1443. Chapter 1443 Unintentional

Qi State, the capital city, and the imperial palace.

Regardless of Cheng Zheng's obstruction, Zhao Rao insisted on going back to the palace to find Concubine De. When she came to Concubine De's palace, she found out that Zhao Yong was also here.

Concubine De knelt in front of Zhao Yong, her beautiful and gentle face was pale at this moment, her eyes were calm and unwavering, as if she had expected today's scene long ago, but Zhao Lan and the second prince who were also kneeling next to her looked anxious.

"Rao'er, what are you doing here?" Before Zhao Yong started to ask questions, seeing Zhao Rao barging in, he looked at Cheng Zheng behind him displeasedly.

Cheng Zheng pretended not to see the displeasure in Zhao Yong's eyes, and stood beside him silently after saluting.

Zhao Rao's gaze turned from Zhao Yong to Concubine De who was kneeling on the ground, and she asked word by word, "You poisoned my mother to death, didn't you?"

"You have nothing to prove, don't wrong my mother and concubine!" Seeing Zhao Rao's appearance, the second prince was already anxious, and even suspected that she set up a scheme to frame his mother and concubine.

"Father, mother and concubine have always been kind and gentle, and will never do anything harmful to nature. I beg father to make decisions for mother and concubine." Zhao Lan's face turned pale. She didn't know how much evidence her father had. All I know is that the concubine mother must not be convicted.

Zhao Rao ignored the Second Prince and the others, she just looked at Concubine De with sharp and cold eyes.

"Rao'er, just stand aside, and you two get up too." Zhao Yong said quietly. He originally wanted to interrogate Concubine De alone today, but he didn't expect the second prince to know the news. It seems that his harem is all is being watched.

Zhao Lan and the second prince looked at each other. They felt nervous, but they were afraid of Zhao Yong since they were young, and they never dared to resist him. Hearing what he said, they had no choice but to stand up and stand opposite Zhao Rao.

The second prince stared at Zhao Rao with cold eyes, and secretly swore in his heart that when he came to the throne in the future, the first person who would be killed would be the Eldest Princess who uttered this sigh on behalf of his mother and concubine.

Cheng Zheng looked at them indifferently, and finally looked at Zhao Rao worriedly.

Zhao Yong was sitting on the grand teacher's chair. Last night he had been thinking about how to deal with Concubine De, let her die? That was simply too easy and too cheap for her. He realized later that what he was worried about was not what would happen to Concubine De, but what to do, which was the best compensation for Zhao Rao.

"Concubine De, the first empress is not bad to you, you know it well, tell me, why did you do this?" Zhao Yong asked in a low voice.

Although Cheng Ying is coquettish and arrogant, she never disdains to use petty tricks to deal with other women in the palace. She has her pride. Even if she hates him for favoring Concubine De, she is even more angry that Concubine De betrayed her. Concubine Li De didn't do anything, he was very clear about this.

It was precisely because of Cheng Ying's temperament that he never thought of destroying her.

"Father..." The second prince was in a hurry. The meaning of father's words was that he believed that the mother concubine poisoned the first queen. The first queen had been dead for so many years. How could he know that the mother concubine killed her? Zhao Rao played tricks behind his back.

Zhao Yong glanced at the second prince sharply and indifferently, and immediately silenced him from speaking.

"Your Majesty, my concubine did not kill the former Empress." Concubine De lowered her head and said in a low voice. In fact, she knew very well in her heart that it was useless for her to argue now. If there was no evidence, the Emperor would not appear here to question her. Wang Meiren will not be found out and named concubine Hui. She looked up at Zhao Yong, but saw his eyes were as cold as water, as if he was still waiting for her to continue talking. At this moment, Concubine De understood that the emperor knew everything up.

"The concubine didn't harm the Queen's heart...She died, and the concubine was also very sad." Concubine De buried her head on the ground, "The concubine just... just wanted to protect herself and her child. "

Zhao Rao looked at her coldly, and when she heard that she finally let go, for some reason, she felt even more sour in her heart, so what if the truth came out now? Will the queen mother know?

"Concubine Mother!" The Second Prince and Zhao Lan spoke at the same time, they did not expect Concubine De to admit it so quickly.

"The former queen never harmed you." Zhao Yong said coldly, "Why are you protecting yourself? You drugged her and said you had no intention of harming her?"

Concubine De said, "If she gives birth to a prince, she will definitely not tolerate the concubine's child. The concubine dare not gamble. The queen did not harm the concubine, but there are many people who want to help her get rid of the concubine. The second prince I was also poisoned when I was a child, your majesty knows about it, even if it wasn't from the hands of the former empress, she knew about it, and she didn't stop those people from harming the concubines' children."

"My mother used to regard you as a sister's confidant. You betrayed her like a stab in her heart. You still expect my mother to protect you and your child. Someone else killed your child. It is my mother who you resent?" Zhao Rao was so angry that her chest heaved violently. If she was the queen mother, she would have already killed Concubine De desperately, would she still be allowed to give birth to a child? Her queen mother is sometimes a bit strong, but she is kind in her heart, otherwise would she let Concubine De give birth to two children?

Zhao Rao's words were questioning Concubine De, but in fact he was resenting Zhao Yong, but Zhao Yong just lowered his eyes and remained silent.

Concubine De shook her head lightly, "I know I'm sorry for the first queen, princess, I never thought that I would kill the first queen."

At that time, she was like a demon, seeing that the emperor was getting better and better towards the empress, and it seemed that the momentum of tit-for-tat was gone. She knew very well that if the empress gave birth to a prince, her mother and son would not have a good life. She just wanted the queen to have a miscarriage, not her life.

"You are well aware of my mother's physical condition at the time. She was already depressed and her body was too weak to be stimulated. You prescribed medicine to her and said you had no intention of killing her?" Zhao Rao asked sharply.

"If the first queen was not too strong and overbearing, my mother and concubine would not have thought of such a way to protect herself." The second prince argued strongly on behalf of Concubine De.

Zhao Yong glanced at everyone indifferently, "Shut up!"

Concubine De kowtowed heavily to Zhao Yong, "Your Majesty, this concubine knows that she deserves death, and I beg His Majesty to grant me a crime. I only ask His Majesty to treat the third princess and the second prince more leniently. They don't know anything. It's none of their business."

"What about the other concubines?" Zhao Yong didn't have the slightest bit of pity or soft-heartedness in his eyes. It was unintentional to kill the former empress. Could it be that she had no intention of harming other people?

Concubine De's face turned pale, she remembered that the matter of Beauty Wang had been found out, what she did back then could no longer be hidden from Zhao Yong.

"Do you have anything else to say?" Zhao Yong asked.

"I..." Concubine De's face turned pale, "I just don't want anyone to argue with my concubine..."

She wanted Zhao Yong to only pamper her, and only the second prince in the palace. She didn't know when her heart became so big. The emperor clearly only loved her. Although it was only to suppress the queen, she was obsessed with being favored alone. Happiness.

At that time, she was madly trying to grasp this feeling of happiness, so she did a lot of things that she finds terrible now when she thinks about it.