Chapter 630 Every wrong has its perpetrator, every debt its debtor.
"Consort Sun..."
"Shut up! I am the Empress, the Empress Dowager, and the Grand Empress Dowager. What are you? I'm going to kill you."
She made a pinching gesture in the dark, "Go to hell, all of you die for me, Qin Yingshuang, I will kill the bastard in your belly, the emperor wants to make the child in your belly the crown prince, I will kill you, anyone who opposes me, I will kill her."
"You killed the Emperor too! How vicious you are, Consort Sun! You will die a horrible death..." Qin Yingshuang's voice continued.
“He will not make Kang’er the crown prince, but will make a bastard the crown prince. Anyone who stands in Kang’er’s way will die. I have only given him a slow poison. As long as he makes Kang’er the crown prince, I will be the empress dowager.”
At this moment, Emperor Huijing's voice rang out again, "Empress Dowager, I am also your son, I am the Crown Prince, why do you dislike me and want to depose me?"
"You are not my son. I have no ungrateful son like you. I wish you were dead. Go to hell..."
"The tiger-head dolls that Mother made for me, one for Kang'er and one for me. Has Mother forgotten? We are brothers..." It was Emperor Huijing's voice again.
“You were the Crown Prince back then, but the mother you always remembered was the deceased Empress Yang. I made a tiger-head doll exactly like Kang’er and gave it to you in order to win your heart. I didn’t want to give it to you at all.”
Just then, the bedchamber brightened up, and there were figures all around. The scene before her eyes was stimulating to the eyes of the Empress Dowager. Standing directly opposite her were Prince Kang and Xie Shang, among others.
Xie Minmin and Xie Yun were among them, their hands and feet were bound, and their mouths were gagged with a wad of cloth. Xie Shang somehow managed to make so many people's voices sound like this.
The Empress Dowager was surprised to find Xie Kang in Shengjing. She said, "Kang'er."
"So the real cause of Father's death was that Mother poisoned him with a slow-acting poison and framed Xie Jing. Father deposed the Crown Prince because he wanted to make Qin Yinshuang's child the Crown Prince, but Mother said that she wanted to make her son the Crown Prince, which made me suspicious of my own brother. I still don't understand why Mother doesn't like Brother Jing. Isn't he your child?"
Xie Shang and Jiang Fenghua also stood to one side, they also wanted to know why?
The Empress Dowager, her hair white as snow, lost her grip on her dragon-headed cane and fell to the ground. Her eyes were fixed on Xie Kang's direction. "Kang'er."
Xie Kang also had a limp. After decades in the Northwest, his hands and feet were no longer very nimble. He called out, "Mother."
The Empress Dowager held Xie Kang's hand, her eyes resolute. "The throne belongs to Kang'er, it belongs to Kang'er. Xie Jing came from my womb, but he was raised under Empress Yang's care from birth..."
Jiang Fenghua and Xie Shang listened quietly. So this was the reason why the Empress Dowager disliked the Emperor. Xie Kang was raised by her from the ground up, while Xie Jing was raised by the childless Empress Yang. After Empress Yang died, Xie Jing returned to the Empress Dowager's side.
By then, Xie Jing had grown up and naturally cared about Empress Yang, who had raised him. Meanwhile, the Empress Dowager was focused on her youngest son, Xie Kang, and had no affection for Xie Jing.
Later, the Empress Dowager, who was then Consort Sun, was supposed to be made Empress, but unexpectedly, Qin Yinshuang appeared out of nowhere and captured the Emperor's heart. The Emperor was bewitched by Qin Yinshuang and even wanted to make her Empress and her unborn child Crown Prince. Consort Sun was naturally furious, so she plotted to kill Qin Yinshuang and gave the Emperor a slow-acting poison.
Consort Sun successfully became Empress. She thought she could depose Xie Jing as Crown Prince and install her favorite youngest son, Xie Kang, as Crown Prince. However, Xie Jing was no pushover. He was determined to seize the throne and would not allow Xie Kang to take it.
Emperor Huijing never knew the reason why the Empress Dowager disliked him until his death; it turned out that it was simply because he had been raised by Empress Yang since childhood.
Emperor Huijing naturally missed his biological mother, but unfortunately she only loved the son she raised herself.
Xie Shang then asked, "So where did Grandmother hide Su Qingqing? Su Qingqing met with the Empress Dowager when she went to Hengyang, right?"
He had already found out that it was the Empress Dowager who instructed Xie Yun and Xie Minmin to rescue Su Qingqing. Even the matter of the Southern Kingdom and the vassal states was the Empress Dowager's idea. This old lady really would use any means to scheme for her son!
To scheme for her younger son's future while plotting for her older son's success, she is probably the only mother in the world like this!
Unfortunately, the youngest son had lived in the Northwest for decades and had long lost his fighting spirit.
Xie Shang couldn't understand why, in Jiang Fenghua's memories of her previous life, Xie Kang hadn't rebelled. In this life, it was only Xie Kang's son and daughter who wanted to rebel on his behalf. That's how he connected the events of the two lives.
At this moment, General Cheng Yong, leaning on his cane, also came before the Empress Dowager and said, "Your subject pays respects to the Empress Dowager."
The Empress Dowager asked, "Are you the son of the Duke of Cheng?"
“My father passed away more than ten years ago, and the Empress Dowager has not returned to Shengjing for thirty years, yet she still recognizes me.”
"You look very much like your father. Duke Cheng once supported me and also thought highly of Kang'er becoming emperor. It's just a pity that Kang'er was not yet powerful enough to defeat Xie Jing. Duke Cheng knew about what Xie Jing did back then, right? Later, he married Duke Cheng's daughter to make her empress and shut Duke Cheng up," said the Empress Dowager.
Cheng Yong glanced at Xie Shang. Regardless of what happened in the past, the Emperor now favored the Cheng family, and the Cheng family's rise had hope. He had no desire to seek justice for a bunch of dead people.
There is no justice in the world; it's just a matter of the victor taking all and the loser being condemned!
He said, "What the Empress Dowager said is probably just your imagination to give Prince Kang a good future. Just now, the Empress Dowager admitted to poisoning Emperor Shengzu with a slow-acting poison in order to frame Emperor Huijing for seizing the throne. It was only natural for the Crown Prince to ascend the throne at that time."
The true cause of Emperor Shengzu's death is probably only known to Emperor Huijing. Now that the emperor is on the throne, he is the legitimate ruler, so who would dare to bring up old grievances from decades ago?
Xie Shang continued, "So, if Grandmother has evidence of the Emperor's rebellion and regicide, it will be used to frame your eldest son. The words you just spoke with Granny Li have already been recorded by Lord Yao of the Imperial Clan Court. Grandmother also needs to go to the Imperial Clan Court to assist in handling the cases of Consort Zhang and Consort Pan. Even if the Emperor breaks the law, he is subject to the same punishment as the common people."
Jiang Fenghua took out the strip of cloth that Li Mama had thrown away and said in a deep voice, "This is Li Mama's confession. She said that the Empress Dowager instructed her to put hallucinogenic drugs in Consort Zhu's tea, which caused her to offend the two pregnant ladies."
"Aoxue woke up Granny Li." Jiang Fenghua did not give the Empress Dowager another chance to argue.
As soon as Granny Li was awakened by the cold splash, she opened her eyes and saw a person disguised as a pregnant woman covered in blood right in front of her. She was so frightened that she stammered, "The grievance has its source, the debt has its debtor, it wasn't me."
Aoxue had a really tough time pretending to be a ghost tonight. Luckily, the Thousand-Faced Gentleman came to help them, which allowed them to put on a perfect show in front of the Empress Dowager.
Ao Xue held the knife directly to Li Mama's neck. "The Empress Dowager has already given instructions. Li Mama, just tell the truth."
At this moment, the Empress Dowager slumped in Xie Kang's arms, as if she were paralyzed.
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