amaotonovel Chapter 231: Transformed into a Young Widowed Queen Mother (31)
Chapter 231: Transformed into a Young Widowed Queen Mother (31)
"Dad, I'm fine! I'm very satisfied with my current life. I'm the Empress Dowager, second only to the emperor and above everyone else! No one will dare to bully our Lin family anymore!"
Lin Shuwan smiled slightly, with gentleness and tenderness between his brows, without any sign of pain, which made Prime Minister Lin feel even more uncomfortable.
Prime Minister Lin turned his head away, reached out to wipe the tears from the corners of his eyes, then took out an envelope from his arms, handed it to Lin Shuwan, and said:
"Here is the 50,000 silver notes that my family has collected. Keep it safe. Although the palace has everything it needs, it also has everything it needs. At a critical moment, you can bribe servants with money to do things for you!"
Lin Shuwan looked at the thick stack of banknotes and thought of the box of gold and silver she received when she got married not long ago. After thinking about it, she took it.
She will be running away by then, so she naturally cannot treat herself badly!
When Prime Minister Lin saw that she accepted it, he was relieved and smiled gently, "If there is anything in the future, you can send someone to the imperial kitchen to find Xiao Zhangzi and ask him to pass the news home. Jiu Qiansui is a man... ruthless and cruel, you'd better stay away from him."
Lin Shuwan nodded and said, "Okay, my daughter understands!"
Prime Minister Lin has left. Now that the old regime has been replaced by the new one and the new emperor has ascended the throne, he still has a lot of things to do.
Lin Shuwan also brought his people back to Changyi Palace.
Three days later, the old emperor was buried in the imperial mausoleum.
Regardless of whether the women in the palace were willing or not, they were all dressed up carefully, given a cup of poisoned wine, and then sent to the old emperor's mausoleum together.
However, this does not include Yang Qi’s mother, Yue Gengyi.
She was hanged in the cold palace on the day she was banished to it, without waiting for her beloved son to rescue her.
After seeing the old emperor off for the last time, all the princesses of the old emperor were sent away from Kyoto and headed for Lingnan.
Yang Qi didn't say a word of relief throughout the whole process.
Even when the princesses and concubines came to beg him, he kept a cold face and said coldly: "These are the wills of the late emperor. Do you want me to disobey the late emperor for you?"
In the end, those concubines and princesses, feeling disheartened, each went their separate ways.
Ten days later, Yang Qi ascended the throne and changed the reign title to Dehe.
The palace was filled with joy, and Yang Qi was extremely busy. His heart was filled with mixed feelings of ecstasy and murderous intent, tormenting him and making him toss and turn and unable to sleep.
Even though he is now the emperor, the power he holds is not as great as Yu Li's. He is even more ashamed and angry that he almost wants to die because of a series of bragging incidents within an hour, which led to the shocked looks and subconscious covering of the mouths and noses of the courtiers when he was receiving congratulations from the emperor.
Especially Yu Li, who was standing next to him at the time, his look of disgust and disdain, and his subconscious action of stepping back away from him, made him feel even more murderous and hateful.
Even when he looked at Yu Li with eyes full of murderous intent, he did not hide or act humble at all like before.
When Yu Li saw this, he just sneered in his heart. He looked back with a gloomy and fierce gaze. Yang Qi shrank back and silently shifted his gaze.
Yu Li snorted coldly in his heart. It was his own intention to make Yang Qi the emperor. All the princes who died before were better than him.
However, after Yang Qi ascended the throne, he had no influence on Yu Li at all. Usually, some unimportant memorials were left to Yang Qi to handle.
In the court, Yang Qi was hesitant from the beginning in his ambition to realize his political ambitions, but as soon as he proposed a policy, it was rejected by the ministers.
"Your Majesty, you can't!"
"Your Majesty, this is unreasonable!"
"Your Majesty, think twice!"
Listening to this every day, coupled with Yu Li's half-smile, mocking expression and eyes, made him even more furious.
Prime Minister Lin sighed inwardly, this new emperor is too difficult to lead, his policies are too fanciful and do not fit the current environment of Dayi at all!
As soon as Yang Qi returned to Zhaoyang Palace, he was so angry that he threw things around. Then, with red eyes, he took the whip from the guard and viciously whipped the eunuch who was kneeling on the ground!
He kept cursing, "You dog slaves, you damn eunuchs, you castrated dogs, die! All of you, die for me!"
He originally thought that his situation would be better after he became emperor, but he didn't expect that after he ascended the throne, everyone would look down on him!
Sooner or later, he will kill Yu Li, the castrated dog, and those old guys!
No, this cannot go on. He needs to train his own people in the court!
A palace maid timidly walked in from outside, bowed her head and said, "Your Majesty, the Empress Dowager is here!"
Yang Qi threw the whip in his hand back to the attendant and waved his hand.
Two guards immediately stepped forward and dragged the eunuch, who was beaten half to death, away for punishment.
Yang Qi straightened his clothes, turned to look at the kneeling palace maid, and said coldly: "Please come in!"
"Yes!"
"The Queen Mother is here!"
When Lin Shuwan came in, Yang Qi was sitting at his seat drinking tea. He didn't even look at her and didn't take the Queen Mother Lin Shuwan seriously at all.
Lin Shuwan sneered in his heart, exuding an awe-inspiring aura of majesty. He looked at Yang Qi coldly and said in a deep voice, "Your Majesty, you haven't paid respects to me for a long time. Today I came here by myself. Is this your attitude towards me?"
"If this matter gets out, you, as the ruler of a country, would be guilty of openly violating etiquette and disrespecting your parents. This is simply against human ethics and morality. You are unworthy of being a son! With such behavior, how can you expect the officials to be loyal and the people to submit to you?"
Yang Qi paused while drinking tea, and angrily smashed the teacup in his hand to the ground. The broken pieces flew onto Lin Shuwan's cheek, leaving a small cut, and blood immediately oozed out.
Nanny Zhou, who was standing by, didn't expect the emperor to suddenly get angry and smash things. She didn't have time to stop him. When she saw the small scratch on Lin Shuwan's face, her face suddenly changed drastically and she screamed, "Empress Dowager! You are hurt!"
Yang Qi also panicked for a moment, but then he saw the small cut on her face. He sneered and started talking without thinking, venting all the anger he had suffered recently on Lin Shuwan.
"Empress Dowager? Oh, a mere Empress Dowager can tell me what to do? I am the Emperor. If I want you to die, who do you think can save you? I warn you, stay in Changyi Palace obediently and don't look for trouble, otherwise don't blame me for being rude!"
"presumptuous!"
A gloomy and sharp male voice came from outside Zhaoyang Palace.
Lin Shuwan's eyebrows jumped, and he knew who was coming just by hearing the voice!
Yang Qi became even more panicked, his face twisted for a long time before he finally suppressed his anger and looked outside the door coldly.
Yu Li slowed down his pace and glanced coldly at Yang Qi and Lin Shuwan. When his eyes fell on the small bleeding wound on Lin Shuwan's face, his gloomy brows became even gloomier and he looked coldly at the trembling Yang Qi.
He asked in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, what happened that made you treat the Empress Dowager like this?"