He conspired against her in his previous life, and he flirted with her on their wedding night again

Shoukang Palace.

The Queen Mother sat on the phoenix chair with a dark look in her eyes and seemed quite uneasy.

Nanny Zhao has been in the cold palace for a long time, why hasn’t she come back yet?

Hope nothing happens...

The palace maid looked at the imperial meal that was almost getting cold and wondered where Nanny Zhao had gone. Usually it was Nanny Zhao who persuaded the empress dowager to eat.

The maids pushed each other, and one of them stepped forward and said, "Queen Mother, if you don't eat now, the food will get cold."

The Queen Mother waved her hand and said, "Withdraw."

The maid hurriedly said, "You haven't eaten a single bite, Queen Mother."

The Queen Mother just waved her hand.

The palace maid only dared to give some advice. The Empress Dowager was in a bad mood as soon as she saw it. She was afraid of angering her and getting punished, so she quickly took the imperial meal away. At most, she could tell the imperial kitchen to send some midnight snacks later. The Empress Dowager would not be left hungry.

The palace maids were preparing to clear the imperial meal. Just as they were about to put it up, a drake voice came over, "The emperor has arrived!"

The palace maids quickly put down the imperial meal and stepped aside.

The empress dowager was feeling uneasy, and suddenly heard that the emperor was coming. She was startled. The empress was secretly pregnant with someone else, and the emperor was angry, so why would he come to her?

Seeing the emperor coming in with a calm face, the queen mother asked, "Why did the emperor come to my place at this time?"

The emperor glanced at the imperial meal and asked, "The Queen Mother didn't have dinner?"

He tried his best to hold back his tone, but still let out some of his anger.

The Queen Mother said, "I am not hungry, so I didn't eat."

The Emperor asked, "Where is Madam Zhao? Why didn't she persuade the Queen Mother?"

The Queen Mother looked a little flustered. She said, "Madame Zhao is feeling unwell, so I didn't ask her to wait on me. I asked her to go down and rest."

While the Queen Mother was speaking, Eunuch Yuan waved his hand and asked the palace maids and nannies serving in the bedroom to leave.

Eunuch Yuan is the emperor's man, and his order for people to leave was obviously the emperor's intention.

The palace servants did not dare to delay and quickly withdrew. Even Eunuch Yuan did not stay. Only the Empress Dowager and the Emperor and his mother were left.

The Queen Mother saw this and asked, "What is the Emperor doing?"

The voice trembled unconsciously.

The emperor's suppressed anger leaked out, "Did Aunt Zhao go downstairs to rest or was she sent to the cold palace on the Queen Mother's order?!"

All the way to Shoukang Palace, the emperor kept comforting himself that the empress dowager would not treat him like this. He held a last glimmer of hope in his heart, hoping that he was just being too suspicious.

He asked where Madam Zhao was. If the Queen Mother had told him that she had sent Madam Zhao to the cold palace to kill the Queen, he would not have been so angry. But the Queen Mother chose to conceal it!

Are you afraid that if he finds out, you will send people to the cold palace to stop it? !

The emperor had never spoken to the empress dowager in such a cold manner.

The Queen Mother turned pale.

The Queen Mother did not speak. The Emperor said coldly, "The Queen Mother knew that I would not kill the Queen before finding out who the adulterer was. Yet she was so impatient to send Nanny Zhao to the cold palace to kill the Queen. Is the Queen Mother so afraid that I will find out who the adulterer is?!"

The emperor's words became more and more stern, and by the end, the empress dowager was already panicking.

The Queen Mother said, "You shouldn't have stopped me from executing such a vicious woman. If I had kept her alive for one more day, there would have been a risk that the matter would have spread. I was also concerned about the reputation of the Emperor..."

The emperor laughed when he heard this.

Even at this point, the Queen Mother still wanted to whitewash the situation and make excuses. The Emperor didn't want to hear a single word. He interrupted the Queen Mother and asked, "Who is the adulterer?!"

The Queen Mother's voice suddenly stopped. She felt guilty and even a little angry. "The Emperor didn't question the Queen, but came to blame me instead!"

"Is he going to be the king?!"

The emperor used up almost all his strength to ask this question.

He could not accept that the Queen and his own brother betrayed him at the same time, and he could not accept that the Queen Mother knew about this and helped King Cheng hide it from him and help King Cheng deal with the aftermath.

After so many blows, the emperor didn't know how he managed to hold on.

No wonder Yan'er asked Zhao Yuanzheng to prescribe some calming medicine for him. If he hadn't had that bowl of medicine before coming, he would probably have been so angry that he vomited blood and died on the spot.

The emperor stared at the empress dowager. Her face was pale and she stammered, but she couldn't utter a word for a long time.

The emperor has lost his patience. "Does the Queen Mother really want to protect the King to the end?!"

The Queen Mother wanted to say no, but it had come to this point, and she could no longer hide it. She had never been so desperate, tears blurred her eyes, and she choked up and said, "You are all my flesh and blood. He was bewitched and did such a foolish thing. What do you want me to do? Just watch you brothers killing each other?"

Who can understand the difficulties she faces as a mother?

The Queen Mother felt more and more sad the more she thought about it.

The emperor said coldly, "The Queen Mother doesn't want to see me and King Cheng fighting each other, so she tried her best to cover it up for him, but how much does the Queen Mother know about what he did behind his back?"

The Queen Mother was startled and blurted out, "What did he do behind my back?"

The emperor looked at the queen mother and said, "What Wangzhou has is not a gold mine at all, but an iron mine!"

"Prince Cheng discovered iron ore in his fiefdom, but he concealed it and mined it privately for two years. What is he trying to do? Do I need to tell the Queen Mother?"

The Queen Mother felt a chill on her back.

She remembered the day when the emperor said there was a gold mine in his fiefdom, so she did not insist anymore and agreed to the emperor's changing the fiefdom for King Cheng. When she came back from the imperial study, she told King Cheng about the gold mine. King Cheng's reaction at that time was indeed a little strange.

To privately mine gold is at most to make some money, but iron ore is not just a matter of money. With iron ore, you can privately manufacture weapons and recruit soldiers...

The Queen Mother became more and more frightened the more she thought about it. She wanted to say that she didn't know about it, but the Emperor didn't give her a chance to speak. He turned and left.

The somewhat staggering steps and the desolate back made me feel hopeless and heartbroken.

Eunuch Yuan stood guard outside the palace and did not let anyone approach. When he saw the emperor come out, his face was even uglier than when he came to see the empress dowager. Eunuch Yuan knew that the adulterer had truly become king.

Although the guess is almost right, it is just a guess after all. Now that the Queen Mother has admitted it, it is a foregone conclusion.

The emperor walked towards the imperial study with wooden steps. Eunuch Yuan followed behind him, feeling sad for the emperor.

If it was someone else who wanted to commit adultery with the queen, the emperor would have executed his entire family without hesitation, but that person happened to be King Cheng, the emperor's biological brother.

The Queen Mother covered up for King Cheng and wanted to kill the Queen to silence her because she was afraid that the Emperor would know about the good things King Cheng had done.

The Queen Mother would never let the Emperor kill King Cheng.

But if King Cheng is not killed, where is the emperor's imperial majesty?

Eunuch Yuan didn't understand why King Cheng would covet the throne. He had followed the emperor for more than 20 years and had never seen King Cheng have such ambitions. If King Cheng wanted to sit on that position, he had to take action before the emperor ascended the throne. With the emperor's trust in King Cheng, it would be easy for King Cheng to succeed.

The emperor is about to die, and the queen mother will definitely support the king to succeed to the throne.

At worst, after so many years, King Cheng could have killed the eldest prince. Without the eldest prince, King Ling would be in a wheelchair by then, and the emperor would definitely make King Jin the crown prince.

There are obviously many more convenient ways, but King Cheng chose the most difficult one. It's really strange.

Eunuch Yuan doesn't believe that Prince Cheng doesn't have the courage or the cruelty to do so. How can a man who dares to cuckold the Emperor and has done so for twenty years be a coward?

Isn’t it cruel enough for a person to kill even the person who gave birth to his children?