Chapter 247: Can't Hurt Her at All
Liu Yuetang and the Queen Mother were both shocked. The emperor could actually speak foul language.
There was silence in the hall for a moment, and the Queen Mother suppressed her anger.
"Emperor, before, you contradicted me because of Concubine Zhao, and now you are disobeying me because of Concubine Xi. With your actions, are you really going to throw filial piety to the wind?"
"As the old saying goes, a loving mother can only make her son filial. Your Majesty the Queen Mother has no kindness for her child, but instead wants to kill my son, yet still expects me to be filial?" Xiao Heng's voice was as cold as ice, and every word was like a sharp sword drawn from its sheath, dissecting all the resentment accumulated over the years.
The Queen Mother held the Buddhist beads tightly in her fingertips, and when she looked at Xiao Heng's expression, she seemed to have returned to the year when Heng'er died.
He asked, "Are you my biological mother? There has never been a mother in the world who abandons her child. Since you hate me so much, from now on, my only mother is the Queen Mother."
The mother he was referring to was Empress Wen Yi.
When she heard this, her heart was broken.
It was precisely because of this that she hated Song Jinrou so much.
Both the late emperor and Xiao Heng loved Song Jinrou very much.
Liu Yuetang stroked her abdomen and looked at the Queen Mother with red eyes: "Queen Mother, you have already killed that lively and filial son. Are you... now going to kill your grandson?"
As soon as these words were spoken, Xiao Heng and the Queen Mother's hearts were shaken.
Xiao Heng's eyes suddenly turned red and he looked at Liu Yuetang in astonishment.
For a moment, he almost forgot to breathe.
Yes, the Xiao Heng of the past is long dead.
The only one who survived now was the emperor wearing a dragon robe and with a heart as cold as iron.
For a long time, he was a body without joy and soul, standing alone on the peak of power.
"Shut up!" The Queen Mother was angry and anxious, her voice hoarse.
"They are all my dearest relatives! Everything I do is for their own good!"
She looked at Xiao Heng and said slowly, "Your Majesty...I did do something wrong in the past, but the child in Concubine Xi's belly is my grandson."
She clutched her chest, tears glistening in her turbid eyes. "I'm already old, and all I want is to see my children and grandchildren around me and enjoy the joy of family. The child in Concubine Xi's belly is a lucky star. The people at the Imperial Astronomical Observatory said that premature births are not a problem for lucky stars, it's just that the mother's body will be harmed."
Xiao Heng smiled coldly and shook his head, his eyes filled with mockery and sadness.
"What are you laughing at?" asked the Queen Mother.
Xiao Heng raised his lips and said, "I am laughing. I am laughing at the same scheme, but Mother was tricked twice!"
The Queen Mother was startled, then said solemnly: "That is not a strategy, that is God's will, it is a celestial phenomenon!"
"Mother!" Xiao Heng stared at the Queen Mother with bloodshot eyes.
"Don't say I hate this so-called celestial phenomenon the most! Even if Concubine Xi and the unborn prince are truly incompatible, I will not abandon Concubine Xi to save the prince."
Liu Yuetang was shocked and looked at Xiao Heng in disbelief.
The Queen Mother shook her head in astonishment and indignation: "Emperor! You are crazy!"
"A concubine is nothing more than a tool for spreading offspring!"
"But Concubine Xi is not, mother!" Xiao Heng almost burst out the last few words from between his teeth.
The mother and son looked at each other, one in shock and anger, the other in anger.
After a moment, Xiao Heng closed his eyes, turned his head away and stopped looking at the empress dowager.
"Forget it, why should I say this to a heartless person?"
"Mother, you have never given true love, nor have you ever received it. You naturally don't know how precious true love is in this world. Concubine Xi loves you deeply, and I have already let her down. This time, no one can hurt her even a little bit."
"Even if it's you, mother! It's not possible." He stared deeply into the empress dowager's red eyes, and his words were filled with the emperor's unquestionable pressure.
The empress dowager staggered at his cold gaze, and Nanny Zhu supported her in time.
"Good! Good! Very good!"
"Since the emperor doesn't even care about his own children, what else can I say? I don't care anymore. I won't care anymore!"
She was so angry that her chest heaved and her legs went weak as she walked towards the main seat.
Nanny Zhu helped the Empress Dowager calm down, lowered her voice, and whispered softly in her ear, "Empress Dowager, please take care of yourself."
"The Emperor values the royal bloodline the most. Those words were just angry remarks. You don't have to worry about this matter. The Emperor will make the final decision."
The Queen Mother breathed heavily. What else could she say? What else could she dare to say?
If he insisted on letting Concubine Xi drink the labor-inducing drug, he was afraid that the emperor would eat him.
Perhaps it was just as the wizard said, that although she and Xiao Heng were related by blood, they were not blood relatives, their fates repelled each other, and they were enemies in the end.
Only when mother and son do everything according to his wishes can they become a little closer.
At this time, the palace attendant at the door raised his voice: "Your Majesty, all the concubines have gathered outside. Do you want to call them in now?"
Xiao Heng waved his wide sleeves, sweeping the hem of his robe across the throne: "Announce!"
The concubines stepped forward timidly, bowing and saluting: "Your Highness, I pay my respects to the Emperor, the Empress Dowager, and Concubine Xi."
Xiao Heng didn't shout, his eyes fixed on Chu Qichi behind him, and he slowly said, "Chu Qichi!"
Chu Qichi shuddered all over and fell to his knees, "Your Majesty, please understand! Everything I have said is a warning from the heavens!"
Xiao Heng sneered, "Are you talking about celestial phenomena? Then you might as well calculate the date of your death!"
Before he finished speaking, he had already pulled out the jade-handled dagger from his waist and shot it straight at Chu Qichi.
Chu Qichi was terrified and opened his eyes wide. Just when he thought the dagger was going to take his life, his hair crown clanged and fell to the ground along with the dagger.
He was so frightened that he almost lost his soul and froze in place.
"Ah..." Among the concubines, the timid Qin Baolin screamed in fear and collapsed on the ground.
Xiao Heng gave him a cold glance and said, "You are disrespectful before the Emperor. Pull me down and kneel down. Do not stand up without my order."
After saying that, he looked at Rong Yue among the concubines.
Rong Yue knelt outside Shoukang Palace until dark yesterday, so her bent legs were already sore and trembling.
"Rongpin, your leg is injured, please get up first."
The concubines then understood that the words the emperor had just used to punish Qin Cainv were what the empress dowager had said to Rongpin yesterday.
And now the emperor asked Rongpin to stand up again, undoubtedly because Rongpin had pleaded for Concubine Xi yesterday.
And those who did not ask for mercy were not worthy to stand up.
Mingpin raised her eyes and looked at the empress dowager, only to see that she was twirling her Buddhist beads with a grim expression, as if she was chanting scriptures.
It seemed as if everything around her had nothing to do with her.
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