Read Novel Full Chapter 114.3: Who Set Up Whom? (3)
Han Mingze’s ever-calm expression cracked for the first time, seeing the children. He clenched his hands, saying, “How did you find them?”
“It was very simple– the people by your side,” the Empress Dowager responded. “Alright Emperor, this Empress Dowager has given you enough time. Do you want to continue hiding your jade seal and force the princes and princesses to accompany you to the afterlife, or will you hand over the jade seal now?”
Han Mingze was silent. If he handed over the jade seal now, everything would be lost. But if he didn’t hand it over– his children were all still so young, how could he bear to let them die like this!
The Empress Dowager saw Han Mingze’s struggle and picked up a teacup. She gently clinked the teacup a few times with the lid, and the somewhat dumbfounded Crown Prince suddenly fell to the ground and rolled around, covering his stomach and shouting in pain.
“Crown Prince!” Eunuch Shan, who had been standing to the side all this time, subconsciously called out when he saw this.
“Father Emperor, it hurts, it hurts. Heng’er hurts so much.” The Crown Prince rolled around on the ground, as Han Mingze watched with heartbreak.
“Enough!” Han Mingze clenched his hands into fists, his veins bulging.
The Empress Dowager smiled smugly, clinked the teacup a few more times, and the Crown Prince stopped and lay on the ground drenched in sweat.
“Heng’er.” Han Mingze came down from the throne to the Crown Prince’s side. He picked him up, looked at his lifeless eyes, and carried him back to the throne, turning his head towards the Empress Dowager interrogatively, “What did you do to him?!”
“Your Majesty feels bad for him?” The Empress Dowager set down the teacup, “It’s nothing really. I just saw that Heng’er’s physique is not great, so I put a Gu insect in him. This Gu insect is usually very good for the body; it’s just that sometimes it can be disobedient, and when it hears certain noises, it will grow restless and move around in his body.”
“You planted a parasite in him!” Han Mingze gritted his teeth.
“This Empress Dowager had no choice. Otherwise, how would you obediently listen?”
“Then the Empress’ strangeness these past two months is also because you used a Gu insect to control her?” Han Mingze asked.
"The Empress?" The Empress Dowager shook her head and said, "This Gu insect is also very rare, how could I use it so casually. This Empress Dowager planted one in Heng’er’s body, and another was intended to be planted in you– but who would have thought the defense around you was so strict, so this Empress Dowager’s people failed. As for the Empress, I just let her see with her own eyes Heng’er’s condition, and said another had been planted in you. I told her, if she was not obedient for this Empress Dowager, first I would take Heng’er’s life, and then your life. Women like her– they live only for their husband and children. With these words from this Empress Dowager, does the Emperor think she still needed a Gu insect to be controlled by me?"
“A woman’s heart is the most poisonous!”
“Your Majesty, don’t even think about stalling for time. I know you are waiting to be rescued, but don’t you know? All those officials of yours are under my control. Tomorrow when Hong’er ascends to the throne, if they are willing to submit then fine, if not then it’s fine for me to send them away. By the way, let me remind you, General Ji is poisoned and bedridden, the army is locked outside the city, and now the city's troops are under my control. So you’d best give up, obediently write the imperial edict to give up the throne to Hong'er, and bring out the jade seal to stamp it.”
“Father Emperor…” The Crown Prince was in Han Mingze’s arms, tightly grasping his father’s clothes, his eyes full of fear.
“Your Majesty, don’t be reluctant to make a decision. Your consideration could cost them their lives,” Han Minghong looked pointedly at the other princes and princesses.
Han Mingze closed his eyes with a pained look, then opened them again and said, “Xiao Shanzi, prepare an edict!”
“...Yes.” Eunuch Shan hesitated for a moment, then obeyed.
He went to the side and brought out an imperial edict before spreading it out in front of Han Mingze. He placed the brush in Han Mingze’s hand, then stood aside to grind ink.
Han Mingze held the crown prince with his left arm, and wrote the edict with his right, to the effect that Feng Ming was getting weaker and weaker under his rule, so he was ceding the throne to Prince Ren and so on.
When he finished writing, he set the brush down, glanced over it again, and then threw the edict at Han Minghong in one fell swoop.
Han Minghong picked up the edict and looked at it. He grew more and more excited the more he looked at it, and after he finished reading it, he nodded towards the Empress Dowager to confirm that there were no problems.
“Then please take out the jade seal and stamp it, Your Majesty,” the Empress Dowager said.
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