108 ways to die for supporting characters

The emperor was afraid that she would be angry. After all, she was carrying his child in her belly. He wanted her to be happy all the time, so he whispered in her ear: "You must have never seen what a female ghost looks like. I will take you to see it, but you have to promise me that you will not get angry. If you get angry, I will be distressed."

Ning Yan blinked again without saying anything. Her cute look made the emperor unable to hold back, and he kissed her hard on the face.

The sedan chair swayed and circled in front of Fang Chongrong. From last night till now, Fang Chongrong did not dare to rest for a moment. The makeup on her face had long been blurred. The dance that she had practiced so exquisitely now looked like a wild dog running around, without any beauty at all.

In order to make his beloved concubine happy, the emperor pinched her and signaled her that she could open her eyes. However, after Ning Yan took a look, the emperor ordered the eunuchs carrying the sedan chair to leave immediately.

It’s too ugly, really too ugly. He must not let it be ugly to the child of him and his beloved concubine.

The imperial physicians rushed to Kunning Palace, and after taking the imperial concubine's pulse, they all said that the imperial concubine was depressed, the fetus was unstable, and she must rest.

The emperor immediately issued an order that the imperial concubine was not allowed to leave the palace and was also exempted from paying respects to the empress dowager.

The Queen Mother was so angry that she was about to die, but she couldn't do anything for the time being and could only bear it.

Three days later in the evening, the Empress Dowager and Concubine Shu had dinner together. There was a dish of drunken chicken on the table which tasted very good. The Empress Dowager ate a lot of it.

After dinner, Concubine Shu returned to the palace. The Queen Mother took two palace maids to the Imperial Garden to take a walk to digest the food. When they reached the pavilion in the middle of the lake, the palace maid asked the Queen Mother, "Queen Mother, do you want to feed the koi?"

The Queen Mother agreed.

The palace maid immediately replaced the fish food.

The Queen Mother stood by the pond. She had just thrown a handful of fish food into the pond when someone suddenly pushed her hard from behind.

She only had time to scream before she fell into the water.

"Help, help!"

However, the palace maid standing in the dark took out a big pole and hit her on the head. With just one hit, she sank into the water.

After a long while, the Queen Mother finally floated up.

The maid pushed the person down with the pole again, but the Queen Mother did not react at all.

The maidservant shouted in panic, "The Queen Mother has fallen into the water, come and save her, Queen Mother, please grab the pole and I will pull you ashore."

Another palace maid cried and called for the guards to save people.

Finally, a guard ran over, jumped into the water, and rescued the queen mother to shore.

When Concubine Shu received the news, the imperial physician had already announced that the Empress Dowager had died.

Concubine Shu cried so hard that the heavens and the earth were shaken and she grabbed the two maids who served the Queen Mother and slapped them wildly. When the Emperor arrived, he ordered them to be taken to the Ministry of Punishment. "Torture them severely and make sure to pry open their mouths. I want to know whether my mother fell into the water accidentally or was murdered by someone else."

Concubine Shu also felt that the Empress Dowager's death was not an accident. Now that the Emperor wants to investigate, is he afraid that he won't be able to find out?
She was not naive, but she felt that the Miao family was powerful, with both civil and military officials in high positions. No matter how stupid the emperor was, he would not take action against the empress dowager when she just returned to the palace, otherwise it would be too obvious.

The two palace maids were taken to the Ministry of Punishment, and after a moment they changed their clothes and were sent out of the palace.

They are the emperor's people. The emperor promised them that he would set them free as long as the empress dowager died. Not only that, the emperor also gave them a thousand taels of silver. With this money, they can live well no matter where they are.

After seven or eight days, the news that the palace maid had bitten her tongue and committed suicide after being tortured spread, and her body was hastily buried. In fact, there was not even a corpse.

Anyway, no one went to examine the bodies of the two palace maids in person.

Half a month later, a woman reported Miao Changming, the son of Marquis Cheng'en.

She directly struck the drum to report the case, and after the nail board rolled over, the emperor personally tried the case.

Miao Changming was the Empress Dowager's nephew and served as the Minister of Personnel in the court, a third-rank official.

Gan Xiaoxia's father, a doctor in the Ministry of Personnel, discovered that an official who couldn't even write clearly had become a county magistrate. He felt that there must be something wrong.

They investigated carefully and found out that a group of bandits had just rushed into the Miao family's house. They hacked everyone they saw. All the members of the Gan family died except Gan Xiaoxia, who was visiting her sister's house that day!
The bandits also searched the house, but found nothing. Finally, they set it on fire. Gan Xiaoxia was eight months pregnant at the time. Upon hearing the bad news, she bled profusely and died.

Gan Xiaoxia even lost her only sister and wished the world would be destroyed.

But her family's funeral still needed to be dealt with, so she buried all her family members with the help of her brother-in-law.

Because my sister married a wealthy businessman, my brother-in-law's family had money and he was a kind-hearted man. Although his wife was gone, the feelings were still there, so he volunteered to help my sister-in-law rebuild their home.

Gan Xiaoxia lived in her brother-in-law's house for half a year. Three years later, after the mourning period, she was seventeen years old. A matchmaker came to propose marriage. Her brother-in-law also investigated her and thought she was marriageable, so he took the initiative to arrange a marriage with the other party's family.

Gan's house was burned down, but the daughter's red wine that Gan's father had buried more than ten years ago was still there. The day before her wedding, she dug it out.

But he found that there was an extra one-foot long box containing daughter's red wine.

She opened it and found that it contained evidence of crimes committed by officials in the court collected by her father. So, Gan Xiaoxia went to the palace and beat the drum to report her crimes without even getting married.

The evidence was presented before the emperor. The Minister of Justice, the Dali Temple and several important officials in the court had all seen it. They all wiped their sweat. They thought this case was just a small matter of selling official positions, but they didn't expect that it would involve such a big matter and directly implicate most of the court.

The Imperial Guards arrested people on the spot, and people in the capital were in a panic, but the Miao family suffered the heaviest losses.

Even several of the Miao family's in-laws were implicated.

When Concubine Shu learned that all her relatives had been imprisoned, she knelt outside the imperial study and begged for mercy.

When the emperor wasn't around, she started crying outside.

Ning Yan was originally sleeping next to the emperor, but was woken up by her.

"Who is making noise outside? How annoying! Your Majesty, tell her to shut up!"

The emperor gave Jiude a look, and soon Shufei was gagged and sent to the cold palace.

A month later, the case in which Gan Xiaoxia sued Prince Miao was finally investigated thoroughly.

Prince Miao not only sold official positions, but also joined his father, Lord Miao, in defecting to Prince Xiangyang and preparing for a rebellion.

The Prince of Xiangyang's mansion was surrounded, and all of his family members were demoted to commoners. The Prince of Xiangyang's mansion and the Miao family were all sentenced to death and executed immediately.

Those who were involved with Prince Xiangyang and those who were connected with the Miao family were all sent to Caishikou.

On that day, Caishikou was flooded with blood.

……

The Prime Minister watched the Emperor so decisively kill such a large number of people, and thought to himself that they had misjudged him before, and he wanted to strangle himself to death for treating the Emperor like a little lamb.

This is not a little sheep, this is clearly a big bad wolf!

The emperor is not someone they can control at all.

This year, another imperial examination was held, and the vacant official positions were quickly filled by the emperor's people.

Even he, the prime minister, could no longer speak freely in the court as usual.

……

Pregnant in October and giving birth once.

No matter how many disturbances the previous dynasty had, Ning Yan was able to rest assured and take care of her pregnancy. Finally, the baby was born. (End of this chapter)