bayedsolid Chapter 793: Green Plum Drunk (31)
Chapter 793: Green Plum Drunk (31)
The emperor abdicated.
The crown prince ascended the throne.
At the coronation ceremony.
The emperor suddenly appeared and listed Jiang Que's crimes.
It is said that he murdered the empress, harmed his own siblings, and was so cruel that even his father was forced to abdicate and retreat to a temple to practice asceticism in order to save his life.
Jiang Que was a tyrannical ruler who would kill anyone he saw. Although he was a father, he was also the emperor and did not want to see the country unstable and the people suffering in the future.
Moreover, he prefers men; without offspring, how can his empire be secure?
As soon as the palace gates closed, the emperor's men rushed in. Countless archers stood on the city walls, nocking their arrows and aiming them at the ministers below, all threatening them to support the emperor and overthrow the crown prince.
Otherwise, you'll die.
As a result, not a single minister dared to make a move.
The emperor was left alone to perform a one-man show.
Jiang Que, dressed in a dragon robe, stood at the highest point and applauded the grand spectacle.
The emperor sensed something was wrong, and sure enough, amidst Jiang Que's cheers, all the archers who had been aiming at the ministers turned their attention to him.
Overwhelmed by this uncontrollable panic, the emperor could not believe it and anxiously pulled a minister beside him: "Minister Li, I am the emperor! This rebellious son wants to kill me! Don't you hate such disobedient and unfilial people the most? Quickly advise him to let the world condemn him."
"Minister Wang, aren't you all usually so talkative? Speak up!! Jiang Que is disobedient and unfilial; he's going to kill his father!!"
The emperor went mad and tried to pull each of his ministers away, but the ministers, as if struck by death, desperately tried to avoid him and politely refused.
Don't look for me, don't look for me.
We're not familiar with each other.
If the new emperor finds out and suspects them of plotting a rebellion, they will be the next to be executed.
Can't you see those archers?
They're obviously from the new emperor's faction; everything was arranged long ago.
Each person has one arrow; by then, even the hedgehog won't have as many arrows as they do.
No one paid any attention to the emperor; when he issued orders, his soldiers remained unmoved.
Jiang Que laughed at him: "Father, now that you've finished speaking, it's your turn to talk about your affairs."
"You poisoned the Imperial Concubine because she knew your secret as a hypocrite. You were afraid that if she told you, it would affect your throne. So you used her child and her entire sect as leverage to make her willingly drink the poisoned wine. Then you made her child the Crown Prince, using a child of only a few years old to attract the attention of those who wanted to seize the throne, while you controlled everything from behind the scenes."
"He poisoned himself to frame the Empress, hoping to make me attack her. Was my kill order instigated by the Empress by Father's men? They wanted us to kill each other, so that no matter which side lost, it would only benefit Father, not harm him."
"Now that I've dealt with everyone else, isn't it my turn?"
"But with Father's abilities, can you hold onto this throne securely?"
"You!!" The emperor was furious that Jiang Que knew all this, and even tore away this fig leaf in front of all the civil and military officials. He trembled with rage and shouted, "You unfilial son!!"
A eunuch handed over a bow and arrow, which Jiang Que took, drew the bowstring, and aimed at the emperor, who was standing among the civil and military officials and was on the verge of madness.
When the emperor saw that Jiang Que really wanted to kill him, all the civil and military officials closed their eyes and pretended to be deaf and dumb.
The emperor fled backwards and saw his trusted Master Xuan Kong standing at the palace gate, holding Buddhist prayer beads in his hands, chanting "Buddha's compassion," with an expression of universal salvation, as if welcoming him.
The emperor ran in that direction, crying out, "Master Kongxuan, save me!"
As a result, the master closed his eyes and, while reciting Buddhist scriptures, let the palace servants close the vermilion palace gate behind him.
All that could be heard was the sound of an arrow piercing the air and tearing through flesh, but Master Kongxuan, with his eyes closed, chanted "Amitabha, Buddha, have mercy," ignoring his pleas for help.
What else could the emperor not understand?
It turns out that from the very beginning, he was in the game and never stepped out.
What he thought was a plan was nothing more than a cage to bury him.
Don't give him any extra reaction.
An arrow shot from behind pierced his heart. The emperor clutched his chest in disbelief and turned around, only to see his son standing on the dragon-patterned steps, coldly sheathing his bow, leaving him with his last words.
“Father, I have told you before, I have come back to avenge my mother.”
A faint smile played on his cold face, and on that face so similar to that of the Imperial Concubine, the Emperor seemed to see his beloved wife walking toward him.
She was a female doctor, and she knelt beside him, encouraging him to persevere.
The emperor raised his hand to touch her face, but he had no strength left. He stared in the direction of Jiang Que, his eyes wide open in death.
...
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The emperor stopped breathing. Only then did the monk who had been chanting sutras in front of the palace gate open his eyes and turn his prayer beads over the corpse, saying, "Amitabha."
Jiang Que sheathed his bow, turned around, and sat on the throne. The courtiers, who had been pretending to be blind, knelt on the ground, ignoring the late emperor, and shouted while holding a jade tablet: "Long live the Emperor! Long live the Emperor! Long live the Emperor!"
The new emperor ascends the throne.
Amnesty to the world.
The late emperor, missing his beloved wife, passed away after abdicating the throne to the crown prince.
No one dared to speak of what happened in the main hall that day.
Anyway, they didn't see anything; they were just there to welcome the new emperor to the throne.
Jiang Que has been holding a funeral for the late emperor for the past few days. It is a national mourning, and the lavish ceremony has been going on for a long time. Only those close to Jiang Que know that an empty coffin was buried, while the late emperor's real body was thrown into an unknown place along with the empress's.
Before the white silk in the palace had been removed, Cheng Hui was pressed onto the bed in the East Palace, the first to face the new emperor's tyranny.
Despite the claim of ascending the throne, from the very first day he entered the palace, Cheng Hui had no idea which throne Jiang Que had ascended.
The next day, Jiang Que went to court, and his head maidservant, who was his personal female official, accompanied him.
When Cheng Hui woke up, he only saw a familiar-looking maidservant pruning the flowers and plants outside.
She had been by the Crown Prince's side since childhood, and now that the Crown Prince had ascended the throne, she was also a female official with a rank.
She was not young, and her father originally wanted to ask her to go back and get married.
But now she is someone close to the emperor and holds an official position. She needs the emperor's decree to marry, and her father is a little afraid of Jiang Que, so he doesn't dare to go to him and just leaves her in the palace.
They saw Cheng wake up and come out of the room.
The maidservant carried over with a basket: "Awake? What would you like to eat? I'll have someone make it for you."
Cheng Hui had just woken up and wasn't actually very hungry, but after thinking for a moment, she said, "Anything is fine."
"Oh." The little maid left with the basket.
Before they had taken two steps, Cheng Hui suddenly spoke up again from behind: "Thank you, cousin."
After so many years, Liu Zhao, who had finally regained his identity, had tears in his eyes. Without saying a word, he picked up his basket and ran away.
What followed was that Cheng Hui ended up with a bunch of unpalatable breakfasts.
When Jiang Que returned from court, he saw him staring at the breakfast on the table, looking troubled. Without Jiang Que saying anything, the head maid came over and cleaned up the food and served breakfast again.
Jiang Que went over, bent down and kissed Cheng Hui's cheek, and asked, "What did you say to her? She was so happy that she cooked a whole table of dishes for you."
It just tastes awful.
However, Ye Wan was willing to coax him, always saying yes, which made this guy lose all self-awareness and think that his cooking skills were amazing.
When people are praised to such an high level, they start to think that others are not qualified to eat her master-level cooking skills.
Jiang Que asked, and Cheng Hui touched the cheek that Jiang Que had kissed, somewhat happy: "It's just... call her cousin."
She is the real Liu Zhao.
And you are only my one and only servant.