Chapter 1336 The Concubine Should Not Be a Big Enemy (11)
Before a quarter of an hour had passed, the guards who had gone to interrogate Wen Congyun's personal maids came back. The two maids were just ordinary people, and although they were very loyal to Wen Congyun, their willpower was not strong, so before the caning had lasted long, the two maids could not wait to confess.
The emperor looked at the confession handed over by the guards and became so angry that his whole body began to tremble. It turned out that the maid had indeed told the story that Wen Congyun and Fang Zheng had been childhood sweethearts and had almost gotten married. These things could be clearly known if one looked into it carefully. It was impossible for the two maids to tell such a lie that would be easily exposed, so the emperor believed it at once.
He never expected that he would accidentally become the villain who broke up this pair of "lovers". However, Wen Congyun was not forced to enter the palace by him. It was Wen Congyun's family that agreed and she voluntarily entered the palace. But after entering the palace, she still met with her old lover in secret! And in the harem, under his nose! How could the emperor tolerate this? ! Even an ordinary man could not tolerate his woman having an affair with her lover and cheating on him, let alone the emperor who was the only one in the world? !
The emperor, whose self-esteem was hurt, stared at Wen Congyun viciously: "Wen! What else do you have to say?" He threw the confession in his hand at Wen Congyun.
Wen Congyun didn't need to pick it up. She just glanced at it out of the corner of her eye and saw the contents that frightened her. Her face was pale and her eyes were full of fear. She could only look at the emperor pleadingly and murmured for mercy: "Your Majesty, please forgive me... I was confused for a moment..."
"Someone come! Take that adulterer away and cut him into pieces! Feed the scraped meat to the dogs!" The emperor's eyes were bloodshot, and he stared at Wen Congyun as if he wanted to bite him.
Wen Congyun was so frightened by his words that her pupils shrank sharply and she couldn't even speak.
Seeing her in such a state of disgrace, the emperor felt a little relieved from his anger, but it was still not enough, so he said to Wen Congyun maliciously: "Wen, how do you think I should treat you?"
"Your Majesty!" Wen Congyun burst into tears and tried to hug the emperor's feet and beg for mercy again. However, this time the emperor would not give her a chance to get close to him. He raised his foot and kicked her hard against the wall.
"Send this bitch to the cold palace, strip her of her title, and demote her to a commoner! As for the rest, I will tell you after I have conducted a thorough investigation." The emperor gave Wen Congyun a vicious look and ordered.
Soon someone dragged Wen Congyun away like a dead dog.
The culprit was no longer in sight, and the emperor's sanity, which had been driven away by anger, finally returned. He looked around at the dense crowd of people, including his concubines, palace maids who served the master, and guards who put out the fire... there were at least thirty or forty of them... Doesn't this mean that at least thirty or forty people knew that his concubine had cheated on him? !
Realizing this, the emperor's eyes went dark and he wanted to faint again, but he hadn't finished dealing with the matter yet, so he couldn't faint. So he held on firmly, glanced fiercely at the people around him, and said, "If anyone dares to leak out even a little bit of information about this matter, I will make him lose his head! Remember?"
The people around him, whether it was his concubines, palace maids or guards, immediately knelt on the ground when they heard his words, and tremblingly responded, "Who dares to tell others that the emperor was cuckolded?" They didn't want to die...
At this time, these people realized that they had witnessed the emperor and his concubine having an affair, and that they had stumbled upon a secret that would kill them if they were not careful! Thinking of this, they immediately broke out in a cold sweat and were terrified. Fortunately, the emperor was kind and not a murderous and vicious person, so he just wanted them to shut up, but did not take their lives.
In fact, the emperor was a little annoyed with himself, because he was so angry that he forgot to keep it a secret. So many people witnessed the scene of his concubine having an affair with someone. After dealing with Wen Congyun and her mistress, he realized that this secret was known by too many people. He couldn't help but feel a headache, and hurried to make up for the loss, hoping that these people would keep the secret.
After working hard for most of the night, the fire in Fangyun Palace was put out, but everyone knew that the matter was not completely over yet. After all, the owner of Fangyun Palace was still alive. Although she had been banished to the cold palace, there was probably no chance that she would come out alive in this lifetime, unless... her son, the third prince, became emperor.
However, could the third prince become the emperor? Ever since everyone saw Wen Congyun lying in the same bed with a strange man, the third prince's background has been in doubt: Is he the emperor's biological son?
This was a question that everyone couldn't help but secretly speculate about in their hearts, and the emperor himself was also very concerned about this issue, so after sending everyone away, he went to see the third prince who was still in a coma.
However, the Third Prince was only three years old and looked more like his mother Wen Congyun. He had no resemblance to the Emperor. In addition, the Emperor had preconceived suspicions about the Third Prince because of the fact that Wen Congyun had cheated on him. The more he looked at the Third Prince, the more he felt that he had nothing in common with himself. He looked more like Wen Congyun, the adulteress. Therefore, the Emperor snorted angrily, never looked at the Third Prince again, and left in a hurry.
In fact, the third prince would look more and more like the emperor when he grew up, but who made the third prince look more like Wen Congyun now? So he could only consider it his bad luck.
The emperor suspected the Third Prince's background and became very disgusted with him. Not only did he no longer care about his illness caused by inhaling too much smoke that day, but he would even vent his anger on anyone who occasionally mentioned the Third Prince. So it didn't take long before everyone knew that the Emperor hated the Third Prince.
The concubines who went to Fangyun Palace that day and knew about Wen Congyun's affairs knew the reason very well, and were happy to see the third prince being disliked by the emperor. So they followed the emperor's preferences and expressed their dislike for the third prince from time to time, so the third prince's life became very difficult.
The people in the palace have always been good at flattering the powerful and bullying the weak, and they are also good at observing people's words and expressions and trying to please their masters. As a result, the third prince suffered a lot and was moved to a more remote and dilapidated place. The only people left to serve him were two or three taciturn palace servants, an old maid in her fifties or sixties, a thin and lame eunuch in his thirties, and a stupid little eunuch of twelve or thirteen years old.
Under such circumstances, the Third Prince soon began to suffer from hunger. The food was rotten, small in quantity and tasteless. No one washed his clothes. The old palace maids did not have the strength to wash them cleanly. The mattress where he lived was thin and dirty... Soon, the Third Prince became a poor, dirty and skinny little thing.
(End of this chapter)
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