Quick Wear: The Enchanting Concubine, Rules of Survival and Plunder

Chapter 723 The Tragic Concubine 3

But Concubine Du is different. How can Concubine Du, who has been spoiled since childhood, withstand the extreme punishment? If she continues to live, Concubine Du will definitely confess the Shen family and her elder sister before tonight.

Therefore, Concubine Du must not be allowed to live and must be eliminated as soon as possible.

It’s no wonder that the Queen only thought of getting rid of Concubine Du now. Instead, she had already sent people to get rid of Concubine Du last night, but the people she sent out have not succeeded yet.

But it is also true that this matter can be said to have touched the emperor's sore spot. The people who guarded and interrogated Concubine Du were all the emperor's men. It would not be so easy for the queen's people to take action against Concubine Du.

It is no wonder that the queen was so anxious that she almost fell ill. One look at her haggard and pale face was enough to prove how uneasy and frightened she was at this moment.

But what the Queen didn't know was that Concubine Du had already recruited everyone she could in the middle of the night last night.

And what did the dog emperor do after getting the offerings from Concubine Du?

Oh! After the court session in the morning, he summoned Lord Shen to the imperial study and showed Lord Shen the food that Lady Du had provided.

Then he made a deal with Lord Shen, such as the Shen family giving up some power in the court and giving up the queen.

Otherwise, how can we say that the dog emperor is incompetent?

Anyone with a bit of brains would take this opportunity to destroy the Shen family, but that dog emperor just let the Shen family go so easily.

Who made the dog emperor so suspicious? He was afraid that destroying the Shen family would encourage the ambitions of the military generals and cause the court to lose balance. After all, compared with civil officials, the military generals worried the dog emperor more. Even though the Jiang family was the leader of the military generals, the dog emperor believed in the loyalty of the Jiang family, but he was still wary of the Jiang family.

So, even if the Queen Mother hadn't persuaded him, the dog emperor would still not let Jiang Chunxi give birth to the child. Even if he later turned against the Queen Mother and admitted that he regretted it, it was just talk! How could he really eliminate his fear of the Jiang family?

The Queen never recovered from her illness and, like Concubine Du, she died of illness.

This naturally aroused suspicion among the concubines in the harem, but they were all smart and immediately realized that the deaths of the Queen and Concubine Du were unusual, so even though they had doubts, no one dared to discuss anything in private.

A year after the Queen's death, the Emperor named Jiang Chunxi the Queen, and then brought the daughter of a second-rank civil official into the palace as a noble concubine.

This day was the day when Jiang Chunxi was crowned queen, so the emperor naturally had to come to Jiang Chunxi's palace.

Facing the emperor, Jiang Chunxi still did not have a good expression on her face.

"Chunxi, you are finally my queen now. Shouldn't this make you happy?" Seeing Jiang Chunxi still showing an expression of impatience and disgust towards him, the emperor looked very frustrated.

"From the moment my child died, I was no different from a walking corpse," Jiang Chunxi sneered, "so why should I be happy? The queen is the master of the harem, but in fact, she is no different from the concubines. She is still imprisoned within the high walls of the palace. We are all poor people without any freedom of body and mind."

"But fortunately, I am already a walking corpse, so being locked up within the walls of this palace is not painful for me. With my current state, I can live anywhere."

"In the final analysis, you are still blaming me and refusing to forgive me!" The emperor said with a sad face, "Chun Xi, I didn't avenge our child before, and I didn't expect you to forgive me. But now I have avenged our child, causing the Queen to die of illness, and letting you sit on the Queen's throne. Can't you forgive me?"

"We obviously love each other! Just like you said, without love, there would be no hatred. Do you really have to spend your whole life with me in hatred, and you won't forgive me and spend the rest of your life with me in love?"

"Chun Xi, we are no longer the young people we were back then. You and I are almost thirty years old. We can say that we are already halfway through our lives. There is not much time left for us. Do you really want to spend the rest of your life with me holding a hatred in your heart?"

"Your Majesty," Jiang Chunxi looked at the emperor sarcastically, "Don't you understand my personality? I've said it before, ever since you protected that vicious woman, the Queen, there has been no chance of reconciliation between you and me. I will never forgive you in my life. If Your Majesty really loves me, please leave now and don't bother me anymore in the future."

"You know that I am like a walking corpse when I am alive, and the vicious queen is already dead. I have avenged my great vengeance and have no regrets. I can go to the underworld anytime to accompany my poor child."

"So if Your Majesty keeps bothering me, I might do something impulsive. If Your Majesty doesn't want to lose another queen and be branded as a wife-killer, then it's best not to come to my palace to provoke me in the future."

"You..." The emperor wanted to be angry, but he still endured it. "Okay! If this is what you want, then I will never step into your palace again without your permission."

After all, the emperor was still afraid that Jiang Chunxi would become depressed and do something extreme.

On the one hand, it was because he really loved Jiang Chunxi and was really afraid that Jiang Chunxi would commit suicide. On the other hand, he was also worried that he would really be branded as a wife-killer.

After Jiang Chunxi was crowned queen, time seemed to have passed in a shortcut and suddenly came to twenty years later.

Because he had no children, the emperor aged very quickly. Also because he wanted to have an heir, the emperor took all kinds of medicine over the years, even elixirs.

So wouldn’t the body be seriously ill?

It is worth mentioning here that although the emperor had no children, the ministers in the court had been requesting the emperor to adopt a child, but the emperor gritted his teeth and refused.

But it's also true that how could a man like the dog emperor be willing to give up the throne to someone else?

But the dog emperor was now terminally ill, and the important officials in the court could not decide the matter of adoption according to his temper, so they all petitioned the Queen Jiang Chunxi to take charge.

Jiang Chunxi had already chosen her candidate, a three-year-old illegitimate son of King Qin. Naturally, the candidate chosen by Jiang Chunxi aroused dissatisfaction among the ministers in the court. But with the military power in the Jiang family, would Jiang Chunxi take those dissatisfied ministers seriously?

It is worth mentioning here that the person in charge of the Jiang family now is the original owner's eldest brother. Jiang's father died ten years ago because of the war in his early years, and the military power was taken over by the original owner's eldest brother.

The original owner's eldest brother was not as blindly loyal as Jiang's father. He knew very well what it meant to the Jiang family for his sister to choose a three-year-old child to inherit the throne. Therefore, he naturally supported his sister with all his strength. With the power of hundreds of thousands of troops in his hands, he was not afraid of those opposing ministers in the court and his attitude was very tough.