usatvline Chapter 229: The Houmen Madam Nursery School has started (15)
Chapter 229: The Houmen Madam Nursery School has started (15)
The emperor's palace.
The pale emperor lay on the bed, his breathing becoming weaker and weaker.
He knew that his time was running out as he had seen no relief from any of the imperial doctors.
Perhaps because he was about to die, he thought more and more about his childhood and adolescence.
His mother who died young, his childhood sweetheart, and the two women who occupied a large part of his life kept appearing in his mind.
It was obvious that he and the queen had long been separated, and the concubine he had been deeply in love with in recent years was another.
But in the end, he suddenly realized that the person he wanted to see most was the queen.
In the bedroom filled with the smell of Chinese medicine, the emperor forced himself to stay awake and waited for the palace maid to bring his first wife.
As the wind from outside rushed in through the door, the queen in a bright red dress walked in.
When the emperor saw the queen in a red dress, his expression went blank for a moment.
Perhaps he recalled their wedding, and tears welled up in his eyes.
"Qing'er..."
The emperor's vision was blurred and he called the queen's nickname in a hoarse voice.
The Queen grinned during this emotional moment.
"Your Majesty, Empress Shen, respectfully invites you to the heavens to mourn."
As soon as the queen said this, the room suddenly became quiet.
The eunuchs leading the way, the palace maids serving in the room, and the nanny beside the queen all retreated voluntarily.
The emperor, who was crying and expressing his feelings, seemed to have something blocking his throat, and he opened his mouth but could not make any sound.
After a long time, when the spices in the incense burner finally burned out, a slight crackling sound was emitted.
The emperor then pulled the corners of his mouth with difficulty.
"Qing'er, this joke is not funny."
He had an ugly expression and exuded a faint aura of death.
After seeing the emperor's expression, the queen smiled even more.
"I'm not joking."
"Your Majesty, please surrender the throne."
The room fell silent again.
This time, the silence didn't last long.
The emperor dragged his sick body to sit up, grabbed the jade pillow on the bed and threw it at the queen.
"Shen Chuqing, I have known you for many years, but I didn't know you were such a vicious person."
The queen did not move a step, but just slightly turned sideways to avoid the thrown jade pillow.
Facing the furious emperor, her face was full of scorn.
"Years of friendship? Ha, Yuan Yi, don't you feel guilty about saying that?"
"Your mother was the loser in the last palace fight. You've been accustomed to the fickleness of the palace since childhood. How could you not know the methods used by the palace ladies to win favor?"
"Your favorite concubine disrespected the Queen and even gave the Crown Prince a chronic poison for the sake of her own child. Are you really unaware of these things?"
"I guess you knew about it, but you didn't stop it and instead let it go on."
"If this is your kindness, then even a dog would be chased and bitten for two blocks if you showed it to them."
Her words were sharp and directly tore off the emperor's disguise.
"I……"
The emperor wanted to argue, but nothing came out of his mouth.
The queen seemed to understand his embarrassment and continued speaking with a smile.
"I guess you're saying you're so busy with government affairs that you really don't know about this."
"I'm guessing that if you say the harem is under the control of the queen, then even if this really happened, it would be my fault as the queen."
"But Yuan Yi, whether you know it or not, you gave those people the confidence to disrespect the Empress, and you also gave them the reason to murder the Crown Prince."
"The Queen's power is limited. The highest authority in the entire palace belongs only to you, the Emperor."
"What those people did was certainly despicable, but as the instigator of all this, and even the one who directly or indirectly fueled it, you are even more despicable than them."
As she spoke, the smile on her face disappeared, replaced by a sad look.
"I don't want to assume the worst of you, but everything I've found is pushing you towards that possibility."
"So what if they were young couples, or childhood sweethearts who looked after each other."
"The moment you ascended the throne and tasted the power, all the vows of love and support you've pledged to each other became shackles and suspicions."
"You're afraid that my maternal family, which helped you rise to power, will turn around and support our son."
"In order to preserve your throne and rule, you allowed, or even condoned, your favorite concubine to poison the crown prince."
"It's because the Crown Prince is weak. Even if the Prime Minister's Mansion has some ideas, they will be cautious and hold back."
"You don't trust the Prime Minister's Mansion that once stood by you, and you've forgotten the oath you made to me. You don't even remember that our Siqi is just a child who wants his parents to be with him."
"You only know that the Prime Minister's Mansion has the ability to support the new emperor to ascend to the throne."
As she spoke more, the emperor's expression became horrified.
It seemed that he had not expected that the thoughts he had never expressed to others would be spoken out in this situation.
Seeing the emperor like this, the queen suddenly broke into a strange smile without any warning.
"Yuan Yi, you think the Prime Minister's Mansion will rebel and support the Crown Prince to ascend to the throne, and for this reason you would not hesitate to watch your own son being poisoned."
"Then let's make it a reality."
As the emperor's eyes widened, the queen took out a book from her sleeve.
"Yuan Yi, the Prime Minister's Office wants to help the Crown Prince ascend to the throne, but we cannot leave any stain on the Crown Prince."
"So, in the history books of later generations, you will be described as a licentious and incompetent emperor who favored his concubines over his wife and ended up being harmed by his favored concubines."
"All the achievements during your reign will fall on my father and brother."
"And all the wrong policies of the central government in the entire Yuan Dynasty will be borne by you alone."
"You will become the only incompetent emperor in the entire history of the Yuan Dynasty who has done nothing wrong, an emperor who deserves nothing but contempt from the people after his death."
"When I think about how you'll be cursed by countless people in the future, I get excited, hahahahahaha..."
Under all these stimulations, the emperor, who was already seriously ill, vomited a large mouthful of blood.
His eyes bulged out from his pale face, and dark red bruises stained the corners of his mouth and on his collar.
"Venomous woman... Shen Chuqing... you vicious woman..."
"You killed the king and your husband. Aren't you afraid that Siqi will turn against you after knowing the truth?"
"Don't forget, he is my son. He has the same blood as me."
After hearing this, the queen, who was already laughing so hard that her body was shaking, laughed even more happily.
"Pfft, Your Majesty is truly sick and confused. How could anyone be willing to avenge someone who harmed them?"
"You don't think that I would hide what you did from the child because he is young."
"He is the crown prince. The education he received since childhood has made him much more receptive than other children of the same age."
"I can't let you, a person who is destined to die, disturb our mother-son relationship."
"Yuan Yi, just go with peace of mind."
"From today on, your kingdom will change hands."
thump.
There was a sound of something heavy falling to the ground in the room.
A moment later, the queen in red walked out of the emperor's bedroom with a decent smile on her face.
Seeing this, the chief steward hurried over.
"Empress, His Majesty..."
The queen raised her index finger to her lips, making a gesture of silence.
"Shh, His Majesty is asleep, don't disturb him."