I RELY ON BREASTFEEDING TO STABILISE THE DISEASE (68)
68. WHO KILLED THE KING
Just as the officials were talking in a low voice, two guards walked in with a beautiful man in a blue cloth robe. When everyone saw this person, they all took a breath, and even Concubine Shao was shocked.
The man knelt in front of Emperor Wen Han with a "thud," clasped his fist and bowed to him and said, "I, Zhao Xuanyu, beg your pardon Your Majesty."
Emperor Wen Han's dizzy mind had not reacted, and Zhao Xuanyu had already continued to speak, "This lowly one is the cousin of Concubine Shao. The imperial concubine and I have had a relationship...an affair."
The hundred officials in the hall sucked in a cold breath loudly. Emperor Wen Han was dizzy because of his illness, and couldn't react well. Then he heard Concubine Shao screaming: "Zhao Xuanyu, you are talking nonsense! Bloody mouth!" But she was tightly clamped by two servants, and was unable to move.
Zhao Xuanyu looked at her indifferently: "Why am I talking nonsense? You said that you want to be with me for a long time, is it not true? I obeyed you in everything, but where did you hide my wife and children in order to monopolize me? For fear of the adultery between you and me being exposed, you even want to kill His Majesty." After that, he said to Emperor while kowtowing, "Your Majesty, what this lowly one said is true, and this lowly one knows that this is a crime of deceiving the emperor and it is not enough to die with a thousand blade but this lowly one just wants to know where my wife and children are."
Emperor Wenhan rubbed his chaotic forehead and waved his hand: "Let me think about it and make a decision in two days."
But as soon as his words fell, the two great scholars of the cabinet stepped forward and knelt down and said: "Your Majesty, this is a big deal. Asking Your Majesty to please make a decision."
The empress echoed: "The emperor, please make a decree for the immediate execution of Concubine Shao."
Concubine Shao broke away from the person who grabbed her, crawled to the feet of Emperor Wenhan and said: "This concubine was wronged! This concubine has only the emperor in my heart, and the emperor knows it very well. The empress must have bribed Zhao Xuanyu and framed this concubine. You must make the decision for this concubine. "
Emperor Wen Han, however, was still confused, as if the light and shadows around him were all illusory, and the voices in his ears were not quite real, his mind only recalled the word "immediate execution" from the Empress' mouth just now, so he muttered to himself, "Execute immediately".
Upon hearing the word, eunuch Gao beside him hurriedly said loudly: "The emperor said 'Execute immediately'."
Gu Qianyu quickly knelt forward: "Imperial father, there must be some misunderstanding in the middle. It's not too late to make a decision after you investigate."
Concubine Shao saw the appearance of the emperor and regretted listening to what Zhao Xuanyu said. She used the laborious witchcraft technique on the emperor. To think that he deliberately designed it to harm her! No matter how she begged for mercy, Emperor Wenhan still had that lost appearance. He said nothing, and never heard a word.
The two guards grabbed concubine Shao, but she broke free. Knowing that she was over, she turned and rushed towards Zhao Xuanyu who was kneeling aside, and shouted: "You destroyed me, I will kill you for my life!"
Zhao Xuanyu also yelled: "You killed my wife and children. I want to avenge them."
The two actually fought in the hall. The ministers were all dumbfounded, and the guards did not react for a while to stop them.
The two were even worse than the vulgar shrews in the city at the moment, their hair and clothes were torn by each other, and they threw the wine jars, smashing each other to a wet mess, and then rolled to the lamp, knocked down the candlestick, and lighted it up. After the two people's clothes were soaked in alcohol, they ignited with a sound, and instantly became two burning men.
Gu Qianyu shouted: "Mother..." He tore off the drapery next to her to extinguish the fire on concubine Shao
At this time, the guards reacted and hurried up to put out the fire. The emperor and empress were led away by the maids. The hundreds of civil and military officials in the palace watched the farce while speculating what was going on.
And Gu Xian just watched all this happen coldly, as it didn't matter to him, looking from high above.
Concubine Shao, who had been burned beyond recognition, died in the middle of the night. This matter ended hastily, and no one mentioned it again.
The death of Concubine Shao was not very unpleasant for Gu Qianyu, but rather a relief. He had known the adultery between his mother and Zhao Xuanyu a long time ago, but he didn't want to care about it. But he had written down the hatred from today. He will make the one who designed this scheme suffer the consequences.
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In the past few days, Gu Xian has been in front of Emperor Wenhan, and Emperor Wenhan was quite satisfied with his performance.
Emperor Wenhan was not very sick, just as eunuch Gao said, strain of the heart, liver and spleen stagnation, but need a period of quiet recuperation. He couldn't hear the slightest noise now. When Gu Xian was waiting for him, he waved his hand to make the maidservant and the servant retreat. There were only two people in the palace, the father and the son.
Gu Xian knelt in front of the dragon bed, personally fed the emperor's half bowl of medicine, and gave him a piece of candied dates into his mouth, and whispered: "Imperial father have a good rest. This son will go out to see how the new prescription prescribed by the imperial physician is coming along."
Gu Xian turned around and walked out. After a while, a tall man in a brocade appeared in the empty bedroom. Emperor Wenhan, who had closed his eyes on the dragon bed, became aware of the movements, opened his eyes and frowned when he saw the person coming in. He said coldly, "Didn't I tell you not to enter the palace? Who let you in?"
The royal men were all well-bred, and Zeming Wang was no exception. He grinned and stepped on the thick carpet with his boots without a sound. He spoke softly: "Father is sick, and this son was not around to show filial piety by father's side. Everyday I can't think about food and sleep at night, so I just thought on how to come to see imperial Father?" After a pause, he leaned forward and whispered, "I had to come to see imperial father off for the last time!"
The expression on Emperor Wen Han's thin face suddenly changed drastically, and before he could react, the quilt on his body was already pulled upward by Gu Qianyu and heavily covered his face with it.
Although Emperor Wenhan's body has improved a lot after conditioning, his body was still weak. When his head was covered with a few kilograms of brocade, his cry for help was muffled inside, only lingering in the quilt and struggling. Within a few moment, the movements under the quilt became smaller and smaller.
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