Chapter 446 I Never Wanted to Be Your Wife
"But Your Majesty, after today, I will no longer have anything you can use me for, so I hope you can give me an imperial decree to depose me. Regardless of the outcome of this Beining incident, or whether I can still survive, I only hope that I will have nothing to do with Your Majesty from now on."
"If Your Majesty does not agree, I have a hundred ways to prevent myself from reaching the destination alive."
"Okay, I'll give it to you when we get back to the palace."
The queen turned her head and looked at the old emperor without giving him any face: "Your Majesty, although I don't have you in my heart, we have been husband and wife for many years. Please don't use your little thoughts on me anymore."
"I need the imperial edict deposing the empress right now. Given the situation today, the imperial seal is probably on the emperor's person. Just order Eunuch Xishun to go back and get some writing materials. We haven't gone far yet, so I can wait."
Seeing the emperor about to speak again, the queen continued, "Your Majesty, please don't try to use other excuses to prevaricate me. I don't want to be buried with you even if my body is left to rot in the wilderness. I also don't want to have any relationship with your Guo family after my death. If Your Majesty doesn't agree, your plan today will be in vain."
"I wonder if General Di will have other concerns after learning that I'm dead. How will you restrain the general?"
The emperor looked at the queen's determined face and said through his back teeth, "Xishun, go back to the palace and get me some writing brush and ink."
When Eunuch Xishun heard this, he immediately ordered someone to go back and get it, then he looked at the two people on the dragon chariot and sighed secretly.
Deep down, he had been serving the emperor since he was still a prince. After so many years, he still had deep respect for the queen.
Although the Queen was unwilling and did not confide in the Emperor when she married him when he was still a prince, she did everything a princess and a Queen should do very well. Now that she has come to such a situation... He really feels sorry for the Queen.
He had heard everything the two had said just now. If deposing the Queen was the Queen's last wish, he sincerely hoped that the Emperor would fulfill it.
Soon, the person who went back to get the brush and ink returned. The emperor looked at the queen with the brush in his hand and said, "Have you thought it through? Do you really want me to depose you? If I do, even if Beining is saved today, you will no longer be the mother of a country."
The Queen gave him a sarcastic look and said, "I did not ask for the title of the Mother of this country. Please, Your Majesty, write the decree to depose the Queen as soon as possible."
"As you wish."
The old emperor wrote a few words on the dragon chariot and took out the jade seal to seal it: "From now on, you are no longer my wife, and no longer the queen mother of Beining."
In fact, even if the Queen did not ask to be deposed today, he would still do so after this matter was over. The reason was that the Queen had an affair with the rebel general. Now that he saw that the other party was determined to let him write the decree to depose the Queen, he felt uncomfortable again.
"Thank you, Your Majesty. I never wanted to be your wife."
"I hope that for the rest of my life, in this life or the next, you and I will never meet again. Otherwise... I will definitely kill you with my own hands."
The queen really wanted to kill him, but she knew that the emperor was protected by secret guards, and she was afraid that she would die before she could make a move.
Besides, Bu Ruo said that she would spend the rest of her life with Di Ge and have children, so she... didn't want to die.
The two of them sat in silence as they reached the north city wall.
On the way, students and common people blocked the Queen's way to the dangerous place, but they were all suppressed by the imperial guards led by the Emperor.
"Queen, let's go."
Under the dragon chariot, the queen looked back at the students and common people who had been following her from a distance, bowed deeply to thank them for their concern, and then walked towards the city wall step by step without even looking at the emperor.
"What is the emperor doing? Why did he bring the empress here when two armies are fighting?"
"Oh, you don't know this, do you?" Bu Ruo's assigned student whispered, "Our emperor is such a jerk."
"Hush...you are asking for death. How dare you say that about the emperor?"
"You've already done it, and you're not letting me talk about it?" The man was filled with righteous indignation. "You don't know, my ancestors were close friends with the Di family. Back when the Empress was still a girl, she and General Di from outside the city were childhood sweethearts and even engaged."
"Later, the Emperor, who was still a prince, stole my love. To protect the power of my empress's family, he entered the palace and asked the late Emperor for an imperial decree to grant her marriage. This is how the Empress was forced to marry into the royal family, and how General Di spent many years stationed at the border without ever returning to the imperial city."
"For so many years, whenever there was a natural disaster, the Guo royal family never cared about our lives. It was always the Empress who saved money and sold her belongings to buy food for disaster relief to provide us with food, so that we would not starve or freeze to death."
"Later, this bastard emperor took the youngest daughter of the Di family as his wife. Not only did he not treat her well, but he even had her murdered. Even the princess of the Di family was not spared. How could I keep such a monarch if I didn't scold him?"
"Alas, I'm just a weak student. Otherwise, I would have rebelled against the Guo royal family and had Beining incorporated into the Great Zhou. I heard that both the Emperor and the Regent are very kind to the people. I wonder if we will be so lucky to see that day."
One student looked towards the city wall and asked curiously, "Since you know so much, then tell me why the Emperor brought the Empress here today? I have a bad feeling."
"What else can we do?" The man sent by Buruo was truly imitative. He looked at the city wall with a worried look on his face. "Eighty percent... the emperor is trying to use the youthful friendship between the queen and General Di to force the other side to retreat."
"Although General Di's love was taken away from him, he is a gentleman and a loyal minister. He has not returned to the imperial city for so many years and has never married. He is truly affectionate and a role model for us."
"I don't know if General Di will be forced to withdraw his troops... If he really does, our lives will only become more difficult."
The students and common people were deeply moved after hearing this, and they immediately imagined how the emperor had abused his power to seize someone's beloved, and how the queen and General Di were forced to separate and not see each other.
Whether it is the students or the people, their dissatisfaction with the emperor has reached its peak in an instant.
"Come on, let's go up to the city wall. We can't go up here because of the imperial guards. Let's go to the side and see what that emperor, who is worse than pigs and dogs, is going to do!"
The students and common people went to the other side of the city wall. The imperial guards saw it but did not try to stop them. Their current task was to guard the city gate and prevent the north gate from being breached.
The emperor dragged the queen to the city wall and had her stand on it. "General Di, look who this is!"
At the foot of the city wall, Di Xingjian, who was standing at the forefront of the Di Family Army, panicked when he saw the people on the wall. He immediately looked at Xiao Jin, who was standing next to him: "Young Master...what's going on? Didn't the princess enter the palace long ago? Why is Dai Rong on the city wall?"
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