"So what if it's me? You can kill me or chop me up as you like."
Gu Junyue clenched her teeth tightly. She was determined to die. She was alone in this world.
"No, I won't let you die." Rong Zhen suddenly broke the dead silence. Cheng Shaoyuan was in a trance and was stunned when he heard him say this.
"Your Majesty, what do you mean by that?" Cheng Shaoyuan thought that Rong Zhen's mood was unpredictable, and he was afraid that she would suffer a fate worse than death. After all, they had been married for several years, so how could he be willing to let her fall to this point?
"Since you gave it to her, I will let you experience the pain as well." After Rong Zhen finished speaking in a neither cold nor harsh manner, he walked in with two servants, holding a bowl of medicine in his hand. Gu Junyue looked at the black thing with a few bugs crawling on it, and suddenly felt nauseous in her stomach.
"No... I don't want to drink it!" Gu Junyue would rather die than drink these things, but she didn't expect that someone pressed her acupoints, and she immediately opened her mouth wide and drank the medicine without leaving a drop. Cheng Shaoyuan witnessed all this but did not step forward to stop him.
"Your Highness..." Cheng Shaoyuan looked at Rong Zhen in front of him and felt a little reluctant to see him treat her in such a cruel way.
"Cheng Shaoyuan, since you can't control your woman, then I will take your place. When the poison takes effect, she will be in a state worse than death, but I want to see how she is in a state worse than death. And without my permission, no one can come to see her. Let her rot to death in this stinking dungeon!"
After saying that, he locked the door of the prison cell three times. Even if a god came down, he would not be able to take her out. Cheng Shaoyuan stood near the fence, watching her rolling on the ground in pain, but he could do nothing.
"Master Cheng, please leave this place. The prince has already said that no one can stay here without his permission."
After Huang Zijun finished speaking, he asked someone to keep an eye on him until he left.
"It hurts so much..." Gu Junyue was sweating profusely, rolling on the ground in pain, holding his lower abdomen, vomiting blood from his mouth, his eyes wide open, looking at Cheng Shaoyuan who was standing aside, and slowly stretched out his hand.
Cheng Shaoyuan clenched his fists and left first.
Rong Zhen has already wiped out all the secret places in the capital city where poison was spread, to prevent such bloody storms from happening again.
Just as the matter was resolved, Rong Zhen received a secret report from the royal family, saying that dozens of people in Jianzhong were going to be secretly dealt with.
Upon receiving the news, he rushed to the palace and arrived at the entrance of the Hall of Mental Cultivation. He saw an old eunuch with white hair guarding the door, as if he had known of his coming.
"Your Highness, His Majesty is discussing important matters with the officials from the six ministries in the palace. If Your Highness is here to play chess with the Emperor, please move to the side courtyard and wait."
The old eunuch spoke in a hoarse voice, trying to ask him to move his feet somewhere else.
"No, I'll just wait for him at the door and see when my royal brother is willing to see me." Rong Zhen was a stubborn person, so he just waited aside. The sun in the sky began to set, and the old eunuch went in and out of the hall many times. He saw that His Royal Highness Prince Zhao was still waiting at the door, as if he would not give up even if he saw the emperor.
Finally, he saw the leaders of the six ministries stepping out of the Yangxin Palace. Without saying a word, he rushed in immediately, and the old eunuch disappeared in the blink of an eye.
"Royal brother!" Rong Zhen came with a threatening momentum just to discuss the matter of the sword tomb, but he had already given the order to kill all these people without leaving a single one alive. Thinking of what he had promised Gongsun Ningxue before, he could not go back on his word.
"You've come at the right time. I have something important to discuss with you." The emperor was very pleased, as if he had heard some good news.
"Brother, is there any room for discussion on the sword tomb?" Rong Zhen didn't want to see so many people disregarding their lives. After all, most of them were instigated by traitors. The emperor looked at him and suddenly raised his lips, "How do you know? This is what I want to talk to you about."
"Brother, these people must not be killed."
"Why can't I kill him?" The emperor looked at him in confusion and quickly put away the smile on his face. The hall was immersed in a dead silence.
"Royal brother, Gongsun Mu has done father a favor, so father allowed them to stay in the city with a force. They have not caused any trouble over the years. The recent incident must be someone using them to oppose the court." Rong Zhen hurriedly analyzed it with him, but he looked indifferent, as if he was tired of hearing these words.
"Rong Zhen, am I too accommodating to you?"
As soon as he said this, Rong Zhen vaguely discovered that he seemed a little angry.
"Royal brother..." Rong Zhen was about to argue but was ruthlessly interrupted by him.
"Well, Jianzhong should have served the court. Now that we have wiped out their lair, it can be regarded as a warning to the world." After the emperor said this, he had a chess game placed on the table and wanted him to sit down face to face.
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"What? You're not in the mood to play chess with me?" The emperor looked at him standing there like a clay sculpture, his face seeming a little displeased.
"Then let's not play anymore." The emperor endured the pain and said nothing, but his face was quite angry. He waved his hand and scattered all the black and white chess pieces on the ground. The eunuch hurriedly bent down and came forward to pick up all the chess pieces.
The eunuch led Rong Zhen to the palace gate and advised him earnestly: "Your Highness, why do you have to be so hard on the emperor? After all, you two are..."
"Enough. I don't want to hear this now. What did the people from the six ministries say to my royal brother? And who proposed to him to destroy the sword tomb?" Rong Zhen moved his sharp gaze to the eunuch's face. When asked this, the eunuch lowered his head hesitantly.
"Just answer me." Rong Zhen put his hands behind his back and stared at him with a pair of firm and powerful eyes, trying to read something from his expression.
"If Your Majesty really wants to get to the bottom of this matter, why not go to the Cining Palace and ask." The old eunuch could only give these clues, then turned and left, leaving him alone at the door.
Rong Zhen's eyes dimmed. It seemed that this matter even involved the harem.
Before it got completely dark, they went to the Cining Palace. When Nanny Hua saw the prince standing at the door, she was quite surprised and quickly invited him in.
"Since the prince has come in the evening, why don't you have dinner with the Queen Mother here? You haven't been with her for a long time..." As she spoke, Nanny Hua forgot to observe his expression. He seemed a little unhappy, and his face was cold, making people look as if they were in the cold winter, and the whole person felt a chill.
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