funbook-pk Chapter 713 The Tragic Concubine 2
Chapter 713 The Tragic Concubine 2
"Go! But you should also take care of your body and don't overwork yourself." After the Queen Mother said this, she watched the Emperor stand up, bowed, and left.
"Your Highness, you can finally rest assured now," Aunt Ding said after the emperor left. "But you are doing this for the emperor's own good, so there is no reason for the emperor to disagree with your proposal."
"Fortunately, I have more than one son, the emperor. Otherwise, if the throne falls into the hands of someone else in the future, I will die with regrets," said the queen mother. "But tell me, is there really such a thing as retribution in this world?"
The Queen Mother's face was tinged with panic. "How else can we explain that all the concubines in the harem have not gotten pregnant in all these years? Isn't this the fulfillment of the curse of that bitch Concubine Jiang?"
It was the Empress Dowager who suggested getting rid of the baby in Concubine Jiang's belly, so naturally she was afraid that she would suffer retribution as well.
"Your Highness, you think too much. If there is such a thing as retribution in this world, then how do you explain why good people don't get good rewards?" Aunt Ding comforted her. "Besides, if there is such a thing as retribution, isn't it already on the emperor? Although it was you who proposed the idea of getting rid of the child in the imperial concubine's belly, it was the emperor who made the final decision. It was the emperor who cruelly abandoned his own flesh and blood."
"So if God really wants to punish you, it will be on the emperor. At most, he will be childless in this life. It will not involve you."
As the Empress Dowager's confidant, Nanny Ding knew very well how to comfort the Empress Dowager. What's more, what she said was right. If there was any retribution, it would have been inflicted on the Emperor. There was no way it would have fallen on the Empress Dowager.
The Queen Mother was comforted by Nanny Ding's words.
Yes! The one who made the decision was the emperor, and it had nothing to do with her. Naturally, the retribution would only be on the emperor, not on her.
Fortunately, the so-called retribution was only that the emperor had no children. Otherwise, if she had to bury her own son, the empress dowager's heart would have been as painful as if it had been dug out alive.
After the emperor left the empress dowager's palace, he did not go back directly to deal with state affairs, but came to Jiang Chunxi's palace.
In the original owner's previous life, the emperor was no longer controlled by others in the court because the queen had a legitimate son, and Prime Minister Shen wisely withdrew from the court to reduce the emperor's fear.
But the situation in this world is different. The queen was given sterilization drugs early on, and Prime Minister Shen would naturally not withdraw from the court. He kept the power tightly in his hands, so that the emperor is still under her control.
This has led to the emperor now being more dependent on the Jiang family, using the Jiang family to achieve a balance in the court and prevent the civil officials from dominating the court.
"The Emperor has arrived."
Concubine Jiang was a little surprised by the emperor's arrival. After all, it was the first time in ten years that the emperor came to her palace again.
"Why did Your Majesty come to my palace?" Jiang Chunxi said to the emperor with a cold face, "Your Majesty is not welcome here. If Your Majesty does not want to hear any unpleasant words from me, then please leave immediately!"
The emperor waved his hand and asked the servants below to retreat. Then he looked at Jiang Chunxi and said, "Chunxi, you really can't forgive me, right?"
"Forgive me," Jiang Chunxi sneered, "I have already said what I should have said ten years ago. Isn't it ridiculous that Your Majesty is asking me this question now?"
The emperor came and sat down opposite Jiang Chunxi, looking at her with complicated eyes: "Chunxi, seeing me worry about my offspring all these years, do you feel very happy? Your curse has worked, and I may really be childless in this life, so do you feel very happy?"
"Haha!" Jiang Chunxi laughed out loud, "Yes, I am very happy. Why was my child killed by someone, while the murderer can still be the queen, and you, who protected the murderer, can still have children around you."
"Your Majesty, as I have said, God has eyes. You are so cruel and indifferent to your own flesh and blood. Why do you think God will give you another child? A man who can't protect his own flesh and blood and doesn't avenge his own flesh and blood is not worthy of having his own children. Therefore, even without my curse, God will not let you have an heir."
The emperor was furious at this moment, but because of the Jiang family, he could only swallow his anger: "Chun Xi, how did things come to this between you and me? Is your heart made of stone? In the past ten years, I have accommodated you in every way I have, and you were not moved at all."
"Yes, it was indeed my fault, but I had no choice. The power of the Shen family in the court made it impossible for me to deal with the queen. I have to avenge my child. It's fine if you don't understand my difficulties, but you actually..."
"That's why I said you were a waste," Jiang Chunxi interrupted the emperor. "Luckily, I saw your potential to be a waste. Otherwise, if I really believed you, I don't know how much humiliation I would have to endure facing that vicious queen all these years."
"Jiang Chunxi," the emperor said with gritted teeth, "Don't go too far. Don't take advantage of my love for you and provoke me without any bottom line. Do you really think I won't do anything to you?"
"Haha!" Jiang Chunxi laughed, "Then the emperor should just sentence me to death instead of talking nonsense to this concubine."
"By the way, I heard that the Prince of Chen has been coming to the palace to pay his respects to the Queen Mother recently. It seems that the fact that the Emperor has no children has made the Prince of Chen have his eyes on the throne!"
"But it is also true. They are all sons of the late emperor, and they were all born from the empress dowager's belly. In addition, the empress dowager has always favored the youngest son of the prince, so it is inevitable that the prince will have thoughts about the throne. And I believe that the empress dowager is also very happy to help the prince."
Jiang Chunxi looked at the emperor with a mocking look: "Perhaps the emperor still has no heirs, but the queen mother would like to see it. I just don't know if the queen mother is planning to let the younger brother inherit the throne after the brother's death? Or is she planning to let the emperor adopt the son of Prince Chen?"
"If it's the former, then the emperor should be careful. After all, there is nothing that a biased mother in this world will not do for her beloved little son."
Jiang Chunxi's people were in the Empress Dowager's Palace, so the conversation between the Emperor and the Empress Dowager had already been passed on to Jiang Chunxi before the Emperor arrived.
But what Jiang Chunxi didn't expect was that after the emperor left the Empress Dowager's palace, he would come directly to her.
But it's also true that the Empress Dowager put the blame on her for the Emperor's inability to have children, so the Emperor naturally couldn't wait to vent his anger on her. But was this useless dog emperor worthy of taking it out on her, Jiang Chunxi?