In ancient times, she gave birth to seven daughters and was divorced by her husband's family.

"Father, how did you come back?" The emperor's face suddenly changed. He hurried forward to support the retired emperor and helped him sit down inside the house. "You came back so suddenly, why didn't you let the people outside know? I can send someone to pick you up!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the emperor kicked the emperor on the butt, making him scream.

The emperor was already very sleepy, and was kicked awake. He asked aggrievedly, "Why is my father suddenly angry?"

Although he felt ashamed and angry, the other party was his own father, so how could he dare to lose his temper?

The emperor could only look at the emperor emeritus cautiously.

Then the Emperor Emeritus flew into a rage, "Why didn't you tell me such a big thing? How dare you hide it from me!"

"Why, are you afraid that I might do something to the Queen?"

The emperor's heart skipped a beat, and he quickly asked, "Father, are you talking about... Bai Lu being arrested?"

"What else could it be?!" the emperor asked with disgust.

"Send someone to invite the Queen immediately!"

He lowered his head, his face filled with sadness, "But... the Queen is dying!"

Seeing the emperor's dejected look, the retired emperor was speechless: "You... you can't understand the affairs of the previous dynasty, and you can't understand the intrigues and conspiracies in the harem."

"It's ridiculous that they even allowed these calculations to get mixed up with the previous dynasty!"

He paused, his tone cold: "The Queen was never a good person, she deserved to die!"

"But if she harms Bai Lu out of her own selfish motives, don't blame me for settling the score with her accomplices!"

"Who do you think her accomplices could be?!"

The emperor was confused, but the emperor emeritus did not beat around the bush and spoke slowly.

"Of course it's Pei Huizhou!"

The emperor trembled and staggered, opening his mouth as if to beg for mercy.

The Emperor immediately blocked his mouth and said, "I also heard that you arranged a marriage for Bai Lu, and the object was Pei Huizhou?"

"Do you like Pei Huizhou so much? For him, you're willing to arrange this kind of marriage for Bai Lu?"

"What is Bai Lu's identity? What is Pei Huizhou's identity? Don't you have any idea?"

The emperor grew angrier as he spoke: "One is a hero of the dynasty, and the other is a traitor. You insist on tying the traitor and the hero together. Have you asked Bai Lu if she agrees?"

"Have you ever thought whether she would like to be a widow again?"

"If she becomes a widow again, she will be a second-married woman! Do you know what the world will think of her?"

"I thought this child was truly miserable... but what a shame!" The retired emperor's tone grew even graver. "Bai Lu is even more unlucky than I thought. She was actually captured by the Turkic Khan in Zhaozhou!"

He stared at the emperor intently and asked in a cold voice, "Do you know why the Turkic Khan is in Zhaozhou?"

The emperor was stunned for a moment.

He really hadn't thought about this problem.

Then the emperor continued, "It's because the Turkic Khan was brought there by Pei Huizhou!"

"He relied on... not his own connections, but Pei Huizhou's help!"

"Why do you think Pei Huizhou wanted to help the Turkic Khan go to Zhaozhou? Why do you think the Turkic Khan stayed in Zhaozhou? Haha!!!"

"Zhaozhou has become a dead city, plague is everywhere, and lives are in ruins. Even Bai Lu, the person you care about the most and feel the most guilty about, was almost killed!"

"You're biased towards Pei Huizhou to the core! Everyone has to revolve around him, Pei Huizhou. Even if it means everyone gets killed, you don't care, right?"

The words of the retired emperor were like a sharp knife, piercing the emperor completely. "How...how could this be?"

In fact, he had thought about this before, but he didn't want to believe it, and he didn't have time to think about it at that time.

Now that the retired emperor had made his point clear, the emperor was shocked all over and collapsed to the ground, unable to utter a word for a long time.

At this time, the emperor turned around and looked for something. The emperor didn't bother to ask him what he was looking for. His mind was blank.

But the next second, a big stick fell on him hard, and the emperor screamed in pain.

The Emperor beat him and scolded him: "I told you not to allow Pei Huizhou to harm Bai Lu! I told you not to allow him to harm Bai Lu! I told you not to be confused!"

"Ouch! Father, it hurts! Stop hitting me!"

"If Bai Lu really died, or if something happened to her in Zhaozhou, how could you be worthy of her?!"

"How can I be worthy of the Bai family's wife, Zhao?"

"How can we be worthy of the people of Zhaozhou City?"

"How can I be worthy of Bai Lu's sincere heart of loyalty and patriotism?"

"You ignore the important matters and trust the treacherous ministers. What on earth are you thinking?"

The emperor was beaten half to death, but the retired emperor did not stop and dragged him to the queen's palace.

The retired emperor knew that the empress could not stand any provocation at the moment, and he had no intention of teaching her the same lesson he gave the emperor. He just wanted to state some facts to her.

He walked with great vigor and looked even more energetic than the emperor.

The queen was lying in the palace recuperating from illness when she suddenly heard a commotion outside. The maid Hongying beside her reported it tremblingly.

"Your Majesty, the Empress, the Grand...Emperor Retired has arrived!"

"Why is the Emperor here?" The Queen was stunned for a moment, then opened her eyes and said with a face full of resistance, "I won't see you!"

"Just say I'm seriously ill and let him go see His Majesty!"

Now that so many things have happened in the palace, she doesn't want to see anyone.

Hongying responded tremblingly, her heart full of fear.

During this period, the queen was obviously a little crazy. Not only did she fall out with the emperor, but her health was also getting worse day by day.

The emperor has ordered the doctors of the Imperial Medical Bureau to do their utmost to prolong the queen's life. Now all kinds of expensive and strong medicines have been used. Although her body has been severely tortured, she has managed to hold on. It is estimated that she can still hold on for a few more days, and maybe she can really wait for Bai Lu to return.

But the queen now looks so thin that she is just a bag of bones. She looks so pitiful...

At this moment, the palace gate outside was pushed open with a "clang".

Several palace maids rushed in and reported to Hongying, "Aunt Hongying, the Emperor and His Majesty are here!"

"Your Majesty...Your Majesty was dragged here!"

Upon hearing this, Hongying hurried back to the Queen and said, "Your Majesty, His Majesty has been dragged here by the Retired Emperor. I'm afraid something big has happened. How about we go out and take a look?"

The queen paused for a moment, then slowly opened her eyes, looking very tired.

Her eyes were cloudy and lifeless. She nodded and said, "In that case, I will go out and take a look."

She was wearing thick clothes, but still felt cold.

She didn't go to the main hall either. She just stood at the door of her room, looking at the emperor in the courtyard.

"Father." The Queen bowed to the Emperor.

The retired emperor threw the emperor to the ground and said to the queen calmly, "Queen, I have a few words to say to you."

"Please give your orders, father." The queen raised her eyes and stared at the retired emperor, her eyes calm, as if she had already predicted what the retired emperor was going to say.

The Emperor looked at her emaciated appearance and was silent for a while. Finally, he said to the Queen, "It's all the royal family's fault for you."

"When you pass away... I will personally decide, against all odds, to have your ashes sent to the Huguo Temple outside the city, so you can be with the mountains and rivers."

"You can never return to the Bai family, but I won't let you stay in the imperial mausoleum."

The Queen nodded and said to the Emperor, "Thank you, Father. I really don't want to stay in the Imperial Mausoleum."

"There's Concubine Liang in the imperial mausoleum... She's my relative. How could I be there... Two women sharing one man?"

When the emperor heard this, he felt his face burning.

The Emperor nodded and said, "I think so too. I heard that you made this request to the Emperor before... but he didn't agree because he had to give an explanation to the customs officials."

"Then I will promise you on behalf of the emperor."

"Thank you, Father."

"But... Father, you came here not just to say this, right?" asked the Queen.

The Emperor said coldly to the Empress, "I already know that you colluded with Pei Huizhou to harm Bai Lu and arranged for her to marry Pei Huizhou. There's no point in saying more about this matter. You know you were wrong and even wrote a letter to Bai Lu. Haha, I won't mention this anymore. I'm here to talk about something else."

He stared at the queen and said word by word, "Do you know that Bai Lu is now trapped in Zhaozhou, captured by the Turkic Khan, and his life or death is unknown! Moreover, how many people died in the Zhaozhou City epidemic!"

Hearing this, the queen's eyes flickered.

She stared at the emperor, her lips trembling for a long time, unable to utter a word.

The Emperor then said, "You think you're living a miserable life, but do you think Bai Lu is living a good life?"

"You and Pei Huizhou are colluding and indirectly harming Bai Lu!"

"Perhaps you don't want Bai Lu to stay with that Turkic Khan in Zhaozhou... because you know Bai Lu is your family! You don't want Bai Lu's innocence to be ruined by the Turkic Khan, you don't want Bai Lu's innocence to be ruined by other Turkic soldiers, you don't want a miracle doctor to die of the plague, you don't want a military commander to die in his bed, you don't want your child to lose his mother forever!"

"But...these consequences have already happened!"

"Don't you regret it later?"

The Queen was silent, then nodded: "Of course I regret it... I regret it so much!"

Everyone says that the royal family harmed themselves and Bai Lu, but wasn’t it me who harmed Bai Lu?

As the queen and aunt, I have never done anything good for Bai Lu.

The queen felt a dull pain in her heart. She was already ill, and now she could no longer hold on. She fell to the ground with a weak breath and seemed about to faint.

At this time, a figure suddenly jumped out from behind the retired emperor and fed the queen a pill, and the queen's breathing gradually calmed down.

The Emperor waved his hand, asked Hongying to help the Queen onto the bed, and said, "Let the Queen sleep."

Having said that, the retired emperor left, leaving the emperor here.

What he did now was just to make the queen recognize some of her crimes and let her know who she had harmed.

Bailu was good to the Queen from the beginning to the end, but the Queen harmed Bailu for various interests.

Just because a person is suffering doesn’t mean she is right.

It's just one person being miserable, so what? Could it be that Bai Lu brought her misery?

No.

Why did she inflict her pain on others? Why?

That night, neither the emperor nor the queen slept.

The two most noble people in the world were both heartbroken for Bai Lu.

Maybe a few years ago, Bailu did not expect...

These two most noble people in the world will cry for her, feel sad for her, lose their appetite for food and sleep for her.

After all, from the very beginning, she was just a poor and ordinary grassroots widow, looked down upon by everyone in the world.

She struggled all the way up, not relying on her status, but relying on her own abilities, so that the best people in the world could see her and sympathize with her... It was really difficult for Bai Lu.

And Bai Lu shouldn't have to endure all this.

This shouldn't be the life Bai Lu lived, this shouldn't be the life she experienced.

In the end, they were the ones who harmed Bai Lu.

There was a storm in Kyoto.

The ministers in the court all knew that the emperor and the empress were in a bad mood recently and had a conflict between them, so the ministers restrained their sharpness.

He was even more nervous when attending court. He tried not to say anything unless it was out of the ordinary and only followed the rule of "report if there is something to report, and leave the court if there is nothing to report."

One day, they suddenly learned a big event: the emperor had beaten the emperor last night and scolded the queen because of Bai Lu.

Then, they received another piece of important news: "The emperor was beaten so badly that he couldn't get out of bed, so the morning court session will be postponed a little."

This is unprecedented!

All the ministers were very surprised. While waiting in front of the Golden Throne Hall, the corners of their mouths could not help twitching. They were speechless and started to complain to each other.

"Alas, His Majesty and the Queen only know how to do these weird things... If they hadn't treated Bai Lu so badly, they wouldn't have gone to such lengths!"

"Ah, but I heard... that His Majesty and the Empress are actually quite nice to Bai Lu."

"Hey, that's what I heard! If he really cared about her, why would he let Bai Lu marry Pei Huizhou?!"

After hearing this, the ministers all nodded, thinking it made a lot of sense: the emperor and the queen were good to Bai Lu, but not that good.

That's why the emperor now stood up to make the decision for Bai Lu.

They are the ones who truly love Bai Lu!

"But, have you heard? Something big happened at the border."

"Several generals and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince have gone to Zhaozhou, claiming they want to rescue Lady Bai!"

When everyone heard this, their minds became active again.

One of the ministers sighed, "White Lady is truly a formidable figure. With her mere womanhood, she has single-handedly stirred up the world, making all the powerful men in the world run after her!"

Everyone nodded, this actually had nothing to do with Bai Lu's identity.

She is the daughter of Mrs. Zhao. Although everyone will love her because of her, it is not that exaggerated.

If Bai Lu had not made countless contributions to the people of the world, if Bai Lu had not been kind to others many times, no one would have been so selfless and risked their lives for her!

At this time, a young eunuch came in from outside, hurriedly holding two documents and going into the Golden Palace. It turned out to be an urgent report from the border.