"Your Highness, Liang Wendao and his traitors have all been captured." Xuanyuan Qilin walked in holding a blood-stained sword and wearing a battle robe.
After hearing this, the last trace of hope on the Queen Mother's face collapsed. She turned pale and fell down on the chair.
Like a dying person, making his last struggle, a touch of sadness flashed across his face, and the bead curtain on his bun was messed up.
"Why do you want to kill me? And for whom?" The prince stepped forward, leaned forward and asked.
"The Ai family will tell the truth only after they meet Su Yueming." However, the queen mother had no intention of telling the truth to the prince.
The sky was already bright, and the rain suddenly stopped.
Outside Yikun Palace, there are remnants of the bloody storm, with fallen leaves floating on the ground.
The prince closed his eyes, turned around, and ordered in a deep voice——
"Come here, help the Queen Mother to go in and rest. From today on, no one or anything will be left in Yikun Palace. Without the emperor's will, the Queen Mother is not allowed to step out of Yikun Palace."
With that said, the prince raised his feet, stepped out of the gate of Yikun Palace, and headed to the Emperor Chengqian Palace.
At dawn, it was time for him to go to the emperor to pay his respects.
According to his arrangement, the news of the civil strife in the palace last night did not reach Chengqian Palace.
When he walked into Chengqian Palace, the emperor had just gotten up, and the one he was sleeping with today was Concubine Li, who had just entered the palace.
In the past two days, he had suffered from the pain of losing the dragon fetus in Concubine Ning's belly. He, who was already suffering from physical illness, looked a little haggard.
"Father, please punish me for being unfilial!" The prince knelt on one knee in front of the emperor, bowed his head, and said.
The emperor didn't take it seriously, raised his hand and said, "You came here in a hurry early in the morning, and I want to punish you. Why?"
The prince paused for a moment and said, "My son sent troops to surround Yikun Palace, expelled all the slaves, and put the emperor's grandmother under house arrest."
"..." After the emperor heard this, his men paused, raised their heads, as if they didn't believe it at all, and asked in a deep voice, "What did you say?"
The prince knelt straight and said again, "The imperial grandmother is under house arrest in Yikun Palace by her ministers."
"Bold!" The emperor was furious, slapped his palm on the table, and shouted loudly, which immediately frightened the little concubine next to him.
The emperor took a few strides and walked up to the prince. The finger with the ring on it was trembling. He pointed at the prince and said, "As the prince of the Zhou Dynasty, you dare to put the queen mother under house arrest privately. What, are you trying to force the palace to rebel? Now it's time. I’m not here to put me under house arrest!”
"Father, I must not dare." The prince raised his head, his eyes looking at the emperor were filled with mist, "I really have no choice but to do so."
"The reason?" The emperor was trembling with anger, "I think you did such a treasonous thing just because of that concubine of the Su family. She caused Concubine Ning to have a miscarriage and was imprisoned in Dali Temple by the Queen Mother. You hold a grudge!"
"No, it's really because the imperial grandmother repeatedly harmed the emperor's heirs, and together with Liang Wendao wanted to get rid of his son, he had no choice but to take this step."
The emperor became more and more puzzled after hearing this, "The Queen Mother harmed the emperor's heir and wants to get rid of you? What is going on? Please tell me clearly!"
"Yes, Father, please listen to my sons and ministers come here one by one."
So, the prince told the emperor everything that had happened in detail, from the death of Queen Changsun to the poison in his leather robe, to the critical confrontation between the two armies last night...
The emperor's face slowly turned pale as he listened to the prince's eloquent talk. He obviously couldn't believe what he heard -