bestfiction Chapter 207 The Queen Mother is Poisoned
Chapter 207 The Queen Mother is Poisoned
The Queen Mother glanced at Xu Minghuang meaningfully and said, "Come here, please ask the Queen to go back first and immediately confine herself to Changchun Palace. She is not allowed to leave without the imperial decree."
Xu Minghuang frowned: "Empress Dowager..."
The Queen Mother had already waved her hand impatiently, asking her to leave. Xu Minghuang seemed to have guessed something and struggled to ask, "Does your Majesty want someone to see you, or to exchange my life for yours?"
Hearing this, the Queen Mother looked at Xu Minghuang.
She also broke free from her maid's uniform.
"If the Queen Mother wants to meet this person, she must be fully prepared, or she doesn't need to risk her life at all."
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Beau House
After meeting Bu Yan, Mrs. Bo did not sleep all night. She was fiddling with a string of sandalwood beads in her hand, and her heart was already in turmoil.
She looked out the window from time to time.
Until there was a commotion at the door, and a sedan chair was carried in from the door, followed by a huge crowd of people.
Old Mrs. Bo's eyelids twitched. The Queen Mother really came!
The sedan chair was lifted up, and the empress dowager bent down and got out, heading towards the lobby of the Bo family. She sat on a chair with a stern face, and with an extremely impatient look she asked someone to go and invite Old Madam Bo.
"Your Highness pays her respects to the Empress Dowager." Old Mrs. Bo knelt on the ground and saluted. She looked around and found that the room was almost surrounded by the Imperial Guards.
The Queen Mother glanced at her and said, "I came here as promised. Where is she?"
Old Madam Bo was sweating profusely, and beads of sweat as big as beans fell to the ground and broke into several petals. She looked up and said anxiously, "Your Highness...Your Highness doesn't know. He only said that he must see you in two days, and he didn't say anything else."
The Queen Mother sneered and waited patiently.
At that moment there was a noise at the door.
"It's the third prince!"
"What Third Prince? He's obviously the commoner Zhao Zhen!"
Zhao Zhen rushed into the door as if he had seen a relative. The Imperial Guards had received orders long ago and took Zhao Zhen away directly.
Zhao Zhen struggled, shouting, "Queen Mother, I want to see the Queen Mother!"
The Queen Mother frowned when the news reached her ears. But then she thought that the evil creature had pretended to be Zhao Zhen some time ago, so maybe he was just repeating the same old trick.
"Bring it in." said the Queen Mother.
Soon Zhao Zhen was brought in by the Imperial Guards. Several people held Zhao Zhen's shoulders tightly, forcing him to lie on the ground without any power to fight back.
"Queen Dowager, I was wronged. Xu Feng is not dead at all. You must redress the injustice for your grandson." Zhao Zhen cried inconsolably, seemingly having lost his former pride.
The Queen Mother glanced at him, her eyes becoming even colder.
Old Mrs. Bo knew at first sight that this was the real Zhao Zhen. Bu Yan who came that day would definitely not kneel on the ground and beg for mercy.
"You bastard!" The Queen Mother cursed, "Tell me, are you related to the abduction of the Cheng family?"
Zhao Zhen was confused. He had no idea what had happened to the Cheng family.
"What do you want to do by finding all kinds of ways to see me?" The Queen Mother vented all her anger on Zhao Zhen.
Old Madam Bo quickly reminded: "Queen Mother, the person that night was not the Third Young Master, but the unfilial son Sun Bo Yan."
"Bo Yan?" The Queen Mother sneered and glanced at Old Madam Bo with contempt, scaring her so much that she quickly said, "It's Young Master Yan. The Bo family is unlucky, how could there be such a bloodline."
The Queen Mother then retracted her expression, frowned, and suddenly sniffed the air, which faintly smelled a strange odor.
next moment.
boom!
There was a loud bang.
Sparks flew.
The side hall next to the Bo family's had been blown open.
The loud noise attracted all the royal guards to rush out and surround the side hall.
The Queen Mother was terrified and shouted for protection.
There was only one huge sound.
After waiting for a long time, there was no other movement. Seeing the commotion outside, the Queen Mother didn't want to stay any longer and said in a panic, "Return to the palace!"
"Empress Dowager!" Zhao Zhen wanted to follow her back to the palace and grabbed the hem of the Empress Dowager's skirt, but the Empress Dowager kicked him away and he left in a hurry.
When I was about to go out, there was another loud noise.
"Protect the Queen Mother!" the Imperial Guards shouted.
Under the protection of everyone, the Queen Mother got into the sedan chair and set off back to the palace.
The Imperial Guards turned the Bo family's house upside down but did not find anyone suspicious. They only found two explosives made from meteors.
A false alarm.
The Queen Mother fell ill after returning to the palace. She vomited continuously, had a high fever, and had a strange odor all over her body, which could not be concealed even after changing clothes.
Even when he touched his hair, he found a handful of it in his hand. The empress dowager was so frightened that she quickly called for the imperial physician.
"Empress Dowager, you have been poisoned." said the imperial physician.
"Poisoned?" The Queen Mother was incredulous and raised her voice to order, "Why are you still talking so much? Detoxify me now."
The imperial physician looked embarrassed and said, "Your Majesty, this poison is something I have never seen before. It may take some time to prepare the antidote."
"What a bunch of useless people!" The Queen Mother could not help cursing and summoned other doctors, whose statements were almost the same.
There is no cure.
When the Emperor of Northern Qi heard that the Queen Mother had returned from the palace in shock, he hurried to visit her, frowning as he tried to hold back the unpleasant smell.
"Has the emperor found any clues?" the Queen Mother asked anxiously.
The Northern Qi Emperor shook his head and said, "It's as if this person has disappeared from the face of the earth. But don't worry, mother. I will find him even if I have to dig three feet underground."
The Queen Mother thought again of what happened when she met Zhao Zhen at Bo's house today.
"Zhen'er?" The Northern Qi Emperor was dumbfounded and asked hurriedly, "When did the Queen Mother see him?"
"It was this morning, two hours ago."
The Northern Qi Emperor frowned, but the eunuch beside him said, "But the Emperor clearly met the Third Prince two hours ago."
The word "Third Prince" meant that the Emperor of Northern Qi knew that he had wronged Zhao Zhen, and he found a reason to restore Zhao Zhen's status as the Third Prince.
The person the Queen Mother met at the Bo family was Zhao Zhen.
Who is he meeting?
"Why does the emperor want to see Zhao Zhen?" asked the Queen Mother.
The Northern Qi Emperor said, "Zhen'er was punished but didn't get any medical treatment. He was covered in wounds and had nowhere else to go. He wrote a letter and collapsed at the door of Jingzhao Yin. Jingzhao Yin presented the letter to me. Even a tiger won't eat its own cubs. After all, he is my son. How could I bear to watch him die without saving him?"
No matter how bad the third prince is, he is still his biological son after all.
The Queen Mother said, "No, that's not right. Bring Zhao Zhen here quickly, and bring the one from the Bo family here as well."
One of the two must be fake.