Chapter 395 Why does he do that?
"Master...please also set fire to the Zichen Palace. I don't want the place where my mother once lived to become an abandoned palace or be occupied by someone else in the future. There are memories of me and my mother there."
Bu Ruo nodded and waved his hand. Soon, a few sparks of fire appeared in the direction of Zichen Palace.
"There's a fire... There's a fire... Help come quickly..."
"Oh my god, how could there be a fire? Quickly send someone to report to the Emperor and Empress that the Emperor is staying at Concubine Zhang's palace today. Go quickly!"
Bu Ruo took Guo Lu and the little girl and hid in the dark. Not long after, they saw the old emperor and the queen hurried over, followed by Guo Shuangwen. Since she returned to the palace, she has been living alone in her own palace, making it easier for the imperial physician and his wild father to find someone to treat his eyes and arms.
"What's going on? How could the fire happen out of nowhere? What are you all doing? Where's Concubine Rou? Has Concubine Rou come out yet?"
The young eunuch knelt on the ground, trembling, carrying a bucket of water. "Your Majesty, I don't know why the fire broke out suddenly. As for Concubine Rou... I asked other people, but I didn't see anyone coming out of Luoyang Palace."
"Rou... Concubine Rou... I'm afraid she's still inside..."
"Then what are you still doing here!" The old emperor was furious. "Empress Rou is pregnant with the dragon heir. No matter how many people you send, you must rescue Concubine Rou from here unharmed, or I will kill you."
The young eunuch kowtowed repeatedly: "Your Majesty, it's not that we servants don't want to put out the fire, but this fire... water can't put it out at all. If you don't believe me, just look..."
After the young eunuch finished speaking, he took the bucket of water and poured it directly on a small fire at the palace gate. The flame was so small that it would have been extinguished by this bucket of water under normal circumstances. However, the water evaporated instantly after touching the small flame, as if it had never existed.
Guo Shuangwen suddenly stopped crying as she looked at the scene before her. Suddenly, she crawled to the old emperor and said, "Father...Father...This must have been done by the Regent Princess of the Great Zhou. There's something strange about that Regent Princess. I once saw her stopping the rain in the Great Zhou."
"I'm afraid that ordinary people can't put out this fire. Father...why don't you ask the wizard to come over? My mother is still pregnant with the prince."
The Queen snorted when she heard what Guo Shuangwen said, "Third Princess, no one can determine whether the child is a boy or a girl before it is born. Third Princess, please be careful with your words."
The old emperor has actually heard a lot of rumors about the mother and daughter during this period, but Concubine Rou is pregnant after all, so he has to rescue her first no matter what.
"Go! Send someone to invite the wizard over, quickly!"
"Also, what's that fire over there?"
The young eunuch kneeling on the ground took a look and said: "Your Majesty, over there... seems to be the Purple Palace, the former palace of the virtuous concubine."
The old emperor frowned, a hint of disgust flashing in his eyes. "Send a message and have all the firefighters over there gather here to put out the fire in Concubine Rou's Luoyang Palace first."
"As for the Purple Palace... let it burn down. It would be even better if it were completely destroyed."
In the dark, Guo Shuangwen clenched his fists, wishing he could rush over and stab the old emperor to death.
"Why does he look down on my mother? What right does he have to look down on my mother? Why does he do that?"
The little girl snorted softly: "He is the one who allowed others to defile his wife, and he is also the one who despised his wife. He wants to have both. How shameless."
"Mom, how did such a person become the emperor? Don't emperors always have purple light? Look at this old Deng, he doesn't have any."
Seeing the puzzled looks of the two, one big and one small, Bu Ruo explained, "There's indeed no purple light on Old Deng. He became emperor entirely because of... the merits of their Beining's first generation ancestors, his own good fortune, and his unscrupulous methods."
Bu Ruo ate melon seeds while saying what she had not finished saying at the palace banquet.
"When Lao Deng's mother was pregnant with him, she didn't know she was carrying a dragon seed. She just thought the medicine she took wasn't working and she accidentally got pregnant with her patron's child. This kind of thing is actually very common in brothels."
"But just when she was thinking of using a bowl of abortion medicine to make Old Deng abort, she suddenly saw through the window the late emperor, whose guards were clearing the way for him to return to the imperial city in a hurry."
"And this brothel girl was unwell that month and was the most popular prostitute there. That month, the late emperor was her only patron..."
"The woman was overjoyed to learn she was pregnant with a dragon, but she also knew her origins. If anyone knew, her life and the dragon in her belly would be in jeopardy. So she secretly told the brothel's madam."
"The madam didn't believe it at first, but the girl was the most popular courtesan after all, the mainstay of her brothel. If what she said was true, and a dragon child was born in her brothel, wouldn't her brothel be famous in the future?"
"So, she removed the courtesan's sign and took good care of her. And the courtesan lived up to everyone's expectations. Ten months later, she finally gave birth to a prince, who is Lao Deng standing over there."
"When the brothel girl saw that she had given birth to a prince, she knew that if she stayed in the brothel, it would be impossible for the child to return to his ancestral home in the future. So she used the money she had saved over the years to redeem herself."
"The madam didn't want to let her go at first, but she thought if she offended her now, what would happen if she was taken into the palace to seek revenge on her? Wouldn't that mean she would end up losing more than she gained? In the end, she decided to let her go, and only took a small amount of money from her."
"The woman used the remaining money to buy a small courtyard. She raised the child while trying to figure out how to let the emperor know about her and his existence."
"But it wasn't as simple as she thought. Even with the occasional financial support from the madam, after a few years their lives became increasingly strained. So she started working as a prostitute again, but not in a brothel, but in her own home."
"Finally, when Lao Deng was five years old, the girl hooked up with an official who was accompanying his wife back home from the imperial city to visit relatives... After learning about this, the official considered it for a long time, and ultimately felt that it was a matter of great importance regarding the succession to the throne. Upon returning to the imperial city, he secretly informed the late emperor of the matter."
"Of course, he concealed the fact that he had a one-night stand with that woman. He only said that the woman knew his identity and blocked his way. She also saw that the child looked a bit like the late emperor."
"At that time, Beining was in the midst of internal and external troubles. The late emperor had few children. After six years on the throne, he only had two princes and a princess. So after careful consideration, they decided to send a wizard to take a look. If the child was indeed the heir to the throne, they would bring the child back, and the woman... would be silenced."
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