The queen raised her head quickly, her face horrified, "You are lying. I have been to Prince Liang's mansion, and his condition has stabilized."
The Grand Tutor said coldly: "It is temporarily stable, but whether he can survive depends on the follow-up."
The Queen shook her head, "Father, why would you curse him like this? He is also your grandson."
The Grand Tutor said sternly, "I didn't curse him. If you don't believe me, you can go out of the palace and see for yourself. He is my grandson, but he is a traitor. Even if he is crowned as the Crown Prince, he will only be close to Murong Jie. I will never allow such a traitor to be the Crown Prince."
The queen smiled bitterly, "Really? Even if he is close to Murong Jie, I am still his mother, and you are still his grandfather. As long as you assist him wholeheartedly, he will not do anything to you."
The prince stopped crying and said unhappily, "Mother, what you mean is that you will only be happy if your son is deposed and the useless Prince Liang is enthroned as the crown prince? If you really want to, you can bring it up in the meeting room, and you don't have to take the blame for your son and cause you to lose your position as queen."
The Queen laughed sarcastically, "Prince, is this what you really mean?"
The prince was stunned for a moment. Seeing her strange expression, he felt a little disgusted. Anyway, his position as the prince was secured now, so he had no scruples. "It doesn't matter if it's the truth or not. Anyway, you only have that useless person in your heart now. If you are really afraid that he will die, go and guard his bed."
The queen stared at him, "He is your brother, why do you treat him like this?"
"Didn't I learn this from my mother? I am the crown prince, so he should give in to me in everything. If my mother wasn't partial to him, I wouldn't have targeted him." The crown prince said coldly.
The queen slowly stood up, walked to him, and said softly: "Mother is wrong, does the wound still hurt?"
The prince was very satisfied to see her sudden change of attitude. He said, "Of course it hurts. Although it's only a minor injury, he was stabbed more than thirty times. I will not let that useless man go. Even if he can survive, I will make him live a life worse than death."
The Queen nodded, "Yes, okay."
There was a flash of coldness in her eyes. She raised her hand and slapped the prince in the face with all her strength. The prince fell to the ground, and before he could react, the queen kicked him in the face again. This kick was also very fierce, and the prince saw stars.
He came back to his senses and angrily asked, "Are you crazy?"
The queen adjusted her hair, restrained her previous ferocity, sat back on the chair, ignored the prince, and looked at the tutor, saying in a cold voice: "Take him away, it's better to let him restrain himself, otherwise, I will kill him."
The Grand Tutor shook his head and said disappointedly, "If you can't even handle this little setback, how can you achieve great things in the future?"
"Get out!" Hatred burst out from the queen's eyes, and she uttered the word through gritted teeth.
The Grand Tutor had no choice but to help the Crown Prince up, and said with a look of regret: "Well, in that case, Concubine Liang should take care of herself."
The Queen said coldly: "Grandmaster, within half a year, I will return from the position of Liangpin to the position of Queen. If you can't do it, I will die with the Liang family."
The master was startled, his face suddenly darkened, "What do you mean?"
"I have helped the Liang family for so many years. The Liang family has achieved its current power because of me, the queen. It's time for me to ask the Liang family for some interest back." The queen said expressionlessly.
"Are you really crazy?" Master Liang was furious.
The queen laughed maliciously, "She is crazy, so, Master, don't mess with a crazy woman. Especially, I know everything that the Liang family has done over the years, and I know what Master wants. Go ahead. Although I am not the queen, I am still the mother of the prince and the King of Liang. You can't touch me, but I can drag the Liang family into hell."
The Grand Tutor realized that she was serious. He stared at the Queen, his eyes changing several times. Finally, he softened, "We are all family. Saying these words will hurt feelings. Don't worry, father will do his best to help you."
The queen also looked at him steadily, "Okay, then your daughter will wait for your father."
The tutor helped the useless prince turn around and leave. After the two of them left, the palace maid entered the palace and was about to speak when the queen suddenly became furious and said, "Get out!"
The palace maid was startled and hurriedly retreated and closed the palace door.
Outside the palace, several palace maids and eunuchs heard the queen's heart-wrenching cry.
Zi'an and the others were waiting for Murong Jie to return at Prince Liang's mansion. News from the palace had already spread that the Empress Dowager had issued an edict to depose the Queen. The news was brought by Song Ruiyang and Yi'er.
This news was naturally exciting. At least, it gave King Liang a sigh of relief.
However, no one could be happy because the blood antelope horns were gone.
Moreover, although Prince Liang's fever had subsided, he had not yet passed the critical period. Everyone was still worried and afraid that something might go wrong.
After Yi'er came back, she went in to accompany him. She told King Liang with great joy that she had seen the Queen Mother.
Prince Liang had woken up, but his mind was a little unclear. However, he liked listening to Yi'er talk and also liked looking at her, so he kept himself awake and talked to her.
Liu Yue sat in front of the corridor, listening to Zi'an and Chen Liuliu talking. When she heard about the blood antelope horn, she hung her head and was very annoyed. If she had given the blood antelope horn to Zi'an earlier, the Grand Princess would not have lost her life.
Song Ruiyang sat next to her, "What are you thinking about?"
"Thinking about the stolen blood antelope horn." Liu Yue said unhappily.
"You can't get it back, so there's no point in thinking too much about it." Song Ruiyang comforted.
Liu Yue turned her head to look at him, "I didn't know this thing was so precious before, otherwise I wouldn't have stolen it from you."
"Why did you steal it?" Song Ruiyang was very surprised. After she finished her "business", she stole the blood antelope horn and left.
"Because it doesn't look worth much, I just want to take something away with me as a keepsake."
"What are you thinking about? Are you still thinking about it? If you were thinking about it, you wouldn't run away." Song Ruiyang's eyes were lively.
Liu Yue said depressedly: "That's what I thought at that time. Who knows why I thought that way?"
She looked over and saw that Zi'an and Liu Liu both looked dejected. She sighed softly, "If I hadn't lost the other one, I would have still had one even if one was stolen. It's all my fault for being a gambler."
Song Ruiyang suddenly held her shoulders and asked, "Is the one that was stolen from you?"
"Yes, the other one was lost last year." Liu Yue said.
Zi'an and Liu Liu heard this and hurried over, "Who did you lose to?"
"The doctor of Zhongshengtang, I owed him ten taels of silver, so I used a blood antelope horn to pay off the debt."
"You idiot," Zi'an couldn't help but scold, "Do you know how valuable the blood antelope horn is? You sold it for ten taels of silver?"
"Now I know. The imperial edict said it was worth a thousand taels of gold." Liu Yue said depressedly. She really made a loss by selling it, but who made her lose money
"Su Qing!" Zi'an shouted at the top of his voice.
"Here!" Su Qing ran over in a hurry, holding a handful of medicine in his hand, "What's wrong?"
"Hurry up and go to Zhongshengtang and find a..." Zi'an looked at Liu Yue, "What doctor should I call?"
"Yuan Guozhu!" Liu Yue said hurriedly, "But you don't have to look for him. This Zhongsheng Hall is closed, and we don't know where Doctor Yuan has gone. If he were in the capital and saw the imperial edict, wouldn't he be eager to bring the blood antelope horn to exchange for it?"
Zi'an looked at Su Qing and said, "Use all possible means to find Yuan Guozhu."
"It's a must!" Su Qing threw the medicine away and ran out in a hurry.
(End of this chapter)