Chapter 162: Banished to the Cold Palace 2

The main hall door was closed.

But there was still a cool breeze coming in through the narrow gap.

They seemed to have eyes and penetrated into Shu Fei's collar and sleeves, making her shiver with cold.

After a brief silence, Xiao Jingheng said:

"You are quite clear about this. But if you value your child so much, why did you abort your own baby and put the blame on Concubine Yi? At that time, Concubine Yi had just entered the palace and had no contact with you!" (Chapter 26)

“Hahahahahahaha~”

After hearing his words, Shu Fei seemed to suddenly go crazy.

She laughed out loud.

Laughing until my voice became hoarse, laughing until bitter tears slipped into my mouth,

The smile made Jamel Xiao’s scalp tingle.

"That's enough! You crazy woman!"

He picked up the inkstone at hand and smashed it hard at Shu Fei.

The inkstone fell in front of her, and the ink splashed on her white clothes.

Little black flowers bloomed.

She still smiled, but said in a choked voice:

"Your Majesty, do you think I am willing to do this? If I could not keep this baby, why would I resort to such a desperate measure?!"

Xiao Jingheng obviously didn't know about this, so he asked, "Can't you save the baby? Didn't Doctor Zhang, who is helping you save the baby, always say that your baby is fine?"

"If I hadn't forced him to say so, why would the emperor have been so concerned about me for those few months just because I was pregnant?"

Shu Fei raised her hand to wipe her tears, smiled bitterly and shook her head, "When I was three months pregnant, Doctor Zhang told me that my baby could only survive for seven months at most, and even if it was born prematurely, it would definitely be a dead fetus that could not be raised..."

"No wonder! No wonder Doctor Zhang died of illness at home for no reason after you had a miscarriage. I'm afraid this was also a sin you committed to silence her!" Xiao Jingheng's chest was heaving violently. The more he listened to Shu Fei's words, the more frightened he became.

"You can't keep this baby, you should have told me earlier! What does this have to do with Concubine Yi?"

Shu Fei said: "It was her bad luck that Yipin was involved in this matter. Originally, I wanted to put the blame on the Queen for the child's death. But the Queen was cautious and deliberately distanced herself from me during that period, and got closer to Yipin instead.

That’s why I put the blame on Concubine Yi, so that the Emperor can later suspect that it was the Empress who ordered her to do this! I want to make the Empress restless! I want the Emperor to be suspicious of her, and the Emperor and Empress to be alienated, so that I can pay for the life of my poor child!”

Xiao Jingheng slammed the table and said angrily: "You said it yourself, you couldn't give birth to this baby because of the lack of fetus, what does it have to do with the queen?"

"How can it have nothing to do with her? Has the emperor forgotten? At that time, the queen's grandmother passed away. The queen has been close to her grandmother since she was a child, and her grandmother's death made her very sad. At that time, she asked me to drink with her every day to relieve her sorrow, but at that time, I was pregnant without knowing it!"

Shu Fei covered her belly and sat on the ground in despair. "I had several drunken nights with her when I was pregnant, which led to my infertility. I can't keep my child! How can this not be considered the Queen killing my child!?"

"Are you crazy?" Xiao Jingheng looked at her solemnly, his eyes full of disbelief. "You didn't even know you were pregnant at the time, let alone the queen? You made a mistake yourself, but you still want to blame it all on others? It's simply unreasonable!"

"Yes! I am crazy!"

Shu Fei stiffened her neck and yelled at Xiao Jingheng: "The craziest thing that has ever happened to me in my life is that I entered the palace and became your concubine! I was just dreaming a foolish dream, and in the end, my hands were covered in blood. When it was late at night and everyone was asleep, I would feel terrified when I looked at myself in the mirror! Even I don't know why I became like this. I was not such a vicious woman!"

Her tears seemed to have dried up.

Kong Kong was sobbing, but no tears were seen.

I cried, I yelled,

Exhausted, she fell to the cold ground, shaking her head in despair.

"The imperial physician told me a while ago that I had a miscarriage that damaged my uterus and that I would never be able to get pregnant again... I know that you will never look at me straight in the eye again. I hate these days and every lonely and miserable night in the palace."

She forced herself to kneel on the ground again and kowtowed three times to Xiao Jingheng.

"I am really exhausted. I beg Your Majesty not to implicate my mother's family and to reward me with a quick death."

Shu Fei's mother's family was far away in Longcheng.

My father was a brave general who played a vital role in the Qi Dynasty's efforts to quell foreign rebellions and intimidate foreign nations.

So Xiao Jingheng would not execute Shu Fei,

He would not let the intrigues in the harem affect his own kingdom.

He stared at Shu Fei with eyes that turned colder and colder, and finally spoke mercilessly,

"I will not execute you. Jiang Deshun, pass my order to the six palaces. From today on, Shu Fei will be demoted to a commoner and confined to the cold palace. She cannot leave unless she is dead."

In a word, Shu Fei will be trapped in this golden cage for the rest of her life.

At that time, Jiang Deshun had already ordered people to take Shu Fei away.

But Shu Fei struggled and cried:

"Your Majesty! Why! I want to die, why do you want to imprison me in the palace? Why!"

In response to her tearful question, Xiao Jingheng only gave her a faint response.

"If you commit suicide, I will punish your entire clan. Take the man away."

Most of the women in this palace,

In Xiao Jingheng's eyes, they are just chess pieces that can be used well.

The life and death of chess pieces is not important.

Why would he care whether his chess piece would be driven crazy by this cannibalistic harem?

After Shu Fei was banished to the cold palace, it was as if this person had never appeared in the palace, and no one mentioned her again.

She just disappeared out of thin air.

It's more terrifying than death.

After this incident, Xiao Jingheng was busy with state affairs for several days and did not enter the harem.

He finally had some free time on this day, so he turned over Song Zhao's sign.

That day, when Song Zhao arrived at Chaoyang Palace, he saw Xiao Jingheng reviewing memorials.

The candlelight in the hall was dim, and Xiao Jingheng's face looked particularly grim in the flickering candlelight.

Song Zhao quietly approached him, added two candles near him, and then went behind him to massage his stiff neck and shoulders.

"Your Majesty has been working hard these days, or..."

As he was speaking, Xiao Jingheng suddenly stopped writing and grabbed Song Zhao's wrist with his backhand.

He slowly turned his head and looked up at her.

His eyes were cold.

The cold was so oppressive that it felt suffocating.

"Your Majesty...why are you looking at me like this?"

"Shu Fei confessed her crimes. She also confessed that she had miscarried on that day because she wanted to put the blame on you. When she came to visit you, she hid the sachet containing the herb in your inner chamber."

Hearing this, Song Zhao felt a chill down his spine. (Chapter 31)

Before she could open her mouth to defend herself, Xiao Jingheng continued:

"Since it was Concubine Shu who put the herb into your palace, why did the people in front of the emperor find out that Li had bought herb, thus clearing you of suspicion when I ordered people to investigate the matter?"

His sharp eyes stared at Song Zhao's sparkling eyes, like the sharpest sword in the world.

"I need you to give me an explanation for this matter."

(Ps: Some threads have been buried for too long. When I pull them out later, I will mark the approximate chapter when the incident happened. Those who have forgotten can go back and read it. Please call me a guiding light!

Also, happy Monday, traditional arts! )