Chapter 028: Rushing to the face
After Mrs. Min finished saying that, crystal tears slipped from the corners of her eyes, and the whole person breathed a sigh of relief, as if the burden she had carried for many years was unloaded in an instant, making her extremely relaxed. .⒉3TT.
Yun Yao looked at this scene and guessed in her heart that Mrs. Min was not tormented or guilty in her heart, otherwise she would not have turned gray at the age of about forty.
Maybe Mrs. Min has already fallen in love with King Hao in the past few decades, but she doesn't have the courage to betray the Empress Dowager Qin, or she has some unavoidable hardships, or she is used to this kind of life of being controlled.
In short, she was suffering and guilty at the same time, but she still couldn't completely get rid of the identity of the fine work.
This is the biggest contradiction in her.
The hall was quiet, and only Madame Min's voice was telling the whole story. When the memories of the past came to his face, accompanied by those unknown truths, King Hao, a man who had always been majestic, suddenly seemed to be ten years old.
Among all the people present, only Haowang Shen Yan was a participant in the whole thing, and the others were just bystanders at best. Including Qi Shuning, she, a descendant, also has to make way for these deeply buried pasts.
It was more than twenty years ago that Mrs. Min married Shen Yan and became his concubine. At that time, the world was initially decided, and the Daning country was not stable, and the first emperor had not yet ascended the throne.
And Mrs. Min, it was at this time that she followed Shen Yan at that time.
Because Shen Yan is the eldest brother of the first emperor, and he is also the most likely person to compete with the first emperor for the throne among the brothers. Even if the first emperor is the one who fights the world, but in terms of the talent of governing the country, he is not as good as Shen Yan.
Because of this, the Qin family at that time used a beauty trick to let Mrs. Min get close to Shen Yan, who was ostensibly Shen Yan's concubine, but was actually the Qin family's meticulous work. Under this combination of internal and external affairs, all of Shen Yan's actions were controlled by the Qin clan, and he gradually did not have any ability to compete with the first emperor.
Then the first emperor ascended the throne, followed by the Qin family, and Shen Yan also had a place in the court, but he was just a nominal King Hao, and he had no absolute rights. And all this is exactly what the Qin family is looking forward to.
And Mrs. Min also successfully lurked beside Shen Yan, hiding her identity for more than ten years.
More than ten years later, the first emperor died, and Shen Ze, the son of the Qin family, succeeded to the throne. In order to prevent the brothers and other heirs of the first emperor from competing with Shen Ze for the throne of the emperor, the Qin clan issued an order at the beginning of Shen Ze's accession to the throne to divide the kings and keep them away from the power center of the capital.
Since then, there have been seven kingdoms, and Mrs. Min also followed Shen Yan and moved from the capital to Haoguo and settled in the palace of Hao.
Soon after he came to Haoguo, on the basis of the policies left by the first emperor, he reformed the rule of officials, lightly punished the poor, and formulated a series of systems that were conducive to the people's livelihood, which soon made Haoguo prosperous and strong, and became the most dazzling country in the Seven Kingdoms.
Shen Yan never thought of snatching his nephew's throne, he even thought that no matter who became the emperor, as long as he could make the people live well, he didn't care. And what he did in Haoguo was not to lay the foundation for a rebellion, but to really want to make some contributions to the people.
But the speed of the national exhibition made the Empress Dowager Qin worried. Empress Dowager Qin's inherent suspicions made her suspect that Shen Yan's motives were not pure, so Mrs. Min, who had been silent for so many years, once again played her role.
Empress Dowager Qin instructed her to find evidence of King Hao's intention to rebel in Haoguo, and secretly present it, so that the court would have enough reasons to punish King Hao to solve this confidant problem.
But no matter how hard Mrs. Min tried to find it, the entire Hao Kingdom was like an impenetrable wall, and nothing could be found. There are only two possibilities, one is that King Hao hides too well, and the other is that King Hao really has no ambitions.
King Hao is the second type, but the Empress Dowager Qin didn't believe it, so the second order came down, let Mrs. Min prevent the birth of the children of the concubines of the Hao Palace, and let Queen Hao have no successor, so that even if King Hao really has the intention to rebel, there will be no one to inherit his thousands of miles.
But at that time, King Hao already had two sons and a daughter under his knees, one of which was the first queen of King Hao, that is, Qi Shuning's aunt, and a son was born to Mrs. Min herself, who was exactly eight years old that year.
For the orders of the Empress Dowager Qin, Mrs. Min secretly acted and created a series of accidents, which caused the children of the first Queen Hao to die one after another, and Queen Hao at that time died of depression because she couldn't stand the blow.
Subsequently, Mrs. Min was ruthless, killed her eight-year-old child, threw him into the lake next to Min'an Palace, and lied to King Hao, saying that he was lost when he took him out of the palace to play.
King Hao has lost a son and a daughter in a row, and he is naturally very concerned about Mrs. Min's children, and when he heard that he was lost, he photographed a lot of people to look for it, and after looking for a long, long time, but he never found it, and then he had to give up.
Since then, Mrs. Min has become silent, and the former gentleness has become cold-hearted, but King Hao doesn't understand why, he just thinks that Mrs. Min is immersed in the grief of losing her child, so she is also very tolerant of her.
A year after his birth at this time, King Hao married the second queen, who was Qi Shuning's own sister. At that time, King Hao and the queen were also in deep love, and soon there was news that they were pregnant.
Since the queen was pregnant and couldn't sleep, King Hao stayed elsewhere, so the harem concubines were rumored to be pregnant one after another. But without exception, no one can have children.
And Qi Shuning's sister was lucky, she escaped seemingly unexpected frames again and again, and survived until the day she became pregnant in October, but she had no strength when the child was halfway through birth, and the child couldn't come out, so she suffocated in her stomach raw.
It was also from the time the queen gave birth to a child with one corpse and two lives, and the rumors in the market were rampant, saying that King Hao was cursed, and he was destined to have no children under his knees in this life and live a lonely life.
The rumors are like this, and there are too many things to say, and even King Hao himself is examining himself, whether he has done too many sins in his previous life, so that he will suffer the pain of having no children and no daughters in this life. But he didn't expect that this kind of rumor was released by Mrs. Min, who had been living in the deep palace for a long time.
Mrs. Min's purpose is to avoid King Hao's suspicion, and attribute this kind of concubine to the will of heaven and avoid King Hao's investigation.
Since then, King Hao has been disheartened, and gradually he is no longer attached to his heirs, and he has not set up a queen. It's not that no one in the harem has ever been pregnant again, but none of them have been successfully born, and King Hao gradually stopped insisting.
Until more than three years ago, King Hao went out of the palace to worship the first two queens and met Qi Shuning, who was already an old girl at that time, because there were indeed a few people in their twenties who had not yet married.
Maybe Qi Shuning's eyebrows and eyes resembled her aunt and sister, Shen Yan didn't think about it, so he brought her into the palace and made her queen.
And this move has added a strong touch to the already brilliant Qi family, after all, the three queens before and after are all from the Qi family, and such an honor is also unprecedented.
Qi Shuning also fell in love with King Hao at first sight, and after meeting Shen Yan, she realized that her persistence for so many years was not because she didn't want to marry, but because she hadn't met the person she wanted to marry.
And Shen Yan happened to be the right person in her life.
The curse on Shen Yan's body, as well as the affairs of the harem, as well as the cause of death of her aunt and sister, Qi Shuning knew it, and she knew it very well. But the more she understood, the more she felt sorry for Shen Yan, and showed her tenderness to him, which gradually made Shen Yan's mind alive again.
Three years ago, Qi Shuning was pregnant for the first time, and the little plug came to her side and began the tragedy of her several miscarriages.
With so many lessons from the past, Qi Shuning almost didn't think deeply at all, and didn't even investigate, so she stubbornly thought that all this was made by providence.
Until this time, Gu Qingming was distracted, and Yun Yao concluded that this was man-made, not providential, so he chose to enter the Hao Palace to investigate. Peeling back the cocoon, I found Mrs. Min.
That's probably the case, this tragedy that has lasted for many years boils down to the ambition and suspicion of the Empress Dowager Qin, and her defense against King Hao has reached the point of doing everything, and even forced Mrs. Min to kill even her own children.
"The corpse at the bottom of the lake, this one is Bing'er, so what about the two next to it?" King Hao's heart was cold, but he still insisted on asking the last question in his heart.
"One of them is the grandmother next to the little princess, she bumped into the matter of me arranging to accidentally kill the little prince and the little princess, and I killed people in order to keep the secret; Mrs. Min was blunt.
And this time, Yun Yao couldn't even help but tremble.
She even regretted that she had some sympathy for this woman just now, because at this moment, Lady Min was not a person who lived in guilt at all, but a cold and ruthless executioner.
Mrs. Min has killed so many people and mutilated so many innocent lives, but she said it so justifiably, as if everything was as it should be.
"Why did you do this? How many innocent lives did that take? Just for the sake of Empress Dowager Qin's command, do you even have to betray your conscience?" Yun Yao couldn't help but ask.
"Conscience, if you knew what means the Empress Dowager Qin used to control me, she wouldn't talk to me about the word conscience!" Facing Yun Yao's questioning, Mrs. Min sneered, "Besides, Yun Yao, you don't deserve to talk to me about the word conscience, you dare to swear to heaven, your hands have not been stained with blood, and you have never killed anyone?"
Yun Yao was shocked, staggered back a few steps, and was speechless.
Yes, she doesn't deserve it. Her hands have also been stained with blood, and countless people have died in her scheme, all the way from Ning Palace, whether it is for self-protection or to save people, it is always "I don't kill Beren, but Beren died because of me".
"Your Highness, no matter how hard the concubine is, the concubine has made a big mistake after all. The most sorry person for the concubine in this life is you, and it is I who has betrayed your trust. His Royal Highness wants to kill or chop, and the concubine has no complaints. Mrs. Min said, then kowtowed to Shen Yan again, calmly waiting for the impending punishment.
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