Chapter 81 What Did She Do Wrong

The sage had long wanted to withdraw the feudal system, and he hated the fact that King Xuanchen secretly supported King Qin.

Showing mercy and sparing King Xuanchen's life was only a show for King Dongyang to see. If we kill all of them, King Dongyang would inevitably be afraid and would not dare to surrender.

Chen Xiuyuan, the saint's trusted old minister, saw all of this clearly.

Just to wipe out the roots, it would have been fine to kill Prince Xuanchen's only son, but Prince Ning was also to be killed together. Even Chen Xiuyuan felt that the saint was too cruel.

After the imperial edict was issued, Chen Xiuyuan asked for permission to see the emperor and said bluntly: "Prince Ning is your Majesty's flesh and blood after all, I hope your Majesty will think twice."

The emperor was busy reviewing memorials. Hearing this, he did not even raise his head and replied calmly, "He is my flesh and blood, but he also has Xuan family blood flowing in his veins."

This means killing them all and not leaving the Xuan family any hope of turning things around.

Chen Xiuyuan knew that the Saint had always been ruthless and cruel. Seeing that the Saint had made up his mind, he stopped talking and changed the subject, saying, "Now that Hexi has been taken and the vassal kings have been basically dealt with, has Your Majesty considered appointing a crown prince?"

His tone was earnest: "The position of Queen and Crown Prince is vacant. There will be constant disputes and it will shake the foundation of the country."

Upon hearing this, the Saint put down the memorial in his hand, then raised his head slightly, still in a calm tone: "No hurry."

"Your Majesty, please see me, Your Majesty, please."

It was Concubine Chen crying outside the palace again. Upon hearing this, the Saint shouted impatiently at the eunuch at the door: "Didn't I tell you to lock her up in the inner palace and not allow her to come before me again?"

The eunuch knelt down and apologized, and replied with an embarrassed look: "Your Majesty, Concubine Chen held the golden hairpin and threatened the dragon fetus in her belly. We dare not stop her."

"What a courage."

Upon hearing this, the saint slammed the table in anger, strode out of the palace, stood at the door, and looked coldly at Concubine Chen, who was pregnant and had disheveled hair.

The woman who was once pampered by the emperor is now as miserable as a stray dog. She is pregnant with the saint's child for more than eight months and is about to give birth.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty"

Ever since the Emperor settled accounts with the King of Qin and began to deal with the Xuan family, in the past three months, no matter how the Concubine Chen knelt outside the palace and begged, the Saint had never seen her. Today, when she suddenly met the Saint, thousands of words were stuck in the mouth of this poor woman, making her not know which one to say first.

"Your Majesty, Ning'er is your most beloved son, you can't be so heartless." Concubine Chen didn't care to cry, she knelt down at the emperor's feet and said, "Your Majesty, were those ministers forcing you to do this? It must be Prime Minister Jiang's party, Your Majesty, they are thinking about the position of queen and the position of crown prince. Ning'er and I don't want anything, as long as you find a way to save Ning'er, I am willing to leave the palace with my son and never fight with them again."

"No one forced me." The saint smiled coldly, his eyes were filled with disdain and hatred that he could not conceal, and he glared at the woman who was kneeling at his feet and begging desperately: "Xuan Yao, do you think you can really get away with doing bad things?"

The emperor's words confused Concubine Chen. She wondered, "Your Majesty, what bad thing did I do?"

The emperor pushed her away angrily without saying another word.

The imperial concubine fell at the feet of the saint again and begged bitterly: "Your Majesty, even if I have done anything wrong, you can just punish me. Ning'er is your own flesh and blood, please save him, he is only fourteen years old."

Although I know that the emperor is ruthless, I still don't believe that he would voluntarily kill his own son.

"I don't want to see you again."

The saint said this coldly and turned to leave. At this moment, a eunuch from the rear court came over with two cups of wine and reported to the saint: "Your Majesty, the poisoned wine for Prince Ning and Xuan Rui has been prepared, and the time has come."

Originally, after the imperial edict was issued, the eunuchs only needed to carry out the execution according to the order and did not need to report again. However, the chief eunuch still asked the young eunuch to come and report again. After all, Prince Ning was the saint's own son, and they hoped that at the last moment, the saint might wake up and show mercy.

"Your Majesty..." The imperial concubine was so frightened that she dared not even breathe. She looked at the emperor with panicked eyes and called out timidly. The saint's face was as calm as water, and he said calmly: "Bring it to him."

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty!" The imperial concubine screamed, "That's your own son."

Seeing the eunuch carrying the poisoned wine and taking the order, the imperial concubine's eyes widened and she tore open her thin clothes, revealing her bulging belly. She held a golden hairpin in her hand, pointed the sharp hairpin at her belly, called the emperor's name, and said sternly: "Zhao Che, if you kill Ning'er today, I will kill your unborn child."

The emperor, who had already turned around and was about to walk back to the palace, slowly turned around after hearing this. She looked down at the concubine with overwhelming hatred in her eyes and replied, "You really think I care about you."

After saying that, he turned around and walked into the hall without hesitation.

"Zhao Che, you bastard, even a tiger won't eat its own cubs, are you still a human being?"

The Concubine Chen was cursing like a madman. The eunuch came over and pulled her away, only to see a pool of blood under her.

When Xuan Yao woke up again, she was already in the cold palace.

There was only a young eunuch who was in charge of reading imperial edicts by her side. When he saw that she had woken up, he read the imperial edict to her: stripping her of her honor as a royal concubine, demoting her to a commoner, and sending her to the cold palace.

Perhaps because she was shocked by her father's ruthlessness, the fetus in Xuan Yao's belly had miscarried, her husband had betrayed her, her clan had been exterminated, her son had been killed, and now the baby in her belly, her only concern, was gone. At this point, Xuan Yao finally realized that from the beginning to the end, she was just a pawn of the emperor.

But she didn't understand why he hated her so much.

Even though he was ruthless, he would not be so decisive if it was just because of her mother's family.

What he said to her, "You did a bad thing and you really thought you could get away with it," still puzzled her. She didn't understand what he meant.

There was no woman in the deep palace with clean hands. She had indeed done bad things, but she was not someone he hated to such an extent that he didn't even care about the child she had given birth to for him.

"What on earth made him so resentful?"

Xuan Yao lay in the cold palace, murmuring these words over and over again.

The extreme methods used by the sage to deal with the imperial concubine and Prince Ning made everyone in the harem feel insecure.

I knew that this master was cruel and ruthless, but I didn't expect that he could kill his own son.

It has been unusually quiet in the deep palace these days.

All the palaces were closed and the concubines stayed in their own bedrooms, fearing that they would offend the emperor and be contaminated by bad luck.

Even the straightforward Concubine Shu has been staying in the palace these days, and even her son, the Prince of Qi, has been detained and not allowed to go out.

The third prince, the Prince of Qi, was at an age when he could not sit still. He found Concubine Shu and said with a sad face, "Mother, your father punished Concubine and her son because of the concern of the princes. What does it have to do with us? I have been trapped in the palace by you for six or seven days. I really can't sit still anymore."

Concubine Shu was helpless: "Go to the back garden to practice martial arts and archery."

"okay."

The Prince of Qi was about to run away when Concubine Shu grabbed him and said threateningly, "Stay away from your father for the time being."

As soon as he finished speaking, the eunuch's voice rang out from outside the palace: "Your Majesty, here we are!"

(End of this chapter)