Chapter 292: Uncovering the Secret

The emperor slowly walked in front of the queen mother, full of excitement and said:

"Queen, why are you doing this? You're really embarrassed for me to do this, you know it or not. ”

Queen Mother says:

"Good! Since the emperor does not agree to the concubine's plea, then I will not get up from now on, when did you promise to release Mei Niang and no longer treat her crimes, I will get up again, since the emperor wants to force me, then I can only make the emperor embarrassed. ”

When the emperor heard the queen's words, he was immediately overwhelmed with anger and said:

"You—You're really angry with me, aren't you?"

The queen mother knelt on the ground and said with a tangled face:

"The concubine begs the emperor to let Mei Niang go! She just misses her family and wants to go back to Lin'an County to visit her father! Why would you punish her in a moment of anger? ”

The emperor immediately stretched out his hand to help the queen mother who was kneeling on the ground to help her up.

The queen broke free and said:

"Your Majesty, if you don't agree to let Mei Niang go and remove her crimes, then I won't be able to get up with the concubine, and I will kneel until the emperor agrees to the concubine."

When the emperor heard the queen's words, he immediately said unhappily:

"Bastard! I am the king of a country, how can I say that I will withdraw the orders and crimes I have already issued? Queen, queen, you're not pleading for Qin Meiniang, you're hurting her! Don't say it anymore, and don't plead for Qin Meiniang anymore, you just keep kneeling like this, I have also made up my mind, and I will never let Qin Meiniang go immediately because of your plea, and withdraw her guilt. ”

When the queen mother heard the emperor's words so ruthless, she couldn't help but feel pain in her heart as if there were ten thousand knives cutting.

The queen then asked:

"Your Majesty, do you really want to keep Mei Niang in a prison cell, and still punish her for her crimes and beat her board?"

The emperor was stunned for a moment and said seriously:

"Of course, otherwise, she Qin Meiniang regards this palace as a place, she can come if she wants, and now she can leave if she wants! I am the king of a country, she doesn't listen to my words, and wants to run away all night, you say, she is so bold, if I don't punish her well, I'm afraid she will not be able to turn against the sky in the future. ”

The queen adjusted her mood and said:

"Your Majesty, okay, since you have to be unhappy with Mei Niang, then I can only tell you the secrets that have been buried in my heart for decades, so as not to suffer from Mei Niang's sin."

When the emperor heard the queen's words, he immediately frowned and said:

"What do you say? A secret buried in your heart for decades? What do you mean by that? ”

Although the queen mother is very entangled in her heart at the moment, she has no other way but to tell the secret that has been pressed in her heart for many years.

The queen said slowly:

"Your Majesty, after the concubine told me this secret that had been buried for many years, I hope you can agree to me one condition first, okay?"

The emperor said with an anxious face:

"Hurry up, I don't have that much patience."

The queen said seriously:

"If the emperor doesn't agree to the concubine's request, then I won't say anything."

The emperor couldn't help but sneer and said:

"Good! If the queen is unwilling to tell the secret, then I will have to order Qin Meiniang to be scolded now. ”

The queen was taken aback and said:

"Don't, please calm your anger, the concubine said, wouldn't it be good for the concubine to tell this secret that has been buried in her heart for many years."

Emperor said:

"Okay, then you can tell it quickly, I would love to hear what secrets you can tell you that have been buried in your heart for many years."

The queen mother was stunned, couldn't help choking up, and said:

"Your Majesty, I'm sorry! In the final analysis, it was all the concubine's fault back then, and it was all my fault, which is why things became what they are today. ”

The emperor couldn't wait and said:

"Hurry up and tell me to hear it."

The queen then said:

"Your Majesty, actually, I didn't plan to tell this secret that had been buried in my heart for many years, but if I didn't say it now, I'm afraid that you would kill your daughter with your own hands, she should have been the princess of Jinfeng Kingdom!"

When the emperor heard the words of the queen mother, he couldn't help but tremble and said in surprise:

"What! I will kill my own daughter with my own hands! Whose daughter am I with? You make this clear, don't say it so unclearly, the daughters born to me and other concubines have been canonized as county lords, where did I come from? You make it clear. ”

The queen said seriously:

"Your Majesty, now that the matter is over, the concubines will tell you the truth! Actually, Mei Niang, Mei Niang, she is your daughter and my daughter! She should have been the princess of our Jinfeng Kingdom! Now that you have put her in prison and scolded her with a rod, are you not bullying your own daughter? ”

The emperor was a little confused and depressed when he heard this, he couldn't believe his ears, and said with surprise:

"What do you say? Qin Meiniang is our daughter! What a joke, we only gave birth to a prince, where was this Qin Meiniang born from! Queen, are you sick, all the nonsense here. ”

The queen couldn't help but tears rolled across her cheeks, full of sadness:

"Your Majesty, what the concubine said is true! How could a concubine dare to deceive you? What I say is true, it's all true! ”

The emperor was full of excitement and said:

"Queen, don't talk nonsense here, I know that you are anxious to save Qin Meiniang, and I want me to let her go and not cure her, but even if you want to protect Qin Meiniang, you don't have to lie to me like this! You really want to die for that Qin Mei Niang, don't you! ”

Queen Mother says:

"Your Majesty, it's all this time, do you really think I'm lying to you? I didn't want to say this thing that had been buried in my heart for decades, but I was afraid that if I didn't say it again, when you beat Mei Niang with a hundred boards, her life would be gone, and then I would tell you the truth clearly, it would be too late, I had already made a mistake, and I couldn't make this second mistake again. ”

The emperor saw that the queen didn't look like she was lying, so he asked:

"You said that Qin Meiniang was our daughter, when did this happen, why didn't I have any impression at all? Also, if this Qin Meiniang was born to you, then why did she go to the people, and besides, she has a father and mother in the people, I don't understand these things, I think you are lying, you are trying to save Qin Meiniang, so you deliberately made up this lie with me, right? ”

The queen smiled bitterly twice and said:

"Your Majesty, in fact, what happened back then was like this, the prince was not born to me, in fact, I gave birth to a baby girl back then, that is, Qin Meiniang."

When the emperor heard the words of the queen's mother, he was suddenly shocked into a cold sweat, and said in a tangled way:

"Ahh What did you say! The prince was not born to you, so who was the prince born? What's going on here? You hurry up and make it clear to me, why have you hidden such an important matter from me until now, why didn't you tell me about these things in the past? ”

The queen mother was full of sadness and said:

"Your Majesty, it's all the fault of the concubines, the concubines shouldn't be selfish, they shouldn't do anything for the throne of this queen, and I ask the emperor to forgive the concubines, as long as you let go of our daughter Mei Niang, the concubines can be disposed of by the emperor at will, please emperor!"

The emperor's face became more and more ugly, and he immediately said:

"You hurry up and explain the ins and outs of the matter to me, I'm really going to be angry with you."

The emperor couldn't help but be so angry that he couldn't breathe, and couldn't help coughing a few times.

When the queen mother saw the emperor like this, she was also full of worries:

"Your Majesty, don't be excited and entangled, it's all the concubine's fault, don't worry, as long as you promise me not to hurt our daughter Mei Niang, I can do whatever you want."

The emperor asked:

"Tell the truth."

The queen then said:

"More than 20 years ago, when I gave birth to Mei Niang, I heard the midwife say, it was a daughter, I wanted to die at that time, I knew that the emperor's concubines at that time, were all born daughters, I also deeply knew that as long as I could give birth to a baby boy, then I would be named the prince, and I would naturally become the queen, at that time, the midwife who delivered me said that she had just given birth to a baby boy to a maid who had committed adultery with the guards in the palace, and when I heard the news, I was suddenly happy. I wondered, since they were both newborn babies, if I asked the midwife to swap the two babies, wouldn't I have given birth to a baby boy? When the time comes, the emperor will definitely canonize this baby boy as the crown prince, and I will also become the queen mother of Jinfeng Kingdom, which is a great opportunity for me, so I will let the midwife quietly take away the daughter I gave birth to, that is, Mei Niang, and the baby boy born to the maidservant girl to exchange, in order to prevent this matter from being revealed in the future, I immediately ordered someone to secretly kill the maid who committed adultery with the guards, and gave me a lot of silver to the midwife, so that she could take the daughter I gave birth out of the palace, and then, It is enough to entrust it to a rich family, this is the secret that the concubine wants to say that has been buried in the bottom of her heart for many years, thousands of mistakes, it is all my fault, I should not be so selfish, for the sake of power and status in the palace, I am so unscrupulous, ruthlessly abandon my own daughter to the people, and deliberately use the baby boy born of adultery with the maid and the guards to say that it was born to me, in order to deceive the emperor, deceived the emperor for so many years, now, I really know that I am wrong, whenever I think of the time when I ruthlessly abandoned Mei Niang, My heart is difficult to calm down, I am full of remorse, full of pain, and I am also sorry for the emperor's love for me! Please also ask the emperor to cure the sins of his concubines! ”

After the emperor heard the queen mother tell the shocking secret more than 20 years ago, he couldn't help but stumble with anger, trembled, and pointed to the queen mother and said excitedly:

"You, how bold! How unreasonable! How could you have done such a despicable and shameless thing in the first place! I have loved you and the prince for so many years, but I didn't expect that this would end up like this, but now, you tell me that the prince is not our own, but a servant girl and a guard who gave birth to adultery! And our biological daughter was abandoned to the people, and what I never expected was that this biological daughter who was ruthlessly abandoned by you was, that Qin Meiniang! You really can't live for yourself! ”