Chapter 944: The Ungrateful Son 2
Chapter 944: The Ungrateful Son 2
Time passed quickly and two years later. None of the concubines in the harem had become pregnant. The emperor was so anxious that he wanted to favor his concubines every day. He had no time to care about his beloved Chen Da Ying.
Because of the issue of offspring, the emperor's life in court has become more difficult in the past two years.
You know, the emperor's only son is a sickly child, leaving him without a successor! Therefore, his brothers are even more excited, always using the issue of offspring to embarrass the emperor and make him lose face.
Under such circumstances, the emperor had no time to care about Chen Da Ying. After all, compared with the throne, no matter how beloved a woman was, she would seem insignificant.
Of course, even if the emperor wanted to take Chen Da Ying into consideration, it would be useless because he himself needed to sell himself. Therefore, in the face of Concubine Xian's torture of Chen Da Ying, he was not only powerless, but he even dared not favor Chen Da Ying again.
The emperor thought that if he ignored Chen Da Ying, Concubine Xian would not make things difficult for Chen Da Ying anymore. However, he underestimated a woman's vengeful heart. Seeing that the emperor ignored Chen Da Ying, Concubine Xian became more and more unscrupulous in torturing Chen Da Ying.
So within two years, Chen Da Ying was tortured beyond recognition. She had been bedridden for half a year and had not seen anyone, so that everyone in the palace almost forgot about her.
Jiang Chunxi was very satisfied with Chen's current fate, so she gave the order that it was time for the emperor to discover that he was being cuckolded.
When the emperor discovered that his own brother had cheated on him, he was so angry that he vomited blood on the spot.
When the Queen Mother received the news and rushed over, she immediately ordered the news to be blocked. When the Emperor wanted to execute Prince Rui, she even threatened to die in order to force the Emperor to let Prince Rui go.
This made the emperor completely hate the queen mother, and he also suspected that the queen mother was well aware of Prince Rui's evil ambitions. Because she was partial to her younger son, she helped the younger son steal the throne from her elder son.
In short, the emperor wanted to kill the empress dowager, and after that, he began to find a way to give her a chronic poison.
The Emperor wanted to poison the Empress Dowager, so Jiang Chunxi naturally wanted to help him. So under the nose of Madam Liao, the poison smoothly slipped into the Empress Dowager's food.
By the way, it is worth mentioning that when Yi Da Ying was sent to the cold palace to be executed, Jiang Chunxi asked someone to find a corpse to replace her, and then let Yi Da Ying leave the palace.
After all, she is her own person, so Jiang Chunxi naturally would not let her agree to lose her life.
After half a year, the empress dowager was already terminally ill. She knew that she must have been poisoned and she also knew who did it. However, with Jiang Chunxi's cooperation, the empress dowager had no power to resist at all.
After all, when she finally realized that she had been poisoned, she had already fallen ill in bed and was unable to get up. It was too late for her to save herself.
The empress dowager is already terminally ill, so the concubines in the harem naturally have to take turns to take care of her.
It was Jiang Chunxi's turn to attend to the sick that day. She looked down at the empress dowager lying on the bed and smiled, saying, "Empress Dowager, you must get better soon. News has come out from Prince Rui's mansion that he has contracted smallpox. The entire mansion has been sealed off, and we don't know if Prince Rui can survive it."
The empress dowager stared at Jiang Chunxi with her eyes wide open, and opened her mouth with difficulty to speak, but no sound came out.
"Alas! How pitiful! I never thought Prince Rui would suffer such a calamity at such a young age. He will probably die young," Jiang Chunxi said with regret. "But it's a good thing this way. The Empress Dowager is about to die. With Prince Rui serving by your side on this journey to the underworld, I'm sure the Empress Dowager will find it comforting."
"Don't worry, Empress Dowager," Jiang Chunxi bent down and helped the Empress Dowager put her hands under the quilt. "After you and Prince Rui pass away, it won't be long before I send the Emperor to the underworld to be filial to you."
"Haha!" Jiang Chunxi laughed softly, "A daughter-in-law as filial as this concubine is rare in this world. Your Majesty the Queen Mother is so lucky to have a daughter-in-law as filial as this concubine!"
"The Empress is right," Madam Liao complimented from the side, "The Empress Dowager has a filial daughter-in-law like you. This is the blessing she earned in her previous life."
The Empress Dowager's eyes widened again, and she looked at Madam Liao in disbelief. If she still couldn't react at this moment, then her brain would be broken.
But the problem is that it's too late! The Queen Mother is now only hanging on by a thread. Even if she knows that Madam Liao has betrayed her, she can't do anything to Madam Liao.
The Empress Dowager died with her eyes open. Jiang Chunxi asked Madam Liao to help the Empress Dowager close her eyes, and then she began to cry loudly.
On the third day after the Queen Mother's death, news of Prince Rui's death came from Prince Rui's Mansion, and then there was a rumor that the Emperor had killed the Queen Mother and Prince Rui. This made the Emperor so anxious and furious that he spit out blood at the Queen Mother's funeral.
This made the rumors spread more and more intense, and people kept saying all kinds of things, but there was no evidence. Therefore, the emperor was only accused of some rumors, but it did not cause him any disadvantageous situation?
Of course, after this incident, the emperor's reputation became even worse, and it became increasingly difficult for him to make a living in the court.
As for the fact that the emperor has been selling himself so much in the past two years, didn’t the families of the virtuous concubines and others support the emperor in the court?
Of course there are some, but not many. After all, several virtuous concubines have not been pregnant for two years since they entered the palace, so their families behind them are naturally reserved. In short, everyone is very smart, and they will definitely not make any move until their daughters give birth to princes.
There is no way, because the emperor has such a terrible reputation that even if their daughters give birth to a prince, they will still be reserved in their support for the emperor.
You know, the emperor promised Chen that he would do such a foolish thing as to disregard the life and death of his offspring. With the lessons learned from the past, who would really work for the emperor?
In short, no one else can be an emperor to this extent.
Chen Da Ying passed away the year after the Empress Dowager's death. Before her death, she begged to see the Emperor for the last time, but the Emperor did not go to see Chen Da Ying.
From this, it can be seen that the emperor still completely resented Chen Da Ying. In short, a scumbag like him would not look for the reasons in himself, but would only blame others for his misfortunes, making him seem so innocent and pitiful.
So, Chen Da Ying also died with his eyes wide open.
When Jiang Chunxi found out, she pretended to sigh, acting like a disgusting and vicious female supporting character.
After Chen agreed to die, time seemed to press a shortcut key and suddenly came to ten years later.
During these ten years, no one in the harem became pregnant, which made the emperor suffer from regret all the time, making his already weak body even worse. Now he can't even attend the morning court, and the court is in chaos. After all, the emperor has no children, so how can the fight for the throne not be fierce?
Oh! By the way, the original owner's ungrateful son is still alive and well.
It's just that he had been bedridden for a long time to recuperate, and his limbs had atrophied long ago. He was already in his teens, but looked only seven or eight years old. His whole body was as thin as a skeleton, and his head looked particularly big. Anyway, he looked very scary.
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