If the business woman does not help the poor, the villain's dream of prosperity will be shatter

When the imperial carriage arrived in front of the prison gate of the Ministry of Justice, the Minister, Vice Minister and other officials who had rushed over after hearing the news were so frightened that they turned pale and knelt on the ground trembling.

The emperor didn't even look at them. He got off the sedan chair and hurried to the prison.

The jailer bent his body and walked quickly to lead the emperor.

In the deepest part of the prison, the cell door was wide open, and inside stood the coroner and the prison boss from the Ministry of Justice.

Li Dexian hurriedly shouted, "The Emperor has arrived!"

The people inside immediately made way, revealing Ning Wang Zhou Yu, who was lying on the ground, dead.

The emperor walked to the edge of the prison, but suddenly stopped.

He looked at Zhou Yu and called out carefully, "Yu'er?"

The empty and closed prison infinitely amplified the fear in the emperor's voice.

However, the people on earth would never respond to him again.

The emperor burst into tears and cried out again at the top of his lungs: "Yu'er? My son!"

He pushed Li Dexian away, rushed into the cell door, threw himself beside Zhou Yu, and his hands trembled, not knowing where to put them.

The emperor at this time was no longer the high and mighty emperor who was self-centered, but just an old man who had lost his beloved son.

He knelt beside Zhou Yu, stroking his body and crying loudly, "Yu'er, my son, you are going to kill me!"

When Qin Shu rushed to the dungeon, the emperor was holding Zhou Yu's body and crying bitterly.

An old eunuch with half-white hair was kneeling beside him, wiping his tears with his sleeves.

It was Zhang Mao, the general manager of Ning Wang’s Mansion.

As soon as he saw Qin Shu, Zhang Mao's eyes suddenly burst into strong hatred.

Before he could speak, Qin Shu had already shouted, "Manager Zhang, as the manager of Prince Ning's mansion, you are the most capable and caring person around Prince Ning."

"Since you knew that Prince Ning had ulterior motives, you did not report it to him, nor did you dissuade him, allowing him to embark on a path of no return."

Zhang Mao's face changed. He subconsciously looked at the emperor, then glared at Qin Shu fiercely and said sternly: "Qin Shu, you..."

"The Emperor has always loved His Royal Highness Prince Ning the most. Even if His Royal Highness did something wrong in a moment of confusion, the Emperor only wanted him to reflect on himself in prison and did not intend to take his life."

"But when Prince Ning committed suicide, you knew that there was still a chance for his situation to turn around, but you did not speak out to dissuade him, causing the Emperor to lose his beloved son. You are truly a traitor and an ungrateful person, and you deserve to be killed!"

The emperor looked up when he heard the voice, his face full of tears. He stared at Qin Shu in a daze, then at Zhang Mao beside him.

Zhang Maogang opened his mouth and called out, "Your Majesty?"

The emperor's eyes were already filled with madness, and he murmured, "Yes, why didn't you stop my Yu'er? Why did you watch him die? My Yu'er is gone, why are you still alive?! Someone, someone..."

He sobbed and shouted hysterically, "Someone come!"

The commander of the imperial guards immediately stepped forward and saluted, "Yes!"

The emperor pointed at Zhang Mao with shaking hands, "Blame him, it's all his fault! Execute him immediately... Execute him immediately..."

Zhang Mao collapsed to the ground, but reacted quickly, crawled to the emperor's side, grabbed the emperor's robe and shouted: "Your Majesty, I am innocent! It's her!"

Zhang Mao pointed at Qin Shu and said, "It's all this... um..."

As soon as he opened his mouth, Li Dexian secretly felt that something was wrong and winked at the commander of the imperial guards.

The commander understood what was meant and rushed over quickly. He pulled out a handkerchief from his waist and covered Zhang Mao's mouth with it. He then strangled him by the neck and dragged him out.

Zhang Mao was furious, his bloodshot eyes seemed to pop out of their sockets, and he was crying out in pain. He was handcuffed behind his back and dragged out of the prison.

Li Dexian moved calmly and blocked Qin Shu behind him.

The emperor stopped stroking Prince Ning's hand, looking frantic and panicked, "Call the imperial physician, call the imperial physician quickly!"

He looked around and stood up unsteadily.

Li Dexian hurried over to support him, and called out carefully and sadly: "Your Majesty?"

The emperor stared at Li Dexian with a pair of scarlet eyes, opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something, but then he closed his eyes and fell to the ground with a bang.

Li Dexian was also dragged to the ground by the emperor.

At this moment, Jin Wang Zhou Min rushed into the prison and shouted, "Father!"

Li Dexian scrambled to his feet, put his trembling hands under the emperor's nose, and tried again and again.

Zhou Min rushed over, pushed Li Dexian away, and with bloodshot eyes, he hugged the emperor and shouted loudly outside the prison door: "Imperial Physician!"

The imperial physician who had been guarding not far from the prison saw that the situation was not good, so he hurried over with a medicine box. He put his hand on the emperor's wrist, and he trembled like a leaf in the wind.

The emperor died.

After his most beloved son Zhou Yu committed suicide by swallowing a sword, his heart meridians were cut off and he died suddenly on the spot.

Concubine Yuan, who was stripped of her title and demoted to a commoner, also hanged herself in the cold palace.

This three-year-long battle for the throne finally came to an end after the sacrifice of countless people's blood and lives.

The emperor was moved out of the Ministry of Justice prison.

As the female official in charge of Zhengyuan Palace, Qin Shu was still sent back to Zhengyuan Palace.

The court began to prepare for the national mourning.

The edict to appoint the crown prince was sent to the Secretariat and the Ministry of Personnel for stamping and review.

Before the late emperor's coffin, the Minister of the Central Secretariat personally read out the imperial edict appointing Zhou Min as the crown prince.

The emperor passed away and the whole country mourned.

However, no one mentioned the imperial edict that appointed Qin Shu as the governor of Anbei again.

Qin Shu still remembered the meaningful words Li Dexian said to her when he walked up to her before leaving the prison that day, "Miss Qin, from now on, you should live well."

I also remember what Prince Ning said to her on the day when his rebellion was defeated, "I lost. Do you think you have won?"

The New Year's sunshine shines through the three-intersecting and six-bowl diamond-shaped windows, is cut into diamond-shaped squares of equal size, and is laid obliquely on the jade bricks of the rear hall of Zhengyuan Palace.

Qin Shu was wearing a fox fur coat and sitting in a round-backed armchair.

She gently spread out her hands, and a round shadow of light immediately fell on her palms.

The hands in the light and shadow were delicate, white, soft, and looked clean, just like those of other girls in the boudoir.

But she knew in her heart that her hands were stained with the blood of countless people.

In the past two years, countless people have died directly or indirectly at her hands.

From the sleepless nights he suffered after killing Zhang Hui with his own hands for the first time, to the time when he could take lives without blinking an eye.

She had already developed a heart of stone.

In three days, Zhang Maohui will execute the person by slicing him into pieces at Caishikou.

Qin Jingchang, Zhang Hui, Lu Fei, Sheng Li, Zhang Cheng, Zhang Mao... and the King of Qi.

From then on, my parents’ revenge was finally achieved!

While in prison, the emperor, who had lost his beloved son, had fallen into a state of madness and was willing to die if touched.

At that time, she would rather die than not drag Zhang Mao into hell.

It was Li Dexian who saved her life.

They all knew why she had come this far.

So Li Dexian told her that from now on, she should just live a good life.

Don't go on any further.

It's over, it won't continue...

For more than a month, she lived in the side hall behind Zhengyuan Palace like an invisible person and hardly ever left the palace.

The funeral ceremony of the late emperor in the front hall was over, the new emperor ascended the throne, changed the reign title to "Jingping", and issued a general amnesty.

The transition of power from the old to the new in the Great Zhou Dynasty was successfully completed amidst peaceful and festive palace music.

Judging from the date, Zhou Min should come to find her soon.

Just as he was thinking about it, the door of the side hall suddenly opened, and a tall figure appeared at the entrance of the hall.