diskusbooks Chapter 288 The World of Mad Men and Mad Women 34
Chapter 288 The World of Mad Men and Mad Women 34
The Queen Mother did not show any distress at all when seeing the Emperor's behavior. Instead, she looked annoyed: "Your Majesty, did you come to me in the middle of the night just to say these words? If so, I have already heard it. Your Majesty can leave now."
The Emperor looked at the Queen Mother with a hurt expression: "Mother, you still can't forgive me?"
Ever since he asked his father to marry Concubine Xian, the emperor felt that his mother's attitude towards him had changed, as if she no longer regarded him as a son. The emperor had been seeing his mother's coldness towards him over the years.
However, although the emperor felt uncomfortable, he did not regret it. After all, he really loved Concubine Xian.
But now the emperor regretted it. How could he hurt his mother's heart for a bitch like Concubine Xian? He forgot how much effort his mother had put in to raise him and prevent him from being harmed by the late queen.
But what did he do? He actually asked my father to marry the niece of the late queen without my mother's knowledge. This was no different from betrayal to my mother.
"Forgive me," the Queen Mother sneered, "I had three miscarriages before you were born. I went through so much hardship to conceive you, and I avoided all the ways of the late Queen, the vicious woman, to finally give birth to you. I also worked so hard to raise you, but how have you, as a son, repaid me?"
"Just when I was so happy to have defeated the former queen and avenged my three unborn children, you went to marry her niece. Do you know how she mocked me before she died?"
"So, Your Majesty!" The Queen Mother leaned down and stroked the Emperor's face, "How dare you ask me if I can't forgive you? Or, tell me how I can forgive you."
"Snapped!"
As soon as she finished speaking, the Queen Mother slapped the Emperor hard in the face: "You are such a ruthless and unfilial person. For a woman, you stabbed your own mother in the chest. The thing I regret most in my life is giving birth to such an unfilial person like you. If I could go back in time, I would rather be killed by the former Queen, that vicious woman, than give birth to such an unfilial person like you."
"Mother," the emperor cried and broke down, "I was wrong. I shouldn't have hurt your heart. Please give me a chance to correct my mistakes and let me be filial to you."
"No need," the Queen Mother said with disgust, "You just need to show up less in front of me, that would be the best way to show filial piety to me."
"Emperor," the Queen Mother said with a tired look, "Since the day you betrayed me for Concubine Xian, you are no longer my son in my heart. The bond between you and me as mother and son has been severed. The reason why I didn't say anything all these years is not because I was worried about hurting our mother-son relationship, but because I no longer regard you as my own son."
"Go now! Don't come to my palace again unless it is necessary. Do you know how annoyed I feel every time you come to my palace?"
The emperor left the empress dowager's palace in a daze, and it was only after the emperor left that Nanny Liu reported what happened tonight to the empress dowager.
"Ye Ting," the Queen Mother sneered, "The Emperor is really cruel this time, he actually threw Concubine Xian into Ye Ting."
Madam Liu: "Empress Dowager, I see that the Emperor really knows he is wrong. Can't you forgive him?"
"Does knowing he was wrong erase what he did?" The Queen Mother sneered, "I've said it before, ever since the day the Emperor stabbed me in the back, I no longer have his son in my heart. Anyway, I'm the Queen Mother now, and his unfilial son can't do anything to me, so what do I have to worry about? You want me to play the role of loving mother and filial son with his unfilial son, is he worthy of it?"
The Queen Mother's disgust for her son was genuine. She wished she had never given birth to that unfilial son. How could she possibly still have a trace of mother-son love for him?
After hearing what the Queen Mother said, Madam Liu naturally stopped trying to persuade her.
The Queen Mother's words were like the last straw that broke the camel's back, and the already devastated Emperor collapsed. He developed a high fever that night and was sick for several days in a row. He did not attend court and refused to see anyone. As a result, Jiang Chunxi did not see the Emperor for several days and just treated it as a holiday.
However, since she didn't have to deal with the emperor anymore, Jiang Chunxi suddenly felt bored, so she thought of Concubine Xian.
Since she remembered Concubine Xian, she naturally wanted to go and take a closer look. However, she didn't expect that when Jiang Chunxi arrived at the Ye Ting, Concubine Rong was already there.
"Your hands are shaking," Concubine Rong's voice was no different from that of the vicious female supporting role, "Did you not eat? I asked you to hold the basin and kneel for just a short while, but your hands are shaking unbearably. What's going on? Are you deliberately being dissatisfied with me?"
"Don't be angry, Your Majesty. A bitch like her will behave if you whip her hard. I will vent your anger for you now." After the maid from the palace finished speaking, she raised the whip in her hand and walked towards Concubine Xian with a fierce expression.
"Ahhhh!" Then, of course, came Concubine Xian's scream.
"Your concubine pays homage to the Imperial Concubine." Jiang Chunxi came to Imperial Concubine Rong and bowed respectfully to her.
"Zuigui has also come to see the useless Cheng," Concubine Rong shouted to the servant beside her, "Why are you still standing there? Hurry up and bring a chair over for Guigui."
The eunuch quickly brought a chair and placed it next to Concubine Rong. After Jiang Chunxi sat down, she looked at Concubine Xian who was screaming in pain from being beaten and said, "Tsk tsk! How pitiful! It's only been a few days! Concubine Xian has been tortured beyond recognition. Looking at her current state, who would have thought that she was still the high and mighty Concubine Xian a few days ago?"
"Some people are born to be lowly," Concubine Rong said disdainfully, "Even though she is favored by the emperor, she still cannot bear the loneliness and has an affair with the guards. Maybe during those three years in the cold palace, she has already hooked up with that guy named Gu. The emperor feels sorry for her suffering in the cold palace, but he doesn't know how happy this lowly woman is in the cold palace."
"Oh! Your Majesty, what you said makes a lot of sense," Jiang Chunxi said flatteringly, "If they hadn't been in the cold palace, the two of them would have been together long ago. Otherwise, Cheng wouldn't have been obsessed with her adulterer even after leaving the cold palace."
"Who says it's not true?" Concubine Rong said, "If she wasn't such a reckless bitch, her affair with the guard probably wouldn't have been discovered. If that were the case, the emperor might have raised a bastard, and the country would probably fall into the hands of a bastard in the future."
Given that the Emperor has always been fond of Concubine Xian, if the affair between Concubine Xian and the guard had not been exposed, and if Concubine Xian gave birth to a bastard, the Emperor would definitely be partial to her. At that time, the other princes would not need to fight for the throne and could just give up their throne to the bastard born by Concubine Xian. What's the point of fighting for it?