The emperor threw down the memorial and rushed over without stopping, and the empress dowager also set out from the Cining Palace.
Gu Yingxia, Zhenfei and Jinfei also rushed to Qiwu Palace.
The tea bowls in the Queen's bedroom were smashed one after another. "A bunch of gluttons!"
"I sent over twenty people to Mu Xinran. They tied her up with ropes, gagged her, and threw her into Huaixiang Palace without explanation. She was innocent but now she's guilty. She's caused such a big scene that even the Emperor and the Empress Dowager were alarmed. I'm going to see how this ends for her."
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The empress dowager sat firmly on the high hall. The emperor's seat was slightly lower than the empress dowager's. The empress stood beside the empress dowager with her hands hanging down.
Gu Yinwei and the Imperial Noble Consort crossed the threshold at the same time. The Empress Dowager gave the Emperor a meaningful look. The Emperor rubbed his forehead and said in a tired tone, "How can you pull and tug at this? Gu Gengyi, why don't you let go of the Imperial Noble Consort."
Gu Yinwei's heart skipped a beat. The Empress Dowager was present, and the Emperor's attitude was unclear. She had to rely on herself in this critical moment.
After entering the palace, she was the first person to sleep with the emperor. The luck she absorbed was enough to transform into a year of life. Now the situation was urgent, and she had to draw out all her luck to draw the puppet talisman.
Gu Yinwei condensed his energy into a rune, and the rune was like an invisible rope, firmly tied to Qi Gengyi's wrist.
"Queen Mother, you must make the decision for me."
"Get up and talk." The Queen Mother held her hand with a loving look on her face, but when her eyes fell on Gu Yinwei, they immediately turned into disgust.
"Royal Concubine, please tell me what happened?" The emperor spoke. His words were very proper and he did not favor anyone.
"Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching. The Empress has been so generous that she has released me from my confinement. I came to thank her for her grace, but on the way I ran into Qi Gengyi, who had evidence that Gu Gengyi was having an affair with another man."
"I heard her story was so convincing that I wanted to atone for my crime, so I took the initiative to ask the Empress to investigate. However, I never expected that Gu Gengyi was so vicious that she wanted to strangle me to death the moment she saw me."
The Imperial Noble Consort raised her neck to show the Empress Dowager, and a circle of red marks on her neck was particularly conspicuous.
"How can you be so vicious at such a young age? You almost broke the Imperial Concubine's neck."
Qi Gengyi continued to exaggerate, "Your Majesty, Qi Gengyi committed treason and attempted to cover up the evidence. He must be severely punished."
Qi Gengyi framed Gu Yinwei seriously, and she really wanted to kill her with a thunder and fire talisman.
She took out the so-called evidence and showed it to everyone one by one.
"Her Majesty, please look, these are the adulterer's shoes, and these are the letters of infidelity."
The Queen Mother pointed at Gu Yinwei's nose and questioned her, "The Emperor has done you a disservice in a small way, and yet you still want to betray him like this? The evidence is irrefutable, how can you deny it?"
The emperor saw at a glance that today's farce was a trap set by the queen.
The Empress Dowager protected the Imperial Noble Consort between the lines, and it was obvious that she hated Gu Yinwei to the extreme.
With such a seductive face, she bewitched the emperor and refused to sleep with Concubine Zhen, causing her to have no grandson.
"Gu Gengyi, what can you say?"
Gu Yinwei's tone was cold, "I have nothing to say."
Concubine Jin and Concubine Zhen wanted to plead for mercy but they did not speak due to the Empress Dowager's majesty. Gu Yingxia sat quietly, looking for loopholes in Qi Gengyi's words.
The Queen acted as if it had nothing to do with her. When Gu Yinwei looked up, the Queen's eyes quickly turned away. She wanted to stay out of it? How could it be so easy?
Gu Yinwei formed a seal with her fingers, and Qi Gengyi suddenly burst into laughter.
The Queen Mother frowned, "I haven't given the order yet to send Gu Gengyi to Huaixiang Palace, what are you laughing at?"
Qi Gengyi laughed horrifyingly and pointed at the Queen Mother.
"You've been fooled, hahaha."
"This is all the Queen's plan, actually..."
Qi Gengyi's mouth was like firecrackers, and he told the truth.
"Shut up! Qi Gengyi is having a hysterical episode, drag her out quickly." The Queen said in a panic.
"Let her speak." The emperor sat upright.
Qi Gengyi tried hard to cover her mouth, but her body was completely out of control, and everything she should and shouldn't say came out of her mouth.
"Half a month ago, the Queen came to me and gave me a large sum of money to take action against Gu Gengyi. I forged the letter."
The Imperial Concubine suddenly turned around and looked at the Queen, who angrily asked, "Why are you looking at me?"
"You don't consider yourself when you speak and act, so how can you not consider the Mu family?"
The Queen's words were full of sarcasm. When the Imperial Concubine thought of her mother's family, she collapsed to the ground like a deflated ball.
She mistakenly believed that the evidence provided by Qi Gengyi was real, so she mobilized a large number of people to break into the Pepper Palace, search the palace and beat people.
Now that he thought about it carefully, he realized that both he and Qi Gengyi were being used by the Queen.
After listening to Qi Gengyi's long conversation and looking at the Queen's expression, the Queen Dowager made a decision in her heart.
"Change your clothes and go to Huaixiang Palace. The Imperial Noble Concubine will punish you by copying the Women's Code fifty times." The Empress Dowager said lightly, intending to put an end to today's farce.
"Queen Mother, this kind of treatment is hard to convince the public."
The Queen Mother was very impatient. "They have wronged you, but you must stand here in one piece. What else do you want?"
"I want justice." Gu Yinwei's voice was neither humble nor arrogant.
"Fair? Don't you agree with my decision?" The Queen Mother's tone was filled with anger.
"I refuse to accept this."
"Oh, then what do you want to do?" The Queen Mother narrowed her eyes, her tone full of inquiry.
Gu Yinwei didn't answer but asked, "Aunt Fang, in the seventeenth year of Xuanhua, Concubine Chen and Concubine Ji colluded to frame Concubine Shu. How did the late emperor deal with the concubine who made the mistake at that time? Do you remember?"
Of course Aunt Fang had an impression, and a very deep impression, after all, the one who operated it back then was the Queen Mother.
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