The atmosphere in the emperor's palace became strange.
At the beginning, Cheng Jiaoniang fought for her sworn brothers and made an oath in front of the emperor that the sky would be destroyed by thunder.
Although there were not many people present at the time, given that Mrs. Cheng's reputation was getting bigger and bigger, and her legend spread widely, it was natural that everyone knew about it.
This is Xiao He's success and Xiao He's failure. If you rely on these evil words to become famous, then you will be decapitated because of these evil words.
Gao Lingbo looked at the woman standing here, his eyes shining.
If you need means, there are means, and she admits it personally.
There must be a reason, and the courtiers heard it with their own ears that the emperor summoned her to hold her accountable.
She felt guilty as a thief and simply killed someone to silence her.
That's right, it's her! Everything that happened today was her fault!
This is a monster! This is a monster!
Look at the expressions of people around you: surprise, horror, fear...
They already believe that this is a monster.
Kill this monster! Kill this monster!
No, it's not just this monster.
There is also the Queen, who personally admitted that she was the one who summoned this monster.
There is also the Prince of Jin'an County, the three of them are colluding!
Kill King Ping! Kill the emperor!
Gao Lingbo roared in his heart, and his body could not suppress the trembling.
"What are you talking about, Lord Gao?" the queen frowned and said, "Can a child's angry words be taken seriously?"
"What you said out of anger?" Gao Lingbo sneered, "This is just your casual admission, Queen."
"Bold!" the queen shouted with raised eyebrows.
"Gao Lingbo is rude and bold!" Chen Shao also scolded him.
Gao Lingbo was not afraid of the scoldings of these two people. Look at the others and see the jealous and jealous looks in their eyes.
The seeds of doubt have taken root.
No one dares to keep such a monster. This time he can kill King Ping and make the emperor angry. Who can guarantee that he will not be next?
"May I ask the Queen, where is the Queen Mother?" Gao Lingbo did not admit guilt or refute, but asked.
It was not his original intention to refute, his original intention was to question, and he would never hesitate to fight if he hit the target with one blow.
"The Queen Mother is still ill. Her Majesty and Prince Heping are all close relatives. In addition, something happened to the little prince recently. The Queen Mother is already grieving and can't help herself. I don't dare to go and tell you about this rashly," the Queen said.
Don't you dare to tell me? Just don't tell me.
Look at this confident look, Queen, Queen, I really underestimate you.
Gao Lingbo sneered in his heart.
"Your Majesty, Prince Ping, is a close relative. The Queen Mother is a mother and a grandmother. The pain of losing a loved one can be imagined. However, the Queen Mother is not only a mother and grandmother, she is also the Queen Mother. The Queen Mother of a country. When the monarch is in trouble, the Queen Mother is in charge.
There is no room for injury." He raised his eyebrows and looked at the queen, "And there is no room for anyone to stop you!"
The word "block" made the eyes of everyone present fall on the queen again.
Sure enough, such a person could indeed force the emperor to retreat from the harem and hide.
Look at just a few words after entering the door, this accident turned into a conspiracy, making her and the queen the target of public criticism.
Cheng Jiaoniang couldn't help but nodded.
Someone touched her arm from behind.
Cheng Jiaoniang looked sideways and saw the Duke of Jin'an looking at her with some confusion.
why are you laughing?
nothing.
Cheng Jiaoniang pursed her lips.
Gao Lingbo's shouts are still coming here.
"Who dares to stop me?" He raised his eyebrows and shouted, turning his eyes to the courtiers present, "Chen Shao, do you want to stop me?"
There are princes and princes in power, but let alone no prince now, even if there is, the prince is already dead.
Without a prince, if the emperor falls ill, according to the custom, it is indeed the queen mother who should listen behind the curtain.
Seeing that Chen Shao was silent, Gao Lingbo turned his attention to others.
"Are you going to stop me?" he shouted angrily, raising his eyebrows.
There was silence in the hall.
"The Queen Mother has arrived."
Accompanied by this shout, the palace door opened, the curtains opened, and the Queen Mother, supported by two palace ladies, walked over quickly wearing heavy makeup.
The moment Gao Lingbo entered the palace, the harem was already out of her control.
The queen didn't look strange and bowed her head to greet him.
Gao Lingbo turned around and kowtowed.
"Mother." He choked and shouted.
As he did so, the courtiers present also followed suit and saluted.
The Queen Mother ignored them and went straight to the bed.
The queen saluted, but was pushed away by the queen mother and her palace attendants.
"emperor!"
The Queen Mother cried tremblingly, sat down and cried loudly.
The concubines in the room who had been frightened into silence for a long time immediately began to cry.
"Queen!" The Queen Mother cried for a moment, then turned to look at the Queen with raised eyebrows, "Why didn't you tell the Aijia! Why didn't you tell the Aijia when such a big thing happened?"
The queen showed no panic and saluted again.
"I don't know what to say to my concubine," she said with tears in her eyes.
The truth spoken in this statement is brazen and shameless.
The Queen Mother stared, not knowing how to continue questioning such shameless words.
"I am afraid that your Majesty will not be able to bear it. Your Majesty is already so angry, and your Majesty is unable to control himself." The Queen cried, leaning down, "I don't know and I don't dare to talk to your Majesty. I don't dare."
The incident where the imperial concubine went crazy and was knocked unconscious by Gao Lingbo only happened not long ago. The queen, who had not moved even a step here, also knew about it, which shows that she really has everything in the harem in her hands.
Gao Lingbo looked at the queen and sneered in his heart.
The Queen Mother looked at her bitterly, raised her head and called the doctor.
"What happened to the emperor?" she asked tremblingly.
The imperial doctors came forward and explained the symptoms in detail. They heard that the emperor did not know when he would wake up, and it was unknown whether he would be conscious when he woke up. The queen mother burst into tears again.
Oh my god, my god, why did this happen all of a sudden? This is not a dream.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, my condolences." Gao Lingbo's voice sounded from the side, making the Queen Mother wish she could faint and forget about it.
No, the people sent by Gao Lingbo were right. There were so many people waiting for her to faint and kill her. How could she let them do so?
"Mr. Cheng!" the Queen Mother shouted fiercely.
Cheng Jiaoniang stepped forward, saluted and said yes.
"Don't you have to die without treatment? Why can't you be treated now?" the Queen Mother shouted.
"If your majesty wakes up, you are not certain to die. The common women cannot cure it. If your majesty does not wake up, this kind of wind disease will be serious and the common women will not be able to cure it. The master did not teach you at that time." Cheng Jiaoniang said.
In short, whether she wakes up or not, she can't cure him.
Why don't you teach this?
Cheng Jiaoniang looked at the emperor on the couch.
It's very simple. Her father doesn't allow her to treat this emperor, who is destined to die in a year.
"absurd!"
The Queen Mother shot several cases at once.
"Of course you can't cure it, it's because you are deliberately trying to harm Prince Ping and His Majesty!"
As soon as this statement came out, everyone in the palace was shocked.
"Empress!" Prince Jin'an stepped forward and shouted.
"Shut up!" the Queen Mother shouted, staring at Cheng Jiaoniang fiercely, and pointed her hand, "Someone comes and takes it, takes it."
The guards outside the palace immediately rushed in.
Gao Lingbo looked at Cheng Jiaoniang fiercely, with a crazy light shining in his eyes. He was unable to control his compulsively calmed emotions, and his hands and body were trembling.
Take her, take her, kill her, kill her.
"Empress."
Chen Shao also stood up and shouted, shouting at the guards.
"Bold, if the emperor is not awake, do you have nothing in your eyes?" The Queen Mother shouted angrily, "Will no one listen to what the Ai family says?"
"It depends on what the words are!"
A voice said unceremoniously.
This voice made everyone in the hall startled. Who dares to say this?
I looked around and saw a tall man standing behind the crowd stepping out.
Zhang Chun.
It's him again!
Gao Lingbo's heart beat like a drum.
"Bold, you, are you saying that what Ai Jia said is wrong?" the Queen Mother shouted.
"Is your Majesty right?" Zhang Chun replied unceremoniously.
"Zhang Chun blasphemed the Queen Mother and messed up the court ceremony!" Gao Lingbo shouted angrily, "Where is the censor?"
Zhang Chun Duotou pouted at him.
"Where is the censor? I can't see you messing up the court ceremony!" he scolded.
Shuzi!
What a bastard! He started to scold you when he opened his mouth! This shameless guy just stood there looking at people and started to curse at them. I don’t know how he got the name of a great Confucian!
Before Gao Lingbo could speak, Zhang Chun looked at the Queen Mother again.
"My queen is doing this to deprive the emperor and King Ping of being unkind and unjust. She wants to make your majesty and king Ping a treacherous and evil person. As a courtier, receiving the favor of the emperor, if you don't stop the queen, you will have nothing in your eyes."
Unfaithful and unfilial person!" he shouted angrily.
"Nonsense, nonsense, the Ai family wanted to take this monster just for His Majesty and Prince Ping!" the Queen Mother shouted.
Prince Ping was struck by lightning, struck by lightning, heaven, heaven struck with thunder, he will be infamy for thousands of years, and he will not even be able to retain the title of Prince Ping.
He's already dead, but he's still dead like this! God!
No, absolutely not, he was not struck to death by thunder, he was killed by this monster! He was killed!
Only in this way can the reputation of Prince Ping be preserved and the face of the royal family be preserved.
"Empress, have you forgotten the Panjiang County solar eclipse demon monk incident?" Zhang Chun raised his eyebrows and said.
Panjiang County Solar Eclipse Monk Incident.
The Queen Mother was slightly startled.
Although this incident did not happen in the capital, it was spread because of Cheng Jiaoniang's reputation, and the women in the palace naturally knew about it.
During the solar eclipse last year, Cheng Jiaoniang beheaded a monk in Panjiang County who used the solar eclipse to deceive the people.
"The monk who was beheaded was named the demon monk, and the Cheng who killed the monk was named the Bodhisattva Envoy." Zhang Chun continued, "I would like to ask the empress, if she has the reputation of the Bodhisattva envoy, she will be used like this without any evidence.
Next, what will the people say?"
The one she killed was the demon monk, so if Prince Ping was killed by her, wouldn't it be...
The Queen Mother's expression changed.
"Nonsense, it's just Cheng's evil talk that confuses the public. We should kill these evildoers to set the record straight." Gao Lingbo said angrily.
Zhang Chun suddenly turned his head to look at him again.
"Cheng's evil words are confusing the public? Then do you know why Prince Ping was struck by lightning?"
he shouted, pointing to the sky.
"King Ping swears an oath from the sky. If he utters half a lie, the sky will thunder and strike."
"After I finished speaking, the thunder from the sky was about to fall. The emperor and his officials saw it with their own eyes and heard it with their own ears, and all the internal servants witnessed it. There is absolutely no falsehood."
"He made a promise with words. He made a promise with heaven. If he breaks his promise, he will be punished by heaven. Lord Gao, may I ask how you can put this in perspective?"
"May I ask the Queen Mother, how do you make the world think that Prince Ping's behavior was caused by a demon?"
"If the Queen Mother can capture the Cheng family and make her admit that she caused the thunder to harm King Ping, then the Queen Mother can make people in the world not think that she is a Bodhisattva envoy doing justice for heaven? Don't you think that King Ping is just another monster monk?"
The sound was deafening and echoed throughout the hall.
The Queen Mother, who was originally holding on to the couch to stand up, could not help but look pale and panic-stricken. She looked at Zhang Chun, who was raising his feet and reaching out to ask her, and then sat back down with a thud.
She can't, she can't.
Could it be that her grandson really died as a punishment from heaven...
If you really have to carry this heavenly punishment and die, you are committing such an unforgivable crime that you can't even enter the imperial mausoleum. You have to die so miserably and you still have to be a lonely ghost...
The Queen Mother covered her face and burst into tears.
Not willing to give in!
"But the Cheng family can draw thunder! She said it herself, she can draw thunder! Everyone in the world knows it." Gao Lingbo shouted, "The Cheng family in Panjiang County has no enmity with the demon monk, but this matter is different. Prince Ping proposed that the Queen Mother act as a matchmaker.
, His Majesty acquiesced and asked her to get married to my son. The Cheng family was dissatisfied with the marriage and did not hesitate to let her relatives lose their legs to avoid it, and even allowed her cousins to assassinate my son. These resentments are irresolvable and irreconcilable. "
When he said this, he also took a step forward and looked at Zhang Chun.
"But Mr. Zhang is different. Mr. Zhang and the Cheng family live in the same hometown, and it is said that they are also very kind. They exchange maidservants and become as close as one family."
After saying that, he looked at the other courtiers.
"Mr. Chen, you also have a debt of gratitude to Mrs. Cheng, and there are others. Even if they don't have a debt of gratitude now, they are all waiting to receive the great favor of being cured of her fatal disease."
"Master Gao, you are just making excuses." Chen Shao said angrily.
Gao Lingbo laughed in his heart, how about quibbling? It is better to quibble with force than to accept it. What's more, his strong words are not quibbles.
People's hearts are selfish! People's hearts are selfish!
The Queen Mother stopped crying and looked at Cheng Jiaoniang.
That's right, she has a debt of gratitude to them. They are just speaking for her. They are colluding with each other! They are colluding with each other!
"Ms. Cheng, do you dare to say that you can't trigger thunder?" the Queen Mother said through gritted teeth.
The lively Cheng Jiaoniang who had been watching from the sidelines saw that she was finally called, so she hurriedly saluted and shook her head.
"I don't dare." She said and nodded again, "I can draw thunder."
As soon as these words came out, the entire palace was completely silent. Everyone looked stunned. Even the Queen Mother who asked the question was stunned for a moment.
What?
Did she admit it herself?
So why have they been arguing for a long time?
Want to play?
The Queen Mother was furious.
"However, this thunder can only draw thunder from the sky and cannot harm others." Cheng Jiaoniang said, "At that time, the women of the people also swore to His Majesty in the same way. The women of the people themselves drew the thunder from the sky to punish themselves."
What? Playing with words with her?
"Nonsense, you still say that King Ping killed himself and it was a punishment from God!" the Queen Mother shouted.
Cheng Jiaoniang nodded and shook her head.
"Prince Ping killed himself," she said, "but it was not a divine punishment."
"What is that?" the queen suddenly asked.
Gao Lingbo's eyes suddenly looked at the queen.
"It was an accident." Cheng Jiaoniang said.
Accident?
"That is to say, can you prove that King Ping's death was not a divine punishment, that King Ping was not a heinous person, and that it was all an accident?" Zhang Chun said.
Gao Lingbo's eyes suddenly turned to Zhang Chun.
Rather than asking, he wanted to tell the Queen Mother and the courtiers.
It can prove that Prince Ping's death is not a divine punishment, it can prevent Prince Ping from being infamous, and it can prevent the royal family from becoming a joke.
What a big temptation!
Cheng Jiaoniang looked at Zhang Chun and nodded.
"I can," she said.
"No one will believe it!" Gao Lingbo shouted, his voice almost hoarse.
Cheng Jiaoniang looked at him.
"Master Gao didn't say that I am famous. Everyone also knows that I can attract thunder. Then, I can make people believe in me." She said.
Fame is a good thing, it depends on how you use it.
"Does Master Gao not believe that I can do it, or does he not want me to do it?" Cheng Jiaoniang looked at Gao Lingbo and asked with a slight smile.
You all believe that I can, so do you want to clear away the bad name of Prince Ping, and do you want to save the face of the royal family and the Tian family? Do you care about Prince Ping’s reputation, the emperor’s reputation, and the reputation of the Tian family?
What a big temptation….
Gao Lingbo slowly shook his head.
No, he doesn't care.
He didn't care whether Prince Ping had a heinous reputation or not, and he didn't care whether Prince Ping's death was an accident or a divine punishment.
He only cares that Prince Ping is dead. He is already dead, so he must not die in vain. He must not die in vain. These people, these people who really deserve to die, must die!
He doesn't want to, he doesn't care, but if someone wants to, someone must care.
"You really can?"
On the dragon couch, the Queen Mother stood up, looked at Cheng Jiaoniang and asked tremblingly.
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Taking a break over the weekend, I will update today, thank you all. (To be continued)
