"Why, do you have any other thoughts?" Empress Dowager Liu raised her eyebrows, looking unhappy.

Liu Zihan did not dare to talk nonsense, so he hurriedly knelt down and said respectfully: "Zihan's marriage is all up to my aunt."

Empress Dowager Liu nodded with satisfaction, but did not betroth him to whom in front of everyone.

Emperor Qinghe smiled and said, "When did the Empress Dowager actually like to be a matchmaker?"

Empress Dowager Liu had a hint of helplessness on her face, "Is the Emperor a joke about the Ai family getting old? She likes to be a matchmaker when she is doing nothing? Alas, this girl is also considered as the Ai family growing up. Today, when she sees her, she has a lot of thoughts."

When Emperor Qinghe saw that Empress Dowager Liu looked sad, he thought she thought of the dead Liu Qingyue, so he stopped talking.

The people in the hall didn't dare to be too happy to see this. Le Ji's voice became much smaller, but it was hard for those dancers. It was not right to dance, nor would it be right to dance.

"When it comes to being a matchmaker, the Ai family thinks that the crown prince is at the age of choosing the official concubine. Which girl did you like?"

Lu Fengzi's eyes that were wandering in space were immediately withdrawn and said in a slight panic: "Thank you, the Queen Mother, for your concern, grandson..."

He really didn't know how to talk about this, but Emperor Qinghe on the side did not make him embarrassed and said with a smile: "As the prince now, if he chooses the official concubine, there will be many things to do. So, I and the queen are still thinking slowly."

Empress Dowager Liu smiled slightly, but the smile was not enough to reach the bottom of her eyes, but instead seemed to be mocking her.

"Today's New Year's Eve, the Ai family really wants to tell you a story."

All Le Ji and Wu Ji were taken out, and the people in the hall were quiet.

Empress Dowager Liu then said: "In the past, two concubines gave birth to children at the same time. The emperor promised that whoever gave birth to a prince would be appointed as the queen. One of the concubines was very cunning and prepared a baby boy before giving birth. If he gave birth to a prince, then the baby boy would be useless. If he gave birth to a prince, he would have a cat to change the prince."

Emperor Qinghe and Empress Chen looked at each other, their faces quite embarrassing.

All the ministers also began to whisper.

Queen Mother Liu seemed not to see everyone's expressions, and then said, "Although the concubine got what she wanted, she was the queen, there was no airtight wall in this world. Seeing that the paper could not be wrapped around the fire, guess how should the queen distinguish herself?"

Some slightly drunk ministers said drunkenly: "Of course I won't admit it."

Empress Liu nodded in agreement, then turned to look at Empress Chen, "What do the Queen think?"

For a moment, the hall suddenly became quiet.

Gu Changqing did not expect Empress Dowager Liu to come at the palace banquet, and quickly looked at Lu Fengzi, only to see his face pale.

At this time, I have to be glad that the other party had known his identity long ago. Otherwise, he would have been in chaos at this time.

Queen Chen's face turned pale, but she expected that Queen Mother Liu was just cheating and could never find any evidence.

"I don't know."

Empress Dowager Liu laughed loudly, changed her previous gentleness and kindness, and said sternly: "As far as Ai family knows, the current crown prince is not his majesty's flesh and blood, but the wild child whom Empress Chen replaced the crown prince for seizing the queen's throne."

As soon as these words were spoken, the audience was shocked, and even the minister who had just been drunk was so scared that he woke up from drinking.

"Does Empress Chen want to deny it?" Empress Liu sneered, "bring the person up."

As soon as he finished speaking, two palace maids escorted an old woman to walk in from outside the hall. The woman knelt down in front of the person and said tremblingly: "Empress Chen, do you still remember the old slave?"

Queen Chen looked at the other party and carefully identified it, and couldn't help but feel shocked.

When she was still a concubine, this person was once a nanny in the bedroom, and was later expelled from the palace for stealing.

When she appears here, she will inevitably avenge the grudges she was kicked out of the palace.

really.

The woman said cryingly: "I was Wanlian, the palace maid next to Concubine Chen, and she had been serving in the bedroom. By chance, I heard about the plan of Concubine Chen and the grand palace maid at that time about changing the prince. Not long after, the old slave was driven out of the palace on the charge of stealing. It would be fine if it was just like this. The empress may be afraid that the old slave would talk too much, so she sent people to chase me day and night, and she really wanted to kill people to silence me."

"You're talking nonsense!" Queen Chen was a little panicked.

What she could be sure of was that the palace maid was driven away before she gave birth. She had never seen the case of the raccoon changing to the prince with her own eyes, and there would be no tangible evidence to show it.

But she was indeed the servants she served in her bedroom, which was enough to make people suspicious.

"If Your Highness is His Majesty's bloodline, please let the imperial physicians know after testing."

As soon as he finished speaking, all the imperial physicians on duty in the palace walked into the hall, all of whom looked nervous and terrified, kneeling on the ground.

"Empress Dowager, you have repeatedly questioned the bloodline of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. What are your intentions?" Empress Chen forced herself to calm down again.

Emperor Qinghe also calmed down his mind. As long as he was not in trouble, the Empress Dowager would not be able to do anything.

"Of course, it is for the sake of the royal bloodline. The Ai family does not allow the untouchables to pretend to be princes. Could it be that the northern Qi dynasty's country will change its name and surname in the future?" Empress Dowager Liu was excited, and the ministers of the Empress Dowager's party also came out one after another, kneeling on the ground and begging: "The Empress Dowager's words are reasonable, and I hope your Majesty will agree."

"Rareless!" Emperor Qinghe was furious.

He looked at the ministers kneeling on the ground and couldn't help but sneer.

He naturally knew about the empress dowager colluding with important officials of the previous dynasty, but he did not expect that there were so many, and more than half of them were people with high status and power.

If the Empress Dowager hadn't initiated a harsh trouble today, these people would have been hidden in the dark.

"Your Majesty, although you are not the relatives of the Ai family, after getting along for so many years, we are no different from ordinary mothers and sons. Could it be that the mother will even harm her son?"

"I dare to ask the Queen Mother, if His Highness is really not the emperor's flesh and blood, what should you do? Take the title of His Highness of the Crown Prince and then support the Second Highness to enter the Eastern Palace?" Empress Chen also felt energetic and couldn't help but sneer: "No one in the civil and military affairs of the dynasty knows the relationship between the Queen Mother and the Liu family. Even if you want to support the relatives of the foreign country, you should not use such low-level and despicable means. What's more, the second Highness's biological mother died because of you. Do you think if he becomes the new emperor, he will really respect you?"

Empress Chen's words were very heartbroken. Not only did Lu Liunian feel upset when he heard them, but even Empress Liu couldn't help but start to think about it.

"The mother is joking. My son has no intention of seizing the throne, nor does he want to enter the Eastern Palace." Lu Liunian stood up at the right time and bowed apologetically to Queen Chen and Lu Fengzi.

Seeing this, Empress Dowager Liu looked like she was so angry that she would have abandoned him long ago. If she hadn't had any chess pieces in her hand, she would have abandoned him long ago, and would have been his turn to sell favors now?
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