allonlinenovel Chapter 705 The Tragic Concubine 2
Chapter 705 The Tragic Concubine 2
Jiang's mother did not stay in the palace for long. After all, under such circumstances, how could she have the heart to stay in the palace for longer!
Of course, Jiang's mother did not intend to tell her husband the truth about her daughter's abortion.
After all, Jiang's mother knew her husband very well. If her husband knew that the emperor was afraid of the Jiang family, he would definitely hand over the military power directly.
Without the military power, wouldn't her husband be just a decoration in the court? Who would take the Jiang family seriously in the future? Moreover, without the military power, the Jiang family would be a dead end in the eyes of the emperor, who could deal with them whenever he wanted.
Jiang's mother would never think that the emperor would let go of his fear of the Jiang family if they handed over their military power. She had to know that her husband's prestige in the army could not be summed up by military power.
Therefore, rather than making the emperor afraid, we should not become a toothless tiger, otherwise the Jiang family will only die faster.
From this we can see that Jiang's mother was a very politically savvy person, at least much smarter than Jiang's father.
It was also because of this that Jiang Chunxi dared to say those words to Jiang's mother, because she was sure that Jiang's mother would not say anything to Jiang's father.
"Your Majesty, there is news from Concubine Cheng's palace that Concubine Cheng is critically ill and is on her deathbed." After Mother Jiang left, Yuanzhu came in to report:
"Oh!" Jiang Chunxi raised her eyebrows slightly, "I didn't expect that the emperor and the queen mother were so impatient that they would soon eliminate Chengpin."
The news about Concubine Cheng falling ill had leaked from her palace half a month ago. When Jiang Chunxi found out, she knew that the Empress Dowager and the dog emperor had taken action against Concubine Cheng.
"The Emperor and the Empress Dowager are worried that Concubine Cheng will say something she shouldn't, so they are naturally eager to eliminate her. If they didn't want to arouse other people's suspicion, Concubine Cheng wouldn't have died only now. She would have died long ago." After being given a loyalty talisman by Jiang Chunxi, Yuanzhu naturally knew everything he should know.
"Your Highness, what should we do next?" Yuan Yuan said indignantly, "Are we just going to watch that vicious woman Chengpin die so easily? That would be too easy for her. Although the Queen Mother and the Emperor are the masterminds behind this, if Chengpin didn't have the intention to harm Your Highness, she wouldn't have listened to the Queen Mother and the Emperor's orders."
"In short, I feel that letting that vicious woman Chengpin die so easily is really too easy for her."
"It's really too easy for that vicious woman Chengpin," Jiang Chunxi said coldly, "but there's nothing we can do about it! The Emperor and the Queen Mother want Chengpin to die, and no matter how unwilling I am, it's useless, so I can only let that vicious woman Chengpin get away with it."
"My queen, what are your plans for the future regarding the emperor?" Yuanzhu frowned and said, "Today is the day you are released from house arrest. I guess the emperor may come over tonight."
Yuanzhu really felt sorry for her master. Facing the enemy who killed her child, not only could her master not show hatred, but she also had to pretend to be nice to the emperor. What a torture this was for her master!
"Come if you want!" Jiang Chunxi sneered, "From now on! I am just an arrogant concubine. If the emperor likes to be bullied by me, then come on! After all, some people like to be humiliated. Can I stop them?"
Just as night fell, the emperor did come to Jiang Chunxi's palace.
Jiang Chunxi not only did not stand up to greet the emperor when he arrived, she didn't even look at him.
Seeing Jiang Chunxi's look, the emperor could only wave his hand helplessly and asked the servants in the room to leave.
"What book are you reading?" After the servants left, the emperor walked up to Jiang Chunxi and asked in a gentle voice, "Chunxi, we haven't seen each other for a month. Don't you miss me? Since I came in, you didn't even want to look at me. This makes me very sad."
"Your Majesty, please don't embarrass me," Jiang Chunxi put down the book in her hand and looked at the emperor with a mocking expression, "I am not a prominent figure at all. How can I make Your Majesty sad? What's more, Your Majesty hasn't met me for a month, but I haven't heard that Your Majesty has reduced his visits to the harem and has stopped turning over the concubines' green cards!"
"So! Your Majesty, please don't say such things anymore, otherwise I will feel that my intelligence has been insulted."
"You..." The emperor was naturally angry, but he suppressed his temper in the end. Then he sat down next to Jiang Chunxi, "I know you blame me in your heart, and blame me for banning you, but you don't think about what you did. If I don't punish you, how can I stop the harem from talking nonsense?"
"Besides, you were supposed to be in confinement after childbirth anyway, so my punishment of grounding you for a month is just a title, not a punishment at all."
"Whatever the emperor says, that's fine!" Jiang Chunxi continued to taunt, "You are the emperor. How dare a mere concubine in the harem refute what you say?"
"You have to talk to me in this way, don't you?" The emperor could no longer suppress his anger. "It seems that I really dote on you too much, which is why you dare to act so recklessly and don't take me seriously at all."
"He dotes on me," Jiang Chunxi sneered, "Yes! The emperor dotes on me so much that he has not yet convicted the vicious woman who killed my unborn child. If I had known that the emperor dotes on me like this, I would rather have never received the so-called favor from the emperor."
Hearing Jiang Chunxi's words, the emperor's eyes were filled with guilt, and his anger immediately subsided: "It's not that I don't want to convict Chengpin, but the matter has not been investigated clearly yet, right? What's more, Chengpin is also critically ill and will not live for many days. Why are you..."
"So what if she only has a few days to live after becoming a concubine?" Jiang Chunxi raised her voice. "Just because she only has a few days to live after becoming a concubine, can we erase the fact that she killed the baby in my belly?"
"Humph! I have figured out that the emperor is not going to convict Chengpin. He is also planning to give Chengpin a decent death and bury her in the concubine mausoleum. When the emperor is a hundred years old, he will let Chengpin continue to serve you in the underground."
"How outrageous." the emperor said angrily.
"Even if I was presumptuous, what can Your Majesty do to me?" Jiang Chunxi looked at the emperor angrily. "Whether you want to execute me or depose me, Your Majesty can just issue an order to deal with me. Anyway, I have been a concubine for long enough. If I could go to the underworld to accompany my son now, I would be more than happy to do so."
"So if Your Majesty really wants to punish me, then please just give me death! Anyway, I am just like that in your heart. If you give me death, Your Majesty won't have to continue to play a trick on me. You obviously don't like me in your heart, but you still have to pretend to favor me. It's really unfair to you to let Your Majesty play tricks with me all these years."