While he was still thinking, the Queen arrived with the Second Prince. She knelt down in front of the Imperial Study and shouted, "Your Majesty, please make the decision and thoroughly investigate the unjust case in the Second Prince's mansion."
The prince coldly threw down the memorial, glanced at the emperor who had been staring at him without the slightest respect, stood up and walked outside the imperial study. Looking at the kneeling woman in the queen's auspicious dress, he felt sick. The emperor also followed him out leisurely.
The Queen, the Second Prince and his wife knelt in front of the Imperial Study, their heads resting against the blue bricks. The Crown Prince had a sneer on his face. These mother and son were quite hypocritical.
He walked up to the queen and looked down at this woman. When his mother was alive, she was still Concubine Lan. Less than a year after his mother passed away, she was only a concubine, but because she blocked a sword for the emperor at a banquet, she was named queen by the emperor. She was not satisfied with blocking the sword for the queen and kept causing trouble for him. Today, he could actually see this woman kneeling in front of him.
"What is the Empress doing? Are you threatening my father?"
When the queen saw the bright yellow corner of the clothes, her blood instantly surged. She was already the queen and the nominal mother of the prince, and this bastard actually dared to accept her worship. The queen was so angry that she spoke out.
The Second Prince naturally refused to be outdone. "Royal brother, the Queen Mother is also your elder. How dare you accept the Queen Mother's kneeling homage? Aren't you afraid of shortening your life? Father, look at how ignorant my brother is. He actually dared to accept the Queen Mother's kneeling homage directly."
The Crown Prince looked at the Second Prince with sarcasm. This uneducated fool was really half-full and used his little tricks to scheme against others one day.
"I suggest that the second son be careful with his words. I am the eldest son of Empress Yuan, so even if I receive the empress dowager's homage, it is acceptable. After all, when I became the crown prince and the empress dowager was still Concubine Lan, Concubine Lan also had to kneel and pay homage to me. You might as well ask my father if I can accept the empress dowager's homage."
I didn't expect the prince to be so scheming. It's funny to say that although she is the queen in name only, she is still Concubine Lan on the Royal Jade Butterfly. According to the etiquette, she will be buried in the concubine's tomb after her death. That's why she always wanted her son to fight for the throne, so that she can be buried directly with the emperor as the queen mother, instead of watching the emperor being buried with that bitch.
She also thought that when the second son became emperor, he would move the woman's coffin out of the imperial mausoleum and throw it directly into a mass grave. How could she be worthy of being buried with her?
The queen suppressed her anger. She knew that when the emperor made her the queen, he had said that if the prince was not satisfied with her as the queen, she would be deposed at any time. She had been keeping a low profile all these years, and it was only recently that the emperor changed his attitude towards the prince that she dared to take action against the prince's child.
In the end, her own grandson was killed. How could she be willing to accept this? Anyway, the emperor had been treating the prince badly recently, so this was her chance.
The emperor didn't say anything, but just followed behind the prince and watched how he handled this matter. Anyway, he treated the queen as a toy. He had long found out that the incident of rescuing the emperor was planned by the queen's family. The reason why he didn't take action against the queen was just because he was lazy.
It's just right for the prince to practice, since he is not an important person anyway. The queen couldn't help it, so she crawled on her knees towards the emperor. When she reached the emperor, she pulled the corner of his clothes, and her tears fell like pearls from a broken string, which did not affect the beauty of the queen's face at all.
"Your Majesty, someone in the Second Prince's mansion was bitten by a snake last night. You must take care of our grandson. Someone has been so cruel as to poison five children in the Second Prince's mansion to death!"
"What the Queen said is ridiculous. When the orphan's children got into trouble in the palace, didn't the Queen say it was an accident? How come when it comes to her own children, she thinks someone is harming them? This season is just like that, there are more snakes, insects, rats and ants. The child was naughty and was bitten, so he didn't dare to speak. If it was delayed for too long, he would die."
The prince coldly said what the queen had said to him yesterday. The queen had no way to refute it. It was indeed she who said it. She had been gloating, but now she had no way to stop the prince from talking. She could only pin her hopes on the emperor, hoping that he would enforce the law impartially and punish the prince.
The emperor pulled the corner of his clothes out of the queen's hand.
"I remember you said the same thing yesterday. Second Brother, if you can't even figure out your own family affairs, how can you still do your job? From today on, go back to the mansion and clean up your own house first."
After he finished speaking, he flicked his sleeves and walked into the imperial study. The prince looked at the emperor's back, then glanced at the empress with an unwilling look on her face and the second prince and his wife who dared not speak out, then followed the emperor into the imperial study and continued working.
After a while, the three of them supported each other and left the imperial study. The second prince had to go back to preside over the funeral of his five children, and the queen returned to the palace to think about how to dethrone the crown prince.
The Queen also had to start fasting and chanting Buddhist scriptures to pray for her grandson's soul to be reborn. At the same time, she arranged for people to sow discord between the Crown Princess and Concubine Zhang's son. The Queen knew clearly that if all her own sons were wiped out, then the Crown Prince could not have any children born to a noble lady of high status, so they would all be killed by her.
After the second prince returned home, he looked at the five coffins in the mourning hall, and his heart was filled with hatred. He now understood how the prince felt yesterday. He did not expect that the prince, who had always been gentle, could be so cruel. He no longer believed that the prince was a kind and generous person. He was still young, and he would naturally have children in the future, so he was not that sad.
He was constantly thinking about how to avenge this grudge. The crown prince was also thinking about how to expose the fact that the second prince's family was infertile. Everyone must know about it, so that he could relieve the hatred in his heart.
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