Chapter 346 Liquidation
"How dare you! Concubine Shu, you'd better be aware of your own identity!"
"I know exactly who I am. But you, Queen, need to take a good look at yourself in the mirror!"
The Queen was so infuriated by Concubine Shu's contempt that she trembled all over. She pointed at her and said through gritted teeth, "You... do you really think that just because the Emperor took you back to the palace, you can be so arrogant?"
"No matter how much the Emperor favors you, you are the concubine and I am the empress. You must be respectful to me for the rest of your life. You will always be inferior to me!"
Concubine Shu smiled indifferently, "Really? Or else, Your Majesty, try it yourself. If you go to the Imperial Ancestral Temple, will you be able to come back?"
"you……"
"When the Emperor remembers that he still has a wife like you, then you can come and act like a queen, otherwise, you will be as ridiculous as a clown!"
"If I were you, I would just stay away from you and stop jumping around and humiliating myself!"
"This is outrageous, absolutely outrageous!" The Queen could never have imagined that after leaving the palace, Concubine Shu would become so sharp-tongued and arrogant when she came back.
"Just because you are so disrespectful to me, I will banish you to the cold palace!"
"Oh, I'm really scared. Queen, if you really have this ability, why don't you try it?"
At this point, Concubine Shu's expression turned cold, and she glared at the Queen with a glare like an ice spike, "Do you dare to touch me?"
"Haha, I dare not touch you?" The Queen was so angry at Concubine Shu that her face turned red. She strode up to her, raised her hand and slapped her in the face, causing Concubine Shu to have tinnitus.
"Your Majesty, please calm down!"
The servants brought by the queen were all trembling with fear. Anyone with a discerning eye could see what the emperor meant by bringing the concubine back.
The person had just returned to the palace when the queen started to hit him, and hit him in the face. What if the emperor saw this?
Even if the emperor would not punish the queen, these servants who watched Shufei being beaten without stopping the queen would definitely be severely punished by the emperor as a warning to the queen.
After the queen beat someone, she calmed down a little. She knew that Concubine Shu was deliberately provoking her and trying to make her lose control.
This bitch used to pretend to be gentle, generous and non-competitive, but now her true colors are finally revealed!
Anyway, the slap had already been given, and before the Emperor "upheld justice" for Concubine Shu, she had to give the Crown Prince her due and settle the score with her!
"Enough! You're all getting in the way, all of you. Get out of here and stand guard at the door. It's been a while since we last met, and I want to catch up with my sister, Concubine Shu. No one is allowed to interrupt me!"
"Yes, your servant/slave obeys your order!"
The people brought by Concubine Shu were originally at the gate of the courtyard and had not entered the palace. Now the Queen's people had also been driven out. In this empty hall, only the two of them and Prince Ning lying in the coffin were left.
From the moment she came in until now, Concubine Shu has been standing at the entrance. She acts arrogant and complacent in front of the Queen, but she doesn't even have the courage to get close to the coffin.
It seemed that as long as she didn't go and see, as long as she hadn't confirmed it with her own eyes, she could still tell herself that it was all a misunderstanding, that was not Prince Ning, Prince Ning was not dead, her prince was not dead!
As long as she hasn't admitted it herself, none of this counts!
The Queen was very satisfied with the fact that Concubine Shu did not fight back. No matter how arrogant she was, a concubine was still a concubine. No matter how much she tried to gain advantage verbally, she would not dare to touch the Queen.
No matter how much favor you receive from the Emperor, you still have to kowtow to the Empress every morning and evening!
The Queen suddenly took Concubine Shu's hand and led her towards the coffin. "Come, sister, it's been so long since you've seen His Royal Highness Prince Ning. Don't you miss him?"
"That poor child, the water was so cold, he must have been frozen to death. Oh, just thinking about it makes me feel so miserable!"
Concubine Shu suddenly shook off the Queen's hand and stood there motionless, but her body began to tremble uncontrollably.
Seeing that she finally couldn't pretend to be calm anymore, the queen laughed happily. She thought you were really so powerful, but it turns out you are just a coward, strong on the outside but weak on the inside!
The Queen grabbed Concubine Shu's wrist with such force that it hurt so much that tears welled up in her eyes.
"Sister, come quickly! His Royal Highness Prince Ning must miss his mother terribly. Look at this poor child. Even after death, he can't rest in peace. He was sent back thousands of miles away, frozen in ice, and has become deformed."
The Queen leaned close to Concubine Shu's ear and kept talking about how miserable and lonely Prince Ning was, and how thick the ice in the northern border was and how cold the water was.
Keep talking...keep talking...
Concubine Shu looked at the person in the coffin with anger. Her nerves were all broken the moment she confirmed that the person was really her son.
"ah……"
She suddenly covered her ears and screamed, and then tears burst out at the same time. She leaned on the coffin and reached out to touch King Ning's face with trembling hands. The touch of her fingertips was as cold and lifeless as her heart.
"My child... my child..."
The queen covered her mouth at first, but then she couldn't help herself and laughed heartily with her face tilted back, "Pfft, hahahahahahahaha..."
"Oh my God, Sister Shufei, do you know that we have known each other for more than 20 years, but only today, only now, you look so lovable and so lovable. Why do I like looking at you so much..."
"Snap"
The Concubine Shu, who had just been leaning over the coffin and crying uncontrollably, suddenly turned around and slapped the Queen. Not only did the Queen's words and laughter stop abruptly, but she also staggered and took two steps back.
The Queen covered her face and glared at her, "Shu Fei, you bitch, you actually dared to attack me, I think you don't want to live anymore!"
Concubine Shu's gentle face was distorted by crying and madness. "Yes, you are right. I don't want to live anymore. The reason I came back is to drag you, the murderer, to be buried with my son."
"You give me your life!"
Concubine Shu pulled out a golden hairpin from her head and stabbed the queen with it.
The queen was so frightened that she dodged everywhere. Then, a cold light flashed in her eyes as she looked at Prince Ning's coffin. She pulled out a hairpin and scratched Prince Ning's face with it.
"Stop it, you lunatic! If you dare to touch me again, I will poke out both of Prince Ning's eyes, and he will be reincarnated as a blind man in his next life!"
"don't want!"
Concubine Shu held one end of the hairpin tightly in her hand. The delicate patterns on the hairpin cut her palm and blood dripped down, but she seemed not to see or feel it.
However, the wound on Prince Ning's face that had just been cut by the Queen seemed to have been cut into her heart, causing her to be unable to get up due to the pain.
She yelled hysterically at the queen, "Don't touch my son again!"
"No, don't touch my son anymore..."
Each word of her "no" was filled with tears and blood. Her sobs were filled with hatred, helplessness, exhaustion, and pleading...
She hated herself, hated herself for marrying the emperor, hated herself for not being able to protect her own flesh and blood, hated herself for not being able to protect even her son's body.
She hated her life.
The Queen was naturally delighted to see Concubine Shu's breakdown. "Your acting skills have never regressed, but what can you possibly act in front of your own son?"
"Prince Ning is in this situation today because of you, his mother. When you tried to harm the Crown Prince, you should have known that Prince Ning would pay the price for your actions!"
Concubine Shu's hair was all down, and she looked really decadent and miserable. "Crown Prince? What qualifications do you have to settle accounts with me about the Crown Prince?"
"Didn't you kill the unborn child in my belly? You killed my unborn child. Have you forgotten?"
The Queen looked disdainful. "What do you mean I killed your unborn child? You're the one who's the mother. You're a loser. You can't even protect the baby in your belly, and you still have the nerve to blame me!"
Concubine Shu really regretted that she had used such an extremely absurd way to take revenge on the emperor and the empress. She should have used her golden hairpin to stab the prince's throat. That was how it should be, and that was fair.
"You asked me to kill the Nineteenth Prince, and I did. Prince Ning has already gone to his fiefdom and will no longer be a hindrance to you and your son. Why, why are you still unwilling to let him go? Why?"
"Humph, why? How dare you ask what you did to my son back then, you shameless slut!"
…
The Queen and Concubine Shu, separated by Prince Ning's coffin, settled all the grievances between them over the past twenty years.
The wisdom, strategy, talent and means of these two women can be said to be equally matched.
It is actually external forces that have led to their completely different situations today.
The Queen's family is slightly more powerful than the Qin family, but she is not as young and beautiful as Concubine Shu, and she does not have the Emperor's trust and preference.
If Concubine Shu's first child had not died in the womb, and if Minister Qin had been willing to help Concubine Shu in time, then no matter how you look at it, Concubine Shu would have had a greater chance of becoming the queen!
Over the years, these two women have been fighting openly and secretly all the time. Their actions have affected so many people that even they themselves can't count them.
They themselves were physically and mentally exhausted and suffered heavy losses.
The queen gritted her teeth and blamed all of the prince's brutal behaviors and unspeakable personal hobbies on Concubine Shu. She felt that it was all taught by Concubine Shu.
After hearing this, Concubine Shu suddenly laughed, "Oh, it's retribution, it's really retribution! God really has eyes!"
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