Chapter 282 Concubine Xi passes away
After a while, after learning that Su Nanqing's heart palpitations had improved, Xiao Heng and the queen went to the bedroom.
Taxue was about to go out to serve the bowls when he saw the masters coming and hurriedly bowed and greeted them.
"Taxue, is Concubine Rou feeling better?" asked the Queen.
Taxue raised her red and swollen eyes, "This servant tried to persuade the young lady for a long time, but she was still heartbroken and kept crying, asking why she was the one who was rescued instead of Concubine Xi..."
At this point, she choked up slightly. "Our young lady and Imperial Concubine Xi have always been good friends. Now that Imperial Concubine Xi is gone... I'm afraid the young lady won't be well for a while. She just had another heart palpitation. The imperial physician said... that the young lady will need a long period of rest to recover, and during this time, she must avoid any stimulation."
"Where were you on the day when the Yaoyue Palace caught fire?" Xiao Heng didn't care what happened to Su Nanqing at the moment, he only cared about who killed Liu Yuetang.
Ta Xue said, "That night the wind was very strong, so I went back to the palace to get a cloak for the young lady. When I arrived at Yaoyue Palace again... the fire was already raging."
Xiao Heng frowned slightly and slowly stroked the jade ring on his thumb.
In other words, there was not a single palace servant guarding outside the Yaoyue Palace.
Taxue went back to the palace to get the cloak, while the eunuch from Yaoyue Palace went to invite the imperial physician, and Liu Zheng went to the small kitchen to prepare some side dishes.
It was too much of a coincidence... It was like everyone was carefully arranged.
The only ones who arranged for these palace maids to leave were Miaomiao and Concubine Rou.
Rou Jieyu... Xiao Heng's eyes flashed.
The fire in Yaoyue Palace spread so quickly. The person behind it must have done something and acted quickly. The person who did it best was none other than Concubine Rou.
At that time - she was in the temple.
So, Xiao Heng asked Doctor Wen, "Did Concubine Rou faint when you were treating her?"
Doctor Wen quickly bowed and said, "Your Majesty, that's right. Concubine Rou inhaled a large amount of smoke and her shoulder was burned. I used many methods to finally wake her up."
Xiao Heng pondered for a moment, "Why does Concubine Rou suffer from heart palpitations?"
"Rou Jieyu just woke up. She was already weak, and she was heartbroken. Her emotions were so volatile that she had palpitations."
Xiao Heng closed his eyes solemnly.
Yes, Concubine Rou had no motive to kill Miaomiao, and it would be of no benefit to her.
She treated her very well on a daily basis because she regarded Miaomiao as a sister.
If Miaomiao died, she would have no one to rely on.
There was no need for her to risk her own life to plot against Miaomiao.
Xiao Heng walked towards the inner hall, with the queen following closely behind.
In the hall, Su Nanqing's face was paler than the white silk in front of the couch, with a sickly bluish-gray hue, and he was breathing heavily.
Seeing Xiao Heng coming, she propped herself up and tried to stand up. The Queen quickly stepped forward and held her shoulders, "No need to be polite, just lie down."
Su Nanqing lowered her eyes and nodded, her crow-feather eyelashes sweeping across her pale cheeks. She said in a hoarse voice, "Thank you, Queen."
"I came here to ask you what happened in Yaoyue Palace? Why did the fire suddenly break out?"
When Su Nanqing mentioned this, her eyes immediately turned red again, tears welling up in her eyes, "I don't know."
She tried to recall, "I and the Imperial Concubine were drinking. For some reason, I suddenly felt dizzy. Smoke filled the hall, and then the door was closed. I and the Imperial Concubine realized something was wrong and wanted to get up to check. But I fainted after taking a few steps. As I fell to the ground, I vaguely saw a figure outside. I had no idea what happened next. When I woke up, I was already in the Jade Lotus Hall."
Hearing a figure outside, Xiao Heng frowned.
At this moment, Zhou Defu suddenly remembered something and hurriedly said, "Your Majesty... I suddenly remembered something. When I first arrived at the Yaoyue Palace, the night guard urgently reported that they had seen a suspicious person lurking in the palace. That person was highly skilled in martial arts and disappeared behind the eaves in an instant. Later, the Yaoyue Palace caught fire, and everyone was in a panic to put out the fire. The two sword-wielding guards who were chasing them have not yet found any trace..."
He had been thinking about reporting this matter to the emperor, but seeing that he was furious about Concubine Xi's death, he forgot about it for a moment.
Su Nanqing's eyelashes trembled slightly. Unexpectedly, God was helping her...
In this way, all suspicion fell on the man in black.
And the curling smoke, needless to say, everyone would think of incense.
Veins popped up on Xiao Heng's forehead as he spoke in a stern voice, "Order the Imperial Guards to search for that suspicious individual and get to the bottom of it."
Seeing Zhou Defu go down to give orders to the Imperial Guards, Su Nanqing came to his senses and slapped himself hard in the face.
Everyone was shocked to see her burst into tears, sobbing uncontrollably: "It's all my fault... I shouldn't have gone to the Imperial Concubine for a drink..."
"It's all my fault... I was not able to save the Imperial Concubine. Why wasn't I the one who died? Why?!"
Su Nanqing cried and pounded her chest hard.
Upon seeing this, Taxue hurriedly knelt forward and said, "My lady... the imperial physician said that you shouldn't have too much emotional fluctuation. If you continue to be so sad, it will endanger your life!"
"The people in the dark have always wanted to harm the Imperial Concubine. Even if you hadn't gone to the Yueyue Palace, the Imperial Concubine would not have been spared from this disaster!"
This sentence means that Su Nanqing was implicated by Liu Yuetang.
If Su Nanqing had not gone to Yaoyue Palace, the incense would have only made Liu Yuetang faint.
But after hearing this, Su Nanqing felt even more guilty. His whole body was shaking violently, and his fingertips were tightly clutching the collar of his shirt, as if he wanted to dig out the guilt in his heart.
"If I had noticed the enemy's conspiracy earlier...my sister wouldn't have..."
She was cut off by sobs before she could finish her words: "It's all my fault! It's all my fault! I couldn't protect her... I couldn't die for her."
Seeing Su Nanqing so heartbroken, all the concubines sighed that there really was such a thing as sisterhood in the harem.
Only Rong Yue frowned and thought, always feeling that something was not right, but... she couldn't tell what was wrong.
"Your Majesty!" Su Nanqing raised her head with tears streaming down her face, and with all her strength, she propped up her weak body and kowtowed: "I beg you to burn incense and mourn before the spirit of the noble concubine day and night, to repay the sisterly love she showed me when she was alive."
"No need." Xiao Heng's voice was as deep as an ink stick soaked in water.
"Before the noble concubine's spirit, only I can be there."
After saying this, he turned around.
The imperial majesty he had just displayed shattered, and sorrow surged in his red eyes.
He walked out step by step with heavy hands, and the palace lantern made his shadow distorted and lonely.
At this moment, he suddenly understood what his father had said.
Now that Liu Yuetang is gone, he feels all alone and there is no more spring in the world.
From then on, the night was forever silent, without a single glimmer of light.
Miaomiao, why did you leave me when I just understood what love was?
I don’t know where the love comes from, but it grows deeper and deeper.
Xiao Heng only had this true love in his life, but he lost this true love.
He looked up at the inky sky, and the galaxy shattered into sparkling tears in his eyes.
"Liu Yuetang, I love you."
It's a pity that she will never be able to hear it.
If that day, he changed the sentence "Miaomiao, I like you" to "Miaomiao, I love you".
Will she be happier?
If that day… he hadn’t gone to Yaohua Palace, he had gone to Yaoyue Palace and told her, “It doesn’t matter if you don’t love me. For the rest of my life, it’s enough for me to stay with you.”
In this way, would she feel that Xiao Heng also loves her?
In this way, she will not die and will not leave me.
It’s a pity that it’s too late.
Xiao Heng's tears fell, and blood splattered on the blue bricks.
August 12, the eighth year of Jingyuan.
Concubine Xi died and was posthumously named Shuyi.
The emperor was deeply saddened and stopped attending court for seven days. He stayed alone before the coffin, and the entire palace was in mourning.
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