The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 657: Insatiable
Chapter 657: Pushing the Limits
The empty hall was filled with the low sobbing of Concubine Qiu. The emperor looked at Concubine Qiu’s watery eyes full of concern. In the end, the emperor couldn’t bear it anymore. He raised his hand and gently patted Concubine Qiu’s hand to comfort her, saying, “Okay, don’t cry… I will protect you.”
Not long after, Gao Demao, who was ordered to go to the Queen’s palace to deliver the white silk to the Queen, entered the hall with small steps. After politely saluting to the Emperor, he stood up and said carefully, “Your Majesty, I was ordered to bring the imperial physician and the white silk to the Queen’s palace. Before the imperial physician even checked the Queen’s pulse, she admitted that she was faking her pregnancy. She wore a phoenix robe and made-up and sat on the phoenix throne. She asked Your Majesty to consider their years of marriage and give her poison so that the Queen could die in a dignified manner. The Queen said that since she was the Queen…she couldn’t be hung on the beam. It would be disgraceful to leave a scar on her neck.”
When the emperor heard this, his chest suddenly heaved violently, and his chest cavity was full of wheezing sounds of phlegm.
“Your Majesty! Your Majesty, calm down!” Concubine Qiu hurriedly stroked the emperor’s chest, “The dragon’s health is the most important!”
“Respectable?! She dares to ask me for respect!” The emperor angrily overturned the spittoon on the wooden table beside the bed, “I allowed her to keep her body intact, which is already a great respect! She dares to ask for more!”
The eunuchs and palace maids in the hall knelt on the ground trembling with fear, and even Concubine Qiu knelt and kowtowed.
The emperor propped himself up with his skinny hands trembling, gnashing his teeth and saying viciously, “Go tell that vicious woman! If she doesn’t want to end her life, I’ll have her strangled to death! Go!”
Gao Demao quickly responded and said yes, holding the white silk, he hurriedly led his men to the Queen’s palace.
It was late at night, and the queen sat calmly on the phoenix throne, looking at the palace lantern hanging in front of the main hall door with a dim twilight.
Inside the hall… there were the sad cries of the maids and palace maids kneeling in front of her, and their begging voices, asking her to apologize to the emperor.
As the wind blew, the palace lanterns swayed, the firelight dimmed, and then brightened again.
The queen heard the approaching footsteps of the guards and the friction of armor and swords, so she picked up the shelf and raised her hand to grasp the armrest of the phoenix chair.
Gao Demao led the eunuchs and guards into the main hall again, bowed respectfully to the queen and said, “Queen, His Majesty has ordered… If you don’t end it yourself, someone else will do it! Queen, please…”
The queen gently placed one hand on her abdomen, and sneered, “I thought that the emperor would at least give me poison because of our years of marriage! Since he doesn’t want to, then forget it…”
The queen raised her head with an arrogant look: “Gao Demao!”
Gao Demao stepped forward and saluted: “The Queen’s order!”
“The emperor wants to deal with the body of my son, Prince Xin?” There was an imperceptible tremor in the queen’s voice when she asked this question.
“Your Majesty, His Majesty has not issued an order yet. However, the Crown Prince is kind-hearted and has already ordered Prince Xin’s body to be sent back to Prince Xin’s Palace.” Gao Demao said with his eyes lowered.
Hearing the words “benevolent prince”, the queen sneered, gently stroked her belly, and said in a low and soft voice: “Child, it’s your mother who is useless. Now it has come to this. Even if I leave you alone in the world, you will only be looked down upon! Why don’t you follow me to find your brother? The three of us, mother and son… will never be separated again!”
Gao Demao, who was bending over, raised his head suddenly when he heard this, and saw the queen pulling out the hairpin on her head and stabbing it fiercely towards her neck…
Gao Demao’s head made a “boom” sound, the queen’s lips curled up and blood spurted out of her mouth, her white teeth were stained with blood… with a smile on her face, which made Gao Demao’s scalp numb.
The queen gritted her teeth and pulled out the hairpin that had pierced her neck. Blood splattered and she fell limply to the ground, her hands… covering her abdomen tightly.
Could it be that the Queen’s fake pregnancy was a lie, and the Queen did this… so that the Emperor would know about her pregnancy only after her death, so that the Emperor would suffer? !
Gao Demao’s throat rolled over. He looked at the queen with a smile on her lips… and a desire for revenge in her eyes. He didn’t have the heart to tell the queen. He had served the emperor since he was a child. Based on his understanding of the emperor, even if the emperor knew that the queen was really pregnant but committed suicide, he would not be heartbroken for too long. At most, it would only be one night…
Seeing the queen finally breathed her last, there was a cry in the hall. The elderly nanny beside the queen hugged her tightly and whispered to her to wait… She would follow the queen after she had arranged the queen’s body.
Gao Demao stepped out of the palace and made a gesture, and the guards immediately closed the palace door.
The Emperor’s decree is that if there is a fire in the Queen’s palace tonight, no one will survive…
On October 15, the 16th year of Xuanjia, Prince Xin, who had been demoted to a commoner, led the imperial army to rebel, broke through the Wude Gate, and approached the emperor’s bedroom. The crown prince led the patrol battalion into the palace to rescue the emperor. Then Prince Xian led the Southern Capital Army into the palace in the name of rescuing the emperor, beheaded Prince Xin, and led his troops to approach the emperor’s bedroom, intending to kill the emperor and rebel. Princess Zhenguo and Fu Ruoxi led 20,000 Anping troops to wipe out the rebels, and the rebellion of the two princes ended in failure, which is known in history as the Wude Gate Rebellion.
Five days had passed since the Wude Gate Rebellion, and the capital city had already returned to its former prosperity and bustle.
Queen Zhong died in the fire, her mother’s family was imprisoned, and all nine generations of her clan were exterminated.
However, Prince Liang has been imprisoned till now. It is said that Prince Liang cries and begs to see the emperor and the crown prince every day in prison, but the emperor and the crown prince seem to have forgotten the existence of Prince Liang. They neither release him nor issue orders to deal with him, and it seems that they are going to keep Prince Liang in prison until his death.
The harem is now managed by the Crown Prince’s biological mother, Concubine Yu. When everyone was waiting to see Concubine Qiu, who was born in Prince Liang’s Mansion, make a fool of herself, Concubine Qiu was promoted to a noble concubine, serving the Emperor every day.
The meritorious people who quelled the Wude Gate Rebellion were rewarded one after another. Bai Qingyan was already a princess guarding the country, so the emperor gave her many rare treasures and elixirs…
Bai Qingyan’s old injuries have not healed yet and he has new injuries. Rumor has it that he will not live more than three years.
The Crown Prince and the Crown Princess came to visit in person, presenting the Emperor’s rewards and all kinds of precious medicines. Later, nobles from various families also came to visit with valuable gifts. Second Madam Liu stopped them all on the grounds that Bai Qingyan was not suitable to meet guests, and she personally entertained them with fine tea and food, and then sent them away.
The news of the riot in Dadu and Bai Qingyan’s serious injury was still reported back to Shuoyang, even though the Princess Zhenguo Mansion in Dadu intended to conceal it.
When Bai Jinzhi heard the news, he was so shocked that he rushed to the capital city without stopping day and night, without eating or drinking.
When Bai Jinzhi rushed into the upper room of Qinghui Courtyard, he saw his elder sister with long black hair like crow feathers draped over her shoulders, wearing a snow-white middle dress, and a quilt with passion flower satin on her legs. She was leaning on a hidden bag and reading ancient bamboo slips…
The morning light shone in through the carved window lattices, and the warm color reflected the pale and delicate features of my eldest sister, which was as peaceful and leisurely as a painting.
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