ebookland Chapter 249 Exploration 4
Chapter 249 Exploration 4
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The first time the Empress Dowager behaved abnormally was at the grand banquet at the Grand Tutor's Mansion.
At that time, Prince Xu had been estranged from Master Bai for many years because he misunderstood that Master Bai had offered his sweetheart, Yun Shang, to the Emperor.
It was really a surprise that Prince Xu could attend the banquet at the Grand Tutor's Mansion.
The Queen Mother was already Queen Yunsheng at that time, and had a son with the Emperor, Su Jibei, who was Su Yunxuan's father. But after the banquet, she met with Prince Xu Su Dongxu at night.
According to the time calculation, the two should have had an affair that night, which led to the birth of Su Shaoyu.
This time, if Prince Ruo Xu did not return to the capital of Yunsheng and did not come to the Grand Tutor's Mansion for the banquet, he would not have met the Queen Mother.
Su Yunxuan remembered that Su Changfeng once told her that Bai Shu told him that Prince Xu suddenly returned to the capital of Yunsheng because he was in a bad mood after learning that his idol Lu Zhenyuan had suddenly passed away due to illness.
The second time the Empress Dowager behaved strangely was when Su Yunxuan accompanied her father, the Emperor, and her mother back to Fenglan to celebrate the Emperor's birthday.
The Queen Mother instigated Prince Xu to launch a surprise attack on Feng Lan.
Based on how much her royal grandmother loved her, Su Yunxuan felt that it was impossible for the empress dowager to do something that would disregard her life.
The third time the Queen Mother behaved abnormally... perhaps it cannot be said to be abnormal, it should be said that she has returned to normal. This was after Su Muxiao successfully escorted the Emperor from Fenglan back to Yunsheng.
It stands to reason that it was the Queen Mother who instigated Prince Xu to raid Fenglan without any regard for the safety of the Emperor, Su Yunxuan and others, and it was also the Queen Mother who sent people to hunt down the Emperor. The Queen Mother would definitely not support the Emperor in finding the Queen and Su Yunxuan.
But according to Bai Shu's recollection, the emperor later insisted on bringing back the empress and Su Yunxuan in the court, but was opposed by the ministers. In a fit of rage, he killed the two of them, which caused great dissatisfaction among the ministers.
Many court officials united to protest against the emperor and boycotted court for three days.
During the year when the emperor disappeared, the people of Master Bai's faction had been suppressed for a long time by the combined forces of Prince Xu and the Queen Mother, and were unable to support the emperor.
On the fourth day, when Tutor Bai was as anxious as an ant on hot pot and all the ministers quit the court, the Empress Dowager actually came out and expressed her support for the Emperor to take back the Empress and Princess Yunxuan.
Master Bai was shocked, and it seemed that Prince Xu was also shocked.
Bai Shu said he remembered that Master Bai drank too much in the garden that night and said many things while drunk: "Our Bai family is guilty", "We can't let her out", "We can't control ourselves", "Dongxu, you are confused", "Dongxu, you are innocent"...
He always talked nonsense, just like many times before when he was drunk.
The fourth time the Queen Mother behaved abnormally was when she ordered Yin Qian to go to Fenglan to disrupt the peace talks and became closer and closer to Su Shaoyu.
The Queen Mother's fifth abnormal behavior was to disobey the fourth order and join forces with Su Shaoyu to get rid of Su Changfeng.
What happened afterwards was what Su Yunxuan saw in the palace: the Queen Mother’s expression kept changing after she saw her.
After checking the Queen Mother's reactions before and after these changes of face, and combining it with Xuan Huangzi's previous talk about the art of rejuvenation, Su Yunxuan analyzed:
When she was a child in the Yunsheng Palace, the empress dowager who was kind to her was Yun Lianzi.
Yun Lianzi used the rejuvenation technique on Yun Shang in the year when Yun Sheng joined and attacked Chaoxia together with Feng Lan, and took over Yun Shang's body.
According to Xuan Huangzi, starting from the third year after the rejuvenation was successfully implemented, one needs to drink a small amount of blood from a loved one every month. Yun Lianzi has been with King Xu Su Dongxu for two years.
Two years later, Chaoxia was completely destroyed, and Yun Lianzi returned to Yunsheng and married the then emperor of Yunsheng. In the third year, Su Jibei, the father of Su Yunxuan, was born.
Su Yunxuan's father, Su Jibei, said the last time he was awake that the Queen Mother told her father: He was born just to drink his blood.
From then on until the grand banquet at the Grand Tutor's Mansion, the Empress Dowager always thought of Yun Lianzi.
Yun Lianzi disliked Su Shaoyu since childhood because Su Shaoyu's birth was not what she wanted.
On the night of the banquet, she met with Prince Xu in secret and had an affair with him. The person who gave birth to Su Shaoyu was not Yun Lianzi, but Yun Shang.
Yun Shang suddenly took control of the body, which meant that during this period of time, Yun Lianzi was stimulated by something and lost the will to live, allowing Yun Shang to take control of the body.
After that, Yun Lianzi should have taken the body back again, and completely sealed Yun Shang's facial features and consciousness for this matter.
When Su Yunxuan's father, Emperor Su Jibei, left Yunsheng and went to Fenglan, he cut off Yun Lianzi's blood. Yun Shang snatched the body again and instigated King Xu to launch a surprise attack on Yunsheng in order to eliminate Su Jibei and completely cut off Yun Lianzi's chance of resurrection.
A year later, Su Yunxuan's father Su Jibei returned to Yunsheng and got the Blood Drink. Yun Lianzi took over the body again and stood up to support Su Jibei in taking back Lu Qingxi and Su Yunxuan.
But Yun Lianzi didn't know that before she got her body back, Yun Shang had already given Ye Yingbai, who was now the imperial concubine of Feng Lan, an order to kill her and her mother...
After they repeated this several times, the competition between Yun Lianzi and Yun Shang became increasingly fierce.
Su Yunxuan guessed that her father, Su Jibei, should be fully aware of the purpose of his blood at this time.
Her father wanted to exchange for the cloud lotus seeds, so he kept bleeding her...
According to this speculation, the whole thing makes perfect sense.
After sorting out these things, Su Yunxuan answered Bai Shu's question.
She guessed that Yun Lianzi might be using Bai Yeying's safety to threaten Master Bai to keep his mouth shut.
Master Bai must have his own concerns.
Yun Lianzi is his father's apprentice, and Yun Shang is his sister-in-law. Neither of them can really harm his eldest daughter.
Knowing the time period when the empress dowager changed her face, the three of them continued to analyze Yun Lianzi's original purpose in using the rejuvenation technique, as well as the reasons for Yun Lianzi's emotional changes after becoming the empress dowager.
The success of the rejuvenation technique showed that Yun Chang was willing to do it, so the two of them must have reached some kind of agreement and each had their own needs.
Considering the abuse Yunshang suffered from her stepmother when she was a child and the words and deeds of the Queen Mother after she became Yunshang in the palace, Su Yunxuan analyzed that although Yunshang was a princess in Chaoxia at that time, she lived a very miserable life.
It seemed like he would be killed at any time, so when he saw Su Yunxuan stabbing the palace maids, he covered his eyes and shouted, "I was wrong, don't kill me" and so on.
The only person who could abuse Yunchang like this could be Yunchang’s stepmother.
Su Changfeng once said that Yunshang's stepmother was a palace maid who served Yunshang's mother closely when she was alive. The palace maid was forced to undergo birth control because of the ancestral system of Chaoxia.
Not to mention whether the maid had ever had a grudge against the queen, the forced sterilization alone would most likely lead to the maid's hatred and abuse of Yun Shang.
It makes sense to assume that Yun Shang agreed to Yun Lianzi's request in order to save her life.
The Queen Mother's impassioned speech at the court meeting seemed to come from the bottom of her heart.
"My goal is to break the prejudice of the world. I want to marry the king who will destroy my country so that my child can still be the emperor.
I just want my father and the people of the world to see that even though he refused to pass the throne to me, I and my children will still stand at the top for generations."
Could these be Yun Chang's true thoughts? So she made a deal with Yun Lianzi?
Su Yunxuan said that the above two points are very likely the reasons why Yun Shang was willing to contribute her body.
After guessing Yun Shang’s motives, what about Yun Lianzi’s motives?
Yun Lianzi has a long-lost sister in Chaoxia, who could she be?
Su Yunxuan asked two questions in a row, and Xuan Huangzi and Bai Shu didn't know how to answer.
The two of them said: Today, the few people who truly knew the truth about Chaoxia are no longer around, so there is really no way to find out what happened.
Su Yunxuan was unwilling to give up. Since no one told Yun Lianzi's motives, she changed direction and analyzed the reasons that had affected Yun Lianzi's emotions over the years.
She stood up, her eyes fixed on the first time the Queen Mother behaved abnormally, her index finger kept tapping on the words about the banquet, and she muttered to herself: "Something must have happened before and after this to make Yun Lianzi lose the will to live, so that Yun Shang took away her body? What was it?"
Bai Shu tried to recall what she said, and finally shook his head and said, "During that time, nothing major happened to Yun Sheng.
The only unusual thing was that Prince Xu, who had been away for many years, suddenly returned to Yunsheng Capital because of Lu Zhenyuan's death."
It was his last words that suddenly woke Su Yunxuan up.
She suddenly remembered the interesting stories between her grandfather Lu Zhenyuan and grandmother Lu Xiruo that her mother had told her when she was a child.