The virtuous concubine sneered, "Mother, please stop talking about this child."
"In the past, she just used me as a pawn. Aren't you also using her niece as a pawn?"
"So, what grounds do you have to accuse me?"
"This is for our own good."
The Empress Dowager was so angry that she beat her chest and stamped her feet: "This is for our own good! She's a lunatic, and you let her go to Kunning Palace to assassinate that brat!"
"It's obvious that they want her to die!"
"Not to mention the extremely low chance of success, even if you succeed by chance, you'll still die!"
The virtuous concubine remained calm and said gently, "You are wrongly blaming me."
"I deliberately chose a time when the Queen and her female guard were away to take action, and I also planted people in Kunning Palace to blow smoke."
"She can only blame it on bad luck."
"If she succeeds this time, she'll lose her life, but in exchange she'll have a smooth future."
The Empress Dowager was so angry that her face turned red, her features were grim, and she covered her chest with her hands, unable to speak in pain.
"Mother, please take care of yourself." Concubine Xian served the Empress Dowager a cup of tea.
"Right now, you don't have many people around you. You'd better cooperate with your son calmly!"
"You should know that the last time Master Jiang's life was on the line, it was the Lord who saved him, and I am also the Lord's man!"
The virtuous concubine glanced at the empress dowager with a condescending attitude.
The Queen Mother gritted her teeth, picked up the teacup and threw it to the ground.
"You...you..." The Empress Dowager's eyes were as big as bells, but she could no longer utter a word.
Cheng Feng, who was lying on the roof, saw everything that happened in the inner chambers of Shoukang Palace.
Within a quarter of an hour, the news of Concubine Xian's night meeting with the Empress Dowager was reported to the Imperial Study.
Xia Zhengqi pulled the queen and the prince together to discuss the matter.
Xia Zhengqi said, "It's now confirmed that Consort Xian is the spy, and she was responsible for Jiang Qiqiu's crime. How should we deal with her?"
The Queen frowned and said, "I feel that if we arrest her now and bring her to the Dali Temple for a strict trial, the result will most likely be the same as Wang Deguang's."
Xia Zhengqi nodded silently.
Yes, the last time Wang Deguang was arrested and taken to the Dali Temple, he refused to confess. Not only did we fail to get important information from him, but we also alerted the enemy.
If a sister of a Liang Dynasty clan member were to go to the Dali Temple, she would most likely not confess her identity.
After all, we haven't found anything more yet, so it's obviously not the best time to arrest anyone.
"But if we don't catch him..." Xia Zhengqi hesitated to speak.
Now that the true identity of Concubine Xian has been confirmed, she must be passing information to the outside world in the harem.
If she is allowed to stay in the harem, wouldn't there be more top-secret information leaking out from her hands?
The prince lowered his head in thought, then suddenly slapped his head and said, "I have an idea."
Xia Zhengqi nodded and signaled him to continue.
"Why don't we find a reason to control her first, and then make a long-term plan."
Xia Zhengqi and the Queen looked at each other and nodded approvingly.
Immediately afterwards, the family of three made a plan overnight.
In the next few days, a rumor spread in the palace.
"Have you heard? An evil spirit has entered our Great Xia Palace." Xiao Shunzi, the young eunuch in Kunning Palace, told the eunuchs in the Ministry of Internal Affairs in a vivid manner.
"Is it true?" The other party was skeptical.
"Why would I lie to you! If it weren't for the evil spirit, why would that useless Jiang Qiqiu suddenly go crazy?"
Xiao Shunzi's exaggerated expression scared the other person.
"Tell me quickly, how did Jiang Qiqiu go crazy?"
"Yeah, tell us quickly, how scary is it?"
Several other young eunuchs from the Imperial Household Department also gathered around.
"Okay, since we have such a good relationship, I'll tell you about it. But you mustn't tell anyone about it."
"Okay, okay, I promise not to say anything nonsense. Tell me now!"
Xiao Shunzi pretended to be mysterious and said, "That night, her eyes glowed red, like a monster, and her throat made a low growling sound."
"And that night she was so strong that four or five palace guards couldn't get close to her."
"When that hand stretched out, it was like a big claw of a wild animal, with nails so long and claws so big that it could knock someone to the ground with one claw."
Several young eunuchs exclaimed in surprise when they heard this.
"Oh my god, that's scary!"
"Does she want to eat people?"
Xiao Shunzi pursed his lips and suddenly said loudly, "Of course, she was biting people's necks. Fortunately, the Second Prince arrived in time and stabbed her to death with that blessed sword."
"Otherwise, who knows how many people she would have killed."
Several young eunuchs showed expressions of fear.
"So she's been possessed by an evil spirit?"
Xiao Shunzi replied, "That's probably it. So you have to be very careful at night. What if this evil spirit possesses someone else?"
A young eunuch murmured, "When I have my day off, I'll go to the temple and get a talisman for safety."
When the other people heard this, they also expressed that they wanted to ask for one to wear.
In less than a day and a night, the news of the evil spirit wreaking havoc in the palace had spread throughout the entire Great Xia Palace. As soon as it got dark, everyone was terrified.
At the same time, the time for the poetry meeting agreed upon by Zheng Pan, the Secretary of the Dali Temple, and the prince and others has arrived.
That evening, Xiao Licheng and his two nephews dressed up and went to Zheng Pan's house.
Zheng Pan, accompanied by several men dressed as scholars, stood at the gate to greet them enthusiastically: "Crown Prince, Second Prince, Lord Xiao, you are finally here!"
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