Chapter 269 Why is it so coincidental every time?
Lu Xinran looked at the contents of the booklet and sighed deeply again.
[As expected, no one in the harem can be underestimated, and not all secrets will be exposed to outsiders. ]
[If it weren't for Tongzi's ability, who would have thought that Concubine Xu and Concubine Wei were actually sisters with the same mother but different fathers.]
[Xu Taifei was three years older than her mother. She was born secretly after her mother had an affair with someone else.]
[After she was born, she was brought to her grandmother's side, and she was raised under the name of her aunt by someone else.]
[Later, her mother married into the Wei family and gave birth to Wei Fanhua. By chance, the two sisters entered the palace one after the other.]
[It was after they entered the palace that they discovered that the two had many similarities, and only then did they learn the secret of their origins from their family members.]
[Although Concubine Wei is three years younger, she is the most scheming and resourceful of the two.]
[After discovering that Su Hongyu had gotten pregnant with the heir with the help of the Queen Mother, the two of them decided to use the same method to consolidate her favor.]
[The Concubine Wei was very bold and tried to get the old emperor to have an affair with the two sisters. However, after being reprimanded by the old emperor, the two sisters both fell out of favor.]
[When they were scolded and fell out of favor, Su Hongyu was diagnosed with being pregnant with the prince. They both hated Su Hongyu at the same time, and felt that the luck of everyone in the harem had been sucked away by her and the Queen Mother.]
[These two people...are sick! ]
[Thinking about those inferior methods, why did the old emperor dislike them and not look for the reason in himself? 】
It was so bad that Lu Xinran couldn't find a word to complain about it for a long time.
The Queen Mother's body was already cold, and these two people had been acting calm and harmless over the years. Every year on Su Hongyu's death anniversary, they would send her a few handwritten scriptures, hoping that she would take them to the temple for memorial services.
She originally thought that they did this just because they knew she was good friends with Su Hongyu and they wanted to please her.
I never thought that they were the murderers. Maybe they did it just because they felt guilty.
[The more successful Su Hongyu became, and the closer she became to the Queen Mother, the more jealous and twisted they became.]
[The harem is full of unlucky and pitiful people. They have lost the emperor's favor and cannot bear to see others enjoying themselves.]
[The two of them endured and endured, and finally waited for the opportunity during a heavy snowfall in winter.]
[The emperor had a high fever at the time because they bribed a palace maid next to the empress dowager and secretly put the emperor in ice water and froze him alive.]
[They did this not only to prevent the Empress Dowager from taking care of Su Hongyu, but they also hoped that the Emperor would die young.]
[After the plan was successful, they invited Su Hongyu to the Yu Garden in the name of the Queen Mother, and splashed water on the bluestone slabs to make ice in advance, and had someone help Su Hongyu walk up.]
[Later, Su Hongyu's dystocia and heavy bleeding were also caused by them. They bribed the palace maids around Su Hongyu and added a large amount of safflower to her medicine, so that after she took the medicine, not only could the bleeding not stop, but it also accelerated her blood loss.]
The Queen Mother's body had completely lost its temperature.
The truth she had been searching for for decades turned out to be right beside her all along, and it was so crude.
Just because they lost the divine favor, they could use this as a reason to frame them? !
Not until then did she understand why Su Hongyu looked at her that way before he died.
Did she think she regretted helping her?
Did she already know that she was pregnant with the prince, and did he think that she also knew it and was afraid that she would compete with her son for the throne in the future?
She looked at the three people in the hall angrily, her heart filled with grief and anger, tears rolling down her cheeks like rolling beads.
Lu Xinran came back to his senses from his search for the truth and saw the empress dowager's sudden change of expression with confusion in her eyes.
Lu Xinlan gently pulled up her sleeve and gave her a look to signal her to get up and leave.
She followed her blankly, and the two sisters left Changshou Palace quietly.
"Would it be a bad idea for us to leave like this?"
Lu Xinran turned around and looked at the high palace wall. The empress dowager had not yet said why she summoned them into the palace.
"The Queen Mother has important matters to attend to right now. Let's go back first and find an opportunity to go to the palace and pay our respects to her later."
After Lu Xinlan finished speaking, he took her out of the palace quickly, and he didn't feel relieved until they returned to the Lu Mansion.
The truth of that year has been completely revealed, and how to deal with it next is something that the Empress Dowager and the Emperor have to think about.
They eat melons with noble qualities: leave after the work is done, hiding their achievements and fame~
Lu Xinran always felt something was strange when she returned to the courtyard. Every time she had a strange feeling, it was as if a layer of fog was shrouded in her mind, making it impossible for her to explore.
In Zhaoyun Courtyard, Pei was still unable to recover after listening to Lu Xinlan's retelling.
She was the same age as the Empress Dowager and Su Hongyu. Although what happened back then happened in the palace, she had heard some of it.
As people who have given birth before, they all know that no matter how dangerous the birth of a child is, it will not end up with two lives lost in the harem guarded by the imperial physician.
The doctors in the palace all understood the importance of protecting the child at the last moment.
"Hey~"
After a long time, all of Pei's thoughts faded away, leaving only a long sigh.
"Don't tell anyone about this. Let's just pretend we never knew about this."
Lu Xinlan nodded. The secrets of the palace should not be known to outsiders.
The Queen Mother will let her accompany her into the palace today, perhaps so that she can take people out of the palace at a critical moment.
After all, regardless of how much the Queen Mother likes Lu Xinran, it is a tacit consensus in the court that nothing can happen to her right now.
In the following days, Pei and Lu Xinlan kept an eye on what was happening in the palace.
It was quiet for a few days. I don't know if nothing happened in the palace or if the news in the palace was blocked and outsiders could not know.
However, Lu Jinchuan looked solemn these days and started leaving home early and returning late again.
At the end of August, news finally came out from the palace that Concubine Wei was seriously ill and in a coma she confessed all the evil things she had done.
The fact that she and Concubine Xu were half-fathers was also revealed. Overnight, Xu, who had been the mistress of the Wei family for decades, was known by everyone in the capital to have had an affair with someone and gave birth to an illegitimate child.
After learning the truth of that year, the Queen Mother fell seriously ill.
The emperor was furious and thoroughly investigated the past. Zhang Yun plotted to murder the concubine and killed the prince. The entire Zhang family was implicated, their property was confiscated and they were exiled. Concubine Zhang was also given a white silk.
The system cheered in Lu Xinran's mind for another five years of life, and Lu Xinran was a little confused.
Is this such a coincidence?
There were too many coincidences. Even though there was a fog in the depths of her mind, she couldn't help but feel doubtful.
Why...such coincidences every time?
"Tongzi, what's going on? Why is it that every time I finish eating the melon, there is an immediate sequel?"
Moreover, the life value of some melons must be calculated only after the big melons have a follow-up and the bad guys have their comeuppance, which is illogical in itself.
The system crashed for a while because of her question, and then it responded in a stammering and uncertain voice.
"I'll ask the Mastermind about this. It seems, it seems a little strange."