Xiu Yu is originally a mid-level immortal
The Empress couldn't help herself and covered her nose with a handkerchief. "Xin'er, after the search, move these filthy things out. It makes me sick to see them."
"My Queen Mother, these are all evidence. We will handle it once the people from the Dali Temple come to collect evidence." The Queen Mother had no children, and Yuwen Xin reached an agreement with the Queen Mother when he was just a young man. The two of them were said to be mother and son, but their relationship was more like that of superiors and subordinates.
The visitors found a human skin umbrella and even a screen made of skin in a secret room in the side hall of Jinyu Palace. When the guards broke in, someone was painting on the umbrella.
Scattered nearby were various untidy corpses, most of which had been skinned.
"Noble Concubine Jin, do you admit your guilt?" Emperor Gan Ping came over immediately after hearing the commotion in the Jinyu Palace.
Shen Xiuyu lost his soul and sat slumped in the magnificent palace, like a broken bone.
Wen Liang looked at the large group of people in Jinyu Palace, his heart skipped a beat, a look of surprise flashed across his face, but he quickly regained his composure.
Wen Liang stepped into the palace and helped Shen Xiuyu up first: "Your Majesty, there must be some misunderstanding here. The imperial concubine doesn't even dare to kill a chicken, let alone a person." Wen Liang was calm and composed, as if he was telling everyone a joke.
Wen Liang had a faint smile on his face. Xu Ning looked at him, her real opponent. She was curious about how Wen Liang would "make things right".
"Yes, you are very brave. You even dare to break into the palace." Tang Xixu sneaked into the Zhao family and saw Xu Ning dressed as a singer from a distance. He came up to Xu Ning and whispered in a low voice.
Xu Ning was confused and didn't know whether this was a compliment or sarcasm.
"Your Majesty, I have something else to report." Concubine Li suddenly stood up.
"explain."
"Your Majesty, my maidservant saw Eunuch Wen Liang and Concubine Shen having an affair."
Soon after, many concubines came forward to testify.
Many concubines in the palace have long been dissatisfied with Shen Xiuyu and want to take this opportunity to kill her with one blow, so that she will never be able to turn over a new leaf.
"Don't slander me! Your Majesty, I didn't do that." Shen Xiuyu yelled at Concubine Li, but calmed down when facing the emperor.
"Your Majesty, I, your subordinates, have also seen Concubine Shen and Eunuch Wen Liang have a close relationship." Yuwen Xin immediately presented a witness.
Wen Liang, however, remained calm and spoke slowly: "Oh? I'm just a eunuch, how could I be favored by Concubine Shen." Wen Liang's smile was more sinister than a fox.
"Eunuch Wen is confessing his crime?" Tang Xixu raised his upper lip, determined to get the prey in front of him. "We haven't said anything yet, but you say you are a eunuch. It's strange, how could a eunuch like Eunuch Wen have a beard?" Tang Xixu found many remnants of beard in Wen Liang's room.
The emperor, sitting high up in the throne, frowned and flew into a rage: "Asshole! Someone, come and check my body!"
The dignity of an emperor is inviolable, especially his favorite concubine, the woman he loves most.
Emperor Gan Ping believed that he loved Shen Xiu Yu and gave her all the love in the world. He thought that the sweet words and vows they made before the bed were true.
This morning, when he heard that Chen Xiuyu had killed the imperial physician, Emperor Gan Ping had no intention of pursuing the matter. The life of a small imperial physician was not as important as the happiness of his beloved concubine.
Even though he had just seen the absurdity and mess in her palace, Emperor Gan Ping wanted to choose to forgive her.
Several guards took Wen Liang to the inner room, "Ah!" "Ah!" Wen Liang wiped the necks of everyone in the room and escaped through the window.
However, the emperor did not send anyone to continue the pursuit, but instead did not take it seriously.
Chen Xiuyu pulled the corners of his bright red lips, looked up at the caisson in the Jinyu Palace, the golden lacquered roof, the small white jade lamps, and the exquisite carvings that reflected the ingenuity of the craftsmen.
“Hahaha! Hahaha!”
Shen Xiuyu "went crazy," talking to herself, dancing, and then began to sing: "They say the emperor is ruthless~Young people don't believe it~Greedy for the emperor's love~The emperor seeks immortality, exploits the people and builds a high tower. The ministers angrily accuse the concubine of causing trouble to the world. Who will defend Concubine Jin's innocence?"
When Emperor Gan Ping heard this, his eyes widened and bloodshot: "Quick! Banish this lunatic to the cold palace, depose her concubine and demote her to a commoner. She will never be allowed to leave the cold palace again!"
"Yuwen Zhan, you are the most pitiful person in the world! What's the use of ruling the world? You still have a family and children separated from you! Who in the entire palace doesn't hope that you will die soon?" Several strong men came and subdued Shen Xiu Yu.
The woman screamed and kicked the ground hard, saying non-stop: "Yuwen Zhan, you can kill loyal emperors and good ministers. Cold-blooded people like you deserve to die!"
Tang Xixu's heart skipped a beat as he looked at Shen Xiuyu's receding figure from afar.
Emperor Ganping stood with his hands behind his back, facing away from the crowd, gazing at the "Spring Seeking Picture" hanging on the wall.
When Shen Xiuyu first entered the palace, she was depressed all day long, and Emperor Qianping tried every possible way to cheer her up. He took out the best and rarest treasures in the palace, and if Shen Xiuyu liked anything, as long as she looked at it, the treasure would appear in Jinyu Palace as soon as she entered the palace.
This painting, "Searching for Spring," was painted by Emperor Qianping when Shen Xiuyu was taking a nap in a side hall. At that time, Shen Xiuyu was young and beautiful, like a fairy who had strayed into the mortal world.
The emperor's unique preference is known to everyone, and even the coldest heart of a woman will be melted.
"Yu'er, how could things become like this between us..." The emperor, who was over a hundred years old, sighed deeply. Emperor Gan Ping still had the same charm even in his old age. His fair complexion and gentle temperament made him look more like an elegant scholar.
At night, Xu Ning and Tang Xixu sneaked into the cold palace. The desolate moonlight was like an ethereal song, lingering in the lifeless cold palace.
"Your Highness, long time no see." Xu Ning climbed over the wall and looked at the woman lying under the couch.
The woman had an outstanding appearance, and she was dressed in plain clothes without any makeup. The silvery moonlight was like a piece of gauze that was just "draped" over Shen Xiu Yu.
Xu Ning was lost in thought at this moment. She couldn't imagine how extraordinary Shen Xiuyu must have been in her youth. Xu Ning completely understood why the emperor would force a woman to marry a woman who was already engaged, and why the court officials called her a beauty who brought disaster.
"Wen Liang is gone, and your last straw is gone. Don't you regret it?" Xu Ning's voice was light and without any emotion.
Tang Xixu leaned against the pillar with his arms folded, closing his eyes in deep thought.
"He was delayed by me in the first place. He should have gone further, and it would have been better if he never came back." Yingying's tears slid across Shen Xiuyu's face.
These days, Tang Xixu's men have been investigating what happened in Songjiang back then.
The Wen family had a son named Wen Yan, who was childhood sweethearts with the Shen family's daughter. The two families had engaged each other early on. The day before the wedding, the emperor went on a southern tour and fell in love with Shen Xiuyu. Later, everything turned out just as the rumors said.
Wen Yan was so grief-stricken when he learned about this that he banged his head against a tree stump and died. Half a month later, a new eunuch came to the palace. He was fair and handsome, gentle and polite, and he was very good at his work and scheming. He quickly won the emperor's appreciation.
One day, Shen Xiuyu, who was already Concubine Jin, was grinding ink for His Majesty when she saw this "old friend" whom she had not seen for a long time.
When the emperor saw that Shen Xiuyu liked her, he gave Wen Liang to her.
Shen Xiuyu did not refuse, she accepted everything Wen Liang did for her as a matter of course.
Wen Liang was well-behaved and never overstepped the boundaries. He did whatever Chen Xiuyu wanted him to do.
At that time, Wen Liang had only one thought, that is, he wanted to protect Shen Xiu Yu for the rest of his life, and he wanted Shen Xiu Yu to be well.
Since she wanted to stay young forever, he would find a way, even if it was against human ethics and intolerable to the world.
Xu Ning listened to the woman talk about the first half of her life. Sad? Xu Ning felt that she was very happy.
"You said in the palace that His Majesty was framing loyal officials. What's going on?"
Shen Xiuyu looked at Xu Ning, then at Tang Xixu, and shook his head.
So much alike, so much alike, just like Shen Xiuyu and Wen Liang when they were young.
She remembered that when she saw Xu Ning praying in front of the Buddha in Wanguo Temple, Shen Xiuyu thought of herself when she was young.
So free, unrestrained, and innocent.
Chen Xiu Yu looked at Tang Xixu's gloomy expression. The young man looked at Xu Ning, his eyes filled with countless madness and possession.
Tang Xixu turned his head and narrowed his eyes, as if a lion was warning the invader that "this is his stuff."
"Mr. Tangxi, please have a sip of tea. This is what I prepared for you early on." Chen Xiu Yu presented a cup of tea to Tang Xixu.
Tang Xixu raised his eyebrows but drank it anyway.
Shen Xiuyu then replied, "Birch trees can withstand endless wind and sand. When they are lush and dense, they will block out the sun."
Before Xu Ning could figure it out, Tang Xixu knelt on the ground, holding his chest, and dark red blood flowed from the corner of the young man's mouth.
"What did you give him to drink?" Xu Ning held Tang Xixu's shoulders, his eyes full of worry.
"This is not poison, it's just a medicine that speeds up the flow of toxins through the five internal organs." Shen Xiuyu laughed crazily.
Xu Ning glared at Shen Xiuyu, then lifted the young man’s hand and placed it on his shoulder.
Not long after the two left, Shen Xiuyu spat out a mouthful of blood and fell to the ground. In a trance, she seemed to see the figure of a man. Was it the emperor who had tried so hard to make her happy? Or was it the boy from the Wen family who had cheated on the Shen family when he was young?
Shen Xiuyu stretched out his hand to grab it, but the shadow was right in front of him and he couldn't catch it.
The news of Concubine Shen's death spread throughout the palace soon. Emperor Qianping buried Shen Xiuyu with the ceremony of a queen, but the tomb was not in the imperial mausoleum but in Shen Xiuyu's hometown - Songjiang.
Shen Xiuyu is the only concubine in the history of the Xin Dynasty who returned to her hometown.
It was not for anything else, but just because of what Shen Xiuyu said when she was young: "Your Majesty, I have a small wish. After I die, I want to be buried in Songjiang." Yuwen Zhan always remembered it.
Later generations recorded that "Noble Concubine Shen was the favorite concubine of Emperor Ganping. She was 29 years old and died in the 26th year of Zhenning. The emperor was extremely sad and suspended court for three days to mourn the deceased concubine."
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Xu Ning checked Tang Xixu's breath and found none, which made him feel a pang in his heart.
My heart feels empty, as if I have lost something important.
Xu Ning buried the body and waited for the system to restart. The system did not respond for a long time, so Xu Ning had no choice but to wander around the streets.
"You kid, you really don't want to live, taking such a big risk." Zui Shengchi dug up Tang Xixu's "grave" in the dead of night. Xu Ning was very thoughtful and even erected a monument for Tang Xixu - the chivalrous man Tan Miao.
Tang Xixu was drowsy and when he opened his eyes with difficulty, it was already dark.
Zui Shengchi used his internal energy to force the poison out of Tang Xixu's body, and the young man spat out a mouthful of blood.
Several poisonous insects died suddenly after absorbing the last bit of the poison.
"I also want to thank Shen Xiuyu. If it weren't for her 'tea', you probably wouldn't have been able to expel the poison. It's a blessing in disguise."
Tang Xixu wiped the corner of his lips and smiled somewhat sadly.
"What about that girl? How are you going to explain it to her?"
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