The huge bedroom was silent.
The air seemed to be frozen, silent and still.
Suddenly, Chu Hong's arms supporting his upper body went limp, and as his body fell onto the dragon bed, Eunuch Fulu fell to his knees with a thud.
"Master Qin, you..."
Qin Songmo usually looks stern in the court, but today he changed his expression. When Eunuch Fulu knelt down and looked at him with pleading eyes, the corners of his lips rose slightly.
Then, he nodded slightly to Eunuch Fulu, "Don't worry, Your Majesty and I have no grudges or enmity."
Eunuch Fulu, who wanted Qin Songmo to take Meng Jiuan and the other two away and warned the three that this was a heinous act, was speechless for a moment.
On his face powdered with white, his lips, stained with lip balm and as red as blood, stammered for a long time. In the end, he couldn't utter a word.
"You said you were An Ning's child. Is An Ning okay?"
Finally, when the bedroom was about to fall into silence again, Chu Hong, who was lying on the dragon bed with his body trembling slightly, suddenly asked Chen Wangchen.
His cloudy eyes suddenly showed some light.
However, when this ray of light fell into Shen Wangchen's eyes, he felt only sarcasm in his heart.
"Okay? Your Majesty, what's your mindset when you ask this question? When Your Majesty personally delivered that bowl of tonic to your mother, wasn't it to let her die so that Your Majesty could ascend the throne smoothly?"
"To prevent my mother from suffering from that fateful event, Your Majesty must have personally prepared that bowl of medicine, right? Your Majesty should know what medicine he used."
"After all this recollection, Your Majesty, do you still think my mother is okay?"
Shen Wangchen grew up in Jiangnan since he was a child. Even after he came to Beijing and followed Qin Songmo for many years, his accent still had a bit of Wu dialect.
But even such a soft Wu dialect, every word and sentence was like a sharp knife, piercing Chu Hong's heart.
Chu Hong's lips trembled, and his eyes suddenly flushed red. "I, I am sorry for your mother, and I am sorry for An Ning's child. I, I..."
"Your Majesty, can't you say it? Do you need me to say it for you?"
Before Chu Hong could finish his words, Shen Wangchen interrupted him and said, "Your Majesty has abandoned his wife and killed his children. You deserve to die."
The sonorous and powerful words fell into the ears of everyone in the palace.
After hearing these words, Eunuch Fulu rolled his eyes and almost fainted on the spot.
"Where are the Royal Guards? Where are the guards? Someone, come! Protect the emperor, protect the emperor!!!"
The sharp pain of his nails digging into the flesh of his palms helped Eunuch Fulu recover a little from his shock.
With a cold sweat on his head, he pretended to get up and run outside the bedroom to call for help.
Just as he finished speaking, a burst of orderly footsteps suddenly came from outside the bedroom.
The sound of armor rubbing against each other made him feel a little relieved. He didn't dare look back at Qin Songmo and the other two beside him, for fear that if he turned around, the tip of the long sword in Meng Jiuan's hand would pierce his throat.
He staggered to get up and saw a familiar figure outside the bedroom slowly walking into the palace.
Because of the light behind him, Eunuch Fulu could only see the other person's face clearly when the other person came closer.
As soon as he saw the other person's face clearly, the expression on Eunuch Fulu's face became good-looking for a while, and then became desperate.
But now he has no other choice. He is just a eunuch who serves the emperor personally, only a few ranks higher than ordinary eunuchs.
Facing these people, he was just a mayfly, unable to shake the big tree.
With a bitter smile on his lips, he crawled to the feet of the person who came, reached out and grabbed the corner of his clothes, "Your Highness, please save His Majesty."
"These traitors are rebelling. They want to assassinate Your Majesty and even say Your Majesty deserves to die..."
"You are the crown prince, please save His Majesty."
Chu Huaiyuan, dressed in white, stood behind Qin Songmo and the other two.
Facing the scene of Eunuch Fulu kneeling at his feet and humbly begging him to save people, he always had that warm smile on his face.
"Eunuch Fulu, my father is old and his old illness has relapsed. I am not a god, so I am afraid there is nothing I can do."
The voice with a smile rang in everyone's ears.
Chu Hong's gaze was originally on Shen Wangchen, but after hearing what his eldest son said, he immediately turned his head and met the other's smiling eyes.
Eunuch Fulu was even more dumbfounded.
He knelt on the cold floor, staring blankly at the person in front of him, "Your Highness, what nonsense are you talking about? His Majesty is in good health."
"Oh? Is the emperor in good health? I don't think so."
"Over the years, my father has been dissolute and immoral, indulging himself in wine and women all day long, completely disregarding the people of Da Chu and the lives of all people in the world. To me, my father seems to have contracted a blindness of both eyes and heart."
"Otherwise, how could we not even see Second Brother doing such evil things in the mansion all day long?"
After Chu Huaiyu left the palace, he set up his own mansion. Chu Hong naturally knew about the dirty things he did in the mansion.
Like father, like son.
In his early years, Chu Hong was not yet the emperor, but only the crown prince, and he did many extraordinary things.
The biggest disturbance was that he was secretly together with Princess An Ning.
Now he also learned from Shen Wangchen that Princess An Ning was already pregnant with his child before she was imprisoned in the Heavenly Prison.
The previous emperor scolded and punished him, but because he was the crown prince and the son of his first wife, he was only punished to practice Buddhism in the Huguo Temple with his hair uncut for half a year.
He returned to the palace later because the previous emperor's health was deteriorating and the Great Chu needed a new emperor, so they recalled him.
What the second prince Chu Huaiyu is doing now is just following the path that Chu Hong took before.
Therefore, Chu Hong always turned a blind eye and did not discipline him.
What he didn't expect was that the consequence of turning a blind eye would lead to this situation.
It felt like something was blocking his throat. Chu Hong wanted to say something, but no sound came out.
Chu Huaiyuan took in the pained look on his face, and the gentle smile on his lips slowly faded. Chu Huaiyuan slowly spoke, "Father has been on the throne for so many years. Does he still remember his late wife, Princess An Ning?"
"If you can't remember..."
His gaze fell on Meng Jiuan and Shen Wangchen, the latter of whom understood and both drew their swords.
The sword flashed with a sharp cold light and pointed directly at Chu Hong who was lying on the dragon bed. The latter's pupils suddenly shrank when he saw this. Suddenly, a strong smell of urine came from the bedroom where ambergris was originally burning.
"I remember, of course I remember everything!"
Suddenly, Chu Hong screamed loudly.
He glanced at the two swords in front of him, swallowed hard, and then his gaze fell on his eldest son again.
"I remember everything!"
After the trembling voice fell into the ears of Meng Jiuan and the other man, they smiled at each other.
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