Chapter 182
A word said, the seat was shocked beyond words.
Empress Zhang immediately knelt down, “Your Majesty, this kid is crazy! You must not listen to his words.”
The emperor moved away from the legs held by Empress Zhang, only said: “Xianhan, no, A Gui, you just revealed the matter of the Marquis of Yongan, you must be involved in it, you allow people to conspire to kill Yuhang, even if it is not the mastermind, but also a co-conspirator, if you are willing to go back to the capital in the trial of the three divisions, the first to report to reveal the Marquis of Yongan, I can leave you a life.”
“Your Majesty!” Empress Zhang heard, cried out, “Emperor, must not gullibly believe the words of this kid, he lost honor, confusion climbed bite ……”
The name A Gui obviously irritated King Li, he gritted his teeth and endured, kneeling down and confessing his guilt: “I have no choice but to do so. The Zhang family hated Yuhang, necessary to get rid of it quickly, I married the Zhang family daughter, and the Zhang family to help walk in the dynasty, only to have to ……”
“Nonsense!” Empress Zhang hissed, “You heartless bastard! Obviously you, since childhood, hate Yu’s. Zou’s lowly, taking advantage of the situation! Zou’s lowly, taking advantage of the death of her late mother, the Empress Dowager, when the Emperor came to the palace, using the means of seduction to lure the Emperor, in accordance with the rules of the palace, should have been executed on the spot. It is Yu’s mercy, leaving Zou’s cheap life, only to have you this evil!
In order to the emperor’s reputation, Yu’s will you mother and son raised outside, did not expect to raise a scourge! You’ve been around Zou since you were a child, and you hate Yu for stopping you from going to the palace. Jealous of Zhou Xian Yang to the Palace of education, and now scrupulous about his military success, scrupulous about his popularity, his existence reminds you day after day, you are just a name is not justified in the Palace of the adopted son! Moreover, now it is still an impostor Zhong Gong foster son! A country bumpkin!”
People would only be betrayed by those closest to them, and in the midst of the Empress and King Li’s near hysterical tearing and exposing of each other, Rong Xiangxian watched as a trace of imperceptible sneer leaked out of the Emperor’s cold face.
With just a few light words, he had dismantled the alliance of interests that the Zhang family and King Li had forged over the years.
Whether it was to dispose of the Zhang Family or the Knight King, there was such a bright and honorable reason.
“He’s using you as a knife again.” Rong Xiangmian said softly.
Zhou Xian Yang held her hand, “I don’t care.”
The Emperor has reached his goal and orders the Feather Forest Guards to go to the capital to send a message, “Inform the Ministry of Criminal Affairs that King Li’s first accusation is that Marquis of Yongan, Zhang Huai, colluded with the Western Qin rebels to assassinate King Yu. He will be removed from his title, and the men of his family will be escorted to the Heavenly Prison to await trial, the women will be confined to their homes, and all the soldiers will be handed over to the Nine Gates Patrol Battalion for management.”
King Li was taken down to be imprisoned by the feather guards, passing in front of King Qing and King Yu’s couple, with a malicious smile on his face, “Don’t be complacent, today you are looking at my jokes, in the coming day maybe you will end up worse off than me, I’m waiting to see that day!”
King Qing laughed, “We are all true princes no matter what, we won’t be like you, a guy of unknown origin ……” Consort Qing held him down and told him to control his temper a bit.
And King Yu and his wife were not the least bit moved by his harsh words.
Zhou Xian Yang looked at his back and softly reassured Xiangmian, “Don’t worry, once Zhang Huai’s case is closed, he will die.”
Rong Xiangmian sighed deeply and nodded.
The emperor also ordered on the spot, ordered in the state dynasty to catch traffickers, and then escorted the old couple home, and rewarded silver to appease the pain of many years of separation of flesh and blood, the old couple thankful for some, turned away.
After that is to collect the bones of the three emperors, as for Zou’s, stealing beams, deceiving the king, the Palace also did not have to live, the second day will be escorted back to the capital, imprisoned in the dungeon for life may not be out.
Zou did not expect that although he saved his life, but landed in the end of life imprisonment, on the spot, let out a big voice of grief, in being dragged down, struggling to cry bitterly: “I did not seduce the emperor, I did not, I was wrongly accused by Yu’s …… is the emperor … …”
That second half of the sentence was muffled in the palm of the feather guards, but the presence of people who reacted quickly, all instantly clear.
Yu wrongly accused Zou of seducing the Emperor with foxy means, blocking her and the child into the palace was to save her life. If not to put her on this crime, that is the emperor in the late mother after the empress dowager during the funeral, pampered the palace sin slave to her pregnancy, such unfilial sins, will be the emperor’s life will be a stain. In order to keep this secret, Zou and her child will be executed.
Poor Yu, in order to be thorough and proper, to protect the reputation of the royal family and innocent women and children, exhaustive efforts to come up with this method, but was Zou’s complained about a lifetime, but also raised the King of the Li everywhere and her children do right. I don’t know if she regrets it.
In this matter, everyone dared not look at the emperor’s face, pretending not to understand this matter, but couldn’t help but cast their eyes towards Zhou Xian Yang. Yu’s character had been passed on to King Yu.
Zhou Xian Yang poured a glass of wine for the princess as if nothing had happened. Only Rong Xiangyang saw that his fingertips were trembling, and the surface of the wine in the cup rippled slightly.
She reached out and gently stroked his back, and Zhou Xian Yang turned his head sideways, looking deeply into her eyes and giving her a smile filled with infinite sourness.
The Seventh Imperial Uncle and the Eldest Princess tried to ease the atmosphere, and comforted the Emperor some more. However, the emperor had lost interest and the banquet ended hastily.
Empress Zhang has been crying since the seat, the emperor is not lazy to sleep with her, it is rare to spend the night alone.
At night, the emperor dreamed of Yu.
As a wife, she was indeed virtuous to the point of being impeccable, and her children, too, were his most valued children. She also never lost her temper like Zhang, always maintaining the decency and honor of royalty, and of course lost her womanly affections as a result. At that time, Li Guifei was much more vivid and lovely to him.
Ten years proved that Zhang was only suitable for being a favored concubine, and not suitable for being an empress.
That dream was intermittent, and suddenly, the emperor opened his eyes, heard some noise outside the door, and asked, “What is it?”
Shen Duzhi said with trepidation, “Your Majesty, the Imperial Tomb guards have come to report that Empress Zhang, with her secret guards, broke into the Imperial Tomb at a leaky night.”
The emperor sat up violently, “Not good!”
Zhang had been thinking of killing Yu for her after King Li ascended to the throne. Now that King Li was gone and the Zhang family was convicted, she had completely lost hope and was only afraid that she would die with him!
The emperor hurriedly led a group of people to the imperial tomb. When he left the palace, Xiao Gong came to report, “Just now, King Yuh learned the news that Empress Zhang was going to make things difficult for Yu, and he also rushed to the imperial mausoleum.”
When the emperor heard this, he didn’t say much, and when he rushed to the place where Yu was with the eunuchs, he only saw that the guards of the imperial tomb were tangling with the secret guards around the empress.
However, Empress Zhang was nowhere to be seen.
This mausoleum guard is newly transferred, know that before the mausoleum guards have been withdrawn because of various reasons two sets, so when a good job, see the queen came aggressively, immediately people to report.
The Marquis of Yong’an’s house has not yet had time to spread out, so he did not dare to offend Empress Zhang, only put her in. Thinking that she was well-bred, she couldn’t hurt both Yu and her maid.
The Emperor quickly stepped inside the hut, only to see that Zhang was fighting with Amber, Yu’s maid.
Yu was sitting calmly on the side, holding the knife she had just seized, calm and relaxed, as if she was the woman who was the mother of the world.
As Empress Zhang fought, she rebuked bitterly, ”Why? You were so kind to Shufei Hui Fei’s child, why do you want to harm my child alone? He is already in labor and is a lively boy. If he grows up, he will be no worse than Xian Yang! You black-hearted ……”
“Stop!” The emperor loudly rebuked, and Zhang looked back at him, her eyes red, “Your Majesty …… have you forgotten what you said before? Kill her and abolish me. As long as I let her die, I can stop being this empress! Anyway, I have nothing left now …… the big deal is that we all die together!”
The emperor approached her and raised his hand to give a slap, Empress Zhang fell to the ground and looked at the emperor with a face of fear, as if she couldn’t believe it.
Only then did the emperor pull her up and put his arm around her shoulders, and Zhang immediately buried herself in the emperor’s chest, letting out a great sigh of grief, “Your Majesty, my child died so tragically. The son that took more than ten years to raise is also an imposter, what’s the point of me living …… I can’t live anymore ……”
The emperor sighed heavily and comforted, “You are the Empress of the Middle Palace, the first mother of all the imperial sons, they naturally all take you as their honor, don’t take the bull by the horns.”
The emperor gave a reprimand and consolation, and then promised Zhang, “Even if the Marquis of Yong’an is convicted, I will not take it out on you, you will still be the unique empress.”
With this promise from the Emperor, Empress Zhang, who had been out of favor for a long time, finally settled down and cried her eyes out.
Duan Fei ordered someone to escort Empress Zhang back nicely, and watched her use her last bit of cards to evoke the Emperor’s pity in order to stabilize her already famous and unfulfilled throne, and within his heart, he was disgusted and sympathetic towards this woman.
Empress Yu was not the least bit moved by what was going on in front of her.
The Emperor took the opportunity to have the feather forest guards search all the places where Yu lived, and there were no suspicious people. Then he dismissed everyone, leaving only him and Yu.
More than ten years have not seen, the emperor realized that they have aged a lot. Yu’s full head of Chinese hair was overgrown, losing its luster, and her description was thin.
“Your Majesty.” Yu respectfully bowed and stopped speaking.
The Emperor opened his mouth and realized that he had nothing to say either.
Raising his eyes, he inadvertently saw the painting hanging on the wall, a scene from the East Garden Polo Ground where King Yu and his wife were playing polo.
The Empress followed his line of sight and asked, “Your Majesty, did Xian Yang come to the Imperial Tomb today? His body ……”
“He has recovered greatly,” the Emperor hides the rumors about King Yu’s health being much worse than before. In fact, on this journey, Zhou Xian Yang did not ride a horse even once, and rode in a carriage with the princess the entire time, so he felt that it was because of his body.
Seeing Yu’s unconvinced look, the emperor added: ”Xian Yang is a good boy, when he first recovered from his injuries, he brought his wife to the palace and honored the Empress Dowager for a while. The Empress Dowager’s death by princeling, and insisted on giving the Empress Dowager a daily wake, so you don’t need to worry.”
“That’s good, please also ask the emperor to take good care of him.” Yu had nothing to say to him. The emperor stayed for a while, feeling uninterested, he raised his steps and left.
As soon as they returned to the palace, the emperor led the crowd to the court room of Mr. and Mrs. Yu Wang, and Shen Duzhi went forward to deliver the decree, and Consort Yu, cloaked in her cloak, hairpin and ring all faded, sleepy eyes, came out to meet her salute.
“Father,” Rong Xiang see look at this battle, a face surprised, “what command?”