An Lingrong's Rebirth: The Lock of Qingqiu

In order to achieve her goal, the Queen Mother pretended to get along well with the courtiers, but secretly sowed discord and created disputes. She even used her influence to deceive many people's trust. Gradually, rumors spread that the Emperor had imprisoned the Fourteenth Master forever in order to seize the throne, regardless of the relationship between brothers. Now the Fourteenth Master is seriously ill, and the Emperor has not only not visited him, but also abandoned him for many years.

It doesn't matter if the emperor doesn't care about other princes, but it is unreasonable for the emperor to ignore the Fourteenth Prince. The Fourteenth Prince and the emperor were born to the same father and the same mother, and they are blood relatives. The emperor is so cruel!

The rumors became more and more outrageous. Overnight, all the accounts of the deaths, injuries, and imprisonments of the nine princes who fought for the throne during the previous emperor's reign and those who followed were put on the emperor's head.

When the emperor heard this, he was so angry that he almost had a nosebleed!

The emperor was so angry that he sent people to investigate further. He found out that it was his own biological mother who was spreading rumors everywhere. At this time, the emperor vaguely felt that the empress dowager's heart was no longer with him.

The emperor ran to Shoukang Palace to warn the empress dowager to stop talking nonsense. Naturally, the empress dowager would not admit that she made up the rumor. The empress dowager reacted quickly and said that she had heard these words from others. Who were the people spreading the rumor outside? The emperor should investigate those people instead of pointing the finger at his own biological mother.

The Queen Mother started crying and making a fuss, saying how difficult it was for her to raise the Emperor. Now her kindness was taken for granted. The Emperor became the Emperor and didn't care about her life or death. He even turned the tables on her. What an ungrateful person!

Anyway, the empress dowager pretended to be angry and used all kinds of disgusting words to insult the emperor. The emperor was so angry that he sealed off Shoukang Palace and did not allow outsiders to enter or the empress dowager to step out of the palace.

The Queen Mother started to cry, sobbing loudly. An Lingrong brought a group of concubines to kneel outside Shoukang Palace. Their kneeling to the Queen Mother was fake. It was obvious that she brought people here to watch the fun. The more the Queen Mother made a fuss, the more these people outside gloated over her misfortune.

The emperor said that the empress dowager would not be allowed to leave Shoukang Palace. Does that mean she really cannot leave Shoukang Palace? That may not be the case! The emperor is busy with many things every day and is too busy to be in two places. He always neglects things sometimes, and he cannot guard the gate of Shoukang Palace all the time. While the emperor was away, the empress dowager took Aunt Zhuxi and Aunt Fangruo out of the main gate in a grand manner. Who among the servants dared to say anything? No one dared to stop the empress dowager. At most, if the emperor asked, they could say that the empress dowager went out through the back door of the backyard. After all, the servants were guarding outside the palace gate. They could see what happened inside, or they could pretend that they saw nothing.

No one informed the emperor that the empress dowager had fled, and no one dared to inform the emperor. If the emperor found out, that would be another matter! No one found out, so everyone had a glimmer of hope. If the empress dowager came back with her people at dinner time, then nothing would have happened, right?

The empress dowager took people out of the palace, but she was not going to travel and relax alone, nor was she going to visit the emperor's brother, the Fourteenth Master, who was from the same father and mother. The empress dowager took people to meet Longkodo privately. She hadn't seen Longkodo for many days, and the empress dowager felt like a thousand cat claws scratching her heart, making it itchy and unbearable. One hour seemed to be two hours long, and she couldn't help but go out.

Longkodo was a man who enjoyed himself. He secretly sent a message to the empress dowager, saying that he was waiting for her at Wenquan Mountain. The empress dowager happily took people to Wenquan Mountain, which was called Wenquan Mountain because there were countless small pools under the mountain, all of which were artificially built by draining a pool of hot springs. It was also one of the largest hot spring groups in the Qing Dynasty. More importantly, the location was quite secluded and it was a natural hot spring, making it a good place for a date.

When the elderly empress dowager, dressed up seductively, tremblingly went into the pool, Longkodo could not wait to hold the empress dowager to his side and began to wash her body. When their love was deeply deep, they only had eyes for each other, and their love was truly endless.

However, what they didn't know was that this hot spring valley was another person's favorite. Longkodo couldn't soak in so many hot springs by himself, and he couldn't stop the prince from taking a bath. It happened that on this day, Prince Heng also came to take a hot spring bath privately. From a distance, Prince Heng had excellent eyesight and saw the Queen Mother and Longkodo being affectionate. He was immediately shocked. Although the private affairs between Longkodo and the Queen Mother were no longer a secret, he couldn't help being shocked when he witnessed this scene with his own eyes. After the frightened Prince Heng returned, he privately told the news to Zhang Tingyu, the minister of the Military Affairs Office.

As for Prince Heng, why didn't he tell this gossip to other people, but instead told it to the Minister of Military Affairs Zhang Tingyu? There is a lot of story behind this. There are rumors inside and outside the palace that Zhang Tingyu also likes the Queen Mother. Zhang Tingyu even saved the Queen Mother in the Thousand Carp Pond in the palace last time. People believe that Zhang Tingyu and the Queen Mother are having an affair, either openly or secretly.

When Prince Heng told Zhang Tingyu the news, he was undoubtedly gloating. He wanted to see Zhang Tingyu anxious, embarrassed, and how he would treat Longkodo. Prince Heng secretly instigated, saying that Longkodo was really taking advantage of the situation, and then he did not forget to frame them, saying that they did not take Zhang Tingyu seriously at all.

Zhang Tingyu was inexplicably involved in this. How could he be ignored in such a big matter? Zhang Tingyu didn't know whether he was really angry or pretending to be angry. He told the civil and military officials in the court the news that Longkodo took a hot spring bath with the empress dowager. He also said that the empress dowager was old but had a great figure, with the right curves in the right places, which made people inevitably fantasize.

You have to know that Zhang Tingyu had never seen the empress dowager without clothes. These were just his personal imagination. But once he said it, the relationship between him and the empress dowager was self-evident.

The news had already spread widely outside, but in the Hot Spring Valley, which was like a pure land undisturbed by the world, the Queen Mother and Longkodo were still sharing their privacy in the steaming hot spring water. They had no idea that the news had spread.

So, through Zhang Tingyu's mouth, Longkodo became an extremely hateful person and a scum of the court, and these righteous people would definitely bring such scum of the court to justice.