webnovelfull Chapter 240 Blood splattered on the spot
Chapter 240 Blood splattered on the spot
The emperor reached out and rubbed the back of Ni'er's round head, without explaining, and waved his hand to call Qian Jiangping to take him out to play.
After Ni'er left, the emperor tucked the quilt for Meng Yanzhen, stood up and prepared to leave.
After all, he is the emperor, and there are piles of memorials in the imperial study waiting for his approval.
Being able to wait here for a while is really a favor to Meng Yan.
Meng Yanzhen's eyelashes trembled, and slowly opened like wings, revealing a pair of watery eyes.
The emperor leaned over and touched Meng Yanzhen's forehead. Seeing that it was not hot, he sat down on the edge of the bed.
Looking at Meng Yanzhen's snow-white and tender face like a hibiscus flower, he couldn't help but stretch out his fingers and slowly stroke her face.
As soon as Meng Yanzhen saw the emperor, her clear and watery eyes were filled with his figure. She let out a wail and threw herself weakly into the emperor's arms. Her thin but not skinny body could not help but tremble slightly because of her crying. Her beautiful eyes were filled with tears at this moment, which soon stained large water marks on the emperor's casual clothes on his chest.
The emperor enjoyed it very much. All the concubines in the palace were good in every way, but not as fresh and considerate as Meng Yanzhen. They were almost like growing on the tip of his heart, and knew what kind of beauties he liked better than the worms in his stomach.
Meng Yanzhen couldn't stop crying at all. She hugged the emperor's arm and choked up as she told him all the things that the Duke of Li's Mansion had done over the years to drive her mother crazy. The butterfly bones on her back trembled and she wished she could cry to death!
The area around her pretty eyes was red from crying. The emperor caressed the red skin with a distressed look on his face, but his words were chilling: "It's okay. Didn't your aunt make the decision for your mother?"
Meng Yanzhen's drooping eyelashes trembled slightly, and when she raised her eyes again, they were crystal clear, with tears shaking in her eyes: "But my concubine's mother...can no longer be healthy!"
"As a child, I thought I was filial and respectful all these years, but who would have thought that I had never noticed..."
After saying this, the light in Meng Yanzhen's eyes dimmed a little, as if a fresh flower was slowly losing its vitality.
This is also beautiful. Every move Meng Yan makes is carefully considered. In front of the emperor, she is always gentle, beautiful, and delicate.
Withering has its own beauty, and blooming has its own beauty. She did not quibble or plead for Li Shuqing, and she did not even say anything bad about anyone else. She only said that she was unfilial.
But if you think about it carefully, how could she be unfilial? Didn't she enter the palace just to honor the Duke's Mansion?
The emperor himself knew that it was impossible for Meng Yanzhen, who was at the prime of her life, to enter the palace just because she was attracted to him, a man who could be her father.
Nine out of ten people who enter the harem have ulterior motives, and everyone has their own little calculations. Meng Yan is really smart enough, so the emperor doesn't mind satisfying some of her harmless little requests.
What the eldest lady did did indeed touch the thread in the emperor's heart.
No matter how poor or downtrodden the Duke Li's Mansion is, it is still one of the three duke's mansions of the current dynasty. Even though it does not hold real power, the mistress of the house has gone mad. The Li family relied on their roots in Longxi and did not even take him, the emperor, seriously. They kidnapped the old lady of the Duke Li's Mansion in the dark night and tortured her privately.
There was also a letter sent by the Embroidered Uniform Guard on the emperor's desk.
But now seeing Meng Yanzhen crying like this, the emperor felt a little reluctant.
"What does it have to do with you? Don't make yourself miserable."
Meng Yanzhen hugged the emperor's arm, tears rolling down her cheeks like broken jade beads: "Your Majesty, you don't know that the reason why my mother married to the capital was because she couldn't stand being bullied in Longxi, so she married into the Duke of Li's mansion."
"The Duke of Li's Mansion is just an empty shell, and it was filled up bit by bit with my mother's dowry. That's all. Even though the law says that dowry is a woman's private property, we still live together. My mother is familiar with the law of etiquette and would never eat bird's nest and white fungus herself or ask grandma to drink rice porridge. It's just... just..."
"How could she poison her brother? He is her first legitimate grandson... If it weren't for the ancestors appearing and blessing my mother to wake up in the middle of the night, otherwise... otherwise, my mother and I would not be alive today..."
Meng Yanzhen was both sad and scared, and hid helplessly in the emperor's arms. The emperor then remembered that the Duke of Li had only one legitimate son.
If something went wrong with this only legitimate son, Meng Yan's situation would be really precarious.
After all, this old lady was willing to poison even her own grandson. In order to wipe out her entire family, she might actually poison the mother and daughter and then use her original wife's dowry to marry another one.
After all, people are not smart and have little experience, so they are bold and reckless when doing bad things, making it difficult to guard against them.
Meng Yanzhen explained Li Shumin's predicament in just a few words, and the emperor's anger towards Li Shuqing subsided a little.
"Forget it. Your aunt is also eager to save people, so I will revoke her imperial edict and not pursue the rest."
The Li family had two daughters in total, and the emperor did not expect that the daughter of the Longxi Li family could be bullied to the point of being unable to stay in the local area.
But Meng Yan really had no need to lie to him. The Jinyiwei were spread all over the world, and it was not difficult to investigate the marriage changes of the Li family's eldest daughter. If he lied, it would be a crime of deceiving the emperor.
To deceive the king for the sake of gain is as bold and foolish as an old lady poisoning her own grandson.
Meng Yanzhen sat up and hugged the emperor's neck, sobbing. Warm tears kept falling and she breathed softly, "This is my mother's private matter. It's hard to disclose it. But my mother had a miserable life. She had a fiancé when she was young, but he was snatched away by a lady from another branch of the family. My mother has always been proud and could not endure such a great humiliation. Who would have thought that after coming to the capital, she has not had a good day..."
"I have been crazy for more than ten years. I suppressed it for the sake of me and my brother and pretended to be a normal person..."
Meng Yanzhen cried and cried, grief surged from her heart, and she felt a fishy-sweet taste in her throat. When she came to her senses, the emperor was already holding her and shouting for the imperial physician.
She stared in a daze at the bloodstains on her fingertips, which were so red that they burned her eyes.
The emperor originally thought that Meng Yanzhen was putting on a show, but when the blood came out, he was really panicked.
Especially since she was only in her early twenties, her thin body was wrapped in loose clothes, she sat on the bed with a pale face, her whole body was almost swallowed by the quilt, she looked at the blood on her hands stupidly, and the next moment she looked at him with hesitation: "Your Majesty, is this concubine... not going to survive?"
What kind of woman in her early twenties would vomit blood...
The emperor didn't care at this time whether it was the old lady from the Gu family or the old lady from the Meng family who was tied up. When Meng Yanzhen looked at him timidly with lonely and confused eyes, he knew that this time, he would definitely be biased.
"No, I am the Son of Heaven, and you will live a long life with me."
"You don't have to worry about the Duke of Li's Mansion anymore. Your aunt has sent someone to find your uncle. Wait for them to deal with it. It won't be a loss for your mother."
"Think about Ni'er. You can't let him lose his mother at such a young age just for his mother."