Chapter 163 King Jing is the Late Emperor
Wei Qingyan's thoughts seemed to be blocked by something.
She tapped Madam Wei a few times and asked, "You knew Abu's identity, yet you still dared to humiliate him. Why?"
Madam Wei's jaw was closed and her mute shackles were untied.
But the pain made her whole body tremble, and she shivered, "I... I didn't know it was the prince."
Her sophistry is actually meaningless.
Just as Wei Qingyan said, Madam Wei was aware of the original conspiracy and knew that the real eldest prince was not dead.
She even knew better that it was the late emperor who allowed Wei Qingyan to take Abu away and secretly raised Abu in the General Protector's Mansion.
Then when she saw Abu in Huangshaling, she should have recognized him at first sight.
So, when the emperor signaled Feng Ruobao to torture her, she confessed, "Yes, I did identify him.
But no matter how noble his birth was, his fate changed from the day he entered the slave house.
He is no longer a prince, but a secret guard hiding in the general's mansion, not daring to show his true face. Secret guards have secret guards' lives."
She raised her head with all her strength, scanning the hall inch by inch, and finally landing on Lan Shu, "One year at the palace banquet, I finally got the chance to see him.
But you disturbed me. You also warned me that since I am the general's wife, I should abide by the law. What qualifications do you, a woman who follows a man, have to criticize me?
So, if you want to blame someone, blame yourself for meddling in other people's affairs and bringing trouble upon your own son."
Lan Shu frowned. "Just because of this, you hate me? But when did I ever tell you this?"
"Do you remember the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet in your first year in the palace?" The pain made Madam Wei stare at Lan Shu with eyes as if filled with poison.
It had been so long since then that Lan Shu concentrated on recalling for a long time before she remembered that she had indeed spoken to Madam Wei during the Mid-Autumn Festival that year.
Can.
"I remember that I praised General Wei for his bravery and Madam Wei for her good fortune, but I didn't say much else."
When she first entered the palace that year, she missed her father and brothers while drinking and chatting, so she found an opportunity to go to the Imperial Garden to admire the moon to express her homesickness.
I met a young woman in the imperial garden, and the palace maid beside her said that she was Madam Wei.
She admired General Wei, so she stepped forward to greet him and said a few polite words.
I didn't expect that she misunderstood my meaning and I ended up holding a grudge against her for it.
Madam Wei sneered, "Marrying someone you don't like, how can this be considered a blessing?
You were in love with your beloved at that time, but it was difficult for me to even see him.
He was the man I fell in love with at first sight, but the Queen Mother arranged my marriage to someone else. We were one in the palace and the other outside it.
I finally got the chance to see him, but you ruined it.
I have to listen to your sarcastic words, how can I not hate you..."
"Okay, just consider it as you humiliating Abu."
Wei Qingyan interrupted Madam Wei, "You said you were afraid that Wei Qingyan's identity as a woman would be exposed, and the emperor would use it as evidence against the Wei family and punish them.
Then aren't you afraid that the humiliation you did to Abu will be exposed today and that the emperor will punish you?
Or, are you sure that the Emperor won't open the tomb of the Protector of the Nation General? What makes you so sure?"
Wei Qingyan bit the tip of his tongue.
After being mother and son for more than ten years, this was the first time she knew that Madam Wei was so cunning and shameless.
Even few men in the army could endure the kind of punishment just now.
She did confess, but her words were a mix of true and false, and one had to remain extremely calm to distinguish them.
“Because you knew about the Huangshaling incident, in which the deposed queen and the deposed crown prince were involved.
In order to protect the people and preserve the royal family's reputation, the Emperor had no choice but to suppress the matter and would never disturb the tomb of the Protector General.
Wei Qingyan squatted back down beside Madam Wei again, lifted her chin, and forced her to look at him.
"The involvement of the deposed empress and the deposed crown prince was all part of the schemes of the Wei traitors and the remnants of the previous dynasty.
Therefore, the person who told you these inside stories is either the remnant of the previous dynasty or the traitor.
The real purpose of your going to Huangshaling was to check whether Wei Qingyan and Abu were dead. You saw Abu's body.
Seeing that Shi Yu treated Abu as Wei Qingyan, he also concluded that Wei Qingyan had blew himself to death.
Otherwise, with Shi Yu's feelings for Wei Qingyan, he would never ignore Wei Qingyan, right?"
If she had not been taken away by the fat monk, even if Shi Yu wanted to hide her identity from the world, he would not have prevented Madam Wei, his mother, from seeing her for the last time.
But Madam Wei didn't expect that a fat monk would appear and take her away.
What she didn't expect was that Shi Yu, in order to cooperate with the fat monk, even hid the truth from her, his mother.
Madam Wei knew her well and knew that there was no way she could escape from the battlefield, so she thought that Shi Yu didn't find her, and that she must have blown herself up to the point where even Shi Yu couldn't recognize her.
There was a moment of panic in Madam Wei's eyes, and she subconsciously lowered her eyes.
But soon, she sneered again, "Miss Chang, you have been missing for so many years, you make a living by singing opera, right?
This story-telling skill is really great.
Things are not as complicated as you think. It's just that I don't like Wei Qingyan and his sister, I resent Lan Shu, and I'm afraid that the emperor will take action against the Wei family.
I am just a woman and don't have much knowledge. This country originally belongs to the Shi family. What's wrong with letting the children of the Shi family guard it?
It was their fate to die in battle. Besides, if it weren't for me, they would have died at the hands of the deposed queen long ago.
If anyone really wants to blame someone, the emperor cannot shirk his responsibility. After all, it was he, as a father, who failed to protect his child."
"You are angering the Emperor."
Wei Qingyan didn't miss the panic in Madam Wei's eyes, "To change the subject."
The emperor, whose anger had just been aroused, took a deep breath and said, "Madam Wei, what you did to the general who protects the country has been seen by all the people today.
They will no longer protect you as they did before just because you are the wife of General Wei Lao and the mother of General Wei Xiao.
Even if I imprison you today, or find a reason to keep you in the palace, the people will not think the royal family has done anything wrong."
"hypocritical."
Probably because of the extreme pain, my young wife simply lay on the ground, "Your Majesty is so hypocritical, it shows that my worry about Your Majesty taking action against the Wei family is not unreasonable.
The late emperor was wise and never expected that his son would be so incompetent. He allowed this girl to talk nonsense. Isn't he just trying to frame me with a false charge?
What traitor, what remnants of the previous dynasty.
How could I, a woman from the harem, have any connection with them? Your Majesty, please be more swift in killing me."
Immediately, she looked at Wei Wanyi and said with a wry smile, "Wanyi, do you know how much sacrifice your mother has made to protect you?
Remember to tell the world how Your Majesty murdered the families of loyal and virtuous people and how he forced my mother to death."
If Madam Wei knew that her words made Wei Qingyan's mind gradually clear up, she would never say these things even if she was beaten to death.
Wei Wanyi was given the mute spell and was destined to never return.
But Wei Qingyan can do it.
Wei Qingyan lifted her chin again and said word by word, "It was the late emperor who told you this.
Or, should I say the current King Jing, right?"
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