Chapter 138 Ending (Part )

Zhao Shizhu knelt down in front of Queen Mother Gao and said, "It is my son who is unfilial!"

Queen Mother Gao quickly helped Zhao Shizhu to stand up: "After I left, there are even fewer people in this palace, and you can't indulge Su Ci in everything. She is capable, but I'm afraid she is unstable and may still want to leave the palace. I just hope that when your child is born, she can accompany you peacefully."

Now that I think about it, the appearance of Su Ci can be regarded as the emperor’s salvation.

This child has suffered for so many years, and finally he met a woman he truly loves. This makes him become more and more like a normal person. This is a good thing.

Zhao Shizhu talked a lot with Queen Mother Gao that day. After Zhao Shizhu became an adult, this was the first time that mother and son spoke openly to each other.

The next day, Zhao Shizhu went to Ci'an Palace after court, wanting to see off Empress Dowager Gao.

But when he arrived at Ci'an Palace, he found out that Empress Dowager Gao had left the palace when he was in court.

He stood there in a daze for a long time, staring at the empty palace.

Until Su Ci's voice sounded behind him: "Why did you come just now?"

Zhao Shizhu looked at Su Ci upon hearing the voice, and Su Ci smiled at him and said, "I just sent the Queen Mother out of the palace. If you had come earlier, you could have sent her off in person. But the Queen Mother said that she talked to you a lot yesterday, and she said almost everything she wanted to say, and she also asked you to take care of yourself in the future..."

Before she could finish her words, Zhao Shizhu hugged her in his arms.

At this moment, Su Ci could understand Zhao Shizhu's complicated feelings.

He had been lonely for half his life, and the only person closest to him was Empress Dowager Gao. But this person closest to him also left, as if his once complete life was torn apart again.

Originally, she had thought that she would never forgive Empress Dowager Gao in her entire life. She was a person who held grudges, and it was already unusually generous of her that she did not kill Empress Dowager Gao.

But now she felt that if Empress Dowager Gao's return to the palace could make Zhao Shizhu happier, she could try to let go of her dissatisfaction with Empress Dowager Gao.

"How about we wait until our child is born and then bring the Queen Mother back to the palace?" Su Ci crawled out from Zhao Shizhu's arms.

Zhao Shizhu rejected Su Ci's proposal: "The Queen Mother will not come back. She said yesterday that if you do something wrong, you must be punished. The emperor is guilty of the same crime as the common people. She was the one who wanted to kill you first, and you are pregnant with the emperor's heir. She is guilty of murdering the emperor's heir. Living in Liangzhou is the lightest punishment."

Su Ci agreed with what the Queen Mother said: "I think the Queen Mother has finally spoken the truth. Then I will take her back to the palace when I am less resentful of her. During this time, you will not be too lonely with me and the children by your side."

Zhao Shizhu looked at Su Ci's bright smile and suddenly thought of Emperor Jianning who was imprisoned in the dark prison. "Are you interested in seeing my father?"

Su Ci was stunned. He didn't expect Zhao Shizhu to suddenly mention Emperor Jianning.

When Zhao Shizhu ascended the throne, she only heard that Emperor Jianning was poisoned and passed the throne to Zhao Shizhu, but she never thought about Emperor Jianning's life or death.

"I locked him up in a secret cell in the palace. I would go see him when I was in a bad mood." Zhao Shizhu suddenly became interested. "Come on, I'll take you to see him."

Su Ci thought to herself that she hadn't agreed to go and see it, not to mention that she was pregnant. Was it really okay to go to an unlucky place like a dark cell?

But seeing how enthusiastic Zhao Shizhu was, she couldn't bear to refuse.

In this way, the emperor and the empress went to the dark prison.

It is called a dark cell, and it really is worthy of its name, the light is very dim and the smell is bad.

Zhao Shi came in one by one and then he felt that he shouldn't have brought Su Ci here, but Su Ci was very interested and looked around curiously: "This is the secret prison, it's better than I thought."

Zhao Shizhu thought that she was bored to death, which was why she thought the dark cell was a good place.

Soon, he supported Su Ci and went to the cell where Emperor Jianning was imprisoned.

No one informed the prisoner that the queen had come to the jail. The jailers and maids inside did not know that the queen had come. Some of them were beating and kicking Emperor Jianning. One maid took a bowl of rotten soup and poured it on Emperor Jianning's face.

Although Emperor Jianning had been suppressed in every way by Liu Hu when he was the emperor before, since he was imprisoned in the secret cell, he was trampled by these despicable people every day.

Compared with his former glory as emperor, his life is now worse than death.

In addition, since he was poisoned, there has been no imperial physician to help him regulate his body, and his internal organs often suffer from severe pain. He hoped to ask the imperial physician to help him detoxify and relieve the pain in his body, but no one paid any attention to him.

Later, a nanny said that when she was serving Zhao Shizhu in the Deserted Palace, Zhao Shizhu lived an even more miserable life than him.

So, this nanny has also tortured Zhao Shizhu?
In other words, Zhao Shizhu sent this nanny here so that he could experience what kind of life Zhao Shizhu lived back then.

After realizing this, he became even more desperate.

If he had known this, he should not have summoned Zhao Shizhu to the capital three years ago. Otherwise, this would not have happened. He was clearly inviting a wolf into the house.

When the poison attacked him again, he rolled on the ground in pain. At this moment, Zhao Shizhu and Su Ci appeared.

Su Ci saw Emperor Jianning rolling around and covered his nose in disgust: "This is Emperor Jianning, why is he so ugly? How could he give birth to a son as handsome as you if he is so ugly?"

Emperor Jianning then realized that Zhao Shizhu had arrived. He no longer cared about his dignity and crawled to the edge of the prison: "Shizhu, please let me go. I was wrong before. No matter what, I am still your father. Without me, where would you be? If I hadn't summoned you back to the capital, would you have been able to become emperor?"

"Yes, so your Majesty and I came here to thank you for giving the throne to your Majesty. It is also thanks to you torturing your Majesty in the past that your Majesty had ambition and fighting spirit. Today, my husband and I came here to tell you that in order to repay your kindness, we decided to lock you up in a dark prison for life! Thank you." Su Ci could make several people angry to death with just his mouth, and this time was no exception.

Emperor Jianning looked at Su Ci and asked, "Are you the queen?"

"Your Majesty said you would show me something fun, and I was wondering who it was. It turned out to be you, a heartless beast who even abandoned your own son." Having said this, Su Ci looked at all the people kneeling on the ground, "Everyone listen up, you have to think of a way to make this bastard's life more exciting every day, otherwise you will be the ones locked up in there!"

When Emperor Jianning heard this, his face changed. The others did not dare to disobey and agreed in unison.

Of course Zhao Shizhu knew that Su Ci was speaking up for him. At this moment, he suddenly let go and reconciled with his past.

If it weren't for everything in the past that made him what he is today, how would he have had the chance to meet Su Ci?
Meeting Su Ci was the most memorable thing in his life. As for unimportant people and things, let's just forget about them.

"Aci, let's go. I won't come to this place again." Zhao Shizhu held Su Ci's little hand.

"That's right, just treat this kind of person as if he is dead. He's not worth your concern!" Su Ci held Zhao Shizhu's hand back, and the two walked away talking and laughing.

Emperor Jianning fell to the ground and once again felt the feeling of despair.

As soon as the emperor and empress left, the crowd grinned grimly, surrounded Emperor Jianning and started beating and kicking him.

Emperor Jianning had held out hope before, but after seeing Zhao Shizhu, he knew it was all in vain, as it was impossible for an imperial physician to help him diagnose his pulse. The days became harder and harder, and one day Emperor Jianning finally couldn't bear it anymore and hit his head against the wall and died...

The news of Emperor Jianning's death soon spread throughout the world, but rumors spread that Emperor Jianning's body had been stolen. Although the new emperor ordered the recovery of Emperor Jianning's body, there was no result after a month.

After that, the matter was forgotten. After a few months, when everyone had forgotten about it, Su Ci could not help but ask Zhao Shizhu, "Where is the body of Emperor Jianning?"

Zhao Shizhu was stunned for a moment before he replied calmly, "I don't know. I let the jailers deal with it as they please."

He did go to the secret cell to take a look at the corpse in person. It was indeed Emperor Jianning, but he still hated Emperor Jianning and did not want him to be buried in the imperial mausoleum, so he proposed that the jailer should be allowed to do with Emperor Jianning's corpse as he pleased.

"What about those people in the dark cell?" Su Ci asked again curiously.

If she is Zhao Shizhu, in order to keep this matter a secret, she would have to punish those people, right?
Zhao Shizhu naturally knew what Su Ci wanted to ask, so he replied: "Don't worry, those people have been dealt with, and there will be no future troubles."

Zhao Shizhu thought to himself that was true. If Zhao Shizhu was doing things, why should she worry about it?

Zhao Shizhu moved closer to Su Ci's belly, and as soon as he touched her belly, he felt her belly rolling.

The little guy seemed to like him very much. Every time he got close to Su Ci's belly, it would interact with him in this way.

Su Ci, the mother, naturally noticed it as well.

"The little guy seems to like you very much. Usually when I touch it, it ignores me." Su Ci said unhappily.

"Maybe it's the little princess, who looks like you." Zhao Shizhu replied subconsciously.

Su Ci pondered his words for a while and felt something was wrong: "What do you mean? Why does the little princess like you? Is it my son who likes me?"

Zhao Shizhu knew he had said the wrong thing, so he tried to make amends by saying, "I mean I hope to have a little princess like you."

Su Ci was too lazy to pay attention to Zhao Shizhu, so she pushed him away and said, "According to what you mean, if I don't give birth to a little princess, should I continue to give birth in the future? If I keep giving birth to little princes, should I keep giving birth until the day I give birth to a little princess?"

Zhao Shizhu was speechless and felt that whatever he said was wrong.

"I think if it's a little princess I would like it very much. If it's a little prince that's also fine since he can inherit the throne after all." When Zhao Shizhu mentioned the little prince, his tone unconsciously sounded a little disdainful.

Su Ci felt that he was being sexist. If she had given birth to a little prince, Zhao Shizhu would definitely not like him that much.

"From what you said, it seems that the only role of the little prince is to inherit the throne?" The more Su Ci spoke, the more he felt something was not right.

She suddenly felt that it would be better for her to give birth to a little princess so as to avoid being disliked by Zhao Shizhu.

Zhao Shizhu thought for a while and found that the boy was indeed useless, so he could only reply truthfully: "It seems so?"

Su Ci laughed angrily: "Go away!"

In this way, Zhao Shizhu was driven out of Kunning Palace by Su Ci because he favored girls over boys.

Su Ci is the boss now. Su Ci said that if he doesn't want to stay in Kunning Palace and make her angry, he can't hang around here.

For the next three days, he could not enter Kunning Palace at all because Lu Yi was guarding in front of Kunning Palace, and was following Su Ci's orders to stop him.

"Your Majesty, please don't make things difficult for me. Otherwise, if the Empress holds me accountable, I won't be able to bear it." Lu Yi only hoped that the Emperor would let her go.

Zhao Shizhu thought that he was a really useless emperor. Now there were rumors that he was dominated by his wife. In addition, a trend of fearing one's wife had been set off in the Zhou Dynasty, and some people said that he, the emperor, had started it.

Today he should give his husband a shake.

"I will explain it clearly to Aci later." This time, Zhao Shizhu broke into Kunning Palace.

Su Ci heard Zhao Shizhu's footsteps and turned around to look at him: "How did you get in?"

Zhao Shizhu smiled and said, "I miss my daughter...son. I have been thinking about it for several days and found that a son is not only useful for inheriting the throne, but he can also help me pamper you as a mother, and he can also marry a wife, then you will have one more person who loves and pampers you. I am usually busy with government affairs and don't have much time to accompany you, but it will be different after giving birth to a son..."

As soon as Su Ci heard it, she knew that Zhao Shizhu was not sincere, but she did not make trouble anymore.

After all, she hadn't seen him for a few days and she missed him a lot.

Zhao Shizhu seemed to have the same thoughts as her, and continued, "I haven't been with you these past few days. I have no appetite and always feel like something is missing."

Su Ci laughed: "Okay, don't give me that. But I'm not unreasonable. As long as you don't make me angry, I won't drive you away for no reason."

She was also afraid that she would become too proud of her favor and drive him away, causing him to seek comfort from other women.

Perhaps it was because the more she cared about him, the more she was afraid of losing him. She had never worried before that he would leave her for another woman.

The day when Su Ci was due to give birth was getting closer and closer. Zhao Shizhu accompanied Su Ci all the time except for his official duties.

Su Ci herself was also very nervous, fearing that she would have a difficult delivery and her life would be in danger.

Because she was worried that she was too bored, Su Qin came to the palace to accompany her, and other female members of the Su family also came to the palace to accompany her.

Because of this, something happened afterwards.

There was a distant cousin of the Su family who entered the palace and was restless. She even tried to seduce Zhao Shizhu when no one was paying attention, under the pretext of helping her secure his favor. She was caught red-handed by Zhao Shizhu.

The most shameful thing is that this distant cousin actually said that she was instructed by Su Ci to climb into bed.

Zhao Shizhu was furious after hearing this. He immediately called Su Ci over and said to this distant cousin, "How dare you say that again in front of Ah Ci?!"

The distant cousin was finally scared at this moment. She had also heard about Su Ci's temper. It was said that the new emperor listened to Su Ci. If she dared to throw dirty water on Su Ci again, Su Ci would not forgive her.

She hastily admitted her fault: "Yes, it is me who is wrong. I am trying to curry favor with the rich and powerful. I beg Your Majesty and the Queen to show some leniency and forgive me for once."

Su Ci finally understood what had happened, and she looked back and forth between Zhao Shizhu and her cousin.

Zhao Shizhu was furious when she looked at him: "Su Ci, what's with that look in your eyes?"