Everyone had different expressions and left.
The vast imperial bedchamber contained only the three of them.
Xiao Tang lowered her eyes, trying to play dead.
[Such important matters of state should not be heard by me alone; I do not wish to hear them!]
"Ahem, Jingling, there's something I originally intended to take with me into my coffin..."
Di Jingling suddenly raised her eyes.
"But I... I know you're in pain, and I don't want to keep it from you like this."
Xiao Tang instinctively covered her ears.
Even with my hand blocking the way, I couldn't resist tilting my ear to listen.
"Before your mother gave birth to you... actually, at that time, your father was already infertile. She had you with another man."
boom!
It was like a thunderbolt striking.
Xiao Tang wanted to cry.
[You old emperor, why are you keeping me here to hear such secrets?]
Is this something I can pay to listen to?
Waaaaah, I don't want to hear this secret!
The main villain will definitely kill her to silence her because of this.
"My mother told me to take good care of you, but alas... I can no longer take care of you. I am at ease entrusting the Great Sheng to you."
Xiao Tang could not see Di Jingling's face.
She was standing quite far away.
All that could be seen was Di Jingling's stiff body, as if he had been frozen in place by some force.
They must have been deeply affected.
The cause of the poison wasn't his mother, but his biological father...
Ah, this.
That's so damn annoying.
...
Outside the palace.
The Empress and Consort Chun went to a corner and asked in a low voice, "Are you sure everything is settled?"
Consort Chun nodded: "Don't worry, how could I not handle something like this?"
The two looked at each other and smiled.
They understood each other perfectly.
They were extremely excited, probably because they were so close to victory.
The Empress, in particular, had her palms damp with sweat.
Even knowing that this is a done deal...
Suddenly, the palace doors opened.
The eldest princess rushed in.
but……
Soon, the chief eunuch also came out with a heartbroken look on his face, "Your Majesty, you have passed away..."
These five simple words struck everyone like a heavy blow.
Di Yanqing was the most devastated. His eyes widened with tears, and then he burst into a loud, earth-shattering wail.
As everyone knows, the Crown Prince is about to ascend the throne...
Want to play again later? No way!
The Empress and Consort Chun exchanged glances, both understanding each other's intentions.
Consort Chun wanted to laugh, but she held it back.
The empress feigned tears and squeezed out two drops.
The chief eunuch came out with the emperor's dying edict and immediately began to read it aloud.
While everyone was grieving, no one expected that the first sentence of the late emperor's edict was to allow the crown prince to ascend the throne and to instruct the regent to fully assist the young crown prince.
Consort Chun had no children and was buried with them.
The empress would then go to the royal mausoleum to spend the rest of her life guarding it, never to step out of the mausoleum.
As for the other concubines who had no children, they were dismissed on their own.
After the imperial edict was read aloud in great detail, everyone present changed their expressions.
Everyone looked at the Empress and Consort Chun in disbelief.
Judging from the follow-up arrangements made by the late emperor...
Everyone else has been settled, but those two... are in such a miserable state?
The two women, who were just moments before smug and about to laugh, now had incredibly stiff expressions.
Consort Chun's face turned deathly pale, her knees buckled, and she knelt down. "No, no, I don't want to be buried with them! Why... why am I the only one to be buried with them? What did I do wrong?"
The Empress was also filled with disbelief.
She thought that after the emperor died, she would naturally become the empress dowager, even if she was not the crown prince's biological mother, she was still the empress!
At this moment, a cool voice came out: "The Empress and Consort Chun conspired to frame the Emperor. In accordance with the Emperor's last wish, the Empress was deposed, and He Juanying will guard the mausoleum until her death."
He is the regent.
He Juanying was the Empress's name.
Everyone knelt down.
Xiao Tang stood behind, observing the various expressions of the people in front of him like an outsider.
As expected... people's hearts have changed, and the world is cold and indifferent.
[The Emperor knew the soup Consort Chun sent was poisonous, yet he still drank it, hoping to die sooner. Was he out of his mind?]
Xiao Tang was increasingly unable to understand the late emperor's thoughts...
...
The late emperor passed away, and the young crown prince ascended the throne, causing a flurry of activity in the palace.
Since that day, Xiao Tang has never seen Di Jingling again after returning to the Regent's Palace.
Even though she slept on Di Jingling's enormous jade bed every day.
Yan Jiu was also in the palace.
Only Yan Shi followed her.
For three consecutive days.
Xiao Tang hadn't seen anyone, but she had been busily setting up her pharmacy.
Emperor Youming was also in the shop.
After several days of medication, the child's poisoning has been successfully neutralized.
The system had already reported her points: [ ]
Before the shop opened, Xiao Tang was still setting up the store.
The child sitting in the chair looked at her and asked, "Why don't you go to the palace to keep my royal uncle company?"
"Does he need me to accompany him?" Xiao Tang asked without looking up.
The reply was quite casual.
From the child's perspective, it even seemed like the woman was being perfunctory.
Isn't this her husband?
"Hey, do you like me, Ninth Imperial Uncle, or not?"
Xiao Tang stopped what she was doing.
She looked at the little kid in surprise.
Lately, the child has been going out of the manor more often, and has even been listening to storytellers. The storytellers can tell all sorts of love stories in great detail, which has really impressed the child.
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