After being forced to marry as a substitute, I became famous in the limbo

"What did you say?" Mu Jingzhao looked up at her, his eyes full of disbelief.

"The emperor, please return everything that belongs to the imperial concubine." Jiang Ning repeated mechanically, still numbly.

The dagger in her hand approached Mu Jingzhao's neck calmly.

"It's ridiculous!" Mu Jingzhao scolded in a low voice, "I have hundreds of thousands of mature men in my country. How can there be any reason for women to defend their homes and the country? You let us men have no face? You let me have the majesty of being an emperor. Where can I save it?”

"Please the emperor return everything that belongs to the imperial concubine."

The dagger in Jiang Ning's hand continued to move closer to Mu Jingzhao's neck. The blade of the dagger lightly touched the skin on Mu Jingzhao's neck. The skin on his neck split instantly, and a drop of blood flowed down the side of his neck. The scar dripped from the mouth, leaving a faint red blood stain.

Mu Jingzhao's body stiffened in an instant, and he leaned back his neck, trying to avoid the blade Jiang Ning sent him as much as possible.

"Ning'er, why are you doing this to me?" Mu Jingzhao stiffened his neck, and there was a hint of sadness in his voice.

"Your Majesty, why are you treating me like this?" Jiang Ning returned the words without change.

The two were silent with each other, and there were no more words.

"I will never allow my country to fall into the hands of a group of women. If a woman can sit on an equal footing with her husband, doesn't that mean that one day I will be ridden on top of a woman. The country is not the country, and the family is not the same." Home! How decent is it!"

Mu Jingzhao saw that Jiang Ning's eyes were still determined and did not loosen at all, and his tone finally softened.

"Ning'er, you obviously have great love in your heart, and you sincerely hope for the well-being of the people. You don't want the country to fall into chaos and lose everything, do you?"

Jiang Ning showed confusion, and his expression was a bit confused, "I just hope that the emperor will recognize the meritorious service of the empress, why do you have to go online and force the grassroots to be accused of harming the country and the people?" This kind of confusion only lasted for a moment. , and turned firm again, "The emperor is determined to accuse the concubine of a crime, and the concubine can't argue with it. The concubine only asks the emperor to give the imperial concubine the merits that a general should have. What crime is there? If the man really has The emperor thinks he is so shrewd and capable, so why is he afraid that he will be robbed of his merits by others? Back then, the imperial concubine and empress protected the family and the country to protect the safety of the party, if it weren't for her, how would the country of Gong come to be today?"

"What's more, respecting the country governs the country with filial piety, and filial piety to the mother is the foundation of governing the country. If the emperor is so stubborn in wanting to dominate the woman, is it considered disrespectful or disfilial to the queen mother?"

Mu Jingzhao didn't speak, but just stared at her fiercely, his silver teeth almost gnawed into pieces.

The two of them were confronting each other silently. Seeing that the other party had no intention of backing down, Jiang Ning tightened his grip on the handle of the knife and his expression became sinister.

"If the emperor is determined not to do this, then the grass people will take advantage of the situation and let Gong Guo change the emperor, how about it?"

Mu Jingzhao gritted his teeth "clucking".

"you dare!"

"Why not?" Jiang Ning tilted her head and looked at him with hooked lips. After a while, she raised her head slightly, her eyes full of bitterness.

"Now Caomin's parents and family members are no longer alive, only a few clansmen are left as desperadoes, Zhe Liu, the only one who is as close as a sister, also died in Huangquan, the emperor, the courtiers and concubines really don't have the slightest concern."

Mu Jingzhao's tense neck relaxed slightly, and his neck was caught off guard by half a step forward, and the wound immediately bled profusely.

He looked at Jiang Ning, frowned slightly, and there were faint tears in his eyes, "What about me? Don't I count?"

Jiang Ning's eyes were slightly moved, and she subconsciously withdrew her hand against Mu Jingzhao's neck, "Your Majesty, we could have met without swords and swords like today, but the Emperor planted such a cause in the first place, and will get such a result , this is not your fault, nor my fault, this is fate, neither you nor I can escape."

Mu Jingzhao raised his head slightly, he closed his eyes deeply, a drop of clear tears slipped from the corner of his eyes, and fell on the shallow wound along his neck, and a light red blood bloomed.

"Okay, I promise you, I promise you all." His lips trembled slightly, and every word trembled.

Jiang Ning's hand holding the dagger trembled and she retracted it. She knelt on her knees and solemnly kowtowed to Mu Jingzhao.

"Thank you, Majesty Ron."

After finishing speaking, she stood up reluctantly, turned around and left the firewood room.

The moment he stepped out of the woodshed, the dagger in Jiang Ning's hand trembled and fell to the ground, making a sharp and crisp sound. In an instant, countless bright red blood flowers bloomed on the ground.

She stretched out her hand and covered her lips tightly, but the trembling sobs still escaped from between her fingers uncontrollably.

Liu Jinfu looked back at her, and the two looked at each other, tears streaming down their faces.

Liu Jinfu stepped forward and gave him a heavy hug.

"Thank you, really, thank you."

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All the Shen family members and their accomplices were captured in just one day and were imprisoned to await their fate. Hundreds of members of the Shen family were not spared.

Except for that newborn baby.

Under Mu Jingzhao's repeated questioning, Shen Qingrong finally admitted that she had bought the child for 50 taels of silver from the folks. After inquiring, Mu Jingzhao found out the origin of the child and returned it to the original owner.

However, Mu Jingzhao did not return Liu Jinfu's merits immediately as he agreed with Jiang Ning.

Regarding this, Jiang Ning was not in a hurry, she just lay in Shuanghua Palace all day long, eating and drinking, raising cats and playing with birds, just waiting for everything to be settled on the day of Shen's execution.

On the other hand, Liu Jinfu became much more cheerful, and her enthusiasm for martial arts became higher and higher, which directly caused disasters for all the stone pillars in Shuanghua Palace.

Lin Zheng hurried back to the palace half a month after the incident at the palace. What he brought back was the news that Pei Yu and his party were safe and sound, which barely gave Jiang Ning some psychological comfort.

These days, Jiang Ning stayed in Shuanghua Palace every day and did not go out. Mu Jingzhao was also busy with the aftermath. The two were busy with each other and had no chance to meet each other.

She originally thought that she and Mu Jingzhao would remain in this state forever, becoming strangers from now on, with no possibility of any intersection.

Until this day, she received the news that Mu Jingzhao summoned her.

When Li Zinian heard the news, she was watching Shen Qingrong practicing martial arts on the porch, neither of them noticed Li Zinian's arrival, Liu Jinfu almost knocked Li Zinian's hat off with a whip.

"The emperor summoned me, but what did he say?"

Li Zinian still had a bit of undecided fear on his face.

"Hey, how can the emperor let his servants know about this kind of thing? Of course, this is an important thing to tell you personally."

So, she followed Li Zinian out of Shuanghua Palace. (end of this chapter)