Chapter 112: Participate in Her
"The palace is too dangerous."
On the carriage returning home from the palace, Qi said with lingering fear.
"A cat can take a life with a single swipe of its claws. I must return to Marquis Wenyuan's mansion to visit my mother and thank her for not sending me to the palace."
If she really entered the palace, with her weak brain, she would definitely not survive more than three days.
Feng Qingsui was at a loss whether to laugh or cry.
She pulled off the Yaohuang hairpin on her head and said with a smile, "Actually, the cat was going to pounce on me."
Qi: “!!!”
"What happened? Has someone tampered with this flower?"
Feng Qingsui nodded.
Then she told her in detail how she discovered that the flowers were stained with potion, how she went to the dressing room to soak the flowers, how she collected the potion in the bottle she carried with her, and how she asked Wuhua to secretly sprinkle the potion on Shaoyao's skirt while she was chatting with Shaoyao.
"I don't know what this potion is for, I just want to give him a taste of his own medicine."
She said softly.
"When I saw the white cat chasing the head aunt, I realized that the drug was used to induce cats to go crazy. The cat's paws must have been coated with a poison that kills people with one claw."
Qi was stunned.
After a while, she put her hands together and chanted "Amitabha" twice.
"Fortunately, you are smart, otherwise..."
She felt a little scared.
And angry again.
"We have no grudges against the Queen, yet she actually murdered you! She's truly insane!"
Feng Qingsui lowered his eyes, concealing the expression in them, and said calmly, "Yes, she can kill anyone who has no grudge against her. Where is the humanity left in her?"
Qi grabbed her hands and held them tightly.
"We can't just let this go. If she fails to harm you this time, she might kill you next time. There's no such thing as a thief on guard against thieves. We can't let her go."
Feng Qingsui's heart suddenly felt hot, as if a warm current was flowing through it.
Qi is such a soft-hearted person, yet she can say such words, which shows that she really regards her as her own and wants to protect her.
"Well, we can't let her go." She smiled, "Let's go back to the mansion and let the Second Master report her."
Qi nodded heavily.
Ji Changqing returned home after court and went to Ci'an Hall to pay his respects to Qi. When he heard about this, his face darkened without her even saying a word.
"I'll make her pay."
She raised a scourge like the Crown Prince, and instead of repenting, she aided and abetted the evil. She should have given up her position as Queen long ago.
He immediately returned to his room and wrote three memorials, listing all the crimes of the former Rongchang Marquisate, and severely criticized Zhao Bixiang who "praied for the people in Anguo Temple."
At the end, it read: "The Empress and her relatives have committed many unjust acts. The former Crown Prince is incompetent and without virtue. This is truly the fault of his mother's inability to be a role model. Such a person is unworthy of his position. How can he be a role model for women in the world? Your Majesty should depose the Empress to ensure the safety of the country!"
The next morning at court, he stepped out to speak in an angry tone.
The court officials looked at each other in bewilderment, wondering what big thing had happened to cause the usually mature and steady prime minister to lose his composure like this.
Yesterday, the emperor learned about the white cat's murder from the Sixth Princess, who had cried to him about her beloved pet being framed by someone. He realized that there must be something fishy going on.
However, the palace servant who was responsible for raising the white cat jumped into the well, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs lost all clues and could not continue the investigation.
Ji Changqing suddenly and strongly demanded that the queen be deposed. Could it be that the murder plan yesterday was aimed at the relatives of the Ji family, but by mistake, the queen's maid-in-charge suffered the consequences?
The Queen is now in a difficult situation, unable to protect herself, yet she still has the mind to harm others?
He felt annoyed.
But now was not the time to depose the queen, so he replied with a stern face: "Let's discuss this matter later." Then he listened to the next memorial.
Ji Changqing frowned.
The emperor's behavior was really unusual.
The Han family and the crown prince have come to this point, but he still refuses to depose the queen. What is he trying to achieve?
In the palace where Concubine Wu was, the Sixth Princess asked the same question.
"Mother, why hasn't Father deposed the Queen and made you his wife? Doesn't he love you the most? The Crown Prince has become a monk, so why would he keep the Queen around?"
Concubine Wu said calmly, "As long as the Queen is on the throne, everyone else will be a concubine, and no one can hope to take the throne. He just wants the Queen to occupy the throne."
The Sixth Princess still didn't understand: "What good would it do him if the Queen took the throne?"
"Who knows?" Concubine Wu said self-deprecatingly, "Maybe she feels that we fakes are not worthy of being empress."
Fake?
The Sixth Princess wanted to ask more, but Concubine Wu changed the subject.
"Don't worry about your third brother and I. Just be your father's sweetheart. Remember, not fighting is the greatest struggle."
"We already have every advantage. As long as we don't act rashly, we will get everything that is ours."
The Sixth Princess nodded: "I'll listen to you."
"Come, try the snacks that have just been delivered from the imperial kitchen."
"good!"
Compared with the harmonious and harmonious atmosphere in the imperial concubine's palace, the queen's palace was not so peaceful.
Peony was brought into the palace by the Queen from the Rongchang Marquis' Mansion and stayed with her for more than 20 years. She once thought that Peony would stay by her side until she died.
Who knew...
"Bitch!"
She clutched the sachet that Shaoyao had embroidered for her, her eyes red as if blood was about to drip out.
"I will never forgive you!"
After trying her best to calm herself down, she sat down at the desk.
The maid was about to come forward to grind ink for her, but she waved her hand and said, "I can do it myself."
Then pour water into the inkstone, pick up the ink stick and grind it slowly.
He worked until there was no emotion left in his heart, then he moistened his brush, dipped it in ink, picked up the brush, and wrote a few lines of small words in regular script on the cut paper.
After the ink has dried, roll up the paper strip, stuff it into a thin bamboo tube, tie it to the pigeon's leg and let it fly.
A white dove flew into an ordinary home.
In the middle of the night, a dark shadow flashed out from this house.
The black shadow shuttled through the darkness of the densely packed houses, arrived at a large mansion, and quietly placed a note on the owner's pillow.
Before leaving, he threw a coin on the ground.
"bite--"
The man woke up from his dream.
Subconsciously, he turned his head to look outside the tent.
There was a small lamp burning in the corner, casting a dim light.
Everything was quiet, it shouldn't be four o'clock yet.
He looked away and a piece of paper suddenly caught his eye.
“!”
He grabbed the note, lifted the bed curtain to check, and when he saw the contents clearly, he felt the blood rushing backwards throughout his body.
"What's wrong?"
The person next to him also woke up and asked in confusion.
He grabbed the note and said nonchalantly, "I'm going to the bathroom. You can go back to sleep. It's still early."
The person next to me closed his eyes and his breathing quickly became even.
He got out of bed quietly, put on his coat, walked out of the bedroom and headed towards the study in the outer courtyard.
After entering the study, he walked to the inner bedroom, lifted the carpet, opened the three-foot square wooden door, held up the oil lamp, and walked into the basement stairs.
Then walk all the way to another staircase, climb up the stairs and push open the top door to get out.
"You scared me." A female voice rang out, "Why are you looking for me at this time? I just thought it was haunted."
The man handed her the note in his hand and said, "Our affair has been exposed."
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