Chapter 197 Who did I think I was? It turned out to be the deposed queen!
Chapter 197 Who did I think I was? It turned out to be the deposed queen!
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince seemed to have finally come to his senses, but his expression was still extremely ugly. He was now very close to Qi Heng, and couldn't help but say self-deprecatingly, "Fifth brother, I'm sorry to have made a fool of myself."
Qi Heng didn't say anything, just walked forward quietly.
Soon, except for the former Crown Prince's Concubine and the man who pretended to be a eunuch, who were escorted to the Dali Temple separately by the imperial guards, the rest of the people followed Qi Heng to Qingyuan Temple. After this escort, Qi Heng's mission was completed, and anything that happened here in the future would have nothing to do with him.
At the same time, the queen was taken to the cold palace.
Looking at the deserted cold palace in front of her, the queen felt extremely sad.
Now, all the personal maids around her have been sent to other places in the palace. Not only is there no one available, but she has to stay alone in this overgrown cold palace and fend for herself. These are not her biggest worries at the moment. What she wants to know most now is, what has happened to the prince?
And her family members.
I don’t know how Your Majesty will deal with them.
Your Majesty is so cruel to them and their son!
If it weren't for him, how could this happen to me and my son? If he hadn't been wavering and condoned the children born by those bitches to deal with me and the prince, how could they, mother and son, have fallen to the point they are now? Yes, it's all your majesty's fault, it's all his fault!
A strong hatred flashed in the queen's eyes.
She was fed up with the days of fear, worrying all the time that her position as queen and her son's position as crown prince would be threatened. Moreover, what the crown prince had done before had been discovered, and he had already lost his position as crown prince. How could she bear it? She was unwilling to see her decades of hard work go to waste, so when her son suggested poisoning her, she agreed without hesitation. Unexpectedly, she made a mistake and was discovered. Now, she had lost her position as queen and was banished to the cold palace.
However, when the queen thought of what her son said at that time, some hope suddenly returned to her sad heart.
Yes, His Majesty has indeed been poisoned. When His Majesty's old illness relapses, his son will join forces with his men to force the emperor to abdicate. It is not impossible for him to succeed. So I must try my best to live until that time and not be defeated, right!
At this moment, a concubine in the palace came with her personal maid. The queen thought the person looked familiar, but she didn't know the name. However, she vaguely remembered that this person had bumped into her and she had punished her by making her kneel down. At this moment, the person came over with a sweet smile. The queen frowned and was about to go in, but before she could, the person was already in front of her.
"Oh! Who did I think it was? It turned out to be the deposed queen! Haha, I never thought that the queen who was so high and mighty would be reduced to being banished to the cold palace. It really makes people... feel happy!"
Thinking about how she was punished to kneel in the snow and how her baby, which she had been pregnant for more than a month, was gone, Concubine Ning wished she could grind the Queen to ashes. However, due to her lower status and position than the Queen, she had no way to deal with her and could only accept defeat. But now the situation is different. The Queen is in trouble. Isn't this a good opportunity to avenge her?
When the queen heard this, her face turned extremely ugly. She had no intention of paying attention to her and was about to enter the weed-covered palace yard where she would live in the future with her skirt lifted.
Unexpectedly, the next second, Concubine Ning grabbed his sleeve.
Without waiting for the Queen to react, Ning Fei's eyes flashed with hatred, and she raised her hand and slapped the Queen loudly in the face.
"Slut! Not only did you not show courtesy to me, but you also ignored my words. You are so bold!"
The queen was stunned, and so were all the palace maids present.
The queen reacted and said in disbelief, "How dare you hit me!?"
For so many years, she had been in the palace for so many years, and no one had ever dared to be so presumptuous in front of her. Even His Majesty had never hit her. Even when she was in the boudoir, she was pampered by her family and had never suffered such an injustice.
The queen's eyes turned red with anger, and she subconsciously wanted to fight back, but as soon as she raised her hand, she was restrained by two palace maids.
"Clap clap clap!"
Three loud slaps were heard in succession, and the queen's well-maintained face instantly became swollen.
"Which slap is this to tell you that you should know the difference between the superior and the inferior in the palace? I thought you were the high and mighty queen! What a joke!"
The other palace maids didn't dare to say anything at all. Although Concubine Ning was not particularly favored in the palace, His Majesty treated her well and she also had a son. Therefore, they didn't dare to stop this behavior, for fear of angering Concubine Ning and bringing disaster to themselves and others.
It was obvious that these two people had a grudge against each other, so they could just watch from the sidelines. Therefore, no one dared to speak at this moment.
"Oh, I forgot to tell you that your good son, the deposed crown prince, and his wives, concubines and children have been escorted to Qingyuan Temple and moved out of the Eastern Palace. They will be commoners in the future. I also heard an interesting thing. Your good son's concubine actually hid a fake eunuch in the Eastern Palace. He has been cheating on your good son all along. Haha, don't you think it's funny? I heard that your good son is quite fond of that whore. She is really blind. I don't know whether the child born by that whore is your son's or that fake eunuch's. Haha, it's really a big show. It brought me a lot of fun!"
As Ningpin finished speaking, she saw as she wished that the Queen's expression became more and more unsightly. Her body had already begun to tremble with anger, and the smile on her face became more and more profound.
Although she doesn't know the truth of this matter at the moment, she is very happy to use it to stimulate the Queen.
The goal was achieved, and Concubine Ning spoke in a good mood, "It's really unlucky to stay in this place! Let's go!"
The reason why the Queen was angry was that she saw the sympathetic looks from the palace people around her. How could she not be angry? She also had a hunch that this matter was probably true. After all, there was no need for Concubine Ning to make up a lie to deceive herself.
She had long disliked her son's concubine, and she never expected that the bitch would dare to betray her son. This made the queen so angry that her blood boiled and she fainted.
The news that the crown prince was suspected of being cuckolded had already spread throughout the palace and Shengjing City. Compared with the deposed crown prince and the deposed queen, the people seemed to prefer this kind of family affairs, which was close to the lives of the masses after all, so it spread even faster.
On that day, after the Dali Temple conducted an investigation, it confirmed the affair between the two and also revealed another big piece of news: the child that Concubine Liang gave birth to for the deposed prince was actually the fake eunuch's!
This incident instantly caused a sensation, and everyone in Shengjing City knew about it.
The prince and his men who were far away in Qingyuan Temple also knew about this. Originally, the prince should not have known about this, after all, Qingyuan Temple was quite far away. But the prince had many enemies, such as Prince Huai and Prince Chen. In order to make the prince uncomfortable, they "took great pains" to have the news reach the prince's ears.
At that time, we heard that the prince fainted from anger. After waking up, he shouted that he wanted to kill those scumbags and that bastard.
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