Chapter 69: The Ending
Lin Hongyi soon returned from the palace, and Lin Xiuyuan was not demoted to a concubine, but was made a prince.
In doing so, the emperor clearly did not intend to pass on the throne to him.
The emperor may be ruthless and ruthless, but he has his own thoughts in his heart, Lin Hongyi and Lin Xiuyuan are both his sons, and now Lin Xiuyuan intends to kill each other, of course he can't allow this kind of thing to happen.
After being made a prince, Lin Xiuyuan was expelled from the capital and took his family to his own fiefdom.
Although Lin Hongyi's fief is more prosperous than Lin Hongyi, and it is slightly closer to the capital, being expelled is being expelled, and without the emperor summoning him, he will never return to Beijing for no reason.
When this kind of thing happens, there is no one more proud than the queen.
But the queen soon suffered from the seedlings, and the emperor suddenly fell ill, and the imperial doctor judged that someone had poisoned him. Immediately, the eunuchs in the palace found a poison from the queen's bedroom, and the palace maid next to the queen admitted that the poison was caused by the queen.
The matter is of great importance and will be transferred to the Criminal Division for trial.
The palace maid who admitted to poisoning committed suicide by biting her tongue that night, and the matter became a headless case, although the queen was not abolished, she was placed under house arrest in the palace and was not allowed to go out, as if she had become a deposed queen.
The queen cursed Xu Shuhuai day and night, saying that all this was planned by him to frame him, and that she had never seen any poison, and that Xu Shuhuai was extremely insidious, good at Gu arts, and an ominous person.
The emperor ordered people to search the Qingyin Hall up and down, but he didn't find even the slightest trace of poison and Gu worms.
Not only that, but the Qingyin Hall is also full of phoenix grass, this grass can repel insects, and people who raise Gu will never plant it.
Xu Shuhuai said that he didn't know pharmacology, he was only good at the art of beauty, and he only used some flower dew and rouge cream on weekdays, and he didn't know what the poisons and Gu worms in the queen's mouth were.
The queen suffers from the lack of evidence, and she must not be guilty of Xu Shuhuai.
It didn't take long for Xu Shuhuai to leave the palace.
The imperial physician judged that he was terminally ill and could not live long, and after he left the palace, he settled in a quiet courtyard on the outskirts of the city, which was next to Sun Shitong's residence.
At that time, Sun Shitong had married into the general's mansion and became the general's wife.
She looks like a flower, but she never goes out to see people, and a celebrity lady comes to visit, and she also says that she is sick.
It didn't take long for the disease to become really sick - the cheeks began to fester, and one abscess after another grew.
Yan Chengque invited many doctors to come to her to diagnose and treat her, but they couldn't diagnose the reason.
As his face festered, Sun Shitong became more and more moody.
She often said crazy that she was a princess and the pearl of the emperor's palm, in order to avoid people's eyes, Yan Chengque had to sell the subordinates in the house, and invited some mutes and deaf people to serve Sun Shitong.
After Sun Shitong fell ill, Mrs. Yuan often secretly sent people to visit her at first, but later saw that she was completely crazy and her appearance was ruined, so she never came again.
The Yuan family soon became unable to protect themselves, because they were involved in several corruption cases one after another, all the direct collateral members who were officials in the court and the central government were dismissed, and the family was beheaded.
Before being beheaded, Xu Qingqing went to see Yuan.
The Yuan family said that she was so ruthless and vicious, and she could obviously ask Prince Hong to protect the Yuan family, but instead of asking for it, she added fuel to the fire.
Xu Qingqing asked Yuan why he wanted to kill Yulu, Yuan didn't understand what he meant, and asked who Yulu was - she had long forgotten that there was a maid named Yulu in this world.
Xu Qingqing realized that Yulu's death might have been done by others, and after returning home, she told Lin Hongyi about her guess, and happened to meet Xu Shuhuai, who came to visit Lin Hongyi.
Xu Shuhuai admitted that Yulu was killed by herself, and secretly ridiculed Xu Qingqing, she never wanted to be compared with herself in her life.
He cleared the obstacle of the dispute between the prince and the queen for Lin Hongyi, and was the biggest contributor to his ascension to the crown prince.
At the same time, news came from the palace that the queen was pregnant, so the queen was pardoned and released from the foot ban.
Lin Hongyi ordered Xu Shuhuai to swear not to attack the child in the queen's womb, Xu Shuhuai disobeyed, quietly pretended to be a eunuch and infiltrated the palace, intending to poison the queen with Gu, but was caught by the Imperial Forest Army, who had already taken precautions.
Although he killed several Yulin Feathers with Gu worms, he still failed to escape and was shot to death by random arrows at the Beigong Gate.
After Xu Shuhuai's death, the emperor pursued Lin Hongyi and determined that he must have instigated the incident.
In order to prove his innocence, Lin Hongyi was willing to be degraded to a concubine, and lived in seclusion in the mountains with Xu Qingqing.
The queen was frightened and had a miscarriage soon after.
The emperor is old, the heirs of the harem are thin, only two concubines gave birth to two princesses, and no prince has been born for several years.
Lin Huai'an is resourceful and capable of writing and martial arts, but he is not the emperor's biological bloodline, and he was also named a prince after a while.
Ten years have passed, the emperor ran out of oil and dried up, and he was sick in bed, and at this time Sun Shitong was also terminally ill, and before he died, he revealed his true identity to Yan Chengque.
Yan Chengque suddenly understood that Princess Hong was the real Xu Qingqing, and immediately chased into the mountains and forests to find Xu Qingqing's whereabouts.
Soon the emperor was critically ill, and Lin Huai'an took the opportunity to create a fake edict and named himself the crown prince.
At the same time, Yan Chengque found Xu Qingqing's whereabouts, Xu Qingqing and Lin Hongyi have raised a son and a daughter, and their lives are stable and happy.
Lin Huai'an usurped the throne and sent killers to get rid of Lin Hongyi and Lin Xiuyuan to prevent future troubles.
When the disciples of the Death Pavilion heard about this, they rushed to the mountains and forests where Lin Hongyi and Xu Qingqing lived, and killed all the assassins.
Lin Huai'an was furious and sent troops to arrest Lin Hongyi, saying that he was a chaotic minister and thief with wolf ambitions.
Yan Chengque held a talisman in his hand, ordered soldiers and horses to come to reinforcements, stopped the royal forest army sent by Lin Huai'an outside the mountains and forests, and returned to Lin Hongyi under the persuasion of Xu Qingqing.
Lin Hongyi led a large army to attack the capital, and after breaking through the city, Lin Huai'an knew that he was invincible and died of drinking.
Lin Xiuyuan hurried back to the capital, but was killed in the carriage by the killers sent by Lin Huai'an.
Lin Hongyi ascended the throne, named Yan Chengque as the general who protected the country, and announced Xu Qingqing's true identity to the world, and buried his mother Concubine Xu and the loyal maid Yulu.
Although the ministers strongly objected, Lin Hongyi still named Xu Qingqing as the queen and did not accept another concubine.
Xu Qingqing gave birth to two sons and a daughter for Lin Hongyi one after another, she was the queen for many years, only a few concubines lived in the harem, and there were no other concubines, and the lives of several concubines in the harem were very lonely, and they loved the heirs she gave birth to, and there was never any poisoning of the imperial heirs.
A few years later, Yan Chengque asked himself to leave the capital and go to Rongjiang, and Lin Hongyi agreed.
Lin Hongyi reigned for 12 years, passed the throne to his eldest son Lin Ziji, who grew up, and then took the queen Xu Qingqing to disappear.
It is rumored that he and Xu Qingqing still live in the deep mountains, and it is also rumored that the two of them have traveled all over the world, the north and south of the country, and their love has not diminished.