Chapter 58 After Marriage
In an instant, the entire Qianqing Palace fell silent.
Jialuo even felt that her five senses had disappeared. At this moment, it was as if her soul was being forcefully ripped out of this body that did not belong to her.
Then she was thrown to the ground, where everyone looked at her with mockery and judgment.
"You fiend, you were never born here, yet you possess the body of the most noble princess of our Khorchin tribe on the grasslands. Shameless and ungrateful, you used your bewitching arts to seduce the Emperor, causing the Qing imperial heir to…"
Jialuo silently watched as Mubumutai looked at her with cold, hateful eyes, each word piercing her heart.
But at this moment, she didn't know how to refute it.
The woman's voice, spoken before the most prestigious palace in the Qing Dynasty, sounded as if it came from the entire dynasty's intolerance and judgment of her.
She thought, "Heaven has bestowed upon me sixteen wonderful years; is it really going to end in such a tragic way tonight?"
How will she face death?
What will they do with her?
Does Abu know about this? If he knew that the youngest daughter he had cherished for over a decade belonged to someone else, how heartbroken would he be?
Jialuo stared blankly into thought.
"Empress Dowager!"
The man abruptly interrupted the woman's words. Jialuo felt the man pull her hand, his warm, large palm tightly enveloping her cold, stiff hand.
"Empress Dowager, who told you that Jialuo is a sorcerer? And how did you determine that Jialuo is a sorcerer?"
Before the woman could answer, Fu Lin sneered and said, "Could it be this woman who has been in the palace for several years but has never received the emperor's favor?"
Following Fu Lin's words, Jia Luo's gaze fell upon Angrama, who was trembling and crawling on the ground beside him, her face swollen and red.
The moment Angelama's trembling eyes met Garo's, they slowly revealed a mixture of raw disgust and jealousy.
With a hoarse voice, she opened her mouth and gave Jialuo a malicious smirk, saying, "The world is vast and full of wonders."
“Even the smallest horse in our Khorchin tribe would turn its head in awe of this princess. Who would have thought she was a demon who steals other people’s bodies?”
"The real princess was actually taken by the gods when she was still in my mother's womb."
"At that very moment, some unknown, despicable ghost took advantage of the situation and possessed my sister's body, turning what was originally a simple miscarriage into a postpartum hemorrhage and difficult childbirth."
"It just so happened that the Great Shaman was in our Khorchin tribe, and Abu asked the Great Shaman to save his mother's life."
“The Great Shaman told Abu that the fetus in his womb was not the original one. The original one had died and had its body taken over by someone else. It was reborn into the world through the body of my younger sister and the abdominal cavity of my mother.”
"Whether or not this child is born is entirely up to me, Abu."
“Abu was kind-hearted and unwilling to kill, so he personally fed his mother a ‘pregnancy-preserving medicine’, which enabled the illegitimate child to be born and even named Xinsairi.”
At this point, Angrama seemed to have gone mad. She suddenly leaned back, pushed away the old woman who was pressing down on her, and knelt on the ground, her hair disheveled and her face swollen.
"Hahaha, such a lowly woman was born into a life of unparalleled favor, which is bad enough, but now she can't even tolerate any other woman stealing a single bit of the Emperor's love in this harem."
"They have corrupted the court and shaken the very foundations of the Qing Dynasty!"
When Jialuo heard that Abu had known about her background even before she was born, she was stunned.
Abu knew everything, yet he still loved her so much, treating her as his last true child.
New Salah, yes, the meaning of New Salah is to signify new life and hope!
Abu, Abu had been blessing himself with the name Shinsairi all along.
Every time someone in the world calls her New Sari, it is a blessing.
Galo was immediately filled with gratitude. All the desolation and fear she felt were completely dispelled by Abu's silent yet overwhelming love for her.
Suddenly, Jialuo felt a chill on her face. Just as she was about to reach out, the man gently but forcefully covered her eyes with his hand.
Hearing his mother's terrified, collapsing screams and cries from beside him, while Angelama remained silent on the other side.
"you!"
"Your Majesty, are you going to defy the world for the sake of this woman?!"
The man didn't respond. All Jialuo could feel was the man's firm and warm chest, and the dry yet warm palms of his hands protecting her eyes.
After a long while, when Jialuo stirred, she knew that in order to preserve the relationship and trust between the Khorchin tribe and the Qing Dynasty, she might face death once again in this peaceful night.
Unlike her previous life, this time, she was going to volunteer to die.
But the man wouldn't let her move; it was as if he knew what Jialu was going to do.
He lowered his voice and whispered in her ear, "You're not allowed to even think about it!"
Having finished speaking, the man announced loudly, "The Imperial Guards are present!!"
"Please have the Empress Dowager return to Cining Palace. The Grand Consort of Khorchin is to be imprisoned in Zhongcui Palace. Angrama is to be demoted to a commoner and is forbidden from leaving the palace for the rest of her life."
"The rest shall be beheaded."
The man's voice was cold and indifferent, yet it carried the fury of thunder.
As soon as the man finished speaking, Jialuo heard a palace maid let out an uncontrollable sob just a few feet away from her.
It started suddenly, but then stopped just as abruptly.
Just like her lowly fate, she happened to be serving at the Qianqing Palace today, but because she heard things she shouldn't have heard, she is about to lose her life here.
Every step was taken unwillingly, yet it was something I had to do.
But it doesn't have to be that way; she doesn't have to risk the lives of many others tonight just to save her own.
She couldn't bear it; deep down, she was always different from the people here.
For the first time tonight, Jialuo reached out and took the hand that Fulin was using to cover her eyes.
The man wanted to persist, but Jialuo used a little more force.
"Fortune arrives."
This time, Galo deserves to thank the man.
It was heartfelt gratitude. If it weren't for Fu Lin today, Jia Luo would probably have been slain by these people, dying a painful death.
She took the man's hand, but instead of leaving as usual, she held it firmly.
Her eyes returned to light once more from the darkness, the bright light causing her to squint slightly.
People were kneeling all around, and on the outer side were a dense mass of Imperial Guards.
The soldiers, clad in armor, appeared gray and hard in the firelight.
Mubumutai stared at her with a solemn expression and a cold gaze.
Behind them, the red walls were faintly visible, their reflections deep and dark, while the azure tiles shone brightly in the firelight.
This time, Angrama on the ground did not raise her head, but in this short time, a pool of blood had already formed on the ground.
Meanwhile, the woman standing to the side had her mouth covered and her face turned deathly pale.
Galo sighed and took a step forward.
"Empress Dowager, you have come to question me with such certainty today, do you already have evidence?"
Mubumutai twitched the corners of his mouth, but did not answer her.
"Your Majesty and I are the most honorable people in the world, with the power of life and death over us. Human life is not as valuable as honor. In fact, when you came here today, you had already decided, or to put it another way, in your eyes, at this moment, everyone present except you and Your Majesty is already dead."
“I, Xinsar, was born into the Borjigit clan, in the family of my Abu Eji, thanks to the grace of the grassland mountain god.”
“I don’t know why my mother, my fifth sister, or even the Empress Dowager described me like that: wild thing, slut.”
“Since my birth, I, Borjigit Galo, have used the money given to me by Abu, Eji, or other elders to help refugees every year.”
"After entering the Forbidden City, she gained the favor of the Empress Dowager and the attention of the Emperor. She was also able to use half of her dowry each year to build a road between the capital and the grasslands, and to invite doctors to the grasslands to treat the herdsmen."
"Even though I have done many wrong things, I have never infringed on the interests of others, nor have I ever coveted a single penny of their money. I will continue to do so in the future."
"As for His Majesty's great favor, His Majesty is the Son of Heaven, and the Emperor's heart is unfathomable. Your Majesty has never known or understood His Majesty's intentions towards whom."
"The emperor's favor is like morning dew. Under the sunlight, I don't know which flower petal it falls into, but the Empress Dowager and my fifth sister know it much better than I do." "I have lived a happy life, even now my birth mother and my own sister are putting me in a hopeless situation because of the emperor's favor."
"But to be protected by the Emperor is the greatest fortune of my life."
“I do not agree with a single word that the Empress Dowager said today.”
"Everyone fears ghosts and gods, but today Jialuo feels that what people fear most are their close friends and family members with treacherous intentions!"
Upon hearing this, Mubumutai chuckled softly and said with emotion, "It is said that the youngest princess of the Borjigit clan is exceptionally intelligent, and I wholeheartedly agree with this statement."
After she finished speaking, she clapped her hands.
A shaman was brought in from outside the door.
The shaman was quite old, and he was helped into the room.
He first paid his respects to Emperor Fulin and the Empress Dowager.
After standing up, Galo nodded to the shaman as a form of respect.
"New Sari, it's been a long time. I never expected that we would meet again at this time."
The shaman spoke fluent Khorchin Mongolian.
Jialuo replied to him in Mongolian.
"It is a great pity that the shaman, at such an advanced age, still has to make this trip for Galo."
The shaman shook his head and did not answer Galo.
He turned to look at the Empress Dowager and said in an extremely respectful tone, "Your Majesty invited me here, presumably still because of that story from back then."
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