Chapter 185 There's someone else behind it all.
"What's a good idea?" Zhou Ruiyuan asked hurriedly, picking up the child.
Du Wanchun said slowly, "Since Liu Xiangxiang cares so much about her sister, why don't we start with her sister?"
Zhou Ruiyuan only had a partial understanding.
Then Du Wanchun whispered in his ear, "Liu Xiangxiang is afraid of that person simply because she's afraid of implicating her younger sister. If she knew that her sister had already been implicated, she probably wouldn't care so much anymore."
Zhou Ruiyuan nodded thoughtfully, "Alright, I'll talk to Magistrate Li about it."
After he finished speaking, he picked up the child and turned to walk out of the house.
After listening to Zhou Ruiyuan's words, Magistrate Li felt that they made a lot of sense. "Alright, I'll give it a try tonight."
Zhou Ruiyuan bowed to him and said, "Thank you, sir."
Magistrate Li was flattered and replied, "Not at all, not at all."
After the two discussed some details, Magistrate Li hurriedly headed towards his residence.
When night fell, the Li residence became unusually quiet.
Lady Liu and Liu Xiangxiang lived in the same room.
Both of them were fast asleep. After an unknown amount of time, Liu Xiangxiang suddenly heard footsteps outside.
She quickly sat up and looked around.
Perhaps because he had spent so many days on the run, his mind was easily tense.
"Who? Who is it?"
She slowly got out of bed and went to the window, carefully opening it to look outside.
There was no one in the pitch-black courtyard outside.
Liu Xiangxiang assumed she had heard about it herself and turned to go back to sleep.
Just then, the window was suddenly pushed open, and a man in black jumped in.
Liu Xiangxiang was startled and fell to the ground suddenly.
"Who are you?!"
Liu Xiangxiang screamed loudly.
"Guards! Assassins! There are assassins!"
The man in black pointed a long sword at her and said, "If you shout again, I'll kill your sister!"
Liu Xiangxiang saw her younger sister behind her immediately cover her mouth.
At this moment, Lady Liu also woke up, rubbed her eyes, and asked Liu Xiangxiang, "Sister, what happened?"
The man in black immediately pointed his long sword at Lady Liu.
Lady Liu was startled and quickly shut her mouth without saying a word.
Liu Xiangxiang was terrified. She knelt on the ground and asked the man in black, "Who are you?!"
The man in black deliberately kept everyone in suspense, saying, "Don't you know who I am? You know best who you've offended!"
Liu Xiangxiang looked shocked, her body trembling violently. She hurriedly said, "You can kill me, but please let go of my sister! My sister doesn't know anything!"
The man in black sneered and said, "You two live together, does she really not know at all?"
With tears streaming down her face, Liu Xiangxiang cried, "She really doesn't know, please let her go!"
The man in black laughed, "You think I'd believe what you say? Anyway, we're already here today. She's your sister. Whether she knows it or not, you're all going to die!"
As he spoke, he raised his long sword, preparing to stab Lady Liu.
Just then, the door was suddenly kicked open, and Magistrate Li rushed in, brandishing a broadsword. "Who is it?! Who is it?!"
Upon hearing the sound, the man in black quickly turned and left.
Magistrate Li rushed to Lady Liu's side and helped her up. "Lady, are you alright?"
Lady Liu shook her head and immediately looked at Liu Xiangxiang, "Sister, how are you?"
Liu Xiangxiang looked terrified and trembled all over. It took her a long time to recover. "I...I'm fine..."
Magistrate Li hurriedly asked her, "Madam Liu, who have you offended? Why have they come here?"
Lady Liu also asked, "Yes, sister, isn't Consort Wu in the Cold Palace now? Why would she send someone to kill you?"
Liu Xiangxiang's eyes were vacant, and she seemed somewhat dazed.
Lady Liu continued, "Sister, if you consider me your own sister, then tell me. You saw it just now. Even if I didn't know anything, those people would still kill me."
Liu Xiangxiang was startled and looked at Liu Xiangxiang, her eyes red as she cried, "Sister, it's not that I didn't want to hurt you, I was forced to do it."
Lady Liu comforted her, saying, "Sister, just tell me the truth."
Liu Xiangxiang choked up and could no longer hold back, saying, "Back then, when the Empress was framed and sent to the Cold Palace, besides it being arranged by Consort Wu, there was another person who asked me to tamper with Consort Wu's food, which is why Consort Wu miscarried."
"So Consort Wu's miscarriage wasn't due to poor health at all, but rather because she ate something that caused it?" Magistrate Li asked hurriedly.
Liu Xiangxiang nodded. "That's right."
Magistrate Li then asked, "Who is that person?"
Liu Xiangxiang gritted her teeth and slowly said, "It is the Dowager Consort."
"The Imperial Concubine?!" Magistrate Li was astonished.
When the emperor ascended the throne, he had already dismissed all the concubines of the previous emperor from the palace, except for the youngest concubine, Consort Duan, who remained in the palace.
Consort Duan entered the palace at the age of sixteen, and the late emperor died less than a year after she entered the palace.
She was only seventeen years old when the new emperor ascended the throne.
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