Chapter 1901: Chapter 1839: Reckless Audacity

Empress Dowager Mo looked at Wufu, full of astonishment. How long had she been in Beiyan, how long had she known this palace, and how did she suspect Empress Song?

"Royal Mother, do tell, why don’t you get along with Her Majesty the Empress?" Wufu countered with a question.

This...

Empress Dowager Mo furrowed her brows. Why was she at odds with Empress Song? She couldn’t say. Ever since she heard Ah Jiu’s suspicions and queries from Shui Xin, and learned the investigation results of the Longevity Festival incident, she felt inexplicably resistant whenever she saw the Empress again.

"What is wrong with the Empress?" Empress Dowager Mo asked with a stern face. Since they suspected the Empress, surely she must have shown some flaw.

Wufu hesitated for a moment and asked, "Does Royal Mother still remember the Fourth Imperial Son?"

Empress Dowager Mo trembled slightly. The Fourth Imperial Son?

That soft, adorable little one who called her Imperial Grandmother, how could she forget?

"The matter of the Fourth Imperial Son’s drowning, does Royal Mother know the truth behind it? Did he really drown by himself?" Wufu looked at her and asked.

Empress Dowager Mo’s eyes widened, her face turning pale: "How bold of you, insolent!"

Her meaning was that the death of the Fourth Imperial Son was no accident but rather deliberate, and even that the person responsible might be...

"Royal Mother, everything is just speculation. Precisely because of speculation, we wish to uncover this truth. If it is indeed as we suspect, then this series of events makes logical sense."

"What logic?" Empress Dowager Mo’s voice was exceedingly low: "If you dare to speak of this again, not just Ah Jiu, even I cannot protect you!"

"Royal Mother." Wufu suppressed the fire in her belly and said, "Guard against trouble before it happens."

"You..."

"Think carefully, what happened the year the Fourth Imperial Son drowned? If it really was him, why would he act against his own child?" Wufu gritted her teeth and said.

"He..." Empress Dowager Mo’s pupils shrank, as if recalling something, her face revealing horror, her hand tightly clutching the brocade blanket.

That year, that very year.

"Royal Mother, if the Fourth Imperial Son did not die from an accident, would you, in your place, readily let go of this enmity of child-killing?" Wufu finally voiced the speculation she shared with Ah Jiu. She believed that a wise person like the Empress Dowager would surely comprehend or else she could not have supported Emperor Yan to the throne and retained her position as Empress Dowager.

Empress Dowager Mo’s body trembled once more at Wufu’s words, her chest heaving rapidly. She closed her eyes and suddenly summoned Nanny Shui.

"Madam." Nanny Shui hurriedly came forward to listen to instructions.

"Escort the Princess Consort of Jin out of the palace." Empress Dowager Mo said with a stern face: "Without my summons, the Princess Consort of Jin is not allowed to enter the palace."

Wufu’s eyes widened.

Empress Dowager Mo looked at her and said, "Today’s matters, I shall pretend I did not hear. You better forget them too, and keep your mouth shut! Otherwise, no matter how much Ah Jiu likes you, I can still cast you into the dust, never to rise again."

Wufu furrowed her brows.

"Did you hear what I said?" Empress Dowager Mo looked at her intently, her voice as cold as ice.

"Daughter-in-law understands." Wufu sighed.

Empress Dowager Mo said, "Then leave the palace, and remember, you know nothing, and neither does Ah Jiu." After saying this, she lay down, her back to Wufu, speaking no more.

"Princess Consort, please."

Wufu stood up, looking at Empress Dowager Mo, and said: "Today I was rash and rude. I ask Royal Mother to take good care and rest. Daughter-in-law takes her leave."

She knelt and bowed, then rose and left.

Empress Dowager Mo listened to the sound of footsteps fading away, only then opening her eyes, looking at the Phoenix carved on the Phoenix Bed, letting memories surge over her like a tide, leaving her immobile.

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