The Destiny of Going to Hell

Uya looked at Meng Jingxian who was reporting the news to her in a sad tone, but there was no moisture in her eyes. She thought that it must be Yinzhen who asked her to come.

After all, he and Meng Jingxian had no grudges against each other, but Yinzhen, how could he do this? The Fourteenth Brother was his own brother!

Meng Jingxian left after delivering the message. Such news was enough to make Wu Ya feel heartbroken.

When he was old, he not only killed his former lover himself, but also heard the news of the death of his youngest son whom he had held in his hands since childhood. The sadness in his heart was secondary, and his body really couldn't bear it.

A mouthful of blood spurted out of Wu Ya's mouth. Zhu Xi hurriedly wanted to call the imperial physician, but was stopped by her, "I just need to rest for a while, don't call the imperial physician."

The fourteenth prince is gone, what’s the point of her calling the imperial physician?

She was the queen mother, but she did not enjoy any happiness. She was alienated from her eldest son and her youngest son died. Her life was truly a failure.

The days passed slowly, and it was another hot year. After Zhen Huan's death, Yinzhen restored Nian Shilan's palace power and position as noble concubine. On the one hand, it was because of Nian Gengyao, and on the other hand, although the daughter of Prince Dun was named a princess in order to make Prince Dun apologize to the censors, he did give her benefits.

So Nian Gengyao had to appease her. After much deliberation, he decided that giving power to Nian Shilan in the harem would make Yinzhen feel more at ease.

Because the days were hot, the group went to the Old Summer Palace to escape the heat. Although Nian Shilan still lived in a spacious and beautiful house, after she regained her power to assist in managing the six palaces, her favor was not as great as before.

Yinzhen had not been to Shilan Palace on weekdays for a long time, except for occasional rewards. Because of his health, Yinzhen always went to the palaces of concubines with children.

He actually forgot about all the other concubines, except for a few young palace maids who died in the rooms of the Yangxin Palace from time to time.

Everyone had complaints at first, but when they learned that those young palace maids died as a result of sleeping with the emperor, everyone shut up.

It seems that the emperor has developed a bad habit, and everyone hopes that Yinzhen will forget it.

Yinzhen also didn't like going to their palace, for fear of exposing his own little Sisi's problems. He preferred to go to Meng Jingxian's palace to cultivate feelings with the child.

Nian Shilan also hated to see that old cucumber Yinzhen, and she spent every day playing mahjong, chatting, listening to books or watching plays with Xia Dongchun, Lipin and Cao Qinmo.

The atmosphere in the palace was harmonious, but outside the palace the situation was gradually becoming more and more tense.

Ever since Nian Shilan regained the power to assist in managing the six palaces, Nian Gengyao has gradually become more rampant. Didn’t he see that nothing happened to his ally Prince Dun?

Nian Gengyao believed that he had made great military achievements and his sister was a powerful imperial concubine, so his temper became worse and worse, and more and more people in the court became dissatisfied with him.

There were many memorials to the emperor, but Yinzhen never issued an imperial decree to reprimand Nian Gengyao, which made Nian Gengyao feel that there was nothing wrong with what he did.

On this day, Yinzhen came to Meng Jingxian's residence, "Xian'er, I have to give you a guarantee. It won't be long before I can settle accounts with Prince Dun. You take Hongtai and Wangyao to a safe place first."

Meng Jingxian raised her eyebrows. How could Yinzhen think of sending the child to a safe place? Why didn't he think of this in his previous life? He only did this because he knew that Hongtai was his last son.

Meng Jingxian held Yinzhen's hands tightly and said, "Your Majesty, I am willing to stand by you. Besides, if the three of us, mother and son, are not here, what will we do if we alert the enemy?"

The most dangerous place is the safest place. What's more, Yinzhen will obviously win, so why should I run away? I also lost impression points.

Meng Jingxian's words not only moved Yinzhen, but also made him think of the key point. Yes, it would be bad if he alerted the enemy.

The Empress Dowager was really in poor health, so Yinzhen used the excuse that the Empress Dowager was unwell and ordered the wife of Prince Dun, his son, and the princess who was raised by the Empress Dowager to take care of her.

This decree made everyone in the harem confused. After all, the empress dowager was unwell, and Queen Meng Jingxian should lead the concubines in the harem to take care of her.

Why would the wife of Prince Dun and her son be of any use?

Considering the previous incident in which Prince Dun wore armor and went to the palace, beat officials, spoke wildly, and there were even rumors of forming a private clique, everyone couldn't help but tense up, just waiting to see what the outcome would be.

Yinzhen and Meng Jingxian were sitting in the hall, and the two eight-year-old children, Hongtai and Wangyao, were also snuggling in their arms.

Yinzhen was not calm. Although he had some confidence, he was still panicked because he had not received any news. Fortunately, the final result lived up to everyone's expectations, and Prince Dun's followers were wiped out one by one.

Prince Dun was also captured alive and taken directly to the clan house.

Within a few days, Yinzhen issued an edict listing the ten major crimes of Prince Dun: disrespecting the monarch, betraying the late emperor, forming a clique for personal gain, disrupting government affairs, blocking the channels for speech, beating ministers, embezzling money, harboring ulterior motives, abusing military power, and relying on his own troops for self-reliance.

All of these charges were extremely serious crimes punishable by death. Some people even reported that the eighth and ninth brothers in the clan affairs office were secretly involved in the collusion.

Yinzhen even killed his own brothers from the same mother, let alone his half-brothers?

So he ordered the execution directly!

And the Queen Mother also died.

At that time, strong soldiers broke into the Empress Dowager's bedroom just to rescue Prince Dun's wife and the Crown Prince and Princess. In the end, the Empress Dowager died, but Yinzhen did not look very sad.

It seems that the moment he decided to kill the Fourteenth Prince, Yinzhen gave up this precarious mother-son relationship.

Yinzhen and Meng Jingxian were chatting in the imperial study. Yinzhen celebrated his success, and at the same time he was grateful to Meng Jingxian for her perseverance that day, as well as the fact that Duke Meng was still strong and contributed to the effort, so they were discussing how to reward her.

The matter ended with the imperial decree conferring the title of Lady of Duke Meng.

While Yinzhen was in great joy, Nian Shilan was in a panic. His brother had always been on good terms with Prince Dun, so he couldn't be considered as one of Prince Dun's accomplices and be purged by Yinzhen, right?

Prince Dun had been executed, so the next step was to deal with his followers in the court. Some were killed, some were demoted, and some were exiled.

As for Nian Gengyao, as an important ally of Prince Dun and a close confidant, he even embezzled a lot of money. Naturally, the whole family would be implicated.

In addition, since Nian Gengyao had been a frivolous person in the past, not many people were willing to plead for him, and most people wanted to step on him.

As a result, many ministers wrote letters to advise Yinzhen to govern the country more strictly to prevent such a situation of having too many troops to control from happening again, especially people like Nian Gengyao who held a large number of troops, to serve as a warning to others.

When Nian Shilan heard the news, she rushed to find Yinzhen without stopping.

Su Peisheng came in with a bow and reported: "Your Majesty, Empress, Concubine Hua is outside asking for an audience."

Yinzhen's expression froze for a moment, thinking of how much he had wronged Nian Shilan. He could imagine that Nian Shilan was here to plead for Nian Gengyao. So he said coldly, "No."

Nian Shilan knelt outside the door and begged bitterly, her forehead was bleeding and even her hairpin was crooked, but Yinzhen refused to come out to see her.

Xia Dongchun wanted to help Nian Shilan up, "Madam..."

But she was interrupted by a look from Nian Shilan. She knelt and kowtowed stubbornly, hoping that Yinzhen would listen to her and let her brother go.