Chapter 86: Follow the heroine’s path and leave her with no way to go!
Xue Youli nodded, "Your Highness, it can be cured. However, your headache is an old disease. You need to treat it by soothing the liver and relieving depression, nourishing the liver and blood, and slowly regulate it. If it works quickly, it can be cured in about half a year."
Queen Mother Yin was delighted. "I have been suffering from headaches for many years. If you can cure my pain, I will reward you handsomely!"
Chu Xinyue immediately said, "Your Majesty, Concubine Xue is a very good doctor. I was impressed by her medical skills and that's why I made peace with her!"
"You rarely boast, it seems Mr. Xue is indeed a capable man."
Queen Mother Yin said, turning her head and commanding, "Madam Li, give Lady Xue a seat. I want to have a good talk with her about how to treat her headache."
After Song Jingsi came to the palace, he fell ill due to unfamiliar climate and was unable to attend the excitement of the assassination of Concubine Ning.
The maidservant Han Qiu told her what happened in the morning in vivid detail, "My Lord, how come Lady Xue is so powerful? No matter what happens, she can always turn danger into safety! I heard that Concubine Ning's hairpin almost stabbed her to death, but the Emperor and Princess Qinghe joined forces to save her!"
Song Jingsi frowned, "Who would have thought that even Concubine Ning would fall into Xue Youli's hands? We must be more cautious in the future."
This Xue Youli is very evil. Whoever harms her will be in trouble.
"Yes, I understand."
Song Jingsi hates Xue Youli, but she knows that she is no match for Xue Youli.
Anyway, Yin Xuan'er and Xue Qingyao are no less hostile to Xue Youli than she is. She can just be a spectator and watch them fight each other. Maybe she can reap the benefits.
At this moment, by the Canglan Lake.
Xue Qingyao and Murong Ye met again in the rockery, but this time they avoided the patrolling guards. One hid behind the rockery, and the other stood in front of it.
The two of them communicated in a low voice through the hole in the middle of the rockery.
"Where is Concubine Ning imprisoned?"
Murong Ye failed to catch the other eavesdropper who escaped last night, and he did not dare to risk using the hidden stakes in the palace again.
In fact, after Xue Qingyao was defeated by Xue Youli time and time again, he began to think about changing his support to someone else.
He wanted to abandon Xue Qingyao and support Concubine Ning to take the throne.
How could he have expected that Concubine Ning was not as good as Xue Qingyao!
He just made a move and he lost his life!
As a chess piece, your first priority before charging is to protect yourself.
Concubine Ning couldn't even figure this out, so it was her stupidity that she fell into Murong Che's hands.
"I don't know either. The person was taken away by Murong Che's trusted eunuch, who said she would be sentenced to death. Maybe Concubine Ning is already dead." The moment Xue Qingyao heard Murong Ye's question, she guessed that Concubine Ning was his person.
In her previous life, Concubine Ning was close to her, and she thought that Concubine Ning wanted to win her over and form an alliance with her.
Later, she became the empress, but because Concubine Ning had helped her many times, she did not kill her.
Now she knew that Concubine Ning was not helping her, but was working for Murong Ye.
Murong Ye listened to Xue Qingyao's words and replied firmly, "It's impossible. With Murong Che's personality, he would never kill Concubine Ning before he got any useful information from her."
Xue Qingyao sneered in her heart when she heard him call her "Ning Fei" over and over again. Her gentle voice did not reveal any clues. "Ye Lang, Ning Fei was determined to die when she was assassinated. I believe Murong Che will not be able to get any useful information out of her!"
Murong Ye asked Xue Qingyao where Concubine Ning was imprisoned, certainly not for the purpose of saving her.
He wanted to kill Concubine Ning and silence her before Murong Che tortured her to extract a confession.
To him, Concubine Ning was just a chess piece, and he was worried that this chess piece could not withstand the torture and would eventually betray his master.
However, Xue Qingyao's words calmed Murong Ye's irritable mood.
From last night to this morning, he didn't sleep a wink in order to deal with the aftermath. As a result, before he finished dealing with things here, something happened to Concubine Ning again.
He had been living smoothly these years, and this time his plans were disrupted again and again, so it was inevitable that he lost his composure.
He took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down.
Xue Qingyao was right. If Concubine Ning dared to take the step of assassination, she would have burned her boats.
How could she betray herself when she didn't even care about her own life or death?
He was so anxious that he lost his mind just now.
"Yao'er, there is something you need to do immediately."
Xue Qingyao saw that Murong Ye suddenly became serious, and asked quickly, "What's the matter?"
Murong Ye did not answer her immediately. Instead, he asked seriously, "I remember you said you can give massages, right?"
Xue Qingyao was stunned for a moment, "Yes! My mother would have a headache whenever it rained, so I followed the doctor in the clinic and learned massage techniques for a while."
Murong Ye received her affirmative response and continued, "I heard from Lao Wu that the Queen Mother has a headache and often has headaches. You can take this opportunity to get close to the Queen Mother."
As long as Xue Qingyao can get the support of the Queen Mother, everything he does in the harem will be twice as effective with half the effort.
"Okay! I'll listen to you!"
Xue Qingyao had seen how Queen Mother Yin took good care of Yin Xuan'er, and she felt both envious and jealous.
Her mother was a prostitute, and she had to live by the wishes of others since she was a child. She longed to become a noble lady born into a prominent family.
That's why he instigated Xue Youli to hang himself in an attempt to take his place.
Now after hearing Murong Ye's plan, her eyes lit up.
Yes, she was so irritated by Xue Youli that she even forgot that she could win the appreciation of Queen Mother Yin with her massage skills!
In her previous life, she had spent a lot of money to climb up the big tree of Queen Mother Yin.
Afraid that her massage was not good enough, she would seek advice from the imperial physician every now and then.
Unfortunately, ever since she killed Queen Mother Yin with her own hands, her massage skills have been abandoned.
Now she wants to pick up her massage skills again to please Queen Mother Yin!
At the same time, in the temporary dungeon of the palace.
Murong Che looked down at Ning who was tied to the rack, "I promise you, as long as you tell me the mastermind behind this, I will spare your life!"
Ning had been tortured and interrogated by Wang Defa, and her body was covered with wounds, but she took it all on her own and did not reveal Murong Ye's name.
Facing Murong Che's questioning, Ning glared at him coldly, "You dog emperor! Eight years ago, Murong Yuan slaughtered 63 people in my Ning family because of a few poems written by my father! The son pays for the father's debt. Now that Murong Yuan is dead, it's the same if I kill you to pay for the lives of my Ning family! It's a pity that I failed! Now that I'm in your hands, I have nothing to say! You can kill me or mutilate me as you wish!"
Ning family?
Murong Che's pupils tightened, and he asked in a deep voice, "Are you the daughter of Lord Ning?"
He remembered that before the late emperor fell seriously ill, he suddenly became obsessed with practicing Taoism and refining elixirs. Not only did he neglect the affairs of the court, he also believed in slander and had a civil servant named Ning executed along with his entire family because of a doggerel poem.
Lord Ning once taught him in his studies and could be considered as half his teacher.
When the late emperor ordered the killing of Ning's family, he was still young. Even though he knew that what the late emperor did was wrong, he was powerless to change anything.
Now that he is in a high position, whenever he thinks of those who died in vain, he reminds himself to be a good emperor who works diligently and loves his people.
Now that he knew Ning's identity, he began to hesitate as to whether he should continue the interrogation.
He really needed Ning's testimony to identify Murong Ye, but he knew very well that the Ning family would rather die than give up Murong Ye!