Chapter 1040: Chapter 1040: Chaos in the Capital with Chickens Flying and Dogs Running
However, it was indeed strange that aside from the Main Wife who had a few daughters, none of the previous eighteen concubines had given birth to a single child, boy or girl. The Pri Minister had been striving for decades, to the point of exhaustion. Every ti he lay with a woman, he doubted whether he was akin to a breeding stallion, performing the act solely for the sake of siring a son, without a shred of pleasure between n and won.
But in his pursuit of an heir and at nearly sixty years old, the Pri Minister clenched his teeth and shakily took in the nineteenth concubine.
Originally, after decades of disappointnt, he held little hope that the Nineteenth Aunt would bear him a son.
Who would have thought that at this mont of relaxation, the Nineteenth Aunt actually beca pregnant, and after ten months, she gave birth to a son for him.
When the Pri Minister first held this son, he wept with joy, having his wish of many decades finally fulfilled by the Nineteenth Aunt, which shows how indulgently he doted on the mother and child.
The Main Wife was so full of hatred that she gritted her teeth, but what could she do when the child was already born? All she could do was glare helplessly.
In her idle monts, she would go to the Imperial Palace to pour out her grievances to the Empress.
The Empress, heart aching for her birth mother, would make a point of visiting the Pri Minister’s Mansion every so often to suppress the Nineteenth Aunt and the Pri Minister, hinting overtly and covertly that with her, the Empress, present, no one would dare to mistreat her mother.
This made the Nineteenth Aunt restrain herself quite a bit.
One day, as she took her son out for a stroll, he was unexpectedly killed by a hideously ugly dwarf.
On this child rested her entire lifeti of glory and wealth.
And now, he had been murdered.
Instantly, her world collapsed. Darkness fell before her eyes, and she knew nothing more, as she was carried back to the residence by the servants.
Upon returning to the mansion from the palace, the Pri Minister was t with this terrible news and imdiately felt the world spinning; he collapsed into a chair.
“Who is it? Who has the audacity to kill my son? Are they tired of living?” The Pri Minister, upon regaining his senses, slamd his hand on the table and cursed angrily.
A dozen attendants who had accompanied the Nineteenth Aunt knelt shakily on the ground.
“Reporting to the Pri Minister, it was a dwarf with an unknown origin.”
“You useless oafs, what were you doing when you were supposed to protect the Young Master?”
“Everything happened so suddenly that by the ti we reacted, the Young Master had already fallen and was dead.”
“Then why didn’t you die too? How dare you sha by appearing before !” The Pri Minister, in his grief and rage at the loss of his son, commanded the guards to drag the attendants away and behead them to appease the spirit of the Young Master in heaven.
The other servants really wanted to say, Pri Minister! They were just servants, not the enemies of the Young Master; soone else was responsible for the Young Master’s death.
However, with the Pri Minister in the midst of his wrath, no one dared to make a peep.
The lives of those dozen attendants were to be sacrificed in vain.
It was their misfortune.
To happen to accompany the Young Master on the day they encountered such an incident.
As expected by Xuexue that night, the Pri Minister’s Mansion, together with the Yan Runners, turned the entire Capital City upside down, smashing countless goods in the search for the dwarf who killed the Young Master. In the process, so Shopkeepers, heartbroken over their destroyed rchandise, tried to intervene and were slain by the Pri Minister in his fit of rage.
All of the Capital City People were in a state of panic, scrambling away at the re sight of people from the Pri Minister’s Mansion.
This incident caused a huge stir in Capital City, even alarming The Emperor.
However, taking into account that he was the Father-in-law of the Nation, and that he had just lost his only son, his overwhelming grief excused his montarily uncontrolled emotions, The Emperor turned a blind eye.
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