PDLP Chapter 142 Ants
Chapter 142 Ants
Madam Zhao nodded quickly and replied, "Yes, I heard this girl confess those things with my own ears..."
Eunuch Liu hesitated for a while and said nothing.
He just kept paying attention to Qin Feiling's reaction.
Jin Xin sneered, her eyes filled with despair. "I was tortured into confessing... Under those circumstances, if I hadn't followed their wishes and confessed, I'm afraid I'd be dead by now."
"In order to save my life, I had no choice but to give in and say what they wanted to hear."
Eunuch Liu's eyes flickered, and he quickly knelt down to explain, "Your Majesty, the situation at that time did indeed seem like she was forced to confess... Jin Xin is right. If she hadn't confessed, she would probably have been beaten to death..."
Nanny Zhao's expression changed slightly, and she immediately knelt on the ground.
"This old slave...this old slave is always following the orders of Concubine Rou."
With this push, the two of them completely denied all their responsibilities.
Concubine Rou was so angry that she secretly cursed him as a dog slave in her heart.
She wanted to explain, but for a moment she didn't know how to start.
Jin Xin's eyes were filled with despair... She looked up at the direction of the inner hall, and tears kept falling from the corners of her eyes.
She cried in a shrill voice, "Your Highness, I was a coward. To protect myself, I did something that was wrong to you. They threw mud at you, and you couldn't defend yourself... All of this is my fault. I will die to atone for my sin, and from now on, the master-servant relationship between you and me will be fulfilled."
After Jin Xin finished speaking, she kowtowed three times on the ground and immediately ran towards the pillar behind her.
Qiao'er quickly stopped Jinxin, hugged her tightly, and started crying hysterically.
"Jinxin, don't be impulsive... The Queen knows you well. Before you passed out, she said she was willing to take all the blame. She didn't want to see you endure such torture again."
"Everyone in this palace wants you dead. No one can protect her. You feel that instead of living in such agony, it would be better to die immediately and put an end to it all... Woohoo, my poor queen... You've had a rough life since childhood, and your life has been so difficult. You thought that after entering the palace..."
Qiao'er couldn't say any more at the end.
The two girls hugged each other tightly and burst into tears.
It was as if she wanted to cry out all the grievances that their queen had suffered in recent days.
Qin Feiling clenched his fists tightly, his eyes full of regret and anger.
He slammed his fist on the table next to him.
The desk suddenly broke into pieces and shattered in an instant.
The Queen Mother was startled. She looked at the Emperor's ashen face and his angry eyes.
She couldn't help but be secretly frightened, and hurriedly comforted Qin Feiling: "Don't worry, Your Majesty, it seems that we really misunderstood the Imperial Concubine..."
Qin Feiling felt an uncontrollable surge of tyranny in his heart. He gritted his teeth and smiled coldly, "It's more than just a misaccusation. This time... I almost broke her heart completely."
"I am such a useless emperor that I can't even protect the woman I love."
He stood up suddenly and walked quickly to Concubine Rou.
Concubine Rou looked down at the emperor who was staring at her coldly.
She trembled with fear and kowtowed quickly: "Your Majesty, please calm down."
Qin Feiling squatted down and grasped her clothes tightly.
"Roupin, is this what you just meant by...Jinxin confessing?"
"This is clearly a confession forced upon you, this is clearly slander..."
"Who gave you the courage to be so blatant and distort the facts and turn white into black?"
Roupin was so frightened that she burst into tears. She tried to use her tears to exchange for the man's former pity for her.
"Your Majesty... Your Majesty, calm down."
Qin Feiling's eyes were filled with coldness. He could no longer hold back and slapped her: "I never like to hit women, Concubine Rou...you made me break my own rules again today."
With a bang, Concubine Rou was knocked to the ground. Her cheek was in great pain and blood was oozing from the corners of her mouth.
Her eyes were full of panic. At this moment, she felt like the sky was falling and she was finished.
She kowtowed and begged for mercy: "Your Majesty, please calm down... Your Majesty, please calm down. I just want to find out the truth as soon as possible..."
Qin Feiling pushed her away and refused to listen to any of her excuses.
When the Queen Mother saw this scene, a huge wave of emotion surged in her heart.
This was the first time she saw the emperor so angry.
The emperor is crazy. As an emperor, he slapped his concubine in such an indecent way, and in public. Doesn't he care about his reputation?
Isn't he afraid that this matter will get out and people will criticize him as a violent tyrant?
The Queen Mother couldn't help but remind him, "Emperor...can you calm down for a moment?"
Qin Feiling sneered and turned to look at the Queen Mother: "I can't calm down... Mother, if I can't even redress the injustice done to my own woman, then what's the point of me sitting here as the Emperor?"
"Mother, you can't stop any of my decisions."
The Empress Dowager's face turned pale... She knew that no matter what she said, the Emperor would not listen to her.
He was crazy. He was really going crazy for his concubine.
Qin Feiling's eyes were cold as he scanned the hall, and finally his gaze fell on Cui Rong.
Cuirong was so scared that her face turned pale.
She knelt on the ground trembling, hardly daring to raise her head.
Qin Feiling walked over and kicked her on the shoulder.
"I'll give you a chance to speak... but if you don't seize it, I'll immediately issue an imperial decree to exterminate all nine generations of your clan... without sparing a single one."
Cuirong's eyes were filled with fear, and she kowtowed quickly: "Your Majesty... Your Majesty, spare my life, this servant... This servant will tell you everything."
Qin Feiling looked at her as if she were an insignificant ant.
"Tell me, who ordered you to do all this?"
Under the emperor's power of life and death, who holds absolute authority to send anyone to hell, no one can resist the panic, and no one dares to lie in front of the emperor.
If you say a wrong word, you will lose more than just your life.
The lives of the entire clan depend on one person... No one is not timid, no one is not afraid.
Cuirong no longer dared to hide the truth, and she immediately confessed everything in a trembling voice.
"It was... it was Huan'er, the palace maid trusted by Concubine Rou... She secretly found me and gradually bewitched me. She said... as long as the Imperial Concubine was around, Concubine Jing would never be able to rise up. Even if Concubine Jing gave birth to the eldest prince, the Imperial Concubine would not let her raise him personally. Concubine Jing would be suppressed by the Imperial Concubine for the rest of her life and would never be able to hold her head up high."