Chapter 141 Emperor (Extra) (15)
"Your Majesty, the Empress has been gone for five years, and the main positions in the harem are vacant. It is time to select concubines to fill the harem." The Empress Dowager patted her new daughter who was serving beside her and motioned her to come over.
"Your servant Yingying greets Your Majesty." Huang Yingying performed the blessing ceremony, and then she dared to sneak a peek at the Emperor.
With just one glance, she fell in love.
She grew up with her father at the border since she was a child, and she had seen countless brave men, but none of them shocked and moved her as much as the Emperor's eyes.
"This is General Huang's youngest daughter. She is fourteen years old and very lively. She has a similar personality to the queen..."
"Enough." The emperor interrupted her, "The queen is incomparable to anyone."
"The Queen Mother knows that you and the Queen have a deep love, but it has been five years. It's time for you to let it go." The Queen Mother walked to his side and persuaded him: "Emperor, you are the emperor of this world, and the people of the world still rely on you."
"If the Queen Mother had understood this truth five years ago, how great it would be." The emperor turned his back.
"Your Majesty, please listen to what I have to say." Huang Yingying mustered up her courage and walked to his side. "The Empress Dowager is your biological mother, you shouldn't speak like that."
"You are my flesh and blood, born after ten months of pregnancy, but you don't understand the difficulties of being a mother as well as Yingying, an outsider." The Empress Dowager picked up a handkerchief and wiped her eyes. "I know that you have been hating the Queen since she passed away. Now you even hate her to the point of giving up the country to someone other than her? Have you forgotten how we, an orphan and a widow, got to where we are today step by step?"
"The Empress Mother has not forgotten the past, and naturally I, as the Emperor, will not forget it either." The Emperor closed his eyes, and Shi Yi's voice and smile were all in front of him. "But when the Queen did something wrong, you refused to lend a hand to help her."
"Queen, Queen, how can you, the dignified Emperor Dayong, only know a dead person? "The Empress Dowager was angry. "If you mention it again, I will send someone to take her out of the imperial mausoleum so that she can't rest in peace even in the underworld."
"If you dare, just pretend that I don't have a son." The emperor glared at him, "If you don't mind losing your son in your old age, I don't mind going to accompany the queen earlier."
"Da Rong's misfortune. Da Rong's misfortune." Looking at his back as he walked away, the empress dowager leaned and was about to fall.
"Call the imperial physician." Huang Yingying supported her.
The prison.
"You are here again?" Dong Boshu, who was put in a jar, looked at the emperor in front of him with some amusement, "You are always condescending to this prison, how hard it is."
"Do you know why the Dong family was uprooted, but you are staying in this prison safely?" Across the iron bars, the emperor had a morbid joy.
Only when he looked at this criminal who should have been executed by slow slicing, would he feel that his soul was at peace.
"You hate me so much." Dong Boshu smiled happily, "You wish you could cut me into pieces every day, but you have to let me stay in this prison."
"I, really hate you so much." The emperor did not hide his disgust for her, "But I have to be grateful to you."
"Your Majesty is grateful that a sinner like me is alive, simply because my existence reminds you to think of the queen all the time." Dong Boshu blinked, "If the emperor was wise and powerful at that time, he could detect my sinister intentions, the queen would not have died so early..."
She stopped talking and smiled meaningfully.
In the past, every time this happened, the emperor would be so angry that he could not speak or even clamor to execute her, but this time the emperor laughed out loud, contrary to his usual behavior, "The taste in this jar is not good, so that you have angered me again and again, and it is not so easy to ask for death."
Dong Boshu bit her tongue hard, but most of her teeth had been knocked out, and she could not use any strength except for speaking.
"Don't waste your energy. Just stay in the prison until you die of old age." The emperor laughed sarcastically, "You owe the queen, and you should pay her back in this lifetime."
"Emperor, you are shameless." Dong Boshu shouted.
"You forced me to do this." The emperor left.
Because of her excitement, she disturbed the poisonous snakes and scorpions in the jar, and these poisonous creatures began to bite her broken lower body. Even though she was used to such a life, she still let out a heart-wrenching roar.
"Take good care of her. If she dies, I will hold your whole family accountable." Eunuch Sheng shook his whisk and trotted to catch up with the emperor.
"We tortured this person half to death and then saved her, and then tortured her half to death again after saving her. It's really..." The younger guards looked at the criminal in the jar with pity in their eyes.
"You are new here and don't know the situation. She," the middle-aged guard pointed inside the fence and spat on the ground, "framed the queen for adultery and poisoned her. She was only twelve years old, and died at such a young age."
"Only twelve years old?" The young guard was surprised, "The woman in the jar doesn't look like such a vicious person."
"So they say women's hearts are as deep as the sea. In the harem, women will do anything to win favor." The middle-aged guard patted his shoulder, "I told you so much because I hope you will open your eyes and not be deceived when you marry a wife in the future."
"Walk out of this dark and damp prison, the sky outside is bright and the air is much fresher." Eunuch Sheng muttered, but the emperor saw something and quickened his pace.
"Your Majesty, I am here..." Lord Ma Jia, who was named Duke, was about to salute when the emperor grabbed his hands.
"You are not in good health, so these empty formalities are unnecessary." The emperor let go of him after he stood firm.
"I heard that you refused the selection of the Empress Dowager. This is absolutely unacceptable for the country and the family." Duke Ma Jia pleaded, "I and my beloved wife know that you have Shi Yi in your heart, but Shi Yi has been gone for five years. The harem cannot be left without a master for a day, and you cannot be left alone all the time."
"I have kept your words in mind." The emperor took a few steps forward, "Please go back."
"Your Majesty, you are the emperor of this world." Duke Ma Jia continued to plead.
"I will only have one queen in my life, Ma Jia Shi Yi." The emperor was obviously angry, "Since Duke Ma Jia has come to persuade me in person, I have to go first."
"Look at you, why don't you come to persuade me at any other time, but now when the emperor is in a bad mood, look, look." Eunuch Sheng's orchid finger was trembling. After scolding Duke Ma Jia, he moved his steps to chase the emperor.
Duke Majia stood there, looking at the receding figure, his face no longer heavy. He laughed until tears came out, kneeling on the ground and whispering: "My daughter, as long as father lives, the position of queen will always be yours. This is what the emperor owes you."
(End of this chapter)
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