Chapter 51 Concubine Shu ascends

to the throne Lady Jiang tried her best to get up, but it was useless. She could only hysterically say: "Wrong, wrong, wrong, all wrong! Concubine Shu, you have a preset answer, and you clearly want to force me to confess in front of the emperor! Your Majesty, I am innocent, Your Majesty, please save me, Your Majesty!"

Her cry was extremely penetrating. For a moment, everyone present looked at Emperor Qingling at the same time.

But Emperor Qingling had no intention of intervening at all, and obviously left the matter to Concubine Shu.

Concubine Shu continued, "You didn't finish what you said just now. What's wrong with you? Since you won't say it, I'll say it for you. You have obviously dealt with the palace maid involved. How did I know all this?"

As soon as she finished speaking, Lady Jiang looked up at her.

There was a deep and cold look in her eyes.

It was the look of a beast when it sees its prey.

"Concubine Shu, I should have killed you that day! And I would have saved you the shame today!"

Concubine Shu ignored her eyes and said calmly, "So, you admit these things?"

From beginning to end, she was very calm.

Her purpose was clear. She

was decisive and resolute.

All she did was to force Lady Jiang to confess.

Lady Jiang sneered: "What difference does it make whether you admit it or not? The emperor has abandoned me, and you hate me. Even if I didn't do it, it will fall on me in the end. In this case, what's the point of resisting? It's better to lie down and let people laugh at you, and you can still have a clean name."

She had a frivolous mentality, and her remarks directly confused everyone present.

This wave of reverse self-proof was a disguised denial of what Concubine Shu said.

For a moment, everyone's eyes on Concubine Shu changed.

Concubine Shu found the palace maids and eunuchs. Could it be that she really just wanted Lady Jiang to confess? If so, then Lady Jiang might really have been wronged.

She said that she would lie down and let people laugh at her, and keep her innocence, not because future generations would understand her innocence, on the contrary, Concubine Shu, the culprit, would become the target of public criticism.

After all, this interrogation method is indeed dishonorable.

Concubine Shu sneered and said in a deep voice: "You really won't give up until you see the Yellow River, and won't cry until you see the coffin. Do you know why I didn't bring the real palace maids and eunuchs here? How can I see corpses in the concubines' quarters in the harem?"

Lady Jiang's heart skipped a beat.

They actually found a corpse!

The next moment, Concubine Shu said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, the harem is in a time of trouble. I wanted to share your worries. I was late just now, so I went to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to inquire about this matter. I also happened to see the bodies of the palace maids and eunuchs who had been dealt with in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. There was not a single good place on their bodies. They were all bruised from beatings and abuse. There were also personal belongings and sawdust from the cold palace lady Jiang on their bodies. The evidence is solid, but in order to restore the truth of the matter, I will go through it in detail. After checking the personal maid of Lady Jiang in the cold palace, the maid told me everything she had seen and heard in the past two days. However, Lady Jiang was careful and never made this matter public. What I said just now was based on what I had seen and heard and the evidence that the Ministry of Internal Affairs had found, and I deduced the truth. Looking at Lady Jiang's reaction just now, it was almost certain. How to deal with it, you just need to listen to the emperor's orders. "

She was not impatient and told the facts.

With every word, Lady Jiang's heart sank a little.

She never thought that these things were actually guessed by Concubine Shu herself, so it was she who really pushed her to the abyss!

If she had not fallen into Concubine Shu's trap, even Concubine Shu would have only suspected her based on the so-called evidence, and she could not be sure that it was her from the beginning to the end.

It was her!

She was the one who revealed her flaws!

Lady Jiang shouted at the top of her lungs: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, I can explain that the two slaves just died on their own. What they did in their lives had nothing to do with me. How can you confirm that they have anything to do with me when these evidences were found on them?"

Concubine Shu frowned and stepped forward, bending down and directly pulling open the sleeves of the kneeling palace maid.

Shocking whip marks appeared in everyone's sight. There were

even scars from burns.

The wounds stretched across each other, like cracks left by dry cracks in the ground, and blood was seen.

"Your Majesty, this is the maidservant of Lady Jiang." Concubine Shu fell to the

ground with a sound.

The maidservant burst into tears on the spot and knelt down to beg for mercy: "Your Majesty, I didn't see anything. Lady Jiang always did things behind people's backs. She always called Xiuyu, who was closest to her. I thought she trusted Xiuyu, but I didn't expect that she asked Xiuyu to do this for her and then sent Xiuyu to die. Xiuyu had said before that she would ask for fresh water chestnut cake for me to eat, but who knew that she was found dead in the Ministry of Internal Affairs today. Your Majesty, I deserve to die. I have committed the crime of deceiving the emperor. I am guilty of this crime. Please, Your Majesty, let me die and let me accompany Xiuyu."

The eunuch also cried and said, "Your Majesty, the one who died was my disappointing brother. He served the ladies in the cold palace all year round and was also planning to climb up. I didn't expect that Lady Jiang would use this as a weapon to kill people. I saw with my own eyes that my disappointing brother killed Xiuyu, and then was pushed into the well of the Ministry of Internal Affairs by Lady Jiang herself!"

He told the truth word by word.

Lady Jiang collapsed to the ground.

"You...you are all Concubine Shu's people! They want to harm me, Your Majesty, they want to harm me!"

Concubine Shu walked away and said in a slightly lower voice: "Your Majesty and I have given you a chance, but Miss Jiang, you are the one who insisted on being stubborn. If you had confessed from the beginning, even before I revealed the truth, we would have given you and the Jiang family a way out. But not only did you not confess, but you also turned the tables. In this way, even if Your Majesty remembered the old friendship, he could not stop the people from talking. It was you who walked into this dead end, and you can't blame others."

After saying that, she faced Emperor Qingling, knelt down and said: "Your Majesty, my mission is completed."

Emperor Qingling replied in a muffled voice: "Well, thank you for your hard work, Concubine Shu."

He raised his eyes, with tenderness hidden between his eyebrows.

Concubine Shu's actions just now really left room for maneuver.

She was forcing Lady Jiang to tell the truth, trying to save Lady Jiang's life in front of him. Lady Jiang was stubborn and stubborn.

How could his concubine be so good?

Lady Jiang had hurt her so much, but she still wanted to spare her life.

"Lady Jiang, Mrs. Jiang, will be beaten to death immediately, and all ten clans of the Jiang family will be exterminated. All officials above the third rank who have had contact with the Jiang family will be suspended from their posts for investigation, and officials below the third rank will be sentenced to death."

As soon as these words came out, the whole room was in shock.

Everyone retreated and wondered in their hearts whether their mother's family had any personal relations with the Jiang family.

If so, they were afraid that they would not be able to save themselves.

When Lady Jiang heard that the emperor was so cruel, she was so scared that she urinated on the spot.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, please spare my life, Your Majesty..."

Concubine Shu sighed in her heart.

After this happened, she did not even ask for mercy for her family. From beginning to end, she only thought about herself.

It's a pity that her father, Master Jiang, once taught the emperor.

In this way, the emperor will inevitably end up being heartless and ungrateful.

Jiang was also implicated.

Emperor Qingling stood up, took Concubine Shu's hand and said, "Concubine Shu Zong, the noble concubine of Jinshu, will follow me out of the palace to offer sacrifices in three days and be worshipped by the people. Princess, welcome you and grant you the title of Zhixin."