Chapter 15 Bribery
"Send the person out first and deal with him properly." Old Concubine Xie frowned tightly.
Proper treatment means sending her to a brothel...
He must be detoxified and cannot be allowed to die in the palace.
The steward received the order and went to the guest room to carry Shen Wenyuan.
Old Concubine Xie looked very unhappy, "What's going on?"
"Grandma, Caiwei doesn't know." Chen Caiwei knelt down with tears in her eyes.
She should call the old concubine "Grandma", but the old concubine Xie doted on her and regarded her as the adopted daughter of the royal palace. She treated her the same as Xie Ruojiao and asked her to call her grandmother as well.
Jiang Rong glanced at her and said, "There was something wrong with the food at the banquet you hosted, and you didn't even know about it?"
"Caiwei really doesn't know. There are so many people at the poetry gathering today, and the drinks have been placed on the table long ago. Anyone could take advantage of the opportunity to do something. Caiwei really doesn't know who has committed the crime against my cousin's wife..." Chen Caiwei was about to cry:
"Cai Wei and my cousin's wife have always been on good terms, why would you want to harm her? Cai Wei is really innocent!"
"I heard that this position was originally reserved for the Crown Prince's Consort..." Concubine Li watched the show for a long time and interrupted at the right time:
"Someone is trying to harm the Crown Prince's Consort? Fortunately, the Crown Prince's Consort and Qiao have switched places."
Concubine Zhao became even angrier after hearing this. It should have been Jiang Rong who was in trouble, but it was her daughter-in-law who was embarrassed, and she was also embarrassed. She said sarcastically:
"The Crown Prince's Consort suddenly wants to switch places with Qiao. This is quite coincidental."
Jiang Rong blamed himself, "If I had known this would happen, I would not have changed my position. I made my eldest sister-in-law suffer for me..."
"Don't blame yourself, girl Rong. You didn't know that the wine was poisoned. You didn't deserve to be killed by the villain. If you want to blame someone, blame the person who did it. Who can blame you?" Old Concubine Xie defended.
Concubine Zhao had no choice but to swallow her anger.
"They want to harm me and Shen Wenyuan at the same time. Someone wants to see the jokes of me and the prince." Jiang Rong's thin lips curled up in a cold tone:
"So, who doesn't want me to marry the prince?"
In an instant, the eyes of everyone in the palace fell on Chen Caiwei.
Old Concubine Xie also frowned. She once wanted to marry Chen Caiwei to Xie Lingxi. Could it be that this child just couldn't make up his mind for the moment?
"There are many people. The ninth young lady of the Duke of Dingguo's mansion who came to attend the banquet today has been in love with her cousin for a long time, and everyone knows it. In addition, there is the daughter of the Minister of Rites, the daughter of the lecturer of the Hanlin Academy, and the daughter of the Left Secretary of the Dali Temple. They all participated in the selection of concubines in the palace last year." Chen Caiwei listed a bunch of candidates.
Last year, when the Northern Prince's Palace was selecting a concubine for Xie Lingxi, countless officials sent portraits to the palace in an attempt to cling to this big tree of the Northern Prince's Palace.
But Xie Lingxi didn't choose any of them.
Chen Caiwei had a trick up her sleeve.
If it is really discovered that Jiang Rong was framed, it would muddy the waters and bring up more suspicious people.
Jiang Rong said calmly, "Come here, bring the person up."
Yingxia brought in her maid Xiaotao.
It was she who led Shen Wenyuan to the guest room and served him tea with added ingredients.
"This maidservant is yours." Jiang Rong said.
If it was the wine on the table in the front hall, the guests might have had a chance to take it, but no guest had ever been to the guest rooms in the backyard.
When Chen Caiwei saw Xiaotao, her expression did not change.
If anyone wanted to investigate, they would definitely interrogate Xiao Tao. So, of course, she had already arranged everything.
"Xiao Tao, why did you do this? Who bribed you? How dare you do such a thing!" Chen Caiwei pretended to be incredulous and pointed at Xiao Tao and asked angrily.
Xiao Tao trembled, knelt down and kowtowed, saying: "I was confused for a moment and accepted the money. When I went out to buy rouge the day before yesterday, I met a masked steward who gave me a large sum of money..."
"I don't know who bribed me. I...I am willing to die."
She was a servant of the Chen family, and the lives of her entire family were in Chen Caiwei's hands.
It is better for her to die alone than for the whole family to die.
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