vrcanaries Chapter 188 The Queen Was Kidnapped
Chapter 188 The Queen Was Kidnapped
"I know..."
The prince's gaze suddenly fell on his mother, his eyes flickering with reluctance.
"I know that they are all Queen Mother's people. Queen Mother is the towering tree behind them..."
As soon as these words came out, the queen's heart slowly settled down. She knew that her prince had grown up and at the critical moment, he finally had the ability to distinguish right from wrong and make choices.
"Your Majesty... I have been your wife for a long time. At this point, I do not ask for anything else. I only hope that you can leave me with an intact body and let me leave this world wearing this phoenix robe."
The queen was no longer as arrogant and reckless as she had been just now, but instead seemed much calmer.
"Evil woman! At this time, why are you still negotiating such conditions with me? Do you think you are still qualified?"
The emperor sat back on the dragon throne and stared in confusion at the extremely strange and disgusting woman opposite him.
"Father...I dare to ask for mercy on behalf of my mother. I hope you will agree to her request for my sake."
The Emperor turned his gaze to the Crown Prince in anger, "Crown Prince? Do you know that your mother wants to kill your father? You don't even have the ability to distinguish right from wrong. At this time, you still want to plead for her?
What on earth are you thinking? Is the future ruler of the Northern Cang Kingdom as indecisive as you? "
Looking at the prince in front of him, the emperor was furious and somehow remembered the incident of the prince falling into the water yesterday.
The eunuch beside him told him personally that the prince secretly summoned Prince Xiao's future Crown Princess into the palace.
He almost jumped into a lake and drowned because of this woman.
Thinking of this, the slight favorable impression I had for the prince because of the list disappeared in an instant.
"Prince! If there is nothing else, you should leave immediately. As for how to deal with your mother, it is not your business to interfere. You just need to be a crown prince and draw a clear line between you and your mother!"
After he finished speaking, the furious emperor gave an order, "Come here! Take this evil woman who brought disaster to the country and the people to the prison and wait for my personal decision."
At this time, four guards with swords came in from outside the imperial study and dragged the queen, whose face was covered in blood, out of the hall.
After a while, bursts of shrill laughter were heard outside the hall.
The laughter drifted farther and farther away...
Until it completely disappears.
But unexpectedly, in less than a quarter of an hour, a young eunuch ran up to the emperor in a panic outside the imperial study.
He knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, the Empress... was kidnapped!"
The emperor was shocked: "Tell me again, what happened to the queen?"
The young eunuch trembled and said, "Your Majesty, the Empress was kidnapped by a group of men in black right under the noses of the guards."
"Man in black?"
The emperor sitting on the dragon throne couldn't believe that such an absurd thing would happen in the palace.
Where is the palace?
This place is heavily guarded and as solid as an iron barrel, but people in black can enter and exit at will. It's such a joke.
Xiao Jue, who was standing by, immediately discovered the flaw: "How did they leave?"
The young eunuch shook his head, he didn't know the details of what happened.
"I don't know exactly, but the eunuch who came to report said they escaped through a secret passage in the palace."
"I really underestimated this vicious woman. She even knew the secret passages in the palace. How despicable!"
The emperor punched hard on the armrest of the dragon throne, silently clenched his fist, and stared at the door of the imperial study.
I must tear this vicious woman into pieces.
After this, Xiao Jue was ordered to bring out all the Queen's party members who were hiding in various places.
They were all taken outside the Golden Palace by the Jinyiwei and the Imperial Guards.
Waiting under the scorching sun for the emperor to personally decide.
......
the other side.
The old Marquis of Jingyuan, along with a group of his military officers and subordinates, killed the leader of 50,000 rebels on his horse with almost no effort.
Thinking of his son who had not slept all night and worked hard to come up with a brilliant strategy for the army to lure the enemy into a trap, the old Marquis of Jingyuan shouted to the sky with satisfaction.
As a result, in just half an hour, the news that the rebels had been suppressed reached the palace directly.
The emperor is outside the throne room.
Standing on the steps in front of the temple gate.
His dark eyes stared directly at the traitors kneeling on the ground in front of him.
The eunuch was ordered to read in a deep voice, "The Emperor, by the Will of Heaven, proclaims:
Our emperor is wise and blessed with great fortune. Now the rebels are stirring up chaos and attempting to overthrow the country and disrupt our government. This is truly a heinous crime.
However, our dynasty's heavenly soldiers were brave and valiant, and they fought bravely with thunderous force to suppress the rebellion and finally brought the rebels to their doom.
I hereby announce this to the world to reassure the people and boost the country's prestige. I decree this!"
……
Outside the towering palace.
The rebellious ministers knelt at the emperor's feet with dejected faces.
Regret.
The ambition and vain attempt to gain wealth and glory have now completely turned into nothing.
The political calculations of the past now seem like nothing more than a ridiculous farce.
Now the situation is over and everything is set in stone.
Several ministers have already collapsed on the ground, their eyes dull, muttering to themselves:
"We were foolish. For the sake of that unattainable power, we put our lives and even the honor of our family on the line. Now we have ended up like this. It's really our own fault."
Another minister who heard this clenched his fists tightly, his nails digging into his palms, but he didn't feel any pain at all, his heart was filled with endless regret:
"I have been smart all my life, but I made such a big mistake at this critical moment. I have failed the emperor and the people. I deserve to die."
……
East Palace.
The prince sat in front of the desk, holding tightly in his hand the secret letter that had just been delivered.
When he learned from his father's imperial study that his mother had participated in the rebellion, his face turned pale and his heart was broken.
He had long known that his mother had been plotting in secret, but he had never imagined that she would collude with the barbarian rebels and almost make a big mistake.
"Mother...how can you be so confused?"
Thinking back to when his mother held him in her arms as a child, her eyes were full of concern, and the countless times she taught him carefully, he could never associate such a mother with rebellion.
"How is this possible? Mother, why do you have to do this?" Li Chengce murmured to himself with a smile on his lips.
it's all over…
Starting today.
The queen mother, whom he didn't like to be close to, would never come to bother him again.
In the main hall.
The prince clenched the corners of his clothes tightly with both hands, and his knuckles turned white from the force.
His heart was filled with pain and torment. On the one hand, he was confused and disappointed with his mother's behavior, and on the other hand, he was unable to give up the family affection.
This caused him to fall into an endless struggle between loyalty and filial piety.