Traveling to the ancient harem

Chapter 265: The Queen's Immorality

Cining Palace.

The emperor was not soft-hearted this time. Isn't it because of his soft-heartedness that the people in the harem dared to do this?

"Just now I asked you, if you are guilty of deceiving the emperor, your three clans will be executed, and you said that you have a clear conscience. In the future, you should explain to them in your grave."

"Your Majesty, you can't do that." Seeing that things were developing in an unpredictable direction, the empress dowager no longer cared about pretending to be sick, and rushed out of the palace at once. She looked so energetic and spirited, and didn't look like a patient at all.

"Concubine Huang hasn't had a fever yet, and the evil spirit hasn't been eliminated, but my mother looks as if she's getting better..." The emperor said gloomily to the empress dowager.

The Queen Mother ignored the Emperor's teasing. She had indeed dressed up carefully today. No one would want to look unkempt when meeting their ex-lover. But that was not the point. The point was that she had to save the person now.

"Your Majesty, I asked him to do this. He was just following orders." The Queen Mother took all the responsibility on herself. After all, she was the Emperor's biological mother, the Queen Mother of the Great Xia Dynasty. What else could the Emperor do to her?

"Oh. Your Majesty is admitting that this matter was caused by you. I can't understand why your Majesty wanted to kill Huangpin?" The Emperor really didn't understand. Didn't he just want to drive Huangpin out of Ningyuxuan? Why did he want to kill someone?

"She deserves to die." The Queen Mother's voice became sharp. "She is a foxy woman. She seduced my three children into speaking in her favor." The Queen Mother panted. "She is just a low-ranking concubine. She should die. How can I, the Queen Mother, not be able to do anything to a concubine?"

"Empress Dowager, that is my concubine." The emperor said sternly.

The Queen Mother was brought back to her senses by the call. The Emperor didn't even call her mother, which showed how angry he was. She was a little scared: "Anyway, this matter has nothing to do with the Taoist priest. I will take responsibility for everything. Just let him go."

"Haha, Queen Mother, you think that this harem belongs to you alone. You can kill my concubines at will and release the murderers at will. Do you think that I, the emperor, am just a decoration?" The emperor laughed angrily.

"Come here, take this man to the prison. Lao Yu, go find General Qiu of the Jinwu Guard and have him arrest all the people from this man's three clans and behead them on a certain day."

"Knowing the law and breaking it is a more serious crime." The third prince was relieved now. The emperor did not let him down.

"Your Majesty, you can't do this." The Queen Mother screamed and stopped Eunuch Yu: "It's all my fault, it's all my mother's fault. If you want to punish someone, punish me. He was just following orders." She begged the Emperor, but Xuan Chengzi had fainted when the Emperor said to arrest him.

"Old Yu..." The emperor didn't even look at the empress dowager.

Eunuch Yu ran out quickly. The emperor was determined. Also, the harem was too chaotic. It was good to kill a chicken to scare the monkeys and make some people tighten their skin, otherwise there would be more trouble in the harem.

The Queen Mother watched as Eunuch Yu ran out and Xuan Chengzi was dragged away. She suddenly collapsed and sat on the ground. It was over. Although she was cruel, she didn't want to be responsible for so many lives at once. The Emperor's request was not going to work. What should she do? Who should she find to save these people?

Huang Ye watched everything happening in front of her coldly. It was not that she was cruel and unwilling to plead for mercy. If she had not been prepared, she might have been the one to die today. Moreover, it would have been a painful death. If that were the case, not to mention that it would implicate her family, even if her family knew about it, they would be heartbroken. Her grandparents were old and might die soon. She would not sympathize with an enemy who wanted to kill her.

"Huang Pin, so many lives have been lost for your sake. Why don't you plead for them? Where is your conscience?" Xu Rou was unwilling to let this matter fail, so she began to question.

"What Concubine Xu meant was that I should obediently let them burn me to death. If I can't be burned to death by them, I should be grateful. I should be grateful to them for saving them, so that they can find another opportunity to burn me to death in the future." Huang Ye replied bluntly.

"Then you can't just stand by and watch him die." Xu Rou felt that what she said was very reasonable. She just wanted to let the emperor see what a kind-hearted person she was.

"Watching someone die without helping?" Huang Ye laughed. "It's rare to hear this from Concubine Xu. When Xuan Chengzi said he wanted to burn me to death, no one wanted to save me except the Third Prince and Princess An Ning."

She just observed that except for Du Yue'e who wanted to speak but was held back by Concubine Liang with her mouth covered, no one else made a move. Only a few people looked worried.

Xu Rou was speechless. She wanted to burn her to death at that time, so how could she plead for her? This bitch, she got away with it again this time, it was so hateful.

The queen was also restless at this time. Huang Ye's words just now woke her up. When Xuan Chengzi said that he wanted to burn Huang Pin to death, she, as the queen, should have said a few words of pleading. However, she was so focused on having fun at that time that she forgot about it. Of course, it was too late to make amends now even if she wanted to.

"Your Majesty, that's how it is. Let them all go." The Queen said to the Emperor awkwardly. Xu Cheng didn't know whether to sit or stand. He wanted to leave but didn't dare to. This time, he finally understood that the Queen Mother and his daughter were not that useful. He couldn't listen to them anymore.

"I handed the harem over to you, and this is how you manage it?" The emperor was furious. It was clearly the queen who first instigated this matter, but now she has escaped.

"If there is a next time, I think your role as queen has reached the end of its rope. I don't mind changing her to another one." The emperor really didn't think he was threatening the queen. The queen was immoral and didn't deserve to sit in that position.

The queen's face turned pale, and she knelt down in front of the emperor: "I am incompetent and let Your Majesty worry about the affairs of the harem. From now on, I will manage the harem well and will never let such a thing happen again."

"You'd better take care of yourself." The emperor flicked his sleeves and walked out. He was too lazy to punish Xu Cheng. After all, he was from his maternal family and it would not sound good if it got out. Besides, judging from the fact that he confessed so quickly today, he was a smart man. He believed that he would not help these two people in the palace to do evil things in the future.

The queen had never been humiliated like this since she was born, and in front of so many people. She stood up with her face flushed, supported by Nanny Yang. "Princess Huang, I will make her die from now on. If she doesn't die, she will never be able to get rid of the resentment of being humiliated today," she swore.

"Let's all go away." The queen ignored the queen dowager who was sitting on the ground in a daze. She was a useless woman who was defeated by such a small thing. From now on, it would be more satisfying to do things by herself.