"Yes, it's hard to change one's nature. What did the late emperor tell you when he passed away? As soon as he left, you sent me here to suffer. I am only suffering when I am alive, what else can I say? Aren't you afraid of disrespecting the late emperor's will and then having trouble seeing him when you go down there?"
At this time, there were only the two Empress Dowagers and the Queen in the palace, and the other concubines were outside.
"If the late emperor knew what you did, he might not be willing to see you." Empress Dowager Li said calmly: "You spread rumors everywhere in an attempt to shake the foundation of the country. Is this what the late emperor wants to see?"
"Am I wrong?" Concubine Yang laughed, "How did my son die? How did he die? If he could live, he would be the emperor now! There would be no place for you and your son to stay!"
"This person is crazy!" Another concubine who had long been ordained said hurriedly, "We monks cannot listen to such nonsense! This person must be crazy! Queen Mother, please lock her up! We will leave first."
As they spoke, seven or eight concubines left in a rush.
It has come to this, who would want to be involved in these things
The two Empress Dowagers did not stop them. Empress Dowager Li smiled and said, "Go and check their daily expenses. They brought a lot of things today, so share them all."
Naturally, someone agreed and went.
Concubine Yang still sneered: "Now you are being kind, but you were the one who sent them in. Some of them were only sixteen or seventeen when they came in! You are really cruel!"
"According to the rules of our ancestors, concubines without children should be buried with the emperor after his death. If not, they will be buried with him." Empress Dowager Feng looked at her with a smile: "It would be a good thing if your son was alive, but unfortunately he is dead now."
Empress Dowager Feng was pregnant before after she became the empress, but she had two miscarriages. Although there was no evidence, it was all related to Concubine Yang. How could she not hate her
The late emperor was partial and unreasonable. She had lost all feelings for him a long time ago. Yang was so arrogant in the past, but now she deserves to be punished!
She felt it was far from enough!
"No matter how much you refuse to accept it, you were no match for me back then. If you refuse to accept it, just drag the late emperor out and scold him! Even if I have gone to hell, I am still the apple of the late emperor's eye! You still can't do it! Li, I was wrong in asking you to raise that wolf! You actually murdered my son!"
"The Concubine Dowager is a little too arrogant." The Queen said indifferently.
"Haha, you are so pretentious coming from the Chao Kingdom! You have no prince, and your fate in the future will be worse than mine!" Concubine Yang sneered.
"Your Majesty values etiquette. I am your first wife, so what even though I am from the Chao Kingdom? I have no princes, but the princes born to the women in the harem must call me mother. I treat other princes equally, so I deserve it."
The queen has never been afraid of these things and can speak frankly to anyone.
Queen Mother Yang laughed: "You are so open-minded! Look at Feng, she has no son, isn't she in a difficult situation now?"
"The emperor is filial, so it is not difficult for me. But you, it's better not to have a son. You can only cry while holding your son's clothes." Empress Dowager Feng kept provoking this point.
Indeed, for Concubine Yang, the death of her teenage son was an eternal pain for her, a pain far greater than the death of the late emperor.
"What's the point of living? You are so perverse and domineering. If you really become the emperor, you will bring disaster to Dayi." Empress Dowager Li looked at Concubine Yang and said, "You have done such a mischief this time. There is only one end. Either you commit suicide. I can ask the emperor to bury you in the concubine's mausoleum. Or you live in shame. After you die, I will still reward you with a coffin and choose a beautiful place for you."
"How dare you! How dare you! The late emperor has a decree! I will be posthumously named empress after my death! I will sleep with him! How dare you! How dare you!" Concubine Yang suddenly shouted.
"Where is the decree?" Empress Dowager Feng laughed. "At this point, are you still dreaming? To posthumously confer the title of empress? The late emperor only had two empresses, one was Feng, Empress Yuan, and the other was Li. Who do you think you are?"
"No! You can't! The emperor gave an oral order, the emperor said it before his death, and you all agreed to it!" When the late emperor was dying, there was indeed such an oral order.
Unfortunately, the only people who heard it were Empress Dowager Feng and Empress Dowager Li, and they never admitted it.
The late emperor had been young for so many years, how could they satisfy him
"How dare you... you..." Queen Mother Yang was like a madman: "How dare you do this? You... I'm afraid the emperor's succession to the throne is not real at all!"
"Oh? If the emperor can't succeed, then who else can succeed? Your son who died a long time ago and whose bones are rotten, or your foolish third son who is being instigated to rebel in Lujun City?" Empress Dowager Feng approached step by step: "We are kind enough to reward you with a piece of land for your concubine's tomb! If you refuse, you will never see the late emperor again, and you will never see your son again."
Concubine Yang gradually stopped her aggressive look.
Her greatest support in recent years has been the will of the late emperor.
She could be posthumously crowned queen, so even if she had been sent here, there was always hope.
People at this time naturally attach great importance to what happens after death, and some extreme people even take it more seriously than what happens before death.
This is also the reason why emperors began to build mausoleums as soon as they ascended the throne.
Concubine Yang was only able to run rampant in the harem because of the late emperor's partiality. She never considered that Feng and Li might not obey the late emperor's last oral order...
At this moment, the light in her eyes gradually faded: "You have already thought about it..."
"Yang, when you were running rampant in the harem, did you never think about what would happen if you lost?" Queen Mother Li stood up and looked down at her: "You never thought about what would happen to you or him if your son couldn't become emperor? You probably didn't think about why your son died."
"It was you, your son who killed him!" Concubine Yang shouted.
"No, you killed him." Empress Dowager Li laughed, "Your tyranny corrupted him, making him ignorant of good and evil, willful but incompetent. He relied on the favor of the late emperor and looked down on everyone. The late emperor would favor him, but the world would not. He was indeed qualified to be the emperor, if he was sensible and intelligent, if he was respectful and polite, even if he was a showman."
Concubine Yang opened her mouth, not knowing what to say.
"Do you remember that year when your son tore up all of my son's books and then went to complain? The late emperor ordered people to beat my son without asking any questions, but what did my son say? My brother is still young."
"Do you think my son is angry?" Queen Mother Li leaned close to her ear and said, "How many such things have happened? Back then, you and your son were so proud that you only thought of suppressing everyone for a while. So he shouldn't have died? Why are you still alive? Don't you deserve to die? It's just that if you live, you can suffer for a few more years."
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