Wait for me, and watch me fight my way back to the reincarnation path

"You are so loyal, that's good. If the Queen Mother wants to kill me, I'm afraid it's not just me. What does the Emperor think?"

Qin Qiong sneered and asked him again.

“…I, I.”

"Don't say you don't know. You are a person who has to report even the farts of people around the emperor. How could the emperor not include you in his arrangements? Right?"

"Besides, it doesn't matter if you tell me. Didn't you also say that the emperor values ​​me and wants me to be someone close to him? So, even if you tell me, it's okay. Maybe I can help the emperor a little, right?"

"… This is nothing. The Emperor knew about the unusual movements in the Empress Dowager's palace a long time ago. But the Empress Dowager has lived in this palace for a long time and has many connections. We have never been able to get in on the Empress Dowager's palace, so…"

"You know now?"

"Yes, it was after Lady Qin entered the palace that the Queen Mother changed. The Emperor thought that the assassination attempt was aimed at you, but the Queen Mother actually moved to the Emperor's side. This is probably not as simple as just killing one lady, so..."

"That's right. No matter how much the Queen Mother hates me, she doesn't hate the Emperor as much as she does, right?"

"This... can't be called hatred. It's just that, ever since the Third Prince passed away, the Emperor deposed Li, and the relationship between the Queen Mother and the Emperor has become... Our Emperor still remembers the Queen Mother's adoption of him as the Emperor's son and her support for the Emperor's ascension to the throne. It's just that the Queen Mother..."

"That is right. Since ancient times, there have only been wrong children, but no wrong parents. I understand. The emperor values ​​friendship and loyalty. Now that things have gotten this far, I'm afraid the queen mother can't tolerate the emperor anymore, right?"

"Hehe... well, the Queen Mother is old, and it's inevitable that she will be bewitched by others. She might do something that harms the state and endangers the Ming Dynasty, so the Emperor can do nothing about it."

"That is, it must be, it must be. So what arrangements has the emperor made today?"

"This... I don't know. How could I possibly know, right, Madam..."

"Oh, I see. Oh, by the way, I forgot to tell you that the steel needle I just injected into you will begin to flow through your blood vessels in half an hour... Don't be afraid, don't be afraid. It will hurt for sure, but as long as it reaches your heart, you won't feel any more pain, because..."

“…Mother, mother!”

……

The place of sacrifice is not far from the imperial city, and is basically within the scope of the imperial city. It is the location of the royal main sacrificial temple. The place of sacrifice is on the sacrificial platform on the mountain behind.

When Qin Qiong arrived, everything was ready.

Concubines like her who arrived late should have stood in the back of the line. Originally, her position was only in the third row, and now that she was late, she could only stand at the end.

However, Empress Qin was different. She was now the emperor's favorite concubine, and she was with Eunuch Xi, who was by the emperor's side. So, no one in the palace dared to stop her. Qin Qiong walked directly to the main altar with Eunuch Xi.

Along the way, she happily greeted the officials who had arrived earlier and were standing in the stage.

"Morning everyone!"

"Hello everyone! ...Thank you for your hard work!"

“Thank you for your hard work, students!”

Amid her warm greetings, the officials from the last row to the front row opened their mouths in order, and watched Eunuch Qin Qiong Tongxi walk to the altar, greeting them all the way, speechless.

At this point, Eunuch Xi dared not go forward any more. He stopped. The emperor had not arrived yet and was resting in the big tent next to him. He would not come out until the time of sacrifice. The Taoist priest who was in charge of the sacrifice was also with the emperor in the tent. Now there were only the Taoist priests who were performing the ceremony standing at the four corners of the stage.

Qin Qiong stood in front of the stage and looked up, then turned back to take a close look at the officials behind him, the people who pulled up the curtains on the side, and the positions of the concubines in the palace.

Soon, she found it, and the Queen Mother had also arrived.

In previous years, the empress dowager would not come, because such activities should have been presided over by people of high positions or elders. When the emperor first came to the throne, the empress dowager presided over the government for three years from behind the curtain and also presided over the major sacrifices for three years.

This incident had caused some controversy at the time. Later, the emperor came forward to say that the Ming Dynasty was based on filial piety and the empress dowager was the leader of the Ming Dynasty, so there was nothing wrong with her presiding over the sacrifice. Only then did the controversy subside.

After that, the Emperor took power and the Empress Dowager never participated in this event again. But this year, the Empress Dowager came again, and now at the sacrificial site, this incident made the officials below feel a little nervous that something big was about to happen.

The Queen Mother also had a tent in the concubine area, but it was much smaller, so at this moment, she also saw Qin Qiong from the curtain of the tent. Perhaps it was because the two enemies were particularly jealous of each other when they met, and now, the Queen Mother had walked out of the tent. She stood at the door of the tent and stared at Qin Qiong, then waved her hand...

"...General Fu said that the Queen Mother wanted him to kill you during the sacrificial ceremony, so she asked you to stay with the Emperor. However, the Emperor has already received news... saying that the Queen Mother not only wants to kill you, but will also announce an imperial decree during the sacrificial ceremony, saying that she no longer recognizes the Emperor as her legitimate son."

"Does this work?"

"It seems useless, but if the Queen Mother first apologizes to the heavens, saying that she disobeyed the will of the late emperor and privately determined the identity of the emperor, and the successor designated by the late emperor was not the emperor..."

"No way? It's been so many years, and you're still talking about this?... But it can't be true, right? Did the Queen Mother really change the late emperor's decree?"

"This, this is of course false! However, if the Queen Mother had a fit in such an occasion, coupled with the fact that there has been no royal heir in recent years... it is hard to guarantee that someone with ulterior motives will go crazy, and besides..."

"The Queen Mother has prepared people, right? She asked Fu Ye to kill me, but it was just a cover, she was afraid that I would run away."

"Well, Your Majesty didn't expect that the Queen Mother would hate you so much."

"Not necessarily. Maybe they want to drag Fu Ye into this. No matter whether Fu Ye can kill me today, as long as his people take action, he will be the Queen Mother's ally. He won't be able to explain himself at that time. He has to get on this pirate ship whether he wants to or not, right?"

"Yes... the emperor thought so too, so he arranged to meet General Fu and told him the emperor's plan, asking him not to act rashly."

"What about the emperor? Isn't he just waiting for the queen mother to go there and say something nonsense? She has money and people, so what is the emperor's plan?"

"This one……"

"I've said so much, but this is all I need to say. Besides, I'm the one the Queen Mother wants to kill, not the Emperor. We're in the same group. Do you understand?"

"...Originally, the Emperor wanted you to drink the medicine, and you would get sick before the Empress Dowager did. Then the Emperor could accuse the Empress Dowager of harming the concubines in the harem, and first announce that the Empress Dowager was old, mentally unstable, bewitched, and had reached the point of madness, and then send her out of the palace to recuperate."

"Oh! That's right, then... the Queen Mother has prepared someone? What should we do?"