Chapter 71 The traitor deceives the emperor 20
Gu Li was helpless. You are not treating the empress dowager as a dish.
Zhou Ji pecked Gu Li's lips lightly, feeling her absent-mindedness, and couldn't help but frowned, saying coldly: "Bad luck."
When Zhang Deshan was about to speak again outside the door, he saw the emperor walking out with a sullen face.
"Go to Cining Palace." Zhou Ji said coldly, and after taking two steps, he turned back to look at Gu Li: "Why are you following me?"
Gu Li blinked innocently: "Can't I go?"
The sound of the chilly wind filled his ears, and Zhou Ji couldn't help but sneer: "Have you forgotten how you felt yesterday?"
Gu Li: "..."
She stepped back and looked outside eagerly: "Okay."
No.
Zhou Ji was at a loss for words because of her little eyes, and said in a cold voice: "Zhang Deshan, prepare the sedan chair!"
Zhang Deshan: "Hey!"
Before leaving, he secretly glanced at Gu Li.
The little eunuch who brought disaster to the country and the people!
"Your Majesty, you are the best!" Hearing this, Gu Li's eyes lit up instantly, and he circled around Zhou Ji like a puppy, patting his butt.
Zhou Ji couldn't help rubbing his eyebrows, raised his hand and pressed her head to calm her down.
"Hehe." Gu Li rubbed his palm and smiled at him.
Idiot.
Zhou Ji pursed his lips and said unhappily: "Don't hook up with palace maids in the future, just consider it as your repayment to me!"
At a certain moment just now, he really felt that the jade crown on his head was green.
Gu Li: "..."
"Your Majesty, it's done."
A dragon chariot stopped in front of the Yangxin Palace. Gu Li hurriedly grabbed Zhou Ji's sleeve and walked out to avoid this dangerous topic. The
dragon chariot was covered by thick curtains, and with the big heater in his arms, Gu Li didn't feel the cold at all and arrived at the Cining Palace.
At this moment, people inside and outside the Cining Palace were in a panic.
The previous dynasty's decree reached the Cining Palace and the Empress Dowager hanged herself. If your majesty blames them for not taking good care of them, none of them can escape.
When everyone saw the dragon chariot coming, they hurriedly knelt on the ground and begged for the king's forgiveness.
Gu Li looked at the crowd of people and couldn't help but sigh.
She gently tugged at Zhou Ji's sleeves, with a pleading look in her eyes.
Zhou Ji only pinched her fingertips and said lightly: "Get up."
He walked slowly towards the Cining Palace and said casually: "Zhang Deshan."
"I'm here."
"Tell someone to make good arrangements for these palace maids, and let those who are old enough go." The little bastard actually came to beg him for a group of irrelevant people.
"Yes!" The
palace maids kneeling on the ground were overjoyed to hear this, and their eyes were red with excitement.
They thought that this time they would be buried with the Empress Dowager, or go to the bitter and cold place of the Imperial Mausoleum.
"Thank you, Your Majesty, Your Majesty is merciful!" Zhou Ji entered the Cining Palace amid the shouts of the crowd.
At this moment, the Empress Dowager was lying sickly on the soft couch, and only the old nanny who had been with her since before she got married was beside her, looking extremely pitiful.
There were red bruises on her neck, which were traces of hanging.
The moment she saw the emperor coming, her eyes suddenly lit up and she said in a hoarse voice: "You want to force me to death by asking me to go to the imperial mausoleum?"
"Emperor, you are doing such a perverse thing, aren't you afraid of the gossips of the world?"
In such a bitter and cold place, even men can't survive for a few years. Letting a weak woman like her go, isn't it asking for her life?
Zhou Ji looked down at the empress dowager and said lightly: "I just understand the feelings between the empress dowager and the late emperor, and help a pair of lovers to be together. Why talk about the word 'force'?"
He raised his eyelids, and his cold eyes saw through people's hearts: "Or do you mean that the empress dowager doesn't want to guard the mausoleum for the late emperor?" The
empress dowager was speechless.
Nonsense, who wants to guard the mausoleum?
No matter how powerless she was in the palace, she was still above everyone else. But what about there?
Without the supervision of court officials, no one would know if the emperor killed her quietly. The queen
mother didn't want to suffer there, and she didn't want to die.
Her face was pale, and her voice was full of compromise: "After today, I will never go against you again. I just want a place to stay in the palace."
No matter how bad this palace is, it is better than the imperial mausoleum.
Zhou Ji chuckled: "What makes you think you have the ability to go against me?"
He said contemptuously: "Relying on the favor of that old fool, or relying on your son in the prison?"
"You!" The queen mother's eyes widened with anger, looking at Zhou Ji with hatred.
In order to protect herself, she tried her best not to think about her son who was now in the prison, but Zhou Ji actually wanted to poke her sore spot!
And...
her heart grew cold a little as she saw Zhou Ji's expression without any emotion.
At this moment, she was sure of one thing -
Zhou Ji would not let her stay in the palace.
No matter if she forced him with filial piety or surrendered, she could not make this man's heart waver.
In this case...
the tenderness on the empress dowager's face slowly faded, and deep hatred appeared in her eyes: "You beast who goes against human ethics, no wonder the late emperor would rather die than pass the throne to you."
Zhou Ji's expression did not waver at all, he just looked at the empress dowager lightly: "So what?" If
that person does not pass the throne to him, then he is not the emperor?
The Queen Mother sneered: "Emperor, do you really think no one knows about your affairs?"
"Do you really think the late emperor didn't know that you are a monster?"
She will never forget the full moon night when Zhou Ji, who never left the courtyard, came out and set fire to her courtyard, almost burning her to death.
The coldness and mockery in his eyes at that time made her still remember it.
The old man was furious and locked Zhou Ji in the ancestral hall, but Zhou Ji suddenly fainted and had a high fever for three days.
When he woke up again, he forgot everything that happened that day. There was still indifference and alienation in his eyes. He no longer had the madness of that night, and he was like a normal person.
But this incident eventually made the old man, who didn't like him, even more disgusted with him. He sent Zhou Ji to the military camp for training, so that he wouldn't be bothered by him.
After that, the general who was responsible for keeping an eye on Zhou Ji reported that he had abnormal behavior after every full moon night.
The old man once sent a famous doctor to diagnose him and diagnosed him with mental abnormality.
At that time, she finally felt relieved.
Because an eldest son with a problem in his brain would never be able to compete with her son for the position of the prince.
However, she never thought about what would happen next.
The previous dynasty was unjust, and her husband rose up in rebellion.
The abandoned son in the military camp gathered a bunch of soldiers and generals, and surpassed her son who she had taught so carefully.
Even those rough men were willing to abdicate in order to let him succeed to the throne!
The queen mother's face flushed with excitement, and she stared at the emperor coldly: "At that time, I really should have killed you!"
If so, there would not be the predicament today.
Zhou Ji sneered and didn't care about her threat.
The hatred in the queen mother's eyes became more and more intense, and she hissed: "Zhou Ji, you killed your father and brother, you will be punished!"
"I'm watching you in the imperial mausoleum, watching you die miserably, and watching the monster in your mind completely replace you!"