ebookland Chapter 366 Untie the knot
Chapter 366 Untie the knot
Have you forgotten that you confined me to the palace?
Have you forgotten that my son was almost killed by that bitch, and I put the evidence in front of you but you turned a blind eye!
The emperor can forget, but the queen, as the victim, cannot!
The queen refused to give in and showed her strong side in front of the emperor for the first time.
The emperor's eyes turned red and his whole body trembled. The two men officially tore off the surface of their discord, and a tit-for-tat confrontation began.
Qingniao and the others were out doing things for the Imperial Concubine, and the Emperor would definitely not be able to find any fault with them.
Sure enough, his choice was right. Something really happened to the imperial concubine. She slipped and fell into the water while picking lotus... and drowned in the lake and disappeared without a trace.
When the emperor heard the bad news, he was furious and sent many guards who were good at water to salvage the items.
It's strange that so many surfers searched for many days before they found the concubine's body which had been soaked beyond recognition by the lake water.
The emperor's anger can be imagined.
However, both the former court and the harem appeared to be very calm, and they were all happy to see the imperial concubine's death.
A seductive concubine wreaks havoc in the harem!
He always extends his hand to the previous dynasty and meddles in other people's affairs, which is very annoying.
It would be a good thing if such a concubine died!
The emperor was very angry. How could the woman he loved be ignored and neglected like this?
He thought that it was everyone's contempt for his imperial power!
Therefore, we must do the opposite!
He just wanted to give the imperial concubine dignity, give her a grand funeral, and give her lots and lots of burial objects.
The more the court officials opposed, the more stubborn the emperor became, but the queen remained unusually calm.
Since the emperor is willing to use his private vault to store burial objects for that woman, then let him do it. She won't feel bad about it anyway.
However, the Queen did not expect that the Emperor would finally be so cruel as to embezzle money from the national treasury and fill the Imperial Concubine's mausoleum with it, risking shaking the foundation of the country.
Of course, there were also people who tried to please the emperor.
For example, the eldest prince dragged his fat body to give advice to the emperor and recommended a Feng Shui master who was said to be very powerful.
Unexpectedly, this Feng Shui master soon gained the emperor's high trust. He not only designed a huge mausoleum for the imperial concubine, but also surveyed the most suitable new Feng Shui site for the imperial concubine.
It was he who assisted the eldest prince in building a new mausoleum for the emperor outside.
Later, the emperor and the queen became estranged. When he was critically ill, he suddenly had an idea that he didn't want to see the queen's resentful face.
He didn't want to be buried with the queen in the imperial mausoleum after his death. Since the queen hated him, he would never see the queen again in this life or the next!
He thought this was the greatest revenge against the queen.
Unexpectedly, the one who cared most about this was his legitimate son, the current emperor who inherited his throne.
The former queen, now the queen mother, upon learning that her son had vomited blood due to anger, immediately went to the queen's palace to visit the emperor.
After the Queen Mother sat down, she said to the Emperor earnestly:
"Your Majesty, my mother and your father are disgusted with each other, so I don't actually want to meet him even after a hundred years.
It's fine for him to be buried outside, it's quiet! Why do you have to torture yourself, son?"
The emperor retorted with a look of humiliation on his face: "Mother, what right does he have to do this? He is deliberately embarrassing us!" There was resentment in his voice.
The Queen Mother felt distressed when she saw the Emperor with red eyes.
What child doesn't want to be loved by his father? However, his father prefers those princes who are not enterprising.
The emperor didn't even look at those well-behaved children.
Even the prince could hardly catch his eye.
The late emperor favored Prince Cheng in the past, and his mother was also the apple of his eye. Unfortunately, she was a beauty with a short life, and she died of illness within a few years of her glory.
Even though Prince Cheng later turned out to be quite incompetent, it did not stop the emperor from favoring him.
The emperor even thought about passing the throne to him, but no minister in the court agreed, so he had to give up this plan.
The Queen Mother paused for a moment, then slowly spread a smile on her face and said softly:
"Your Majesty, do you know why our mother can live so clearly now?" She looked into the emperor's eyes and said seriously.
"It was your grandmother who told me that a man's love is like icing on the cake. If I have it, I should cherish it. If I don't have it, it will not affect my dignity as the queen.
I don't feel the need to worry about how his actions may affect me now, because he is dead and he can no longer embarrass me.
As long as I ignore him, he is just a tablet. Whether I offer him incense or not depends on my mood."
The Emperor: "Mother, are you really willing?"
The Queen Mother: "I am willing to accept this! My son is now the supreme emperor. Even those who are in the way have gone astray, so why should I be unwilling?
I can eat a few more bowls of rice every day."
The emperor was stunned, he didn't expect his mother to see it this way. So why should he bother about it and just let that unreliable father be buried in that wild grave?
The Queen Mother sneered: "Of course, if you are still angry, just ask someone to throw the woman's body out, it's no big deal!"
The emperor lowered his eyelashes in shame. The empress dowager reached out and rubbed the emperor's head twice, smiling and saying:
"Son, I am very content now, you should cheer up too, only if we live well can he be so angry that he will die in the underground.
Haha, I heard that the burial objects in his mausoleum were collected by emptying the national treasury, so you should take them out now and use them for people's livelihood.
It is only right to use it on your people. What good things are there for a dead person? "
The emperor looked up in surprise and stared at his mother. Seeing that she was serious, he immediately got up from the bed excitedly.
The Queen Mother gave him a helping hand with a look of reproach, and said:
"You are already so old, why are you still so impatient? These things should have been your family assets, and they have been misappropriated by the old man for so many years, that's enough.
Just think of it as existing there. What is taken from the people should of course be used for the people!"
The emperor's lips curled up into a hearty smile.
On the one hand, these things can be used for people's livelihood and help him solve many urgent problems.
On the one hand, doing so seemed to help him vent the anger that had been pent up in his chest for many years, and the depression that had been stuck in his chest suddenly dissipated.
The Queen Mother watched her son gradually become happy, and she herself began to smile happily.
The mother and son laughed heartily face to face!
The queen heard their conversation at the palace gate and felt that this was very satisfying.
This can only be done with the Queen Mother's approval.
The queen also raised the corners of her mouth and revealed a silent smile.
Not long after, a large amount of money inexplicably appeared in the national treasury, although the officials of the Ministry of Revenue did not know where these money came from.
But as long as there is money coming in, it’s fine!