Chapter 368 The Dust Settles (Final Chapter)
King Cheng's expression changed slightly, but he immediately returned to his usual gentle face: "Your Majesty, it is great that you are alive. I kowtow to Your Majesty."
He fell to his knees on the ground, and the court officials came to their senses. They all knelt on the ground and shouted, "The emperor is well."
Empress Sun was the only one left standing there.
The emperor looked at her coldly, and for the first time the true face of his great empress was revealed to him.
When Prince Cheng saw the queen standing still, he said anxiously, "The queen is so happy that she has gone silly. We thought that when the emperor passed away in the fire, the queen fainted from crying."
Empress Sun also came to her senses at this moment. The imperial guards did not obey their orders, and Yuan's army was nowhere to be seen. Now was not the time to be stubborn.
She gritted her teeth and knelt down: "I am very happy to see that Your Majesty is still alive."
The emperor sneered: "It doesn't matter whether you are really happy or not. What matters is that the crown prince is the foundation of the country. Zhao Yuxuan is unworthy of the position. I declare that I have deposed him from the position of crown prince and conferred him the title of..."
Empress Sun stood up suddenly, interrupting the emperor, pointing at him with anger on her face: "Zhao Rong! Have you forgotten how you got the throne? If it weren't for my Sun family, would you have the chance to sit on that supreme throne? You dare to dethrone my Xuan'er from the position of crown prince? Forget it!"
"Father, I am right. My daughter Qing'e is pregnant..."
Zhao Yuxuan knelt on the ground crying.
"No need to kneel to him!"
Empress Sun angrily pulled Zhao Yuxuan and said, "She is a woman from outside the palace, and she is also your stain. These are all traps set by others! Maybe it was set by your biological father. He has long wanted to eradicate the Sun family. How could he let you, who has the blood of the Sun family, inherit the throne?"
Zhao Yuxuan was stunned, "Mother... why?"
The emperor looked at them with chilly dismay.
King Cheng couldn't hold back his expression, but he was still rational and quickly pulled the queen to his side: "Queen, please be careful with your words."
Empress Sun shook his hand away and angrily said, "You forced me to enter the palace and even separated me from Yuan's eldest son. Now that my Xuan'er is useless, I am not your abandoned child, right?"
Empress Sun pointed at the emperor and King Cheng with a cold face: "I lost today, it doesn't matter, Yuan Dalang has already led his troops to besiege the city, I want to see what you can do then? Do you think the Mu family army can save you? Mu Junyan's beloved wife and son are in my hands, what can you do if you are just an emperor? Who will own the throne!"
"Yuan's army can't come."
A clear voice came.
Everyone looked over and saw Mu Junyan striding towards them in black armor and a black fur coat.
Two beautiful figures followed behind him.
They are Gu Huan and Zhao Luoxuan.
Zhao Luoxuan stepped forward with tears in her eyes and knelt down in front of Queen Sun: "Mother, ambition will blind your eyes, and hatred will ruin your judgment. Mother, please turn back."
Empress Sun looked at her in a daze: "You...are you on the same side as them? Yesterday in the palace, you said you couldn't bear to leave me and your brothers, but you lied to us? He is not dead, and Mu Junyan brought troops to Bianjing. You know that, right? Do you want your biological mother and brothers to die?"
Zhao Luoxuan cried and shook her head, "Mother, I didn't know, but I know that an emperor should be benevolent and considerate of the people. You forced the disaster-stricken states in the south to pay back taxes and increase taxes. Have you ever thought about how they live? You have never seen the people go hungry, and even sell their children for a bite of food. You don't know that in your eyes, a mere two taels of tax silver is the food for their entire family for a year."
Empress Sun was so irritated by Zhao Luoxuan's words that she pushed away Zhao Luoxuan who was grabbing her sleeve.
Zhao Luoxuan was caught off guard and was pushed to the ground.
She was too anxious after giving birth and did not take good care of herself. She rushed here, feeling anxious and uncomfortable, and fell ill with a fever as soon as she arrived in Beijing.
But in the past few days, in order to get his mother and the prince to stop, he has been running back and forth between the palace and the farm where Gu Huan lives. He also knows that the Queen has secretly sent people to monitor Gu Huan.
She became more and more anxious, but there were some things she couldn't say. Once she let out a word because she knew the truth, thousands of people might die.
She had not taken good care of her illness and had been struggling to get here. When her beloved mother pushed her away, her heart was chilled.
Gu Huan hurried forward, supported Zhao Luoxuan, and said softly, "Xuanxuan, get up quickly, the ground is too cold. It's only been two months since you gave birth, and your body hasn't recovered well yet."
"Get lost! I don't have an unfilial daughter like you!"
Empress Sun roared.
Zhao Luoxuan raised her tearful eyes and looked at her sadly: "Does mother also regard her daughter as a chess piece? From the moment she was allowed to marry, she was the chess piece you were going to discard? You have never regarded me as a daughter. In your heart and eyes, you only have the prince as your son, and everyone around you is there to be his stepping stone."
Queen Sun's eyes were red, and she gritted her teeth: "Yes, yes. Only Xuan'er can give me what I want!"
"ha."
Zhao Luoxuan laughed and cried, and then she fainted.
Gu Huan quickly hugged her and said, "Someone come quickly."
The maids quickly helped Zhao Luoxuan up and sent her away.
Gu Huan looked at Queen Sun and said, "Queen, do you know how Qing'e's parents died? Do you know that even if today's incident hadn't happened, the Sun family would have been finished."
Empress Sun glared: "You bitch, it was you who bewitched Xuan Xuan and used her."
Mu Junyan's face turned cold: "Queen, please be careful with your words."
Gu Huan smiled and said, "I have heard the word slut since I was old enough to understand. At first, I was very bothered by it and tried my best to get rid of it. I almost lost my life. But since I met my prince, he has never looked down on me because of my background. At first, I thought that the prince felt sorry for me, but I saw how the Mu family army treated the people of Southern Xinjiang as their relatives. They not only sacrificed their lives for them, but also helped them rebuild their homes. It was then that I realized that there is no distinction between noble and humble people in the world. We are all born and die naked. Who is more noble than who, and who is more humble than who?"
Gu Huan turned and looked at the court officials: "Prince Cheng bought and sold official positions for his own benefit, and did not hesitate to frame meritorious officials, ignoring the suffering of the people. He committed heinous crimes, and each one of them was accompanied by bloody murders. And he dared to do this because he had Queen Sun and the Crown Prince as his backers."
"cheap……"
Bang!
The tail of the sword hit Empress Sun's face hard with such force that she was knocked to the ground in an instant, and a mouthful of blood spurted out, mixed with a broken tooth.
Mu Junyan put away his sword and adjusted it: "If the Queen can't speak, I can ask someone to teach her."
Queen Sun and Prince Cheng looked terrified.
The emperor sighed and said, "The queen will be banished to the cold palace, and the Sun family will be handed over to the three courts for trial. Zhao Yufeng has both moral integrity and is good at both civil and military affairs. He is worthy of being the crown prince. The Ministry of Rites will handle it according to the rules."
After saying a long string of words, he started coughing, and then he coughed up a mouthful of blood.
All the court officials and imperial doctors were terrified.
Gu Huan finally breathed a sigh of relief when she saw Queen Sun and Prince Cheng being taken away.
What happened afterwards was not something she wanted to worry about.
She returned to the farm and saw Chen Li giving Zhao Luoxuan an acupuncture injection.
Zhao Luoxuan's eyes were dull. When she saw Gu Huan come in, she immediately sat up. The needle in her arm hurt terribly when it moved, but she didn't care.
"Sister, my mother..."
Gu Huan walked over quickly, sat beside her bed, and said softly, "It's okay. The emperor didn't depose the queen, he just gave the position of crown prince to Zhao Yufeng."
Zhao Luoxuan shed tears: "It's their own karma that caused the bad consequences."
…
The next day, Zhao Yufeng became the crown prince, and Zhao Yuxuan moved out of the East Palace and was imprisoned.
Ten days later, the emperor abdicated and Zhao Yufeng ascended the throne.
The Sun family was raided, nine clans were implicated, and the court was purged.
Mu Junyan was conferred the title of Prince Regent, and Princess Regent Gu Huan was conferred the title of the first-rank imperial edict.
The new emperor merged the original Chengwang Palace with Ping'an Prince Palace, and the Ministry of Works accelerated its renovation and named it the Regent Prince Palace.
Two months later, Mu Junyan, Gu Huan and Tuan Tuan moved into the Regent's Palace.
Gu Huan looked around the magnificent palace and couldn't help but sigh.
"I don't want to take care of such a big palace. It's exhausting."
Mu Junyan smiled and stretched out his long arms to hug her: "Don't worry about it, just give birth to the baby."
Gu Huan frowned and nudged his chest with her elbow: "I'm not a sow. I just give birth."
"Hahahaha, fine, fine, my wife can have the baby if she wants to. You don't have to worry about the palace because she may not be able to get out of bed often."
Gu Huan glared at him, her pretty face blushing, and she lowered her voice and said fiercely, "What nonsense are you talking about in front of the child and so many people?"
"Well, let's go inside and talk about it? It's a good opportunity to see if the carved bed in the bedroom is suitable for us."
Mu Junyan picked him up and said to the smiling Tuantuan, "Son, shall I take your mother away first? Why don't you go check on your own yard?"
Tuantuan raised his little head and said, "Okay, father. Your son will take Qiqi to see the new yard."
"Good son!"
Mu Junyan was very satisfied.
Gu Huan was so embarrassed that she didn't even dare to raise her face.
Why do I have a feeling that the days ahead won't be easy?
It will be exhausting.
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