Chapter 437: Royal Secrets
Xiangping, who was following King Yongchang and silently helping Concubine Liang to walk towards the secret road, heard Emperor Ming call her name.
Immediately, I saw that Xiangping's body was obviously stiff, but the next moment she was not like Zhou Xianchen, because she was about to say goodbye to her biological father, Emperor Tianren, and cried tears.
On the other hand, Xiangping not only lowered his head, but his eyes flashed with resentment.
It seems that Emperor Ming, who is lying on the sickbed, is not her father's father, whose blood is thicker than water, but an enemy who is not in the same sky as her.
And when he saw Xiangping's actions and reactions, Emperor Ming couldn't help but be disappointed, and at the same time, he also sighed long.
"Xiang'er, it seems that you are indeed still not relieved, for Mo Linzhi's matter, my father knows that it is difficult for you to accept. But as a royal princess, this is a pain you have to bear. In the emperor's house, the father has no choice, and the same is true for you, the child. Many sacrifices are often predestined from birth. ”
After all, she is the most cherished daughter who has been hurting for more than ten years, even if Emperor Ming feels that the fire in his chest is burning, but he still continues to say:
"Child, don't blame your father for being ruthless, if you are just the daughter of ordinary people, and I am not the king of the Great Zhou. In fact, my father is willing to respect your choice and will not interfere too much. But you are the princess of my royal family, and you are disconnected from the guards, which is to make the world suspicious and ridiculed. I can't call the ancestors of the royal family to shame because of my daughter. Whether you can figure it out in the future, or completely forgive your father, I still hope that Xiang'er can find a good monarch and live this life carefree. ”
This father's love is sometimes not good at expressing, but compared to Concubine Liang, Emperor Ming actually cares for Xiangping, and he is also a good and conscientious father regardless of his identity as an emperor.
But from Xiangping's point of view, Mo Linzhi is the person she loves with all her heart, and even because of the other party, she has an unstable emotional control, and she will immediately go crazy, and the root cause of the extremely brutal and wreaking havoc.
So don't look at Xiangping now, as if she is a normal person, in fact, Mo Linzhi's matter, she has a dead knot in her heart that cannot be untied.
Therefore, even if Emperor Ming's words made others feel moved, Xiangping's reaction was still indifferent.
And the good concubine on the side, although she was anxious in her heart, she knew the true situation of Xiangping's condition, and she didn't dare to force Xiangping too much.
The fear that the other party suddenly falls ill will only make the current tense situation even worse.
Just when everyone was still trying to persuade Xiangping to say a few words, so that Emperor Ming could do it, he wished, and this daughter opened each other's hearts in the last time.
But at this moment, Deng Chang, who was suddenly waiting outside, suddenly came in in a hurry, and then said urgingly:
"I said, Lord Wang, and Concubine Liang, why haven't you evacuated from the secret passage yet. The little eunuch who was sent by me around the temple can run back and return to the old slave. It is said that the queen mother is coming to His Majesty's bedroom, and it is obviously not good to come before and after, if you don't leave, it will really be too late. ”
Hearing this, everyone didn't care about persuading Xiangping to do anything, and immediately King Yongchang couldn't bear to glance at Emperor Ming, but in order to make more people safe, he still turned his heart sideways, and immediately left from the secret passage on the inside of the dormitory with Concubine Liang and others.
And Emperor Ming was quite worried, until he saw the figure of King Yongchang and his party completely disappear from view.
Immediately, his body was already extremely weak, but the emperor's qi still did not diminish in the slightest, and immediately instructed Deng Chang:
"You old thing, change my clothes once, change me into a dragon robe. This is probably the last meeting between our emperors and queens, and I have been fighting against her all my life, and I don't want to see her with this sick appearance. ”
Hearing Emperor Ming's words, Deng Chang couldn't help but quietly wipe his tears, and then according to Emperor Ming's request, he put on the dragon robe and dragon crown for the other party.
And it was almost Emperor Ming's side that he dressed up, got up and staggered in front of the desk in the hall.
Immediately afterwards, I could only hear the screams of the palace maids and eunuchs outside the dormitory.
And look at the doors and windows of the dormitory, the sword light and blood shadows continued, and the blood splashed all over the doors and windows with the screams, and when there was no sound outside, the door of the dormitory was slowly pushed open at this moment.
Then sat in the first place, knowing that the palace maids and eunuchs in their bedrooms were probably all killed by Emperor Ming.
I saw that Empress Xue was wearing a Jiufeng court uniform, surrounded by many forbidden troops, and walked in without fear and with a calm demeanor.
Seeing that as soon as Empress Xue came in, Deng Chang, who didn't know martial arts, still stopped in front of him very loyally, and immediately Emperor Ming motioned to the other party to retreat behind him, and said in a calm voice:
"The queen is not only wearing the Jiufeng court dress today, but also washed my palace in blood, it seems that your heart that is in turmoil is difficult to suppress after all. It's ridiculous that your Xue family's status today is all given by me. Even your position as queen was sent to you by me personally. But I never thought that I would raise a group of wolf-ambitious beasts in the end, which was really a big mistake for me. ”
As soon as he finished saying this, Emperor Ming couldn't help but stand up with his hands on the bookcase, although his every movement was strong, but the momentum of the superior cultivated over the years.
Still let his eyes be like torches, and he glanced at every forbidden army who was following Xue Hou with great deterrence and deterrence, and finally locked his eyes on Ji Lingfeng, who was holding a blood-dripping sword, and then said in a voice like ice:
"What a Jin Kewu champion, Ji Lingfeng, you really know how to judge the situation. At the beginning, I had already seen that you were a vicious person, so I shouldn't have let you be the commander of the city, but I should have put you, a rebel, to death. Now that you have been promoted to the governor of the forbidden army, sooner or later Xian Rui will kill all of you rebellious ministers and thieves, and I believe that day will not be too far away. ”
Hearing Emperor Ming's words, he knew that the emperor of the Great Zhou in front of him was actually about to become a dead man.
Without any scruples, and in order to show his determination to follow Empress Xue's mother and son, he saw that Ji Lingfeng said extremely presumptuously after a soft chuckle:
"Emperor Ming, now that the general trend is gone, don't hold any emperor's shelf. Now there are people inside and outside the Jingshi who are the queen's mother, as for the Rui King you value. The soldiers and horses of this cavalry battalion have already rushed to his mansion, and soon the Rui Wang's mansion will be completely bloodbathed, and there will be no chickens and dogs left. ”
Zhou Xianrui is the heir to the throne selected by Emperor Ming, and after hearing this, Empress Xue does not intend to let go of the other party after all.
Under the anxiety and worry, Emperor Ming's composure was difficult to maintain, and a mouthful of blood spurted out irrepressibly under the mixture of anger and anger.
Immediately, the books on the entire table were splashed, and all of them became bloodstained.
And then looked at Empress Xue, who was the wife of Emperor Ming, and watched indifferently as the other party sat back on the dragon chair, and then said without any fluctuations:
"Your body has weakened to such a point, it seems that even if the concubines don't come to send them to Your Majesty, I'm afraid you won't be able to last long. Ling Feng, you go out first, Zuo Wen stays immediately. The palace has something to say to His Majesty, so it is not suitable for too many people to be present. ”
Hearing this, Ji Lingfeng immediately bowed down and retreated, and when the door of the dormitory was closed, looking at Emperor Ming who couldn't help but panting, the corners of Xue Hou's mouth hooked up a sinister smile.
"Emperor Ming, it turns out that you also have today, you have been your queen for decades, and today is the happiest day in this palace. You have guarded me all my life, making me exhausted, but you have always guarded the position of queen. In your heart, except for the slut Huangfu Yingyue, I think there is no woman in the world who can enter your eyes. ”
heard the love of his life, and was called a slut in Empress Xue's mouth.
Emperor Ming, who was coughing up blood again and again, immediately angrily smashed all the scrolls on the table in the direction where Empress Xue was standing.
But now Emperor Ming really doesn't have any strength, so Xue Hou dodged slightly, and easily avoided the smashed books, and then she continued as if she was not enough:
"As soon as the late queen died, you welcomed me into the middle palace and placed on the throne of the queen. Your Majesty, do you know that Yi'er has really thought about raising eyebrows with you, assisting you to stabilize the country and society, and be a good queen who is conscientious. ”
Empress Xue's real name is Xue Yi, and when she moved into the harem, she was actually young and ignorant, and she also had a time of love and affection with Emperor Ming.
At that time, Emperor Ming privately called Empress Xue Yi'er, as if his thoughts had returned to that happy memory, and he could see that there was a trace of tenderness on Empress Xue's long-standing silent face.
But in the blink of an eye, this trace of tenderness was replaced by crazy hatred, what phoenixes, dignified and calm, Empress Xue discarded all of them at this moment.
Then I saw that her eyes were red, and she stretched out her hand to point to the emperor, and said in a voice trembling because she was too excited:
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, do you know that I, Xue Yi, really thought that you were sincere to me. But when I was pregnant with our child, because you had half of the Xue family's blood, in order to prevent my father, who was the prime minister, from interfering in politics and assisting this child to ascend the throne and become emperor. You brutally beat our children out, and then got the children of lowly concubines, and came to this palace to raise them in order to break my thoughts. You know how much I hate you, and from that moment on I hated you to die. ”
This royal family has always been the gathering place with the most secrets, and the matter that Empress Xue talked about, in fact, except for her and Emperor Ming, as well as Deng Chang Zuowen, the two emperor's henchmen, no one really knows about this past.
And the child that Empress Xue was referring to when she was forced to not stay was the only time she was pregnant.
As for the so-called second son Zhou Xiantai, he is just a prince born to a concubine in the harem back then, and he is not Empress Xue's biological child at all.
Empress Xue, who was not as decisive as she is now, will never forget how she knelt down and begged Emperor Ming, and swore that she would never let her child ascend the throne and be emperor.
But no matter how hard she begged, the result was that the child was forced to be killed, and she still had to pretend to be pregnant, and ten months later, she held a strange baby boy to accept the congratulations of the Manchu Dynasty.
And from that moment on, what kind of affection and innocence have nothing to do with the young Empress Xue, there is only endless hatred left in her heart, she just wants to destroy Emperor Ming and destroy the Great Zhou Jiangshan that the other party regards as life.