Chapter 301: Execute First and Report Later
"Oh?" Zhao Gao raised his eyebrows. This surprised him a little. He thought the Queen Mother was still unwilling to give up!
It would be better to meet her. She won't live long anyway. After all, they are master and servant, and he is not a cold-blooded person.
"Then go see her!"
Zhao Gao followed the young eunuch to Ganquan Palace.
He looked at the palace servants coming and going around him, feeling regretful that such a bustling place would soon become deserted.
As soon as he entered the door, Zhao Gao couldn't help but cover his nose, but his face was full of pride. Anyone who hindered him must die, even if that person was the most noble person in the world.
Zhao Gao called out tentatively through the curtain, "Your servant greets the Empress Dowager!"
The light in the room was dim, and Zhao Gao could not see what was going on inside. He could only vaguely see a person lying on the bed.
The person inside had remained silent. Zhao Gao felt a little nervous and approached cautiously. "Empress Dowager? Are you asleep?"
"Ahem, you're here!" Zhao Yuanxi's voice came from behind the curtain.
Zhao Gao breathed a sigh of relief, yet felt a touch of regret. He challenged, "What do you want me to do? If it's about the king, I can't help you. After all, the person the king hates most right now is you. He truly hates you! If you weren't the queen mother, you'd have been dragged out and executed!"
"Really? You really want me dead?"
"Look at what you said, how dare I say that!"
Zhao Yuanxi said quietly, "But what if I want you to die?"
Zhao Gao was startled, and before he could react, the door of the hall behind him was locked. At the same time, more than a dozen guards with knives jumped out from all directions.
Zhao Yuanxi parted the curtain and walked out, smiling and saying, "It's not easy to see the king, but it's not difficult for you to come see me."
Zhao Gao's face turned pale and he looked at her warily, his smug look gone. "Are you okay?"
"What can I do?"
"Then what do you mean?" Zhao Gao pretended to be calm.
"Kill you! Aren't you very smart? Can't you see this?"
"I am a close minister to the king! If you kill me, the king—"
"Even if I kill you, the king won't do anything to me!" Zhao Yuanxi interrupted him impatiently. "Do you still remember this medicine? It was Imperial Doctor Li who prescribed it for you! You first used it on him, killing him, and then you used it on me, intending to kill me. Do you think you're so perfect?"
Zhao Yuanxi splashed the tranquilizing soup on his face and said coldly, "Unfortunately, what I hate most is taking medicine."
She even makes the calming soup into a sweet soup, how could she not tell the difference when she drinks it!
"Since you drank it, how can you be fine?"
The medicine he gave the empress dowager was even stronger than that given by Doctor Li. Even if the empress dowager was still alive, she would not live long. This was clearly confirmed by the Imperial Hospital.
"I did drink, and I drank quite a lot! But I'm lucky enough not to die."
Do you think her anti-poison pill is just a decoration?
Seeing that the Queen Mother really intended to kill him, Zhao Gao backed away in fear, "You can't kill me! The King will never forgive you!"
"Thanks to you, the king has already forgiven me, hasn't he? Does it matter whether I kill you or not?"
If you have too many lice, you don't have to worry about their bites. Now she is not afraid of offending Ying Zheng anymore. Anyway, she will kill Zhao Gao first. A favorability level of -50 is not a negative number, and it can't be worse than it is now.
Since Ying Zheng was unwilling to punish him according to Qin law, she would handle it! And it could be done more cleanly!
Although Zhao Gao didn't want to admit it, what he said was true. If the Queen Mother really killed him today, the King would not do anything to her! The Queen Mother and the King had already broken off relations, so she would not have any scruples.
At this thought, Zhao Gao's eyes filled with resentment, and he angrily said, "Why are you killing me? What have I done wrong? If you hadn't arbitrarily transferred me back to Ganquan Palace, would I have resorted to such a desperate measure? Who would want to stay by your side and be your slave?"
Zhao Yuanxi was stunned. "So this is why you're here! Is power so important to you?"
"I climbed the ladder to become the best. Why do you want to deprive me of everything I've worked so hard to gain? Just because you're the Queen Mother, can you decide my fate?"
Zhao Yuanxi was puzzled. "Didn't you choose your own fate? You were the one who decided to come to Yongcheng in the first place. So, if you say that, I shouldn't have given you a chance and should have let you continue to be a eunuch sweeping the floor! Gaosheng, do you still remember your original name?"
Zhao Gao's face turned pale and his body trembled uncontrollably.
"Neither I nor the king have ever treated you unfairly, so how have you repaid me? You've exploited your position to amass wealth, sowed discord between me and the king, colluded with others to plot against the king and kill others, and even poisoned me..."
"What have I said wrongly?"
"When you say you want to be a superior person, do you really want to get there by your own ability?"
Zhao Yuanxi stared at him coldly.
Zhao Gao lowered his head, unwilling to give in. He couldn't die! He had to wait for the king to rescue him!
He suddenly rushed forward like a madman, drew the big knife from the waist of the guard beside him, and approached Zhao Yuanxi.
But before he could get close, Zhao Yuanxi grabbed his arm, snatched the big knife from his hand, and kicked him out. He hit the pillar in the hall in a parabolic posture and fell down heavily.
Everyone could vaguely hear the sound of his bones breaking.
He spat out a mouthful of blood, supported his upper body with his hands, and tried to get up, but his lower body was unable to move at all, so he could only struggle on the ground.
"you……"
Zhao Yuanxi thrust the knife into his neck. "You've forgotten I'm stronger than you! Why do you always do things beyond your capabilities? You're truly a sewer rat. You'll never make it out of the water in this lifetime. You can only do things behind people's backs!"
Zhao Gao's blood suddenly boiled over and he vomited a large mouthful of blood.
He didn't expect that he would lose so easily, without even a chance to fight back.
Zhao Yuanxi stood up and said calmly, "Although I don't quite agree with your point of view, you are not wrong. Power is indeed a good thing. Look, I don't need any reason to deal with you."
In history, Zhao Gao was able to call a deer a horse because he was extremely powerful at the time and no one dared to oppose him, right?
Unfortunately, in this world, he no longer has the opportunity to call a horse a zebra.
The door, which was originally closed, suddenly opened from the outside. Zhao Yuanxi turned around and saw Ying Zheng walking in against the light.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, help me!" Zhao Gao hurriedly called for help.
Everyone knelt on the ground in unison.
Zhao Yuanxi's hand holding the knife trembled. She was hesitating whether to kill Zhao Gao now, but the knife in her hand had already been snatched away by him.
"Why would the Queen Mother dirty her hands for a mere criminal slave?"
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