Chapter 1120: Giving Birth
Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
After the Ninth Princess was brought into the Young Master Manor, Yan Jiuchao launched a purge of the Empress’s faction.
Back then, he did not get her out of the Cold Palace out of his feelings for her.
He did not even think highly of her. She was just a chess piece to keep Worthy Consort Xu in check. Worthy Consort Xu had already lost her power, and this chess piece was no longer of any value. It was not a pity to pull it out. However, Yan Jiuchao was not someone who would kick someone to the curb when they’ve outlived their usefulness. As long as the Empress did not go overboard, Yan Jiuchao would not interfere whether she was glorious or down and out in the palace.
However, she was courting death and even treated Yan Jiuchao as a bad judge of character. That was unbearable.
Putting aside the Ninth Princess’s debt for the time being, he could leave that to the Emperor to deal with after he recovered. However, the Empress actually had designs on Prince Yan Manor? Was she asking Yan Jiuchao’s wife and children to starve when the time came?
When Yan Jiuchao married Yu Wan, he had made up his mind. If he died one day, at least he could let Yu Wan inherit Prince Yan Manor’s inheritance openly.
Touch the inheritance he left for Yu Wan? Was she tired of living?
That day, something big happened in the Longevity Palace. After taking a sip of steaming medicine, the young eunuch who tested the Emperor’s medicine fell to the ground and could not get up.
After the imperial physician confirmed that the young eunuch had been poisoned, the imperial physician found aconite in the medicine dregs presented to the Emperor.
One had to know that aconite was highly poisonous. Ordinary people might suffer irreversible lifelong damage if they were touched by it, let alone the Emperor who had a stroke.
Someone was clearly poisoning the Emperor to kill him.
Yan Jiuchao handed this matter over to Eunuch Wang to investigate thoroughly. Eunuch Wang was the Emperor’s trusted aide. With him around, everyone was very convinced.
That night, Eunuch Wang caught the palace maid who poisoned the Emperor’s medicine jar. She cried and said that she had been instructed by the Empress.
“Nonsense! When did I instruct you? I don’t know you at all!” The Empress was furious.
The young palace maid said aggrievedly, “Your Majesty! How can you say such things? How can you not know me? I was brought into the palace by you! You also planted me by His Majesty’s side! Everything I did was under your instructions!”
The Empress said fiercely, “Nonsense! I didn’t!”
The young palace maid’s acting was also quite good. She knelt on the ground and walked a few steps on her knees, crying uncontrollably. “Your Majesty! Just admit it! Heaven’s vengeance is slow but sure… You can’t escape…”
“Insolence!” The Empress grabbed the teacup on the table and smashed it on the ground.
This show seemed to be a little long. Yan Jiuchao found a chair to sit down and drank his tea leisurely. Eunuch Wang felt that at this juncture, Your Highness, shouldn’t you at least put on an act? We’re interrogating the Empress, not some Tom, Dick, or Harry.
“Is it you… Yan Jiuchao? It’s you, right! You framed me!” The Empress pounced on Yan Jiuchao like a crazy woman, but she was hugged tightly by the palace servants.
Yan Jiuchao didn’t even lift his eyelids. “So what if I frame you? Do you have evidence?”
The Empress’s eyes lit up. “Eunuch Wang! You heard him, right! You heard what he said!”
Eunuch Wang paused and said calmly, “I didn’t hear him.”
The Empress : .
At this moment, the Empress finally understood how ridiculous her cheap trick was in Yan Jiuchao’s eyes. Did Yan Jiuchao really only obtain the Emperor’s favor? No, he even subdued Eunuch Wang, the Emperor’s personal servant.
This man’s ability was not as simple as she looked. She had misjudged him. To be precise, she had underestimated him.
What the Empress did not know was that she had made a mistake. Yan Jiuchao had never subdued Eunuch Wang. Eunuch Wang’s loyalty to the Emperor had never changed from the beginning to the end. He just understood better than anyone what choice was most beneficial to the Emperor.
Yan Jiuchao might be the most rude person to the Emperor, but he was also the least likely to harm him.
He was not a fool about the Empress and the Ma family, or even the Ninth Princess. He just did not dare to provoke the Emperor, so he could not expose it to him. Since Yan Jiuchao was willing to come forward and clean up the mess, he was also willing to help Yan Jiuchao.
However… Yan Jiuchao’s conduct was often a pain in the ass!
Eunuch Wang gritted his teeth and looked at the sky. “I clearly don’t have any
balls left, but I still feel a little pain in the balls… I can only be a real man if I’m really with the Regent..
The next day, the Emperor briefly woke up again.
As Eunuch Wang fed him medicine, he imperceptibly mentioned the Empress’s matter. “…Someone put aconite in the medicine jar. I went to investigate, but in the end, I found out that it was the Empress. I originally felt that this matter was serious and that we should wait for you to wake up before making a decision, but the Regent insisted that the Empress even dared to harm Your Majesty. She’s simply bold. If she couldn’t do it once, no one could guarantee what she would do next time. Therefore, he took the initiative and sent the
Empress to the Cold Palace.”
Eunuch Wang tried his best to explain a bloody matter in a calm tone.
The process of the Empress being beaten into the Cold Palace was naturally not so easy. The Empress cried until her hair was in a mess and even threatened to kill herself with a pair of scissors. She said that Yan Jiuchao had forced her to die. Yan Jiuchao flicked his sleeve, snatched her embroidered scissors, and handed her a shining butcher knife.
The Empress was stunned on the spot.
Actually, the palace maid who accused the Empress was really an informant planted by the Empress in the Longevity Palace. She also had evidence of dealings with the Empress, so it was especially convincing to frame the Empress.
Eunuch Wang saved the details because he was worried that he would provoke the Emperor. However, he vaguely felt that it would not be a big deal because the Emperor did not have much feelings for the Empress. Even if he knew that the Empress had harmed him, he would at most be surprised and not agitated.
However, the Emperor’s pulse still sped up and his breathing became rapid.
W-was he shocked? She was not a favored woman, so what was there to be shocked about? Worthy Consort Xu had harmed you so much, could you give her such a reaction again?
“Your Majesty! What’s wrong?” Eunuch Wang hurriedly held the Emperor’s shoulder and was about to ask him to calm down.
The Emperor was out of breath and indeed looked like he was going to have another stroke at any moment. However, what he said next made Eunuch
Wang confused.
“Cong’er… Cong’er is worried about me… Hehehe…”
Eunuch Wang was instantly speechless: ‘
The Emperor still fainted from excitement. The reason was that Yan Jiuchao had actually deposed the Empress for him. How much did he care about him to do such a thing?
Eunuch Wang simply didn’t want to serve him anymore! He finally understood that there was nothing normal about this family!
Yan Jiuchao’s few days had passed. He could take medicine now. Yu Wan went to look for Old Cui and asked him to prepare medicine for Yan Jiuchao. In the end… he disappeared again!
Yu Wan stomped her feet in anger. “Cui! Don’t let me catch you!”
Half a month passed like a white horse passing through a crack. When the last leaf in the courtyard began to turn yellow, Yu Wan’s due date arrived..
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