AWB Chapter 141 A bloody story
Chapter 141 A bloody story
Cao Ying's expression was full of disbelief.
Qiao Xi said, "You used drugs to tamper with my memory. The medicine you gave me before I left Beijing was said to hide my inner strength, but it was actually used to suppress my memory, right?"
A huge wave of emotion surged in Cao Ying's heart.
Qiao Xi actually knew this. She didn’t know any medical knowledge, so how could she know this? Was it really that person who told her?
But why would that person help Qiao Xi? Was it to go against the emperor?
What does he want to do? Didn’t he say that he just wanted to be with his sweetheart forever?
He had already achieved his wish, so why, why did he still want to get involved in these things and put her in such a situation?
"When did you regain your memory?"
She wanted to know when that person got involved in all this and what exactly he wanted to do.
Qiao Xi said, "You don't need to know this, you just need to know that I remembered everything.
I know how you and the Emperor deceived me and then let Bixiang spy on me."
She squatted down and looked at Cao Ying, "What you have wanted all your life is to have a position by the emperor's side.
For this obsession, you are willing to let your daughter become a palace maid, willing to dress up as a eunuch, and watch the emperor favor other women.
In order to please him, she even captured innocent women to serve as substitutes for the queen and allowed the emperor to abuse and torture them.
You have committed countless evil deeds, treating human lives as if they were ants, and even colluding with outsiders. Yet, the Emperor now wishes to kill you immediately and has never intended to make you his concubine. Ying Baiyun, you are truly pitiful."
Qiao Xi pinched her chin hard, "But all this is your own fault. I have been thinking about how to deal with you so as to eliminate the hatred in my heart.
I just had an idea. After you die, I will hang your body on the streets of the capital.
Let the world see how you, Ying Baiyun, have stooped to lowliness and used vicious means to please a man."
"no, do not want."
Many bad memories flooded into her mind, and Cao Ying tried to grab Qiao Xi's skirt. She didn't want to be despised anymore and didn't want to become a laughing stock in the eyes of the world.
Qiao Xi stood up and slowly backed away.
"Reputation is so important to a woman. I just want a name and a home for my child.
I have to be valuable so that he will keep me by his side. Qiao Xi, I have no intention of harming you, I just have no choice."
There was a hint of pleading in Cao Yingwen's tone.
She had completely believed what Qiao Xi said.
Becoming the emperor's legitimate woman is her biggest secret.
Only the emperor and that person know this in this world. Even if Qiao Xi regained her memory, she would not be able to know this. It could only be that person who told Qiao Xi.
"You're still quibbling."
Qiao Xi scoffed, "Uncle Xu treats you well and regards Bixiang as his own daughter. If you really only want reputation and Bixiang, you can just stay in the Xu family and be your wife.
But you colluded with Ji Chuan and asked him to send you to the emperor. You also killed Uncle Xu and tried to deceive and use Xu An."
His secrets were exposed again, and Cao Ying thought that Qiao Xi knew everything about him.
There's no point in pretending anymore.
She said crazily, "I am also a pure and innocent girl, so what's wrong with falling in love with him?
When he made love with me, he didn't tell me that he was married.
Afterwards, he claimed that he had a high fever and had mistaken me for someone else, and he forbade me to mention what happened that night again. I was an orphan, and I gave him everything.
But he only gave me a hundred taels of silver and left. I got pregnant before marriage, so my master no longer accepted me as his disciple and demoted me to grow herbs.
Everyone in my sect and the people nearby pointed fingers at me, calling me a slut and my child a bastard. We never had a good day.
My senior brother took pity on me and told me his identity. Then I knew that the biological father of my child was actually the current emperor.
Since he is the emperor and has countless concubines in his harem, why doesn't he want me to be one more?
It's because I showed up at the wrong time, and it's because the Queen is jealous, but the Queen herself is not a faithful wife."
"So you hate the Queen and you're trying to sow discord between them."
"Why should I stir up trouble? When the emperor met me, the queen was hanging out with my senior brother."
Cao Ying's face was filled with disdain. "She was unfaithful, but the emperor concealed my existence in order to prove his innocence. How unfair is this to me?"
When Qiao Xi heard this, she vaguely understood something and pretended to scold him, "Don't try to fabricate the Queen's innocence.
Your senior brother looks like the emperor, so the queen must have made a mistake and mistook your senior brother for the emperor."
Combining with what Changning Hou said, she guessed that the senior brother Cao Ying was referring to was the man who looked similar to the emperor.
Cao Ying felt unbearable pain all over his body, and seemed to be venting the pain in his body and heart by talking.
"If you can admit your mistake once, how can you admit it twice? It's obvious that the Queen has fallen in love with someone else and betrayed the Emperor."
Qiao Xi and Su Heting looked at each other.
Judging from what Cao Ying said, his senior brother was indeed the person who looked like the emperor as described by Marquis Changning.
Earlier, Lord Zhan sent a message saying that the queen was most likely in Uli.
And the emperor's words also made them speculate that the queen was taken to the country of Wuli by Senior Brother Cao Ying.
Cao Ying's voice continued to ring, "If it weren't for this, Senior Brother had saved her from the pirates, she could have gone straight back to the Emperor, but she stayed with Senior Brother for three days before returning..."
Half an hour later, Qiao Xi and Su Heting returned to their room.
The first part was to induce and trick Cao Ying into telling them secrets, and the second part was to force a confession. The two finally learned about the grudge between the emperor and the empress from Cao Ying.
It turned out to be such a bloody story.
The emperor and empress had known each other since childhood, but the empress fell in love with the emperor because she mistakenly thought she was saved by the emperor.
The late emperor doted on the empress. Upon learning that the empress had fallen in love with him and that he had long expressed his desire to marry the empress, the late emperor immediately granted the two of them a marriage.
After the marriage, the queen realized that she had recognized the wrong person. The person who saved her was not the emperor at all, but a man who looked like the emperor. That man was just a secret guard of the late emperor.
But she was already married, and the emperor showed deep love for her. Soon she was found to be pregnant. The queen had no choice but to make the best of the situation, suppress all her girlish thoughts, and live a peaceful life with the emperor.
The person who actually saved the queen, Cao Ying's senior brother Yi Qing, was unwilling to give up. After repeatedly harassing the queen to no avail, he actually assassinated the emperor, who was still the prince at the time, in the street.
After the late emperor learned about this, he dealt with Yi Qing.
A few years later, the emperor who inherited the throne went on a secret trip with the empress and encountered pirates on the way.
The Queen is missing.
At that time, the emperor and the empress had a very close relationship. The emperor was worried about the empress and went to look for her in person, but was injured on the way and was rescued by Cao Ying.
The queen's whereabouts were unknown, but he had physical contact with another woman, whether he was worried about the queen's jealousy in the future or the eyes of the world.
The emperor didn't want anyone to know about his night with Cao Ying.
Three days later, the queen returned on her own.
She was rescued by Yi Qing.
Yi Qing was seriously injured while saving her, so she returned after three days. This was to repay Yi Qing for saving her life twice. She took care of him for three days and left only after seeing him out of danger.
But in the eyes of the emperor, Yi Qing had been executed by the previous emperor for assassinating the emperor. She could not reveal that Yi Qing was still alive, so she said that he was saved by a wandering knight, but could not say anything else about the knight.
The emperor became suspicious.
More than a month later, the two returned to the palace, and the queen was found to be pregnant.
Thinking about the night he spent with Cao Ying, the emperor suspected that the queen had been involved with another man during the days she was missing.
No matter how the empress denied it, he did not want the child. The empress determined that the emperor did not trust him and stopped explaining. This was the beginning of the breakdown of the relationship between the emperor and the empress.
Then they knew that the emperor had poisoned the queen to kill her, and after the queen gave birth, he replaced the second prince with the dead fetus and abandoned him in the mountains.
Although the queen had no evidence, she always suspected that her son was not dead.
Later, she learned about the affair between the emperor and Cao Ying while she was abducted by bandits. She completely gave up on the emperor and locked herself in a Buddhist temple.
Yi Qing never gave up on the Queen, so she made a deal with Cao Ying: he would help her improve her medical skills so that she could gain a foothold by the Emperor's side, and she would help him find out all the news about the Queen.
She felt that the emperor was unwilling to give her a status because the queen was still in the palace. Knowing that Yi Qing wanted the queen to leave the palace, Cao Ying helped Yi Qing put fake death drugs into the queen's food and covered Yi Qing's way of taking the queen away from the imperial mausoleum.
Unexpectedly, the empress had passed away for many years and the emperor still refused, so she began to have other ideas.