Chapter 143: Died in the Cold Palace

The Queen Mother thought that as long as she came forward, she would be able to easily help the queen get rid of her guilt as she did in the imperial study.

But she was negligent, this time there was no replacement of the Yang family, and the matter involved the most regrettable thing in Emperor Jin Ming's life, even if it was her, she couldn't extinguish Emperor Jin Ming's anger.

Therefore, when he suddenly heard the word 'abolished queen' uttered by Emperor Jin Ming without hesitation, not only everyone was shocked, but the queen mother was also stunned.

"The emperor thinks twice!!"

Without thinking about it, the Queen Mother had already opened her mouth sharply, looked at Emperor Jin Ming with an angry face in shock, and walked towards Emperor Jin Ming step by step, and said incredibly: "The emperor just relied on what a few of them said, and rashly convicted the queen, not to mention, let alone abolish the throne so easily?" The emperor knows that the matter of the abolition of the queen is related to the Dajin Society, how can it be child's play!? ”

Emperor Jin Ming was unusually resolute this time, and said hatefully: "She has a vicious mind and has done all the bad things, how can such a person be the queen of the world, how can she be an example for women in the world?" If it weren't for the reputation of the royal family, I hated to throw her into Dali Temple and let her be judged in front of the world! ”

And when Empress Chen heard Emperor Jin Ming say the words 'abolished queen', her face was like ashes, her blood-stained body trembled, she couldn't kneel steadily, and she collapsed to the ground like mud.

I can't even say anything to beg for mercy.

And now when she heard that Emperor Jin Ming was going to send her to Dali Temple, her whole body trembled violently, her eyes were silent and she looked at Emperor Jin Ming with an angry face, and shouted hoarsely as if she was dying: "Your Majesty, even if the concubine did something sorry for Wu Ning when she was obsessed with ghosts, but the concubine is not guilty...... The concubine has been the queen of the Great Jin Dynasty for 20 years, and she is raising the prince for the emperor, how can the emperor abolish the identity of the concubine because of an old matter, and the concubine is not satisfied......"

As soon as Empress Chen's voice fell, the Queen Mother also spoke: "The Empress is reasonable. Even if she did something wrong back then, she only let Wu Ning ruin her appearance, and it didn't harm her life. And this cheap slave kept saying that it was the queen and the Yang family who killed Princess Wuning, but that day the Yang family had personally admitted that she was the one who killed Wu Ning, and it was none of the queen's business, how could you just use one mouth to add crimes to the queen at will - do you know what a big crime it is to slander the queen?! ”

The Queen Mother's words were sonorous and full of deterrence, obviously forcing Aunt Pian and Red Sleeves and others not to speak again.

Then, she set her eyes on Shui Qingqing again.

"The county lord said that the queen gave you dementia medicine to cause you dementia, but now you have nothing to do, and you can still come up with such a good plan to stir up the situation in the harem, so that the entire harem will not be able to live in peace - dare to ask, is this what you call dementia?"

"And the matter of the Wang family is a fact, even if the queen and the Yang family find the Wang family and expose your old affairs, it is not guilty."

"Therefore, the emperor's sentence is too heavy, and it is too unfair to the queen - not to mention that the emperor has ruined the queen's appearance with his own hands, and it can be regarded as seeking justice for the princess Wuning, so the mourning family did not agree to the abolition of the queen, and asked the emperor to take back his life!"

The Queen Mother said with a strong attitude that she could not be abolished, and the 'reasons' she said were even more irrefutable, or dare not refute.

Shui Qingqing silently listened to the Queen Mother erase Empress Chen's charges lightly, her heart was cold, and her face was even more frosty.

And Emperor Jin Ming listened to the words of the Queen Mother, and was even more angry, pointing at Empress Chen, who had eased her face again, and said coldly: "The Queen Mother once warned me to establish a virtuous person, but she is such a vicious person, just because she designed to frame Wu Ning for 20 years, it is an unforgivable crime." Not to mention what she's done later—"

"Although Wu Ning's death was not directly caused by her, it was also her who threatened the Yang family and instructed the Yang family, so the tragedy of Wu Ning's tragic death occurred!"

And in order to repentance of the promise of the year, this poisonous woman framed Guan Qing several times. Guan Qing didn't wronged her about dementia, I read the prescription she asked Wang Zhongren to prescribe, which not only contained drugs that made people stupid, but also A Furong who made people die of drug addiction - all grievances aside, Guan Qing is your niece, even if you don't want her to be the crown princess, you don't have to be so vicious to her! You're the most vicious and disgusting woman I've ever seen, and I don't want to see you again! ”

Emperor Jin Ming's words annihilated Empress Chen's relieved heart again, and the last sentence was like a sharp dagger, stabbing into Empress Chen's heart, making her feel painful and even more collapsed.

"Does the emperor know...... Why should the concubines be so vicious to their mother and daughter? ”

Empress Chen, who was deeply stung by Emperor Jin Ming's sentence 'I don't want to see you again', could no longer care about defending herself and shouting guilt, nor did she care about the pain of the cut on her face, tears rolled down, dripping into the wound, piercing the heart.

"The concubines know that even if the emperor has married countless concubines and concubines in the harem in the past twenty years, the emperor has always remembered Wu Ning in his heart, because she has always been the apricot blossom fairy in your heart that will never be forgotten......"

"The emperor is the best at Danqing, but for so many years, the emperor has never painted a portrait of the concubines and the concubines of the harem...... Even if she disfigured her appearance and became an ugly monster, the emperor still treasured her portrait...... These, how can you make your concubines not hate?! ”

"The concubine has been confident all her life, from childhood to adulthood, she has never felt that she has lost to Wu Ning or anything, but she has lost to you, the emperor. So the concubine didn't want to see her face again, and she didn't want to see her daughter with the same face as her become the concubine's daughter-in-law...... The concubine doesn't want to see this face, the concubine hates this face...... Why, after 20 years, does this face still bother me and make me uncomfortable......"

The resentment that Queen Chen had suppressed in her heart for many years was finally exposed at this moment, and her eyes were scarlet and terrifying, staring at Shui Qingqing, and the description seemed to be about to devour her alive.

She pointed at Shui Qingqing viciously, gritted her teeth and said, "I really hate this face, I get angry when I see it...... But what can I do if the concubine doesn't like it, the emperor likes it...... The emperor is so good to her, better than his own princesses, isn't it because of her face? ”

"The emperor will obey her words, and even give her the precious dragon Jue that is close to her - Your Majesty, don't you treat her as Wu Ning, and want to fulfill the regretful long-cherished wish in your heart? It's ridiculous, hahahaha......"

Speaking of the back, Empress Chen was already crazy, crying and laughing, and even mocking Emperor Jin Ming without a word. There were blood and tears in his eyes, and the shocking scars on his face, which were as terrifying as ghosts.

And what she said was even more terrifying, she actually said the rumors that had been circulating in the palace in public without fear, and suddenly, the atmosphere in the entire hall froze, and everyone was worried and didn't dare to come out.

Emperor Jin Ming's face was blue and ugly, and his eyes were even colder.

After a while, he said coldly: "It turns out that the recent rumors in the palace came from you - you have a dark mind and viciousness, you have done all the bad things but you don't repent, and you still find all kinds of reasons for yourself, don't say that you are the queen, you don't even have the qualifications to be a human being." ”

At this time, Emperor Jin Ming's eyes looking at Empress Chen were not only with deep disgust, but also like a dead person, cold and frozen!

Empress Chen's whole body was shocked, and she realized that she was crazy for a while, but she exposed the rumors.

And what a great crime it is to spread rumors and slander the emperor, Empress Chen will not know it......

She collapsed to the ground with a cold body, her eyes were dead silent, and her lips were moving with difficulty, trying to defend herself.

But before she could speak, Emperor Jin Ming had turned his eyes to the Queen Mother, and said coldly: "As the queen, she is an example in the harem, but she spreads rumors in the palace and smears the innocence and reputation of me and the county lord at will, so does the queen mother still feel that she is innocent and wants to continue to protect her?" ”

Facing Emperor Jin Ming's fierce questioning, and then looking at Empress Chen's crazy appearance of losing her mind and not choosing her words, at this time, even the Queen Mother didn't dare to speak for her anymore.

At this time, there were palace people outside, saying that Li Xuan, the fourth highness, had brought Wang Zhongren into the palace to confess his guilt.

Hearing that Wang Zhongren confessed, Queen Chen's face was even more dead, and her eyes were shocked and she watched Wang Zhongren, who was dressed in prison clothes, being escorted into the main hall.

Empress Chen originally discussed with the crown prince, and before Wang Zhongren confessed, she went to the death row of Dali Temple to kill him, but she didn't expect that without waiting for the prince to make a move, Wang Zhongren confessed in just one night.

It turned out that Mei Zijin had already expected that Wang Zhongren would rather sacrifice himself than dare to confess to the queen, so he arrested Wang Ruokang, Wang Zhongren's only son, who regarded him as his life, early.

Wang Zhongren was nearly fifty years old before he had such a precious son, and he was so pampered that he couldn't do it.

And the spoiled Wang Ruokang, who is not good at a young age, but he is proficient in eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling, and at the age of fifteen or sixteen, he has spent a lot of money to hold prostitutes in the most famous Mianxianglou in the capital and win the oiran. is even more fighting, rampant and domineering in the capital, bullying men and women, acting lawlessly, and spending extravagantly and extravagantly.

Especially in the past six months, he has been even more generous, lingering in casinos, and even daring to fight the idea of the show girl who was selected to enter the palace, simply ignoring the king's law......

Mei Zijin had also heard about Wang Ruokang's rumors before, but he had never dealt with such a person, and he would not bother with him.

But since knowing Shui Qingqing's plan, Mei Zijin started from Wang Ruokang and restrained Wang Zhongren.

After Wang Ruokang was caught by Mei Zijin, he was imprisoned in the water prison of Dali Temple.

And Wang Ruokang drowned in the pool in the garden at home when he was very young, and he was very afraid of water since then, so Wang Ruokang, who was locked in a water prison all day, was worse than dead, and kept shouting for help and asked his father Wang Zhongren to save him out.

But Mei Zijin found out all the things that Wang Ruokang had committed over the years, and the piles were enough to kill Wang Ruokang!

After Wang Zhongren was imprisoned, Mei Zijin did not shy away from telling him that as long as he confessed to Empress Chen's framing of Shui Qingqing and confessed that Empress Chen was bribed by her, he would release Wang Ruokang and erase all the criminal files for him to save his life.

In fact, it stands to reason that Wang Zhongren has been imprisoned, and it is a matter of time before he confesses, and there is no need for Mei Zijin to trade Wang Ruokang's affairs with him.

But Mei Zijin was afraid that Shui Qingqing, who was in the palace, would be endangered by the queen and the crown prince, so he proposed such a deal with Wang Zhongren overnight, so that Wang Zhongren could confess his guilt as soon as possible and the queen would be punished as soon as possible.

In this way, Shui Qingqing will be able to leave the palace safely as soon as possible......

With such conditions, Wang Zhongren, who knew that he was dead, of course couldn't ask for it, so he didn't hesitate to respond.

And everything that happened in Chuxiu Palace last night, Mei Zijin paid close attention, knowing that after Empress Chen's framing of Princess Wuning was exposed, as soon as the palace door was opened, he immediately let the fourth prince Li Xuan enter the palace with Wang Zhongren, who confessed his guilt......

The arrival of Wang Zhongren made Queen Chen fall into the cold abyss.

came with Wang Zhongren, as well as Sheng Fang, who was coerced by Empress Chen to drug Shui Qingqing.

Li Xuan presented Wang Zhongren's confession to Emperor Jin Ming, and after Emperor Jin Ming read it, he was so angry that he couldn't speak for a long time.

Emperor Ming of Jin threw the confession to Wu Yong and asked Wu Yong to read it out on the spot.

In Wang Zhongren's indictment, he clearly confessed how he was ordered by the queen to give Shui Qingqing the medicine for dementia and the poison of A Furong, and even Empress Chen's promise to buy his Tai Hospital, as well as the huge amount of silver tickets that bribed the queen, were all completely confessed in 1510.

Before Sheng Fang entered the palace to identify Empress Chen, he was still worried about Sheng Yu's safety, but Mei Zijin told him that Shui Qingqing and Concubine Xian would protect her safety and would not let her have an accident.

Now seeing Sheng Yu who stayed on the side and was safe, the big stone that Sheng Fang was pressing in his heart was completely put down, and Sheng Fang, who had been threatened by Queen Chen for so long, also took the initiative to recruit Empress Chen to use Sheng Yu to threaten herself to frame Shui Qingqing.

Moreover, Sheng Fang also brought the medicine residues that he had been carefully storing that made Shui Qingqing lose his mind.

Among them, A Furong has long been banned by the Great Jin Dynasty, but Queen Chen openly used it to harm people......

At this time, Empress Chen really became the target of public criticism, and no one came forward to speak for her, even the Queen Mother, who was full of confidence to save her, was silent at this time......

Li Xuan, the fourth prince, respectfully said to Emperor Jin Ming: "Father, after Wang Zhongren confessed his guilt, his retainers let people seize the entry and exit accounts that the Tai Hospital took over from him, which matched his own confession - now, only need to find the silver taels he bribed Empress Chen, and everything will be revealed." ”

Emperor Jin Ming looked at Empress Chen with a dead face with a dead face, and said coldly: "You tell me honestly, where did you put the silver taels that Wang Zhongren gave you?" ”

Empress Chen sneered and said frantically: "This palace has never received the silver of this old horseman. The queen of this palace, how could she care about such a mundane thing?! All of this is because you are joining forces to frame me, this palace is wronged, and this palace is not ......convinced."

Seeing that Empress Chen was still dead at this time, Emperor Jin Ming was furious, and said sharply with a wave of his big hand: "Search for me, even if you dig the entire Chuxiu Palace three feet into the ground, you have to find out the dirty things she took bribes!" ”

Li Xuan received the order and personally led the palace people to start searching the palace.

However, after a pillar of incense, Li Xuan led people to search the entire Chuxiu Palace, but he never found the silver ticket that Wang Zhongren said.

Seeing this, Empress Chen shouted more and more about her grievances, and kept shouting that it was Shui Qingqing who harmed her with Concubine Xian and the four princes, just to seize the heir......

She is doing a dispute between fish and death - even if she wants to subdue to the law, be abolished, or even be executed, she will also pull the virtuous concubine and the four princes on their backs, so that there is a prince who can keep her son.

Desperate and scared in her heart, she shed blood and tears, but on her face, Queen Chen did not show weakness at all, gritted her teeth and got up from the ground, her scarlet eyes swept over everyone around her one by one, and finally fell on Shui Qingqing, but the corners of her mouth hooked up the most vicious sneer.

"Aren't you just trying to get justice for your mother? But what about justice, even her bones have been eaten by insects and ants...... This palace has been beautiful for decades, but what about her, she has been disgusted for decades, she can't even protect her daughter, she is useless, and even her daughter suffers...... Therefore, Bengong does not envy her, Bengong will always be stronger than her! ”

Listening to Empress Chen's vicious words, Shui Qingqing didn't pay attention, she squatted down beside Red Sleeves and asked her: "Red Sleeves, you tell everyone, where did she hide the bribe silver ticket that Queen Chen received - if you tell the emperor, the emperor will punish her heavily, and it can be regarded as paying for your life!" ”

The wound on the waist of the red sleeves was a fatal wound, and although it did not kill her immediately, it also left her dying, and she only had her last breath left.

worked hard for Queen Chen for several or twenty years, but was finally killed by Queen Chen, at this moment, Red Sleeves hated her in her heart, so when she heard Shui Qingqing's words, when she was dying, she opened her dead eyes with great difficulty, raised her hand tremblingly, pointed to Queen Chen's bedroom, and said in a trembling voice: "Silver ticket...... Silver ticket, the queen let me hide in her bedside pedals...... Pry open the mahogany board on it and you can see ......"

Although the voice of the red sleeves was very soft, everyone still heard it, so the fourth prince Li Xuan immediately led people to Empress Chen's bedroom without saying a word.

Empress Chen always thought that Red Sleeves was dead, because not long after entering the hall, she was lying there with her eyes closed, and the whole person was lifeless, and there was no doubt about the dead.

That's why Empress Chen is so rampant, because except for the red sleeves, she is the only one who knows where the silver ticket is.

But she didn't expect that the red sleeves were hit by so many scissors and didn't die, and they still had a breath, so she suddenly rushed forward in anger, slapped the red sleeves when she was dying, and cursed: "Why aren't you dead!" Why did you betray me?! This palace will not let you go, and ghosts will not let you go......"

Everyone was frightened by Empress Chen's crazy behavior, and when Concubine Xian came back to her senses and ordered the palace people to pull Queen Chen, Red Sleeves also died of anger......

And the fourth prince Li Xuan led people to quickly find the pedal that Red Sleeves said, and pried open the board on it, and in the mezzanine inside, there were stacks of silver tickets, roughly converted, a full 300,000 taels of silver......

In this way, the bribes and dirty money confessed by Wang Zhongren were found from Empress Chen's bedroom, and the amount was also consistent with Wang Zhongren's confession, and Empress Chen was speechless even if she was cunning.

At this point, Empress Chen's crimes were also exposed one by one, and she was escorted to kneel under the hall to listen to Emperor Jinming's final disposition.

Thinking of what she had said to Empress Chen before, the Queen Mother's face was stunned, if she didn't care about whether the queen's matter would implicate Li You's crown prince, I was afraid that the Queen Mother would have left Chuxiu Palace and returned to Cining Palace under the pretext that she was unwell.

Before Emperor Jin Ming spoke, he looked at the Queen Mother with majestic eyes, and said coldly: "In this way, the Chen family designed to harm people, killed the personal palace maid with his own hands, and also drugged and harmed people, and even accepted bribes and spread rumors of a bad reputation in the harem...... Pile by pile, the evidence is conclusive, can the queen mother still think that the Chen family was wronged? ! ”

With a hot face, the Queen Mother stabilized her mind, and said with a look of regret: "The mourning family helped the queen speak before, but she was blinded by her, and I really didn't expect her to be such a person......"

"Now, since the evidence is conclusive, the Son of Heaven is still guilty of the same crime as the common people. She is the queen of the Great Jin Dynasty, and she should be severely punished to set an example to the world, and also deter the concubines in the harem, so that they can keep their lives in peace and stop doing nonsense! ”

Speaking of this, the queen mother paused, hesitated for a moment and then said in a deep voice: "But the mourning family has heard so much, and the prince has not participated in all the things that the queen has committed, so no matter how the mourning family wants to deal with the queen, the mourning family has only one request, hoping that the emperor can talk about things and not anger the prince - if the queen has an accident, the court will fluctuate, if the prince has an accident at this time, I am afraid that it will be a crisis to the court!" So please think twice! ”

The meaning of the Queen Mother's words is very clear, that is, the emperor can dispose of the queen at will, but the crown prince cannot be shaken.

Since hearing Shui Qingqing say that the crown prince Li You chased and killed her and forced her to flee the capital, but he lied that she eloped with the guards, Emperor Jin Ming did not have much affection for the crown prince Li You.

But I have to say that the Queen Mother's concerns are right, if something happens in the Middle Palace and the East Palace at the same time, I am afraid that it will cause a shock to the government and the opposition, and it will also cause changes in the current situation, which is not a good thing for the entire Great Jin.

However, when I thought of the crown prince Li You and the queen having the same virtue, they lied and were equally ruthless.

Moreover, such a big thing happened in Chuxiu Palace today, and the prince never appeared from beginning to end, obviously because he was afraid that the queen's matter would involve him, so it was enough to see that he was also a ruthless and selfish person who only cared about himself.

How can such a person be enough to become the future emperor of the Great Jin Dynasty?!

Emperor Jin Ming had a plan to abolish the reserve in his heart, but after thinking of what the Queen Mother said, he was embarrassed again, and couldn't help but ponder and didn't speak for a long time.

Seeing Emperor Jin Ming's silent appearance, Empress Chen panicked, for fear that Emperor Jin Ming would abolish her son's crown prince, so she couldn't help crying to Emperor Jin Ming: "Your Majesty, as the Queen Mother said, everything is done by the concubine alone, and it has nothing to do with the prince...... The prince has a pure temperament, and he also regarded Wu Ning as a mother before, and begged the emperor not to implicate the matter of concubines on You'er...... The crown prince is innocent, please don't be angry with him......"

From last night to now, in the process of interrogating Empress Chen's case, Emperor Jin Ming has been exhausted.

He sat on the main seat, looked at Empress Chen who was kneeling down coldly, and after a moment of silence, he waved his hand weakly and said: "Queen Chen's mind is vicious, careless of human life, accepting bribes and causing trouble in the palace, ordering the abolition of the queen's position, demoting to a concubine, and entering the cold palace - give Bai Ling!" ”

Hearing Emperor Jin Ming's disposition, Empress Chen smiled miserably, tears rolled down with blood, bowed down under the hall, and said in a trembling voice to Emperor Jin Ming: "Thank you...... Longne! ”

After a night's trouble, the dust finally settled on Queen Chen's case......

At sunset in the evening, Chen Shuren was hanged to death in the cold palace......