All the ancestors in the capital begged me to be a substitute

Chapter 331 The Dust Settled (Two in One)

This is a case notice that can be called a script.

It describes in detail how the concubine Qi and the Queen of Wei, mother and son, falsely conveyed the imperial edict before the final battle between Yun Kingdom and Dazhou, prompting Yunjiang King Yun Hongshan and Xiao Rui to incite Emperor Ru to sacrifice the young princess of Yun Kingdom in Dazhou. When the Zhou troops came to the city, they cursed "the royal family of Chu will have no descendants".

They also planned the death of Emperor Xiaode, the sudden death of King Wei himself, and the death of the eighth prince under the guise of a curse. They also used the embroidered pictures as an excuse to incite the Zhao family to secretly plot to kill King An. Detailed process.

Shen Lingxi said in front of the emperor that Zhu Lianxi was the most critical figure, and indeed he was the key figure.

In his early years, before Zhu Lianxi purified himself and entered the palace, and when he was dying, he received favors from the Sui family.

In order to repay Sui's life-saving grace, he, as the eunuch in charge, had a stable position as emperor after a hundred years.

He naturally obeyed Concubine Qi's advice.

In order to try again to demonstrate the emperor's compassion for their own direct bloodline, the Queen of Wei, mother and son, refused to admit their guilt, and when they came to Zhu Lianxi, they told Zhu Lianxi like they were pouring beans.

Shen Lingxi also pieced together the entire incident from the confessions of Li Xiangyang and Zhu Lianxi:
The Sui family was a powerful family in the previous dynasty. They were the best at treating poisons and were once the right-hand men of the former imperial master Sheng Kun.

Therefore, when Yaogong suddenly emerged in the Yun Kingdom 15 years ago and medical cases related to Yaogong were introduced to the Great Zhou Dynasty, Concubine Qi, who was a descendant of the Sui clan, vaguely sensed the resurrection of the Imperial Master.

Ten years ago, the former Crown Princess Xie Zhanghua died mysteriously. Others could not see the reason behind it. As the orphan of the Sui family who knew Sheng Kun best, he had already sensed the hidden meaning.

Concubine Qi and the Sui clan behind her were moved by the news and wanted to quietly get a share of the national master's overall situation.

Therefore, he made a plan to kill the crown prince, help his husband, Prince Huan, ascend to the throne, and then let his son ascend to the top of the Nine Five-Year Plan.

At first, in order to find a scapegoat for King Wei, Concubine Qi secretly ordered Liu Shichang to visit and cure King Rui's old illness.

Then, after realizing the connection between Yunjiang and the Mu family, and the Mu family frequently fighting against the Yun Kingdom, Qi Guifei conspired with Li Xiangyang to target the Xu family brothers of Zhenguo Palace, trying to take advantage of the war between Zhou and Yun. , fishing in troubled waters.

They cured the illness in Xu Yuanshan's mother's womb, allowed Xu Yuanshan to marry into the Li family, and secretly ignited his inner ambition for power.

The battle of Zhanlongpo was their first test of the waters.

Sheng Kun fell in love with Chu Yan's body and set up a large formation at Zhanlongpo. He ordered Wu Erda to use Zhu Youshu to assist Sang Meng in an attempt to capture Chu Yan alive and make him their forbidden wife.

But Concubine Qi and King Wei wanted Chu Yan and Duke Xu Yuanda to die together, and then Xu Yuanshan and Li would replace Tao Jiang, which would become a big help to them.

Therefore, during the battle of Zhanlongpo, something went wrong.

Concubine Qi and King Wei secretly instigated Li Xiangyang to use Xu Yuanshan's life to lure Duke Xu Yuanda into the game alone.

Unfortunately, they underestimated the combined fighting power of Chu Yan and Xu Yuanda. In addition, Xu Huan arrived with his troops in time, Chu Yan escaped, and even Sheng Kun and Qi Guifei failed to succeed.

For Concubine Qi and King Wei, the only good thing is that Xu Yuanshan successfully replaced Xu Yuanda and became the Duke of Zhenguo.

Then it happened that the Duke of Zhenguo falsely passed on an imperial edict and ordered the kings of Yunjiang, Yun Hongshan and Xiao Rui, to secretly bewitch the Emperor, use Yun Xi as a human sacrifice, and curse the Chu royal family.

After the Yun Kingdom was destroyed, Chu Yan and Xu Yuanshan, the duke of the false town, stationed in Yunjiang.

Xu Yuanshan inevitably had to deal with Sheng Kun who was "returning to the sun" on behalf of Concubine Qi and others.

By leading Chu Yan to kill the "Da Siming" who fled to the Holy Mountain, they could reap the benefits.

In the capital of the Great Zhou Dynasty, Concubine Qi and King Wei were not idle either. Chu Yan could not die for the time being, so Chu Yan's father, the first prince, had to die.

If the first prince were alive, how could the throne fall to King Huan.

It happened that Yunjiang sent the marriage princess Yunya, and Yun Chong, a fool who brought a warehouse full of secret medicines from the Medicine Palace.

Concubine Qi and King Wei used the name of the curse, coupled with Yun Chong's Yunjiang secret medicine, and Yun Ya as a ready-made scapegoat, to kill the first prince, it became a matter of "everything is ready, all we need is the east wind" .

In the spring of the second year after the destruction of the Yun Kingdom, Taizu became seriously ill. One more day of survival for the first prince would be a threat to the plans of Concubine Qi and King Wei.

Tianxiang Pavilion's "Pihanxiang" has long been on the purchase list of the inner chamberlain.

On the morning when Chu Yan's class teacher returned to the court in the warm and cold season, the late prince had breakfast and drank the tonic prescribed by the imperial hospital.

According to his daily habit, he walked to the rockery where Xie Zhanghua jumped to mourn his deceased wife.

When he discovered that the calla lily he had planted by himself had its first flower blooming, it was as if his late wife also knew that today was the day when her son would come back.

He happily picked the flowers and ordered someone to prepare a chariot to take the flowers out of the city to meet Chu Yan.

But in the end, he failed to walk out of the garden of the East Palace, nor did he have time to take a last look at his son.

When the late prince died, the blood all over his body was like boiling water, boiling in his veins, his meridians were severed, he was in pain, and his death was extremely miserable.

Chu Yan hugged his father who was covered in blood, just like he hugged his mother who was covered in blood.

He stayed awake, interrogating suspects like crazy, looking for all possible clues, trying to find out the real culprit who killed his father.

But in the end, it was all in vain.

The only murderer who was pushed forward with "conclusive evidence" was the eldest princess sent by Yunjiang for marriage, named Yun Ya. She stayed quietly in the East Palace for a year and was never visited by her father.

Chu Yan once met a princess of Yun Kingdom under the city tower of Yun Kingdom.

She was pushed off the tower by her biological father, but she was still smiling before she died, which impressed him deeply.

The eldest princess of the Yun Kingdom showed the same smile as a girl in front of the so-called "conclusive" evidence——

Ridiculous, but also with a smile of relief.

Almost by instinct, Chu Yan knew that the murderer must not be her.

So he fought against all odds and saved her life.

The late prince died suddenly and became an unsolved case.

Even so, the emperor's wrath left millions dead and bloodshed thousands of miles away.

All the suspicious people involved in the case, including the imperial doctors who failed to treat them well, were all ordered by the late emperor to confiscate their homes and exterminate their clans.

Having done too much and knowing too much, the sensitive doctor Liu Shichang became the abandoned son of Concubine Qi and the King of Wei.

Chu Yan's old illness relapsed, he was plagued by nightmares, and fell ill again.

The late emperor's time was short, and the country could not live without a king for a day. Years of wars had caused the people to be displaced. Whether in the court or among the people, a mature and stable monarch was needed to take charge of the overall situation.

Chu Yan's youthful nature caused him to suffer this misfortune again. King Huan was the only candidate in the late emperor's hands.

So, as Concubine Qi and King Wei expected, King Huan ascended to the throne.

The only fly in the ointment is that Chu Yan is still the grandson appointed by the late emperor.

As the saying goes, "A blessing in disguise is a blessing in disguise."

When King Huan ascended the throne, he was only over [-] years old.

But Chu Hong, the king of Wei, had long been weak.

The monarch was in his prime, but the king of Wei was getting older.

For Concubine Qi and her son, the advantages of having Chu Yan, the emperor's grandson, in front of them outweighed the disadvantages.

Rather than getting rid of Chu Yan first, it would be better to get rid of the two fledgling potential rivals, King Jin and King An, first.

The new emperor ascended the throne. In order to eliminate the influence of the curse of the cruel emperor, the emperor recruited a large number of people in the harem and "dedicated himself" just to allow the Chu family to flourish.

Newcomers in the harem are like the most delicate flowers, being brought in from outside the palace one after another.

It can be foreseen that after the newcomers accept the favor, they will fight to the death in the harem for the sake of the family and the glory behind them, with bloodshed.

Concubine Qi has no intention of doing this.Therefore, she chose to let her son, King Wei, become the first emperor's heir to "die" under the Curse of the Evil Emperor.

As for herself, she took advantage of her son's "death" to become estranged from the emperor. She pretended to be hopeless and lurked in the imperial mausoleum.

Nothing is more suitable as a disguise and can relax people's guard than "dead people".

Under the protection of Zhu Lianxi, King Wei pretended to be Concubine Qi's personal eunuch and was able to come and go freely in the imperial mausoleum. From time to time, he secretly made arrangements in the capital as "Mr. Chunshan".

Even when the imperial mausoleum was heavily blocked by black-armored guards later due to an assassination case, no one would embarrass a personal eunuch who had fallen out of favor and lost his concubine.

The eighth prince, King Jin, was born with a heart disease, which caused his heart paralysis to relapse and cause him to die suddenly, with the least effort.

Next is King An.

Concubine Zhao was becoming more and more favored in the palace, and it was only a matter of time before she got pregnant. Using curses and embroidered pictures to instigate the Zhao family to attack Prince An was just a matter of raising a finger.

Everyone who deserves to die is dead, and the person who didn't deserve to die before also deserves to die.

Concubine Qi and King Wei finally targeted Chu Yan.

I thought that when the Zhao family and Chu Yan fought to the point of losing both sides, they would reap the benefits.

Unexpectedly, Shen Lingxi came out halfway.

Destroy the Yinyue Pavilion's nest, solve the mystery of King An's death, bring down the Zhao family...

Shen Lingxi assisted Chu Yan and broke all their plans.

In order to reverse the decline, the mother and son hid deeper and, with the help of Li Xiangyang, deliberately put Yun Chong and King Rui on the chessboard to disrupt the situation.

But who would have thought that the eagle hunter would one day be pecked out by an eagle and be blinded.

Success is also praised, failure is also praised.

Ever since Chu Yan and Shen Lingxi returned to Beijing from Yunjiang, everything had been developing out of control. In the end, Concubine Qi, Queen Wei, mother and son ended up like this...

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After the emperor read the files submitted by Beiya, he didn't speak for a long time.

He asked Chu Yan to accompany him and went to the Qiandi where he lived when he was King Huan.

Although the mansion has been vacant for many years, it has been cleaned as spotlessly as Prince An's mansion.

All the furnishings are as they were then.

The ginkgo tree in the courtyard that he planted when he was young has long been as tall as a canopy.

"At that time, Da Lang was 15 years old, Ba Lang was six years old, and Jiu Lang was only three years old. They all liked to play under this tree. Concubine Qi played chess with me, Concubine Wen played the piano beside me, and the queen embroidered little clothes for the baby in her belly. . I looked at them, thinking that many years from now, my wife and concubines in Prince Huan’s palace will be in harmony, and I will have children and grandchildren around my knees. I will be very satisfied."

"At that time, I never thought that one day I would become this high-ranking loner."

"People say that the royal family has no father and son, and the emperor has younger brothers. I have never believed this sentence. When I was pushed into the lake by a slave, I almost drowned. It was your father who saved me. From then on, I immediately I made an oath to assist my brother. Before your grandfather passed away, he held my hand and told me repeatedly that I must treat you as my own. I have been working hard these years not to let your grandfather Disappointed. I didn’t expect...I didn’t expect..."

At this point, the emperor choked up. He looked at the ginkgo tree, held Chu Yan's hand tightly, and tears appeared in his eyes.

Chu Yan remained silent without saying a word.

He knew that at this moment, the emperor wanted to hear him say: "This is not your fault, you were just kept in the dark."

However, Chu Yan couldn't say such self-deception.

Those who truly repent do not need forgiveness from others.

People who act pretentious and want others to forgive them mostly do it to comfort and impress themselves.

The emperor didn't get a response from Chu Yan for a long time. He let go of Chu Yan's hand and sighed. Fang slowly said, "Liu Lang, Concubine Qi and King Wei have done so many evil things. You must not take it easy on them. Your father, Emperor Ba Lang, The suffering He Jiulang has suffered must be returned a thousand times to them. As well as the Li family, the Yun family and the Sui family orphans, no one should be left alive."

Chu Yan then clasped his hands and said yes, followed the order and left.

The emperor turned around and looked deeply at his back until he disappeared outside the palace gate. Facing his side, the newly promoted Eunuch Cao ordered, "Go to the Xuanping Marquis Mansion in person and tell Shen Ji "There are too many things happening in my womb these days. I have trouble sleeping at night, thinking about it. I am most at ease when I leave the inner guard to him. Let him prepare and come back..."

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According to Concubine Qi's words, Shen Lingxi tried all the poisons he had brewed in the medicine palace when he made Sheng Kun the chief minister. He tried all the poisons on Concubine Qi and Queen Wei's mother and son.

The poison was found when the Xiuyi envoy raided Yunchong's lair in Ying County.

Not a single one of Yun Chong's Ying Ying Yan Yan and his heirs were spared, they were all put on the guillotine.

On the day of execution, Yun Chong's soul watched on the execution ground.

He was furious, pointing at Shen Lingxi's nose from a distance, cursing, crying, and begging.

But in the end, he still watched his wife and children become dead souls under the executioner's knife.

King and loser.

Those who do evil will be punished.

This is the fate he deserves, and it is also the fate that Emperor Ruo deserves.

Cutting off children and grandchildren is the Yun family.

Li Xiangyang and Zhu Lianxi also died.

He was cut into pieces by a thousand knives and executed Ling Chi.

Compared with the lives of Concubine Qi and the Queen of Wei, mother and son, life is worse than death. At least the two of them have endured the punishment they endured for a while.

The entire Li family was killed, except for Li Yuejiao who was pregnant with dragon descendants in the deep palace, as well as Li Yuelan and Li Xiaoqing.

Li Yuelan and Li Xiaoqing were replaced by Chu Yan and sent to Yunjiang.

The dead soul of Li Xiangyang, looking at the daughter he wanted to kill, left the capital with a smile on his face, and his eyes were so angry that his eyes were split.

But in the end, he had no choice but to accept his fate and dissipated his soul.

Xu Yuanshan's obsession has always been with Queen Wei's mother and son. He always hopes that with the scheming of the mother and son, they will be able to bring down Chu Yan and Shen Lingxi.

It wasn't until he saw them being tortured over and over again in prison that his soul dissipated unwillingly.

There is also the Sui clan.

The Sui family is the biggest supporter of Concubine Qi's evil deeds. Unless they die, it will be difficult for the Great Zhou Dynasty to have peace for a day.

Although their names were kept anonymous, they all had birthmarks on their bodies, and they were tracked down one by one by the Embroidered Clothes Envoys and executed.

At this point, the death case of Emperor Xiaode has been completely settled.

On the day of the mausoleum sacrifice, "Yun Liangdi", who was hung on a dragon-carved stone pillar and struck to death by thunder, was also freed from her stigma.

Shen Lingxi knew that the emperor was suspicious.

After the little aunt told so many lies to the emperor according to what Concubine Qi said, it would be difficult for the little aunt to escape unscathed even if the injustice is finally revealed.

Therefore, "Yun Liangdi" could only die on the altar.

The person who was sacrificed on behalf of my little aunt that day was the maid beside my little aunt.

Since the maid chose to be Concubine Qi's dog, she sacrificed her life for her master's great cause, which was considered a worthy death.

Chu Yan personally submitted a letter, and with the emperor's approval, "Yun Liangdi" was buried on the holy mountain of Yunjiang in the name of Princess Yunjiang.

On the day when the black-armored guards escorted Fu Ling, the female official of the East Palace, to leave the capital for Yunjiang, Chu Yan and Shen Lingxi personally sent Yun Ya outside the city...

(End of this chapter)