Chapter 197: The Truth
The emperor looked at the talisman in Pei Yuan's hand in disbelief, he was still secretly happy when General Shi asked to stay at the border, thinking that Pei Yuan had lost a big help, but he forgot Shi Xiangjie's little rabbit cub.
"You...... You are going to rebel with Shi Xiangjie! Pei Yuan, you are really bold. The emperor pointed at Pei Yuan and roared.
Pei Yuan looked at him coldly, and when he saw that he was about to pounce and resist, he immediately reached out and tapped on each of his shoulders, and the emperor stopped in place in a very strange posture, and a leader next to him immediately carried him to a chair next to him and sat down.
"You should be familiar with this!" Pei Yuan presented the book of succession brought out from the palace in front of the emperor's eyes, "You should have put a lot of effort into imitating a fake and real book of succession, but your hard work was not in vain, in the end, it was enough for you to be the emperor for so many years!" β
The bright yellow scroll almost burned the emperor's eyes, and Pei Yuan's name on it reminded him that the emperor's favorite was always Pei Yuan and his mother, he and the queen mother were exhausted, and Pei Yuan's mother was also framed to death, but the name of Pei Yuan was still written on the edict in the end.
He guessed it, and the Queen Mother also guessed it at the beginning, so they went to the palace that the emperor loved the most and turned everything inside upside down.
But except for the strange place in the study, they didn't find anything, it was the portrait of Pei Yuan's mother, he guessed that there must be some secret hidden in the back mechanism, but he couldn't open the mechanism with all his might.
The first emperor didn't say where the edict was placed when he died, it didn't matter if he didn't have the edict, because no one else had it, and he still had the queen mother behind him.
The Empress Dowager soon came up with him to make a fake edict of succession, and this matter did not arouse anyone's suspicion, and he sat on the dragon chair in a grand manner.
But in the end, he was still afraid, in the middle of the night dream, he always felt that someone would find the secret left by the emperor in that palace, and he became more and more disdainful of the existence of that palace, but it was the emperor's favorite place, and he had no way to destroy and rebuild, so he could only slowly abandon him there.
But he didn't expect that Pei Yuan would go there, not only to the palace, but also to southern Xinjiang, and all the conspiracies were dried in the sun, so that everything could no longer be hidden.
"It's me who loses, the winner is the king, the loser is the villain, if you want to kill, you have to listen to the respect." The emperor looked at Pei Yuandao coldly.
Pei Yuan put away the scroll and looked at him expressionlessly: "There is no such win or loss between me and you, and I have never wanted to replace you, everything is your own fault, and you have gone too far." β
The emperor knew that he was talking about Shen Xiang and the four princes, so he snorted: "If I didn't harm the four princes back then, don't say that I can't sit in this position, even if you can't get this edict to threaten me today, as for Shen Qing's family, hehe, everything he suffered is because of you, you said that your power has become bigger, can I still watch you have a father-in-law who is the head of a hundred officials?" It's just too naΓ―ve, since you chose Shen Jiahe, you have already been causing trouble to the Shen family. β
"Believe it or not, I'm not interested in this throne!" Pei Yuan didn't want to say more, and after glancing at him, he asked the leader behind him, "How is the queen there?" β
"Chief Xu has already brought people over, and he will definitely bring them soon."
The queen originally planned to send someone to ask about the situation of Shen Xiang's family, but unexpectedly, as soon as Mr. Xu walked out of Qiwu Palace, he was blocked back by Chief Xu and others.
Manager Xu pointed at them and shouted at a sharp voice: "You are so bold, do you know what kind of place this is?" This is the queen's palace, in fact, you can go wild at will. β
Chief Xu laughed: "I was worried that I was going the wrong way, but now I have to thank the public announcement to inform us that we are arresting the queen mother today, and someone is coming!" Let me into the temple. β
Manager Xu still wanted to go in to report inside, but Leader Xu had already tied up the person quickly, and pushed the person into the arms of a soldier next to him: "Plug my mouth." It's so fucking noisy. β
The movement outside had already been transmitted into the main hall, and the queen hurriedly walked out with Mama Xu: "What are you doing here?" Daring! The emperor will cut off the heads of you who don't know whether to live or die! β
Leader Xu and his subordinates all laughed, and one of the soldiers smiled at the queen: "The emperor will be unable to protect himself, the queen mother should go with us obediently, your thin skin and tender flesh can't withstand our hard pulling, if you tie it with a rope, maybe you will have to leave a mark on your body!" β
Leader Xu glared at the little soldier, turned his head and looked at the queen again: "The dragon chair is already going to be replaced, if the queen mother doesn't want to suffer, just follow us obediently, and we will send the queen mother to see the emperor." β
Pei Yuan asked Yuanyang to take people to look at the emperor, and he personally went to Jiuluan Palace to see the Queen Mother, although he didn't want to admit it, but the Queen Mother was his mother-in-law after all, Pei Yuan didn't want others to offend her out of respect, and he also didn't want to leave a tongue for others.
There was already a commotion outside, and the queen mother was still knocking on the wooden fish in her small Buddhist hall, and the grandmother next to her whispered and persuaded: "King Xian has led people to arrest the emperor and the queen, you can go out and have a look, or what you say, King Xian may listen to it." β
"Ugh." The Queen Mother sighed heavily and put down the things in her hand, "Those things others don't know, you don't know, King Xian won't let go of the mourning family." β
"But you are his mother-in-law, no matter what he thinks in his heart, if he really wants to sit in that position, he has to still serve you as the queen mother, right?" Mama still persevered.
It was the revenge of killing her mother, the queen mother smiled bitterly in her heart, she was really a mistake at the beginning, she didn't find the little things hidden under the bed, and when the emperor became wary of their mother and son, and wanted to get rid of Pei Yuan, there was no chance.
"The Queen Mother will not want to see this king, you must be here to pray to the Buddha and tell you that all this is just a nightmare." Pei Yuan stood outside the hall and heard the words of the master and servant, and ordered the others to wait outside, and came in alone.
The Queen Mother turned around and looked up at Pei Yuan, with the light on her back, and the expression on his face couldn't be seen clearly, but in a trance, she felt as if she had seen his mother concubine, and she was laughing at herself proudly.
She said in a deep voice: "You should thank me for not doing it back then and sparing your life." β
"Really?" Pei Yuan looked at her sarcastically, "It's because my father realized what you did in the harem and protected me, and you haven't been able to get it, and when your father is gone, you find that I have become a useless scholar without the protection of my father, so I have eliminated the desire to kill me." β
The Queen Mother looked at him, with a resentful light in her eyes: "Yes, it was our chess trick, but I didn't expect to make your little sheep grow into a wolf cub!" β
She stood up and took two steps towards Pei Yuan: "Do you hate me?" But I also hate you and your mother, obviously they are both palace concubines, obviously they are all princes, but the emperor is different from others to you and your mother. As a woman, as a woman as an emperor, there is no woman who is not jealous. β
Pei Yuan looked at her and asked the question that had been pressed in his heart: "But she doesn't fight or grab, and she never deliberately competes for favor." β
"Yes," the Queen Mother's eyes flashed with golden light, "She is not fighting or grabbing, she is like a white lotus in this harem, but the more she is like this, the more she can get the pity of the emperor, as long as she stands there, she can take away the emperor's attention, and her existence in this Nuoda's harem is a mistake." β
Pei Yuan only felt that the pain from his heart was slowly spreading through the blood to his whole body, and he had to use all his strength to suppress the urge to strangle the person in front of him, "That's why you killed her." β
"There are too many, there are too many reasons to want to kill your mother, and the matter of the fourth prince is a trigger, so we have to do it." The Queen Mother sat back on the futon, "Do whatever you want, whether it's avenging your mother or the four princes." β
Pei Yuan's clenched fingers gradually loosened, and he glanced sideways at the sunlight outside, only to feel that he was not in the shadows: "If you can tell those crimes in public and confess in public, I will leave you to continue to enjoy this glory and wealth, don't forget, if you die, there is also the crown prince Pei Shu, and your son and daughter-in-law, you think about it yourself!" β
After speaking, Pei Yuan didn't stay any longer, and walked straight outside, only instructing the guards on both sides of the door: "If the Queen Mother makes a decision, you will send people to the main hall, and this king will wait there." β
Mama stayed by the queen mother's side and persuaded: "You just don't think about yourself, you have to think about the prince, there is hope in life, isn't it?" β
The Queen Mother suddenly covered her face and cried, and Mama sat aside and patted her back: "Cry, just cry, these things have pressed you for so many years, and being able to say it is also a relief for yourself!" β
At the end of the meal, Shi Xiangjie estimated that Pei Yuan had already settled the affairs in the palace, so he returned to the court with the officials, looking at Pei Yuan standing under the dragon chair, and the group didn't know whether to call the emperor or the prince, so they had to be silent with each other without making a sound, as for the emperor who was sitting on the side, they had automatically ignored it.
A guard trotted into the hall and whispered in Pei Yuan's ear: "The Queen Mother is here." β
Pei Yuan nodded, the choice made by the Queen Mother was within his expectations, and he was not surprised at all, so he took out the previous edict and said to the hundred officials: "The first emperor once left the edict of succession to this king, but it is a pity that the first emperor left in a hurry, which led to someone plotting against him and forging the edict. β
"No need!" As soon as Pei Yuan's words fell, the voice of the Queen Mother came from behind everyone, the hundred officials were divided into two columns, and the Queen Mother slowly walked out from behind everyone, she looked at Pei Yuan, as if she was looking at her failed life, and her heart was so disgusted that she could only quickly put her eyes away.
"It was indeed the mourning family who instructed the emperor to make a fake edict, we have stolen the throne of King Xian for many years, and now it is time to return it to him." As soon as these words came out, there was an uproar, and the adults who questioned Pei Yuan before, now they are only surprised, and afterwards, the Queen Mother confessed to framing the four princes and Pei Yuan's biological mother, and everything is revealed in today's court.
"The mourning family has done such a rebellious thing, and the mourning family is willing to bear any punishment, but the prince is young and never knows about these things, and please don't hurt innocent people by mistake." After speaking, the Queen Mother finally looked at Pei Yuan, she was willing to come here to confess her guilt to the hundred officials, but Pei Yuan promised her that she should also promise her in front of the hundred officials.
Pei Yuan only felt sneered at her careful thoughts, but still replied: "This is natural, please rest assured that the Queen Mother will be handed over to Dali Temple to deal with impartially, and this king will never show favoritism." β
The queen mother said everything, and the emperor also knew that it was useless to struggle, so he immediately confessed to framing Pei Yuan twice before with the queen, and then took the initiative to give the jade seal.