"Even if you are His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, you cannot kill someone without evidence."
Wang Pingchuan refused to give in, his eyes dark. The prince was so difficult to deal with, it would be easier to kill him.
Later, he would cooperate with Concubine Hui and make the Emperor and the Crown Prince his Highness. Then he could act secretly and send the Crown Prince to his death.
"Wait for Father to come out, and I will present the evidence."
With such a big commotion outside, the emperor finally came out of the palace, with Concubine Hui following him.
"Your Highness, why did you come to my palace to cause trouble?"
She questioned with a cold face, her face full of grievance.
"This is when the Emperor is in Yongmei Palace. If the Emperor wasn't here, wouldn't you turn my Yongmei Palace upside down?"
The emperor's face darkened as he shouted at the prince in dissatisfaction.
"Where have you learned all the rules? This is Hui Fei's Yongmei Palace, not a place for you to mess around."
The prince took a deep breath, calmed himself down, and told the purpose of his visit.
"What? Wang Pingchuan and Concubine Hui? This is impossible!"
The emperor immediately denied it: "Concubine Hui has always been with me, how could she have time for anything with Wang Pingchuan?"
"Wow, Your Majesty, I feel so uncomfortable when Your Highness the Crown Prince humiliates me like this."
As soon as Concubine Hui cried, the emperor felt heartbroken.
"Don't feel bad, don't feel bad. I know you're innocent. Be good and stop crying. Your eyes will get swollen soon."
Concubine Hui stopped sobbing and pointed her slender jade finger at the prince.
"But how could Your Highness the Crown Prince slander my reputation like this? How important is reputation to a woman? Your Highness the Crown Prince slandering me like this is like asking me to die."
The emperor's face turned even darker and he cursed at the prince.
"Prince, how could you become so cruel now?"
The prince's face turned pale, and he felt a little strange for a moment as he looked at his father who was glaring at him.
Even though his father was not very capable, he was still able to distinguish right from wrong on major issues. But now that the evidence was right in front of him, he didn't even believe it.
"Come here, drag the prince away and give him 30 strokes of the cane!"
Everyone was shocked that the emperor was going to take action against the prince!
The emperor has always doted on the prince. He had previously made it clear that he wanted to hand over Nanzhao to the prince, and he had been training the prince to become a great king.
But now, because of Concubine Hui's words, the Crown Prince is going to be blamed!
"Did Father really hit me?"
The prince was filled with disappointment. His father had now reached the point where he couldn't tell right from wrong.
When the emperor saw that there was no admiration in his eyes, his heart tightened, but he was the emperor and a father. Couldn't he beat a son who had made a mistake?
"Your Majesty, have mercy."
The queen rushed over and looked at her son who had been beaten to pieces, tears streaming down her face.
Looking at the queen crying pitifully, the emperor was moved for a moment.
This was the woman he once loved.
"Your Majesty, if a prince breaks the law, he will be punished just like a commoner. If the prince makes a mistake and is not punished, won't the people below him follow suit?"
Concubine Hui spoke softly, but the look she gave the Queen was extremely provocative.
"What Concubine Hui said is correct. Even if the Crown Prince made a mistake, he should be punished. Queen, please step aside, otherwise we will be beaten together."
The queen's already cold heart froze even further at this moment.
Pah pah pah…
As the stick fell, she lay on the prince to block the stick for him.
"Mother, please step back quickly. I'm fine. I can handle this."
The queen groaned, the pain making her body numb, and she tightly protected her only son.
"You are still young, you can't let anything happen to your body."
Thirty strokes of the cane would be enough to kill an adult. The prince was only a little over ten years old, how could he possibly endure it?
The emperor doesn't have many sons, so he doesn't feel sorry for the prince, but she only has one son, so how can she not protect him?
It's just that she was harmed when she gave birth to the prince in her early years, and her body was injured. She has never fully recovered over the years. Now, how can she withstand such a beating?
The emperor saw that her face was pale and wanted to speak to stop.
"Your Majesty, I feel dizzy!"
Concubine Hui touched her forehead, looking like she would faint at any moment.
The emperor carried Concubine Hui back to the palace, no longer caring about the mother and son who were still being beaten.
The queen never begged for mercy, and only after the beating was over did her body go limp and she passed out.
"Mother, mother!"
"Quick, call the imperial physician!"
The prince picked up the bloody queen and frantically asked someone to call the imperial physician.
When the emperor heard the noise outside, he finally couldn't help but rush out, only to find that the queen was being carried back by palace servants.
"What happened to the Queen?"
He hurried over to ask, but was stopped by the prince.
"Twenty-five sticks! The Queen Mother was hit with twenty-five sticks. The Queen Mother was already weak, and these twenty-five sticks would have killed her. Father, do you still have any feelings for the Queen Mother?"
The prince always thought that although his father was a playboy, he treated his mother differently.
Sometimes, he would lower his status to please his mother.
He thought that his mother was sometimes too narrow-minded, and if she could forgive his father, they might be able to live a good life.
But at this moment, he deeply realized that he was wrong.
My father's so-called feelings are like teasing kittens and puppies, and cannot stand the test at all.
If something really happens, my father will never care about my mother, and will not care about her face or her health.
No wonder his mother was completely disappointed in him.
"I didn't mean to do that. It's you I want to teach a lesson to."
The emperor stammered, saying that it was the queen herself who insisted on protecting the prince. If she hadn't insisted on protecting him, he wouldn't have suffered such great harm.
"Teach me a lesson?"
The prince sneered. At this moment, he no longer cared about the etiquette between the monarch and his subjects, nor did he think about filial piety. He vented his hatred angrily.
"Father used infant blood to make pills to maintain eternal youth. To this end, he even indulged Concubine Hui and protected Wang Pingchuan. You are afraid that your son will expose this matter, so you want to use punishment to silence him. Is that right?"
When he was beaten with the stick, he figured everything out.
The emperor is not completely foolish. There are some things he would not do so ruthlessly. The reason why he did this is simply to suppress the bad things he had done.
The emperor stared with wide eyes. The prince had ruthlessly exposed his veil.
"You, how dare you speak to me like that? I'm your father!"
The prince sneered. Just because he was the old man, he didn't think there was anything wrong over the years, even though he had to shoulder state affairs with his weak shoulders, even though he had to endure many things that he shouldn't have to endure at his age.
"You just said that a prince who breaks the law is guilty just like a commoner. Father, you clearly know that what you did is wrong, so why do you keep making the same mistake? Do you really think that the lives of those children can extend your own life? It's impossible. You have committed the sin of killing, and Heaven will only punish you. How can it extend your life?
Your body may seem healthy now, but it is already at the end of its strength!"
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