Chapter 173 Blood Test
Earth-shattering!
The entire palace was instantly filled with deathly silence! Everyone, including the imperial doctors and maids who had been in the palace for a long time, trembled with fear!
Call the emperor by his name!
This is disrespectful! This is contempt for the imperial power!
She is really crazy!
The emperor's pupils suddenly constricted.
The queen laughed even more happily, and tears came out of her eyes.
"Did you forget?!"
Her voice suddenly rose, so sharp that it pierced the eardrums!
"If it weren't for my mother's family, the Zhao family, who cleared the way for you, would you have been able to sit firmly on the throne?!"
"My Zhao family handed half of our kingdom to you, and what did you give me?!"
She stepped forward, pointed at her heart, and stared at the emperor with her bloodshot eyes.
"You gave me an empty Fengyi Palace!"
“That’s not enough!”
Her voice was as shrill as a ghost.
"There are so many women in the harem, aren't they enough for you?!"
"You had to touch my maid!"
"She's having an affair with my people!! And she's pregnant with an illegitimate child! She's standing right in front of me, disgusting me day and night!!"
"Xiao Yan! Why do you do this to our Zhao family! Why do you treat me like this!!"
"Yes! I hate them! I hate it so much that I can't wait to see their flesh and drink their blood every day!!!"
"I haven't had any children in all these years, how could she give birth to these two bastards!"
"Two bastards like these! They're only fit to be my dogs! Giving that bastard the Purple Marrow Powder and letting him use it is a sign that I respect him!"
Boom——!!!
As soon as these words were spoken, it was like thunderclap out of the blue, making everyone's mind go blank!
If everything before was just speculation, it was Shen He's one-sided statement.
At this moment, the Queen's crazy words had completely nailed this huge scandal to the pillar of shame!
Xue family!
Yun Wan!
Maid!
Compromise!
Dragon seed!
Purple marrow powder!
These words, like poisonous needles, pierced the ears of everyone present!
The girl in the woman's arms looked 90% like Xue Minglan.
The Queen gave Xue Minglan the purple marrow poison for no reason.
turn out to be……
All of this is intertwined to form a huge truth!
Xue Minglan is the emperor's son!
The emperor had an affair with the queen's maid, and the result was an illegitimate child!
Countless gazes suddenly shot towards the young man who had remained silent from beginning to end.
Xue Minglan stood there, his body swaying almost imperceptibly.
His face was so pale that there was not a trace of blood.
The hands hanging by his sides were clenched so tightly that the knuckles turned white.
The emperor, who was sitting beside the dragon throne, had a face that first turned ashen, then turned to ashen.
Chen He watched this farce coldly, watching the queen's crazy performance and the emperor's gloomy face.
The cold curve at the corner of his lips has never changed at all.
The emperor looked at the crazy woman in the palace, and the last trace of warmth in his eyes was completely extinguished.
He spoke slowly, his voice calm and without a ripple, but the temperature of the entire hall suddenly dropped to freezing point.
"Zhao..."
"You are courting death."
Dead silence.
The air seemed to have frozen.
Those few cold words without a trace of emotion were more frightening than a thunderous roar.
The emperor's gaze didn't even stay on the crazy woman for a second.
He slowly raised his eyes, his gaze passed over the crowd and fell on the outside of the palace gate.
"Li Dequan."
His voice was not loud, but it was clearly heard in every corner of the hall.
"I will be here!"
A burly figure stepped into the hall like an iron tower, knelt on one knee, and the sound of armor clashing could be heard.
Commander-in-chief of the Imperial Guards, Li Dequan.
There was no trace of emotion in the emperor's eyes, as if he was talking about something very ordinary.
"Suppress this crazy woman for me."
Crazy woman.
Not the queen, not Zhao, but a mad woman.
"As you wish!"
Li Dequan stood up and waved his hand without any hesitation.
Two fierce imperial guards immediately stepped forward, one on the left and one on the right, and held the disheveled queen tightly.
"Let me go!"
"Xiao Yan! How dare you!"
"I am the Queen of the Great Zhou! I am the daughter of the Zhao family! You dogs dare to touch me!"
The queen struggled frantically, her sharp nails scratching the armor of the imperial guards, making a harsh sound.
The emperor ignored him and continued to issue orders, his voice as cold as the wind in the coldest days of winter.
"Immediately, seal off Fengyi Palace."
"Everyone in the palace must be cleared out and placed under strict guard by the Imperial Guards."
He paused, and his cold eyes swept across Li Dequan's face.
"If there are any more mistakes, I will bring my head to you."
"I obey your order!"
Li Dequan was startled and kowtowed heavily.
The queen's curses were muffled by the imperial guards with cloth and turned into a desperate "woohoo" sound. She was forcibly dragged away and disappeared outside the hall.
The mother of the nation was now in a state of disgrace.
There was deathly silence in the hall.
Everyone lowered their heads and even breathed carefully, for fear of angering the furious emperor on the dragon throne.
The emperor's gaze slowly moved and fell on Lu Jiuxiao, the chief supervisor of the Imperial Observatory, who had already collapsed like mud.
"Lu Jiuxiao, be handed over to the Ministry of Justice for custody."
The emperor did not state the charges.
But who doesn’t know this?
At this point, it doesn't matter what the crime is.
More importantly, they brought shame upon the emperor.
This is their real capital crime.
After dealing with the two culprits, the atmosphere in the hall did not relax at all.
Everyone's eyes, intentionally or unintentionally, glanced towards that corner.
He glanced at Xue Minglan and the girl who was as thin as a cat and was held tightly in Yun Wan's arms.
The emperor's gaze finally fell there.
It fell on those two children, for whom he had never fulfilled his fatherly responsibilities for a single day.
For the first time, a crack appeared in his eyes.
It is no longer the majesty and cruelty of an emperor, but is mixed with too many complicated things.
Shock, guilt, regret, and a hint of...unspeakable strangeness.
picture.
They really look alike.
Xue Minglan's narrow and long phoenix eyes and straight nose are clearly a replica of him when he was young.
And that girl... although she was too thin to be recognized, the outline of her eyebrows and eyes, and her tightly pursed lips all bore the mark of his Xiao family.
This is his flesh and blood.
It's his and Yun Wan's child...
He was imprisoned in a dark underground palace for more than ten years.
Just when this oppressive silence was about to drive people crazy, a cold female voice sounded slowly.
"His Majesty."
Shen He walked out gracefully, meeting the emperor's complex gaze with a calm expression.
"If Your Majesty still has doubts..."
Her voice paused, and each word was clear and distinct.
"By dropping blood to prove kinship, we can tell the truth."
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone was shocked!
The emperor's eyes suddenly darkened as he stared at Shen He intently.
However, before he could speak, the empress dowager, who had been sitting at the top in silence, slowly opened her eyes.
"emperor."
The Queen Mother's voice was old and majestic, with an unquestionable power.
“Girl Shen is right.”
Her withered hands tightly grasped the dragon-headed cane beside her.
"The royal bloodline cannot be mixed up in any way!"
"I don't care what grudges or hatreds you have among yourselves, but I must make it clear whether this child is the offspring of my Xiao family or not!"
She knocked the ground hard with her crutch, making a dull "thump" sound.
"Call the imperial physician!"
"Prepare water!"
"We must prove our relationship through blood test!"
"Ai Jia, I want to see it with my own eyes!"
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