Chapter 25 A Cup of Poison
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Rongpin laughed twice.
Yuan Ruan covered his face: [Rongpin is indeed extremely strong! Fortunately, my elder brother dodged in time, otherwise I would have been killed on the spot. Tong'er, please take a look at what kind of poison my elder brother has? How to cure it?]
The emperor and Concubine Rong became tense instantly.
As long as there is a name, the threat can be reduced by more than half.
System: [This is a knockout drug and an aphrodisiac. It was given by Lady Liu who just came to visit, and Talented Wu cooperated with her.]
The emperor pinched his eyebrows. No wonder he felt dizzy and hot.
Yuan Ruan heaved a sigh of relief: [It's good that no one died. Strange, why did Lady Liu put knockout drugs and aphrodisiacs in Rongpin's water bottle? Did she find out that my brother would come over, so she wanted to intercept him? ]
System: [No. She wants to embarrass Rongpin, Xiaoyueyue, or any of you, the host. This way, she has a reason to say that Rongpin is not good at taking care of children. She can let other concubines take care of you.]
Emperor, Concubine Rong: ...
Yuan Ruan was stunned and hugged her weak self: [I have only been in the palace for a few days, and I am already participating in the palace fighting in person! I am so moved.]
The emperor became even more angry when he heard that their target of poisoning was Yuanruan.
"Come here!" The emperor had no expression on his face, but his voice was ruthless. "Bring here all the people who came to Rongpin's palace today."
The chief eunuch was stunned: "All, all dragged away?" Are concubines also like this?
The emperor glanced at him.
The eunuch didn't dare to say anything for a moment and ran out happily.
Soon, Lady Liu and Lady Wu, who had come to visit half an hour ago, and the maids who served them were all dragged to Zhaoyang Palace. They were dragged all the way until their faces were covered with snow and dirt, and they wailed continuously.
The concubines passing by wanted to go forward to see what was going on, but when they saw that the one leading the way was the chief eunuch beside the emperor, they all shrank back to their own palace gates and dared not say a word.
Concubine Liu and Concubine Wu were thrown heavily by the eunuchs onto the slate floor. Their knees slammed loudly. After another wail, they forced themselves to kneel on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly to the emperor who was sitting above them.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty is innocent!" the two shouted.
Rongpin became even angrier when she heard the voice. It was freezing cold, so she ordered people to take away all the stoves placed in the front yard for heating. The front yard instantly became even colder.
The emperor asked, "Who instructed you to come here?"
Lady Liu and Lady Wu continued to kowtow, shouting, "I don't know. I don't know anything."
At this moment, the voice in my heart echoed again:
[It turned out to be the idea of Lady Liu's elder sister, Liu Zhaoyi. No wonder, because only by becoming a concubine like Zhaoyi can one raise a child.]
Yuan Ruan covered her face: [Ah, I am really a woman who is too popular and sinful. ]
emperor:……
Rongpin: ...
The anger of the two was dissipated a lot by Yuanruan's confident voice while joking.
System: [Ha! Ah Ruan, actually Liu Zhaoyi’s goal is not really to support you! She wants Rongpin to lose everything in plain sight.]
Yuan Ruan: [Ah? What hatred or grudge? ]
System: [Because Liu Zhaoyi found out that Rongpin killed her child three years ago.]
The emperor's face darkened, and it was obvious that he was not surprised by this information.
Rongpin's expression was one of confusion, and after that confusion she felt aggrieved.
When did she murder Liu Zhaoyi's child? She didn't even know when she was pregnant.
Rongpin clenched her fists tightly in anger. She wanted to ask but was afraid of shocking the magical power that was revealing the secret. She forced herself to hold back and just wanted to hear what was going on.
Yuan Ruan: [Ah, it turns out to be revenge. There is a cause and an effect, and you can’t blame others. ]
System: [That’s not true. Host, the story is this: Liu Zhaoyi’s child was actually killed by her sister, Concubine Liu. Concubine Liu was jealous of Liu Zhaoyi for being favored so early and giving birth to the seventh prince.
Concubine Liu didn't dare to kill anyone directly, so she secretly used snacks to trick the Seventh Prince into falling into a small pond. As a result, after she ran away, Concubine Wu, who lived in the same side hall with her, discovered the Seventh Prince's whereabouts and jumped in to save him, but failed to save the Seventh Prince in time.
Wu Cairen was extremely panicked. When she saw Rongpin passing by Yu Garden, Wu Cairen secretly told Concubine Liu that she saw Rongpin teasing the Seventh Prince. In the blink of an eye, the Seventh Prince fell into the water. When she jumped in to save him, the Seventh Prince was already dead.
When Concubine Liu heard this, she immediately agreed, and the two of them went to Liu Zhaoyi to tell her story. Liu Zhaoyi immediately went to the emperor to cry, but the emperor did not find any evidence, so the case was dropped. From then on, Liu Zhaoyi resented Rongpin.
emperor:!!!
It turns out the Seventh Prince is so useless. No wonder no evidence was found back then.
Rongpin was almost angry to death.
Although her family was not big, her brother was very successful in the court and could shut up the officials of the Xia Kingdom with just one word. Therefore, no concubine in the harem would show her a bad face, for fear of implicating their own family and being scolded by her brother.
In order to please the emperor and get promoted, she has been conscientiously playing the role of a simple person who dares to love and hate in the palace according to the emperor's preferences. Not only would she not harm others, she would also help others.
She said, everything was going fine before, why was she suddenly ignored?
It turned out that it was because of these two idiots who made random accusations against her!
Once this accusation was made, even if the emperor never found any evidence, he would still have a bad impression of her. In other words, all her years of pretending would have been in vain.
The more Rongpin thought about it, the angrier she became, and the more she exploded.
She pulled out a whip, rushed down and whipped Wu Cairen and Liu Meiren several times.
Lady Liu:!!!
Wu Cairen: !!!
Lady Liu covered her cheeks and said angrily and aggrievedly: "Why did you hit me? What did you do!"
"I'm going to hit you." Rongpin glared at her even more fiercely.
She wanted to speak directly, but after thinking carefully, she realized that only she could hear Jiuer's words, and if she spoke, others would think she was crazy.
Rongpin then changed the subject and said, "How dare you, a jerk, to murder His Majesty! Beating you is too light a punishment! You should be torn into pieces by five horses!"
After these words were spoken, Lady Liu and Lady Wu, who had been stubborn, became panicked.
"Your Majesty! Your Majesty, I am innocent." Lady Liu knelt before the emperor crying and begged for mercy. "Your Majesty, I don't know where Rongpin heard this..."
Rongpin said fiercely, "How dare you make excuses! Since you are about to die, I will tell you one thing. When I was investigating, I found out something. It turns out that the Seventh Prince was pushed down by you, Concubine Liu."
Lady Liu shuddered: "What, what! You are talking nonsense!"
"There are both human and material evidence." Rongpin sneered, "Let me see how Liu Zhaoyi will deal with you. Ah, maybe not, because you will be suspected of murdering His Majesty, and you will be torn into pieces by five horses, and your family may also be harmed."
Wu Cairen suddenly said, "So, it was you! That's right! You were clearly in the Riyu Garden. But you, but you actually threatened me that if I didn't obey you, I would tell your sister that it was me who failed to save him in time and that was why the Seventh Prince died. You, you bastard!"
Wu Cairen jumped up and pressed down on Lady Liu and started beating her.
The two rolled into a ball.
Rongpin felt relieved after seeing this.
The emperor pinched his throbbing veins and said in a low voice: "That's enough."
As soon as the words fell, the chief eunuch immediately led the palace maids and eunuchs to separate the fiercely beating concubines. At the same time, someone sneered and begged Rongpin not to continue.
The emperor frowned and said, "They are talentless and ruthless, and their hearts are vicious. Send them and Liu Zhaoyi to the clan house for investigation, and then punish them all..." The emperor glanced at Yuan Ruan, whose eyes were shining in his arms, and paused, "Punish them according to their crimes. At the same time, warn all the concubines that this is a lesson. Anyone who dares to interfere in the affairs of the little imperial teacher again will be executed."
The eunuch was startled and said quickly, "Yes."
The emperor felt hotter and hotter, and more and more sleepy. It seemed that the medicinal effect of the tea was still a little bit left.
He waved at Yuan Ruan and said, "Jiu'er is the most important young imperial teacher in Daxia. Ten days later, I will gather 100,000 common people in Jiujun Mountain to prepare a heaven and earth altar for you."
Yuan Ruan was already a little confused when she heard this, and the emperor's next sentence made her face almost stiff.
"At that time, Jiuer opened the altar to perform a ritual and announced it to the world."
Yuanruan:!!!
What?!
I?
Performing a ritual in front of 100,000 ordinary people?!