Chapter 74: Lan Clan Descendants Do Not Need to Perform Ceremonies When Meeting the Royal Family
Lan Shu almost pasted the word "idiot" on the prince's forehead.
How could the prince not understand her expression? He was filled with anger. "How dare you, ignorant woman! The court is not a place for you to run wild! You can't even kneel before the emperor. This is a disrespect for the imperial authority."
How could he not know that he shouldn't speak at this moment?
But he couldn't allow Concubine Shu to attack his mother, and he also wanted to test his father's attitude towards this matter.
When the late emperor founded the country, he established a rule that the throne should be passed down to the eldest son. He was both the eldest son and the legitimate heir, so my father always valued him.
He spoke at this time to remind his father that if his mother's reputation was tarnished, it would have a bad impact on him as the future monarch.
My father has always been very concerned about his reputation.
But before he could express his opinion, Lan Shu continued, "When the late emperor started his army, our Sword Forging Villa donated 100,000 weapons and blades. The late emperor promised that after the establishment of the Great Wei, the descendants of our Lan family would not kneel before the monarch of the Great Wei."
She finally raised her eyes to look at the emperor, "Your Majesty, do you still remember this?"
When the emperor looked at her like this, the scene of their first meeting suddenly appeared vividly in his mind.
The Lan Family Sword-Forging Villa is the oldest sect specializing in weapon forging, hidden in the Yin-Yang Mountains.
The so-called big mountains are actually continuous mountain ranges, and the yin and yang are because there are two ways into the mountains. Only one of the two roads leads to the Sword Casting Villa, and the other is a dead end. It is difficult to get out alive once you enter.
Moreover, the two roads are constantly changing. It may be a way to survive this time, but it may be a dead end next time.
That’s why it’s called Yin Yang Mountain, and it’s daunting for people to visit.
The late emperor was fortunate to have help from others. After going through untold hardships, he entered the Yinyang Mountain and persuaded the Lan family to provide weapons to help him pacify the world.
After the founding of the Great Wei Dynasty, the late emperor wanted to reward the Lan family for their merits and invited the head of the Lan family to work in the Ministry of War to develop weapons for the court, but the Lan family flatly refused.
He was young at the time and felt that the Lan family was ungrateful. At the age of seventeen, he went to Yinyang Mountain under the pretext of traveling, but failed to enter the Sword Casting Villa and nearly lost his life.
It was Lan Shu who saved him, and they fell in love at first sight.
But the Lan family did not want to be involved with the royal family, so they threatened Lan Shu that if she insisted on getting married, she would have to sever ties with the family.
Lan Shu was a stubborn girl. She followed him to the imperial city and entered the East Palace with only a sword.
Life in the palace wasn't as good as she'd imagined, but Lan Shu had never used her status as a Lan family member to gain power, yet now she was publicly proposing...
The emperor looked at Wei Qingyan.
Lan Shu moved out of the Lan family this time because of this woman. What is their relationship?
Seeing Lan Shu still looking at him, he nodded and said, "Yes, descendants of the Lan family are not allowed to be polite when meeting the royal family of Wei."
Lan Shu nodded slightly and looked at the prince, "I hope the prince will not use this excuse to cause trouble for my daughter in the future."
After that, without looking at the Crown Prince anymore, he said to Nanny Song, "Go on."
Nanny Song had followed the Empress Dowager since she was young, so she knew that the power of the Lan Sword Forging Villa should not be underestimated. She was shocked. Concubine Shu had such a status. Why did she allow herself to be bullied in the first place?
At the same time, she was also the emperor's wet nurse. She knew the emperor better than the prince. When she saw that the emperor did not respond to the prince's words in time, she knew that the emperor was biased towards Lan Shu.
He hurriedly said, "Those two children are lucky. Despite all the trouble, they were still alive when they were born. The midwife was worried that their cries would be heard, so she quickly had them taken away quietly.
The old slave wanted to chase after her, but Concubine Shu had already fainted from the pain. They... they used scissors..."
"That's enough. Just tell me who threatened you and where the two children went." Wei Qingyan suddenly interrupted Nanny Song in a harsh voice.
They cut up the aunt's lower body with scissors and then sewed it up randomly with embroidery needles, so that the aunt could not urinate or defecate normally for a long time.
Even if she had heard such things from Nanny Chen, she would have wanted to kill the Queen. Why did she need to let Nanny Song say it in public, making her aunt embarrassed and painful?
Wei Qingyan's protection made Lan Shu's hostility dissipate again.
But even if Nanny Song didn't say it, the emperor understood.
After giving birth, Lan Shu resisted his touch. Since then, she never let him see her body. He just thought that she had become estranged from him because of the child.
So that's how it was. The emperor looked at Nanny Song with blazing eyes, "Who ordered this?"
Nanny Song pointed at the Queen and said, "It was the Queen. She took advantage of Your Majesty's absence to give Concubine Shu a labor-inducing drug and ordered someone to kidnap this old slave's daughter. The midwife Your Majesty found for Concubine Shu was also bribed by the Queen long ago."
She appears dignified and virtuous on the outside, but is extremely vicious inside. This old slave feels guilty and wants to go to Dajue Temple to set up memorial tablets for the eldest prince and princess. It was she who ordered someone to cause this old slave to fall off the cliff.
She also drugged the old slave's daughter, creating the illusion that she had died of illness. It was all her fault."
When she said this, her eyes also turned red. "Your Majesty, I made one mistake after another. It is my retribution to end up like this today. Your Majesty will also have retribution."
"Unjust." Seeing the emperor's anger, the queen finally felt a little scared. "Your Majesty, I am innocent. I have never done those things."
"You did it, you strangled the eldest prince to death." Liu He suddenly said, "You said that the emperor's eldest son must come from your belly.
You are jealous of Concubine Shu's favor and worried that Your Majesty will love her son as well.
You asked me to take the bodies of the eldest prince and the eldest princess out of the palace and bury them alive, but it was already late at night and the palace gates were locked. I waited anxiously until the next day when the palace gates were opened, and then I brought the two children back home. Before I could do anything, I heard my daughter, who was only a few months old, crying.
Perhaps it was the induction between children, the eldest princess, who had been quiet all the time, started crying when she heard my daughter crying. I felt kind-hearted for a moment and wanted to do good deeds for the child.
So they found a beggar who had recently died of illness and buried him with the eldest prince, but in fact they sent the princess out of the capital."
She looked at the emperor and said, "Your Majesty, the eldest princess was raised in my sister's home in Linzhou. My sister gave her a folk name, Luo Congyun.
Over the years, I have not dared to treat her unfairly in the slightest. I have given her the best possible care and pampered her. Your Majesty can find out all this."
"Luo Congyun? The Luo Congyun who committed adultery with her own brother?" The Queen laughed, "Your Majesty is so wise and powerful, how could you possibly give birth to a child like that?
Stop your nonsense and slandering me. There are no children at all. Concubine Shu gave birth to a pair of freak babies.
His originally uneasy heart calmed down a lot. The emperor was very concerned about his reputation, and he would rather admit that Concubine Shu gave birth to a monster than admit that he had a daughter like Luo Congyun.
"My child is not a freak." Lan Shu suddenly walked up to her. "Madame Song pointed you out, Liu He pointed you out, and you still refused to admit it. The same thing happened in Huangshaling. Do you think that you can erase everything you did by denying it?"
"Come here, arrest the people around the queen and interrogate them strictly." The emperor suddenly spoke.
He knew Lan Shu's character too well. If he couldn't deal with the queen, Lan Shu would kill her with her own hands.
He flexed his fingers. He had owed her once and had regretted it for years. He couldn't let her down again.
"Your Majesty, it is inappropriate to suspect the Queen based on the words of two traitors." Prime Minister Xie knelt down hurriedly.
"Then let's interrogate your Xie family, how about that?" Lan Shu looked at him. "The Queen sees me as a thorn in her side. Prime Minister Xie must have done some shameful things to relieve his daughter's worries."
"Concubine Shu, stop making random accusations." Prime Minister Xie was furious. "You need to have evidence for what you say..."
"Then shut up. Your daughter has done so many evil things. If we try her, we'll have the evidence." Lan Shu shouted, "As long as His Majesty is still here, it's not your Xie family's turn to dictate the affairs of the Wei Dynasty."
The emperor looked a little dazed. In the past, Lan Shu had often offended many people who didn't need to be offended in order to protect him. His eyes turned to the prince, the Xie family father and son, the queen, and finally landed on the eunuch Feng Ruobao. "You go in person. Regardless of life or death, you must find out the truth."
He also ordered the commander of the imperial guards to bring Luo Congyun into the palace.
After Liu He was imprisoned, the Luo family left the capital and returned to Linzheng, but Liu He ordered his men to secretly hide Luo Congyun in a farm outside the city, and Du Xueyi's men kept a close eye on him.
The two sides acted separately, and almost at the same time, Feng Ruobao and the commander of the imperial guards returned to the council hall.
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