I am favored by the tyrant, so what if I am vicious?

Chapter 170: Kill Her Nine Clans

"Why? My child is gone, but you are pregnant. Zhou Shiya, give my child back to me."

As Concubine Shu spoke, she began to riot again, struggling like a madman, trying to pounce on Zhou Shiya.

Zhou Shiya was startled and quickly sought protection from the Queen Mother.

The Queen Mother sighed helplessly and had Concubine Shu restrained. "Concubine Shu, whether you believe it or not, the facts have been ascertained. None of this has anything to do with the Queen. Please stop being unreasonable."

Concubine Shu's eyes were filled with despair. She looked at the Empress Dowager with tears streaming down her face. "Madame Zhou is her loyal servant. It's understandable that she could harm me, but she has no reason to harm the Empress... This is clearly the Empress' excuse."

"Empress Dowager...you are extremely wise and have been immersed in the harem for many years. Can't you see through such a sinister plot?"

The Queen Mother scolded in a low voice with a headache: "Shu Fei, I only look at the evidence."

"All the evidence now shows that this has nothing to do with the Queen."

Concubine Shu's heart sank to the bottom of the valley, and she was completely confused and at a loss.

She knew that the culprit must be Zhou Shiya.

But... Zhou Shiya is too cunning.

With the help of an amulet that was exactly the same as hers, she completely washed away her sins.

She also has the royal heir in her belly as a life-saving talisman.

Haha, no matter how she struggles and resists, she will never be able to defeat Zhou Shiya?

Concubine Shu collapsed to the ground, looking a little mentally ill.

Zhou Shiya sighed, her eyes full of pity.

"Actually, I also want to know why Madam Zhou wants to harm me."

She turned her head... and looked at Nanny Zhou with great sorrow and grief, her eyes filled with tears.

"Madam Zhou, why did you do this? I've treated you well over the years... I understand why you harmed Concubine Shu, but why did you poison me too?"

"You knew clearly that this amulet was flawed, yet you watched helplessly as I hid it in my arms every day... If Xie hadn't gone mad and revealed these secrets, wouldn't my child have been lost?"

"Tell me, have you and the Xie family... been in league for a long time? You've been stirring up trouble in the harem, and you're trying to put the blame on me for everything?"

Nanny Zhou lowered her head, making it difficult to see her expression.

The queen's questioning and heartache formed a sharp contrast with her silence.

Zhou Lingge has been observing Nanny Zhou's reaction. In fact, there is still a chance to break the deadlock, and that is with Nanny Zhou.

If Nanny Zhou could escape from Zhou Shiya's control and confess everything, Zhou Shiya would have no way of getting away.

Zhou Lingge curled her lips and chuckled, "Madam Zhou...I'm really curious too. Why did you want to harm my eldest sister? Over the years, you and my eldest sister have been like mother and daughter. When my eldest sister was three or four years old, you came to take care of her. You've been with my eldest sister for even longer than my mother ever did."

"It's not an exaggeration to say that you two are a mother and daughter with a deep bond. With such a deep bond, what on earth could have caused you to betray your elder sister and commit so many wrongdoings? Did someone use leverage to coerce and bribe you into helping to tell a monstrous lie? Or did someone use family ties to bind you, forcing you to willingly serve them?"

Zhou Shiya clenched her fists tightly, gritted her teeth and glanced at Zhou Lingge.

This bitch... is clearly trying to induce Madam Zhou to switch sides.

But she knew Nanny Zhou.

Nanny Zhou will never betray her!

Sure enough, the next moment, the originally silent Nanny Zhou prostrated herself and kowtowed.

Her voice trembled as she spoke slowly, "I... plead guilty. I ordered Madam Liu to do something about the amulet. Concubine Shu was pregnant at the time, and her status was almost equal to that of the Empress. I was worried that your position as Empress would be unstable, so I hid it from our Empress and used the amulet to take action against Concubine Shu."

"But I was worried that if the truth came to light, it would implicate the Empress. So I tampered with the Empress's amulet... Originally, I wanted to persuade the Empress not to carry it with her, but the Empress values ​​anything His Majesty gives her, and she liked the amulet, so she carried it with her day and night."

"I had no other choice but to mix some remedies into the medicines that the Empress drank every day to weaken the effects of the other medicines. Combined with the folk remedies that our master found for the Empress, the Empress was very lucky to get pregnant. I was just trying to figure out how to replace the amulet that the Empress was wearing, but I never thought that the amulet would be exposed by Xie Shi."

"I did everything, this old slave did. The Queen has nothing to do with this... Your Majesty and the Queen Mother, please punish me. I will accept the punishment willingly."

Zhou Shiya covered her lips and sobbed softly.

"Madame Zhou, you are so confused."

"Who told you to do these stupid things..."

Madam Zhou kowtowed to her and said, "It is this old slave who has caused trouble for Your Majesty. Please take care of yourself, Your Majesty. This old slave can no longer take care of You..."

Zhou Shiya's heart suddenly ached.

She bit her lips tightly, and blood immediately flowed in her mouth.

Nanny Zhou... is the person she trusts and relies on the most. How could she bear to sacrifice her unless it is absolutely necessary?

But she... has no other choice now.

She could only sacrifice Nanny Zhou to escape unscathed.

But it doesn't matter. She can help Nanny Zhou fake her death and get away. She won't let Nanny Zhou really die here.

"Your Majesty, please consider Madam Zhou's loyalty to me and leave her with an intact body..." Zhou Shiya pretended to be extremely sad and haggard, and immediately closed her eyes and fainted.

There was another flurry of activity, and the Queen Mother quickly had Zhou Shiya carried into the inner hall.

The truth of everything has been revealed.

The Queen Mother looked at Qin Feiling: "Emperor, what do you think about this matter?"

"The Queen is definitely innocent... and she is now pregnant with the legitimate heir..."

Qin Feiling slowly stood up. He looked at the faintly collapsed Concubine Shu, "Madame Zhou's crimes are heinous. She dared to poison the heir to the throne. She is guilty of deceiving the emperor... and her family will be exterminated. Pass on my decree. Madame Zhou will be kicked and beaten to death, and all nine generations of her family will be exterminated... to serve as a warning to others."

Nanny Zhou's body trembled, and fear and despair welled up in her eyes.

She looked up at Qin Feiling in shock: "No, no, Your Majesty, it is me who made the mistake, what does it have to do with my family?"

"Your Majesty, please forgive my family..."

Killing nine generations of an entire clan is such a serious crime. Your Majesty has never dealt with palace maids who made mistakes in this way before.

She thought that at most she would be the only one to be executed, but she never expected that His Majesty would actually exterminate her entire clan.

It was her fault alone, but her family had to bear the consequences together?

Nanny Zhou was almost going crazy.

She kept kowtowing to Qin Feiling and begging for mercy.