Qianqing Palace…
"You...you unfilial son!"
The emperor, sitting on the bed, was trembling with anger. He pointed at the crown prince with a trembling hand and said angrily.
The Empress carefully supported the Emperor, her eyes filled with worry.
Yesterday, after the Emperor said that the Imperial Seal was missing, before dawn this morning, the Crown Prince and Xiao Guojiu led a group of people to surround the entire Qianqing Palace and also took her and the Emperor into custody.
The Crown Prince has been saying extreme things all along, which clearly indicates that he has ulterior motives.
Even though the emperor had some idea of what was going on, he was still quite angry.
The Empress was very worried about the Emperor's health.
"There's no other way. Since Father Emperor refuses to abdicate, I have no choice but to resort to this desperate measure!"
The crown prince said dismissively, "Anyway, I'll be the emperor soon. Being scolded by my father won't hurt me!"
"Your Majesty, please rest assured! Your subject will definitely help the Crown Prince govern the Xia Kingdom better and better."
At this moment, Xiao Guojiu also put on a stern face and said.
Last night, while he was making his efforts with his concubine, a servant came to report that there had been thieves in the mansion and that the things in the storeroom had disappeared.
When he went to check, everything in the storeroom was gone, even the things in the secret room were gone, not a single copper coin was left for him! He was so angry that he almost fainted.
A short while later, a servant came to report that the masters of the mansion all said that things were missing. Upon investigation, it was discovered that not a single valuable item in the entire Xiao mansion had been left behind.
Even the servants' valuables were gone.
Xiao Guojiu couldn't hold it in any longer, vomited a mouthful of blood, and fainted.
When he woke up again, news came from the palace that he needed to come in to discuss countermeasures.
Thinking of his grand ambitions, he dragged his broken body into the palace.
After discussion, Xiao Guojiu and the Crown Prince both felt that it was better to take action as soon as possible. Since they no longer had the Imperial Seal, they had no choice but to use force!
"Should I thank you? Xiao Sui, I believe I have never mistreated your Xiao family over the years. How can you do this to the late emperor?"
After calming himself down, the Emperor glared at Xiao Sui and questioned him.
The Emperor is right. Xiao Sui and the late Emperor were brothers who had risked their lives for each other. It is said that Xiao Sui once saved the late Emperor. Out of gratitude, he brought the Empress Dowager, who was only fifteen years old at the time, into the palace and directly made her a concubine, which was unprecedented in history!
From that moment on, the Xiao family began to rise on an upward trajectory.
Unfortunately, human greed knows no bounds! The Xiao family was no longer satisfied with just a little bit of benefit; they had been using the Empress Dowager to achieve their own goals.
"Thank you? I saved his life back then, and all he did was bring my useless sister into the palace. He only gave me a minor official position. I think he had his eye on my sister all along. All my scheming and plotting was for nothing, and he just paved the way for my sister."
Xiao Sui snorted coldly and said unwillingly.
He knew the emperor when he was still the crown prince. After he became emperor, he thought that since they were friends, the emperor would help him out.
As a result, he was left hanging, and people would only contact him when they were bored.
So he devised a plan to imprison the emperor, and then risk his life to save him.
Unexpectedly, the scheme succeeded, but in the end, he lost half his life and was only given a minor official position, while his playful younger sister became a concubine and eventually rose to become empress.
How could he possibly tolerate this?
"Hehe! I suspect that matter is also related to you."
The emperor understood the implication in his words, his eyes flickered, and he curled his lips into a cold smile.
When he heard the Empress Dowager's account back then, he felt there was something fishy about it.
"So what if you know? So many years have passed, there's no evidence left, the late emperor is gone, and you're about to die too! The throne will belong to my grandson!"
Xiao Sui said nonchalantly.
Once the crown prince ascends the throne and he takes power, won't the whole country be his?
"There's really nothing we can do!"
The Emperor nodded slightly, agreeing with him.
"Enough with the nonsense, drink this, and I will send the Emperor and Empress on their way!"
Xiao Sui gritted his teeth, pointed to the bowl beside him, and said to the Emperor and Empress.
The Crown Prince remained silent. He had been watching the Emperor and the others at first, but when he heard that his grandfather was about to feed him medicine, he couldn't bear it and turned his head away.
"Xiao Sui, this is regicide!"
The Emperor glanced at the two bowls that had been sitting there for a while, then glared angrily at Xiao Sui, never expecting them to be poison!
The Xiao family's audacity is truly outrageous!
"So what if you murdered the emperor? It was your Cheng family who wronged me first. Why should you be allowed to rule this world? It's time for someone else to sit on this throne!"
Xiao Sui laughed arrogantly, then waved his hand, signaling a soldier to come forward and feed him the medicine.
This time, the two soldiers did not hesitate and walked to the emperor's bedside, intending to ask the emperor for help.
"What are you doing? This is regicide, treason! Your entire family will be executed!"
The Empress, who was standing nearby, was terrified when she saw this. She hurriedly stood in front of the Emperor and shouted in alarm, but she did not move while protecting the Emperor behind her.
"Once you're all dead, who will be able to exterminate our entire clan? Hurry up and do it. Since the Empress wants to go first, then the Empress will go first. This must be done before dawn."
Xiao Sui frowned and shouted.
Dawn was approaching, and he had to hurry. His men had already gone to invite those officials to the palace; once they were inside, he would be in charge.
The two soldiers exchanged a glance, their eyes instantly turning sharp.
"yes!"
Instead of trying to capture the emperor, one of them grabbed the empress's arm and held her down, while the other held her face and poured the medicine into her mouth.
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