Chapter 348 The Queen Mother in the Explosion Chamber
"Give me water... give me... give me water..."
There were intermittent hoarse voices coming from the pitch-black torture chamber.
But today is New Year's Eve, and there were originally two little eunuchs who came from time to time to see if anyone had died. Today everyone went to the front to watch the fireworks. Who still remembers that there was an old woman locked up in the torture chamber?
"Squeak, squeak, squeak..."
It came again and again...
The rats roamed everywhere, making unbearable sounds. In the darkness, the fear doubled. The Queen Mother Wu always felt that she would be eaten by these rats.
There was no mirror here. She didn't know how haggard and haggard she looked, and she didn't know how long she had been locked up here, but she guessed it was almost a year?
She wasn't sure!
Unable to tell the time, she could only rely on her body to feel the changing of the seasons.
It was winter now, and there were sounds of fireworks exploding. It was... New Year's Eve!
Just by imagining it, she could tell that her face had probably become haggard, her hair had turned white, and she no longer looked like a human.
Empress Dowager Wu hugged her knees and tried to shrink herself as much as possible, not wanting to be touched by the mice.
"Chijichi..."
"Ahhhhhhh..."
However, things did not go as she wished. The more she feared something, the more it came.
There were two soft objects moving around where her waist was sitting against the corner of the wall. The hairs on her body stood up, and she jumped up from the ground with a scream.
"Let me out! Let me out! Otherwise you will kill me. I can't bear this life anymore. Kill me!"
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
She slammed her head hard on the closed door. Before she lost consciousness, the image of Concubine Jing Gui appeared in her mind.
The noblewoman from the Jing family of Longxi had been in and out of the palace since she was a child. She and the late emperor were childhood sweethearts.
She was loved by her parents and doted on by the emperor. She was also so lucky to have a son in one pregnancy.
There were many women in the late emperor's harem, all of them were as beautiful as flowers and pretty faces, but the only one who really won his heart was Concubine Jing Gui.
After entering the palace, other concubines all regarded Concubine Jing Gui as an enemy and rival. They used all kinds of methods, but often before Concubine Jing Gui fell into the trap, they were dealt with by the late emperor.
Only she saw through the innocence under Concubine Jing Gui's indifference and chose to do the opposite.
Day after day, year after year, she showed kindness to Concubine Jing Gui, thinking about her everywhere, showing an innocent, lively and lovely character, making the emperor and Concubine Jing Gui think that she was just a naive little girl who was ignorant of the world.
Concubine Jing Gui treated her as a good sister, and the late emperor loved her and favored her a little more than other concubines.
She took advantage of this favor and always made the late emperor favor her a few days after having sex with Concubine Jing Gui.
God favored Concubine Jing for decades, giving her a top family background and beauty. He also favored her a little bit, making her pregnant at the same time as Concubine Jing.
Concubine Jing's indifference was all pretended. In fact, she was the innocent and pure girl who didn't know the world. It was the late emperor who told her to pretend to be noble and indifferent. In this palace, she should not care about anyone, and she should not be sincere to anyone except the late emperor.
But if she just waited for the late emperor to favor her, the long palace life would be too boring and lonely.
So Concubine Jing treated Empress Dowager Wu as her best friend and let her enter and leave her palace freely.
This also gave Empress Dowager Wu the opportunity to bribe the nanny.
It has been so long that Empress Dowager Wu can no longer remember the name of the nanny. Anyway, the grass on her grave should be very tall.
The nanny was sent by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. At that time, she wrote a letter to the Wu family, asking them to help investigate all the palace servants around Concubine Jing Gui, find out their weaknesses, and then use them to coerce and lure them.
The nanny had a son who was addicted to gambling. The Wu family set up a trap to make him more addicted, and then tricked him into borrowing money at a high interest rate in a gambling house.
After the money had accumulated to a point where they could not pay it back, the Wu family came forward to pay back the money, but they did not let them know that the condition for the repayment was to have the people in the casino write a letter to threaten the nanny, and cut off a finger of the nanny's son and secretly brought it into the palace. The
nanny had only one son, and she had not seen him in the palace for many years. She only remembered that there was a black mole on her son's index finger, and there was also a black mole on the severed finger.
She had to follow the arrangement of Empress Dowager Wu and notify Empress Dowager Wu when Concubine Jing Gui showed signs of rebellion.
At first, Empress Dowager Wu planned that if both of them gave birth to sons, she would switch the two princes, because the late emperor was waiting for Concubine Jing Gui to give birth to the prince and then make her the queen.
After she switched the two children, she could "well" educate Concubine Jing's son, so that he would be loyal and risk his life for her son.
When her son grows up to six or seven years old, she will secretly meet him and tell him his true life experience. Mother and son are connected by heart, and in the future, the world will still belong to them.
However, she gave birth to a princess!
Why can Concubine Jing give birth to a son, but she can only give birth to a useless girl?
Shang Cang still stands on Concubine Jing's side.
But she must not miss this opportunity, otherwise she will always be inferior to Concubine Jing in this life.
Therefore, in order to make Concubine Jing too heartbroken after giving birth, she not only wants to switch the children, but also give her a dead baby.
Fortunately, my brother had used urgent palace affairs to entangle the late emperor that day, which gave the nanny time to replace the emperor.
Concubine Jing Gui had no defense against her people in the palace. She arranged several confidants to help Concubine Jing Gui, and they worked together with several eunuchs in her palace to quickly replace the emperor.
Concubine Jing Gui saw that the little princess she had given birth to at great risk had died, and she had a hemorrhage on the spot.
When the late emperor arrived, Concubine Jing Gui had already died of hemorrhage.
The late emperor cried with regret, and he didn't care what Empress Dowager Wu gave birth to?
Before the big thing was accomplished, Empress Dowager Wu hid herself and became a transparent person in the harem.
She did not appear in public until all the princes of the previous emperor died. By then, the emperor was already three years old.
She thought that she would be able to call the shots and do whatever she wanted in the rest of her life.
Ha!
After all, he is not his biological son. Shen Ye is an ungrateful person who can never be tamed. He has a completely different personality from Concubine Jing, but he is exactly the same as the late emperor.
It was Jiang Xinyue... It was all Jiang Xinyue...
It was after she entered the palace that all his plans were messed up...
Bitch... Bitch...
"Your Majesty! Your Majesty!"
Wang Dequan had to disturb the world of two people between the emperor and the imperial concubine, and ran into the palace: "The one in the torture chamber... is gone."
He didn't even know how to address Empress Dowager Wu, fearing that the emperor would be unhappy.
The emperor showed a bit of sadness on his face: "The empress dowager has worked hard for Dayan, and she is posthumously named Empress Dowager Shoukang Fushun and buried in the imperial mausoleum... My father's Concubine Jing... is also conferred the title of Empress Dowager Cining Xiande and buried with my father."
One was buried in the imperial mausoleum, and the other was buried with the late emperor.
One is Shou Kang Fu Shun, the other is Ci Ning Xian De.
Can you still not see the difference?