Chapter 223: Torturing the Queen Mother
Wei Qingyan nodded. "His illness was indeed caused by the sacrifice of the soul fire. The fat monk clearly told him at the time that the consequences of sacrificing the soul fire would be either illness, stupidity, or death. How he recovered, I don't know yet."
Upon hearing this, Lan Shu glanced at Wei Qingyan.
He soon figured out why Wei Qingyan didn't tell the emperor that Shi Yu had recovered.
Qingyan was worried that after the emperor knew the truth, he would try to hurt Shi Yu in order to return the seal of merit to his daughter.
The emperor lowered his eyes with a hint of loneliness. He knew that his daughter was hiding something from him, but when he thought about it, he was indeed incompetent before. It was really difficult for his daughter to trust him completely now.
He raised his eyes and said to Wei Qingyan, "Shi Yu saved you, which is a great favor to the emperor. The emperor will remember this favor."
Knowing that his daughter was protecting Shi Yu, this was the promise he made to his daughter. As long as Shi Yu did not harm his daughter and did not do anything detrimental to the people of Wei, he would not harm Shi Yu.
This is also a promise to Shi Yu.
"No wonder your mother always says that Shi Yu has done far more for you than we, as parents, have ever done for you. Father is ashamed. Everything he has done over the years has been for you. His life has been really hard, and yet Father... treats him like that."
He couldn't apologize to Shi Yu directly.
After being an emperor for so many years, he had become naturally arrogant. He could only apologize to Shi Yu in a tactful way through his daughter.
"Now that we know the truth, we won't blame you anymore." Wei Qingyan curled his lips slightly.
The emperor was slightly stunned.
In other words, the two of them had indeed blamed him and even hated him before.
The emperor shook his head and laughed. This child was really too straightforward.
But he likes it. The royal family is not short of beating around the bush and covering up things.
Because of this straightforwardness, the relationship between father and daughter became a little closer. He pointed at Madam Wei and said, "Daughter, can you accept it?"
The three of them were reunited as a family, and that female ghost was really unnecessary and a bit disgusting.
The mother and daughter thought he was still afraid of ghosts, so Lan Shu protected him more closely, while Wei Qingyan quickly put Madam Wei back into the paper talisman.
The emperor cooperated and let out a long sigh.
It is indeed a bit despicable to pretend to be weak in front of your wife and daughter, but it can win their love.
Wei Qingyan felt a little embarrassed when he saw his parents hugging each other, so he went back to the previous topic and told the emperor about his plan to use his resentment to find something on the officials.
Since his daughter had this ability, the emperor naturally had no choice but to respond.
He also talked about business, "If King Jing is a little ghost, then where is the late emperor hiding, and is he still alive?"
"He should be alive." Wei Qingyan told the emperor that he had discovered that all the resentment in the cold palace and the prison for criminals had been eaten away.
The emperor was horrified, "Could he be hiding in the palace?"
"Although I don't rule out this possibility, I tend to believe he is outside the palace."
Previously, they concluded that there were two conditions for possessing another person's body: one was long-term coexistence, and the other was blood relationship.
There are indeed many people in the palace who are related to the late emperor by blood, but if the late emperor is hiding in the palace, then the resentment will not only disappear in the cold palace and the prison.
Moreover, those who remained in the palace were underage princes and princesses, so it was not easy for them to leave the palace.
When Liu He died, someone competed with her for Liu He's grudge. That person was most likely the late emperor, so he could not have been in the palace, because she traced back to the fact that the other party was outside the palace and seriously injured him.
Seriously injured?
Wei Qingyan's eyes lit up slightly. Could it be that the late emperor was injured that time, so he couldn't suppress the little ghost, causing the little ghost to act recklessly recently?
This was a sudden guess that could not be confirmed. Wei Qingyan's thoughts returned to the possibility that the late emperor had taken over another person's body.
She thought of Prince Yu and told the emperor her suspicions, "Your Majesty, please check whether Prince Yu has been visiting the palace regularly in recent years."
I always feel that it is a coincidence that they went to the imperial mausoleum and Prince Yu also went there. Although Prince Yu had been to the imperial mausoleum before, what if he went to the imperial mausoleum before just to cover up today, and his real purpose was the bronze statue?
The emperor hurriedly called Feng Ruobao in and asked him to investigate the matter.
He then asked whether the ghost's real body could have a deterrent effect on the ghost.
The fat monk's notes did not contain any records, not even the spells for how to make a ghost, probably because he was afraid that someone would see the notes and perform the same evil magic.
However, although Wei Qingyan was unsure whether destroying the real body would kill the little ghost, it would definitely have an impact on the little ghost. "If the real body is important, King Jing will definitely look for it."
The more he cares, the greater the danger his true body poses to him.
The emperor nodded in agreement. "I'll leave that thing in your safekeeping. If he wants to find it, he'll definitely make the palace his first search location."
I don't know if he has any connection with the real body. If so, and there is no one in the palace who knows magic to stop him, I'm afraid he will find it soon.
Wei Qingyan had originally planned to take it away, so he agreed.
The father and daughter talked for a while.
Shi Yu returned from the Empress Dowager's place. As he expected, the late Emperor had not said anything to the Empress Dowager.
Seeing that he didn't get anything out of her, the emperor thought that the empress dowager was unwilling to tell Shi Yu. After Shi Yu and the other person left the palace, he sent Feng Ruobao to ask.
Then I realized that it was not that the Queen Mother was unwilling to say it, but that she really didn't know.
Because Shi Yu tortured the Queen Mother to extract a confession, and in the end, he even pulled out her tongue.
After all, she was his biological mother and the empress dowager of the current dynasty. He felt a trace of pity in his heart and felt that Shi Yu had gone a little too far.
But he soon remembered that Wei Qingyan had also pulled out the tongue of the deposed Crown Princess Xie because Xie had a dirty mouth.
The Queen Mother treated Shi Yu in that way before, but Shi Yu had never done anything excessive to her. Why would he be so angry today...
"Did the Queen Mother say anything?"
Feng Ruobao hesitated for a moment, and finally said, "He cursed a lot. At first, he called Prince Rong a heartless and worse than a beast.
It was when he cursed the princess and Concubine Shu that Prince Rong couldn't help but take action, saying, "The princess and the queen have seduced you together. As for the rest of those abusive words, I dare not say them..."
Qingyan is his daughter, and the empress dowager dared to say that Qingyan had an affair with him. The emperor's face suddenly became extremely gloomy.
Even Feng Ruobao didn't dare to repeat the rest, which showed how unbearable and vicious they were. The emperor's previous reluctance to the empress dowager completely disappeared.
"Even being bedridden won't keep her quiet, so it's a good thing she's missing her tongue."
In the carriage, Wei Qingyan also learned what Shi Yu had done to the Queen Mother. The Queen Mother deserved this fate.
"Don't be angry. She knows I hurt her. What good words can she say to me? Anyway, we don't take it seriously. She is the one being scolded."
She pinched Shi Yu's stern face and said, "Okay, my prince, calm down. If you get angry too much, you won't look good. Then you won't be able to be the most handsome groom in the capital."
It was rare for Wei Qingyan to say such a witty remark to coax him. Shi Yu felt so soft in his heart that he hugged her in his arms and buried his face in her neck.
He could not care less about the rest, but the Queen Mother actually dared to call Xiao Yan a short-lived ghost who would die without a complete body sooner or later.
Xiao Yan had already experienced such a tragedy once, and she dared to curse Xiao Yan like this. How could he not be angry?
"The emperor already knows about your resurrection, right?" Wei Qingyan had already told Shi Yu about the conversation between father and daughter, but Shi Yu confirmed it again.
"Um."
After getting Wei Qingyan's reply, Shi Yu hugged him tighter.
The next day, he sent someone to tell the emperor that he wanted to see him alone.
Hearing Shi Yu say that he wanted to avoid Wei Qingyan and Lan Shu to meet him alone, the emperor became curious. He vaguely guessed that it must be related to Wei Qingyan, so he found an excuse to send Lan Shu away.
That night, when Wei Qingyan was searching for scenes of resentment in the official's residence, Shi Yu sat down in front of the emperor.
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