Abandoned by the best children? I just take out the space

The Crown Princess was aware of the Emperor's thoughts and felt that there was something she had overlooked.

She quickly tried to think of it, but she couldn't remember it no matter how hard she tried. She could only lower her head and use her curly eyelashes to hide the emotional changes in the depths of her eyes.

"My daughter-in-law did not lie. If you don't believe me, you can ask Princess An Qing."

Seeing that the Crown Princess did not change her words, the Emperor looked at her deeply and said in an inexplicable tone: "If the Crown Prince knew about you, he would be in a state of panic."

The Crown Princess' heart felt as if it had sunk into an ice cellar, and her hanging fingers trembled constantly.

She vaguely guessed the emperor's deeper meaning, but would rather not have guessed it.

With a thud, the Crown Princess knelt in front of the Emperor with tears streaming down her face, and said in a choked voice: "My daughter-in-law dare not lie, please judge for yourself, Father."

The prince is important, but the moment the queen died, the princess knew that there was no possibility for her and the prince anymore, unless the prince's background was exposed.

But how would the prince feel if this happened? The emperor would also be ridiculed, and the many princes under the emperor would probably regard the prince as an enemy.

The Crown Princess cares about the Crown Prince, but that care is not as great as that for her family or herself, so the Crown Princess would rather abandon the Crown Prince than let the Emperor use her as bait to threaten the Crown Prince.

She wanted to take this opportunity to make the emperor completely disgusted with the queen, so that the queen's death would become a foregone conclusion and the emperor would not have the possibility to use the queen's death to stir up trouble.

Even if doing so would cost her life, the Crown Princess would be happy to do so.

The Emperor saw through the Crown Princess's thoughts at a glance, and his anger kept rising. When it was about to turn into vicious words, he forced himself to swallow it back.

"In this case, I will grant you your wish. I only hope that you will appreciate your kindness."

After the emperor said this, he signaled several guards to take the Crown Princess away, and then looked directly at Xu Qinglu.

"I have heard about your deeds a long time ago, and I wanted to let the crown prince go to see you, but something happened in the Western Territory, so the crown prince had to go to the Western Territory to suppress He He first, and was unable to see you."

Xu Qinglu listened to the emperor's words and felt that he was just pretending, and her face turned extremely cold.

"I didn't expect that the prince would run to the dangerous border without even entering Luoyang City. This shows how much you, as his father, hate the prince."

He was planning to let the prince come to see her? The emperor had clearly shown his dislike for the prince, so how could he still say such a thing? Did she look easy to deceive?

"You care about the prince very much? So you have met the prince." The emperor's eyes were calm and indifferent.

"I've met him once." Xu Qinglu did not hide anything and admitted it straightforwardly.

Her straightforwardness was beyond the emperor's expectations. The emperor was stunned for a moment and asked in a puzzled tone: "You only met him once, and you care so much about the prince?"

"Isn't this your purpose?" Xu Qinglu said sarcastically, "I did what you wished for but you couldn't believe it. What's the matter? What did the Queen say in your ear that made you question me like this?"

"Since you have doubts about me, why did you let the Queen cooperate with you to give birth to a prince? What is the prince in your heart? A chess piece or a stepping stone?"

"The appearance of the Crown Prince has helped you a lot. You didn't take this into consideration and treated him better. Instead, you promoted other princes and asked them to compete with the Crown Prince. You helped these princes in private, which put the Crown Prince in a precarious situation. He had to do everything he could to consolidate his position."

"Emperor, you are so cruel. The prince is unlucky to have a father like you."

Xu Qinglu spoke here with great interest before she restrained her expression and stared straight at the emperor.

But seeing that his face was calm and composed, without any fluctuation at all due to her words, Xu Qinglu suddenly felt a little frustrated.

The emperor was even more shameless than she thought, and at this moment her people were defeated. She had already been defeated by the emperor. If she tried to test the emperor again, she would only become a clown for the emperor to laugh at.

Although Xu Qinglu intended to test the emperor, find out his true attitude towards the prince, and try to find out who the prince's biological mother was, the emperor did not cooperate. No matter how much she wanted to, she was unwilling to continue without anyone to protect her.

"An Qing once said that the Crown Princess is as cold-hearted as the Queen, but I think they are both like you. It's really sad that the Crown Prince is your son."

Xu Qinglu sighed softly, her eyes a little vague, as if she wanted to cast her gaze through the layers of palace walls to the prince far away at the border.

"Some people say that life is long and we can't always spend our time worrying about others, but I think life is short and we have to do something to feel at ease."

"Now that I have met you and confirmed some of your attitudes, I understand why the prince exists."

"My wish has been fulfilled. As for what will happen to the prince in the future, a traitor like me cannot guess. In this case, I should go see my family."

Xu Qinglu raised a bitter smile, but held up a sharp dagger in her hand and slashed her neck cleanly.

"Confused." The emperor was surprised and quickly asked someone to interrupt her, but he was a step too late.

The emperor cursed in a low voice that was difficult to hear, then quickly had Xu Qinglu carried into the palace, and asked the imperial physician with excellent medical skills to diagnose Xu Qinglu.

Several imperial doctors surrounded Xu Qinglu and were so busy that they kept their feet on the ground and cold sweat was pouring down their foreheads.

The emperor glanced at them and brought Su Dequan to the queen's body.

Looking down at the queen lying in a pool of blood, the emperor's expression was very obscure and difficult to understand.

Su Dequan stayed beside the emperor, feeling his silence. He felt the air around him begin to stagnate and his breathing slowed down unconsciously.

After a long time, the emperor's mournful voice reached his ears, which frightened him so much that his pupils shrank slightly and his face suddenly tensed.

"Queen, didn't I advise you? Why did you still do this?"

"I wanted to avenge you, but the Crown Princess admitted that she was the one who killed you. After all, she is your niece, so I had to spare her life for the sake of Lord Cheng'en."

"As for An Qing, she hates me to the core. I'm afraid she will completely escape my control. Your death is probably just the beginning for her."

"Empress, I am upset now and don't know what to do."

When the emperor received the news that the queen had taken Princess Anqing away, he guessed what the queen might have encountered, but he did not expect that the queen would die like this.

Once the queen died, some of the difficult things he was doing would be shelved, so when he faced the queen's body, the sadness he showed was real.

But that sadness became unimportant when I thought about what the Queen's death would trigger.

"Su Dequan, arrange for the Ministry of Rites to bury the queen with honor."

"Yes."

Su Dequan took the order and went to find Yang Guangqing, the Minister of Rites, to bring the emperor's order, and specifically reminded him: "Your Majesty is talking about a grand funeral, so the specifications and etiquette must be arranged properly, and there must be no mistakes."

Yang Guangqing's heart skipped a beat when he heard this, and he asked hurriedly, "Should we follow the old custom of lavish burial, or should we go a little beyond the norm? Eunuch Su, these are two different things, you must explain them to me clearly, and don't let me make any mistakes!"