Use a substitute on your wedding night to scatter the ashes of your entire family

At this time, Emperor Jingzhang issued an edict that the Empress was not a good parent and was confined to Huaqing Palace. She was ordered to hand over the Phoenix Seal and all matters in the harem were handed over to Concubine Wan Shu to handle. At the same time, Concubine Wan Shu was promoted to Concubine Shu Gui.

After waking up, Queen Jiang lay on the bed, crying.

The emperor did not depose her from the position of empress because the prince had just sent him a celestial master.

The emperor could not do without the elixir made by the Taoist priest, which was said to bring immortality.

However, the third son died and the eldest son was disabled, and she didn't know how long she could sit on the throne of the queen, who was like being banished to the cold palace.

Suddenly, she sat up straight in bed. No, absolutely not!

She grabbed the hand of her trusted nanny, her nails almost digging into her flesh: "Go and find my father, go quickly!"

The nanny endured the severe pain and said in embarrassment: "Madam, Huaqing Palace has been sealed off, and there are imperial guards outside. How can I invite the Duke to you?"

Queen Jiang was like a madman, pacing around in the room anxiously: "No, this won't work. He will depose Ji'er from the position of Crown Prince. I can't let him do this, I can't! Ji'er is the eldest and the legitimate heir. He should be the future master of the Northern Jin Dynasty! No one can depose him!"

The confidant nanny didn't know what to say and could only kneel on the ground.

It was very late at night. All the lights in the huge imperial study were extinguished, leaving only a dim oil lamp. Emperor Jingzhang sat in the shadow, with only Zhang Desheng by his side.

"Desheng, how many years have you followed me?" Emperor Jingzhang's voice was extremely hoarse. The thing he was most proud of in his life, and the only thing that could compare to the late emperor, was that he had fathered six princes, all of whom lived to adulthood in peace and security.

Even Xiaoliu has been engaged, and the other princes have married and had children.

He thought they would all be safe and have a good ending.

Zhang Desheng wiped away the tears from his eyes with his sleeves: "Your Majesty, I have served you since I was twelve years old. Now I am fifty-two years old. I have served you for forty years. It is my blessing."

"I still remember when Yao was six years old, he played around and fell into an icy pond in the middle of winter. He had a high fever and was unconscious for three days and three nights. I was terrified at the time, so I had all the people who served him beaten to death, put aside government affairs, stayed by his side night after night, and gave the imperial doctors a death order that if they couldn't save him, they should bring their heads to me. On the fourth day, early in the morning, I heard him call me father. Do you know how happy I was?"

Emperor Jingzhang's voice seemed to be choked with sobs: "I thought it was the most beautiful voice in the world at that time. Even though I knew that he was the one who provided the snake venom that killed the crown prince, and that Zhao Mingshan was in collusion with him. The maternal family of the third prince's wife secretly formed a clique for personal gain, I knew all of this, all of it."

"But, but, how could he, how could he say something like 'If there is an afterlife, even if I am a pig, a dog, or a beast, I will never be reincarnated into the royal family and will never be a descendant of the Ling family again'? He is really poking my heart."

Zhang Desheng knelt down before Emperor Jingzhang and said, "Your Majesty, the Third Prince was confused for a moment. He must know how good you are to him."

That night, the dim oil lamp in the imperial study was on all night.

The next morning, Emperor Jingzhang issued an edict to announce to the world that the Third Prince Ling Yao had raised private soldiers and intended to rebel. He was demoted to a commoner and a traitor. His death was not a pity. His body should be thrown into a mass grave and no one was allowed to collect it.

When Li Shuangwan heard the news, she was so shocked that she couldn't speak for a long time.

She did not have a deep impression of Ling Yao. She only knew that this man was a madman who was very extreme in his actions. He would whip people at any time and even whipped servants to death on several occasions.

Most likely he became like this because he was forced by his biological mother, Queen Jiang.

Queen Jiang and her maternal clan, the Duke of Dingguo's Mansion, were determined to help Ling Ji ascend the throne. They were obsessed with the strict rule of primogeniture and were afraid that their youngest son would have the ambition to seize the throne. So they were on guard at all times, suppressing him everywhere, and forcing Ling Yao to submit to his brother.

As a result, Ling Yao's mentality became more and more distorted.

In this life, I never thought that Ling Yao not only committed suicide, but also poisoned everyone in the mansion, even his wife and daughter.

What a lunatic.

In the previous life, Ling Yao’s death was closely related to Ling Ji.

His left hand was not disabled at that time, but Ling Ji was named the crown prince at the age of five. He had been the crown prince for more than 20 years, and his ambition gradually grew.

So he presented a Taoist priest to Emperor Jingzhang, claiming that the elixir he refined could grant immortality, and he won the emperor's trust.

However, two years later, Ling Heng fed Tianshi two hundred pills on the spot, and Tianshi died suddenly on the spot.

Emperor Jingzhang was furious and ordered a thorough investigation, which led to a series of major events that followed.

The queen was banished to the cold palace and later hanged there with a white silk thread.

When the Duke Dingguo's Mansion was raided, it was discovered that Ling Yao was not only involved, but he was also the one who found the Taoist priest.

Outside the imperial study, Ling Yao was stabbed through the heart by his own father.

Prince Ling Ji was deposed from his position as Crown Prince and imprisoned in the Grand Prince's Palace. After Ling Heng ascended the throne, he chopped him up and fed the remains to the fish.

Li Shuangwan was still thinking about the past life when she heard Chen Ping say, "Princess, when I first came here, I found that the imperial guards had surrounded General Yao's mansion."

Luo Man was shocked: "Yao Mansion? Isn't that the mother's home of the Third Prince's wife? But the Third Prince's wife has been poisoned to death by the Third Prince, why are they surrounding Yao Mansion?"

Li Shuangwan's eyes darkened: "General Yao is the deputy general of the Xishan Military Camp."

Chen Ping: "Princess, do you mean that the 30,000 Liangshan private soldiers of the Third Prince are related to General Yao?"

Li Shuangwan did not reply. The so-called Liangshan private soldiers certainly did not exist. Those people were outright bandits who did all kinds of evil. It was a plan made by her and Gu Xingyan. Cui Jingyu let them in when Liangzhou Governor Qi Mingyuan and General Lou broke into their lair.

The Third Prince's wife and General Yao's family really live up to the saying that if they are not from the same family, they will not enter the same house.

The third prince is crazy, and the third prince's wife is even crazier.

As expected, Chen Ping said with a heavy face, "When we searched the Third Prince's mansion today, we found dozens of female corpses in the backyard. Old Master Zhu has already gone there with the bailiffs."

Ling Yao was lustful and had countless concubines in his mansion. However, the Third Prince's wife was extremely jealous and she killed all those women.

The maids present were so frightened that their faces turned pale.

……

Hu Zhenfang's family outside Shengjing City set out on the road to Wushan Pass again, and in Shengjing City, the women of the Hu family became the topic of conversation among everyone again.

The person that people talked about the most was Hu Muyan, the eldest granddaughter of the Hu family.

She was as smart as Li Shuangwan had expected.

First, he took the brocade dress that the woman of the Hu family was wearing at the time to the pawnshop, and used the money to buy rice and coarse cloth clothes.

Anyone who was on the street that day saw the eldest daughter of the Hu family leading a few people pulling a cart to the dilapidated temple where they were temporarily staying.

Miss Hu San was forced to hang herself. Li Shuangwan had no idea how Hu Muyan persuaded the women of the Hu family to carry the body to Jingzhao Prefecture and beat drums to appeal for justice.

She made a big news about this matter.