"Report!"
"Your Majesty, the mighty general of the southwest has rebelled..."
"Report!"
"Your Majesty, a smallpox outbreak has occurred in the northwest..."
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Emperor Shengwu took up the secret report sent urgently over eight hundred miles with a sullen face, saying that the mighty general Wu Chengqi had launched a rebellion in the southwest to purge the court and kill the evil queen.
Emperor Shengwu sneered, "Wu Chengqi, don't you think I have made no preparations in the past ten years and watched him grow stronger in the southwest?"
Xing Yi lowered his head. This time the mighty general had angered the emperor.
"Issue the order that the Wu family is committing treason. All property will be confiscated and the entire clan will be imprisoned to await further punishment."
Bei Lingyao came hurriedly.
"Your Majesty, Wu Chengqi, with the exception of a concubine's son who is staying in the southwest, has all his other wives, children, and grandchildren in the capital. Yet, he rebelled, disregarding their lives. This is truly extraordinary."
"My good mother is quite a character."
Emperor Shengwu knew that the empress dowager had sent the Qilin Guard to the southwest, but he didn't know how to persuade Wu Chengqi to rebel.
Or perhaps Wu Chengqi had always wanted to rebel, and the Qilin Guard's presence there simply gave Wu Chengqi an excuse to rebel.
"I wonder if the late emperor's will has also reached the southwest."
Bei Lingyao frowned slightly. She searched the Empress Dowager's palace and dug out more than a dozen suspicious places, but did not find the will.
That was just a trick set up by the Queen Mother.
Bei Lingyao left Taiji Palace and headed towards Shou'an Palace.
Today, Shou'an Palace is guarded by the Dragon Scale Guards and controlled by Bei Lingyao.
When she came over, the Queen Mother cursed wildly.
The Dragon Scale Guards guarding Shou'an Palace had no expression on their faces and did not react at all.
The one serving the empress dowager was a disfigured and mute old palace maid, who had been poisoned and rendered mute by the empress dowager. Now, her eyes were shining as she looked at the empress dowager.
"Bitch, I shouldn't have spared your life."
The Queen Mother particularly regretted that she had been too soft-hearted in the past and did not take the life of this lowly maid.
He was too confident and ordered people to bury the body in the garden to use as nutrients for the flowers and plants, without cleaning it up.
Otherwise, how could the illegitimate son of a bitch use an excuse to clear out her Shou'an Palace?
The old maid grinned with her dark mouth. She was the happiest person that the Queen Mother met such an end.
She was a palace maid when the Empress Dowager was Queen. At that time, Concubine Bao had not yet entered the palace and the Empress Dowager had not yet fallen out of favor.
The late emperor praised an old palace maid for having a voice like a yellow oriole and a face like a lotus, and then the empress dowager disfigured her, poisoned her voice, and sent her to work as a toilet cleaner.
When Emperor Shengwu found out who this person was, he sent her to Shou'an Palace to serve the Empress Dowager.
So when the Queen Mother recognized the person, she went crazy.
This old palace maid had been cleaning toilets for decades, yet she was sent by the emperor to serve her.
The Queen Mother was angry and disgusted, and she cursed madly.
Seeing Bei Lingyao coming over, he gnashed his teeth in hatred, "This bastard is unfilial. Heaven will strike him with lightning. He will get his retribution sooner or later."
"All of you go down."
Bei Lingyao asked the Dragon Scale Guards and the old palace maid to leave, and just stared at the Queen Mother.
"Witch, get out, get out of my Shou'an Palace."
The empress dowager was thin with high cheekbones, and she looked particularly sarcastic and mean.
This time, his face was even more ferocious and twisted, full of murderous intent, as if he was going to pounce and kill Bei Lingyao.
Unfortunately, she had been given a muscle softening powder and was lying there powerless, with only her mouth able to move.
Bei Lingyao approached the Queen Mother, took out a jade pendant and waved it in front of her eyes.
"what are you up to?"
The Queen Mother looked at Bei Lingyao warily.
"Can't the Queen Mother recognize this jade pendant?"
Bei Lingyao shook again.
The Queen Mother's expression changed. "This is Prince Fu's jade pendant."
"What have you done to Prince Fu? If you touch Prince Fu, I will never let you go."
The Queen Mother roared, she didn't know that General Weiwu had already rebelled.
If the Empress Dowager felt that Emperor Shengwu would not touch Prince Fu in the past, she is no longer sure now.
In addition, the Qilin Guards and palace servants around her were gone, and the Queen Mother was completely unable to receive any news from the outside world. She was extremely panicked.
What would she do if the illegitimate child killed Prince Fu?
"Why don't you let him go? Just relying on the late emperor's will? Or the mighty general from the southwest?"
When Bei Lingyao said this, the Queen Mother's eyes narrowed and she tried to calm herself down, but she couldn't remain calm.
No wonder she didn’t receive a reply from Xinan. Qiwu betrayed her from the very beginning, as well as Qiyi and the entire Qilin Guard.
Bei Lingyao was unaware of the Queen Mother's misunderstanding. While chatting with her, she waved the jade pendant in her hand and coordinated her spiritual sense.
Gradually, the Queen Mother's eyes stopped being dull and her expression became numb.
"Where is the late emperor's will?"
"Last Will~"
The Queen Mother was different from Bei Hongjiao before. She was very alert and cautious. When she heard the word "last will", she struggled and almost woke up.
However, Bei Lingyao was also very patient and confident in negotiating with the Queen Mother.
"The will is in the cold palace and abandoned well!"
Bei Lingyao was delighted. She didn't expect that the Queen Mother had hidden the will in the abandoned well in the cold palace.
She shook the jade pendant and asked again, "Whose son is Prince Fu?"
"The late emperor's... martial arts master"
Bei Lingyao was speechless. The Queen Mother seemed unsure whose son Prince Fu was.
When Emperor Shengwu heard this sentence when he arrived, he was stunned.
Bei Lingyao's spiritual sense struck the empress dowager, and she fainted.
"Your Majesty..." The will was found in the abandoned well in the cold palace.
Before Bei Lingyao could finish her words, Emperor Shengwu asked, "Isn't Prince Fu the heir of the late emperor?"
"The Queen Mother isn't sure either."
Bei Lingyao had never seen a mighty general, and the thinner Prince Fu looked more like the empress dowager with his facial features.
Emperor Shengwu was silent, recalling that when the Empress Dowager was pregnant with Prince Fu, he was sent out of the capital by the late Emperor to do some business.
Thinking about how General Weiwu had once rejected his solicitation and was now rebelling in the southwest, how could Emperor Shengwu not understand?
The Queen Mother sent people to the southwest to find General Weiwu, probably saying that Prince Fu was General Weiwu's son.
So General Weiwu rebelled.
"Your Majesty, the late emperor left a will to abandon the cold palace and the well."
Bei Lingyao reminded.
"Xing Yi, go search the cold palace."
Emperor Shengwu wanted to go and see it in person.
"I will go with the Emperor."
Bei Lingyao followed Emperor Shengwu and told him that she wanted to try the hypnosis taught by Nanny Sun. She didn't expect that it would be useful on the empress dowager.
Emperor Shengwu was stunned. Why had he never thought of using hypnosis to deal with the empress dowager before?
However, he knew that the Dragon Scale Guard's hypnosis was useless against those with strong wills.
However, Emperor Shengwu couldn't help but smile at the Empress Dowager's current mental state.
"Yao'er gave me one or two big surprises."
"I only heard that General Weiwu was planning a rebellion, so I wanted to try to hypnotize the Queen Mother and see if I could get her will."
After all, Emperor Shengwu was still concerned about the will.
This is the tight hoop and shackles put on him by the late emperor.
There are several abandoned wells in the cold palace, but they have all been filled up. Digging them up is a big project.
Xing Yi led his men to dig three feet deep into several abandoned wells in the cold palace, and finally found an earth-colored ironwood box.
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