Chapter 1116 The Last Meeting
The emperor had no time to have dinner and hurriedly left Yunxiu Palace.
By the time the emperor's carriage arrived at the Taimiao, it was already midnight.
However, the Taimiao was still brightly lit.
When the guards and palace servants saw the emperor coming, they all knelt down and saluted.
Luo Qinghan walked over without looking around and went straight into the bedroom where the Empress Dowager lived.
The imperial physician was watching people feeding medicine to the Empress Dowager. When they saw the emperor coming, everyone hurriedly saluted him.
Luo Qinghan called the imperial physician and asked about the Empress Dowager's condition.
The imperial physician told him everything.
Ever since Luo Yanzhi and the Grand Empress Dowager conspired to murder the Emperor, the Grand Empress Dowager was devastated and fell ill.
The imperial physician had been trying to find ways to treat her, but unfortunately to little avail.
Seeing that her health is deteriorating, she is now at the end of her life and does not have much time left.
The imperial physician spoke rather obscurely.
To put it bluntly, it means that the Empress Dowager may die at any time, and she hopes that the Emperor will come to see her as soon as possible, so that he will not miss the chance to see her for the last time.
Luo Qinghan listened quietly to the imperial physician's narration, then waved his hand, signaling everyone to leave.
After everyone had left, only Luo Qinghan and the Empress Dowager were left in the huge room.
The Empress Dowager had been ill for too long and had become extremely thin. Her cheeks and eye sockets were deeply sunken, her skin was waxy and gray, her lips were bloodless, and her hair was gray and dry.
She seemed to have been drained of all her energy and spirit, leaving only a shriveled and powerless shell.
Luo Qinghan looked at her steadily for a moment and called out in a low voice.
"Royal Grandmother."
The Empress Dowager raised her eyelids with great effort, revealing a pair of turbid gray-brown pupils.
She looked at the person standing next to her and moved her lips as if she wanted to say something, but she was too weak to speak clearly.
Luo Qinghan knelt on one knee and leaned over.
He heard the Queen Mother say slowly in a hoarse and weak voice:
"Your Majesty, I'm sorry."
Luo Qinghan was slightly startled.
He looked at the Empress Dowager who was so close to him. Could it be that before she died, she suddenly came to her senses and planned to repair the relationship between him and her grandson?
But he quickly rejected this speculation.
Because the Empress Dowager never called him Your Majesty.
When there were outsiders present, she usually called him "Your Majesty". When there was no one around, she would just call him by his name.
Luo Qinghan asked: "Are you talking to me?"
The Empress Dowager ignored his question and spoke weakly, her pale lips opening and closing.
"Your Majesty, I'm sorry. I killed you."
Luo Qinghan's whole body stiffened.
He quickly realized that the Empress Dowager had mistaken him for Emperor Sheng Chang!
She was apologizing to the late Emperor Sheng Chang.
The Empress Dowager's eyes gradually filled with tears: "I'm sorry, don't blame me, I did it all for my son, I did it all to protect him."
Luo Qinghan didn't say anything else, just looked at her quietly.
The Empress Dowager choked up and said, "I don't want to hurt you. After all... after all, we were once in love. But I can't help it. If you don't die, my son will never be able to ascend the throne and become emperor."
It's not that she has no feelings for Emperor Sheng Chang, but the little affection between them cannot be compared with the mother-son relationship between her and Emperor Sheng Yong.
The Empress Dowager's mind became increasingly blurred.
She seemed to have really seen Emperor Sheng Chang, her body trembled slightly, and her emotions became even more excited.
"Don't look at me like that. I didn't mean to do that. If you hadn't insisted on enthroning Prince Ping An as the crown prince, I wouldn't have poisoned your medicine."
"And those Taoist priests, you would rather listen to their sweet words than believe me, and you let those Taoist priests almost kill my son."
"You were the first to wrong us! You were the first to be unkind, so we are unjust!"
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Luo Qinghan listened to her finish her words quietly.
When she stopped talking, he slowly asked.
"So, what Master Tianyan said is true, and it was you and father who really killed my grandfather?"
The Empress Dowager's mind suddenly became clear again, as if she had a last burst of light.
Her complexion even revealed an abnormal blush.
She finally saw clearly who was in front of her, and her expression suddenly turned ugly.
"Why are you here?"
Luo Qinghan said calmly: "The imperial physician said you were dying, so I came to see you."
The Empress Dowager sneered, "Are you here to see me for the last time?"
Luo Qinghan admitted frankly: "Yes."
The Empress Dowager felt a pang in her heart and the hatred in her eyes grew even stronger.
She didn't know what she was thinking of, and suddenly she twitched the corners of her mouth, revealing a malicious smile.
"Do you think that after I die, no one will be able to threaten you?
Haha, you are too naive. Even if I am gone, there will be others to attack you.
God will not allow a beast like you who kills his father and his king to become emperor.
Heaven will eventually punish you, and you will have to pay the price for your evil deeds sooner or later!"
Luo Qinghan asked coldly: "When you poisoned Grandfather, did you ever think that God would eventually punish you?"
The Empress Dowager's face froze.
She opened her eyes wide in disbelief: "How did you know..."
Before she could finish her words, she suddenly shut her mouth.
Luo Qinghan: "You were confused because of your illness just now. You told me everything. Grandfather didn't die of illness, but was killed by you and father. You are the ones who killed the king."
The Empress Dowager retorted, "You are talking nonsense! I have never done such a thing!"
Luo Qinghan did not comment on her rebuttal, but just asked calmly.
"When you reach the underworld and see your grandfather, will you feel guilty and afraid?"
The Empress Dowager was like a rooster with its neck strangled, and she became speechless in an instant.
She already knew that she didn't have much time left, and what she feared most now was how to face Emperor Sheng Chang after her death?
The Empress Dowager became more and more frightened the more she thought about it.
She seemed to have been greatly stimulated. Her breathing became rapid, her face turned redder and redder, her eyes became wider and wider, and finally her eyes rolled back and she fainted.
Luo Qinghan stood up, opened the door, and spoke to the imperial physician waiting outside.
"The Empress Dowager has fainted. Go and take a look."
The imperial physician rushed into the room and began to treat the Empress Dowager.
The palace maids and eunuchs were accused of making things go round in circles.
The house was filled with a strong smell of medicine, and the atmosphere was dull and depressing.
Luo Qinghan stood in the corridor with his hands behind his back, quietly looking at the flowers and trees in the courtyard, his heart full of mockery.
Their royal family seems rich and noble, and is a place that people all over the world yearn for. Countless people hope that they can be reborn into the royal family in their next life and become a part of this rich and prosperous scene.
Little did people know that hidden beneath the prosperous scene were rotting skeletons.
Fathers and sons kill each other, brothers kill each other, and husbands and wives turn against each other.
Everything was filled with a nauseating smell of decay.
(End of this chapter)
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