Chapter 248 Dragon and Phoenix
The two masters were both stunned when they heard the news.
Empress Dowager Jiang sneered, "She died cleanly and quickly, saving me a lot of trouble!"
As she spoke, she saw a suspicious look on Meng Yan's face, so she calmly told her, "The Concubine Xuanhe bribed the maids in Shoukang Palace to steal the fake Beijing defense map that I had stored in my bedroom to deceive people, and gave it to Lu Su. In addition, I ordered people to arrest two palace maids she used in the past. I originally wanted to interrogate her to testify that she was colluding with the enemy, but they confessed that the Concubine Xuanhe was involved in the assassination of Hao'er that year, and that she had secretly instigated Yang and her rebellious son to do something wrong. "She tampered with Hao'er's crossbow. For years, I've always wondered how she could have foreseen the situation and leaped upon Hao'er before the arrow struck. Unfortunately, with the late emperor's death and Hao'er's registration, major events have come one after another. By the time I had time, time had already passed. The palace maids who had served her in the past had either died of illness or retired to their hometowns. And since she was Hao'er's avowed savior, it was difficult to investigate her, which is why it has been delayed until now."
At this point, she snorted and laughed again, her eyebrows and eyes full of coldness. "She dared to play such a trick in front of me. I consider her a person of great importance. However, if she dared to hurt my beloved son, even if he was the king of heaven, I would kill him! She is leaving now. Good, very good!"
As he was speaking, he suddenly heard a palace servant outside announce, "The Emperor has arrived!"
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law stopped talking immediately and looked forward to it.
After a moment, there was the sound of steady footsteps, and Lu Haozhi strode into the room.
Only when she saw the other person standing in front of her unharmed did Meng Yan finally feel relieved and smiled.
He's fine, he's really... fine!
Lu Haozhi stepped forward and bowed to Empress Dowager Jiang. "Mother, all the rebels have been slain. Your son's mission is accomplished!"
Empress Dowager Jiang smiled and nodded, "Okay, I know that the Emperor will definitely succeed in this trip."
As he spoke, he saw Lu Haozhi staring at Meng Yan, and he couldn't help but smile, "Okay, the matter is settled, and your wife is fine here. You two can talk, and I won't get in the way."
After saying this, Empress Dowager Jiang got up and left.
Only Lu Haozhi and Meng Yan were left staring at each other.
Lu Haozhi looked at Meng Yan, a smile on his handsome face, "Girl, I'm back."
Meng Yan looked up at the man in front of her, her mind full of thoughts and words, but in the end, they just turned into a sweet smile.
She raised her hand and tried to pull his sleeve, but a medicine bag suddenly slipped out of her sleeve and fell to the ground.
She bent down to pick it up, but Lu Haozhi picked up the medicine bag before her, holding it in his hand, and asked in confusion, "What is this? Do you usually carry medicine with you when you go out?"
Meng Yan smiled, then said softly after a moment, "I... I'm afraid today's plan will fail, so I want to make some preparations. If, if you can't come back, I'll go with you... I won't let those thieves bully me!" At this point, her face flushed with embarrassment, and she whispered, "Mother... said that husbands and wives should trust each other. I was too impatient."
"Silly girl!"
Lu Haozhi gently tapped her forehead and then held her in his arms.
"We are all fine, and we will be fine for a long time to come."
"Um……"
In the quiet room under the setting sun, the most noble couple of the Great Zhou Dynasty embraced each other intimately, unwilling to separate for a long time.
With the end of this major case of treason, the purge of the officialdom in the capital also came to an end. The corrupt and decadent forces of the old aristocratic families were wiped out, the court atmosphere was renewed, and countless rising stars and young talents from humble backgrounds were able to show their talents.
The old aristocratic families, led by the Liang family, were completely annihilated. Liang was forced to drink poisoned wine in the cold palace and died. Amidst this immense turmoil, the death of a woman in the cold palace seemed a trivial matter. The palace attendants who handled the funeral simply followed established custom and took Liang's body to a mass grave outside the capital and buried it casually.
Lu Su and his entire family were exiled to the frontier, forced into slavery, and were never allowed to enter the country again.
As soon as the news of Lu Su's death came, Princess Shen hanged herself in her bedroom.
Lin Yanrong refused to admit defeat. She was unwilling to accept this. She traveled into this novel to be the heroine, not to be a prisoner!
On the way to the bitterly cold land of the far north, she was robbed by mountain bandits. She took advantage of the chaos to escape, but lost her way in the desolate mountains and eventually froze to death in the snow.
Until she fell in the snow, Lin Yanrong was still dreaming that she was still the heroine and that some male character would come down from the sky to save her.
It’s a pity that except for impermanence, she could not wait for anything.
The white snow covered the skinny corpse.
Later generations commented on Lu Hao's purge, calling it rational, forceful, and measured. It cleared obstacles for the implementation of new policies and national development without resorting to massacres or harming innocent people. It stabilized the court and preserved the livelihoods of the people. This move laid a solid foundation for the Great Zhou's subsequent prosperity for a hundred years.
Time flies, and in the blink of an eye it is already the first month of the year.
This year, two great happy events took place in the capital. One was that Meng Changyuan made great contributions in suppressing the rebellion and was named a mighty general by the emperor. With such honors, he finally felt that he was worthy of the young lady of the Liu family. He went to the door to propose marriage in a dignified manner and married Liu Milan on an auspicious day at the end of the year.
The other thing, of course, is that Queen Meng Yan is finally about to give birth.
On the fourth day of the first lunar month, before dawn, Meng Yan felt a pain in her lower abdomen in her sleep, and hurriedly woke up to call the palace maid.
The palace maids in Changchun Palace had already known that the Queen would go into labor within the next few days, so they did not panic. They called the imperial physician and the female physician, and sent the items prepared earlier to the delivery room.
After receiving the message, Lu Haozhi hurried over from Ganqing Palace. As soon as he stepped into Changchun Palace, he wanted to break into the bedroom. The palace maids tried to persuade him against it. Until the empress dowager arrived and scolded him for doing so, he broke into the inner hall and disturbed the empress's childbirth. She wanted to hold him accountable, and he gave up.
The mother and son waited quietly in the corridor for good news. Empress Dowager Jiang sat down and Lu Haozhi stood, turning around and around, making Empress Dowager Jiang dizzy.
Meng Yan's screams kept coming from the room. Lu Haozhi felt his heart burning as he heard them outside, and he wished he could take her place.
Finally, a few loud cries of a child were heard from inside.
Two female doctors emerged, each holding a swaddling cloth. Their faces beamed with joy as they declared, "Congratulations to the Empress Dowager and the Emperor! The Empress has safely given birth to twins, a boy and a girl!"
Empress Dowager Jiang suddenly stood up from her chair, but Lu Haozhi rushed into the house.
Empress Dowager Jiang sighed with a smile and stepped forward to tease the baby in the cradle. "Let them cling to each other. I'll come and play with my eldest grandson and granddaughter!"
Lu Haozhi walked quickly into the room and was greeted by a faint smell of blood, which made his heart tighten.
When I walked to the bed, I saw Meng Yan lying in the brocade quilt. Her pretty face was pale, her black hair was wet and stuck to her face, and her originally rosy lips were completely bloodless.
Lu Haozhi actually knelt beside the bed, holding Meng Yan's hand tightly, and after a long while, he squeezed out a few words, "I don't want to have a child anymore... I don't want one anymore... I really didn't know... giving birth is such a dangerous thing..."
Meng Yan smiled slightly and said in a dry voice, "Okay...as long as you can bear it..."
This one sentence choked Lu Haozhi.
Meng Yan gently moved her head over, leaning against his arm, and said, "Don't worry, I'm fine, right?"
Lu Haozhi stroked her cheek and suddenly grinned, "Yan'er, I'm so happy, so joyful! We have a child, I'm a father... a child with our blood! I will appoint a crown prince, and I will grant amnesty to the world!"
Looking at Lu Haozhi's cheerful face, Meng Yan felt a touch of sweetness in her heart.
She finally has her own children, a boy and a girl!
So does that mean that the child who didn't come in the previous life has come back in this life?
He is still willing to acknowledge her as his mother!
As she thought about it, two clear tears slid down her face and landed on the big red pillowcase with mandarin ducks playing in the water.
"Why are you crying? From now on, we are one family... Tomorrow, I will announce to the world that the Great Zhou Dynasty has a successor!"
His rough palms wiped away the tears on her face, and Lu Haozhi bent down and kissed her lips.
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