Chapter 290 Wei Yanwan 30
"Noble Concubine Chun, I'm aware of the smallpox infection in Concubine Yu's palace. However, your Zhongcui Palace doesn't seem to have reported this."
Su Lujun felt secretly regretful at this moment. It turned out that the Eighth Prince had just contracted smallpox not long ago. She was chatting with Concubine Jia and others, and Concubine Jia casually said that if anyone in the palace contracted smallpox at this time, the Queen might become suspicious.
Who would have known that a maid named Cui'er in her palace had contracted the disease? Thinking of Concubine Jia's words, she thought it was better to have less trouble than more, so she reported a cold and released her. However, she was found out by the Queen.
Fu Cha Langya waved her hand, and Zhao Yita walked in with a couple. The two knelt down tremblingly, but Concubine Chun became more and more confused.
"Do these two know each other?"
"I don't know them."
Fu Cha Langya said from the side: "Of course you don't know them. They are Cui'er's parents. They have recently made a fortune thanks to Cui'er."
Concubine Chun was shocked, a guilty look on her face. Before they could ask any more questions, she blurted out, "Your Majesty, please forgive me. I didn't mean to hide it. It was simply because the Eighth Prince was in imminent danger at the time, and I was afraid, so I secretly moved this person out."
"Then why did you go to the antique room to see Mo Xin?"
“Your Majesty… Your Majesty…”
Su Lujun hesitated for a long time, not knowing how to say it. She couldn't say that it was Mo Xin who told her that she could help the Third Prince become the Crown Prince and help her overthrow the Queen, right?
But Concubine Xian's excuse was that she had no friendship at all with Concubine Huixian who arrived first!
"What? Are the things you and Mo Xin said so shameful?"
As soon as Hongli finished speaking, Fucha Langya shouted, "She must be guilty. Your Majesty, the Imperial Household Department clearly recorded that Cui'er and Changchun Palace went to collect the laundry on the same day."
"This, I don't know? This is just a coincidence!"
"Coincidence? That maidservant Sanwu who was in charge of the wet nurse's laundry is clearly from the same hometown as Cui'er in your palace. She's confessed everything now!"
Su Lujun was frightened by the Queen's harsh words and was speechless for a while. However, this made the Emperor and the Queen believe that she was guilty.
Hongli looked at her, his eyes becoming dark: "Noble Concubine Chun, you really disappoint me."
"Your Majesty, it's not...your concubine..."
Su Lujun shook her head repeatedly and couldn't say a word.
Jin Yuyan sat beside her, flicked her handkerchief and pretended to take a deep breath: "Oh, I never thought that Concubine Chun, who seemed so easygoing in the past, actually had such thoughts in her heart. You can only judge a person by his appearance but not by his heart~"
"Your Majesty, everyone in the palace knows Concubine Chun's sexuality. She is obedient and cautious. If she were to be discovered, it would implicate the three princes. How could she dare to do such a thing?"
Ruyi felt a little sorry for Concubine Chun, who was in tears and couldn't even say a proper excuse. She had a vague premonition that Su Lujun, like herself, had fallen into someone else's trap.
Concubine Jia laughed immediately: "Does Concubine Xian really not understand or is she pretending not to understand? It is precisely because Concubine Chun already has the eldest and third princes that she is more suspicious, right? After all, the Empress's eighth prince... now only has the eldest son."
Wei Yanwan asked casually, "Isn't Imperial Concubine Chun the eldest prince's adoptive mother? I never imagined that Imperial Concubine Chun would be so loving, treating the eldest prince like her own son, that she would even do something like this."
The Concubine Mei beside her smiled and curled her lips: "Isn't it? It's a pity that Concubine Chun put in so much effort, but in the end..."
As she spoke, she smiled meaningfully at Concubine Jia: "Sister Jiafei's Fourth Prince got it for free."
The queen was attracted by these words and could not help but look at Concubine Jia according to Concubine Mei's words.
Jin Yuyan sat steadily, her face as usual, but her hands subconsciously tightened around the chair. She asked, "What do you mean, sister? I don't understand. Aren't we talking about Concubine Chun?"
"It's nothing, I just said it casually." Mei Fei waved her hands quickly, as if she was afraid that she would bear a grudge. "I just want to live with Jing Yan, please don't blame me."
"Jia Fei, it's you, you're the one who hurt me!"
At this moment, Su Lujun was like the lucky poor student who got the correct answer despite using the wrong formula thanks to the reminder from the top student.
She hurriedly crawled forward a few steps, threw herself on the ground, and cried out in pain, "Your Majesty, please understand. Although I have raised the eldest prince, he has always been close to Concubine Xian. Even if I really had such feelings for him, how could I have made such a big mistake for him?"
"Don't I know that if this matter is exposed, the eldest prince may not be implicated by me, his adoptive mother, but Yongzhang and Yongrong will definitely be disliked by the emperor because of me? How could I act like this!"
Concubine Chun's words not only moved Hongli, but also moved the Queen's heart. The look she gave Concubine Jia gradually changed, and she was about to open her mouth to tell her another thing she had found out.
Concubine Jia stood up without hesitation and said, "Your Majesty, please forgive me. I didn't want to bring up this matter, but today Concubine Chun accused me of nothing, so I have no choice but to prove my innocence."
"Before, because of my incompetence, I was unable to give the Ninth Prince a good birth date, which led to him being criticized. To avoid taboos, the Emperor took the child away early, but later he died before the Eighth Prince, and he wasn't even listed in the imperial record. Naturally, he won't be ranked in order of seniority in the future."
At this point, Concubine Jia, who was always outspoken and bright in front of outsiders, had a sad look on her face. "Of course, his passing also proves that the ghost and god theories are pure fabrication. But before that, the Empress's Eighth Prince contracted smallpox. At the time, rumors were rife in the palace about this. If it was really me who did it, wouldn't that confirm the ghost and god theories and deliberately provoke the Emperor to dislike us, mother and son?"
Concubine Jia was just taking a gamble. Even a tiger wouldn't eat its own cubs. If none of them could produce conclusive evidence, no one would dare to say that they, as a mother, could do such a thing.
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