After transmigrating into a mermaid, I will monopolize three thousand favors

Cong Xun burst into tears, staring down at his right hand holding the sword, and then at the fallen Empress Dowager Zhou.

At this time, the sky was bright, and the Empress Dowager Zhou was fully illuminated.

There was no color behind Mrs. Zhou, the front and back were dazzling scarlet, and her heart was heaving with difficulty.

Cong Xun's fingers trembled, the long sword fell to the ground, and then he was stunned.

After a long time, he lowered his body and hugged Queen Mother Zhou into his arms.

Empress Dowager Zhou exhorted angrily: "Live well, live for yourself."

In order to beat her elder sister, she has encouraged her only son every day since he was three years old, so that her only son can win the eyes of the late emperor, stand out from the princes, overwhelm Cong Ji, and win the throne.

Four years after his sister passed away, Cong Ji finally fulfilled his wish and was deposed as the crown prince.

However, the first emperor preferred Concubine Shu's son Cong Xiao to inherit the lineage.

She couldn't get angry, and she couldn't do anything to Cong Xiao, so she had to urge her only son even more.

She deprived her only son of his childhood, and turned a blind eye to the envy that his only son cast on other young princes and empresses.

The only son asked her three times why he couldn't play with his brothers and sisters, and every time, she beat him to pieces.

At that time, she just thought that her only son was ignorant and lacking in ambition, and she didn't think there was anything wrong with what she did. , She is better than her sister in women's work.

Thinking about it now, she owed her only son a lot.

She was pregnant in October, and the child born after hard work should come to this world to enjoy happiness, and should not be depressed all day long.

When the only son was young, she never let him live a good day; when the only son grew up, the only son was obviously not inferior to anyone, but she treated the only son because Cong Ji sat on the throne, and the only son could not even be crowned king. Sneering words; finally the only son ascended the throne, but she was blinded by power and monopolized the power.

Cong Xun was extremely astonished when he heard this.

live for yourself……

The queen mother never said anything like that.

He thought that he was just an inappropriate tool for his mother.

"I'm sorry." The Empress Dowager Zhou's eyes were red with regret.

"Mother..." Cong Xun saw the Queen Mother Zhou swallowing her last breath, and called out in a low voice.

He was stunned for a while, then he knelt in front of Cong Ji, and said seriously: "Since the first offender has been punished, my accomplice will also be punished by the emperor, I hope the emperor will think that the birth mother is also from the Zhou family, and don't implicate the nine clans. "

Cong Xun's righteous extermination of relatives is really to protect the Zhou family?Or is it to clear up its relationship with the Zhou family?

Cong Ji didn't expect Cong Lie to kill Queen Mother Zhou cruelly, so he couldn't stop it.

But this week the Empress Dowager was dead, he had no interest in torturing the corpse, so he ordered people to send her back to Zhou's ancestral grave for burial.

——If the Empress Dowager Zhou did not resort to tricks, it would be impossible for her father to welcome her into the palace, let alone be conferred the title of empress. Naturally, he would not allow her to be buried in the imperial mausoleum as a queen mother.

And if the Queen Mother of Zhou killed her mother, she must not let her defile the clean place where her mother rests.

Cong Xun stared straight at the Empress Dowager Zhou's body, and did not retract her eyes until the body was carried away.

Cong Ji looked down at Cong Xun from a high position, and instead of making Cong Xun get up, he asked, "Do you know that Xue Juan is pregnant with your flesh and blood?"

Cong Xun remained silent.

Concubine Zhao at the side said in surprise: "What Your Majesty said is true?"

Cong Ji said word by word: "Xue Juan is indeed pregnant with Ah Xun's flesh and blood."

Concubine Zhao and Empress Dowager Zhou have a very close friendship, and it was Empress Dowager Zhou's idea to replace Xue Juan with Fang Yun's daughter.

Because of this idea, Fang Yun's daughter was strangled to death by the first emperor instead of Xue Juan, and Xue Juan survived by luck.

Therefore, she is grateful to the Queen Mother Zhou, if Cong Ji hadn't promised her that as long as she told her everything she knew, the murderer who killed Xuejuan would be found and handed over to her, she hadn't planned to betray the Queen Mother Zhou.

Just now Cong Shang killed her mother and frightened her. Unexpectedly, Xue Juan was pregnant with Cong Shang's flesh and blood. In name they are brother and sister.

Not long after, a thought popped into her mind, and she pointed at Cong Xun and said, "Could it be that you killed Xuejuan?"

Cong Xun explained: "I didn't kill Xuejuan."

Concubine Zhao didn't believe it, and asked again: "Are you really happy with Xuejuan, or do you simply regard her as a tool to warm the bed?"

"I am in love with Xuejuan." Cong Xie choked up and said, "I originally planned to ask the emperor to marry me and Xuejuan. die."

Cong Ji asked: "Since you and Xuejuan are in love with each other, has Xuejuan ever mentioned to you that she made sweet soup to relieve the medicinal properties of the soup prescribed by Liu Taiyi, so that Lu Zhu'er drank the soup for many years and didn't feel good?" The reason why it worked? And have you ever mentioned to you the reason why he gave Lu Zhuer a mind-confusing drug and induced Lu Zhuer to assassinate me?"

Cong Xun said in horror: "It turns out that the reason why the imperial sister assassinated the imperial brother was not that the imperial sister was seriously ill and became insane, but Xuejuan did it! I thought Xuejuan was kind-hearted, but I was mistaken." .”

Cong Ji couldn't determine whether Cong Shang was true or false, so he didn't say a word, because there was no evidence to identify Cong Shang as the real culprit behind the scenes, so he just abolished Cong Shang's throne and grounded Cong Shang.

Cong Xun left with the guards, and Cong Ji led Duan Ruizhi to send Concubine Zhao back to Yu Luoxuan, but Concubine Zhao refused to leave, begging: "Your Majesty, you must keep your promise and help me find the murderer who killed Xuejuan, Xuejuan Juan died innocently when she was only [-] years old, she was really wronged."

Wronged...

Cong Ji sneered inwardly.

Even though what Xuejuan did was manipulated by others, but Xuejuan is ten and five years old, folk women are probably married at this age, and they are not children who don't understand the world. They should pay the price for their mistakes, and they are not wronged .

Killing the king is the sin of beheading, not to mention that Xuejuan also took advantage of Lu Zhuer who treated him with sincerity, causing Lu Zhuer to always feel guilty towards him.

He is not a saint, if Xuejuan is still in the world, he will definitely execute Xuejuan, unless Xuejuan has other secrets.

However, he has promised Concubine Zhao to find the murderer and hand it over to her, and he will never break his promise, and he also wants to know whether the murderer is Cong Xie.

So, he said to Concubine Zhao: "Don't worry about it."

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Concubine Zhao left as she wished.

Cong Ji looked down at the blood on the ground, and at the same time, ordered: "Rui Zhi, arrest all Zhou family members who are officials."

Duan Ruizhi led the way and left.

Cong Ji retreated to the left and right, and when he was young, only his blood and the ground were left here.

Suddenly, he raised his head and looked in the direction of the imperial mausoleum, and said in a low voice: "Queen mother, the real murderer has been killed, you can just rest in peace. When all the facts come to light, the child will take Zitong, Xingyue, and Jiayue to sacrifice Thank you. Haier's Zitong is called 'Wen Qi'. Although Wen Qi is a male shark, but Haier is happy with Wen Qi, Haier will make Wen Qi the queen. Xingyue and Jiayue are the flesh and blood of Haier and Wen Qi , Wen Qi almost died in order to give birth to them. If the mother had not died, she would love Zitong and the children as much as the children."

The harsh wind of the first day made his temple hair disheveled, and the red tassels on his pocket were fluttering.

After saying that, he was silent for a moment, then turned and went out of the palace.

He had to take Cong Lu and Miao Miao back to the palace so that they wouldn't worry.

He rode on with only guards on his left and right, and went straight out of the city gate to the teahouse.

From a distance, he found Cong Lu standing on the second floor of the teahouse.

Cong Lu was afraid of the cold, so she was tightly wrapped, only her eyes were exposed.

He added in his heart: Queen Mother, when the child goes to worship you, he will bring dew with him.

When he arrived at the teahouse, he suddenly saw Miao Miao coming out of the room, holding a cup of tea in his hand, Miao Miao handed the tea cup to Miao Miao, and kissed Cong Lu's lips.

He took a closer look and confirmed that there was no disgust on Cong Lu's face, but shyness on the contrary, so he pretended not to see it, but added in his heart: "Mother, when the child goes to worship you, he will bring Miao Miao with him."

Luzhuer and Miaomiao are actually a pair of lovers...

But I turned into a broken sleeve for Wen Qi, and Wen Qi turned into a female shark for myself, so what if Luzhuer and Miaomiao are together?

Cong Lu was about to drink jasmine tea, when she lowered her head, her brother caught her eye.

Cong Ji handed over the reins to a soldier, and after noticing Cong Lu's gaze, he raised his head and smiled.

Cong Lu looked at her brother, first she was glad that her brother was not injured, and then realized that her brother might have witnessed Miao Miao's kiss just now.

I don't know how my brother will feel?

Will my brother object to her relationship with Miao Miao?

She felt guilty when she heard her brother's footsteps stepping on the wooden steps.

Miao Miao didn't know what happened, seeing this, she worriedly said: "Luzhuer, what's wrong?"

"Nothing." Cong Lu was not yet ready to reveal her relationship with Miao Miao to the world.

Cong Ji walked up to Cong Lu, and said loudly: "Let's go, go back to the palace with brother."

Cong Lumian calmly said, "How is Ah Fei?"

The panic and guilty conscience on Cong Lu's face could not be concealed from Cong Ji's eyes, but Cong Ji did not pierce it, but replied: "A Shang killed the Queen Mother Zhou, and I am currently restraining Ah Shang, waiting for me to untie it." For the rest of the mystery, we will decide how to deal with Ah Fei."

"Ah Shang killed the queen mother?" Cong Lu turned pale with shock, "Why did Ah Shang kill the queen mother?"

Cong Ji corrected: "The Empress Dowager Zhou used Fang Yun's hands to kill her father's original spouse, who is my biological mother and yours. The Empress Dowager Zhou is not worthy of being honored by you as a 'mother queen'. The queen mother calls the Queen Mother of Zhou."

Cong Lu was taken aback again: "Mother...the Queen Mother Zhou killed the Queen Mother?"

"It's absolutely true." Cong Ji stared at Cong Lu and said, "Although the mother's health deteriorated after she gave birth to you, it was not your fault. The Queen Mother Zhou ordered Fang Yun to smear the rouge in the rouge used by the mother, which caused the mother's death. died of poisoning."

Seeing Cong Lu's face full of self-blame, he hurriedly said before Cong Lu's words: "At that time, you were only three or four years old, and you were still young, so you didn't understand what Fang Yun wanted to do. Even if you escape this catastrophe, the Empress Dowager Zhou will make other tricks, and the Empress Mother may not be able to escape."

Fang Yun's entry into the palace was two years earlier than the Queen Mother Zhou seduced her father. Obviously, the Queen Mother Zhou had already planned to get rid of her mother.

"I saw Fang Yun poisoning with my own eyes, and I was able to save my mother, but I..." Cong Lu had tears in her eyes, "Brother, I am useless, brother, I killed my mother, and then you."

Cong Ji hugged Cong Lu into his arms, patted Cong Lu lightly, and coaxed, "Lu Zhu'er did nothing wrong, so don't blame yourself."

Cong Lu burst into tears: "But I..."

"You didn't do anything wrong." Cong Ji wiped away tears for Cong Lu, and said solemnly, "My mother won't blame you, and I won't blame you either."

He coaxed him for a while before Cong Lu stopped crying.

Cong Lu calmed down, and then asked in doubt: "Fang Yun is Zhao Taifei's personal maid, why is she used by the Queen Mother Zhou? Is Zhao Taifei involved?"

Cong Ji shook his head and said: "Regarding this, I have already interrogated Concubine Zhao, and Concubine Zhao was not involved in it, she is only an insider. Before Fang Yun entered the palace, she was the maid of the Empress Dowager Zhou, and Fang Yun was sent to the palace by the Empress Dowager Zhou. middle."

"The Empress Dowager Zhou is really hateful." Cong Lu gritted her teeth and said, "She is the sister of the empress mother, why did she harm the empress mother?"

Cong Ji said disappointedly: "She is jealous that her mother surpasses her in every way."

"Only this motive?" Seeing Cong Ji nodding, Cong Lu sneered, "Since she is jealous of her mother, she should work hard to surpass her mother."

Cong Ji sighed and said: "She may be able to beat the queen mother in other places, but the stepmother's mother is respected in the world and has a noble status. If she can't become a queen, she will not be able to beat the queen mother."

Cong Lu was puzzled and said, "Isn't it enough to beat your mother in other places?"

"Jealousy blinded her eyes." After his mother's death, Cong Ji once wanted to get close to the Empress Dowager Zhou, who looked somewhat similar to her mother, but the smile of the Empress Dowager Zhou often made him feel hypocritical. It made him creepy, so the relationship between him and the Queen Mother Zhou has always been mediocre.

After Cong Lu drank the jasmine tea, she said to Cong Ji, "Let's go back to the palace."

The palace where the queen mother lived has long been abandoned. After the elder brother succeeded to the throne, he ordered people to clean it up regularly, but no one lives there until today.

She hadn't been there for a long time, and suddenly wanted to go there for a walk.

"Let's go." Cong Ji walked ahead.

After getting out of the teahouse, he flew on his mount, while Cong Lu and Miao Miao went back to the palace in a carriage.

As soon as he returned to the palace, he saw Duan Ruizhi, and Duan Ruizhi reported by ear: "Your Majesty, all the Zhou family members who are officials have been captured and sent to prison. What should we do next?"

Cong Ji said to Cong Lu: "Brother has important things to do, so I won't accompany you, sorry."

He told Miaomiao again: "Please take care of Luzhuer."

Miao Miao slandered Cong Ji, and responded: "I will take good care of the princess."

Cong Lu smiled at Cong Ji: "Brother, go get busy, don't worry about me." Because she cried a lot not long ago, her eyes were still red, and she looked very pitiful.

Cong Ji rubbed Cong Lu's hair before following Duan Ruizhi to the prison.

When the Zhou family members in the dungeon saw Cong Ji, they all knelt down and begged for mercy.

Cong Ji ordered Qin Xiao, who was waiting by his side, to summon Shen Xinyi, the Minister of Dali Temple, and he glanced at Zhou's family before going out.

Shen Xinyi was imprisoned at home by Cong Xun, nothing happened to her left or right, she was playing chess against herself, when she suddenly saw Qin Xiao, she understood, "Your Majesty has returned to the palace?"

"Your Majesty has returned to the palace." Qin Xiao expressed his intention, "Your Majesty summoned Master Shen to enter the palace."

Shen Xin put down Bai Zi and followed Qin Xiao into the palace.

Cong Ji ordered Shen Xinyi to interrogate Zhou's family one by one. If guilty, he should be punished, but if he was not guilty, he would be released. He was just an observer.

Due to the need to investigate and collect evidence, the trial took a lot of time. After a day passed, Cong Ji couldn't bear it anymore, and was eager to pick up Wen Qi and the children.

Before leaving, he ordered Shen Xinyi to carefully write down the case file after the trial of Zhou's family and submit it to him.

Today is December [-]th, and he has not seen Wen Qi and the children for eight full days.

On December 25, Wen Qi tossed and turned because of anxiety, and in the middle of the night, the messenger suddenly arrived.

He nervously took the letter from the messenger, on which it was written: Zitong, I will set off to pick you up right now.