Knowing that the mission had failed, she never expected Mu Fengqie to interfere.
The Grand Empress Dowager stormed into Mu Fengqie's place with her entourage. Seeing Yuan Yerui practicing martial arts in the yard, she strode over and slapped him across the face.
"You bastard! I was kind enough to spare you, but I never thought you'd be so shameless as to show yourself and disgrace the royal family!" Without a word, the Grand Empress Dowager walked over and slapped Yuan Yerui, leaving everyone stunned.
"Is the Grand Empress Dowager planning to fall out with me?" After reacting, Mu Fengqie pulled Yuan Yerui behind her and glared at the Grand Empress Dowager.
"On the contrary, I'm doing this for your own good. This bastard is an ill - omened person. Many strange things happened the year he was born. It's better for you to stay away from him, Fengqie." The Grand Empress Dowager stared venomously at Yuan Yerui behind Mu Fengqie.
"I never believe in such things as good or bad omens. I only know that this child is very much to my liking." Mu Fengqie stared back at the Grand Empress Dowager without showing any weakness.
"Moreover, the Emperor has already issued an edict for Yerui to accompany me. Isn't the Grand Empress Dowager's current action a violation of the imperial edict?" Mu Fengqie looked at the Grand Empress Dowager and said.
The Grand Empress Dowager never expected Mu Fengqie to defend this little bastard so much. "Fengqie probably hasn't heard about what happened when this bastard was born. Let me tell you one thing, and then we'll talk about whether to keep him or not."
The Grand Empress Dowager glanced at Yuan Yerui hiding behind Mu Fengqie and began to speak in a low voice. "When his mother was pregnant with him, strange things kept happening in the palace one after another. Someone either fell into the water or tripped over.
Of course, these were nothing compared to the most terrifying thing. When this bastard was born, his mother died, and I broke my head on that day. At the very moment he was born, one of the late Emperor's pregnant concubines had a miscarriage for no reason."
The Grand Empress Dowager watched Yuan Yerui's eyes turn redder and redder, and she smiled with satisfaction. "Then, in that year, our Qin Dynasty suffered a natural disaster that had never happened before. After hearing all this, do you still want to keep him, Fengqie?"
The Grand Empress Dowager looked at Mu Fengqie confidently, thinking that she had said so much that Mu Fengqie would definitely not keep this little bastard anymore. But unexpectedly, Mu Fengqie just shrugged indifferently.
"What does this have to do with me? He's been living well all these years. Has he ever brought any disaster to you?" Mu Fengqie said nonchalantly.
Looking at Yuan Yerui trembling all over, she stroked his head to comfort him. Poor child. At such a young age, he had already experienced so much. How much harm those people's gossips had brought to this child!
Yuan Yerui looked at Mu Fengqie in surprise. He never thought that Mu Fengqie didn't care about what had happened to him at all. For so many years, apart from his wet - nurse, she was the only one who believed in him.
"Master..." Yuan Yerui called out to Mu Fengqie weakly.
"Be good, Master won't leave you. As long as you're obedient, Master won't ignore you." Mu Fengqie stroked Yuan Yerui's little head.
The Grand Empress Dowager watched their interaction and was so angry that her face turned white. "Mu Fengqie! I'm warning you. This bastard is an ill - omened person and will bring bad luck to you. Isn't last night a good example?"
Mu Fengqie looked at the Grand Empress Dowager with a sharp look in her eyes and said, "Since the Grand Empress Dowager has mentioned last night, I'd like to ask what happened last night? It seems that the Grand Empress Dowager knows more about it than I do."
Mu Fengqie's question brought the Grand Empress Dowager's lost reason back. She looked at Mu Fengqie guiltily and said, "I'm the Grand Empress Dowager. Is there anything that happens in the palace that I don't know?"
Mu Fengqie looked at the Grand Empress Dowager's guilty yet confident look and smiled. "Since the Grand Empress Dowager already knows what happened last night, does the Grand Empress Dowager know whose people those were and who they came to kill?"
The Grand Empress Dowager looked at Mu Fengqie and asked word by word. A layer of sweat immediately appeared on her palm. She took a deep breath and forced herself to calm down.
"I don't know whose people those were for the time being, but they must have come to assassinate this little bastard." The Grand Empress Dowager said firmly.
"Oh? I feel like they came to assassinate me." Mu Fengqie stared at the Grand Empress Dowager and pressed.
"How is that possible? They came to assassinate this bastard." The Grand Empress Dowager said defiantly.
"Then does the Grand Empress Dowager have any evidence?" Mu Fengqie said slowly, in sharp contrast to the guilty Grand Empress Dowager who was shifting her eyes around.
"I don't have any yet."
"Oh, well then. Zhu Fei, go and tell the Emperor that I was assassinated last night. Ask him to come and find out who's behind it. Fortunately, the corpses of those people haven't been disposed of yet. Let the Emperor take a look too."
Mu Fengqie's words threw the Grand Empress Dowager into complete panic. She never expected that Mu Fengqie would still keep the corpses. Damn it! Didn't they say they had all been disposed of?
If the Emperor came, he would surely be able to tell at a glance that they were her people. Then she wouldn't be able to justify herself.
"Wait!" The Grand Empress Dowager was so anxious that she was sweating all over. She stopped Zhu Fei who was about to go out. "Fengqie, the Emperor is busy dealing with state affairs every day. Where does he have the time to handle such things? I'm the Grand Empress Dowager. Leave this matter to me."
"No need. I think it's more reassuring to leave it to the Emperor." After saying that, she motioned for Zhu Fei to go and summon the Emperor.
"Wait a minute!" The Grand Empress Dowager had no other choice. She directly told the eunuchs behind her to stop Zhu Fei.
Zhu Fei returned to Mu Fengqie's side warily and protected Mu Fengqie behind her.
"What does the Grand Empress Dowager want to do? Do you want to fight me?" Mu Fengqie looked at the Grand Empress Dowager bluntly.
"Fengqie, you're overthinking. I just think it's not necessary to bother the Emperor for such a small matter." The Grand Empress Dowager would never let them go and find the Emperor.
"Why? I see that the Grand Empress Dowager has been stopping us again and again. Do you have some dirty secrets to hide? Could it be that..." Mu Fengqie looked at the Grand Empress Dowager suspiciously.
The Grand Empress Dowager felt goose - bumps all over her body under Mu Fengqie's gaze. "No! It's not me!"
After saying that, the Grand Empress Dowager looked at Mu Fengqie in horror, trying to read something from Mu Fengqie's face.