Chapter 86 They Deserved to Die
"Empress, I will escort you to escape. The Emperor has passed away. The Concubine Xian and the Third Prince will not let you go."
"Commander Ji will protect you and help you find the War King. Your Majesty, haven't you always disliked life in the palace? Go away and never come back. I will stay here for you to confuse them and buy time."
The Queen looked into the distance and shook her head: "There's no way to escape. I've asked Commander Ji to take people out of the palace to help Lan'er."
"Commander Ji's teams are already doing their best to defend this place. With so many imperial guards in the palace, there's no way they can defeat them. They'll just die in vain."
"Come on, help me change my clothes."
After an incense stick of time, the Queen, dressed in a phoenix robe, stood on the terrace on the third floor and watched the virtuous concubine and the imperial guards coming from a distance.
"I have met the Empress. She is so happy here. She didn't even leave to preside over the affairs after the Emperor passed away."
"Well, since you won't go, I have no choice but to come and pick you up myself."
The queen narrowed her eyes, her majesty revealed.
"Xianfei, you are so brave! You dare to kill the king!"
The virtuous concubine looked at the queen with a flicker of jealousy in her eyes: "So what? The emperor has no one else in his heart except you and your son!"
"The eldest and second princes are gone. My son has worked so hard for so many years, it should be his turn, but what about the emperor? He actually puts all his hopes on your son. Isn't it because you are the queen and he is the legitimate son?"
"The Emperor wants your son to be the Crown Prince, and he's been suppressing my son's influence in the court. Even my mother's family has been implicated."
"My father and brother were dismissed from office and beheaded respectively in the past two years, and it's all because of you! If it weren't for your son, my son would be the crown prince!"
"Don't think I don't know. The Emperor has already written the imperial edict, and he's waiting for your son to win the battle and come back to be crowned the Crown Prince!"
The Queen looked at her with a cold gaze. "Your father was dismissed from office for embezzling disaster relief funds. Your brother was beheaded for cutting corners and mistreating the workers when building the dam, leading to the unnecessary deaths of over a thousand people during the flood. Those people were so innocent."
"They deserved to die. What does it have to do with the emperor?"
"And your son, the Third Prince, is indecisive on major issues. When faced with invasion from other countries, he only wants to bow his head and seek peace. If someone like him becomes emperor in the future, wouldn't he just give away the Great Zhou if something unexpected happened?"
"Xianfei, I have to admit that you win this round. Although the emperor and I knew that you and the Third Prince had ambitions, we never expected you to go this far."
"For the throne, you secretly poisoned the emperor for so many years, and in order to control the palace, you even secretly had an affair with the commander of the imperial guards! It's my fault, I realized it too late."
The virtuous concubine laughed heartily: "So what? Since ancient times, the victor has been king. When my son sits on that throne, these things will naturally not be recorded in history books."
"Your son is really lucky. He fell from such a high cliff and survived. He was even rescued by Bu Huaicang."
"But it doesn't matter. The journey back to attend the funeral is long. Even if he comes back alive, what good will it do? You're still here. I don't believe he won't surrender!"
"Someone, come and do it! We need him alive!"
The Queen looked at the people rushing towards the small building with a glint of determination in her eyes: "You want to use me to threaten Lan Er? You're dreaming!"
"Your Majesty..."
The maid screamed miserably as she watched her master jump from the third floor, but she didn't know that the queen had already made up her mind to die and had taken poison in advance to make double preparations.
"Xianfei, I curse you. I curse you to die a miserable death. Your son will one day die at the hands of our prince."
"You and your son will be in hell forever and ever!"
"Your Majesty, please wait for me. I will come to accompany you."
After the maid had said this, she also jumped off the terrace and died for her master.
Back in the courtyard, Bu Ruo held Xiao Yulan's hand: "Are you okay? Can we continue?"
Xiao Yulan's eyes were red, and she tried hard to hold back the tears that were about to fall: "Okay, continue."
Bu Ruo controlled the purple flower to rotate again, this time in the emperor's bedroom, but not the place Bu Ruo had been to last time.
Perhaps the current emperor felt guilty, so after ascending the throne, he sealed the former emperor's bedroom in the name of mourning the late emperor, and moved to another palace himself.
In the bedroom, the late emperor looked at the frightened Third Prince, now the Emperor, beside his bed and said, "I never thought you and your son would be planning this so early."
"Xiao Jin, as the prince of the Great Zhou, you actually colluded with Bei Ning to harm your brother and even sent people to hunt him down. You two are brothers."
"Brother?" The third prince might have been irritated by these words and roared angrily.
"Since we're brothers, why can't I take the throne? I'm a full twenty-four years older than him. I thought that since my eldest and second brothers were gone, it would be my turn. But I didn't expect the queen to be pregnant with a prince."
"Yes, I admit that he has been gifted since he was young, but so what? Didn't I still win in the end?"
"I'm not afraid to tell you, Father, the poison in your body was found by me personally. It was my mother who gave it to you personally."
"If you make me the crown prince, the poison in your body will never take effect. But if you make my good brother the crown prince, the poison will take your life immediately if it is activated."
"I went to great lengths to find that poison from Beining. Even the imperial physician couldn't identify it. In the end, your cause of death, Father, can only be overwork."
"Father, please don't blame me. If you have to blame someone, you can only blame yourself for being too partial."
"Tell me, where did you hide the imperial decree appointing your ninth brother as crown prince? If you tell me now, I can make your death more painless. Otherwise, don't blame me for activating the poison in your body and making your life worse than death."
The late emperor looked at the vicious face of the third prince and said, "You are truly my good son, but don't worry, I will never tell you what the imperial edict is, even if I die. Even if I sit on the throne now, Lan'er is the master of this world."
"You obtained this throne by any means necessary. Even if you sit on it, you won't be able to sit on it peacefully. Lan'er will eventually take back everything that belongs to him."
The scene was interrupted, Bu Ruo supported Xiao Yulan's trembling body, turned around and hugged him tightly.
"Don't be sad, Father and Mother love you, and they will protect you until the end."
"Xiao Yulan, I will definitely help you detoxify. Let's take revenge together. I won't let either of those dogs, mother and son, go."
"Xiao Yulan, if you want to cry, just cry. I won't laugh at you..."
Bu Ruo felt wetness on her shoulders and kept patting his back to comfort him, which made her hatred for the current emperor and the empress dowager even more intense.
"Xiao Yulan, when you're done grieving, I'll take you to get the imperial edict your father left for you. I already know where it is!"
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