Chapter 445 I believe Ruoer!
The next day, just as the sky was getting light, Bu Ruo looked at the neatly dressed queen and asked with a smile, "Can you trust me?"
"Believe! I believe Ruo'er!"
Bu Ruo nodded: "Okay, no matter where they take you, just follow them. Everything will be fine."
The queen listened to the noisy sounds outside and suddenly felt relieved: "Okay, after today, everything will be over. I will no longer be the queen of Beining. I can finally be with the person I love."
"Although we are no longer young, I will try my best to make up for the lost days."
Seeing the queen walk out resolutely, the little girl tilted her head and looked at Bu Ruo: "Mother, didn't we agree to take Aunt Queen away today and not let her go to any danger? Why did you let Aunt Queen go again?"
Bu Ruo rubbed the little chirp on the little girl's head twice and said: "This is the little thoughts of adults. You will understand when you grow up."
In fact, Bu Ruo originally wanted to take the queen away directly on the day of the siege, but she saw the queen sitting alone in the yard late at night last night. When she looked carefully, she realized that she was so panicked and afraid in her heart.
Even if he had told her that General Di had only had her in his heart for so many years, what could he do? And although Di Xingjian had been thinking about her in his heart for so many years, he was more afraid that she already had that dog emperor in her heart. The two of them were very cautious after losing and getting back together, so they naturally did not dare to express their concerns.
So for some things, it’s better to let them experience it themselves.
The queen followed the old emperor out of the palace and headed towards the north city wall.
On the dragon chariot, the emperor looked at his queen who seemed to have never aged over the years and wanted to hold her hand but she avoided him.
The Queen thought of Bu Ruo's words about her destined ending and sneered softly, "Your Majesty, why are you pretending to be so affectionate at this moment? You and I both know exactly where you want to take me. There's no need for this."
The old emperor sighed, "I admit that I married you because of your Yin family's influence. You have never been kind to me since you came into the palace, but I still want to treat you sincerely and live in harmony with you."
"After I ascended the throne, your Yin family knew how to avoid taboos and handed over power early on, serving as idle officials. Over the years, I have been very grateful to you and the Yin family."
"I admit that I haven't cared as much about you since I became emperor, but every emperor is like that. Even though you still don't have a son, I have never thought of deposing you."
"Beining is facing a national disaster. As the queen and the mother of a nation, you have a responsibility to stop this war and protect the people. Otherwise, if war breaks out, the people will suffer. You have provided disaster relief for many years. Can you really bear to watch the people fall into war and do nothing?"
The Queen didn't even glance at him, but simply looked at the wide yet deserted street with a calm expression: "Your Majesty, I don't know how to respond to what you said. I am the Queen, but Your Majesty is still the King of Beining."
"Since the Emperor ascended the throne, Beining has been plagued by natural disasters. When the Emperor was lavishing himself with delicacies from the mountains and seas in the face of natural disasters, why didn't he think about whether the people had enough to eat?!"
"When the Emperor wasted manpower and resources transporting flowers, birds, fish, and insects from other countries for Concubine Zhang's words, did he ever think about whether the people in the disaster area had enough clothes to wear?!"
"When the Emperor spent vast sums of money buying rare treasures from across the Three Kingdoms for his pleasure in order to please Concubine Rou, did he ever consider how the people displaced by the disaster were going to survive in the freezing cold?!"
"It's true that I am the Queen of Beining, but is this the position I was fighting for? When the Emperor was enjoying himself, letting his favorite concubine dance in front of me, and repeatedly insulting me, why didn't he mention that I was the Queen?"
"Now that Beining is under siege, His Majesty has remembered that I am the Empress and has brought a woman like me to such a dangerous place in an attempt to contain the enemy generals. Your Majesty is truly responsible and a good king of Beining."
"Your Majesty, I only have one question for you. When you asked me to marry you, did you already know that I was about to get married, and were you just waiting for him to come back and propose marriage?"
The old emperor blushed slightly at the rebuke, and nodded in response to the queen's questioning: "At this point, there's nothing left to hide. It's true, when I first proposed to you, I did know that you were already engaged to the eldest young master of the Di family."
"Not only that, I even lied when I went to ask my father for help, saying that you and I fell in love after a palace banquet and pledged our lives together. That's why the imperial decree granting marriage was issued that year."
"I originally married you just to take advantage of your Yin family's influence in the court. At that time, Di Xingjian was already a general and the head of the Di family. Only by marrying you could Di Xingjian, out of our friendship, make you a better person for me."
"After I ascended the throne, the Di family's military and financial power grew. I had no choice but to forcefully marry their daughter to deter them. However, I was also afraid that if the Di girl gave birth to a prince, they would rebel. So, I drugged the Di girl and forced the leader of the secret guards to consummate the marriage with her."
"If the Di family's daughter gives birth to a girl, I don't mind raising another child to restrain her in the palace. If it's a boy, and the Di family wants to rebel, I will use the excuse that the Di family daughter is having an affair in the harem to seize the Di family in my hands."
"The Di family has always valued family ties and would never abandon their family members. This can be seen from the fact that Di Xingjian has never returned to the Imperial City since you married me."
"For so many years, I asked Di Xingjian to harass the border of Da Zhou and he went. I asked him to attack the border town of Nan Xia and he never refused. I know that all this is because of you."
"Now he is at the gates of the city. If I were to sacrifice your life, he would definitely withdraw his troops for you."
In the end, the queen couldn't help herself and slapped the old emperor hard with red eyes.
She turned her face away and let the tears fall.
What Ruo'er said was true. If the destined trajectory had not changed, Di Ge would indeed cut off his own arm and withdraw his troops for her, and she would not watch him be controlled by others.
After being slapped, the old emperor did not get as furious as expected: "I was not raised in the palace since I was a child. I was born in a brothel and raised in the market. I have seen the warmth and coldness of human nature. I even watched with my own eyes the people sent by my father drug my own mother and I remained indifferent."
"After being brought back to the palace, I worked so hard to get to this position. I can even abandon my closest relatives, so... don't blame me."
The Queen took out a handkerchief and carefully wiped the hand that had just hit the old emperor. Her voice was icy: "Don't worry, I have no feelings for you, Your Majesty. Even though I have been married to you for many years, I have never developed any feelings for you, only disgust. How could I blame you now?"
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