The beautiful pastoral field of Jiangmen girl

Chapter 634 The Undercurrent Surges (1)
Zhou Boyan stared at the wide open door with a cold face, thinking about something on his mind.He has always had only one enemy in his heart.Over the years, whether it is a prince or a son of a famous family in Beijing, whenever he returns to Beijing, there are always people who provoke him.As long as the other party doesn't do too much, he simply ignores it.Because compared with the bloody enmity between parents, those are nothing at all.The enemy who killed his parents made him lose his father when he was young, leaving him wandering outside alone.He didn't know anything at first, he thought it was all the fault of the Wu clan's rebellion.

However, he encountered assassins for no reason when he was far away in his hometown.When he was puzzled, he would think, think about many things, think about the reason why the assassin appeared.He remembered a lot.He recalled some words he had overheard; he recalled his father's solemn face and warning him not to speak out when he told him about the eavesdropping.Suspicion came to his mind, and he had to start investigating.However, if he pursues it, he will die.The more he pursues, the more people involved will die.The other party may think that this can deter him and bury the truth.But the more the other party is like this, the more he is telling him that the direction of his investigation is correct, and he is not far from the truth.

Now, he already knows who the enemy is.It was Qingshu who helped him find a breakthrough, and found the name Ziyi for him from Gu Yeshi.

Ziyi, when she was on duty in the palace many years ago, she was the eldest maid next to Concubine Xiao (later Concubine Xiao, now imprisoned in the cold palace).When she reached the prescribed age, she was granted permission and was released from the palace.This is superficial.In fact, Ziyi has always belonged to the Queen Mother.

He would know that it was naughty and playful when he was young, when he was playing hide-and-seek with the little princes in the palace, he accidentally ran into the cold palace while no one was looking.Weeds are overgrown in the cold palace, dense and tall, not to mention children, even adults are not easy to be found hiding in it.

Ziyi and Caixia (the second-class maid next to the queen mother at that time) met in the cold palace.They didn't know he was hiding in the grass, and the two started talking.Caixia came here to give Ziyi a task.Caixia said that the Empress Dowager did not allow Concubine Xiao to conceive a dragon, and currently does not allow the Xiao family to grow up, so she asked Ziyi to add something to Concubine Xiao's diet, and gave Ziyi a small paper bag.Ziyi said that what the Queen Mother told her earlier has some clues, and there will be results in a few days.Then, they left one after the other.

At that time, he was still young, so he didn't understand the dirty things in the palace.Having played enough, he was sent back to the eldest princess' mansion in the evening. He showed off his ability to hide and told his parents what he overheard by accident.The mother immediately got angry and asked him to kneel down as punishment.Father refused, but also acted very angry, took him back to the house, reasoned with him, did not allow him to enter the palace again, and made him forget what he heard.

That night, he slept in his father's house.He was sleeping soundly, but was awakened by the sound of broken porcelain.He got down to the ground barefoot, leaned on the door and looked out.Parents are arguing outside.To be precise, it was mother who was arguing, while father sat silently.Mother complained that father indulged him too much and failed to discipline him well, saying that sooner or later he would bring disaster to the Princess Mansion.Niang also said that if the Queen Mother knew that Zi Yi's identity had been exposed, she would just stay out of it and never clean up the mess for him.

Dad still didn't say a word, and mother smashed things.He was afraid, bumped into something as he stepped back, and made a noise.Mother found him and rushed over to grab him, which hurt him a lot.At that time, Mother looked at him with terrible eyes, as if she wanted to swallow him alive.Dad rushed up to protect him, and only said a few words: We, father and son, will leave Beijing tomorrow.The princess thinks that our father and son are an eyesore, but I don't want the princess's affairs to stain Yan'er's ears.

He has never forgotten Dad's expression when he said this, and his calm tone when he said this.When he understood the meaning of his father's words and heard all kinds of gossip about his mother's affair, he was in pain and hesitated, and he felt unable to hold his head up in front of others.These are not important.The important thing is that he firmly remembered the two names Ziyi and Caixia, and the fact that these two were the empress dowager's confidantes.After his father and mother had an accident, when he was wandering outside, Zi Yi had appeared by his side more than once.

Therefore, when Ah Shu gave him the name "Zi Yi", he thought of the clues that would be broken halfway through the investigation, and he understood immediately.The enemy he was looking for was none other than the aloof Empress Dowager.He didn't understand why the queen mother couldn't tolerate his parents, why couldn't she tolerate him?His mother is the eldest princess, the queen mother's own daughter.How did the Queen Mother do it?
After guessing who the enemy was, he took a chance to check some things.The results confirmed his guess one by one.He had to face the facts, and he couldn't lie to himself at all.

He thought it was ridiculous.Years ago, the emperor tried every means to protect the lives of his eldest sister and brother-in-law, but ended in failure; at the same time, the queen mother secretly racked her brains to kill her daughter and son-in-law, and finally succeeded.This is so ironic.The power struggle between the emperor and the queen mother sacrificed his parents, or did his parents get in the way of the queen mother and were silenced?

Now that I think about it, the latter is more likely.The queen mother has a strong desire to control.She is greedy for power, she wants to control everything, including the emperor.But after the emperor ascended the throne, Niang assisted the emperor with all her strength.The new emperor's regal demeanor and his mother's limelight soon overshadowed the queen mother.At the same time, the Empress Dowager was forced to withdraw her hand that had been extended into the court.Looking at it this way, Niang has become a stumbling block on the Empress Dowager's path to power.It makes sense for the queen mother to get rid of her mother.

However, there are still two doubts.

The first doubt.The queen mother and his mother are the closest mother and daughter, and many things the mother does are instructed by the queen mother.Including helping the crown prince ascend the throne, including later assisting the new emperor to control the entire court and so on.Since when did the mother and daughter start to turn against each other?What made them turn against each other?
The second doubt.Be it Chu Feng who died young, or Hao who was hunted down at birth, what they have in common is that they were born by the same mother, the eldest princess.He is also the son of the eldest princess, and he has also been assassinated several times.The eldest princess doesn't love her son, not any of them.At the same time, some people can't tolerate the son born to the eldest princess, no matter what the son's surname is?Why?If this matter was also done by the Empress Dowager, then the Empress Dowager's dealing with the eldest princess was not a whim, but premeditated.Why?

"My lord, Miss is awake." Gu Shitou hurried in to report.

Zhou Boyan regained his senses, got up abruptly, and hurried to the Qingshu room.

Several officials embezzled disaster relief money and their homes were ransacked first. Ping Bohou was suspected of treason and the whole house was surrounded by officers and soldiers. The atmosphere in the capital was already tense.Now, there is another assassination of the majestic princess in the blue sky.Immediately, all the relatives, relatives and dignitaries in Beijing were silent.They realize that the tense atmosphere in Beijing will reach another level, and it always feels like something big and bigger is about to happen.

A small number of politically sensitive people are unusually silent.They smelled the bloody smell floating in the air, but they didn't know which direction and which mansion the bloody smell would start to spread from.

(End of this chapter)