Chapter 239: Looking Back to the Past
Nanny Xu brought the medicine over, and Su Chenyu poured out a pill and threw it into the teacup.
It melts in water, giving off that familiar smell that quickly dissipates.
Aunt Xu was horrified. She had seen the scene of Imperial Doctor Zhao testing the medicine the day before, and this was definitely a sterilizing drug.
But why is there a sterilizing drug in the Empress Dowager’s palace?
Su Chenyu stood up immediately: "Madam Xu, I want to go to the palace to see the Queen Mother. Don't alarm anyone."
"Yes!" Madam Xu hurried down to make arrangements. Li Liyanqing stood up and said, "I'll go with you."
After nightfall, the Imperial Palace fell into a state of silence, and the Empress Dowager's Palace was even quieter. The windows of the bedroom were half-open, and the mottled shadows of the trees were cast on the windows, revealing a kind of desolate and cold atmosphere.
The Queen Mother lay on the bed like a corpse, without any movement.
She opened her eyes wide and stared at the ceiling of the bed. Above it was a huge mirror that Concubine Shu had specially asked the palace servants to install so that the empress dowager could see her own appearance at all times.
At first, the Queen Mother was still resistant. She refused to face her own ugly appearance, but after a few days, she had become somewhat numb.
The bed curtain was lifted, and the Queen Mother was startled. She turned her eyes hard to look to the side to see who was coming.
Su Chenyu stood beside the bed, quietly looking at the empress dowager lying on the bed. Under such a gaze, the empress dowager's eyes were filled with uneasiness. She wanted to escape from here, but she could do nothing.
After a long while, Su Chenyu spoke up: "So the Queen Mother has been looking at me all along."
Su Chenyu squatted down and looked at the mirror on the top of the bed with the empress dowager. Two faces were reflected in the mirror. With Su Chenyu's face in contrast, the empress dowager looked even more hideous and ugly.
The queen mother, who had been calm at first, suddenly became agitated after seeing this contrast, but now she could only helplessly gasp for air to express her anger and unwillingness.
"Queen Mother, does my grandson's face look very much like my mother's, or even like the late queen?"
Su Chenyu bit the "former queen" three times very hard. The queen mother closed her eyes, as if as long as she didn't look, she would not remember the things that frightened her.
"Queen Mother, you lie here every day. Have you ever thought about what you have done?" Su Chenyu's voice rang in the Queen Mother's ears. "The late Queen had no children in her life. You are very proud of it, right? She never discovered the sterilizing drug you gave her in her entire life!"
This sentence made the Queen Mother open her eyes suddenly, with shock and fear in her eyes. How could Su Chenyu know about this?
"Queen Mother, I originally thought that I would never see you again in this life, but when I learned that you were the one who gave the late Queen a sterilizing drug, I realized that your punishment was still too light."
Su Chenyu stood up slowly. She lowered her eyes and looked at the empress dowager lying on the bed. That condescending look made the empress dowager feel very humiliated.
"Queen Mother, do you remember how many people you have harmed for your own glory and wealth?"
As Su Chenyu asked this question, the faces of those people whom the Queen Mother thought she had long forgotten suddenly appeared before her eyes one by one.
In her life, she can be said to be another Concubine Yun.
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