Chapter 285 Goodbye Shen Zhizhuo
As soon as Chen Qing woke up, Xuanyuan Ling dealt with the assassins. He did what needed to be done. Not to mention how horrific it was, Xuanyuan Ling had intentionally played it long and indeed caught a lot of fish. After all, because of this assassination, quite a few people were caught.
Xuanyuan Ling had warned them before, but now there are still people who dare to commit treason. There was a blatant assassination, and there was also a case of the assassin forcing the palace concubine to commit suicide to save the emperor's face. There is no way this matter will end well.
Sure enough, none of the noble families implicated in this incident had a good ending. Anyone involved was either confiscated of their property or stripped of their title. In serious cases, they were exiled. The punishment for the masterminds was even worse. Some were executed on the spot, and even their families were sentenced to exile. As for Prince Lin, he did not have a good ending either. He was sentenced to keep his body intact.
Most people in the court thought that this man was a prince after all, and the charge of killing his brothers and sisters was not a good one. Even if the emperor was angry, weren't most of the princes who survived the party struggles alive and well now?
They didn't really kill them all.
The emperor wanted to pretend to be merciful, but now that this wave of purges was over, he no longer pretended to be merciful and dealt with those who needed to be dealt with. All the outstanding veteran ministers in the court had noticed this.
After this incident, it was obvious that the influence of the aristocratic families on the court was not as great as it was during the time of the previous emperor. Taking advantage of an assassination attempt, he cleaned up the mess left by the previous emperor.
Of course, you have to give sweet rewards after a blow. He also rewarded those noble families who did not participate in this matter out of gratitude. How many people who received this reward became more and more uneasy in their hearts is a story for later.
The Qin family and the Chen family, which had originally been the most prominent, were also suppressed because of this incident. Even though there were the Queen Mother in the palace, the Chen family really didn't dare to show up for the time being, and the Qin family also retreated.
After all, Lingzhou is not as inconvenient as the capital city to handle such matters, so after a month or so of going back and forth, the people involved were dealt with and investigated, and no one in the court dared to persuade them.
Assassinating the emperor is treason. Who would dare to stand up at this time and say that the emperor’s punishment was too harsh?
When this matter spread to the palace, the Queen was terrified when she heard it. If it weren't for Prince Lin, the mastermind, the Queen would have thought that the Emperor had made such a big fuss just to clean up the court.
Of course, she can't do anything about the things of the previous dynasty now. But Shen Qing was originally promoted to the position of concubine because of her favor. Since it was the emperor who conferred the title on her, it can't be said that her position was unstable, but it was always easy to cause gossip. But after this incident, her position as concubine was really secured. No matter how good the emperor is to her in the future, she will not be able to speak in the court.
"Why didn't he die?"
The queen was really depressed.
At first, Shen Qing was worried about his parents' affairs and couldn't come out, but within two days, Shen Zhizhuo came.
When Shen Zhizhuo got the news, he rushed to Lingzhou without saying a word. When he arrived, he heard the news that Shen Qingren had woken up and fainted without even seeing Shen Qingren.
It was Chunhua who picked up Chen Zhizhuo. Chunhua was shocked and asked for the imperial physician directly. The physician said that it was due to fatigue from traveling day and night. This matter also alarmed Xuanyuan Ling, who sighed that Chen Zhizhuo really cared about his sister Shen Qing.
Xuanyuan Ling had met Shen Zhizhuo after all. He felt comforted when he thought that although he looked strict and serious, he was actually a warm-hearted person. With such a younger brother, Shen Qing would feel much better.
In fact, apart from the memories of the original owner in his mind, all Shen Qing remembered about Shen Zhizhuo was the meeting on Chongyang Festival.
But perhaps because she had just been separated from her parents, she could not resist the affection of family. When she learned that Shen Zhizhuo fainted after working day and night, she was grateful to Shen Zhizhuo in her heart.
When Shen Zhizhuo woke up, he saw Shen Qing's pale face and the bandaged wound on his neck, pursed his lips, and fell silent.
"Fortunately, you're okay." This was the first thing Shen Zhizhuo said.
Shen Qing’s neck hurt when he spoke, but it wasn’t that he couldn’t speak, he just spoke more slowly: “Don’t worry.”
Shen Zhizhuo looked at Shen Qing with a complicated expression. He wanted to ask too many questions, but it was against the rules. How should I put it? You should have taken care of yourself at that time and shouldn't have done that.
But he was not unaware of the reason. He could not say this. The emperor could not be threatened by an assassin. Under the circumstances at that time, Shen Qing would die anyway.
This is actually the best outcome. Concubine Xi is highly praised by the outside world for her bravery and righteousness, but he just felt distressed when he heard it. Now, looking at Shen Qing's pale face and the invisible wound on her neck, he felt even more uncomfortable. She almost exchanged her life for that reputation. This time she was lucky enough to wake up. He knew everything. She had been in a coma for four days.
Four days later, if she hadn't woken up, what he saw when he arrived would have been...
Shen Zhizhuo really didn't dare to even think about it, so he said many comforting words.
He was not good at comforting people. He kept asking questions like, "Does the pain go away now?", "Did you take your medicine well?", "What do you want to eat now?", etc.
But Shen Qing's words to him were a little bit off guard. He really cared about her. She knew it the last time they met. Shen Zhizhuo really cared about her. This was the care for family. And now, she had just said goodbye to her relatives. Seeing such care, she felt really sad.
So I really couldn't hold back my tears.
"Sister." Shen Zhizhuo was stunned when he saw Shen Qing crying. He couldn't say anything for a moment after calling her sister. He looked like "What? Why did I make her cry?" He raised his hands and put them down again, and then seemed to react: "Is your injury painful? I'll go call the doctor."
Shen Qing was originally uncomfortable, but was amused by his behavior. As a result, he brought up the topic of injured day, which frightened Shen Zhizhuo so much that his face turned pale.
"It's okay." Shen Qing's mood eased a lot after this smile. She looked at Shen Zhizhuo for a long time: "Call me sister again."
Shen Zhizhuo didn't understand why, but he still called out, "Sister."
Shen Qing felt a little bitter in her heart: "So good."
Shen Zhizhuo looked a little weird at Shen Qing for kissing him as if he was looking at a child, but he didn't refute it in the end.
Shen Qing looked at it and wanted to laugh but also felt relieved, having a younger brother was quite interesting.
And being able to go back and see her parents again was a chance God gave her to say goodbye to the past, right? In fact, she had traveled through time. In many novels, the heroine traveled through time, but she couldn't go back at all.
She was able to help her mother get over this hurdle in her heart through a dream, which was good enough. She knew from the beginning that there was no going back, right? In that case, let's just look forward.
The arrival of Shen Zhizhuo made her feel some ties of this world when she was just feeling sad about being severed from her family. Compared with the relationship between her and Xuanyuan Ling, which she was not sure whether it could be called love, Shen Zhizhuo's concern made Shen Qing's heart calmer.
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