The uncle borrowed some merits, and the princess drew the talisman fiercely

"You guys stand down!"

The emperor suddenly became angry.

All the palace maids and eunuchs shrank back and quickly retreated.

Only the Empress Dowager, the Emperor and Marquis Qingfu were left in the palace.

The Queen Mother was stunned and looked at the Emperor.

Marquis Qingfu lowered his head and looked at the ground, not daring to say a word. He also realized that the emperor was really angry this time.

Now that the Queen Mother is here, he shouldn't speak for himself. Just leave it to the Queen Mother. She will protect him.

"Mother, this time, the mistake made by Qingfu Hou will not be so easy to cover up. He destroyed my father's tablet." The emperor said in a deep voice.

"Your Majesty." The Queen Mother's face darkened after she came to her senses. "That's just a tablet. Qing Fuhou only has this family left. Are you going to kill them all?"

The emperor clenched his fists and his temples throbbed.

"Mother, I know you have been protecting the Qingfu Marquis Mansion for so many years, but it's a pity that they don't know how to cherish your kindness! This time, he can escape the death penalty, but he can't sit on the position of Qingfu Marquis! Also, it won't do any harm for Zhu Minghao to continue to reflect in prison!"

"emperor?"

Qing Fuhou looked up in shock.

The emperor not only wants to abolish his title of marquis, but also wants to continue to imprison Minghao?

"I have made up my mind!" The emperor felt even colder in his heart when he saw his shocked expression.

It was just to prevent him from becoming a marquis and to prevent Zhu Minghao from leaving the prison, not to kill them! With the Queen Mother around, they might continue to live a life of luxury!

Wanting to keep everything is too greedy.

And they were so shocked, did they know for sure that he would not punish them? He was the emperor of the Great Zhou, not the queen mother!

Why do they think that he cannot disobey the Queen Mother's wishes?

"Your Majesty, have you forgotten Qiang'er?!" The Queen Mother's face changed and she couldn't help but scream.

The emperor was startled and his eyes narrowed slightly.

Qing Fuhou's heart also skipped a beat.

They haven't mentioned the name Qiang'er for many years.

Qiang'er is the younger sister born to the Empress Dowager's mother when she had an affair. Although she was raised secretly, the Empress Dowager has always known of her existence, but outsiders do not know about her. Her identity cannot be made public.

During the selection, the Queen Mother did not want to enter the palace, and begged her younger sister to enter the palace in her place. However, after her younger sister was chosen, the Queen Mother changed her mind and wanted to enter the palace as a concubine again, so she begged her younger sister to return her status to her.

My sister agreed again.

The Queen Mother entered the palace as she wished, and also promised Qiang'er that she would protect her descendants and let her enjoy a life of honor.

When the retired emperor was not in the palace, Qiang'er often sneaked into the palace and got to know the young emperor.

Qiang'er was very gentle and was able to comfort the emperor every time and make him feel better. The emperor also liked her very much. Although he later found out that she was supposed to enter the palace as a concubine, he did not expose it but helped to conceal it.

After being reprimanded by his father, Qiang'er was always able to comfort him. At that time, the emperor truly regarded Qiang'er as his aunt and felt that if his mother were still alive, she would be just as kind to him.

That was a very tender memory from his youth.

However, later on, Qiang'er met a bad guy and her innocence was ruined.

It was unlikely to find another good marriage at that time, so she chose Qing Fuhou because the young Qing Fuhou was still very handsome, and he didn't look very smart, so he was easy to control.

Under the coercion and inducement of the Queen Mother, Qing Fuhou married her, but did not publicize the marriage because Qiang'er had just been hurt and was not willing to see anyone. She just wanted to hide in the backyard every day.

In order to have a marquis' wife to conduct business outside and to prevent others from paying too much attention to Qiang'er, the current marquis' wife Qingfu was married on the same day as his co-wife.

However, even the Marquis's wife seldom saw that Qiang'er and didn't even know her name. She even thought that she was just a concubine. After all, the concubine did not come out during the wedding ceremony, but the Marquis himself said that he had a concubine that day.

Later, to be on the safe side, the Queen Mother arranged for the use of drugs to make the Marquis's wife pregnant during that time. If Qiang'er really was pregnant with the bad guy's child, perhaps it could be concealed.

Sure enough, she became pregnant, but had a difficult labor and died after giving birth to Zhu Minghao.

And the marquis's wife gave birth to a daughter.

The Queen Mother originally thought that Zhu Minghao was the bastard born by a bad person and wanted to have him suffocated to death. Only then did Qing Fuhou hurriedly tell the truth.

On the wedding day, he still did Qiang'er a good thing, because he coaxed her, maybe with him, she could forget the harm caused by the bad guys.

After the Queen Mother discussed with Marquis Qingfu, they swapped the two children so that the marquis' wife would think that she had given birth to a son.

Only in this way can Madam Hou raise Zhu Minghao with the care and love of a biological mother.

Mrs. Hou's daughter died of illness early, and she placed all her motherly love on Zhu Minghao and always indulged him.

Zhu Minghao is the Queen Mother's nephew.

The Queen Mother herself had no children, and because of her gratitude to Qiang'er when she was young, she always treated Zhu Minghao as her own son.

This relationship is too complicated and no one has ever known about it. Sometimes even Qing Fuhou himself has forgotten that Zhu Minghao has a biological mother.

The current Marquis’ wife truly treats him as the apple of her eye and loves Zhu Minghao even more than his biological father.

Sometimes he was in a daze, thinking that this was her son.

When the emperor heard the empress dowager mention Qiang'er, his face turned dark.

"How dare you mention her, mother? Don't you know how shameful it would be if the world knew that your mother, the queen dowager, had an affair and gave birth to an illegitimate daughter and raised her? And as the queen dowager, how good would your reputation be if you loved your mother's daughter so much?"

"If the current Marquis knew that the son she had loved for more than ten years was not her biological son, would she be able to bear it?"

and--

The emperor's eyes dimmed. Don't think he didn't know that in order to make the marquis' wife love only Zhu Minghao, the empress dowager sent people to kill the marquis's biological daughter.

Even Qing Fuhou didn't know about this.

But Qing Fuhou might have guessed it. He just didn't reveal the matter in order to continue to gain the Queen Mother's favor. In his eyes, a useless daughter could not compare to the Queen Mother's protection.

But if the Marquis's wife knew about this, she didn't know what would happen.

"No one knows about this except the three of us!" The Queen Mother's face darkened. "The Emperor promised Qiang'er that he would take care of her. Now he wants to harm her son?"

The emperor was furious.

How many years had he protected Zhu Minghao for a few times of comfort? Now it was Zhu Minghao himself who caused the trouble, and he, the emperor, was the one who harmed him!

"Don't say any more, mother. Their actions have a very bad influence, and I cannot forgive them!"

What happened in the palace soon reached Zhou Shiyue's ears.

He wrote a letter and gave it to Qing Feng, "Give it to Lu Er to relieve his boredom."