The Useless Miracle Doctor Consort Is Spoiled Rotten by the Prince!

Chapter 1583: Chapter 1576: Seen by Xie Qingyi

Though he was clad in armor of the insurgents, he was a man from the household of Duke Li. He gazed at the figure cloaked in a cape, shrouded in the night, before kneeling on one knee to consult, "Secondary consort, with the Empress of Scarlet Flame King being protected by that old hag who refuses to die... We don’t know what to do. Surely we can’t even kill the Empress Dowager, can we?"

They had previously breached the imperial city and under the circumstance that they were recognized, they had no choice but to kill the empress. To kill the Empress Dowager now... it was likely to be traced back to them in the future.

After all, Duke Li’s intention was to have Qin Muyan ascend the throne.

Qin Muyan was not an easy man to fool.

"Old hag!"

Li Yunshu turned around, her eyes beneath the hood cold and grim in the light of the fire. "Since she wishes to die, kill her first, then kill Rong Yun!"

"But this is the Empress Dowager after all... The Duke said that since the Phoenix Seal was not found with the empress, it must be on the Empress Dowager. What if we kill her and still don’t find the Phoenix Seal?"

The Phoenix Seal was the very item the Li family was after; with the Phoenix Seal in hand, and after having killed Rong Yun, Li Yunshu, as the secondary consort of the Scarlet Flame King, would naturally become the empress after Qin Muyan’s ascension!

"This unkillable old thing, clutching the Phoenix Seal and still thinking to protect Rong Yun? Drag Rong Yun down from her and threaten her in front of the Empress Dowager. If she does not hand over the Phoenix Seal, then before her very eyes, chop off Rong Yun’s limbs. Let’s see if she will yield!" Li Yunshu ordered coldly, determined to get what she wanted by any means necessary.

Even if it is the Empress Dowager... what of it?

The tall man obeyed the order and went to act, but when he pulled back the Empress Dowager’s blanket, what tumbled out was an old aunt, not Rong Yun.

"Damn it!" He turned around to seek further instructions from Li Yunshu.

Li Yunshu was startled, forgetting to cover her identity, and burst directly into the Empress Dowager’s zen room. "What’s going on? Rong Yun!"

With a loud shout, she aggressively approached the Empress Dowager.

The Empress Dowager, leaning on her bed, narrowed her eyes when she saw Li Yunshu. "It really is you!"

"You refuse-to-die old woman! You..." Li Yunshu subconsciously wanted to cover her face, but it was too late; she flung off her cloak, revealing her haughty cheeks. "So what if it’s me? What can you do now, old hag? Tell me, where has Rong Yun fled to!"

She suddenly remembered that this royal temple had been renovated in the past and it was highly likely that it had escape tunnels, and this Empress Dowager definitely knew where the tunnels were and where they led to.

Supporting herself with the side table, the Empress Dowager remained, dignified and stately, "Trying to extract information from me? Li Yunshu, you’re still too naive!"

She had seen all sorts of tumults, and to her eyes, Li Yunshu was nothing but an inexperienced child!

"Refuse-to-die old woman, I warn you. If you tell me the whereabouts of Rong Yun and hand over the Phoenix Seal, I might spare your life, at most poison you to muteness and let you live a few more years. But if you say nothing..."

"Audacious!"

The Empress Dowager picked up a teacup and hurled it at Li Yunshu.

Li Yunshu was in full display of her arrogance and did not expect that this old hag still had the strength to strike her, and she was hit by the teacup, leaving her head bleeding, "Ah! You damn old hag!"

She covered her bleeding head, her expression dark and ferocious, "It seems you won’t be talking! Just go to die!"

In a fit of rage, she snatched the knife from the man beside her and plunged it straight into the Empress Dowager’s body.

"Secondary consort!"

"Secondary consort!"

Chun Xing and the tall man were both stunned.

Li Yunshu had actually killed the Empress Dowager directly!

The Empress Dowager was stabbed, yet she still sat firmly, unmoving as a mountain. Coughing up blood, she mocked Li Yunshu, "This land of the Great Wei Dynasty... will never fall into the hands of your Li family! The throne of the empress will also belong to my granddaughter-in-law! You, are not! Worthy!"

"You old hag, go to hell! Die!"

Humiliated by the old hag’s harsh words, Li Yunshu, angered and ashamed, stabbed the Empress Dowager several times, brutally killing the benevolent elderly lady right before her.

Only when she saw the old woman’s blood-soaked body lying motionless did she feel some relief in her heart.

Throwing the knife aside, she wiped the blood off her own face, "Old hag! Had you treated me well initially, I might have spared your life! But you just had to... dote on that damn Rong Yun!"

She deserved to die!

"Secondary consort, you’ve killed the Empress Dowager!" Chun Xing was somewhat trembling; she had not expected her mistress to be so ruthless.

"What’s there to fear! In the future, the entire Great Wei Dynasty will belong to me and Your Highness. This worthless old hag deserved to die long ago!"

Li Yunshu waved her hand, ordering her subordinates to search for the phoenix seal and secret passages over the corpse of the Empress Dowager and within the whole woodshed.

Though the phoenix seal wasn’t found, a secret passage was pried open from beneath the Empress Dowager’s bed.

Li Yunshu pointed at the entrance of the passage, "Chase them! The phoenix seal must be hidden on that bitch Rong Yun. Retrieve the phoenix seal for me and kill her! I want her to be cut a thousand times!"

The man leading the chase took his people after her, while Li Yunshu took a brief moment to dishevel her appearance somewhat, then pretended to have escaped and sought out Qin Ge and his group.

She didn’t harm many of the royal family’s official wives, killing only two who had dealings with Rong Yun.

They deserved it for getting close to Rong Yun!

She didn’t notice that in the darkness, a shadow had been hiding all along, only moving its sore legs after her departure.

"Sister, don’t go out, watch out for the rebels!"

Xie Qingyou was still hiding in the bushes, worriedly trying to grab Xie Qingyi’s arm.

Xie Qingyi poked her upper body out, which made it easy for her to be spotted.

But instead of heeding him, Xie Qingyi scampered out a few steps as if she wanted to get a clearer look.

"Sister, come back!"

Xie Qingyou had no time to hide anymore; he rushed to grab Xie Qingyi.

Xie Qingyi had recognized the person’s figure, but when she retreated back into the bushes she felt a chill down her spine, "How is it her..."

"Sister, have you lost your mind? The rebels just charged at us not long ago; all the guards in the manor are dead. Now it’s just the two of us left, what should we do!" Xie Qingyou, being neither scholarly nor martial, felt panicky at such a moment, lacking any ideas and not daring to show his face, fearing someone would chop off his head.

But Xie Qingyi was much calmer than him. She pursed her lips and said, "When dawn breaks, we will retreat to the temple. The rebels have already swept through and are unlikely to return. We’ll just wait for the emperor and father’s reinforcements to take back the city."

They could certainly find some water and food in the royal temple, which would be the safest place for them.

Hearing her plan, Xie Qingyou obediently followed her back to the royal temple, where they found the most dilapidated and inconspicuous courtyard to hide in.

While Xie Qingyou was picking up things in the yard to use for self-defense, Xie Qingyi simply sat still in a corner with her eyebrows tightly furrowed, deep in thought.

Rong Yun escaped for two days and a night, and was taken by Wei Mingze to a small village over a hundred miles from the capital. Wei Mingze said this was his hometown, usually scarcely populated, with mostly familiar people in the village. There were not many of them left now, so hiding here was safe.

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