"I thought you were a reasonable person, but I didn't expect you to be jealous. I want to ask you, what did Baoqing do to you that made you so cruel to him?"
The queen was stunned the moment she heard Kangxi's voice. She didn't know why no one informed her that Kangxi was coming. She only knew that she was finished.
When she thought that her reign as queen was coming to an end, she felt unwilling.
"Your Majesty, this question is ridiculous. As the Empress, do I need a reason to attack a bastard? If I need a reason to teach a bastard a lesson, then I should let someone else be the Empress."
She said it in anger, but also as a test. She wanted to see if Kangxi planned to depose the queen, so that she would know where to start defending herself.
"It seems you hold a great grudge against me. Since you have already stated that you do not want the position of Queen, I will not force it upon you."
The queen was anxious. What did he mean? He really wanted to depose her from the throne? Wasn't Yinzhi still alive? Why was he so cruel to her?
"Is it so hard for the Emperor to favor me? Since the Emperor despises me, why did he let me become the Empress? I'm afraid you can't even remember how long it's been since you last came to Kunning Palace.
I am the Empress of the Central Palace and the Emperor's wife, but in reality, I am just a steward who helps you manage and coordinate the harem.
You were willing to give even a beauty like Wan Liuha to my brother, causing him to fall in love with her at first sight and even turn against me for her.
Why do you think I attacked the eldest prince? It was simply because I wanted to teach the Niuhulu clan a lesson. If I'm not good, then neither can they.
Now that you want to take back the position of Queen, I can actually accept it. After all, I have a husband, but I am living a widow's life, and I am tired of it.
Look at my memory. Your Majesty knew I was drugged, right? You have all-knowing connections, so you must know who attacked me, yet you let it go.
"I can actually guess who murdered me, but I can't understand why she did it to me. I've been managing the harem for the past two years, and nothing seems to have gone wrong, right?"
The last sentence was actually just a question asked by the queen unwillingly. In her opinion, she was a competent queen and it was inappropriate for Xiaozhuang to take action against her.
And she could suppress Concubine Tong and Mu Sili by occupying the title of queen. She couldn't understand why they would attack her.
"If the Tong family had not been so powerful, the position of Queen would not have been yours. After all, although you are from the Niuhulu clan, you are just a concubine's daughter.
When the Queen chose you to be the queen, she gave you a choice. One was to become a childless queen, and the other was to give you a child. It was your own choice to become the queen.
You should understand that the Crown Prince is the daughter of Empress Yuan, and I have appointed him as the heir since he was young. I will not allow any threats to appear around him."
The queen's face turned pale. She thought that after she was chosen as the queen, she could still give birth to a child by using some means. She didn't expect that she would lose favor from the very beginning.
No wonder, no wonder Kangxi didn't want to stay overnight in Kunning Palace. She thought it was Mu Sili who was pestering him and not letting him come. It turned out that the truth was like this.
Unfortunately, even if she figured it out now, she would soon become the second queen to be deposed in the Qing Dynasty.
"I have done this myself, and I accept it. But I want to ask Your Majesty, if you depose me, who will take the position of Empress? Concubine Tong or Concubine Yi?"
In the end, she was unwilling to accept this. Concubine Tong was both a concubine and Kangxi's cousin, and Mu Sili was his favorite concubine. She wanted to know how he would choose.
It would be best if the two of them became enemies. She couldn't bear to see them acting like one person!
"Queen? It doesn't matter who gets the title. They both have kind hearts, unlike you, who are full of evil thoughts."
It doesn’t matter who you give it to? The Queen said she was hit hard. She looked at Kangxi unwillingly and wanted to say something else, but Kangxi didn’t give her a chance.
"The Empress, Niuhulu, has murdered the heir to the throne and is vicious. Since the eldest prince is safe, she will only be deposed. Come, move Niuhulu to the cold palace."
The queen was stunned where she stood. They had agreed to depose her as queen, so how could she be directly made a concubine?
Although Ma Jia was in the cold palace, she still retained the title of Rong Guiren. Why did she, a queen, become worse than Rong Guiren just because she made one mistake?
"Is the Emperor really so heartless?"
"I am not a careless person."
The queen smiled bitterly. He was indeed not a heartless person. It was just that he did not give his heart to her, but to someone else. She had forced him to do so.
"I still want to ask one more question. If there was no Concubine Yi, would the Emperor allow me to give birth to a little prince?"
"No, never."
Even without Mu Sili, the queen would still be a childless queen, and he would not allow the prince's position to be threatened in any way.
"All of Kunning's men were imprisoned in the Xinzheku as slaves, and the palace maids who participated in the murder of the eldest prince were beaten to death on the streets.
My sons are not people that anyone would dare to have evil intentions towards. If anyone has evil intentions towards them again, I will definitely kill their entire clan!"
"yes."
After leaving Kunning Palace, Kangxi still went to Yanx Palace. Yinzhi was now his eldest son. It would be unreasonable for him not to go and see if his eldest son got into trouble.
In the Yanx Palace, Huipin was waiting for the Queen's fate. She kept persuading herself in her heart that if Kangxi let the Queen go easily, she would do it herself.
"Your Majesty, the Emperor is here."
"The Emperor? He must be here to see the eldest prince, to see if he has woken up."
"yes."
"How is Baoqing?"
"I pay my respects to His Majesty. Everything is fine now. I just sent someone to check on him. He seems to be almost awake. Would His Majesty like to go check on him?"
Kangxi originally came to see Yinzhi, so naturally he had to go and take a look, but before going, he needed to talk to Huipin about how to deal with the queen.
"I'll go later. I came here to tell you something. You know that the Queen has hurt Baoqing, and I won't let her off easily.
But she is the queen after all, and I cannot execute her at will. I can only depose her first. As for her future fate, it depends on her fate."
Huipin understood that this was telling her that the queen had been punished, and asked her not to attack the queen behind her back.
What a pity. She was planning to let Mingzhu teach the Niuhulu clan a lesson. Now that he had spoken, she would let them go for now. But only this time, there would never be a next time.
"Your Majesty, rest assured. I know my limits. Now that the Empress has learned her lesson, I will naturally not continue to pester her."
"That's good."
After the Queen's failed attempt to murder Yinzhi, Concubine Hui also became Mu Sili's woman.
From time to time, she took Yinzhi to the Yiku Palace for a short visit, and her relationship with Mu Sili and Concubine Tong became much closer, and Yinzhi's relationship with his brothers also became much closer.
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