Chapter 937 The throne came from an illegitimate source
Upon hearing this, Yun Que paused her hand, which was massaging Princess Huayang's shoulders, and said respectfully, "There has been considerable criticism within the court regarding His Royal Highness Prince Xuan's sudden death. Fearing that the two events might be linked, I took it upon myself to have Ten Days of Wine added to Concubine De's meal."
Ten-day Drunk, as the name suggests, means that the poisoned person only has ten days to live.
However, compared to those deadly poisons that can easily penetrate the intestines and stomach and cause people to suffer a torture worse than death, this poison is much milder. Not only will it not make the poisoned person feel any pain, it will even create ten nights of sweet dreams for him.
Until, on the last night, I stopped breathing in my dream.
Princess Huayang couldn't help but chuckle, "When did you become so soft-hearted?"
Yu Que lowered her eyes, pulled the corner of her lips and said, "This servant has killed too many people in these years, and the blood on her hands can no longer be washed clean. I am afraid that after I die, I will be hunted down and killed in the underworld.
Let Concubine De suffer less before her death, and consider it as accumulating blessings for yourself."
"You really are..." Princess Huayang sighed, not knowing what she was thinking about. She said with emotion, "In the blink of an eye, you have been by my side for more than 20 years."
She changed the subject and said, "I heard that you are planning to buy a house outside. Have you decided when to leave?"
Yun Que smiled bitterly and shook his head, "I'm not leaving."
The person who made her want to leave the Princess's Mansion and live an ordinary life for a few years is gone.
She was destined to rot in the mud.
Princess Huayang didn't hear any resentment in her words. She nodded with satisfaction and smiled, "Yuque, you know I can't live without you."
Yun Que followed her words and said, "This servant will always be with the princess until death."
Hearing this, Princess Huayang's smile deepened. "Don't say such unlucky words. You must live a long and healthy life with me."
She raised her hand and patted the hand on her shoulder, saying meaningfully: "In a few years, I will establish a female household for you and appoint you as the first female official in Da'an."
There was joy in Yunque's eyes. He quickly took two steps back, knelt down and kowtowed to her.
Her voice trembled as she spoke, "Thank you, Princess."
She paused, raised her eyes and looked directly at Princess Huayang, and said word by word, "I thank Your Majesty the Empress."
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"Ahem." Emperor Xuande looked at the evidence of Princess Huayang's crimes in his hand and said with a wry smile, "If she really wanted this position, why did she insist on pushing me to the throne in the first place?"
Recalling the past, tears welled up in his cloudy eyes.
He couldn't remember when it started, but the sister who only had her as her brother in her eyes and even had to share half of the lotus seed soup with him gradually became a stranger.
Until it became something he could no longer recognize.
Mo Jinchuan stood aside, his face icy as he said, "Aunt knows very well that as a girl, she can't persuade those people to risk their clan being exterminated and join her in the uprising."
Emperor Xuande's expression suddenly darkened. "Xiaowu, don't speak of your aunt like that."
He said to himself, "She has been very smart since she was little. The teachers in the village often said that if she were a boy, she would definitely achieve great things in the future.
I knew she had a grudge, but I never imagined she had the ambition to become emperor herself."
At the end, Emperor Xuande couldn't help laughing, his eyes red as he said, "I was too stupid to actually believe her words when she said she had no desire for power, and even gave her the opportunity to make friends with powerful officials in the court."
He looked at Mo Jinchuan and asked coldly, "Where did you get these things?"
Even though he didn't say it, Mo Jinchuan and Song Yanxi could see that he still felt a little relieved in his heart.
What if these were all fabricated by people with ulterior motives to drive a wedge between the siblings?
Apart from his mother, Dai Qiu was the person closest to him in this world. He found it hard to believe that she wanted him dead.
Under Emperor Xuande's hopeful gaze, Mo Jinchuan said word by word, "It came from the oral account of my aunt's consort, Lu Shao."
"How could he, a criminal who never leaves his house, know all this?"
Emperor Xuande frowned, "Xiaowu, this man has let down your aunt and cousin, and is unfit to be a husband or a father.
This person's words cannot be trusted."
Mo Jinchuan didn't answer but asked, "Father, do you really not know that the prince consort has been imprisoned in the other courtyard for years?"
There were few things in the capital that could be hidden from Emperor Xuande's eyes.
But at the end of his words, he suddenly thought of something and his expression turned ugly in an instant.
He looked carefully at the names on the list, and his lips moved when he thought of those people who were interested in homosexuality.
After a while, he angrily said: "This is ridiculous!
Even if Lu Shao was wrong, his brother was also a founding hero of Da'an. How could she humiliate him like this?"
Mo Jinchuan asked, "Father, do you really not know what kind of life Prince Consort Xue has been leading up to now?"
Emperor Xuande's expression darkened, "I know that with your aunt's temper, she won't let him off easily.
But after so many years, her anger should have subsided. Who would have thought that she..."
Thinking of how he had arranged the marriage between the two, Emperor Xuande closed his eyes and said, "Brother Xue, I am sorry for you."
When he opened his eyes again, his cloudy eyes were filled with sternness. "As the eldest princess of a country, she behaves so absurdly. I really have indulged her too much!"
Mo Jinchuan handed over another piece of evidence without saying a word, and then looked at the eunuch who lowered his head beside him, "Brother Liu, you can tell me the rest."
Liu Shan took off his hat, plopped to his knees, and cried out in tears, "My general died unjustly. Your Majesty, please seek justice for my general!"
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No one knew what Liu Shandu said to Emperor Xuande. All we knew was that not long after he left, Concubine De was summoned to the palace to serve him.
Princess Huayang sneered when she heard this, "He's quite courageous. He's not afraid of dying at the hands of Concubine De."
Emperor Xuande was fine, but Concubine De was in trouble.
When the people from Xinhe Palace found her in the middle of the night, she had been hanging in the pavilion for two hours and was already dead.
The Buddhist temple, which she cleaned three times a day, spontaneously caught fire after her body was discovered, and the fire reduced it to ashes.
The pomegranate tree that she had taken good care of died overnight, and even the most experienced craftsman in tending flowers and plants in the palace could not find out the specific reason.
Soon, some people associated this strange phenomenon with ghosts and gods.
Apart from this, what other power could have done such incredible things overnight?
Without adding fuel to the fire, some people linked Concubine Yu's previous nightmare to this incident.
"Retribution, it must be retribution!"
I don’t know who first came up with this statement, but then it exploded like raw water dropped into a boiling oil pan.
The rumors spread more and more fiercely, and soon people outside the palace started saying that Mo's throne was obtained in an illegitimate way and had angered God.
The deaths of Crown Prince Huairen and the Sixth Prince, the injuries of brothers Mo Jinchuan and Mo Lingxuan, and the "deaths" of Prince Xuan and Concubine De in just a few days.
Every single incident is God’s warning to the world.
The Mohists cannot sit firmly on the throne that was obtained through illegitimate means!
If you continue to hold on, it won't be as simple as the death of a concubine or a prince.
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