activa-t Chapter 474: Ears pricked up
Chapter 474: Ears pricked up
Song Yunxi's ears perked up——
[Wow, there seems to be some shocking news! I love hearing these royal secrets, tell me now!]
Emperor Qinglong: This naughty girl should be sent away.
Song Yunxi approached the Queen Mother with a thirst for knowledge in her eyes: "Did the late Emperor do anything to offend you?"
In Song Yunxi's opinion, it was just a story about a bad man and a resentful woman who was let down.
But the Queen Mother roared in disgust: "He has not only let me down, except for that woman Zhuang Shutong, he has let down all the women in the harem!"
The late emperor and the late empress grew up together as childhood sweethearts, and their relationship became even deeper after they got married. Before he ascended the throne, he even had only one principal wife, and there was not even a maid to serve him closely in the palace.
After he ascended the throne, there was no harem for a long time except for the empress. If the empress had not been childless for many years, I am afraid that there would never be other women in the harem of the late emperor in his life.
But even though these women were sent into the palace by their families through various connections, they all ended up being neglected, and the late emperor still favored the empress alone.
"If he wasn't under pressure because of not having an heir, Ye Jingcheng wouldn't have favored any of us!"
[It's quite normal at the moment. The late emperor and his wife had a deep relationship. Isn't it reasonable for him not to want other women? Why do you have to force him to have a child? He's not a stud. ]
Song Yunxi asked her: "What happened next? What happened next?"
There must be a reason for such deep-rooted hatred, and her intuition told her that what would happen next would definitely not be simple.
Seeing that the empress dowager was a little weak, Song Yunxi immediately poured a glass of water and unnoticeably put a pill into the water. The pill turned invisible as soon as it entered the water.
She then handed the water to the Queen Mother: "Don't get excited, drink some water first and talk slowly."
She hasn't finished eating the melon yet, but she can't stop halfway, otherwise she will not be able to eat or sleep for a long time.
Everyone's eyes were focused on Song Yunxi, and they all had the same thought in their minds -
Could her desire to watch the fun and make trouble be more obvious?
Song Yunxi didn't care about them. She said with a gossipy look on her face, "Just speak up. If you are really let down, I will scold you along with you."
Although the Queen Mother disliked Song Yunxi, she really needed to vent at this time, so she ignored her and continued, "I only found out later that Ye Jingcheng's visit to the harem was not because he had figured it out, but to stop the gossips and to protect Zhuang Shutong."
She once truly loved Ye Jingcheng, so she had the delusion that as long as Zhuang Shutong died, he would treat her wholeheartedly.
And she could also give up everything for Ye Jingcheng, give up the power she had worked so hard to build up, and give up the Wei family.
She would even go so far as to wipe out the Wei clan for him and sacrifice everything for his country.
Zhuang Shutong became pregnant and gave birth to a princess, which made her extremely jealous. Especially when she saw the happy appearance of their family of three, she felt as if her heart was stabbed by a knife and bleeding.
With this daughter, Ye Jingcheng loved Zhuang Shutong even more deeply, and she soon became pregnant again.
She couldn't bear to see Zhuang Shutong continue to be so happy, and couldn't bear to see the man she loved deeply always be obsessed with another woman.
"That's right, Zhuang Shutong didn't have a difficult birth at all. I poisoned her."
The Queen Mother looked at Song Wentian with resentment: "It's a pity that Ye Jingcheng has a good relationship with the old head of Shengyun Mountain. Not only did Zhuang Shutong not die, but he even saved his child."
The Queen Mother sneered sarcastically: "What a pity, if she had listened to the old master and not had the child, she could have saved her life, but she chose the child."
When he said this, he looked at Emperor Qinglong, and the implication was obvious: the late queen had risked her life to save him.
"But she was really lucky. Although she died, the son she gave birth to with all her efforts survived."
Now that Zhuang Shutong has died, she will have the opportunity to take his place.
As for the illegitimate child born by Zhuang Shutong, she had some means to make him die early.
After all, even those grown-up princes were eliminated one by one effortlessly by her.
She had been in the palace for many years but had never been favored. She used to be devoted to restoring the Wei imperial power so naturally she didn't care. After she fell in love with Ye Jingcheng, she just wanted to get him.
After successfully gaining favor, she wanted more. The throne of the Ye family could only be inherited by her son.
So Zhuang Shutong’s son must die!
She made Zhuang Shutong's son bear the reputation of nemesis and tried every means to make Ye Jingcheng hate him. Just when she wanted to get rid of him, the child was sent to Shengyun Mountain, out of her reach.
Fortunately, she became pregnant and had her own child.
The birth of her son gave her hope and made her feel unprecedented happiness. She felt that everything was developing in the direction she expected, so she even got rid of the only two remaining princes.
In this way, her son became Ye Jingcheng's only son and the only heir to the Jin'an Dynasty.
But reality slapped her in the face, Zhuang Shutong's son came back.
As the only legitimate son, he was made crown prince as soon as he returned.
Although she was angry, she also understood that there was a long way to go and that if she took things step by step she would be able to get her son to the throne.
It was not until she heard with her own ears the secret conversation between Ye Jingcheng and his sickly brother who had been staying indoors all year round, and heard with her own ears them say that all the children born to the concubines in the harem were from that sickly brother, including her son.
Ye Jingcheng was unwilling to betray Zhuang Shutong, and in order to shut up the royal officials, he came up with such a vicious method of using Li Dai Taojiang.
In such a huge harem, except for Zhuang Shutong's two children, none of them belonged to Ye Jingcheng.
She thought her sincerity was finally responded to, and that Ye Jingcheng was gentle and considerate to her because he finally forgot about Shu Tong and fell in love with her, but she never imagined that everything was just an illusion.
She really hates it!
This is what it means when love turns to hate!
So she deliberately approached Ye Jingcheng's two children, whom he held dear to his heart, and treated them as well as possible, even poisoning her own son in order to gain their trust.
Since Ye Jingcheng made her give birth to a bastard, she would naturally make good use of this bastard.
Sure enough, she not only gained the trust and guilt of the siblings, but also Ye Jingcheng.
She soon became Concubine Miao, the only person in the harem who could be close to them, and the only woman by Ye Jingcheng's side.
But her hatred grew day by day as she spent more time with Ye Jingcheng.
Watching him reminiscing about Zhuang Shutong every day and exhausting his efforts for Zhuang Shutong's children, she wanted to destroy everything even more.
The room was filled with silence.
[In fact, from our perspective, the late emperor was not only right, but also very affectionate and loyal. But from the perspective of the old witch, it is indeed very sad, and it is understandable that she would turn love into hate. ]
[But she killed the late queen for her own feelings and did so many things that harmed the country and the people. This is unforgivable.]