Chapter 319 Fortunately, my mother is doing well. She is now at the age of striving.
The sound of drums and solemn court music resounded throughout the palace.
The palace maids appeared at the end of the white marble square, holding golden axes, screen fans, flower baskets and other items.
Behind them, Wei Si was wearing a dark black robe embroidered with a golden phoenix, a black and gold phoenix tassel crown on her head, and high, upturned-toe shoes with auspicious cloud patterns and peony patterns. She was walking slowly towards the Golden Palace.
All the court officials and concubines bowed their heads and knelt in worship.
Concubine Zhang stared at Wei Si indignantly, with anger burning in her eyes. She was secretly pulled by the concubine next to her, and she knelt down on the ground unwillingly.
Wei Si passed by her without stopping. Her long, dark-black phoenix robe was carefully held up by the palace maids. When Concubine Zhang looked up, she could only see the golden phoenix tail feathers embroidered at the end of the robe.
His nails dug into his palm, leaving it almost bloody.
She tried her best to suppress her resentment and jealousy.
Xie Zhe stood on the steps with his hands behind his back, looking down at his queen.
Wei Si is very beautiful.
But as he looked at the swaying beads on her forehead, he had the illusion that she was not wearing a phoenix crown, but the twelve-bead imperial crown that symbolized the emperor's power.
A surge of anger surged in his chest, and he suddenly wanted to reach out and take off Wei Si's phoenix crown and warn her not to covet the throne.
Xie Zhe took a deep breath and closed his eyes, knowing that it was all an illusion.
He has had hallucinations more than once.
He has been taking some medicinal pills recently and his sleep has gradually decreased, he only needs to sleep for an hour and a half a day.
Perhaps it was a side effect of the elixir, he frequently saw strange things.
Just yesterday at midnight, he mistook the eunuch who was serving him tea for an assassin and killed him with a single blow...
Wei Si stepped up the stairs step by step.
Xie Zhe forced a gentle smile and extended his hand towards her, "Si Si."
Wei Si put her hand into his palm.
What followed was the tedious process of enthroning the new queen and offering sacrifices to the ancestors of heaven and earth.
Wei Si took the three tall incense sticks presented by the female official, and together with Xie Zhe, they turned their backs to the ministers and offered sacrifices.
Xie Zhe looked in the direction of his ancestors, but he was talking to Wei Si, "The ceremony of crowning the queen has been completed. Si Si, can you give me the address of Baiyujing?"
Wei Si remained calm, "Your Majesty, are you in such a hurry? You can't even wait until night?"
"Si Si should know that I hate long nights and many dreams." Xie Zhe inserted three incense sticks into the incense burner and glanced at Wei Si. "Besides, Si Si doesn't want An Ning to stay in prison forever, right?"
"Okay, I'll tell you."
Wei Si didn't seem to mind the leak of Baiyujing's location.
She raised her hand to cover half of her red lips and whispered a few words to Xie Zhe.
Xie Zhe's expression changed, and he looked at her with a hint of doubt, "Are you serious?"
"Ningning is in your hands. What good would it be for me to lie to you? But—"
Before Wei Si could finish her words, the sound of weapons suddenly came from afar.
"Something terrible has happened! Something terrible has happened—!"
A horseman came galloping towards Xie Zhe.
The blood-soaked guard rolled off his horse, knelt on the ground and saluted, "Your Majesty, the Crown Prince has rebelled!"
The ministers were in an uproar.
Concubine Zhang's eyes widened suddenly, and she stumbled a step with weak legs. "Prince...why would the Crown Prince rebel?"
Xie Zhe looked at the palace building in the distance.
He sneered, "One by one, it really surprises me!"
At this time, in the northwest corner prison.
Wen Yueyin excitedly gripped the iron bars, "Did you hear that? It's so lively outside! It must be the beginning of Mother's coronation ceremony!"
Wen Ruyun clenched her folding fan. "If mother becomes empress, perhaps we will be acquitted. Big brother, the emperor will definitely reinstate you for mother's sake!"
"That's right!" Wen Rufeng nodded repeatedly, looking expectantly at the small skylight. "Luckily, my mother is doing well. She's at the age of striving now!"
"Wait—" Wen Rulei said, alert. "It doesn't sound like a coronation ceremony to me. It sounds more like someone is leading troops into the palace?! Everyone, listen carefully!"
Wen Rufeng felt as if he had been besieged by a powerful enemy, so he immediately lay down on the ground and listened attentively.
Sure enough, the noise outside was not the sound of chimes, but the sound of swords and horses!
His expression turned grim, "Someone is rebelling?!"
Wen Ruyun frowned, "It can't be Xie Guanlan, right?"
As soon as he finished speaking, the warden guarding the prison came stumbling in, covered in blood, shouting, "Rebellion! The prince is rebelling!"
After he finished speaking, he suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood and fell to the ground without a sound.
The prison was silent.
Wen Xingluo's gaze fell on the bronze key chain around his waist.
In addition to her, Pei Lin and others also noticed it.
The next moment, everyone reached out to grab the warden's body, scrambling to drag him to their cell door.
Before they could reach the body, several soldiers who were chasing the warden suddenly rushed in.
They cut through all the chains with a single blow and shouted, "The Crown Prince has decreed that Your Majesty has been bewitched by evil ways and has murdered virtuous people, resulting in a brutal and licentious life. You are unfit to be a ruler! All prisoners are hereby released, and anyone in the palace who captures this tyrant will be rewarded with a thousand households!"
After shouting, they rushed out again.
Wen Yueyin emerged from the cell and said excitedly, "Brother, shall we go capture the tyrant emperor now? Maybe we can get a reward from the crown prince!"
"No matter how high the reward is, it's just a mere marquis of ten thousand households." Wen Ruyun said disdainfully, "Yue Yin, our eldest brother is the true dragon emperor!
Wen Rufeng said shrewdly, "Second brother, what you mean is that we brothers and sisters can take advantage of the Crown Prince's rebellion and reap the benefits?"
"That's right! Wait until they are both defeated, and then we can catch them all in one fell swoop. Wouldn't that be great?"
Wen Rulei asked, "But we don't have any soldiers. How can we catch them all?"
Wen Rufeng and others looked at him.
Wen Rulei was stunned for a moment, then his face flushed red. "You guys don't expect me to fight alone, do you?! Stop kidding, there's no way I can defeat an army of thousands!"
While they were discussing, Wen Xingluo had already run far away.
Wen Yueyin noticed her and quickly shouted, "Little sister, wait for us if you want to escape!"
Pei Lin glanced at Mei Chuyi, who still had an expressionless face, and followed Wen Xingluo.
At this time, White Marble Square.
Xie Zhe had already retreated into the Golden Palace with all the officials and concubines.
Sun Zuosi was so anxious that he was spinning around in circles. "Why did His Royal Highness rebel when everything was fine?! Tell me, the throne will be passed to him sooner or later, why can't he be so impatient?! Your Majesty's love for his son is truly in vain!"
Concubine Zhang was squeezed among the concubines, staring outside the palace with a pale face.
After Wei Si was crowned queen, the crown prince became her only hope.
But why...
Why rebel?
Can he defeat His Majesty?!
Concubine Zhang swallowed her dry throat and subconsciously glanced at Xie Zhe.
For some reason, a secret hope suddenly arose in the depths of her heart.
The prince's victory is actually not a bad thing.
The current emperor is a completely heartless person. He is indifferent even to his daughter's death. Such a husband really scares her!
If the prince succeeds in forcing the emperor to abdicate, she will be the empress dowager and she will no longer have to look at Xie Zhe's face!
She was thinking, listening to the sounds of fighting outside, while quietly clasping her hands together, begging the gods and Buddhas in the sky to bless Xie Xuchi with success.
But Xie Zhe didn't seem to care about what Xie Xuchi did.
He repeated Bai Yujing's location several times before glancing at Wei Si. "I will send someone to investigate. If I discover that Si Si is deceiving me, you know what will happen to An Ning."
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