Chapter 183 Concubine Li collapses
Chapter 183 Concubine Li collapses
"Your servant greets the Queen. May Her Majesty be blessed with good health." After paying her respects, Ji Yuntang told the Queen everything about Luo Junhe.
The Queen had known about this matter from Luo Qingge a long time ago, but that did not stop her from being furious at the moment.
She immediately knelt at the door and said loudly: "Your Majesty, this matter is of great importance. If what Princess Ye said is true, then Doctor Zhu's deception and curse of King Ye is a serious crime. King Ye is the god of war of Dongchen. Doctor Zhu made a mistake. If he gets away with it safely this time without any punishment, then how will the people of Dongchen view Your Majesty? How will they view the imperial power?"
"I beg the emperor to summon Doctor Zhu and handle the matter impartially. Do not let the Night King and the people of Dongchen Kingdom feel disappointed."
Ji Yuntang also knelt on the ground and said loudly: "Your Majesty, please make the decision for my husband and for the Night Palace, otherwise I will kneel down forever."
Emperor Jingyang was sitting in the government hall. The voices of the Queen and Ji Yuntang reached his ears word by word, making his face completely gloomy.
He could no longer bear it, so he walked out and opened the door, "How dare you! Are you trying to rebel?"
Ji Yuntang's eyes were slightly cold, and he said in a cold voice: "Isn't it Doctor Zhu who wants to rebel? My husband has fought for the country for so many years and has become disabled. Even if he has no merit, he has worked hard. He was harmed and cursed. As his father, are you going to ignore it and let the framer go unpunished?"
"You don't feel sorry for your son, but I do for my husband. I've been wronged, and it doesn't matter how the people abuse me, but I really can't stand seeing my husband being framed and cursed. He has suffered enough for so many years. Today, no matter what, I will seek justice for the Night King."
The Queen responded, "Princess Ye is right. As the heir of a kingdom, the King of Ye has to call me his mother. I cannot stand aside while watching my son being wronged. If the Emperor does not deal with Doctor Zhu today, the people will surely think that you ordered Doctor Zhu to harm his son. Does the Emperor want to be branded as a filcher?"
Emperor Jingyang's chest was shaking with anger. It was the first time that he was lectured and criticized by two women in public. He would be lying if he said he wasn't angry.
But the queen's words did serve as a wake-up call for him, causing him to start thinking carefully about the pros and cons of the matter.
Doctor Zhu is his man, and it was he who ordered Doctor Zhu to take full responsibility for the Night King's condition.
If Doctor Zhu was not punished, people with ulterior motives would think that he was the one who ordered Doctor Zhu not to treat the Night King properly and wanted to torture his own son.
This crime is not a big one, but it is not a small one either, but it will indeed cause Emperor Jingyang to lose some people's support for no reason.
He was silent for a while, and finally looked at Eunuch Zhang, and ordered in a deep voice: "Zhang Fugui, summon Doctor Zhu to the palace immediately. I want to deal with this matter publicly."
Eunuch Zhang said, "I obey your orders."
At this time, Weiyang Palace.
Concubine Li was painting in her bedroom with a wolf-hair brush. She was painting a picture of a handsome man among thousands of mountains. The man in the painting looked to be in his early twenties, dressed in purple, with flying black hair and a golden cup in his hand. He had an elegant and refined appearance.
The mountains overlapped one another, towering into the clouds. The man stood on the top of the mountain, looking down on everyone like a born king.
"Zhenglang, I have drawn your most beautiful face when you were young. If you see this gift from me, you will definitely like it, right?"
Concubine Li had a gentle smile on her face. She stroked the man's face in the painting with her fingertips and curled her lips in satisfaction.
Just then, Jianlan ran in from outside, her face full of panic.
"Empress Li, something terrible has happened!"
Concubine Li was startled. Her hand holding the wolf-hair brush shook, and the ink from the brush happened to drip onto the face of the man in the painting, leaving a large black stain.
She was instantly furious, threw the pen to the ground, and angrily said: "You are so flustered, how can you behave like that? I have told you many times to knock before coming in, do you still have any manners?"
Jian Lan trembled and said, "Please forgive me, Concubine Li. It was an emergency and I was in a hurry to report. I forgot the rules. I will never do it again next time."
Concubine Li carefully rolled up the painting of Qianshan Beauties on the table, tied it with a ribbon, and put it back in the box.
She turned around and sat gracefully on the chair, then took a sip of the hot tea at hand.
"Tell me, what happened again? But the Night King is dead?"
Concubine Li felt that only such a major event could make Jianlan disregard the rules and rush to report to her.
However, Jianlan's next words made her completely lose her mind.
"No... no, the Night King is not only not dead, but he is almost recovered from his illness."
"Doctor Zhu concealed Princess Ye's illness and cursed His Royal Highness the Night Prince, committing the crime of deceiving the emperor. He has now been summoned to the Council Hall for questioning. The Empress, Concubine Chu, the Ninth Princess, Princess Ye, the Crown Prince, and the King of Qi are all there."
"What did you say!?"
Concubine Li was startled and stood up with a swish. The teacup in her hand slipped from her fingertips and fell to the ground, breaking into pieces.
The hot tea splashed all over her, scalding the tender white skin on her hands, but she didn't pay any attention to it. Instead, she grabbed Jianlan's shoulders and asked her questions sharply over and over again, as if she didn't feel any pain.
"Are you telling the truth? The Night King is really not dead?"
Jianlan endured the pain in her shoulder and said quickly: "It is absolutely true, Madam. Princess Ye has already made a scene in front of the Emperor. Now everyone in the palace knows about it. I am afraid that Doctor Zhu is in danger this time."
"Your Majesty, Doctor Zhu is our man. What if he says something he shouldn't in front of the Emperor? Your Majesty, please think of a solution!"
Concubine Li was shocked. She took two steps back, as if all her strength had been drained away, her face dazed and dejected.
How is this possible?
Luo Junhe was disfigured, blind, had a broken leg, and was poisoned. How could he possibly get better?
He is already in such a miserable state, how can he possibly get better?
"No, I don't believe it. You are lying to me, right? I tortured him until he was neither human nor ghost. I asked Doctor Zhu to keep him alive because I didn't want him to die so easily. He has been ill for three years, how could he recover?"
"Then all the efforts I have made over the years are nothing!"
She plotted to murder Luo Junhe, but he survived.
She poisoned Luo Xian'an, but he didn't die.
Then what were all her calculations over the years?
Concubine Li's spirit completely collapsed. She stretched out her hand and waved it vigorously, sweeping all the tea bowls and fruit plates on the table to the ground.
The sound of "crackling" was endless and the entire Weiyang Palace was in chaos.
Just then, the eunuch's voice was heard outside.
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