Crossing the Palace Fighting Fox Harem

Chapter 483 The Emperor's Background

The candlelight in the room flickered and almost went out. Long Mohan saw that the general's face was as gloomy as the dark clouds outside the window. In order to hide his panic, Long Mohan raised the tea bowl and took a sip, but he could clearly feel that his hand holding the tea was shaking slightly. "General, to what extent are you going to slander my mother before you stop? Before, you said that she was suspected of framing the little prince, and now you say that I am not the late emperor's biological son..."

The general continued calmly, "When I think about it carefully, I realize that everything is fate and there is no escape. I believe that the emperor should have heard of the curse circulating among the mountain ghosts. Taizu's act of moving mountains to build palaces blasphemed the gods, so the Long family bloodline is destined not to be passed on for three generations. The bloodline of the third generation of monarchs of the Tianyou Holy Dynasty after Taizu and the late emperor was cursed and ended by the little prince who died in the well three years ago. The child born to the late emperor by Concubine Shui is the last legitimate royal family of the Tianyou Holy Dynasty. The others who stayed behind..." The voice gradually weakened, and the last tail tone seemed to be swallowed by darkness and fell silent.

Long Mohan sat straight, holding the armrests of the chair tightly with both hands. Even though his mind kept reminding him to stay calm, the overwhelming feeling in his heart had already overwhelmed him and he couldn't extricate himself. "In that case... General, why don't you tell me who my biological father is? How could he have an affair with my mother in the harem, and why did my father know nothing about it?"

"The late emperor was not completely unaware of this. He knew everything. That is why he took Concubine Hui as his concubine. Otherwise, did the emperor really think that the late emperor would favor a maid in Tangyu Palace? This is so absurd."

Concubine Hui was neither a stunning beauty nor a genius. She was just an ordinary maid in the palace. The only thing that made her likable was her gentleness and obedience. But there were so many women like her in the harem, so why did Concubine Hui become the imperial concubine? In fact, Long Mohan himself knew that something was wrong, but he never doubted his mother, and only thought it was a strange fate.

Seeing the truth right before the general's lips, Long Mohan growled timidly, "Stop talking!"

However, the general insisted on his own way and had no intention of stopping. He spoke in an even more urgent voice: "Your Majesty, everyone thinks that I am disloyal and have long been planning a rebellion, but that is not true. How can I continue to be loyal to you when I see a cruel woman repaying kindness with enmity and pushing a child who is not of the previous emperor's bloodline to the throne?"

The general finally told all the inside story he knew. In fact, Long Mohan was the child of Concubine Hui and a guard. Concubine Hui's original name was Hanwen, and she was a maid in the palace of Concubine Tang Yu. One day, when the late emperor visited Tang Yu's palace, he found that she was three months pregnant. After a while, it might be impossible to hide it. With Tang Yu's temper, at the very least, she would be forced to have an abortion, and at the worst, she would be beaten to death. The late emperor loved Queen Wang alone, but the queen had no children, and the ministers in the court all advised the late emperor to continue the dragon vein as soon as possible. The late emperor felt pity for Hanwen, so he simply took Hanwen as a concubine and let her give birth to the child under his shadow to shut up the ministers.

Fearing that Tang Yu would get jealous and retaliate, Queen Wang took the initiative to bring Han Wen, who was named Concubine Hui, to the Queen's Palace to live with her. One reason was to protect Concubine Hui, and the other was to raise Concubine Hui's child as her own son, so that even if Concubine Hui's son became emperor in the future, he would still be filial to the Queen. Unexpectedly, Tang Yu later designed to send Long Mohan to the Qi Palace as a hostage. A few years later, Queen Wang passed away, and the late emperor, who had lost his beloved, finally began to favor other concubines in order to continue his offspring. However, Concubine Hui, who had been living in the Queen's Palace, had a swell of power desire. She wanted to bring Long Mohan back to the palace to be the emperor, and she also wanted to be the empress dowager herself. She tried to win over Kang Qingyuan and wanted to bring Long Mohan back to the palace together. But not long after, Concubine Shui Cong gave birth to a little prince for the emperor, and the general changed his mind and decided to give up Long Mohan and support the little prince as the emperor.

"One is a legitimate royal, and the other is the illegitimate son of a palace maid and a guard. Your Majesty, if it were you, you would definitely make the same choice as me." The general stroked his beard and sighed deeply. "Now the world is in a state of turmoil. If we don't tell the truth about your life to the Ghost King and persuade him to give up revenge, I'm afraid our great country will be destroyed. Your Majesty, I have ordered Xuanjizi to prepare to summon the Ghost King. At that time, the emperor's life story will be revealed to the Ghost King and the world. Your Majesty, do you want to speak for yourself or let me do it for you? It's up to you."

After hearing this, Long Mohan burst into laughter, and his eyes instantly became fierce. He questioned, "General, words are not enough, do you have any evidence? My mother is dead, of course you can slander her. You said my father was a guard, what about him?"

The general sneered and said calmly: "He died a long time ago, and was killed by Concubine Hui herself - or I helped Concubine Hui bury the body."

"You are lying!" Long Mohan could no longer remain calm. He grabbed the tea bowl next to him and smashed it at the general's feet.

"A woman who can kill her own lover, I can't help but suspect that she is the murderer who killed the little prince." Even though Long Mohan was angry, the general's voice remained calm, and he slowly recalled the past. "Concubine Hui often met with your father in the orchard. Later, for some unknown reason, they had an argument, and Concubine Hui simply killed him to silence him. After the murder, Concubine Hui was panicked and had to come to me for help, so I helped her bury your father's body on the spot to destroy the body. If you don't believe it, you can go to the orchard to dig it out and have a look. You should remember when you were a child that Concubine Hui always carried a jade pendant with her. That jade pendant was actually a token of love, and the other one was on your father's body - it had been buried with the body in the orchard."

Long Mohan's mind exploded, and he could no longer hear the general's next words. Although he wanted to refute, he remembered that Concubine Hui did wear a half-moon shaped jade pendant. When Long Mohan was a child, he asked Concubine Hui if it was a reward from his father. But Concubine Hui shook her head gently. No matter how Long Mohan asked, Concubine Hui refused to say a word. If the general hadn't mentioned it, Long Mohan would have almost forgotten this past. In his memory, every time this jade pendant was mentioned, Concubine Hui's face was always very gloomy. It seemed that she had many secrets in her heart, but she couldn't speak them out.

"Your Majesty, this is all I want to say tonight. Believe it or not, it is up to you. The reason why I told Your Majesty before the truth came to light is that I took into consideration the relationship between us as monarch and subject. Your Majesty, the country does not belong to you. Now for the sake of the people, I beg Your Majesty to issue an edict to abdicate during the sacrificial ceremony." After saying this, the general stood up and bowed to Long Mohan, "Your Majesty, I will take my leave."

Watching the general disappear at the door, Long Mohan sat there in a daze, without any movement for a long time. Not only could his body not move, but even his thoughts were frozen. He sat there for a long, long time, so long that he was about to turn into a stone statue, but he still couldn't calm down.

He had never coveted the throne, and the only reason he returned to the palace was to find out the cause of Huifei's death. But now, not only could he not prove Huifei's wrongful death and avenge her, but all the accusations pointed at Huifei as a murderer who had killed several people. He could not believe that his mother had committed such a heinous crime, and he could not connect the mother in the general's words with the gentle and beautiful mother in his memory...

The pain in his chest became more and more severe, and suddenly a fishy smell surged up violently. Long Mohan spat out a mouthful of blood with a "wow". He was already suffering from a serious illness and was weak, and now he was stimulated by the horrifying truth, and his condition became more serious. He hurriedly took out a handkerchief to cover his mouth, and after vomiting blood several times in a row, his breathing gradually slowed down. "Yizhen... Yizhen..." He made a weak cry and raised his blood-stained hand tremblingly, thinking that Yizhen would come to help him.

But Yizhen, who was hiding in the inner room, did not move. She heard everything the general said to Long Mohan just now without missing a word. Her degree of surprise was not inferior to Long Mohan, but several times greater than Long Mohan. Long Mohan was not an emperor of noble blood, but the illegitimate son of a palace maid and a guard... The general was already preparing for the sacrifice... The day of the sacrifice was the day when Long Mohan abdicated...

I finally gained the favor of the emperor and thought I could finally hold my head high in this harem. Unexpectedly... this emperor is not an emperor at all, he is just an impostor... and a half-dead impostor who is about to be kicked off the throne!

"Impossible... Impossible... This is fake, fake..." Yizhen looked ahead blankly with her eyes out of focus, but she could not see Long Mohan's hand raised in the air. Her ears were filled with the general's words just now, and she could not hear Long Mohan's voice calling her at all. She subconsciously backed away, backed away... until she hit the wall behind her, and then she finally came to her senses. She found that there was a back door next to her, and without thinking much, she pulled the bolt and rushed out.

It was raining heavily outside the house, making a loud "shua hua" sound. In the vast rain, the guards did not even notice her running figure. Yizhen was soaked all over, letting the rain wash over her, trying to calm herself down.

This must be a trick of the general, a trick to force Long Mohan to abdicate! I don't believe there is a body in the orchard. Even if there is, it must not be Long Mohan's father! With only this belief in her heart, Yizhen, who had already become a drowned chicken, ran towards the orchard in the storm.