C113 (1/2)
As if a goose that had been shot by an arrow, Empress Chen let out a sorrowful cry. She used all his strength to push Xianghe away and threw his entire body at the dying crown prince. ”My child, open your eyes and look at your mother! How could you abandon me …”
Chu Lingyun could not bear the pain anymore and walked over to Empress Chen's side, wanting to help her up from the bed. ”mother, Royal Brother is still here, we can accompany him for the rest of the journey.”
Empress Chen's body froze, he turned his head and gave a stern look, ”What are you doing? Why did I only call a person from Chiron?”
Chu Lingyun felt a piercing pain in her cold eyes, and paused for a moment before replying, ”mother, please forgive me for being late.”
The Empress Chen glared at her sinisterly, then bent down and hugged his son's cold body, ”For you to be able to send your Royal Brother on the final journey is already asking for mercy.”
Chu Lingyun was startled, and asked in a trembling voice: ”mother, what do you mean by this?”
The emperor also frowned. ”The poison wasn't administered by Little Yun, so she's the one who created it.”
Empress Chen wiped away the blood on the crown prince's face with his tear-stained face and sobbed, ”You keep thinking about Ling Yun and you will definitely not care about my son. When something happens to him, you are still touring the imperial garden with Ling Yun.”
The Emperor was quiet and did not understand, ”The crown prince and Little Yun are both your children, why are you only concerned with the crown prince?”
Empress Chen held the Crown Prince's hand absentmindedly. ”Since you're so distressed about Lingyun, I can only share more of your love with the Crown Prince,” she said as she looked at Xianghe with a resentful gaze. ”In the end, she's the same as Big Sister Yun …”
The Emperor was extremely angry, but it was inconvenient for him to flare up on the spot, so he could only silently glance at Empress Chen.
Chu Lingyun immediately became depressed, and her eyes became unfathomably puzzled. ”mother … I am also a child of the mother … ”
”You and your Royal Father are closer, that's all.” The Empress Chen hugged the crown prince as if he was looking at precious treasures, ”You guys go out first, I need to accompany him properly.”
The Emperor didn't want to stay in this kind of repressed and awkward atmosphere any longer. Just as he wanted to pull Chu Lingyun away, he saw tears flickering in her eyes.
Chu Lingyun bit her pale lips and said tearfully: ”mother, you've lost Royal Brother and you still have me.”
Empress Chen's eyes were filled with frost, ”You and the crown prince are different, you can leave first.”
Chu Lingyun knelt down weakly and looked at her stubbornly, ”I'm not leaving, I'm going to accompany mother and Royal Brother.”
Xianghe saw that the situation was bad and immediately rushed to her side, ”Princess!”
Chu Lingyun turned her head, looked at her deeply, and said: ”Royal Father, you go out first. I want to stay by mother's side.”
The emperor hesitated for a moment, then lowered his eyes and sighed, and brought Xianghe out of the Eternal Spring Hall.
Three days later, the crown prince passed away in the early morning. Empress Chen's weeping shook the entire palace, his voice was filled with the helplessness and despair of a mother who could only watch her child die in her arms, as if the white-haired man who sent the black haired man away had to leave as well.
When Chu Zongge heard the news, right when he was playing chess with Xue Ronghua at the moment, the eunuch from Changchun Palace came over to report his loss. The finger that was playing chess fiercely paused for a moment, and then said indifferently, ”I understand.”
Xue Ronghua swept the chess pieces into the box and said softly, ”I originally thought that the crown prince and Empress Chen were acting together to show to the emperor, but who would have thought that he would pass away just like that.”
Chu Zongge lowered his eyes and said: ”The crown prince was killed by a dancer who took her revenge. It would be bad for the imperial family's reputation if word of this got out, so the emperor's meaning is to harden the body, and make it worse.”
”This dancer is quite patient. She was actually able to stand by the side of her enemy for so long, and even conceived a child.”
”It is precisely because of his strong desire for revenge that he was able to endure so much,” Chu Zongge said as he waved for the palace maid to bring over some tea. ”However, I heard that the dancing lady had already been ordered by the Empress Chen to be killed.”
”Since she dared to make a move on the crown prince, she must be prepared to die,” Xue Ronghua said as a trace of admiration flashed past her eyes, ”Prince Jin desired to obtain the direct source of power from Yu Zhu, but who would have thought that the conflict between the three of them would end with her little sister.”
”With the death of the crown prince, I don't have any other opponents in the Imperial Palace,” Chu Zongge said with a faint smile. ”It's time for Empress Chen to stop.”
Xue Ronghua squinted her eyes dangerously, ”Don't let your guard down too early, I'm afraid there are a lot of enemies.”
Chu Zongge was startled, ”You're talking about Xue Liuhua right? It seems like she is going to give birth soon, it's just that she is too young, and won't be able to get the weather.”
”Even if Xue Liuhua gives birth to a prince, there's no need to worry,” Xue Ronghua held his hand. ”The crown prince is gone, but Empress Chen still has a Princess Poyang.”
”Chu Lingyun?” Chu Zongge shook his head with a smile, ”Although she is doted upon by the Emperor, she is still a daughter after all, and cannot contend against me.”
”Didn't you say that the Emperor had warned the crown prince before that if he still did not study seriously, he would change the position of Princess Poyang to that of Emperor,” Xue Ronghua said as she slightly raised her brows, ”Have you forgotten?”
Chu Zongge looked at her blankly. ”I didn't forget, but the Emperor only used this matter to warn the crown prince.