readsfreenovel Chapter 368 Do you regret it?
Chapter 368 Do you regret it?
Concubine Bai's eyes slowly turned red. She raised her head and stared at Lan Qingwu without blinking. Lan Qingwu did not avoid her gaze and stared back at her. Emperor Shenwu was furious when he saw Concubine Bai's expression: "It seems that you have no regrets at all. After returning to the palace, you will move to Chuxiu Palace. Since you don't treat the palace maids as human beings, you don't need anyone to serve you!"
Concubine Bai cried out, "Your Majesty, you can't do this! Letting the Fourth Prince change his mother? How will he live his life in the future? The Fourth Prince has always been filial and respectful to his elders and humble to his younger ones. Your Majesty, even for the Fourth Prince's sake, you can't listen to the Empress Dowager. How can you treat me and the Fourth Prince like this!"
Emperor Shenwu said slowly, "The Fourth Prince has no chance of survival with you as his mother. You don't need to mention the Empress. The consequences today are all the result of your past actions!"
Concubine Bai's hair was disheveled, her face stained with tears, and she no longer had the confident demeanor she had when she came. She kept shaking her head, unable to accept this outcome. "No! No! Your Majesty, please have mercy! Queen! I will never dare to do this again! I can go to Chuxiu Palace, I can live without anyone to serve me, I can be a commoner! But I cannot live without the Fourth Prince! Your Majesty, please have mercy! The Fourth Prince is all implicated by me! It's all because of my humble background! Your Majesty, please have mercy!"
Lady Bai no longer lives the life of luxury she once had. At this moment, she is just a mother who cannot bear to lose her child!
Lan Qingwu finally felt a little reluctant, but when she thought of those people who died in vain, she turned her head away gently.
Emperor Shenwu was ruthless by nature. Once he made a decision, he would resolutely carry it out: "Come here! Send Concubine Bai back to the palace!"
Concubine Bai's body froze. When two eunuchs came to drag her away, she couldn't help but scream, "Your Majesty! You are doing this for the Queen, right? You are doing this for the Queen's Sixth Prince! Do you only see the Sixth Prince? My Fourth Prince is also your son! He will be burdened with the reputation of recognizing someone else as his mother. What good future can he have? Your Majesty, you can't treat your other sons like this for the Sixth Prince!"
The Emperor's face was completely black. He was furious. He slammed the table and stood up, shouting, "How dare you! Do you think you can get involved with the Empress and the Sixth Prince? I spared your life for the Fourth Prince, but you are still asking for more! Someone, come!"
The Fourth Prince's heart trembled, and he cried out in panic, "Father!"
Then he kowtowed to the ground without saying a word, one kowtow after another, until his forehead was covered in blood!
Emperor Shenwu looked at the Fourth Prince and finally changed his tone: "Drag him away!"
Concubine Bai stopped shouting as the Fourth Prince kowtowed and begged for mercy one by one. She stared blankly at the Fourth Prince. As she was about to be dragged to the main hall door, Concubine Bai looked at the other concubines in the hall one by one and cursed them, "His Majesty will eventually abandon you and your children one by one for the Empress and the Sixth Prince! One day you will end up like me!"
Concubine Bai's voice was neither loud nor soft, and it drifted faintly into the hall. The few people in the hall only heard a few words, but they all knew that what Concubine Bai said was definitely not a good thing, so their faces were very ugly. However, Lan Qingwu knew clearly that what Concubine Bai said must be a curse directed at him, and Emperor Shenwu had excellent hearing. He heard every word she said, and his face was as dark as water. His fingers gently turned the green ring on his hand, which was Emperor Shenwu's habit when thinking quickly.
Before Emperor Shenwu dismissed everyone in the hall, he warned the Fourth Prince, "Remember, don't do unnecessary things! Don't go see Noble Lady Bai!"
The Fourth Prince retreated with a pale face.
When he arrived at the entrance of the main hall, the Fourth Prince met the Sixth Prince who was about to enter the Qingliang Hall. The two brothers, one was going out and the other was coming in. One was in a dishevel and the other was extremely noble. However, this time, neither of them maintained the superficial harmony of the past. They just looked at each other and then walked towards their respective destinations.
Lan Qingwu in the hall looked at the gloomy face of the Shenwu Emperor and felt very uncomfortable. She carefully reached out her bare hands to grasp the wide sleeves of the Shenwu Emperor. The Shenwu Emperor came to his senses and said, "I will go to the front hall first!"
When the Sixth Prince arrived at the back hall of Qingliang Palace, Lan Qingwu was already half leaning against the head of the bed. After dealing with the matter of Concubine Bai, Lan Qingwu felt a little dizzy. After Emperor Shenwu left without looking back, Lan Qingwu was helped by Ruping back to the bedroom in the back hall to rest.
When Lan Qingwu saw the Sixth Prince, he smiled bitterly and said, "Chu Ming, your father is angry!"
He was angry that he had punished Concubine Bai on his own initiative and had not informed Emperor Shenwu before issuing the imperial decree, so that when the situation got out of control, it affected the Fourth Prince.
Lan Qingwu said softly: "He loves his son!"
The Sixth Prince was taller than Lan Qingwu. He sat on a chair, his figure and shoulders showing the thin and sharp features typical of a young man.
"Mother, how could the Emperor be really angry with you? As for Fourth Brother, I will figure it out later. What may be bad for Fourth Brother now may not necessarily be bad in the future! Please stop frowning and let your son see your wound."
Lan Qingwu watched the Sixth Prince lower his head to examine his wrist and smiled softly, "In fact, Mother also knows that her handling of this matter was not thorough. It was just the lives of a few dozen palace maids. How can it compare with the royal bloodline? Chu Ming, you think so too, right? Perhaps Mother was afraid of being persuaded by you later, so she chose to do this without hesitation. Now that this matter has come to this, it's no wonder that your father is angry!"
The Sixth Prince said, "Mother, don't worry. I have you all. I will always stand by your side."
Some of his mother's ideas have always been different from those of ordinary people. If there is anything wrong, he, as a son, will naturally handle the matter carefully and thoroughly.
"Forget it, let's not talk about this anymore. I heard that your father gave you three brothers a few palace maids to teach them, right?"
The Sixth Prince nodded and said, "My Fourth and Fifth Brothers have both. Don't worry, Mother. I will treat the people who follow me well."
Lan Qingwu didn't want to say much about his son's bedroom affairs. He was just worried that the Sixth Prince was obsessed with women at such a young age. However, Emperor Shenwu was probably more concerned about the Sixth Prince, so Lan Qingwu could feel a little relieved.
The Sixth Prince accompanied Lan Qingwu for dinner before taking his leave.
Late at night, Lan Qingwu waited for Emperor Shenwu to return and fell asleep unknowingly.
When Emperor Shenwu arrived at the bedroom in the rear hall, he saw Lan Qingwu sleeping on his side. A trace of helplessness flashed across Emperor Shenwu's deep and dark phoenix eyes. He gently walked forward to cover Lan Qingwu with a thin quilt, and then held Lan Qingwu's wrist to examine the wound. The skin, which was originally as white as snow, still retained the purple-blue color from being stung by a poisonous bee.
Lan Qingwu felt someone was looking at her in a daze. She tried desperately to open her eyes: "Brother Heng! Brother Heng!"
Emperor Shenwu placed Lan Qingwu's hand under the thin blanket and was about to leave when Lan Qingwu grabbed his sleeve and said, "Brother Heng, are you still leaving at this late hour?"
Emperor Shenwu turned around and found that Lan Qingwu had woken up.
Lan Qingwu sat up, but she didn't let go. "Brother Heng, are you blaming Ruoruo? Are you angry with Ruoruo?"
Emperor Shenwu sighed silently: "Don't think too much, go to sleep first! I will review some more memorials."
Lan Qingwu knew that there were not so many memorials in the front hall for Emperor Shenwu to read.
She bit her lip lightly: "Brother Heng, do you regret it?"
She regretted enthroning herself as queen and regretted letting herself enter the palace.
"Will Brother Heng think that Ruo Ruo is suppressing the prince?"