Zhou Yinghui avoided his gaze, not daring to look at Xiao Tingmo's hurt eyes.
"Mo'er, there's nothing I can do. Please forgive me."
Zhou Yinghui felt very sad when she had to kill the child she had raised for more than ten years.
But she was also worried that Xiao Tingmo would become alienated from her and lose control of her after knowing her life experience.
Now they had no chance to make mistakes, so in the end she acquiesced to her father and brother taking action against Xiao Tingmo.
Zhou Yinzhuang, who was standing by, saw that his younger sister was still dawdling there and was getting impatient.
"Sister, he's going to die anyway, why waste time talking to him? If I were to ask myself, the longer the night, the more trouble he'd have. He's in agony right now, so why not just send him to paradise as soon as possible?"
When Xiao Tingmo heard this, his eyes moved, but he still stared at Zhou Yinghui without moving.
It seems that he has accepted his fate, or his heart has died.
Zhou Yichen on the side nodded and watched Zhou Yinzhuang walk towards Xiao Tingmo with a bowl of medicine. The child who had called him grandfather for more than ten years finally closed his eyes as if he couldn't bear it.
Zhou Yinghui didn't dare to look any longer and turned her eyes away reluctantly, tears welling up in her eyes.
But the next second, the door was suddenly slammed open, and a group of fully equipped guards rushed into the room.
They surrounded the three members of the Zhou family who were standing in the room.
Xiao Tingmo, who had just been lying weakly on the bed, gasping for breath, had now sat up like a normal person.
Zhou Yinghui was shocked by this reversal and was unable to recover for a while.
"Are you plotting against us?"
Zhou Yichen stared at Xiao Tingmo, as if he was meeting him for the first time.
Xiao Tingmo got out of bed and walked barefoot to them, laughing wildly.
"You are the ones who want me dead! But who do you think you are? Why do you dare to control my life and death?"
"Fortunately, I'm not as stupid as you guys, otherwise I wouldn't even know how I died."
Although Xiao Tingmo is a tyrant, he himself is not stupid or ignorant.
After learning that the capital had been occupied by the rebellious Tongguan army led by Cheng Wuan, he immediately reacted and secretly dispatched personnel to protect his safety.
So he had known for a long time that Zhou Yinghui had poisoned his food, but he was still suspicious, and he was also worried that the commander of the Imperial Guard, Zhou Yaowen, was a member of the Zhou family.
Fortunately, he had been careful enough to recruit the former commander of the Imperial Guards under his command, and now he can help him get out of his current predicament.
That's why he kept his troops on hold for the time being and secretly controlled the Zhou family and other family members and officials.
Let’s wait and see what the Zhou family is up to.
What he didn't expect was that his mother and his grandfather and uncles, whom he had called his mother for more than ten years, would send him to death without blinking an eye.
But he knew that soon he would know the reason.
After all, the Zhou family took action against him so quickly, they must be afraid that he would know something, and this incident would threaten the Zhou family's position in his heart.
Xiao Tingmo gave an order to gag the two men and take them away to be locked up. Suddenly, half of the people in the room were gone.
Xiao Tingmo slowly walked up to Zhou Yinghui and stood still.
Zhou Yinghui turned her head away, unwilling, or rather, afraid, to look at Xiao Tingmo's current expression.
Xiao Tingmo looked at her quietly for a while and spoke softly.
"Mother, you have such a cruel heart."
As these words came out, tears quietly fell from Zhou Yinghui's eyes.
But she would not ask Xiao Tingmo for forgiveness, because she knew he would not forgive her, and she did not deserve it.
Xiao Tingmo didn't care when he didn't get a response.
He waved his sleeves and turned around resolutely.
"Send the Queen Mother back to Jingxin Garden. She is not allowed to go out without my order."
As expected, he couldn't bring himself to do anything to her in the end.
Just as Xiao Tingmo thought, almost the next day, he found out why the Zhou family was suddenly so eager to take action against him - he was not the late emperor's child.
It's a very clichéd story of the raccoon cat replacing the prince. He is the raccoon cat that replaced Zhou Yinghui's child.
And in the capital, Xiao Jinze, who was supported by Cheng Wuan's group of generals, was the true bloodline of the late emperor and the late queen.
Xiao Tingmo couldn't believe it. He thought he was already in great pain when he found out that the mother who had raised him for more than ten years was going to poison him.
Unexpectedly, there was something even more despairing to him. He was actually the child Zhou Yinghui adopted from outside.
Judging from the Zhou family's style, his blood family must have been dealt with when he was taken away.
Xiao Tingmo, who was originally confident and ready to gather the scattered troops from the southern provinces to fight back to the capital and recover the lost territory, has completely lost his fighting spirit.
The beliefs he had held for more than ten years collapsed at this moment. He didn't know what to do. Looking at the sunshine outside, he wondered what he should do.
So he went to the cell despite the various looks from his subordinates, and learned the whole story from the Zhou father and son.
He then had someone give them a cup of poisoned wine, and then walked in a daze to Jingxin Garden where Zhou Yinghui was imprisoned.
He entered the garden, drove away all the palace maids and eunuchs, and entered the palace. He watched the calm Zhou Yinghui go hysterical and crazy, and then lit the candlesticks in the mess on the ground.
In the raging fire, the two were reduced to ashes.
(Of course, fire won’t burn people to ashes, but saying “burned” doesn’t make the feeling a bit off.)
When Cheng Wuan and his men were halfway there, they heard the news that a fire had broken out in the Mountain Resort and that Emperor An and the Empress Dowager had perished in the flames.
They didn't know any more and could only hurry to the summer resort.
Three days later, he saw that half of the summer resort had turned into ruins, and the remaining half was also in ruins.
However, what surprised him was that the commander of the Imperial Guard led the Imperial Guard to handle and arrange everything for the women in the Summer Resort in an orderly manner.
Seeing them coming, he surrendered without resistance.
He also learned the whole story from the commander of the Royal Guards.
Whether it was the Zhou family who colluded with the Queen Mother to poison Emperor An in an attempt to swallow the imperial seal, occupy the land and become the king, and compete with Xiao Jinze in the capital.
As a result, they were killed in return, and the empress dowager was imprisoned and the Zhou family was detained.
After Xiao Tingmo learned about his life story, he dealt with the Zhou family with thundering means, and then set fire to the house and died in the fire along with the Queen Mother.
After listening, Cheng Wuan was silent for a while, wondering how he would deal with the remains left by Xiao Tingmo.
The commander was also a man of good character. He answered honestly that the ashes of Xiao Tingmo and the empress dowager had merged into one and could not be distinguished, so he used one coffin to bury the ashes of both.
Then he looked at Cheng Wuan cautiously.
"I dare to ask, General, what are you going to do with An and Xiao Tingmo's remains?"
Cheng Wuan waved his hand, "This is something our emperor can decide, not me."
As long as I am not reduced to ashes in front of him, the commander lowered his eyes and asked no other questions.
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