Chapter 292: Curtain Call

After witnessing everything, Concubine Shu closed her eyes.

The situation is over...

She had to come up with a solution as soon as possible.

She didn't look up at the emperor until he walked up to her.

"Brother..." Prince Duan ran to the emperor and explained, "This matter... this matter has nothing to do with us... I know nothing about it."

The emperor looked at him and smiled: "Really? You really don't know anything?"

Prince Duan said nothing.

The emperor said: "Just because you didn't participate doesn't mean you don't know."

The emperor looked at Concubine Shu again and said, "Chun He in the palace has already confessed that it was Madam Yang beside you who instructed her to contact the Chu people. What else do you have to say?"

Before Concubine Shu could say anything, Madam Yang angrily said, "You bastard emperor, everyone has their own share of responsibility. This matter has nothing to do with our queen."

After she finished speaking, she drew her sword and stabbed the emperor. The emperor kicked her out. Nanny Yang got up and wanted to commit suicide, but Lin San weakened her.

Concubine Shu looked at the painful Madam Yang, her eyes darkened, and finally, she exhaled: "Your Majesty, I know nothing, I was just deceived by Madam Yang."

The emperor sneered: "Really?"

Concubine Shu said, "Of course."

She stood up, walked to the emperor, and said calmly: "I know that the emperor has always been worried about the princes and thinks they will do something bad. Now we have been tolerant of them in every way. After they get married, we will stay far away and not get in the way of your majesty. I only hope that your majesty can give them a way out."

As soon as these words were spoken, the yard fell silent.

Everyone who had been hiding in panic looked towards the emperor.

They didn't know anything about the Chu people, and most people just thought that the eldest prince was rebelling.

Now, Concubine Shu’s words made them wonder whether the emperor wanted to take the opportunity to get rid of his brothers.

Prince Ming and the Eighth Prince also looked at the Emperor.

The emperor slowly spoke amid everyone's surprised gazes.

"Shu Taifei, your real name is Li Qingyao, you are a spy sent by the King of Jin of Chu. For so many years, you have been hiding in the palace of Daxia, framing Taifei Xian, and finding someone to kill my mother, and pushing the Queen Mother out as a scapegoat. Now, you want to use the eldest prince to kill me and completely disrupt the government of Daxia..." After the emperor finished speaking, he looked at Shu Taifei coldly: "Now that things have come to this, don't you admit it?"

Concubine Shu shook her head, tears in her eyes, and looked extremely aggrieved.

"Your Majesty, can you convict people with just your mouth? If Your Majesty wants to give you the fiefs of Prince Duan and Prince Jing, why do you have to wrongly accuse people like this?"

She was certain that the emperor had no evidence.

As long as Nanny Yang doesn't say anything, as long as she doesn't admit it, the emperor can't do anything to her.

You can't just execute the late emperor's concubine without any basis in front of so many people...

But soon, Concubine Shu's expression froze on her face.

Han Yun walked in from outside, step by step, to the emperor.

Concubine Shu's face changed.

Han Yun said, "My name is Gao Xun. I am the prince of Chu and a spy sent by Chu to the palace of Daxia. I came to the palace with Li Qingyao, Liu Chen, Wang Decai, Yang Xuan..." He read out dozens of names. Some of these people had died long ago and no one knew them, but everyone still remembered Wang Decai and Liu Chen...

It turned out that he was a spy from the State of Chu. No wonder he was executed by His Majesty before...

I see.

Concubine Shu wanted to quibble, but Han Yun didn't give her a chance.

He said: "In the tenth year of Zhaode, Concubine Shu showed her true colors and Concubine Chun discovered the clues. In order to silence her, we forged a letter to the State of Chu to frame Concubine Chun, and let Concubine Xian find out and tell the late emperor..."

"Afterwards, the late emperor banished Concubine Chun to the cold palace. In order to prevent future troubles, we had Liu Chen replace Concubine Xian's medicine, causing her to die..."

"Later, Liu Chen teamed up with the maidservants around Concubine Chun and used Qiao Dong to kill Concubine Chun again."

"These things eventually aroused the suspicion of the late emperor, so we asked Wang Decai to instigate the queen mother to compete for favor and let her be our shield."

"After this, we..."

Later, because the late emperor had become alert, they did not dare to cause trouble, and after staying silent for a long time, they decided to get rid of the late emperor.

Unfortunately, the late emperor's martial arts skills were too high, so they bribed the people around him and replaced his medicine. When the late emperor found out, he had already been poisoned...

This was also the reason why the old injury recurred.

"We also let Wang Decai instigate Prince Ruyang and the Queen Mother to oppose the new emperor, poison the new emperor, and spread rumors that the new emperor is brutal and murderous, so that everyone will think he is a lunatic..."

Han Yun spoke every word very clearly, but the people below were terrified.

They didn't know that when they couldn't see, the Chu spy was actually right beside them and killed so many people...

Everyone opened their eyes wide, afraid of missing a word.

Concubine Shu's face also turned very ugly, very ugly...

She couldn't refute it, and many of these things were handled by Han Yun, so of course he had evidence.

The dark clouds in the sky finally shed a few hypocritical tears at an inopportune time.

Concubine Shu knew that the situation was hopeless and could not utter another word.

It was not until Concubine Shu was about to be taken away that Prince Duan came to his senses. He looked at Concubine Shu and murmured, "Mother."

Concubine Shu looked at him.

Prince Duan smiled bitterly: "So... Mother has no motherly love for me, and all she has is using me?"

They made such a fuss about his marriage without any regard for his life or death.

Even if they succeeded, would the people of Chu let a prince of Da Xia live?

Concubine Shu opened her mouth but said nothing in the end.

Prince Duan exhaled, and he stared at Concubine Shu with hatred: "Since you don't care about my life or death, then I will no longer recognize you as my mother. The relationship between you and me ends today."

She also killed so many people, including my father...

Why did you kill my father...

Prince Duan really couldn't accept it.

His mother doesn't love his father, nor does she love him...

Prince Duan felt as if he had been punched in the heart. He felt depressed, with only numbness and pain.

Concubine Shu left without looking back.

The heavy rain finally fell.

The originally bustling Prince Duan's Mansion quickly became deserted. The red silk fell to the ground and was trampled and became dirty, and the big red wedding character on the door fell in half.

The gate of Prince Duan's Mansion was closed.

Like the Ruyang Palace, it may open in a few years, or it may never open.

When the heavy rain stopped, the whole capital city looked brand new.

The news of Prince Duan's Mansion soon spread throughout the capital.

Everyone then realized that the Chu people had become so arrogant that they sent so many people to assassinate the emperor. If it weren't for Your Majesty's cleverness, would the territory of Daxia have belonged to the Chu people?

Everyone's disgust with the Chu people was unprecedentedly strong, and those who had previously questioned the emperor were now impressed by his majesty's wisdom and bravery.

This battle with the State of Chu must be fought, and it must be fought well!

But……

There has been no news about the war with Chu for a long time. How is the war going? Does anyone know?