Chapter 162: Brainwashed Silly White Sweet
Ji Yunshu quickly said, "I really like him. Under the circumstances at that time, I had no choice but to marry him. I'm not lying."
The Queen Mother tapped her forehead and said, "Okay, whatever you say is what it is."
The Queen Mother was a little worried when she saw her running to Suzhou desperately. Now it seems that she was thinking too much.
Before dinner, someone close to the emperor came to tell him that Zhao Shen had left the palace and Ji Yunshu could stay in the palace with the empress dowager for a few more days.
This was exactly what Ji Yunshu was thinking, so he thanked him.
After the eunuch who delivered the message left, Ji Yunshu was still in the mood to tease the Queen Mother: "The Emperor is treating you better and better now, and he even sent someone to protect you. Otherwise, you would have been in danger today."
The Queen Mother sneered: "I am her biological mother after all. What good will it do him if something happens to her?"
Ji Yunshu smiled but said nothing. There are many people in this world who do things that harm others and benefit themselves.
Isn’t what happened to my aunt today an unprovoked disaster?
After the two of them had dinner, Ji Yunshu said something to the Queen Mother and took Bai Ling and Yin Ye to the cold palace where Concubine Xia Shu was imprisoned.
The palace is truly a very extreme place.
It has a magnificent, majestic and luxurious side, but it also has a decadent, desolate and deserted side.
The cold palace is the side of the imperial palace that is hard to look at.
When Ji Yunshu entered, the once noble and beautiful Concubine Xia Shu was curled up at the foot of the bed, holding a thin quilt, without any makeup on, with messy hair.
Hearing the noise, she suddenly looked up and shouted: "Your Majesty, are you here to see me? I'm so scared..."
This scene made Ji Yunshu feel inexplicably sad. She was the legitimate daughter of the Xia family and had grown up in a pampered state. If she had not entered the palace, she would have married a well-matched young man from an aristocratic family and would not have ended up like this.
Yin Ye lit an oil lamp.
When Concubine Xia Shu saw that it was Ji Yunshu, she was stunned for a moment: "Why is it you?"
However, no one has visited her during the few days she has been in the cold palace.
The person in front of her was obviously the only life-saving straw she could grasp.
She said anxiously, "Miss Ji, please help me tell the emperor that I am wronged and I really did not ask anyone to poison the emperor."
Ji Yunshu asked calmly, "It was the maidservant next to you who poisoned you. Are you really clueless?"
Concubine Xia Shu's eyes flickered, and she shook her head vigorously, saying, "I really don't know. Why would I poison the Emperor when I'm perfectly fine? That would implicate the entire Xia family."
Ji Yunshu laughed and said, "Do you think the Emperor will believe you if you cry out for justice? The Xia family isn't implicated now, but that's because the Emperor doesn't have any evidence that they were involved and doesn't want to implicate innocent people. But sometimes, evidence isn't that important, don't you think?"
Concubine Xia Shu said in horror: "The Emperor wants to take action against the Xia family?"
Ji Yunshu patiently answered her questions and clarified her doubts: "I didn't want to do that originally, but if the Xia family isn't that loyal to the emperor and patriotic, the emperor probably wouldn't mind making some moves."
Poisoning the emperor is a crime punishable by the death of nine generations of the family.
Concubine Xia Shu cried, "I really don't know anything. The Xia family is innocent. The emperor is wise and would not take human life so lightly."
"Your Majesty should be thankful that the Emperor is a wise ruler and wants to know the truth. Even if you knew nothing before, you should have remembered some suspicious things these days, right?"
Concubine Xia Shu opened her eyes wide and looked at Ji Yunshu without saying a word.
Ji Yunshu sighed and said, "If it was the person you were protecting who harmed you like this, would you still insist on not telling the truth?"
Concubine Xia Shu shrank back and said, "I don't know what you are talking about."
Now the weather has turned colder and the nights are getting chillier. There is not even a charcoal brazier in this cold palace.
There were drafts in the torn parts of the window paper, and wind occasionally blew in. Even though Ji Yunshu was wrapped in a thick cloak, he still felt cold.
She no longer had the patience to slowly get the point across, and Concubine Xia Shu was not actually a scheming person.
She asked directly: "Are you on good terms with Lu Ningshuang? Is she worth sacrificing your life and the entire Xia family?"
Concubine Xia Shu raised her head suddenly: "You want me to get close to cousin Shuang'er, you are really jealous of her."
Ji Yunshu: "...Why am I jealous of her?"
Concubine Xia Shu said, "Of course I'm jealous that the person Prince Zhao truly loves is her. They are in love with each other. If you hadn't interfered, Prince Zhao should have married her."
Her tone was so certain that if she didn't know that Zhao Shen and Lu Ningshuang had nothing to do with each other, she would have believed it.
She asked with a smile, "Did Lu Ningshuang tell you this?"
Xia Shufei said: "Of course, we have been close since childhood, and my cousin told me everything. I will not believe what you say."
Ji Yunshu held his forehead with his hand. How did the Xia family raise such a naive person?
Lu Ningshuang is indeed a psychopath. She even imagined that she and Zhao Shen were in love with each other. It makes me feel sick just thinking about it.
Ji Yunshu narrowed his eyes and said, "Believe it or not, I don't know why Miss Lu has such deep hostility towards me. She says that I'm jealous of her, but I am Zhao Shen's legal wife. I'm the one who spends every day with him and sleeps in the same bed with him. So, she should be jealous of me, right?"
Concubine Xia Shu thought for a moment before continuing, "So what if you are the wife of Prince Zhao? The person he likes is Cousin Shuang'er. Sooner or later, you will have to give way to your cousin."
Ji Yunshu felt that this woman's brain was not very good. No wonder she helped Lu Ningshuang count the money after being sold out.
She shrugged and said, "Are you kidding me? I'm fine and haven't committed any of the seven reasons for divorce. Why does Lu Ningshuang want me to give up my position? Is it because she has no shame?"
Concubine Xia was stunned for a moment: "But the one the prince loves is my cousin, won't you feel uncomfortable like this?"
Ji Yunshu laughed and said, "Who he loves has nothing to do with me. Anyway, I eat his food, wear his clothes, use his things, and even sleep with him. It's not me who suffers."
Xia Shufei blushed and said angrily, "You...you have no sense of shame."
Ji Yunshu laughed: "According to what you said, you knew that the emperor liked the queen and had no feelings for you, so why did you enter the palace as a concubine? Aren't you uncomfortable?"
Concubine Xia Shu immediately said, "I am doing this for my family."
Ji Yunshu understood that this person was a typical double standard.
For the same thing, one can criticize others with a clear conscience, but can find excuses for oneself that one has no choice.
She was too lazy to waste time talking to such a person: "Then do you want to tell me what happened to your maid? If you don't, it means that the Xia family is trying to kill the king. Such a crime is not too much to punish the entire clan, right?"
Concubine Xia Shu said excitedly: "Cousin Shuang'er is right, you are indeed a vicious woman. You want to use me to frame my cousin? Dream on."
Ji Yunshu: She has been here for so long, but this is the first time she has seen such an idiot.
It seemed that she was destined not to get the answer she wanted this time, so she turned around and walked out.
In fact, this trip was just a test. Now it seems that Concubine Xia Shu has been brainwashed by Lu Ningshuang.
When Concubine Xia Shu saw that she really left like this, a trace of fear suddenly arose in her heart.
Just as he was hesitating whether to call Ji Yunshu, he saw someone else walk in.
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