N-A-A Chapter 155 The whole story
Chapter 155 The whole story
The imperial concubine's mind raced, but she couldn't imagine what Prince Ning could do that would have anything to do with Princess Duan?
Could it be a prison break?
She kept looking towards the direction of the palace door. The next moment, the palace door opened, and Tang Yiming dragged the tied-up and dishevelled Prince Ning in and pushed him to his knees on the ground.
"Your Majesty, I am humbled by my humble duty!"
Rong Heqing followed closely behind, wearing a brand new cloak, her hair casually tied up with a ribbon. She looked very hurried, but her eyes were clear and her expression was open, and it was obvious that she was not frightened.
The imperial concubine stood up and saw that there were many people following her. Then a man in a black robe came in. Her expression changed completely.
Having been a favorite concubine for so many years, although others may not know about the Xuanwu Guards, she has heard something about them. This is the emperor's most hidden knife. They are everywhere and have many eyes and ears, but they will not take action easily. Once they take action, it is usually for major cases.
Prince Ning actually alarmed the Xuanwu Guards? !
The imperial concubine was disappointed and asked in disbelief, "Prince Ning, what on earth did you do?"
Prince Ning slowly raised his head, staring at the imperial concubine with his red eyes, and sneered, "At this point, my mother still calls me Prince Ning. Is it so difficult for you to call me Yun Xuan?"
The imperial concubine was speechless and looked at him with complicated eyes for a long time without saying anything.
"Why do I call you Yunxuan? Do you want me to be dragged into this?"
Rong Heqing stepped forward and stood beside Prince Ning. He bowed to the imperial concubine and turned to the emperor to salute. The emperor waved his hand and frowned, saying, "Forget the formalities. Tell me what happened in the prison."
"Yes." Rong Heqing sorted out her words and started from the beginning when she came back from Linghe Temple and made a deal with the emperor.
When she talked about using herself as bait, waiting for the person behind the scenes to take the initiative to show up and take the bait, the imperial concubine sighed, closed her eyes, and when she opened her eyes again, her expression had returned to her usual calmness.
She took a step forward before anyone expected it, and slapped Prince Ning hard, "You bastard! You have been reading sage books for so many years, where have you learned anything? The teacher taught you to be loyal, righteous, filial and brotherly, but what about you? You are disloyal, unrighteous, unfilial and unbrotherly, and you can even kill your own father and sister-in-law. What else can you not dare to do?"
"I've treated you coldly for so many years. You must have resentment in your heart, right? Is it time to kill your mother next?"
A trace of blood flowed from the corner of Prince Ning's lips, and the slap mark on his face was clearly visible. He slowly raised his head and looked at the imperial concubine. The look in his eyes was not like that of a son looking at his mother. There was neither love nor hate, but more of a scrutiny.
The imperial concubine felt annoyed when he looked at her.
Rong Heqing also frowned, "My Lady, have you ever heard of Jingwei?"
The imperial concubine paused and asked, "Is it the legendary divine bird?"
"more than."
Rong Heqing looked at King Ning and said in a deep voice, "A lot of things have happened to me in the past year, and every one of them has the shadow of Jingwei. Every assassination attempt I have encountered is also related to Jingwei. Even the assassins ambushing on Qifu Road are Jingwei's people. They and the mastermind behind the scenes planned this drama together, just to lure me out of Yundu and kill me!"
"You mean - he is the mastermind behind Jingwei?"
The imperial concubine turned to look at Prince Ning, her eyes were so unfamiliar.
Rong Heqing nodded, "That's right. Training a killer organization requires huge financial and material resources. Most people can't afford it."
The imperial concubine was so shocked that she was speechless. Her son had done so many things right under her nose, and she knew nothing about it!
The emperor was furious, "What else do you have to say, you evil creature?!"
"What did you say?" King Ning smiled suddenly. He faced all kinds of looks from the people around him and smiled slightly, his eyes provocative and mocking, "Didn't you all hear it?"
He glanced at the emperor, the imperial concubine, Rong Heqing, Tang Yiming and the others one by one, as if he wanted to memorize their faces in his mind, and also as if he was observing their emotions.
After reading it, he smiled playfully, "I did all these things. I also trained Jingwei. Father has too many sons, many of whom are outstanding. I want to ascend to the throne, so I have to use some tricks."
"I couldn't take the initiative, so I secretly trained the Jingwei and asked them to do things for me. At the beginning, I just wanted to win people's hearts and didn't think of taking action against my father. I asked the Jingwei people to find Liang Changjin to let him expose the crimes of Duke Rong and drag the prince and the queen into the water. Who would have thought that you, my father, are so soft-hearted that you are still unwilling to depose the prince even after all this?"
"Not only did you not depose the crown prince, you also trained my eldest and third brothers. How are they better than me? In terms of looks and abilities, I am not inferior to you in any way, but you would rather support them than even look at me."
Prince Ning sneered, "There is no other way. I can only make everyone who stands in my way disappear. Then, Father, you have no choice but to choose me."
Rong Heqing's eyelids jumped, and he quickly looked at the emperor, fearing that he would get angry and something bad would happen to him. But unexpectedly, the emperor reacted very calmly. It could be seen that he was suppressing his anger, but not flying into a rage.
It seems that what King Ning said is irrelevant.
Her heart tightened slightly.
Should we say that he is worthy of being an emperor who never shows his emotions?
"Go on," the emperor said in a deep voice, "So what did you plan to climb up?"
"I originally planned to use the incident of Marquis Lu Yang killing Liang to implicate the eldest prince, so that both of them would be in trouble. Then I would find a way to step on the third brother, and I would be the only prince left who could be used."
He spoke arrogantly, not taking the remaining princes seriously at all. He paused, and his expression became subtle. "Ninth brother should have been my opponent, but unfortunately he broke his leg early, and he is destined to have no chance of becoming emperor in this life."
"Everything was planned well, but it was disrupted by you. Do you think you should die?" King Ning stared at Rong Heqing, wishing he could cut a piece of flesh from her.
"So I poisoned the Emperor, and asked you to pray through the mouths of the imperial physician and the Imperial Observatory. This bullshit about a destined person was all made up by me. Hahahahahahahahaha - you all actually believed it. It's funny, too funny!"
The imperial concubine's hands were shaking with anger, and she couldn't utter a word. After a while, she turned around and knelt down, facing the emperor, and said in a cold voice: "I have failed to educate my son, and I am ashamed of your majesty's trust and love. I ask to be deposed as the imperial concubine and end my remaining life in the cold palace. I only ask your majesty to spare his life for the third son who had no idea about it!"
"As for this evil obstacle——"
She didn't even look at Prince Ning, she took a deep breath, gritted her teeth and said, "Your Majesty, please leave his body intact, so that we can maintain our relationship as father and son!"
Rong Heqing raised his eyebrows, somewhat admiring the imperial concubine's courage.
It is absolutely impossible to beg for mercy at this time, and the best way is to cut off the tail and survive.
She wanted to see Prince Ning's reaction, but found that he was very calm, as if he didn't care about her life or death at all.
She became suspicious and her eyelids started twitching again for some reason.