Chapter 334 Do the Last Thing

The emperor soon received the banknotes sent by Qinghuang. Looking at the thick stack, he said with emotion: "Qinghuang is really my sweet little cotton-padded jacket."

The corner of Concubine Xian's mouth twitched.

"But before leaving, I have to do one last thing." The emperor quickly calmed down and ordered Chen Hai to take clothes and put them on. "I will go to pay my respects to the empress dowager. Concubine Xian, you go with me."

Concubine Xian was too lazy to correct his name. Anyway, whether it was the emperor, Concubine Xian, or the Empress Dowager, it was only tonight. When they left here tomorrow, there would be no emperor and Concubine Xian in the palace.

It was not certain whether there would be a chance to come back in the future.

If possible, she hoped to never come back again.

"Yes."

So the two took advantage of the night to go to Renshou Palace.

Having abdicated, the old emperor naturally didn't want to put on any pomp. The two of them almost walked all the way to Renshou Palace. Now Renshou Palace is like a cage. In addition to the iron wall defense outside, there are only a few palace maids and Feng Ping, the eunuch of the empress dowager.

As soon as the emperor stepped into the palace gate, he heard the sound of tea cups falling to the ground and breaking: "Waste! You can't do a little thing well, you are all waste!"

"Queen dowager, calm down." Feng Ping hurriedly comforted, "Take care of yourself."

The emperor stepped into the palace gate and saw the furious empress dowager... Actually, it should be the grand empress dowager, but the edict of succession only said that the queen was honored as the empress dowager, but did not honor the empress dowager as the grand empress dowager.

So for now, she is still just a queen dowager.

The emperor stood quietly for a moment and said, "It's so late, and the queen mother hasn't rested yet, why are you still so angry?"

The queen mother's pupils shrank, and she suddenly turned her head to look at the emperor who walked in quietly, with a cold expression, as if she was looking at an irreconcilable enemy.

"The queen mother hates me?" The emperor smiled, walked over, and sat down on the chair next to her, "Is it because I passed the throne to Qinghuang, so that the queen mother's wish was unfulfilled?"

The queen mother stared at him intently, her eyes inexplicably cold.

"When the Queen Mother replaced the Crown Prince with a cat to consolidate her position as Queen, did she ever think that this day would come?"

The Queen Mother's face suddenly changed: "What did you say?"

"The assassins at today's coronation ceremony were sent by the Queen Mother, right?" The Emperor Retired poured himself a cup of tea, his voice was as light as if he was chatting casually, "It's a pity that the Queen Mother has only this one useful hidden guard around her, and now he is half dead, and no one can do things for the Queen Mother in the future."

The Queen Mother's face was covered with a layer of haze, and she tightly grasped the handkerchief, and the coldness ran up her spine from the soles of her feet.

"No matter what the idea was, or what method was used, the Queen Mother has successfully disrupted the royal bloodline, but since she was wrong, let her be wrong to the end." The Emperor Retired drank a sip of tea, "Although Qinghuang is a woman, she has the courage of a king of a country, which is much better than my useless sons. I believe that Xiqi will prosper in her hands."

So what does bloodline have to do with it?

The strong are the kings and the weak are the bandits. After the fall of a dynasty, other surnames can still replace it. Who can guarantee that the orthodox bloodline can be passed down forever?

"How do you know this?" The queen mother looked at him in disbelief, with horror in her eyes, "Who told you?"

No wonder he was so eager to kill the concubine. The queen mother finally understood the reason, but what she didn't understand was that this matter should have been a top secret. Why did the emperor know it?

"There is no wall that is impenetrable." The emperor said in a light tone, "The queen mother can tell Tianyin this secret, so she shouldn't expect him to keep it secret."

Besides, even if he didn't say it, he couldn't stop the secret from leaking out.

Anything that only needs one person to know will be known by the second, third, or even more people.

"Tell Tianyin?" The Queen Mother froze, "When did I tell him?"

The Emperor was silent: "It's already this time, there's no need for me to deny it."

"It's already this time, there's really no need for me to deny it." The Queen Mother said coldly, "But I really didn't tell anyone the truth! Tianyin is impulsive, I know it better than the Emperor, how could I tell him the truth so easily?"

Telling him the truth when you're not sure will only push him to death, the Queen Mother is not that stupid.

The Emperor was silent, seeing that her expression was not fake, he couldn't help but mutter in his heart, is it really not the Queen Mother who told Tianyin the truth?

But the letter was clearly written by the Queen Mother.

Besides, if the Queen Mother hadn't told him, who else would know this secret?

But none of this matters anymore.

The emperor was too lazy to think about it and quickly returned to the topic: "I have abdicated. Qinghuang will have the final say in Xiqi. I could have let my mother enjoy her old age - if she is willing to be obedient."

When the queen mother heard his words, she seemed to have foreseen something and smiled coldly: "What? Does the emperor still want to kill your mother?"

"Now it seems that I am wishful thinking. As long as the queen mother is still sitting on the throne of the queen mother, she will never give up and accept the fact." The emperor stood up and looked at her with a little indifference. "After all, I have called you mother for decades. I don't want to kill my mother. The queen mother can make her own choice. Only one of you and Tianyin can survive."

The queen mother felt like she was falling into an ice cellar.

"Tian Yin is my son." The emperor said calmly, "Even if he did a lot of things he shouldn't have done, I don't want to kill him unless it's absolutely necessary. But if the queen mother insists on doing it, I can't rest assured. I can only get rid of this trouble for Qing Huang."

The new emperor will inevitably be cursed if he harms his brothers, but Tian Yin's existence is more worrying than the other princes.

So one of the queen mother and Tian Yin must never speak again.

The emperor turned and walked out.

The queen mother's face was pale, and the whole person seemed to have been drained of strength. She sat there stiffly and powerlessly for a long time.