned to the bitter cold and poisonous miasma, it is the same as killing the prince? ”

Empress Dowager Wei frowned and said, "Is it so serious?" So is the prince deliberately destroying the new law? ”

Wei Yourong said: "This ...... My niece doesn't know. ”

Empress Dowager Wei frowned and said: "If the prince really intends to do this, then his heart can be punished." Although I don't know anything about the new law, the emperor told me that the purpose of this change is to enrich the country and strengthen the army. My Great Zhou is now empty and full of holes. The emperor is working hard to revitalize the Great Zhou, this is to do a big thing. It's okay if the prince doesn't help each other, how can he go against the grain? If he deliberately did so, then he did it to himself. I was the first to support the emperor to punish him severely, even if he was sent to a remote place to suffer crimes, I would not stop him. The community is big, and no one can spoil the big things related to the country's society. ”