12dz Chapter 416 Corpse
Chapter 416 Corpse
corpse?!
When Concubine Rong heard the news, she didn't care about anything else and ran out of the palace in panic and horror.
The emperor had seen Empress Ji's reaction and assumed that Jiang Lin had been temporarily imprisoned by Empress Ji or that the Third Prince had bullied him, so he had detained him to cover up the incident. After all, they had done this before, and it had always been a minor incident that they had quickly returned to their homes.
I didn’t expect that this time he would actually kill the person!!
He instantly turned sideways, staring at Queen Ji in horror, his mind filled with thoughts.
"Jia Ru, did you do this?!" Seeing that Concubine Rong had already left, he couldn't help but get angry and asked this question coldly.
"Your Majesty, it's not me. I haven't been out today. If you don't believe me, just ask Miaoyun, Miaoyue, and the guards at the door. They can all testify for me!"
Queen Ji's eyes moved faster than windmills. She lowered her head, trying hard to hold back two tears, and then stared at him sadly.
"That's my son! How could you be so cruel?!"
The emperor was no longer bewitched by her charming words. He just looked at her coldly, with a hint of coldness that she didn't usually have.
He knew her best. She was someone who couldn't hide many things. If someone was interested, one could tell from her little movements.
This matter is definitely related to the Queen!
This was a serious matter, and the one who died was one of his only two princes. No matter how much he favored the third prince, he was still his own flesh and blood after all, and he was still extremely angry at this moment.
Empress Ji saw that the emperor was angry, and she gently pulled his hand and held it against her heart. Her eye circles and the tip of her nose turned red instantly, her mouth pursed, and she looked like she was about to choke and cry.
"Your Majesty, you don't love Jiaru anymore..."
I thought he would be soft-hearted as usual, but I didn't expect a shadow to pass by my eyes. With a strong push of a big hand, the emperor stood up and threw her to the other side of the armchair.
"Murdering the prince, do you know what the charge is? What on earth are you made of?! This is ridiculous!"
The emperor stood up suddenly, with a turbulent look in his dark eyes, and immediately walked out of Kunning Palace without looking back.
He Yuanguang followed the emperor jogging with a lantern, and it took him two quarters of an hour to finally reach the Renzhi Hall where the fourth prince's body was found.
From a distance, Rong Fei's sad cries could be faintly heard.
The emperor walked towards the back hall with a cold face. As he stepped over the threshold, what caught his eye was a woman in silk clothes crying bitterly and a corpse that was fished out of the well and was soaked all white.
Concubine Rong lay on the Fourth Prince's body, screaming heart-wrenchingly.
"Lin'er, my Lin'er, why did you leave? Who is so vicious that not only did he kill you, but he also used such a cruel method to make you look nothing like you did in life..."
"Mother is here. Mother has finally found you. Tell me who harmed you. Even if I become a ghost, I will seek revenge for you..."
"Lin'er, wake up. When you wake up, I'll ask someone to buy you your favorite snacks from outside the palace. It's all my fault. I didn't promise you. You left so soon and didn't even get to taste the food you liked."
"Lin'er, why are you so miserable? In this life, you have suffered with your useless mother. In your next life, you must find a good family and don't want to be the emperor's son again..."
Desperate cries echoed outside the empty back hall, like waves of nightmares, threatening to trap people to death in such a dark and creepy autumn night.
When the emperor heard her last sentence, he frowned instantly.
What does it mean to not be the emperor’s son?
Is there anything wrong with being his son?
Wouldn't it be good for Xu'er to be his son?
Suddenly, something seemed to hit his brain, and a faint light flashed.
Yes, apart from Xu'er, he seems to have no other son...
The crown prince was Jiang Muyao's son, but not his.
This is also the fundamental reason why he has always been determined to make the third prince the crown prince.
But now it seems that he only has the preface!
That Jia Ru's move...
He didn't know if he was overthinking it. Did Jiaru remember something?
Didn’t Jiang Shaozhao clearly say before that he had erased her memory?
Why did she kill Jiang Lin at this critical moment?
Didn’t they always target the prince in the past?
The emperor's confused thoughts were brought back to normal by Concubine Rong's mournful wail. He sighed, strode to her side, and took off his cloak, which he rarely did, and draped it over her shoulders.
"Rong'er, Lin'er is gone. He definitely doesn't want to see you like this. Don't be sad anymore..."
Before he could finish his words, the man in front of him suddenly swung his hand, glared at him fiercely and shouted: "Get out! Don't think I don't know what kind of person you are!"
Rong Fei didn't know where she got the courage from, but she stared at him with her bloodthirsty red eyes, as if she was looking at some unforgivable evil spirit.
"You and Ji Jiaru were in cahoots, repeatedly indulging her and Jiang Xu. Not only did they repeatedly bully us mother and son, but in the end, they even killed Lin'er! Watching the children and concubines in the harem die one by one, don't you feel the slightest bit of pain in your heart? Are you worthy of being an emperor? Are you worthy of being a father?!"
"Jiang Muyao, you are an incompetent idiot!"
Concubine Rong was so angry that she went insane. Every word she said was like an icy nail smashing down to the earth after a winter thunder. She vowed to nail the emperor to the darkest and most hidden pillar of shame.
"Shut up!" the emperor and He Yuanguang spoke at the same time.
The emperor had previously felt sorry for Concubine Rong because her child had died and could not bear it.
But seeing her insulting him like this, as if she regarded the Fourth Prince as more important than herself, he became extremely angry.
Even a mere concubine Rong dared to question and scold him like this?
She was just a vassal in his hands, an ant that could be crushed to death at any time!
How dare you call a person like this a fool?!
Concubine Rong was not surprised by the emperor's attitude at this time. She snorted lightly and then laughed softly.
"Stupid and incompetent! A coward who can't even protect his own flesh and blood!"
The wind blew across her eyes, and she laughed so hard that her body shook and tears welled up in her eyes.
She stood up and looked around the Renzhi Hall. "Every day after school, I remind Lin'er not to look around and to go straight back to Zhongcui Palace. Over the years, he has always abided by the rules and never overstepped the boundaries. But today, how long has it been since the Empress Dowager passed away? Outside this hall where her body is resting, someone is using her to murder Lin'er!"
"Could it be that the Emperor is completely unaware of this perpetrator? Or have you become accustomed to always being submissive to Ji Jiaru over the years, without caring about other people's lives?!"
There was a pain in his eyes that gnawed at his heart and rotted his bones, and his voice was hoarse and desperate.
She was clearly smiling, but her hair, which had been disheveled for some time, the tear stains on her clothes, and the gorgeous yet ethereal figure in the void made her look as if she had already lost all life.
Moonlight filtered through thick fog, dimly filtering into the courtyard at the rear of the Renzhi Hall, surrounded by ancient pines. Inside, rows of Jinwu Guards, clad in armor and swords, stood. And in the center of this golden, dark glow, lay a young corpse and a lonely, mournful shadow.
Behind the Jinwu Guard stood a slightly plump and burly figure. The man had cold eyebrows and a sharp expression. He seemed to be very disturbed by the crying of the woman in front of him.
The emperor snorted coldly, his expression extremely cold: "Take Concubine Rong away and lock her up in Zhongcui Palace. No one is allowed to release her without my order!"
She actually dared to scold him like that. Considering that she lost her child today, he didn't banish her to the cold palace. This was already a special favor!
She must be left alone in Zhongcui Palace to wake up!
Concubine Rong laughed a few times, but her eyes were fixed on him. She waved her wide gauze sleeves a few times in the moonlight, staggered, but said nothing.
She followed the Jinwu Guards.
Dark clouds passed by the sky, covering the already dim moonlight, making it impossible to see the truth of the world.
Rong Fei's Zhongcui Palace was on the west side of Kunning Palace, but she deliberately took a detour in the direction of Kunning Palace.
The Jinwu Guards saw that the emperor was just imprisoned, and since the prince had just died, they felt sorry for her and didn't say much.
However, when he arrived outside Kunning Palace, the weak figure that had been following him suddenly flashed away and rushed into Kunning Palace again.