After Emperor Jianxi finished speaking, he looked at the empress dowager, only to find that she had already opened her eyes and was looking at him quietly, like a poisonous snake.
His mouth just twisted uncontrollably, which looked a little funny.
Emperor Jianxi's eyes lit up like a child discovering a treasure. "Mother, I knew you weren't asleep!"
The Queen Mother naturally could not answer him.
Emperor Jianxi smiled as he spoke to himself, "It was also on a rainy night like this that my brother, the Prince of Yan, was abandoned by my father. My mother knelt in the rain outside the Yangxin Palace for the entire night, and that's when she developed a chronic illness."
Emperor Jianxi touched the empress dowager's knees through the quilt.
"Mother, isn't it because of your indulgence that Brother Prince Yan ended up in such a plight?"
"Ah, ah..." The empress dowager glared at Emperor Jianxi.
Emperor Jianxi shook his head in disappointment, "I didn't expect that my mother still has no remorse."
Emperor Jianxi suddenly changed the subject, his smile wicked, "Just like what my brother Prince Yan did before he died!"
boom!
The Queen Mother was as if struck by lightning.
Upon seeing this, Emperor Jianxi seemed to have expected it. He took out a box, opened it, pinched out a golden pill and stuffed it into the empress dowager's mouth. Nanny Sun beside her hurriedly fed her some water.
Emperor Jianxi wiped the saliva from the corner of the empress dowager's lips, his eyes cold and without warmth.
"I had hoped that my mother would see my brother, the Prince of Yan, before she died, but he couldn't bear it and died on your eightieth birthday... But you only had eyes for Huai'an, that barbarian daughter, and didn't care about your own son at all. My brother, the Prince of Yan, died miserably. His limbs were broken, his eyes gouged out, his tongue cut out, his nose choked off. He spent all day in the stinking latrine, waiting for my mother to rescue him. Unfortunately, he didn't wait for my mother to come and choked to death on a mouthful of feces..."
Emperor Jianxi smiled faintly and looked at the empress dowager.
The Queen Mother stared with bloodshot eyes, her mouth wide open, and lay stiffly, choking.
Emperor Jianxi reminded, "Don't worry, mother, you won't die. The elixir just now is very valuable, enough to keep you alive."
"My Queen Mother must be regretting not killing me back then, right?"
"My mother deliberately set up a trap to make me eat the poisoned bun without worry. But ever since I was old enough to understand, I have always felt uneasy. Even if I snatched food from a dog's mouth, I would go back and prick it with a silver needle."
"It turns out that the steamed bun is really poisonous!"
"My Queen Mother must have thought that I knew the bun was poisonous and deliberately gave it to Concubine Jin to eat, letting her die in my place..."
A hint of red crept into the depths of Emperor Jianxi's eyes, and his cloudy and deep gaze lost focus, as if he had returned to that cold night, the desolate palace, and the two poor people who depended on each other for survival.
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