Chapter 302: Beheading
Zhao Yuanxi stared at him, "Sinner?"
"Your Majesty, it is the Queen Mother who wants to kill me!" Zhao Gao rushed forward and tried to pull the corner of Ying Zheng's clothes.
Before their hands touched, they were pressed to the ground by the people brought by Meng Yi.
Zhao Gao spat out blood, filled with resentment, and struggled madly and roared, "She wanted to murder you! She and Zhang Liang wanted to murder you! Have you forgotten this?"
He has served the king for so long, loyally and without slacking off for a single day. Why should he die just because the Queen Mother wants him to?
Zhao Gao never felt that he had done anything wrong. The reason he lost today was that he was not ruthless enough and failed to poison her directly; he lost because he was a eunuch and the other party was the Queen Mother of Qin; he lost because he was careless and fell into a trap.
Ying Zheng's gaze passed from Zhao Gao and finally fell on the Queen Mother. His eyelashes trembled slightly. He understood better than anyone that the Queen Mother would never do anything to him. She just - didn't like him that much.
Didn't he already know that the Queen Mother disliked him?
Fortunately, the Queen Mother chose Qin. As for the others, they are not that important...
Zhao Yuanxi heard Zhao Gao yelling here, and kicked him a few more times in anger, "You are the only one who has a mouth and can talk, right? You act like a scoundrel all day long, and all you know is to talk nonsense..."
The guards beside him felt their ribs trembling as they kicked one after another. They moved to the side silently, fearing that the empress dowager would kick them. They couldn't help but feel a little sympathy for Eunuch Zhao. Why did he have to mess with the empress dowager?
The king would be beheaded directly, and those who were more ruthless would have their bodies torn into pieces by five horses. The queen mother would suffer a double blow both physically and mentally. After being beaten, she would have to be stabbed again before the end.
After Zhao Yuanxi vented his anger, he calmly said to Ying Zheng, "I'm sorry for what happened before, but Zhao Gao must die today!"
When Ying Zheng knew that Zhao Gao dared to plot against him, he had already sentenced him to death in his heart. He was just a little surprised that the Queen Mother would one day pick up a knife and kill someone. "Meng Yi, take the man away and execute him by beheading in three days."
Seeing him so happy, as if he had already made up his mind, Zhao Yuanxi looked at him straight in the eyes and asked, "Aren't you going to ask why?"
"Zhang Liang has already told me."
"You believe him?" Zhao Yuanxi was a little surprised.
"I don't believe it, so I sent someone to investigate."
She suddenly realized, "You are not angry now? What happened before——"
"Zhang Liang's merits and demerits offset each other, and this matter ends here."
"Then you don't blame me?"
Ying Zheng looked at her deeply, his eyes calm. "You simply made a choice that was beneficial to the Qin State. Why should I blame you?"
The Queen Mother's personality has always been like this and has never changed. It was just that he had asked for too much before.
Hearing this, Zhao Yuanxi was not happy at all, but felt upset.
"That's not the case. If it were now, I would choose to tell you the truth and let you decide for yourself."
Ying Zheng was stunned for a moment, somewhat surprised by the Queen Mother's words. With mixed feelings, he smiled faintly and said, "Then I should be grateful for the Queen Mother's trust in me now."
This was not a look of gratitude at all. Zhao Yuanxi knew in her heart that it would be difficult to regain the lost trust, but she was not discouraged. At least he could stand here and talk to her.
"Can I still visit you later?"
"Of course, it's the same as before. No one will stop you."
Zhao Yuanxi's eyes suddenly lit up, "Really!"
Ying Zheng clenched his fingers. He didn't understand why the Queen Mother was so happy to see him. This made him have another illusion, but as soon as this thought appeared, he immediately extinguished it. It is impossible for a person to step into the same trap twice.
He laughed at his own cowardice, for being trapped by such selfishness.
He is the King of Qin and will be the king of the world. Apart from his country and people, there is nothing more important in the world.
"Your Majesty!" A young palace maid ran over in a hurry, but was stopped at the door by the guards. She pushed and shoved, shouting outside, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty! Hu Bazi is about to give birth!"
Not only Ying Zheng heard the sound clearly, but Zhao Yuanxi also heard it.
Isn't there still a month left? How come she gave birth early?
Zhao Yuanxi hurried out to see what was going on. He saw the palace maid kneeling on the ground, looking panicked. When she saw Zhao Yuanxi coming out, she hurriedly shouted, "Empress Dowager, Empress Dowager, please save Ba Zi!"
"Has the doctor been called?"
The maid hurriedly shook her head, and the moment she saw Ying Zheng, she kowtowed fiercely on the ground, "Your Majesty, even if Ba Zi was wrong, the child in her belly is still yours!"
After hearing this, Zhao Yuanxi finally realized what was going on with Ying Zheng and turned to look at him.
Ying Zheng's expression remained unchanged, and his voice remained even without any fluctuation. "Send the imperial physician's order to go. There's no need to disturb me."
Zhao Gao had already been convicted, so Hu Bazi naturally could not escape. The fact that she dared to drug himself was enough for Ying Zheng to kill her. If it were not for the sake of the child in her belly, Hu Bazi would have been with Zhao Gao instead of just being under house arrest now.
Unexpectedly, she dared to do it but was afraid to take responsibility. She was just confined to her room, but she was scared enough to give birth prematurely.
Zhao Yuanxi was feeling very uncomfortable. Ying Zheng knew from her expression that she wanted to go see Hu Bazi.
"Your Majesty, if you want to go, go ahead. I won't stop you."
She didn't really want to go.
Zhao Yuanxi hesitated for a moment and asked curiously, "Have you named your child?"
"Naming is Feng Chang's job. I just need to choose from them."
Zhao Yuanxi curled her lips, and she asked unnecessarily.
Ying Zheng had so many children, but he didn't seem to care about any of them particularly. Fusu was treated specially because he was the eldest son.
The baby was born all day...
The little palace maid who came yesterday was now kneeling outside Ganquan Palace, "Empress Dowager, Empress Dowager, Bazi said she wants to see you, please go and see her!"
"I don't know how to deliver a baby, and I'm not a royal physician. What can you ask me for?" Zhao Yuanxi was helpless. She didn't have any medicine to help with childbirth, and going there would only make things worse. Could it be that Hu Bazi would be able to give birth to the baby smoothly after seeing her?
But in the end Zhao Yuanxi still went.
As soon as she stepped into the gate of Qionghua Palace, she faintly smelled the smell of blood in the air.
At the door of the side hall, basins of blood were brought out, and the palace people passing by all looked solemn.
Zhao Yuanxi saw Yu Jiao among the many imperial doctors and waved to him.
Yu Jiao walked over quickly and was about to salute the Queen Mother when Zhao Yuanxi stopped him. "What's going on with Hu Bazi?"
He said tremblingly, "Bazi is having a difficult birth. The mother is too weak, the baby is too big, and it's Bazi's first child. This has been going on for nearly ten hours. If the baby still can't be born, then I'm afraid either Hu Bazi or the young master will have to choose."
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