The Lu family will never waste the favorable situation they have finally gained.
Of course, Lu Tong was unwilling to be defeated like this. If he had not been worried that the old eunuch would shoot him with thousands of arrows if they disagreed with him, he would not have entered the palace just now.
All the way to the Cining Palace, he had been thinking about how to break the deadlock.
Faced with the empress dowager's ruthlessness, he immediately put into practice the idea he had prepared.
He fell to his knees with a thud. Lu Tong walked a few steps on his knees with tears in his eyes, then clasped his hands together and raised them to his forehead. Before Madam Lu could react, he leaned forward and rested his forehead on the ground, "Your humble servant, obey your command."
Da Lu was moved to tears by him. If possible, why would she be willing to kill her own brother who was born of the same mother?
With a "puff" sound, Da Lu spat out a mouthful of blood without any warning.
"Empress!" The faces of the palace maids trusted by Mrs. Lu changed drastically. Two of them quickly ran out of the palace, constantly shouting "Imperial Physician, Imperial Physician". The others gathered around Mrs. Lu, staring at Lu Tong and his family of three with a wary look on their faces.
Lu Tong raised his hands as if to avoid suspicion, stood up and stepped back. However, before the palace maids trusted by Mrs. Lu could breathe a sigh of relief, they also began to feel unwell.
"father?"
"master?"
Xiao Lu and Lu Tong's wife, who also vomited blood uncontrollably, stared at Lu Tong with shock, fear and disbelief.
Lu Tong quickly took off his coat, then put his hands in the water and scrubbed them hard.
He used the basin of water that was originally used by the empress dowager to maintain the humidity in the room one by one. Lu Tong, who had been holding his breath for a long time, finally gasped for breath, stood up straight again, and looked coldly at all the poisoned people in the room.
The Queen Mother was now completely unconscious, and the imperial physician who had rushed in to take her pulse began to have difficulty moving due to inhaling the poison powder.
As for Lu Tong's wife, Empress Xiao Lu, and the Empress Dowager's trusted palace maids, their limbs were numb and they were completely unable to move.
"Lu Tong, you, how dare you..." The old eunuch who had forced him to enter the palace alone glared at Lu Tong with gritted teeth. If looks could kill, Lu Tong would have been tortured to death eight times by now.
Lu Tong snorted coldly, "Why shouldn't I dare?"
Mrs. Lu is about to kill him. Can he still be soft-hearted towards her and just sit there and wait for death?
"Speaking of which, I still have to thank my good sister. If she hadn't been soft-hearted and not on guard against me, I wouldn't have been able to get close to her so easily."
As the saying goes, a man cannot be a hero without poison. If he couldn't be cruel enough, he would have no chance to serve the poison he bought at a high price from southern Xinjiang in front of the empress dowager.
After all, his wife and daughter were both forced to kneel on both sides of the empress dowager's couch.
If he hadn't been ruthless, today it wouldn't be these people who were poisoned to death by him, but he would have been killed by the Queen Mother.
He didn't want to drink the poison that the old eunuch had prepared long ago, but this was the only way to send the person who wanted him dead to hell.
As for his wife and daughter.
His daughter has enjoyed prosperity and wealth for the Lu family for so many years, and now it is time for her to make further contributions to the Lu family.
When he became emperor, he would definitely confer the title of Empress upon his wife. Lu Tong felt that even after his death, his wife would be pleased with his elevated status.
Lu Tong's wife and Little Lu, who were represented by him in a strong way and had no time to express their opinions, had now completely lost consciousness like Big Lu.
After killing Da Lu and all her confidants in an unexpected way, Lu Tong walked into the yard and fired a flare as a signal.
The guards in the palace who had already defected to Lu Tong responded to his call immediately and gathered from all over the palace in the direction where the signal arrows were sent.
The assassins he left outside the palace also launched a charge towards the palace gate at the same time.
The dense rain of arrows took the lives of most of the death warriors, but the remaining few rushed into the midst of the guards who were shooting arrows.
They used all their methods and soon disrupted the formation of the imperial guards. The reinforcements urgently brought in by Lu Tong's eldest son - Lu Dingchang and Cui Yuan, with their respective soldiers, quickly pressed forward behind the death squad.
Yu Zizhen had been receiving the live broadcast from here through the baby voice system. She changed her wet clothes in the carriage and said, "Tsk tsk, this Lu Tong is really cruel."
If Lu Tong's wife and Little Lu were not both near Big Lu, Yu Zizhen believed that Big Lu would definitely not let Lu Tong get close to her so easily. After all, before today, everyone in the capital knew how loving Lu Tong and his wife were, and how much he loved his only daughter.
Da Lu probably didn't expect that her brother, who was born of the same mother, would not only be so cruel as to kill her, the sister who had always been superior to him, but also be so cruel as to kill his first wife and daughter who had always obeyed him.
A single miscalculation can cost you blood. This is the cruelty of political struggle.
"Dad!" The first thing Lu Tong's eldest son saw when he rushed into the Queen Mother's bedroom was Lu Tong standing in the corridor, looking up at the sky.
He rushed to Lu Tong in two steps. "Where are my mother and my sister? Are they okay?"
Lu Tong glanced at him. "They were poisoned too. The Empress Dowager, His Majesty, the Empress, the First Prince, the Second Prince, the late Emperor's youngest son, and your mother, who was innocently dragged into this incident, were all poisoned to death by Concubine Ning and the Fan family."
Lu Tong's eldest son suddenly looked up at his father, and after a moment he choked with sobs and replied "yes".
As for Concubine Ning and the Fan family, he and his father knew what was going on. Naturally, they also knew who killed Lu Tong's first wife and Empress Lu.
The two of them tacitly set the tone for this matter. Lu Tong's eldest son was shocked by his father's cruelty, but at the same time he deceived himself and comforted himself that Lu Tong had no choice but to do so.
Following Lu Tong's instructions, he asked Lu Dingchang to lead people to arrest the Fan family.
As for Concubine Ning, who was dreaming of soaring to the sky, Lu Tong directly asked someone to prepare a "confession" for her. After forcing her to press her fingerprints, the people sent by Lu Tong fed her poison and treated her as if she had committed suicide out of fear of punishment.
After dealing with these matters in the palace, Lu Tong was about to send someone to invite those old ministers in the court who were old and had long experience but were either dependent on him or too weak to stand up straight. However, the guards who had defected to Lu Tong hurriedly sent someone to deliver a very bad news.
"My lord, this is terrible! The eldest prince's bedroom is on fire! And your majesty, the eldest prince, the second prince, and His Highness Ke are all gone."
Lu Tong frowned, "Let someone put out the fire first."
Lu Tong, who aspired to be emperor, had already regarded the palace as his home, so he naturally would not let the fire spread and cause him greater losses.
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