Chapter 50: Crime of Deceiving
the Emperor Lady Jiang was terrified, she glanced down at the puppet on the ground, and hurriedly crawled to the other side.
Wei Xin immediately stepped forward to hold her down, and under Wei Xin's suppression, she lay on the ground, without any dignity.
"Your Majesty, this puppet has nothing to do with me. I stay in the cold palace every day, watching the sun rise and set, the clouds roll and unroll, hoping that Your Majesty can remember my kindness. How could I make such an evil thing to curse you, Your Majesty, you must believe me!"
She cried bitterly, and every word she said was about her longing for the emperor.
However, there was no sincerity in her eyes.
It was all about the desire to survive and the determination to give it a try.
Maybe there was sincerity, but it was pitifully little.
Before Emperor Qingling could speak, Concubine Shu looked at her and said, "You hope that the emperor will remember you? Did you try every possible means to frame me and make me jump into the clear water pond, or did you not stay at home in the cold palace and made such evil things to curse the emperor?"
When Lady Jiang heard Concubine Shu speak, her face changed instantly, and she became full of anger, staring at Concubine Shu.
She pointed at Concubine Shu and shouted angrily, "Zong Yaohe, you have occupied the emperor, deceived the people with evil words, and seduced the emperor. One day, you will be punished! If you didn't do it, you didn't do it. No matter how you put this on me, I didn't do it!"
After that, she looked at Emperor Qingling for help, crying.
"Your Majesty, I have been with you since I was a teenager. I have been suffering in this harem for half my life. I was framed by treacherous people and ended up in this situation now. I am wrong, but Your Majesty, you know me. I am a soft-hearted person. How could I do such a thing as framing Concubine Shu and the puppet today!"
Concubine Shu walked forward and stood between Lady Jiang and Emperor Qingling. She raised her hand and threw a handkerchief in front of Lady Jiang.
"Look carefully for yourself. Who else in this harem has such a mind and such needlework skills except you?"
She looked down on him from beginning to end, like a god.
At this time, she knew that doing so would arouse Emperor Qingling's suspicion, but she still wanted to do it.
Just because this was the situation that Emperor Qingling wanted to see.
He needed someone to stand up for him and take the blame for him, and she became the woman who made him feel guilty.
Emperor Qing Ling lazily raised his eyelids, his eyebrows and eyes were calm, and he could not see any joy, anger, sorrow or happiness in his heart.
The arrogance and bullying of Concubine Shu in front of him were really hard to look away.
He felt more and more that the current Concubine Shu was to his liking, with thorns, but docile, like a knife to him. When he needed her, she would come out. When he didn't need her, she would watch him favor other women like that rainy night.
He didn't mind giving such a smart woman more favor.
Lady Jiang turned her eyes away and forced herself not to look at the handkerchief on the ground.
He sneered, "If you want to accuse someone, you can always find a pretext. Concubine Shu, you want to pin this on me, but I tell you, as long as the emperor is here, he will never allow you to be so arrogant and unreasonable! The emperor is kind and generous, and treats me like his favorite, how can he allow you to do such a thing!"
Concubine Shu looked at Jiang Chunyu in front of her coldly.
She was very smart. She avoided talking about it from beginning to end, and just talked about her feelings for the emperor.
The emperor was indeed soft-hearted, but she overlooked one point. This matter involved a lot of things. Let's not talk about Concubine Xian for now. Just because the empress dowager just came forward to exert pressure, this matter would never end well.
A lenient sentence would only save her life.
A heavy sentence would be what the emperor just said, extermination of ten clans!
If Jiang Chunyu was smart, what he would have to do now is to protect the Jiang family.
"General Manager Wei." Concubine Shu looked aside and signaled Wei Weiran.
Wei Weiran nodded and replied in a muffled voice: "Yes, Concubine Shu."
After he finished speaking, he waved his hands towards the outside of the palace.
The people of the Yu Lin Army directly walked in, holding a man and a woman.
One was wearing a palace maid's clothes.
The other was wearing a eunuch's clothes.
The two were forced to kneel down.
The knife flashed, and two knives were directly placed on the heads of the two people.
Because a palace concubine was sent to the cold palace because of Yu's previous misconduct, so now although the others are afraid, they are just afraid in silence.
The people of the Yulin Army said in a rough voice: "Anyone who dares to lie in front of the emperor and the concubine will be guilty of deceiving the emperor! Speak!"
The concubine raised her eyes and glanced at Jiang Xiaozhu in an undetectable manner.
Jiang Xiaozhu was frightened and at a loss, fearing that she would really be caught.
She turned around carefully and breathed a sigh of relief when she saw the faces of the two people.
But the next moment, her face suddenly changed.
The young maid knelt on the ground and kowtowed loudly: "Your Majesty, your Majesty, it was Lady Jiang who ordered me to bury this thing under the flowerbed of Qiankun Palace. She also ordered me to throw the wood chips and needles outside Guangling Palace and Chengqian Palace to frame your Majesty and Mu Guiren. Everything I said is true. Your Majesty and your Majesty, please spare my life for telling the truth."
After saying that, she kowtowed loudly several times.
When the concubine raised her eyes, the people of the Yulin Army immediately held her down.
Concubine Shu said solemnly: "How can there be blood in the Qiankun Palace? Are you deliberately trying to get Concubine Xian to lose her life here?"
Her fierce and stern appearance was really intimidating. She
was dignified and cold, absolutely out of the ordinary, making people subconsciously follow her thoughts.
Then, she looked at the eunuch beside her and said lightly: "What did you do?"
The eunuch was so scared that he trembled and knocked his head on the ground, and his voice rose: "Your servant... Your servant was ordered by Lady Jiang to take the life of my sister, but before I finished, I was caught here, Lady Shu, I really didn't have time to do anything, please let me live."
His voice trembled, and he didn't even dare to look at Lady Jiang when he spoke.
Concubine Shu raised her eyebrows: "There are witnesses and evidences, Miss Jiang, what else do you have to say?"
Miss Jiang was already stunned by the words of these two people.
She looked down in confusion, but after hearing what Concubine Shu said, she suddenly raised her head with poison in her eyes.
"It's you! It must be you! You arranged these two people! I clearly... clearly..."
Concubine Shu took over the conversation: "What happened?"
Lady Jiang shook her head in fear and stepped back: "I clearly did nothing! You are spitting blood on me!"
Concubine Shu said solemnly: "If you don't say it, I will say it for you! You first made this doll, and then ordered the palace maids to bury it under the flowerbed of Qiankun Palace, and also put sawdust and needles in my house, Lady Mu, and Concubine Xian's house, and even used Master Jiang's connections in the court to... The system is that I have bribed the eunuchs in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The beddings I supplied to these three palaces a few days ago were all defective. In this way, they will inevitably come to take the needles and threads you have prepared long ago. Double insurance, so that when something happens later, someone will follow the clues to find these three palaces, and you will get away with it. Is what I said correct?"