Chapter 313: The rest of my life dominated by monkeys (two chapters in one)
Emperor Yongjia understood that Zhao Shiqing came to avenge the old Prince of Liang, Zhao Yuncai!
Who told me that the old Princess of Liang disliked Zhao Shiqing and drove Zhao Shiqing out of the palace before the 49th day after the death of the old Prince of Liang?
Yes, it was Concubine Qiao. Concubine Qiao had correspondence with the old Princess Liang, and therefore knew a lot about the Liang Palace. Otherwise, I would not have made up my mind to let Zhao Tingxuan go back and replace him with Zhao Yunnuan to come to Beijing.
Even the news of Zhao Shiqing's break with Prince Liang's Mansion was learned by Concubine Qiao from a letter from the old Princess Liang.
But now it seems that this news is not true!
Not only did Zhao Shiqing not draw a clear line with the Prince Liang's Mansion, she also deliberately got to know the retired emperor and Zhao Guanyue, and then went to Beijing to seek revenge!
Concubine Qiao is such a waste. It is true that like mother like son. Both mother and son are wastes. They have ruined my good cards!
As for the Lao Shi family, Emperor Yongjia knew nothing about it.
But Zhao Shiqing was worried that he didn't know, so he specifically mentioned Zhuxitang in Qinglu County.
Emperor Yongjia was not unfamiliar with this place, because just a few days ago, when General Lu Gan reported the information he had found about Yang Shengqiu, he mentioned this place.
The old doctor who was good at treating eye diseases settled in this village and died in this village.
Even though he knew that this place existed, Emperor Yongjia still couldn't remember the old Shi family.
As the saying goes, when the city gate is on fire, the fish in the pond will suffer.
When princes fight each other, who cares about the life and death of small fish and shrimps?
However, there is one thing that Emperor Yongjia knows very well, that is, Zhao Shiqing played an indispensable role in his current miserable situation.
Even these countless crows were attracted by her.
This is a witch!
"Witch! Witch!" Emperor Yongjia roared loudly.
Zhao Shiqing was unhappy. She was obviously a fairy, but this old bastard actually falsely accused her of being a witch!
I can tolerate my uncle, but I can’t tolerate my aunt!
But not now!
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The only three remaining men of Shan Ye eventually committed suicide. They were not descendants of the previous dynasty, but well-trained killers. They regarded life as worthless, to others as well as to themselves.
Shan Ye watched his men fall to the ground, but he did not have the courage to commit suicide. Although he was Shan Ye, he was just an ordinary person who took turns in this position. In terms of ferocity and cruelty, he was far inferior to these men.
Shan Ye dropped his knife and surrendered. He used the shortest time to convince himself: I am a descendant of the royal family. My body and hair are inherited from my parents. I am different from those killers who were orphans. I don’t commit suicide not because I am cowardly, but because of filial piety!
Zhao Shiqing also didn't want him to die in vain. Her parents and relatives died at the hands of Shanmen. She couldn't sleep or eat unless Shanmen was eradicated.
Li Qing led the Jinyiwei to clean up the Wuji Temple inside and out. The crisis was resolved, and the royal family members and nobles who were isolated outside the Wuji Temple finally came in.
The retired emperor wrote an edict on the spot, accusing Concubine Li Wei of confusing the royal bloodline and deceiving the emperor. She was deposed from her position as Concubine Li and banished to the cold palace. After her death, she was not allowed to enter the imperial mausoleum and was buried as a commoner.
The Wei clan was implicated and three generations of the clan were executed. All descendants of the nine generations within ten generations were not allowed to take the imperial examinations or become officials.
Zhao Xuan, son of the Wei family, falsely claimed the throne and brought chaos to the court. He was deposed, expelled from his clan, and given the surname Li. He was imprisoned for life, his descendants demoted to commoners, and the males were exiled 3,000 miles. His descendants were enslaved for life without pardon.
Women were required to become nuns in Ci'en Temple and were not allowed to leave for the rest of their lives.
The third prince committed regicide and was executed by lingchi.
The old lady Wei of the Baoqing Marquis Mansion deceived the emperor, confused the royal bloodline, and killed innocent people. Her imperial edict was revoked and she was sentenced to death by slicing.
The Baoqing Marquisate has failed to honor the emperor, and its title and property have been confiscated.
Marquis Baoqing was executed by slicing, and the other members of the clan were dismissed from their official positions and returned to their ancestral homes, and were never allowed to enter Beijing for the rest of their lives.
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This time, the retired emperor finally did not care about his remaining face. The edict to depose the emperor was posted in prominent places in the streets and alleys of the capital, and was sent to all directions at the fastest speed.
So everyone in the court and the country knew the reason why the emperor was deposed. Not only did he come to the throne illegitimately, but more importantly, Li Xuan was not of royal blood at all.
The emperor raised someone else's son for forty years!
But some people also think that the emperor is too kind.
The Wei family was not sentenced to death. Only three members of the Wei clan were executed, and Li Xuan was still alive.
Just ask this kind of thing, which man can tolerate it?
If it were an ordinary person, it would probably be a case of a white knife going in and a red knife coming out.
But the emperor spared their lives.
Of course, more people believe that this is the emperor's way of accumulating merit for his grandson, and he does not want his grandson's hands to be stained with blood before he ascends the throne.
This is the most logical, and even later generations think so.
At this time, in a dungeon in the capital, Li Xuan was undergoing daily torture.
This torture is not the tiger bench or pepper spray, but a group of monkeys!
It is said that these are wild monkeys caught from Mount Emei in Shu. They have strange temperaments and are wild and difficult to tame.
After arriving in the capital, the monkeys' living habits changed. They slept every morning.
There was a small door in Li Xuan's cell that led directly to the monkey room. Every afternoon, that small door would open, and the monkeys would sneak through. At that moment, Li Xuan was not only their prey, but also their toy, and even the object of their venting.
They stripped Li Xuan of his clothes, dragged him on the ground by his hair, and forced him to walk on all fours like them.
They also like to study Li Xuan's limbs and bones, and will even fight for Li Xuan. Whenever this happens, Li Xuan, who is being fought over, is often the one who is most seriously injured.
When the monkeys are tired of playing, they return to the monkey house to sleep. The jailer will then treat Li Xuan's wounds. Li Xuan cannot die, he must live, preferably for a few more decades.
Li Xuan tried to commit suicide by banging his head against the wall, biting his tongue, and going on a hunger strike, but he was always rescued at the critical moment.
He hit his head against the wall and it was bleeding.
The monkeys saw him banging his head against the wall, so they came up with a new way to play. They would grab his head and bang it against the wall whenever they had the chance.
Later, he regretted it countless times and hit the wall.
He bit his tongue to commit suicide, but not only did he not die, he became half-mute and could only make unclear sounds, and could not even shout for help.
As for the hunger strike, when he was dying of hunger, he was saved by a monkey who shit in his mouth...
Li Xuan wanted to die, but he never dared to seek death again. He didn't know what new tricks these monkeys would learn next time.
Over time, Li Xuan became more and more obedient from his initial resistance. When the monkey came, he would lie down and greet his master.
Zhao Shiqing is a good girl with a sense of responsibility. Since she asked the emperor for a favor and saved Li Xuan's life, she will not just sit there and do nothing.
Especially when the monkeys first arrived, they were not used to the local climate and were timid, so she came a few more times until the monkeys completely let themselves go, and only then did she feel relieved.
At the beginning, she came here every few days and would bring Zhen Wuduo with her. Zhao Guanyue also came a few times in disguise, but she felt more and more nauseous and even vomited once. Since then, she rarely came here.
When this group of monkeys started to treat Li Xuan as one of their own kind and it became boring, she replaced him with a new group of monkeys.
Li Xuan had a strong vitality. He spent a full thirteen years in that dungeon, which was exactly the same time as his reign.
His death was related to Zhao Shiqing.
At that time, Zhao Shiqing was too lazy to teach the monkeys the rules, and the jailer also began to slack off. The monkeys lost their sense of propriety while playing, and there was no jailer to stop them in time, so they fought again for Li Xuan. They used too much force and Li Xuan died.
The death was extremely tragic, and the body was torn into pieces.
After Li Xuan died, Zhao Guanyue ordered his body to be fed to dogs.
Concubine Li, now Xiao Wei, was banished to the cold palace, and the one living next door to her was Concubine Qiao, now she should be called Qiao.
Because Qiao had her nephew cuckolded, she completely offended the Qiao family. Although the Qiao family was not implicated, all the Qiao family members in officialdom were ostracized and had to retire and return home.
It is conceivable that the Qiao family members hated Qiao with a vengeance. The second son of the Qiao family even wrote a book, describing Qiao as the reincarnation of a fox spirit and a witch who brought disaster to the country and the people.
Qiao, who was banished to the cold palace, had nothing and the Qiao family didn't care about her. She had been rich and prosperous for half her life, but now she had to look at the faces of those lowly eunuchs. She was living a life worse than death.
Suddenly one day, she learned that Xiao Wei had moved next door, and Qiao finally found someone to vent her anger on.
A large part of the reason why she ended up in this situation was because of Xiao Wei. If she hadn't switched the boy for the girl, how could she have suffered such a tragedy today?
Relying on her youth, Mrs. Qiao would rush to the next door and beat up Mrs. Wei at any time. Although Mrs. Wei was old, she would not show any weakness when she went crazy.
So these two people who were once invincible in the harem fought and cursed each other every day, providing countless entertainment for the eunuchs and maids in the cold palace.
Finally one day, Mrs. Qiao blinded Mrs. Wei's eyes. In desperation, Mrs. Wei bit Mrs. Qiao's throat. Mrs. Qiao was in unbearable pain. She stretched out her hands to grab around and knocked over a bowl. She fumbled for a piece of broken porcelain and inserted it into Mrs. Wei's back.
This once good mother-in-law and daughter-in-law loved and hated each other for a lifetime, and finally died on the same day of the same month of the same year.
The two had long been demoted to commoners and could not be buried in the imperial mausoleum after their death. The Wei family had few descendants, and after the three clans were exterminated, there was basically no one left. The Qiao family hated the Qiao family to the core, and no one collected the bodies of the two. Their bodies were rolled up in a torn mat and thrown into a mass grave.
Of course, this is all in the past.
As the news of the exile of the adult male members of the Feng family spread, the capital city was decorated with lights and lanterns everywhere, and it was the Spring Festival again.
In the past two months, the retired emperor has taken over the government again. He has been idle for more than ten years. The morning court sessions every day have made him feel sore in the waist and legs and drowsy.
So, just after the Spring Festival, Zhao Guanyue ascended the throne.
The moment the young emperor took over the imperial seal from the long-abdicated emperor, a new chapter began in the Dayong Empire.
The first imperial decree issued by Zhao Guanyue after he ascended the throne was to confer the title of Duke of Protector of the Country on Xiao Zhen.
This is also the youngest duke in the history of Dayong.
When choosing a location for the Duke's Mansion, Princess Jiayi, no, now it's the Grand Princess Jiayi, and Prince Consort Xiao both took a fancy to a house not far from the Princess' Mansion, but Xiao Zhen disagreed. In the end, they chose the house next to the Princess' Mansion. However, this Princess' Mansion was not that Princess' Mansion, but the Grand Princess Jiabao's Mansion.
After being granted the mansion by Princess Jiabao, this became Zhao Shiqing's parents' home in the capital.
Xiao Zhen had not yet married, and he was the only master in the Duke's Mansion. He wanted Zhen Wuduo to move in, but Zhen Wuduo refused and said that if he moved in, he had to do so in the name of his adoptive father, otherwise there was no deal.
Of course Xiao Zhen refused to give in.
The old man didn't want to live with him. The Duke's Mansion was nothing compared to the freedom of Tianshui Hutong.
After the emperor was deposed that day, Zhao Shiqing no longer had to hide her whereabouts. She and Wan Ruyi moved back to Tianshui Hutong. It was not until the Princess's Mansion was renovated that Wan Ruyi reluctantly moved out.
Compared to the title Jiabao, she prefers the name the old man gave her, Wan Ruyi.
So later she would come back every few days, talk with Aunt Ji, and do handicrafts with Xiuxiu.
Everyone is changing. Children are growing up, young people are maturing, the old people are letting go of their resentment, and even Xiaoguai has brought back a little female eagle.
Only Wan Ruyi has not changed. Even though wrinkles have crept up to the corners of her eyes, her eyes are still clear.
Xiao Zhen still couldn't deal with Zhen Wuduo, but Wan Ruyi fully supported his and Zhao Shiqing's relationship.
Xiao Zhen wrote another sincere letter and sent Dazhuang to Liang to ask Liang Wang Zhao Tinghan to marry Nanyang Princess Zhao Shiqing.
Zhao Tinghan readily agreed and sent people to the capital.
The day after the people from Prince Liang's Mansion arrived in Beijing, Xiao Zhen went to see Zhao Shiqing.
"I would like to ask the Emperor to grant me a marriage. Do you agree? If not, then I will wait a little longer. I can wait, really."
Zhao Shiqing tilted her head and looked at him for a while, then suddenly asked, "Where's the painting that Princess Huixin gave you that day at the elegant residence in the forest? I want to see it."
Xiao Zhen was stunned: "What painting?"
Zhao Shiqing: "Princess Huixin came to see you and wanted to sleep with you. Later she gave you a painting. That's the painting I'm talking about."
Xiao Zhen was confused. No, let him sort it out. Hui Xin wanted to sleep with him? Did Hui Xin say that?
Zhao Shiqing: "Don't play dumb. I've been waiting for you to admit it. I've been waiting for a long time. If you don't explain this clearly, what's the point of granting me a marriage? You're crazy!"
Xiao Zhen: Who can tell me who is slandering me?
The curtain with the swastika pattern swayed gently, and a round orange figure emerged from the curtain and fled quickly.
It won't come back until Xiao Zhen leaves.
But later, Zhao Shiqing still saw the painting.
The painting is now in the imperial study. When Zhao Shiqing entered the palace, she saw the painting.
Of course, this was something Xiao Zhen took her to see specially.
"This was painted by the late emperor himself and is of extraordinary significance. To His Majesty, it is a priceless treasure."
Zhao Shiqing came out of the palace, and an hour later, the imperial edict granting marriage was delivered to Princess Jiabao's Mansion, Prince Liang's Mansion, and Tianshui Hutong one after another.
However, on the third day after the marriage was granted, Xiao Zhen left the capital, and Shan Ye confessed that Xiao Zhen's trip was called to suppress bandits, but in fact the bandits were Shan Men.
The time has finally come to eradicate this malignant tumor hidden in the Yong Dynasty.
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