Chapter 433 - 433Everyone was looking forward to the two drops of blood that had fallen into the bowl. The empress watched as the two drops of fresh blood slowly mixed with each other, with a deathly expression on her face.
However, there wasn"t much joy on his face.
It is true that Zhong Lixian is the Emperor"s prince, but … But Zhong Lixian wasn"t her biological son!
When the crowd saw the two drops of blood fuse together, they all revealed disappointed expressions.
If the two drops of blood did not fuse, the position of the empress and the crown prince might change.
Zhong Lixian let out a long sigh of relief in her heart, and turned around to take another look at Wei Yuanwei.
Seeing Wei Yuanwei smiling at him, all the worries in her heart melted into Wei Yuanwei"s smile.
He believed that Wei Yuanwei would not let him die because she wanted him to live even more than she did!
When the Emperor saw the blood within the bowl, his expression became slightly better. Afterwards, he repeatedly warned everyone not to bring up this matter again. Even more so, he wanted today"s matter to be buried in his stomach.
"Your majesty, this only proves that the crown prince is yours, but it doesn"t prove that the crown prince is the empress"s. Otherwise, how could a mother be so cold and detached towards her son?" Wei Yuanwei once again glanced at the empress, who had no trace of blood.
The empress"s face was as pale as snow. Her n.o.ble demeanor was long gone, like a stray dog.
The concubines of the imperial harem all began to converse amongst themselves.
"Your Majesty, this concubine fully approves of what the Miss Wei has to say. Didn"t the previous dynasty have a Queen Wei? At that time, Empress Wei and Shufei happened to be pregnant. The previous emperor had said that whoever gave birth to a prince would be allowed to become Empress? Empress Wei and Empress Shu gave birth to princes on the same day, while Empress Wei gave birth to princes and princesses. In order to become Empress Wei, he ordered people to exchange their children for Empress Shu"s children.
After the emperor heard the imperial concubine"s words, he also became suspicious of the empress. The empress had only given birth to Zhong Lixian after entering the palace for three years, and his favor to the empress had never lessened in the future. He would go to the empress"s palace every month, but the empress would never give birth to a single daughter.
"Your majesty, Xing"er is chenqie"s child. Chenqie saw him grow up with her own eyes …" The empress"s body collapsed to the ground like a pool of soft mud, her miserable voice full of pleading.
The emperor looked at the empress again, indifferent to the empress"s pleas. He still ordered the imperial physicians to bind Zhong Lixian and the empress by blood.
The moment she heard the news, the empress almost fainted, her entire body turning incomparably cold.
She had never thought that the scheme she had plotted against Wei Yuanwei would actually become her deadly killing machine.
The result was as Zhong Lixian had expected. He was not born of the empress, so she naturally did not have any blood ties with the empress.
When the emperor saw this result, he was actually shocked. He never thought that Zhong Lixian was actually not born by the empress.
Even the crowd was shocked. Since Zhong Lixian was not born of the empress, then who was Zhong Lixian"s birth mother?
Did he take it from another concubine? However, with her ident.i.ty as the empress, there was no need to seize it. As long as the concubine in the palace got pregnant, the guest room would record the case again.
At this point in time, everyone"s attention was focused on the fact that the crown prince was not the empress"s biological father, and the emperor had no time to care about Dongpo Tu!
The empress fainted at the last moment, and the emperor ordered his men to put her in jail, along with the servants at her side, including the Fourth Marquis and Fourth Concubine.
Zhong Lixian"s play was played out well, when he found out the truth, he looked extremely shocked and disbelieving, as though his entire soul had been instantly dispersed, and he stood there in a daze.
When the guard carried the Queen who pretended to be unconscious walked past Wei Yuanwei, Wei Yuanwei faintly lifted the corner of her lips and said with a voice that could only be heard by the Queen herself, "Do you want to know why your fingernails suddenly fell off? That"s because on the night that you prepared to kill me, I went back to my room to change the clothes of a palace maid, sneaked into your palace, and smeared the poison on your armor. Very soon, your nails would completely fall off.
The Queen"s tightly shut eyes moved, as if she heard what Wei Yuanwei said.
After the empress was taken away, the banquet immediately dispersed. At this time, the emperor had no time to think about other matters.
When Zhong Lixian and Wei Yuanwei left, Wei Yuanwei did not forget to take the map of the east slope away.
When the two of them returned to the crown prince"s palace, Zhong Lixian, who had been silent all this while, finally asked about the doubt in her heart, "How did you know that the empress had hidden that painting on her body?" Actually, he didn"t want to believe that the empress would hide the evidence from him either.
Wei Yuanwei laughed, "Zhong Lixian, do you think I"m stupid? Since the empress wants to kill me, how can she let me off so easily? When I walked into the Ten Thousand Flowers House, I knew that the empress had definitely plotted a scheme for me! "
"Wei Yuanwei, it"s such a pity for you to be a woman!" Zhong Lixian couldn"t help but admit it as her eyes revealed an additional look of admiration.
He had always been looking for a suitable opportunity to break free from the Queen"s restraints and control, but he had never thought that this day would come so unexpectedly.
If he wasn"t prepared in the slightest, then when the emperor found out who his mother was, then it would be time for him, the crown prince, to be crippled.
Of course, this was not to be completely destroyed!
"That is to say, you placed the painting on the empress?" Wei Yuanwei had never left her side.
Wei Yuanwei smiled faintly, "Crown Prince, this is a very simple matter. All you need to do is to bribe a person …"
"Who?" Zhong Lixian asked.
Wei Yuanwei looked at Little Yun Zi, who was following behind them.
Zhong Lixian looked at Xiao Yun Zi in confusion.
"When Fourth Princess had me take the painting down, I had Little Yun Zi secretly follow after her. In the end, the servant girl threw the painting out the window, and coincidentally, someone caught it from below. The person hid the painting in the gra.s.s, so Little Yun Zi decided to take it back. Actually, that painting didn"t fall from the empress"s body at all, but from her seat. It"s just that the empress"s clothes were covering it, which was why everyone mistakenly thought that it fell from the emperor"s hands! " Wei Yuanwei explained the situation to Zhong Lixian.