Chapter 519 [The Queen Mother's Secret]
Zhou Jushan lashed out at Emperor Qingning with both hands, "There are so many annoying things every day, and he keeps giving me the cold shoulder. If I'm not careful, he'll behead me as a warning. He doesn't treat me like a human being anymore!"
“Pah pah pah——”
The clear sound of a slap echoed in the banquet hall. Zhou Jushan's hand left an afterimage. After a busy period, Emperor Qingning's face was swollen like a pig's head.
The humiliation Emperor Qingning felt was far greater than the pain of being slapped. He was actually slapped in the face by a eunuch: "You dog slave, how dare you..."
“Snap—”
Zhou Jushan raised his hand and slapped again. Looking at his palm which had already turned red, he stood aside to make room for the martial arts masters behind him.
Emperor Qingning asked him to bring a team of martial arts masters with high martial arts skills to protect him. He had already made an inventory and called in the martial arts masters with the highest hatred.
"My dear friends, this dog emperor is right in front of you."
Emperor Qingning's swollen eyes could only be opened a crack, and he said to the traitorous martial arts masters in front of him: "Aren't you... here to avenge the son of the martial arts leader?"
"The Xin family killed the son of the leader of the martial arts world."
——"It seems that you are really arrogant."
"I don't understand what the Xin family means to us martial artists."
The leading martial arts master looked at Emperor Qingning coldly: "Although we martial artists do not interfere in the affairs of the imperial court, we are also sensible. We know who is protecting Dasheng, the reason why it is peaceful and tranquil and has no foreign invasions."
The woman standing beside him wore a white flower in her hair. "My brother and I have practiced martial arts since childhood. He hoped to use his lifelong knowledge to help defend our country, so he joined the Xin Family Army and followed Prince Zhao and the Crown Prince on their campaigns. I thought these soldiers defending our territory would earn you praise and respect, but I didn't expect you to be so narrow-minded, stabbing them in the back and surrounding the Xin Family Army."
After her, a man holding a scissor blade stepped forward and said, "Court officials embezzled money intended for canal construction, leaving the old riverbank unreinforced. The flood destroyed our village, and those officials all fled. It was Crown Prince Xin Che, who was passing through our county at the time, who led the Xin family army to rescue people and provide porridge and medicine."
"My brother was rescued by the Xin family army, but the Xin family soldier who rescued him died of exhaustion. From that day on, my brother had the idea of joining the Xin family army and carrying on the legacy of the sacrificed Xin family soldier."
At this point, the man clenched the lancet in his hand, his eyes reddening. "My brother passed through numerous selections and joined the Xin Family Army, but he only stayed in the Northern Territory for less than a month before he died in that encirclement and suppression campaign."
"You are tyrannical and arbitrary, and you disregard human life. You deserve what you have done today!"
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People continued to come forward to tell about the misfortunes suffered by their relatives and friends in the Xin family army.
The instigator of these misfortunes, Emperor Qingning, just frowned impatiently and listened to these people's crying with an expressionless face.
He didn't need to know the stories of these low-class people, nor did he want to know. He only had one question in his mind: what about his imperial guards? They couldn't have all been killed, right? How many martial arts masters were there?!
"Let's do it."
After the martial arts masters vented their resentment, Zhou Jushan and the martial arts master holding the scimitar looked at each other.
Emperor Qingning, who had been distracted, looked up in surprise when he heard this and saw the man whose brother had died walking towards him with a scimitar in his hand.
"What are you going to do! I have 50,000 imperial guards in the capital. If you kill me, you won't be able to escape!"
Emperor Qingning nervously grasped the handle of the dragon throne, but the man just smiled coldly: "Kill you now?"
"You're getting such a bargain!"
After saying that, he twirled the scimitar between his fingertips, and with a flash of cold light, he stabbed it towards Emperor Qingning's crotch, hitting the vital point!
His vitals were cut off cleanly and neatly by the knife.
The man was very familiar with the human body structure, and the extent of his attack would not cause the death of Emperor Qingning.
Emperor Qingning screamed in agony. The Empress Dowager, who witnessed the entire process, was almost going mad: "Son! My son, who was born with great difficulty!"
Jiang Lili looked at the Queen Mother's painful expression with a hint of sarcasm on her lips.
A month ago, when the old doctor Qi learned that Xue Wei was going back to the palace to attend the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet, he told Xue Wei a shocking piece of gossip.
Empress Dowager Yu had a secret. When she was still a concubine, she gave birth twice, but both children died young, and she lost her sons twice.
Yu was extremely sad, and the late emperor, out of sympathy and distress, favored the empress dowager alone. Later, after a thorough investigation, it was discovered that it was done by a noble concubine at the time who cursed Yu's child to cause his premature death.
The imperial concubine was banished to the cold palace, while Yu, who was already pregnant with her third child, gave birth to a prince. As a reward and compensation, the late emperor named Yu the empress.
But really, how could a curse be so effective?
The Empress Dowager gave birth to two girls in her first two pregnancies, and they were suffocated to death by her own hands.
When he saw the fetus suffocated to death by Yu for the first time, Doctor Qi did not expect Yu to be so cruel. So when she gave birth to a baby girl for the second time, Doctor Qi had made preparations in advance and secretly prepared a dead fetus, replaced it with another one, and sent the baby girl out of the palace.
At that time, Li Qin, the wife of the Imperial Censor Yang, was well-known for her kindness and compassion. However, her eldest son, Yang Baoshan, was taken away by his mother-in-law as soon as he was born and was spoiled by her, turning him into a bully. She always longed to raise the child herself.
Doctor Qi knew that Li Qin had gone out to worship Buddha and would return to the capital early the next morning, so he asked someone to place the baby girl on the route that Li Qin's carriage must pass.
Sure enough, Li Qin adopted the baby girl and told others that she was the child of her deceased brother who was left behind. She registered the child under her own name and took Lord Yang's surname, naming her Wanyi.
This girl was cute and lovable since she was young, and she was also very smart. At the age of ten, she became a well-known young talent in the capital.
When Yang Wanyi was eleven years old, she was taken to the eldest princess' birthday party.
The eldest princess suddenly had a whim and asked the young men and women of noble families to write poems to celebrate her birthday. Yang Wanyi wrote a poem that amazed everyone, but she only came in second place. The first place winner was Xin Chong, the son of General Weiyuan, who was three years older than her.
Yang Wanyi felt that this person's poems were mediocre, but he was able to win the first prize. He must have used a backdoor, and she felt indignant.
So in the eldest princess's garden, she stopped the uneducated young man Xin Chong and questioned him angrily.
Yang Wanyi's personal maids were all scared to death at the time. This was General Weiyuan's eldest son!
At that time, General Weiyuan had returned victorious and was in the limelight. The princess awarded the first prize to Xin Chong for the sake of General Weiyuan. Naturally, she had the intention of currying favor with him, which was not surprising.
However, he did not expect that his young lady was so bold that she directly stopped the eldest son of General Weiyuan.
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