After the funeral of Empress Dowager Ye, the East Palace of Darui, which had been vacant for more than 30 years, finally welcomed its new owner.

Although the host had come, the hostess wouldn’t appear in the Palace soon. After all, the Crown Prince’s grandmother died. Not only the marriage of the prince, but also the wedding of Princess of Wei was delayed to the second half of the year.

Prince of Wei was older than Princess Yongfu, so the wedding of Princess Yongfu was also delayed.

If so, the crown prince, who was one year younger than Princess Yongfu, would get married at the end of the year at the earliest.

However, the Empress’ party didn’t have time to deal with these children’s marriage, but the new crown prince’s team aroused their concern.

With Empress Jiang’s respect and preference for Jiang Yashuang, and Chu Weisang only asked for this person, so Jiang Yashuang would be one of the East Palace’s team.

Of course, other candidates were also selected from the Empress’ party, but in order to show respect for Xue Chang, several places were reserved for Xue Chang’s group.

As for the Empress Dowager’s party that proposed to let the crown prince move to the East Palace and form his own team, they obtained nothing！

What was more, when Empress Dowager Gu got off her high horse several times to see her grandson, Empress Jiang would stop her on the halfway andinvite her to drink tea or visit flowers. Empress Dowager Gu couldn’t bear it, so she said directly that she missed Chu Weisang. Empress Jiang didn’t quarrel with her. She called other princes and princesses to accompany her to relieve her boredom. After that, she explained that the crown prince was just confirmed and because that he was young, he was busy learning now. As a kind grandmother who would think of him a lot, Empress Dowager Gu must be reluctant to disturb him.

Empress Dowager Gu was now in a weak position. It was hard for her to say no and she had to bear it.

She had been regent for more than 30 years and had never been treated like this. Even though Tang Zimo comforted her to be patient in private, she couldn’t bear it after several times. She yelled, “How long should I bear that? If I continue to bear it, Jiang will surpass me.”

But at this time, she knew that Gu E’nuo was alive, and in order to survive, she helped the Jiang Family and didn’t hesitate to commit herself to Jiang Yadan.

Empress Dowager Gu almost went crazy.

She quickly called for Gu Shuo, Duke of Guangyang, and Gu Yan, Young Prince of Duke of Guangyang to her palace.

“You bastards!” overtaken by a series of reverses, Empress Dowager Gu completely failed to keep the grace and the shrewdness that an Empress Dowager should have. She smashed the tea set on the case as soon as she saw her nephew and his son. She shouted hysterically, “if it were not me, could you Gu Family have today’s power? I didn’t expect that you betray me for a daughter. I have helped you for these years. How could you?”

Gu Shuo and Gu Yan didn’t know what Gu E’nuo had done at all. When they were scolded, they were confused. Seeing that Empress Dowager was irritated, they didn’t dare to refute. They knelt down and pleaded guilty. After she released her anger for a long time, they asked why.

The reason why Empress Dowager Gu was willing to call them was that on the day when Duke of Huainan went to pass the edict, though Gu E’nuo’s confidant had been out of the Mansion of Prince of Zhou, she had never been to Prince’s Mansion of Guangyang. Instead, she went directly to Jiang Yadan. She guessed that it was Gu E’nuo’s idea. However, she was the daughter of Gu Shuo and Gu Yan’s sister. She did it, so her father and brother had to take the responsibility.

Thus, Empress Dowager didn’t feel that she was scolding the wrong person. She told the whole story of Gu E’nuo to survive with a sneer and finally said coldly, “I don’t know how you teach her. What a shameless thing.”

Naturally, Gu Shuo and his son had to kowtow to beg for mercy. When Empress Dowager calmed down again, Gu Yan saw that his father was completely at a loss, so he had to say on behalf of his father, “Please rest assured, your majesty. My father and I didn’t know about this before. Now that we know it, we will deal with her immediately. I hereby beg for your majesty’s mercy, please give us this opportunity.”

“For your grandfather’s sake, I’ll grant you this time! If she did this next time, you wouldn’t need to see me. ” Empress Dowager Gu sneered and said, “Go.”

Although her attitude was indifferent, Gu Yan knew that she agreed to forgive them as long as the Gu Family killed Gu E’nuo.

After leaving the Palace with Gu Shuo, Gu Yan began to think about how to do it.

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But now the Empress’ party was flourishing and Empress Dowager’s party was declining. And there were many people who see which way the wind blew.

The things that Gu Shuo and Gu Yan went to the Palace to meet with Empress Dowager and that Empress Dowager Gu became angry was reported to the Beique Hall before they left the Palace.

Empress Jiang was not in a hurry when she heard the news. On the contrary, she said with a smile, “It seems that Gu E’nuo does hold many secrets of the old woman, otherwise she would not be in such a hurry to find the two people to enter the Palace.”

Gu E’nuo’s defection to the Jiang Family was revealed to Empress Dowager Gu by the Empress’ party on purpose.

After all, the emperor was still alive. Even without the emperor, the crown prince was also the grandson of Empress Dowager Gu. At present, the Empress Dowager’s party had only fallen behind and still had a chance to fight, while the Empress’ party had almost shown all its cards. If the Empress Dowager’s party kept on fighting and was careful not to give the Empress’ party the chance to expand their achievements, it would be hard for the Empress’ party to deal with, even if they had controlled the Western Army.

The main reason was that the situation was different and their vision and goal have also changed. In the past, when the two parties were well-matched, the Empress’ party thought that one day they would gain the upper hand, then they would kill all the Empress Dowager’s party first.

But now that the Empress’ party grasped the advantage, they began to consider the image in the history books and the reputation in the public, and so on.

This was not surprising. People were like this. They only thought about how to win when they didn’t. When they could win, they also wanted a perfect victory.

Except that Empress Dowager Gu didn’t take any advantage of the crown prince’s team and she scolded Tang Zimo and others in private, she didn’t do anything else. Therefore, the Empress’ party was impatient. Here’s the news. Your granddaughter betrayed you and she became my nephew’s concubine shamelessly. She even didn’t have any reputation. And you still did nothing. Were you dead?

Sure enough, Empress Dowager Gu couldn’t help and would do something.

Empress Jiang was very excited, “Has the staff over there been arranged for Gu E’nuo?”

“Yes. Don’t worry, your majesty.” Maid Lin chuckled, “even if Empress Dowager doesn’t break in this time, the Gu Family will definitely fall.”

When the Empress and her confidant were elated, in the backyard of the Mansion of Marquess Qin, Qiu Yelan was frowning at Mrs. Li’s request, “Why do you think of them?”

Since Mrs. Li came, she didn’t ask Qiu Yelan for anything. This time, she gave her a problem. Mrs. Li didn’t ask for anything for herself, but for others.

It was not difficult for Qiu Yelan to help those people who she pled for get out. But the problem was that Qiu Yelan was a little uncomfortable, because these people were Qiu Nie, Qiu Qian, and Mei Xue.

In the past years, they harmed her deeply.

These people got along well with Qiu Yelan because they concealed their life experience and identity. Later, after the relationship broke down, in order to prevent her subordinates from being unknown and being trapped by them, Qiu Yelan had to give an account. Then Mrs. Li knew that Qiu Nie and Qiu Qian were also Qiu’s blood.

Then, as mentioned before, Mrs. Li was the special cook and confidant of Old Princess Lian.

Therefore, although she was loyal to Qiu Yelan now, she often thought about problems under the influence of Old Princess Lian.

For example, this plea. She said, “Madame, I don’t think I have the face to say that. But the Young Prince was Prince’s only son, and he was son of the Ruan Family, even Marquess Qin and Prime Minister Xue have personally confirmed it, how can he come back again? Now Prince’s Mansion of Xihe only had Prince as the only heir after the incident of Commandery Princess Ningtai last year. I’m not cursing them, but it’s hard to say whether Prince will grow up in the future because of the evil done by Lu and her son. Otherwise, how can Young Master Qiu Hongzhi and Commandery Princess Ningtai be trapped one by one? Even if he grew up, would his son be passed on to the late Prince and the late Princess? Even if he were passed, would he sacrifice seriously? The ancestral hall of the late Prince and the late Princess must be taken care of.”

Qiu Yelan bit her lips, feeling very difficult to handle. Mrs. Li was right. Since Marquess Qin and Xue Chang admitted that Qiu Jinglan was the blood of Ruan Family, Qiu Jinglan couldn’t come back to the Qiu Family any more. After all, with Marquess Qin and Xue Chang’s position, it was impossible for them to go back on their words.

Besides, only the old Princess Yang and Qiu Yinzhi, Duke of Xihe depend on each other in Prince’s Mansion of Xihe. Even if Qiu Jinglan proved his life experience with hard evidence, he would be regarded as bullying them by relying on the power of the Jiang Family. On the Ruan Family’s side, there was also the suspicion of abandoning him when he was used up. At that time, you could imagine the public opinion.

Qiu Jinglan didn’t care about the public opinion, but he had to prevent the enemy from seizing the public opinion. After all, he still wanted the Western Army, so he had to be cautious.

In this case, the issue of succession was in front of us: Qiu Jinglan couldn’t recognize his parents. The Ruan Family had an heir, but what about the heir of Qiu Zhongyan and his wife?

Qiu Yelan never thought about this problem, but in this era, it was very serious and significant.

In a sense, it was also an obstacle that couldn’t be avoided if you wanted to be a comprehensive and filial younger generation.

Because of this consideration, Mrs. Li would ask for forgiveness and rescue on the premise that she knew that Qiu Yelan had been cheated by Qiu Nie and his sister. She said, “The Qiu Family has few heirs. Even if Qiu Nie was bad, he is Madame Qiu’s blood and the nephew of the late Prince and the late Princess. If you want to raise an heir for them from another place, they will not be related. Please forgive them and save their lives for the sake of your ancestors.”

It would be troublesome to ask someone else to be the heir of Qiu Zhongyan and his wife.

Of course, by means of Qiu Jinglan, he could send a subordinate to solve this problem.

It was clear that he, the flesh and blood of Qiu Zhongyan and his wife, was still alive, but he had to send his subordinates to replace him. Maybe Qiu Jinglan also felt very uncomfortable. The heir must call Qiu Zhongyan and his wife his parents. Although they were dead and he didn’t have to call them so often, when they were worshipped and mentioned occasionally, there should be no mistakes. How embarrassed it would be!

“I guess my brother will be worried when he considers this problem.” Qiu Yelan had never met or thought about such a thing before. She couldn’t answer for a moment, so she had to think silently, “In this case, Qiu Nie is the most suitable. After all, he was a nephew.”

She suddenly frowned, “If Qiu Nie were passed to father and mother, what about my uncle?”

“Madame!” Mrs. Li heard that her tone became relaxed. She was very happy and said, “I don’t mean to let Qiu Nie be the heir of the late Prince and the late Princess. After all, his appearance has been damaged. He is not worthy of being your brother and he can’t be a great master. But it’s time for him to get married, isn’t it? You can help him come out and find a wife. After two years, they will have an heir and then you can confirm an heir for the late Prince and the late Princess. It has been some years since the death of the former Princess. It’s not urgent, so I didn’t tell you before. But now the Gu Family will fall. I’m afraid they will be implicated by the Gu Family, so I dare to…”

“So?” Qiu Yelan didn’t know well about the succession. Hearing her words, she said with hesitation, “My brother is also old enough to get married. When he has children, he can pass one of his children to father and mother. ”

Mrs. Li was surprised. She said, “But the Young Prince now is surnamed Ruan. You can only call him your cousin.”

“Forget it. Let’s get the people out first and then discuss the succession when my brother comes back.” Qiu Yelan was at a loss for a moment. She waved her hand and said, “Su He, go and find my husband.”