Chapter 692: The Truth
The stars in the sky twinkled brightly, and a cold wind whistled over the palace.
Liu Defu trotted back to Zhaoyang Hall from the Imperial Garden.
"Your Majesty, Concubine Shu...... was driven back by Lord Zhan. ”
Liu Defu hung his head, and a chill filled his heart.
Concubine Shu didn't die, the emperor is probably very disappointed, right?
It's just that Liu Defu didn't expect that the emperor didn't hide his disappointment at all.
"In the end, it is the person who my father loved, Cheng Huan also respected her in the past, I originally wanted to give her a decent way to die, but I didn't expect it to be ruined by herself......"
The emperor stood up with regret and said gloomily:
"Since she doesn't have the ability to kill herself, then I'll help her. ”
Liu Defu's back, which was already hunched a little bit, was bent even lower.
The news that the emperor spread in the palace that he was going to hand over Concubine Shu was to want Concubine Shu to cut off herself, right?
However, in this palace, sometimes it is very easy to die, and sometimes it is very difficult.
Concubine Shu was dragged back to Cining Palace in embarrassment, looked at the funny and old-looking woman in the mirror, fell to the ground and cried bitterly.
Before the tears were wiped away, someone came to report that the emperor was coming.
Concubine Shu was startled, and subconsciously thought that the emperor was coming to settle accounts with her, and she got up from the ground and was about to escape.
"No, I don't want to see him!"
It must have been Zhan Shichun who told the emperor everything she had done!
But before she could escape, a group of Guards broke in first, holding her firmly to the ground.
"This palace is the concubine of the first emperor, and it is the concubine of the current dynasty, you dare to offend this palace!"
Concubine Shu scolded angrily, but no one paid attention to her.
The black-pressed Imperial Forest Army obscured all the light in front of her, and in a dark shadow, the emperor's figure gradually became clear, but his face seemed to be shrouded in a layer of 10,000-year-old ice.
"Xiao Shaoyun, you actually dare to do this to me, aren't you afraid that you will go underground in the future and have no shame to see the first emperor?!"
Although the person in front of him is the emperor, he has always been quite respectful to her, and Concubine Shu has the courage to reprimand.
The Emperor stared at her until the Concubine Shu closed her mouth uneasily, and then he stretched out a foot and stepped on her shoulder.
The words spoken are more like a basin of ice water coming down the head:
"Instead of worrying about me seeing the first emperor, it's better to worry about yourself!"
"You, what do you mean by that?"
Even though she was desperate in her heart, Concubine Shu still refused to admit defeat.
The emperor's toes were suddenly crushed hard, and only a crisp sound of bones shattering was heard, followed by the screams of the concubine!
The emperor crushed Concubine Shu's shoulder blade alive.
Xiurong screamed in horror and tried to pounce, but was stopped by the Guards and thrown out, and in a short time, the screams and cries were far away.
The pain in her heart, which she had never experienced in her life, made Concubine Shu's tears fall in large pieces, and she tried hard to sit up, but she couldn't move.
"Let go of Xiurong!
Tears and cold sweat slid down Concubine Shu's cheeks, and she glared at the emperor and screamed.
The Emperor lifted his foot again, silently crushing her other shoulder blade.
"Since it was you who did the evil thing, I think she is indispensable, why should I let her go?"
The Emperor asked viciously, and then walked away from her, sat down on the chair brought by the guard, and looked at her condescendingly, his eyes cold.
"You drugged me?"
Concubine Shu twitched on the ground, and immediately it was as if someone had stabbed her in the heart.
It turned out that he really didn't read half of his old feelings, and told the emperor everything......
Zhan Songlin, Zhan Songlin!
Her gaze gradually revealed the self-abandonment of the dying man:
"That's right, it's what I drugged you. ”
The calm tone made the emperor instantly angry again:
"Why?!What kind of hatred do I have with you?!"
He had doubted everyone in this palace, but he had never suspected her!
Concubine Shu turned her neck with difficulty, and suddenly laughed as if in revenge:
"Why? I just don't want to see you feel better, I just want to see you live better than die, I just want to see your damn slut mother underground!"
"You...... You actually hate my mother!"
He had not mentioned his mother in front of anyone for many years, and the emperor was almost stunned when he heard this reason.
Concubine Shu's laughter was full of irony:
"How stupid! It's ridiculously stupid! Poor!"
"You, like your good sister, really think I can live in peace with your mother!
"Your mother is the mother of the main palace, the queen, who am I? I am the favorite concubine of the first emperor, and I and her were originally your life and death!"
"For so many years, Qiao Huan must be very pleased to see you being respectful to me underground! Haha, you are really filial and good boys!"
Concubine Shu smiled proudly and rampantly, looking at the shocked emperor with a burst of happiness in her heart.
This pleasure made her forget the pain in her body, and everything that had been hidden in her heart for so many years seemed to have suddenly found an exit, pouring out, and she could no longer stop.
The Emperor suddenly stood up and ordered everyone to withdraw.
Concubine Shu wanted to raise her head, but her shoulders and neck were no longer obedient.
She smiled contemptuously at the Emperor:
"Why, you want to be alone with me, don't be afraid of any gossip that ruins your reputation......"
There was a sound on the door, the emperor strode forward, and stomped heavily on her chest, a large stream of blood gushed out from the corner of the concubine's lips, she choked on her own blood, and her voice stopped abruptly, coughing desperately.
"Do you know Cheng Huan, it's my sister?"
The emperor's voice was almost inaudible, but Concubine Shu was instantly frightened as if she had seen a ghost, and even her coughing suddenly stopped!
"You...... You know!"
The last trace of uncertainty in the emperor's eyes was completely gone, and his mind was full of mixed memories of his past life-
In her previous life, what was Concubine Shu doing?
From the beginning to the end of his previous life, he and Cheng Huan were kept in the dark, giving birth to children one after another, painful and desperate, at that time, was Concubine Shu also like now, secretly laughing at them, sarcastically mocking them, and watching them struggle in pain?
And they, who didn't know anything, kept her alive and sent her to the end of their old age, until finally she died suddenly, and they buried her in the imperial mausoleum!
The shock in Concubine Shu's eyes gradually subsided, and she sneered:
"Know, know, know, you will be more miserable, if you don't know, then it's really boring!"
She always thought that this secret would be kept until she died, but she didn't expect it to be known at this time.
But it's okay, she can see Qiao Huan's son's painful appearance before she dies, then she can be blinded even if she dies!
The Emperor's face was almost contorted with hatred, and then he asked:
"Is my mother's death related to you?"
"Yes, if it weren't for me, how could the first emperor know that your mother was a water-based poplar, a slut who didn't abide by women's morals?"
It seems that because she is going to die, she no longer has any fears, and Concubine Shu has not hidden it at all.
"So, you did it all?"
"That's right! Qiao Huan took away my most precious thing, and I naturally want her to regret it even if she dies!"
Her laughter was as triumphant as ever:
"Speaking of which, you're disgusting, brother and sister...... By the way, on the night of the wedding, did you sleep with Xu Chenghuan?"
The emperor didn't speak, and Concubine Shu thought he had acquiesced.
"Since you obviously know that it's your sister, you can actually do it, tsk, Qiao Huan's son is really something that is not as good as a beast!"
"Shut up!"
The emperor, who was slapped by such vicious words over and over again, stepped on Concubine Shu's mouth hard, and several of her teeth fell out suddenly, and her blood was swallowed into her stomach!
The Emperor ignored her tragic struggles and squatted on the ground with his face covered.
It's stupid, it's stupid!
The emperor closed his eyes, and tears flowed uncontrollably.
It's stupid.
From his previous life to this life, he has resented his mother countless times, and hated the injustice and cruelty of fate countless times, but he never knew that behind the cruel fate, there was such a hand that stirred up the storm!
The truth was so cruel that he didn't want to ask her what his mother had taken from her, or why she had come to such a state of madness.
Whatever the answer. It doesn't make any sense to him anymore.
"Whether my mother was remorseful or not, I don't know. But Xu Shuning, I'll definitely let you know what life is better than death. ”
When the Emperor's voice sounded again, it was no longer filled with any human feelings.
Concubine Shu waited for a long time, only to see the back of the emperor turning away, and did not wait for anyone to end her life.
But I don't know how the torment will be in the future, and it is even more unbearable than death!
For three days, Cining Palace became a dead place that was abandoned.
Even when she was hungry and painful, no one cared about the life or death of Concubine Shu, and no one came to help her who spit out blood one by one.
She lay on the cold ground for three days, her face covered in blood and messy hair, and uncontrollable filth all over her body, exuding a disgusting smell.
Two days later, in the gorgeous and solemn Cining Palace, there was a squeak of mice.
Those creepy things, out of some dark corner, crawled through every inch of her skin, and finally the tiny, sharp teeth pierced through her flesh.
Someone in the harem seemed to hear a faint cry somewhere, but when they listened closely, they couldn't hear it again.
So another gust of wind blew in the harem, and everyone said that the palace was haunted.
Who has Wei Wan knows that there has been no news from Concubine Shu's side for many days.
It was the emperor who did it to her, right?
If Concubine Shu died like this, then on the side of the Qin Palace, would the emperor also have an explanation?
From that day on, the emperor had a high fever intermittently for several days.
"Cheng Huan...... I'm sorry...... I'm not a human, I'm a beast, I'm a beast, but I really didn't know ......."
When he was in a daze, the emperor completely regarded Wei Wan as Xu Chenghuan, with tears in his eyes, and kept saying apologetic words.
Wei Wan pondered in her heart for a while, what kind of things does a person have to do in order to be worthy of such words as beasts and beasts?
But although she didn't know the inside story, she guessed that the emperor's words must involve a big secret.
The secrets of this world, the less you know, the better, Wei Wan suppressed her curiosity and didn't ask any further.
Sure enough, after the emperor's high fever faded and he came to his senses, he tried her several times openly and secretly.
It wasn't until he was sure that she didn't know anything that the gloom in his eyes disappeared, and he turned his mind to deal with the government.
For several days, news of the Qin army's attack on the city came frequently.
Jizhou has completely fallen.
Originally, the emperor and ministers also expected Yongzhou to resist for a few more days, but Zhao Wenting, the prefect of Yongzhou, closed the city on the grounds that Yongzhou did not have strong troops to defend it, and did not fight Zhao Wenbai.
When the emperor remembered that Zhao Wenbai was Zhao Wenting's younger brother and ordered someone to arrest the Zhao clan, he found that the Zhao family had long since disappeared.
Zhao Wenbai successfully returned to the camp of the Qin army, and the Qin army reorganized its troops and horses and rushed all the way to the capital.
The mighty general Zhang Junguang could only take the half of the Jingwei men that the emperor could mobilize and go out of Beijing to meet the battle.
When the two armies confronted each other at the foot of Yanshan Mountain outside the capital, Zhang Junguang secretly measured his soldiers and horses with those of the Qin army, and did not dare to go to war directly, but ordered people to go to sue for peace.
The one who came to be the envoy was Fang Handong, the prime minister and the secretary of the Ministry of Rites.
He didn't want to take on this errand, but when he looked at the court, there was no one willing to do it.
The emperor asked him to come, but he did not dare not come.
Here Xiao Shaotang did not come forward in person at all, only Mr. Yuan came out to negotiate with him.
Fang Handong looked down on Mr. Yuan, who was born in a person, and felt that this was the contempt and humiliation of Qin Wangfu.
But at this point, he could only negotiate with Mr. Yuan.
"It was born from the same root, why is it too anxious to fry each other, King Qin and Emperor Xian are compatriots of the same mother, His Royal Highness the Prince is now approaching the capital, aren't you afraid that Emperor Xiaozong and Empress Dowager Xiaoxian will blame you and other rebels in the spirit of the sky?"
Mr. Yuan smiled faintly and said:
"No blame, that's the matter of Emperor Xiaozong and Empress Dowager Xiaoxian. If Lord Fang is here for peace talks today, then don't say such ignorant words, otherwise His Royal Highness the Prince of the World will definitely be happy to send Lord Fang to the underground and personally ask Emperor Xiaozong what he means. ”
This kind of murderous words instantly made Fang Handong shut up.
Mr. Yuan then went on to say:
"I heard that the emperor wanted to hand over the culprit of the year to His Royal Highness the prince, but we didn't see the emperor's sincerity. Lord Fang came, but brought the culprit with him?"
Fang Handong was originally still annoyed, but when he heard this, he couldn't help but be secretly happy, and asked this when he opened his mouth, could it be that the Qin Wangfu also wanted to talk about peace?
"As long as the Qin Wangfu is willing to negotiate peacefully, everything is easy to say!"
Fang Handong agreed.
He even made a calculation in his heart, as long as he could keep everything at present, even if he really made King Qin a regent or something in the future, it would be very cost-effective!