An Lingrong's Rebirth: Red

Chapter 440: Queen's Fall

When the emperor saw the queen's attitude, he easily thought of Rouze, but he had never felt that Yixiu was like Rouze before, whether in appearance or personality. The only thing similar between the two was their surnames.

"Coincidence, misunderstanding." The emperor sighed and asked the queen to stand up again. "When I learned the whole story, I had already asked Xia Qian to investigate, and now he has returned.

Queen, you still insist it's a misunderstanding, right?"

"This..." The queen thought that the emperor had just found out about it, and thought that after she had calmed the emperor down with her words, she would be able to find an opportunity to tell the wives of those ministers to shut up.

Although the Queen had told them long ago that it was just a marriage proposal, they would not give in easily unless they saw benefits.

The Queen then promised them that if Hongshi was restored to the clan status, he would inevitably be given the positions of Concubine and Concubine Concubine. If he ascended the throne, the Queen would naturally choose from among the three.

If the emperor found out about such a promise, no matter how the queen defended herself, it would be useless. It was a pity that Rouze and the queen mother had both taken advantage of her. The queen now had no trump cards in her hand, and she really didn't know what she could rely on to make the emperor let her go.

Relying on the affection between them as husband and wife? The queen smiled bitterly in her heart. She and Yinzhen had never had any affection as husband and wife. Otherwise, the emperor would not have ordered her to be confined to her house before hearing Xia Qian's report, and truly abolished her without abolishing her.

"Your Majesty," the queen finally stood up and stopped kneeling on the ground to plead for her. She wiped the tears from her face and slowly sat down. "Since you already know, why bother asking me to defend myself? Your Majesty has never believed me. No matter how much I say from the bottom of my heart, what's the point?"

"How can I trust you? You killed Rouze when you were in the mansion, and after entering the palace, you frequently murdered the emperor's heirs and concubines. You gave the concubines musk and safflower, and poisoned the heirs. You made my concubines infertile and my offspring died.

I have forgiven you for everything you have done because of my remembrance of Rouze and my filial piety to the Queen Mother.

But what about you? You make mistakes again and again. Do you have any regrets at all? "

"I have nothing to regret. Everything I did was for the Emperor."

"For me?" The emperor was almost laughing out of anger. "You plotted to murder my concubines and descendants, and you dared to say it was for me. How could there be such a shameless person like you in this world!"

"I am shameless? No matter how shameless I am, I am not half as shameless as the emperor!" The queen stood up angrily, strode to the emperor, and glared at him condescendingly, "In the past, you blindly doted on Zhen Huan and allowed her to have an affair with Prince Guo. When she got pregnant, the emperor thought it was his, and caused a turmoil in the entire harem!

What did you do, Your Majesty? You asked Concubine Sheng to pray in the snow and kowtow as she walked back to the Yanxi Palace. That’s why her child was also lost. This is the third child that Your Majesty has killed with your own hands!

And the first child is my Honghui. Not only did you and Rouze get involved without regard for my face, but you also deliberately took away all the imperial doctors to diagnose Rouze.

Honghui had a fever all night and did not receive timely medical treatment! "

"The next day, I sent a court doctor over, and Rouze even pleaded with the Emperor to transfer an imperial physician from the palace. What else are you not satisfied with? You still resent me and your sister so much!"

"The next day, the emperor also knew it was the next day!" The queen became even more angry when she mentioned this. She took another step forward and said, "At noon on the second day, the imperial physician had not come yet, but Honghui was already red all over with fever and foaming at the mouth.

The imperial physician pried open Honghui's eyes with his hands, but they had already rolled back and he couldn't even cry.

No matter how good the medicine was, my Honghui still died under the torture of the emperor and my sister!"

The Queen's tears fell, and she raised her hand to wipe them, "But the Emperor was not sad at all about Honghui's death, and was even busy immersing himself in the joy of his sister's pregnancy.

When Honghui was buried, the emperor never even looked at him. When I fell ill, the emperor never asked a single question. In the emperor's eyes, who else is there besides Rouze and her child?"

"So...so you killed Rouze and Hongyan, right?"

"It was just that my sister and her son were not up to the task. They died after only two years. It's not my fault."

The queen was still crying, but when she heard that the emperor was still speaking for Rouze, she stopped crying. She snorted and laughed, and sat back in her original seat.

"It's a foregone conclusion that you harmed Rouze, and yet you're still smiling."

The queen raised her eyebrows, and not only did she laugh, she also laughed loudly on purpose, "Why not laugh? It was she and you who killed my son and made me so crazy.

This is all her retribution. Not only will I laugh, I will also laugh in front of her grave. Even in the underworld, I will laugh in front of her!"

"You are presumptuous!"

The emperor was extremely angry, and he slapped the table, but the queen did not show any fear. The queen was also calm and looked at the emperor neither humbly nor arrogantly.

"As Your Majesty said, I have done too many outrageous things, and today is not the last one. If Your Majesty doesn't want to listen, you have to listen carefully. After all, you talked about what I did in the past, and I have to talk about what you did, too, only to be fair."

"Fairness, the person least qualified to talk about fairness in this palace is you."

“Your Majesty said that I was plotting to murder my offspring, concubine. Isn’t Your Majesty the same kind of person?

That year, Nian Shilan, Feng Ruozhao, and Qi Yuebin were all unable to give birth. Which one of them was not caused by the emperor? Nian Shilan's male fetus was aborted, and it was not the emperor's fault?

Your Majesty, you and I are husband and wife, so our actions are exactly the same. If you think you have done nothing wrong, then I have done nothing wrong either.

"Your Majesty, why do you have to blame me? Isn't this just blaming yourself?"

"I am considering the country and the people, how can I treat you like a vicious woman? The Nian family is powerful. If Nian gave birth to a prince, the court would be in turmoil. I can't sit on the throne securely, so how can you sit on the throne securely?

She would have been forced to abdicate early and become a concubine who could not be tainted by the palace power."

"Your Majesty, is it for the throne and my position as queen?" The queen's eyes were dry. She wiped the corners of her eyes and wiped away the last trace of tears. "But what I did was also for the throne of your majesty and my position as queen, wasn't it?

The same purpose, the same means, there is absolutely no right or wrong reason. "

"You are clearly acting out of selfish motives, yet you can still speak so righteously. It is clear that you have no intention of repenting at all.

No wonder they joined forces with the court officials and tried every means to restore Hongshi to the clan status. It turns out they are eyeing my throne."

This was a serious statement. No matter how much resentment the Queen had, she would not dare to admit it. She turned her head away and said, "Your Majesty thinks of me this way. In your mind, I am already too vicious. No matter what vicious things I do, your Majesty will accept it.

The emperor is not willing to find out the truth at all. Just a few words from a minister, a concubine, or a servant can convict me of a crime. "

"Do you think I should believe you just because you say a few nonsense words?"

"Whether you believe it or not, it's up to the emperor to decide. I don't care anymore.

Let me take all the blame. Your Majesty, please don't blame the Third Prince anymore. No matter what, he is your eldest son after all."

"Third Prince? I no longer have a son like him. He is not worthy of being called my eldest son."

The emperor spoke in a deep voice for three times, and ordered someone to take the queen away and lock her up in Jingren Palace. All the servants left, leaving only Aunt Zhuxi behind.

The empress spent eleven hours out of the twelve hours a day and night in Jingren Palace reciting scriptures. Not long after she fell asleep, she was awakened by the sound of gongs and drums, and was dragged to the Buddhist temple to burn incense and copy scriptures.

After only three to five days of tossing and turning, the Queen and Zhuxi could no longer bear it. Zhuxi passed away on the seventh day. The Emperor did not remember her for serving the Queen Mother, and simply ordered someone to wrap her up in a tattered mat and throw her into the mass grave to feed the dogs.

From then on, the Queen had no capable person around her. The Third Prince tried desperately to contact someone, but he couldn't even get into the Jingren Palace. He could only hang around outside the door and couldn't even think of a way to protect himself.

The emperor naturally saw all this. Although he had found out that the Third Prince had never met these princes and ministers, nor had any correspondence with them, the fact that he was so dependent on the queen made the emperor feel that the Third Prince was fully aware of all the calculations.

After much thought, the emperor still summoned the Third Prince to the Yangxin Palace. Before he could ask him any questions, he just scared him and the Third Prince was so scared that he blamed the poisoning on the Queen.

"Father, I have never thought of murdering my fourth and fifth brothers, and I have never thought that it was the Empress Dowager who did these things behind my back.

If I had known this earlier, I would have stopped the Empress Dowager and would not have let her do something stupid and harm my fourth and fifth brothers.

My fourth brother was murdered when I was completely unaware of it. When my fifth brother was killed, I had already discovered that Ping An was abnormal.

I wanted to report this to the Emperor, but Ping An placed poison on the couch and framed me, causing me to be caught up in the poisoning scandal and I dared not say anything more to the Emperor.

But I never thought that as the investigation deepened, all the means were attributed to me. I, your son, was really wronged."

The Third Prince kowtowed twice and looked up fearfully, but the Emperor never showed his emotions on his face, so the Third Prince had no idea what he was thinking. He just kept talking and continued to criticize the Empress.

Now that Ping'an, Qiyun, the Third Prince and others' testimonies were consistent and all pointed to the Queen, the Emperor had no choice but to believe that it was the Queen who did it.

But the queen had already done so many bad things, and this one more thing was not enough for the emperor to sentence her to death immediately.

After all, deposing the queen or ordering her death are both big matters, and the emperor would never give the order without sufficiently legitimate reasons.

In addition, the queen's actions have a very bad reputation. If the news spreads to the people, the people will think that the royal family is cruel and even killed their own children. How can they continue to support the emperor to sit firmly on the throne?

Therefore, the emperor would just suppress all these things, put the queen under house arrest, and shut everyone up.

Finally, he would have someone torture her for a few days to vent his anger, so that the queen would pay for her actions. When she could no longer bear it, he would send her a bowl of poison so that she would die quietly.

It can be regarded as fulfilling the promise to Rouze and the Queen Mother that Yixiu would not be deposed. After her return, she would be buried in the concubine's mausoleum. There would be no need to pay attention to the pomp of the queen. It can be regarded as maintaining her last dignity.

The emperor did not ask anyone to deliver the poison because he was worried that the vacant position of the queen would cause turmoil in the former dynasty and the harem. After all, the position of the queen was a cause for envy. That Fucha family member was always trying to be competitive and asked her father to investigate the queen's actions, all for the position of the queen.

Concubine Tian thought that the emperor was unaware of the situation and was even complacent, thinking that her father had helped the emperor resolve the threat and that the position of queen was within his grasp.

The emperor had only been in her palace for two days, but she started to act like a spoiled brat, using the excuse that Concubine Sheng was too exhausted from handling the affairs of the six palaces, and wanted the emperor to restore her position and even offer her the power to assist in managing the six palaces.

Due to Fu Cha's contribution this time, the emperor did not refuse openly. He only used the excuse that Concubine Tian had been too busy taking care of the Fifth Prince recently, and even her position was not restored immediately.

Tianpin was naturally unwilling to accept this excuse, but the emperor suddenly disappeared and spent two and a half days out of three with Concubine Wan. He even went crazy and wanted to promote Concubine Wan to a higher position.

Just like Zhen Huan at that time, she was promoted to Concubine Wan right away, skipping the position of concubine.

Concubine Tian was so jealous that she was almost going crazy. She didn't care about hating Lingrong and ran to Chengqian Palace and cried for the whole morning. The only thing she kept saying was asking Lingrong to persuade the emperor.

"Princess Tian, ​​this is the emperor's idea. As concubines, it is not easy for us to stop it."

Ling Rong didn't want to cause trouble in front of the emperor, so she naturally rejected Tianpin. "Besides, Concubine Wan has served the emperor for a long time, so it is only right that she should be promoted."

"Should?" Before she could wipe away her tears, Concubine Tian immediately slammed the table, "Have you forgotten how Zhen Huan bullied you before? Have you forgotten how you lost your first child?

This Zhen Yuwan is Zhen Huan's biological sister. The two sisters are of the same kind. They seduced the emperor to become addicted to women and indulged in debauchery in the palace all day long. Not only did you not comfort the emperor, you also let it happen.

How on earth have you, the Imperial Concubine, done anything? Is your authority as the assistant to the six palaces just for show? "

The more Concubine Tian spoke, the more excited she became. She slammed the table, causing Lingrong to frown and feel annoyed even to look at her for any longer.

But unfortunately, only Concubine Tian came today, so Ling Rong could only watch her quarrel patiently, "So what if I am a noble concubine? After all, I am still the emperor's concubine, so naturally everything should be put in front of the emperor.

Even though I have the power to assist in managing the six palaces, it was granted by the Emperor, and I cannot bypass the Emperor.

Regarding the promotion, I can only give some advice, and I cannot go beyond the Emperor's orders. Concubine Tian, ​​your words are really overstepping your authority."

Lingrong said she was overstepping her bounds, but Concubine Tian not only did not restrain herself, but even became more excited, "Why, you haven't even tried to persuade her once or twice, how can you not do it?

I think you are trying to shirk responsibility and want to use Concubine Wan to get to the top!"