kingnovel Chapter 505: Rebellious Son, Who Asked You to Take Care of My Affairs?
Chapter 505: Rebellious Son, Who Asked You to Take Care of My Affairs?
Jiang Dichen knew that his father was trying to delay time. He looked at him and said, "Father, I need you to deal with it now."
After he finished speaking, he paused and added: "I urgently need to go back and explain to everyone."
After the emperor heard his son's words, he looked at him with an unhappy face and said, "Fifth brother, everything has its priorities. You have to let me think about it."
After the emperor finished speaking, he looked at his son with a warning look, as if if he didn't cooperate with him today, his marriage with Shen Ruolan would be invalid.
The many ministers below didn't know what Jiang Dichen and his son were talking about. They looked at each other in confusion, and no one dared to speak for a while.
Jiang Dichen looked at his father who was full of threats. He said with a sullen face, "Father, I want to hear your answer in an hour. Otherwise, I will just throw the culprit to the innocent people and let them deal with it themselves."
The emperor's face turned pale and he asked, "Jiang Dichen, are you threatening me?"
Leaving the culprit to the common people to deal with it themselves, isn't this a slap in the face of him as the king of a country?
Jiang Dichen said expressionlessly: "I dare not reply to your words, father."
Jiang Dichen said he didn't dare, but his eyes showed his determination to do what he said, and he didn't even try to hide it.
The emperor was very angry when he saw his son like this. After many rounds of confrontation, the father and son both took a step back. Two hours later, the emperor gave his reply.
Because the emperor was in a bad mood, the ministers in the hall were exceptionally quiet today. Even many ministers who wanted to submit memorials quietly put away theirs, preparing to submit them when the emperor was in a better mood.
After the emperor left the court, he called the prince to the imperial study. He threw the evidence Jiang Dichen had given him on the table with a "smack" and shouted at the prince, "Look at what you have done?"
After the emperor finished speaking, he looked at the prince with a disappointed face and said, "Qing'er, let's not talk about the fact that Shen Ruolan saved your life, just because she is your brother's woman, you can't slander her like this!"
As the crown prince of a country, if he can't even tolerate a woman, how can he feel at ease to hand over the kingdom of Beiming to him in the future?
And what happened yesterday, he was present from beginning to end, he saw with his own eyes the people from the Shen family being poisoned to death after hearing that he had been trying hard to treat someone else's illness.
The shock and disbelief on that face was not the look of a person who had done something bad and was discovered, but an look that they could never have imagined in their dreams.
Jiang Qing looked at his furious father, feeling bitter in his heart. He silently stepped forward, picked up the evidence on the table and took a look at it, which shocked him.
He underestimated his fifth brother. He originally thought that it would be good enough if he could find twenty hidden chess pieces.
Unexpectedly, he found all the people he had not had time to find overnight. The speed was really surprising.
After Jiang Qing finished reading all the evidence, he looked up at his father and said, "Father, whether you believe it or not, I have absolutely no intention of harming Shen Ruolan..."
Seeing that his son still refused to admit it, the emperor pointed at the things on the table and shouted at him: "You said you didn't have them, then why don't you explain to me what these things are?"
Jiang Qing knelt on the ground and said to his father calmly: "Father, I am willing to be punished. Please punish me!"
In Jiang Qing's heart, although his mother was wrong, her starting point was all for him, so he was willing to bear all the consequences on behalf of his mother.
The emperor looked at his son who took the initiative to admit his mistake and felt distressed and disappointed. It was obviously not something he did, but he insisted on acting on impulse and was unwilling to even say a word of explanation. In this way, how could he shoulder the burden of Bei Ming in the future?
The emperor took a deep breath, looked at the prince and asked, "Qing'er, have you thought about it? The consequences of this punishment are not ordinary."
Jiang Qing was silent for a long time before he looked up at his father and said, "Father, I have thought about it."
Jiang Qing understood what his father meant. If he confessed his guilt, his position as crown prince would be abolished, or even more seriously, he would be exiled to the frontier and never allowed to return to the capital.
But for some reason, ever since he recovered from his illness, he no longer had such a deep obsession with the position of crown prince, so between his future and his mother, he would rather choose to let his mother live well.
In fact, Jiang Qing didn't know that the reason why he was not so obsessed with the throne was entirely because he practiced the Taoist health-preserving exercises taught by Shen Ruolan. When a person's self-cultivation reaches a certain stage, his mind will be as calm as water, and his desires will naturally decrease.
The emperor looked at his son deeply and said to him, "I'm glad you don't regret it."
After he finished speaking, he instructed Eunuch Li: "Eunuch Li, pass the order down..."
Before the emperor finished speaking, he heard the guard outside the door report: "Your Majesty, the Empress requests an audience."
When the emperor heard that the queen was coming, his face darkened instantly and he said to the guard outside the door: "Let her in."
The queen got permission, and she rushed in, hugged the prince who was kneeling on the ground, and said to the emperor: "Your Majesty, I did all this. If you want to punish someone, punish me, don't punish Qing'er, this is none of his business."
Jiang Qing listened to his mother's words, he looked at her and said: "Mother, please stop talking, I have just confessed my guilt to my father, please don't get involved in this matter."
He would not be punished to death, but if his mother was punished, Jiang Dichen would definitely not let her go.
The queen was very pleased to hear her son's words, but after a few breaths, she suddenly raised her hand and slapped the prince's face hard, angrily scolding him: "Rebellious son, who asked you to take care of my affairs?"
After saying that, she drove towards Jiang Qing and said, "Get out of here right now. I have something to say to your father."
Jiang Qing didn't understand how hard his mother worked. But the more his mother acted like this, the more he refused to leave. He knelt straight on the ground and said to his father with a firm face, "Father, I did everything. It has nothing to do with my mother. Please don't embarrass her."
Jiang Qing's words made the Queen so anxious that she almost cried. Seeing that he refused to leave, she directly scolded her son, "Qing'er, do you want to force your mother to death?"
Jiang Qing said: "Mother, I don't have any."
"Then get out!" the queen yelled at her son.
Jiang Qing looked at his mother and said with embarrassment: "Mother..."
The Queen continued to yell, "Get out!"
Jiang Qing had no choice but to stand up from the ground and walk out the door.
Empress Wu waited for her son to leave before she looked at the emperor and said, "Your Majesty, I am an accomplice in this incident. You can punish me however you want. Please don't make things difficult for Qing'er. He really knows nothing."