Chapter 404: The Queen Mother's Funeral
"Hongyan, go out and tell everyone that Concubine Qin gave birth to a prince!" Lu Ling said to her trusted palace maid.
"Yes!" Hongyan said tremblingly.
Hongyan had just opened the door of the delivery room when two Jinyiwei put knives to her neck.
Hongyan was so frightened that she dared not speak. Princess Kunxing said from behind, "Hongyan, was the baby born to Concubine Qin a boy or a girl? Tell the truth! Otherwise..."
"I know that Qin Cai just gave birth to a princess!" Hongyan said tremblingly.
Everyone heard it clearly. Concubine Huang Shu was the first to collapse to the ground, and one minister's pupils widened. He couldn't believe such a thing could happen. This person was Ni Yuanlu.
Princess Kunxing personally invited Ni Yuanlu to come and said to her, "You said you wanted to be Wu Zetian. Look carefully, who is it that wants to be Wu Zetian?"
"This... I am confused and I am sorry, Princess!" Ni Yuanlu said as he knelt down.
"Get up! What do you think we should do with Queen Mother Lu?" Princess Kunxing said.
"The Lu family still needs to give her a decent treatment. Princess, you might as well give her a white silk or a cup of poisoned wine." Ni Yuanlu said.
"That's it!" said Princess Kunxing.
By this time, the Imperial Guards had already rushed in. Zhang Shulan remained calm as she tended to Qin Xiaomi's wounds. Lu Ling panicked and said, "What are you doing? Get out!" Before she could finish her words, two Imperial Guards grabbed her, one of them grabbing the back of her neck, leaving her speechless.
"What do you want to do? You actually let the palace maid lie and say that Qin gave birth to a son. You also colluded with Liu Quan to bring a boy from outside the palace. What do you want to do? The bloodline of the Ming royal family cannot be tainted by outsiders! Take this royal sinner away!" Princess Kunxing said loudly.
Ni Yuanlu waited until Zhang Shulan had finished treating Qin's wound before he entered the delivery room. He took a look at the child and saw that it was indeed a girl.
Ni Yuanlu was so angry that he was shaking all over. He pointed at Lu Ling who was dragged away by the Jinyiwei and said, "You..., you..." Ni Yuanlu could no longer speak.
At this time, Princess Kunxing glanced at Concubine Huang Shu, who was slumped on the ground, and said, "Master Ni, you are old, so go back and rest. Let me, a woman, handle the affairs of the palace!"
"Okay! I'll take my leave!" Ni Yuanlu was helped out of the palace.
Princess Kunxing gave the other two Jinyiwei a warning, and the two Jinyiwei went over, carried Concubine Huang Shu and left.
Concubine Huang Shu now realized what was happening. She cried out loudly, "Princess, let me go! I don't know anything! I don't know anything!"
Princess Kunxing would ignore her. Only the dead can keep secrets.
In the cold palace, Lu Ling looked at the two Jinyiwei with great fear. They grinned fiercely, and one of them said, "We are ordered by the Princess Regent to send the Queen Mother to her death."
Now that Lu Ling had been released, she couldn't just sit there and wait for death. Having practiced martial arts before, she wasn't willing to give up easily.
She leaped up and punched another Jinyiwei who was not on guard. The Jinyiwei was startled, forgetting that the queen mother was once a member of the Emei Sect.
The sudden blow hit the Jinyiwei, but they did not dare to use a knife, because they had to give an explanation to the world and keep the Queen Mother in good shape, so the Queen Mother could not have any knife wounds on her body.
Although the two Jinyiwei lost the initiative after being attacked by Lu Ling, their skills were not just fancy moves. They had gained these skills through the experience of crawling out of the dead.
Within five moves, Lu Ling was captured by two Jinyiwei. One of them took out a white silk and tied her up. Lu Ling roared, "Zhu Mianzhu! Even if I become a ghost, I won't let you go! In my next life, I'll be a cat and you a mouse..."
Before Lu Ling could finish, the two Jinyiwei put a white silk band around her neck and said simultaneously, "Please, Queen Mother, please leave!" The white silk band tightened, and Lu Ling passed away. She shed tears, and in her last moments, she thought that she had never really hugged her daughter!
That night, Lu Ling was strangled to death with a white silk by the Jinyiwei, and the news that Concubine Huang committed suicide by jumping into a well spread.
Huang Degong was furious and wanted to go to the palace to ask for an explanation. He would not believe that his granddaughter would commit suicide, but he was stopped by Ni Yuanlu and Gao Jie.
"I don't know why the Empress Dowager took a boy from outside to pretend to be the prince, but Concubine Huang Shu definitely knew about it. But she didn't say it, which is a big crime! You have no sense of justice!" Ni Yuanlu said, holding Huang Degong's hand.
"Ouch!" Huang Degong punched the table.
Of course, the accusation against Concubine Huang Shu was that Princess Kunxing captured Liu Quan and asked Liu Quan to put the blame on Concubine Huang Shu.
In order not to implicate his family, Liu Quan had to say what Princess Kunxing wanted.
The next day, in the court, Ni Yuanlu proposed that Concubine He and Concubine Shun come out to rule the country from behind the scenes.
Princess Kunxing agreed without thinking, and the two concubines inexplicably became the queens who ruled the country from behind the scenes.
Concubine He was promoted to Empress Dowager, and Concubine Shun was promoted to Concubine Dowager. Once again, the three women held sway over the government. However, Concubine He was incompetent and lacked the critical thinking skills of Concubine Huang Shu. Princess Kunxing handled all government affairs, and Concubine Shun was even less so. Before marrying the emperor, she wasn't even included in the Zheng family genealogy. It wasn't until Zheng Zhilong married her into the palace that she was given a proper name, and her name was included in the family tree. Unable to read, she had no hope of competing with Princess Kunxing.
The two of them are now completely like rubber stamps, completely listening to their sister-in-law. They do whatever they are told to do and have no say at all.
Princess Kunxing returned to the palace, and of course Qin Xiaomi and her daughter were also sent to the palace to recuperate.
When Zhao Xiaofei heard that the princess had returned, he immediately went over and asked, "What happened?"
"It's still a girl!" Kunxing said with both disappointment and excitement.
"What? All daughters? How could this be?" Zhao Xiaofei couldn't believe it. All four children of his damn brother-in-law were daughters.
"Let her be a daughter! We just need to raise her well and pamper her. Now that our son is the crown prince, we must assist him well." Princess Kunxing said.
"Have you forgotten what I said? We can adopt a child from other princes to inherit the throne, and we will still be in charge of the government. The child is raised by us, and he will definitely be close to us." Zhao Xiaofei said.
"There's no going back! Last night, I... I sent Lu Ling a white silk. As for Concubine Huang Shu, I also let her commit suicide by jumping into the well." Princess Kunxing still told the truth.
"Let them go!" Zhao Xiaofei was very calm. He had long anticipated the deaths of these two people. Even if Princess Kunxing didn't kill them, he would have done it himself. But now that Qin Xiaomi had given birth to a daughter, they had no choice but to die.
"Mingyu will definitely become a good emperor!" said Princess Kunxing.
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