Chapter 348: Yulan Palace Fire
The emperor's heart ached so much that he could not stand steadily. He walked tremblingly to the side of Prince Ning's coffin, held onto the edge, and slowly knelt down on the ground.
The queen was still kneeling on the ground facing the door, as if she would die here if the emperor didn't do justice for her.
It was only then that Concubine Shu realized that the emperor went over not to see Prince Ning, but because he was feeling unwell and needed something to support himself.
"Your Majesty? What's wrong with you?"
She walked over and squatted beside the emperor, reaching out to help him up, but found that the emperor was trembling violently, his face was pale and bloodless, and his lips were blue and black.
He looked no better than Prince Ning who was lying there.
"Your Majesty!" Concubine Shu had not expected the Emperor to be like this. Her voice was a little heavy in her panic. The Queen also realized that something was wrong. She ran over and pushed Concubine Shu away, and supported the Emperor herself.
"Your Majesty, what's wrong with you?"
Seeing the emperor's hands tightly covering his chest, the queen naturally knew that it was the conversation between her and Concubine Shu that irritated the emperor and caused his heart attack.
This was a thousand times more serious than when he fainted from excessive grief two days ago.
Seeing the emperor closing his eyes and breathing with difficulty, the queen knew that the emperor was dying.
Her first reaction was not to quickly call Chen Xi for medicine, nor to summon the imperial physician, but to look at Concubine Shu and sneer, "Concubine Shu, you are so bold! You actually dare to talk nonsense and provoke the emperor!"
"If anything happens to the emperor this time, you and your entire Qin family will be buried with him!"
Concubine Shu looked at the righteous queen and really didn't know how to describe her feelings at the moment. She came here at this time and still wanted to fight with her and accuse her of a crime. Could it be that the queen was afraid that the emperor would not die, so she quickly gave him another blow?
She has met many people in her life, but among them, the most despicable, vicious and shameless one is the one that the queen considers second to none!
Before Concubine Shu could say anything, the emperor, who was still breathing, suddenly raised his head and shouted, "You! You..."
In the end, he was unable to say anything about 'you'. The dignified Emperor of Zhaoling Kingdom just leaned against Prince Ning's coffin and breathed his last.
How could the emperor not be upset? He always thought that the unique woman who loved him and never fought for or asked for anything had actually betrayed him a long time ago.
He thought he had never treated her badly, and even gave her the supreme honor of becoming the queen of a country. However, not only did she commit all kinds of unforgivable crimes, she killed his princes and princesses, and finally, she wanted to anger him to death and refused to save him!
When he was still alive, they were busy trying to use him to convict Concubine Shu!
As for those two women, he favored one and gave power to the other. As the emperor, he thought he had never done anything wrong to them and that they should all be grateful to him.
But in the end, they just watched him die!
The queen reached out her hand with some trembling and placed it under the emperor's nose, trying to check if he was still breathing.
After a long while, she was finally able to confirm, "The Emperor... has passed away!"
After being pushed away by the Queen, Concubine Shu stood there without moving. When she heard the Queen's words, she didn't know what she felt.
She just felt her heart was cold and her mind was empty. All her obsessions and resentments seemed to disappear in that instant. She just felt that this world had nothing to do with her anymore.
After the Empress finished her words, she pointed at Concubine Shu and said righteously, "It's you! You're the one who angered the Emperor to death! I will make your crimes known to the world, and I will make sure you die without a burial place!"
"Haha, you always think that the emperor loves you the most, right? Then go downstairs and continue to serve the emperor. This time, no one will compete with you!"
As soon as the queen finished speaking, Concubine Shu grabbed the hand that was pointing at her, and then with the golden hairpin in her other hand, she stabbed it into the queen's neck.
Concubine Shu really used up all her strength in her life. The first time, she inserted the hairpin halfway, and then she pushed harder until she pierced the queen's neck through.
Then, he pulled out the hairpin without mercy!
Seeing the queen slowly falling to the ground with a look of disbelief on her face, covering her neck with both hands but still unable to stop the blood from spurting out of the wound, there was only a faint sneer on Shufei's face.
"When you threaten someone in your next life, make sure you have a weapon first!"
The queen looked towards the gate and opened her mouth to shout, but blood kept gushing out of her mouth, choking her so much that she could only make a "gurgling" sound.
Concubine Shu calmly walked to the gate and locked all the doors and windows. Then she turned back and looked at the queen lying in a pool of blood, staring at her.
"When I returned to this palace, I had no intention of continuing to live in disgrace. I didn't allow the Emperor to punish you, and I didn't let the world know what kind of person their Empress is. You are lucky."
As Concubine Shu spoke, she calmly pulled the emperor's body away from the coffin, not allowing him to get close to her son.
Then he dragged the queen and made her lie down with the emperor.
Finally, she found the golden hairpin dropped by the Queen in Prince Ning's coffin, put it into the Emperor's hand, and stabbed it into the wound on the Queen's neck where she had stabbed it before.
This time, the queen was completely dead.
"Although I don't want to have anything to do with the Qin family anymore, my Qin family is not someone you, a bitch, can manipulate at will!"
"As for your psychotic son, I believe he will be going down to accompany you soon. Since you and your son have murderous intentions towards the Qin family, do you think the Wuling Palace will sit idly by and watch him ascend the throne and cause trouble for the Qin family?"
At this point, Concubine Shu suddenly revealed an appreciative smile, "The men of the Qin family are all soft persimmons, but this little girl, she has quite the style of this palace, haha..."
She arranged for the emperor and the empress, and also found all the candles and lamp oil stored in the Yu Lan Palace. Since she wanted to light a perpetual lamp for Prince Ning, there were naturally a lot of these things.
She poured lamp oil on the emperor and empress, and then on the beams and pillars. Finally, she lit all the candles around the coffin.
After doing all this, she walked to the table, stretched out her hand and knocked over the candle on the table, and the ground that was splashed with kerosene instantly caught fire.
The fire spread to the beams and followed the oil trail straight to the rafters.
She looked at the raging fire, a very gentle smile appeared on her face, and she sat beside King Ning, stroking the coffin.
"My poor child, I can finally take a good look at you and have a good chat with you. Finally, no one in this world can bully us anymore."
"Walk slowly ahead and wait for me. I'll go down to find you. In your next life, if you're still willing to be my son, I'll never marry into an imperial family again!"
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Concubine Shu intentionally sealed off the palace. Besides, the emperor, empress and others were already inside, and they had ordered that no one was allowed to approach and disturb them, so all the palace people were waiting outside the yard.
By the time they discovered smoke coming out of the palace roof, the interior of the hall had already been burned beyond recognition.
When the guards broke in through the door after putting out the fire, covered in dust, the emperor and the empress, who were entangled with each other, had been burned beyond separation. However, it was still easy to see that it was the hairpin in the emperor's hand that killed the empress.
Prince Ning's coffin had been burned, and Concubine Shu's body was curled up beside him.
Such a scene was something no one had imagined, especially the postures of the Emperor and Empress. What kind of associations would this evoke?
When Qin Yuefeng took Qi Luoyuan out of the palace, they happened to encounter a chaos in the palace. The two of them did not dare to cause trouble, so they could only stand aside and make way for the royal guards.
Seeing the trembling palace maids and eunuchs, Qin Yuefeng pulled one over and asked, "What's going on? What happened in the palace?"
The young palace maid bowed to the two of them and said tremblingly, "Master Qin, there's a fire in Yulan Palace!"
"Yulan Palace? Isn't that where His Royal Highness Prince Ning lives?" Qin Yuefeng was immediately furious when he heard this. Wasn't Prince Ning miserable enough? Who on earth could be so cruel and mad as to attack a dead man?
Even if outsiders were not allowed to enter the harem, he didn't care. If he continued to remain silent like this, others would think that all the Qin family members were dead!
"Princess Duan, I cannot escort you out of the palace. Please be careful on your journey!"
Seeing Qin Yuefeng was going to the harem, the little maid shook her head in fear, "Master Qin!"
"What is it?"
The young palace maid trembled with fear, but still spoke out, "When the Yu Lan Palace was flooded, the Emperor, the Empress, and the Consort Shu were all inside..."
"What did you say!"
"This servant... This servant said nothing and knows nothing!"
The little palace maid was so frightened that she ran away. Such matters were not something that a lowly person like her could have any say in, but she was really scared and really scared.
This time, there will be a big change in the palace. No one knows how many people will die. At least, all the palace servants in Yu Lan Palace who followed the emperor, the empress and the concubine today will have no chance of survival.
Therefore, before the fire was completely extinguished, those people were already frightened. They knew what was waiting for them, and some people even tried to escape from the palace.
One person fled in panic, and the others, in a state of confusion and extreme fear, could only follow suit. For a moment, the entire palace was in chaos.
Even the palace maids, eunuchs and guards who should not have been implicated were panicked and at a loss.
Qin Yuefeng was stunned as he watched the little palace maid fleeing. The emperor and the concubine? They were also in Yulan Palace?
He even forgot that Princess Duan was still behind him and ran towards Yu Lan Palace.
Princess Duan stood blankly at the foot of the wall, looking at the chaos in the palace. There was only one voice in her mind, "The emperor is dead, and the queen is dead too."
She looked at the panicked crowd, glanced at the harem where a wisp of green smoke seemed to be floating towards the sky, pursed her lips, and ran over with determination.
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