Chapter 67 Chapter 67 Qingyao was puzzled. ...
From Li Shuyao's perspective, Wu Ya was kneeling with her back to her. She didn't know what kind of magic she used, but both her back and her profile looked very beautiful, with a touching sense of weakness and pity.
She was now covering her face and crying. Her crying sounded a little sad, but the tone was very pleasant.
It was obvious that this was carefully rehearsed. Li Shuyao couldn't possibly produce such a beautiful sound...
Li Shuyao's alertness suddenly reached its highest point. She slowly withdrew her gaze and attention from Wu Ya's back. With the support of Nanny Yan, she walked into the warm room and knelt before the emperor, "Your Majesty, your concubine greets you."
As soon as she finished speaking, she saw that there was not only the emperor inside, but also Qingyao, Huipin, Su Malagu, Nanny Lin and several unfamiliar maids and palace maids.
Qingyao smiled faintly at her, and Huipin also looked over. There was no warmth in her black and white eyes, but her attitude was gentle. She nodded at Li Shuyao, then turned her gloomy gaze to Wuya on the ground, with no intention of talking to Li Shuyao.
Su Malagu and several other maids and palace maids came over and saluted Li Shuyao.
Li Shuyao first stepped aside to avoid Su Malagu's greeting, then stretched out a hand to her and helped her up from the ground.
At the same time, Uya, who was kneeling on the ground, stopped crying, obviously realizing that Li Shuyao had arrived.
Even though she was extremely reluctant, she adjusted her kneeling position with sobs, and reluctantly lowered her head in front of Li Shuyao, "Your servant, your servant greets your Majesty." Her voice was very difficult, sour and bitter.
Li Shuyao listened: "..."
She instantly became happy, and the corners of her mouth that wanted to turn up were harder to suppress than AK.
She bit her lip and restrained herself for a while before slowly speaking, "No need for formalities."
After saying that, he turned his head and glanced at the emperor. After getting his tacit approval, he walked towards Qingyao with joy, hooked her finger, and asked her softly, "What's wrong? What happened?"
Qingyao turned her head slightly, her voice also lowered, "Did you know that the eldest prince almost fell off his horse a few days ago?"
Li Shuyao was bewildered when she heard this. "Ah?"
She doesn't know.
No one in Changchun Palace told her about this.
Qingyao paused, then continued in a whisper, "Someone tampered with the eldest prince's horse. Luckily, the eldest prince was in a bad mood that day and had no interest in riding. He only rode around slowly twice before dismounting. However, when he dismounted, he didn't know what the horse had disturbed, and it suddenly went crazy. It almost kicked the eldest prince, but luckily the palace servants nearby stopped it."
"Later, the people who were checking the horses reported back that someone had put some drug powder in the horse hay. While it wasn't fatal, it made the horses extremely excited and frightened."
"...Furthermore, the powder was found in the hay of several horses that the eldest prince often rode, suggesting someone was deliberately trying to murder him."
Hiss, no wonder Huipin was so angry!
Thinking of this, Li Shuyao secretly looked at Huipin not far away, and saw that her dark eyes were still staring at Uya on the ground.
Li Shuyao suddenly felt something was wrong and quickly asked Qingyao, "Does Concubine Hui suspect that Lianchu was responsible for this?"
Qingyao nodded. "That day, after the contraband was discovered in my palace, the Emperor ordered me, along with Concubine Hui, Concubine Rong, and Concubine An, to thoroughly inspect each of the twelve palaces, east and west."
"When we searched Concubine Hui's Yanxi Palace, we found a packet of medicine powder in Uya's room."
"After the imperial physician's inspection, it turned out to be the powder mixed in with the horse grass."
"Huipin was immediately enraged and wanted to have Uya executed with a stick, but Uya was so eloquent that she somehow persuaded three or four palace maids to suddenly run out from the Yanxi Palace and plead for her."
Although the palace maids were not very eye-catching, most of them were from the bannermen family.
With their pleas and someone tipping off the emperor, the dispute in the Yanxi Palace grew bigger and bigger, and finally it even alarmed the emperor.
After listening to this, Li Shuyao looked thoughtful. So, the plot of the novel has been twisted back to the original?
Does this mean that the heroine must be promoted?
What should she do then?
She can't defeat Uya.
On this side, Li Shuyao was whispering to Qingyao, and on the other side, Huipin could no longer tolerate Uya.
She lifted her skirt, turned around, and knelt down directly in front of the emperor. She had always been a strong-willed person, but now her face was covered with traces of tears, and she cried even more miserably than Uya.
She first cried because she couldn't keep Chengqing. She hated Changshengtian so much and felt so sad and grief in her heart.
Now, I finally have Baoqing, and I have raised him safely to this age. In a few years, I will be able to see him get married and have children.
But I didn't expect that there were so many poisonous snakes hiding in the darkness.
The poisoning last time was not enough, this time they actually attacked Baoqing's horse directly.
If she couldn't seek justice for Baoqing, she would be unworthy of being Baoqing's mother!
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When Li Shuyao heard this, she didn't know what she was thinking about. She suddenly tugged at Qingyao's sleeve again. When she looked over, she asked in confusion, "Isn't the eldest brother only five years old?"
"Why did Concubine Hui say that in a few years, the eldest prince will get married and have children?"
As she spoke, she counted on her fingers, "If we can't get married until we're fifteen or sixteen, then we'll have to wait at least another ten years, right?"
Qingyao was silent.
Then he looked at her, then looked at her again, and finally couldn't help but sigh: "According to the rules of the Ministry of Rites, the marriage is usually granted first, and then the marriage is completed. From the granting of the marriage to the marriage, it usually takes about one to two years to prepare."
Li Shuyao exclaimed in surprise, "Wow!" "So long?"
Qingyao nodded, then said to her: "Stop talking and listen carefully."
"Yeah, okay, okay." Li Shuyao responded cheerfully. The two of them hooked their fingers together and looked towards the center of the warm room again.
…
It was like the fast-forward button was pressed over there.
As soon as Concubine Hui finished speaking, Uya shook her head frantically with tears on her face, saying that she knew nothing about the medicine powder.
He also said that if she really did it, several days have passed, wouldn't she know to dispose of the powder?
Huipin said, "That's because you didn't expect the palace to suddenly launch a purge and search. Otherwise, how could they have caught you red-handed?"
Wu Ya knelt on the ground and continued to argue, "But your majesty, it's just a packet of medicine powder. If I want to deal with it, I can just throw it on the stove in the small kitchen and burn it."
"Furthermore, the search of the six eastern palaces began with Concubine Rong's Zhongcui Palace, then moved on to Concubine Gui's Chengqian Palace and Concubine An's Jingren Palace. I was stationed in Yanxi Palace and clearly had a whole morning to dispose of the packet of powder, but I didn't. Doesn't this further prove that I knew nothing about this packet of powder from the beginning?"
"Perhaps you forgot?"
"Empress Hui, it has only been two or three days since the eldest prince's horse was frightened. Even if I am forgetful, I would not be so careless."
"Oh, you really have a very flexible mouth."
"Your Highness Huipin is so kind."
To this last sentence, Uya responded neither humbly nor arrogantly.
If she wasn't the heroine, Li Shuyao would have almost applauded her.
But as soon as the fingers that were hooked around Qingyao relaxed a little, Qingyao cautiously hooked them back with force.
Li Shuyao had no time to make a move, so he had to give up the idea with regret.
Qingyao noticed her movements, turned her head to look at her, and asked her: "What are you going to do?"
Li Shuyao said with a dull expression, "No, no."
Qingyao was a little unconvinced, so she said, "This isn't some stage script. You'd better be careful."
Li Shuyao felt something was wrong. It was clearly a matter within Huibin's palace, but why did Qingyao talk about it as if it would involve her?
Also, why did the emperor call her over?
Did he feel that she had been stuck in Changchun Palace for too long and was afraid that she would be lonely, so he specifically asked her to come over and see some fun?
But how could the emperor know that there was a conflict between her and Uya?
Li Shuyao's heart was suddenly filled with confusion by Qingyao's simple words.
Suddenly, I subconsciously felt that it shouldn't be that simple.
It is probably a series of traps, one after another. On the surface, it seems to be a matter of the eldest prince falling off a horse, but in fact, no one knows how deep the involvement is.
Thinking of this, Li Shuyao silently clenched Qingyao's fingers and moved closer to her.
Over there, Concubine Hui has already started talking about the incident of the palace maid climbing into the bed some time ago.
Only then did Li Shuyao know that the palace maid in the Yanx Palace who was demoted to the Xinzheku for climbing into bed was originally very good friends with Uya.
How good is it?
She would rather starve herself than leave the snacks given by Huipin to Uya.
However, when the incident of bed-climbing was exposed, Uya was the first to distance herself from the palace maid, and quickly made friends with a new palace maid. Together with others, she openly and secretly pointed fingers at the palace maid who had climbed the bed.
"But it was you who instigated her to have sex, wasn't it?" Huipin said with a mocking tone.
The East Warm Pavilion fell into silence in an instant, and even Uya, who was kneeling on the ground sobbing, subconsciously stopped making any noise.
Only then did Huipin realize that something was wrong. It seemed that her words had even insulted the emperor.
So he quickly turned around and knelt down to apologize to the emperor.
The emperor slowly turned the ring on his hand, leaning on the couch in a leisurely posture, and his eyes were dark, like a bottomless abyss.
When he heard Huipin's words, there was no anger on his face. He just stared at Uya lying on the ground.
Li Shuyao felt a little worried and a little angry.
Big pig's hoof, could it be that he suddenly fell in love with Uya like in the original novel?
She didn't want to be a colleague with Wu Ya...
Just as I was thinking about it, I heard the emperor's low voice say: "Did you also spread the rumors among the palace ladies?"
When he said this, everyone present was stunned.
What rumor?
Have there been any rumors circulating in the palace recently?
I haven't heard of it.
Li Shuyao and Qingyao looked at each other with confused eyes. Huipin, who was kneeling on the ground, also cast a puzzled look at the palace maid beside her, and then the palace maid shook her head at her.
Everyone was confused, and only the person involved, Uya, knew what was going on.
But she can't say it!
So she bit her moist lips with a look of tears on her face, and looked towards the emperor timidly. When she met his dark eyes that were as sharp as an eagle, she quickly lowered her head like a frightened bird.
The voice sounded very artificial, "What rumors? I don't know what the emperor is talking about."
She suddenly turned into Ziyin!
The sound of the clip is very ugly!
Li Shuyao was so angry that her cheeks puffed up and she glared fiercely at Wu Ya who was kneeling on the ground.
How could she, how could she seduce the emperor in front of her, Qingyao, and Concubine Hui?
So bad!
"You don't know?" The emperor on the other side seemed to be completely unaffected.
He sneered and waved to Liang Jiugong. Liang Jiugong, holding the whisk, understood instantly. After bending slightly, he quietly walked to the outside of the east warm room. Not long after, he brought in several palace maids and eunuchs who were tied up.
The mouths of the palace maids and eunuchs were stuffed with thick cotton cloth. They looked very disheveled, and their expressions were timid and frightened.
After being thrown to the ground, he subconsciously curled up.
When the situation developed to this point, even Qingyao didn't know what was going on.
So Li Shuyao could only hold her belly with a regretful expression, sit on the chair, and watch the developments quietly.
Fortunately, Liang Jiugong was good at summarizing things. In just a few words, he recounted the whole story to the masters and ladies present.
——Some time ago, after the incident of a palace maid climbing onto the bed in the Yanx Palace, the emperor was furious. In a fit of rage, he directly sent the palace maid who climbed onto the bed to serve in the Xinzheku.
When the palace maid was dragged away, she looked very unwilling and shouted crazily, "So-and-so can do it, but why can't she?"
As soon as he finished speaking, the guards stuffed a piece of wood into his mouth, which made his mouth full of blood and he could not speak clearly.
However, the words she shouted before were still heard by the palace servants around her.
They all started to ask, who was the palace maid who had climbed into the bed before?
During this period, no one knew whether they were misled or someone was adding fuel to the fire, but gradually, Li Shuyao's name began to appear frequently in the private rumors among the palace people.
It just so happened that it was overheard by someone working for Nanny Gong in the Qianqing Palace.
Since the matter concerned Li Shuyao, Nanny Gong took it very seriously. After reporting it to the emperor, she had been investigating the matter privately, and finally traced it back to the palace maid who climbed into the bed in the Yanx Palace.
Nanny Gong took people to the Xinzheku and secretly found the palace maid who had climbed into the bed.
When she arrived, the palace maid had been tortured in the Xinzheku and was on the verge of mental destruction. She behaved madly and said a lot of bad things about Li Shuyao in a sloppy manner.
And how did she, a palace maid far away in the Yanx Palace, know all this?
Nanny Gong carefully investigated and eliminated the people around the palace maid one by one, and finally placed her suspicion on Uya.
After returning to the Qianqing Palace, Matron Gong secretly went to the maid's quarters where Li Shuyao had stayed before, and questioned Matron Jia and other maids one by one. Finally, she determined that the source of the rumor was Uya.
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Li Shuyao was stunned when she heard this.
She just stayed indoors for three or four days, and things outside developed like this?
How come she doesn't know anything?
Li Shuyao quickly approached Qingyao and asked her in a low voice: "You..."
"I don't know. I really don't know. If I knew, I would have given Yueshu's jar of medicine to Madam Gong a long time ago." Qingyao quickly denied it and said, "Madam Gong wouldn't have to go through so much trouble, interrogating the palace servant who spread rumors, going to the Xinzheku, and then going to the palace maids' quarters..."
Li Shuyao thought about it and agreed. Like Qingyao, she had a pretty good relationship with the maids in the Palace of Heavenly Purity.
If I had known that Nanny Gong was investigating these things, I would have gone over to help a long time ago.
Li Shuyao thought about it, then realized, "So, besides instigating the palace maid to get into bed with me, she also deliberately framed me and spread rumors about me among the palace servants?"
"That's already two crimes, right? I wonder how the Emperor will punish her..."
It would be best to just take her offline and drive her out of the Forbidden City!
However, Qingyao shook her head.
Li Shuyao was a little anxious. "What do you mean by shaking your head? Do you think the emperor won't punish her?"
Qingyao: "..."
She looked at Li Shuyao in disbelief, "Why do you think so?"
"Wait a minute, do you have any misunderstanding about the emperor?"
Misunderstanding...?
But Li Shuyao doesn’t think so, after all, that’s what the novel says.
Li Shuyao crossed her fingers, lowered her head and said nothing.
Qingyao came over to explain, "Let's not talk about the rumors she spread about you. Just the fact that she instigated the palace maid to climb into the emperor's bed has already made the emperor very angry."
"So, just wait and see, she's definitely going to be finished today."
Li Shuyao blinked, not understanding why Qingyao said that.
There is no such plot in the original novel. The original novel only wrote -
When "Li Shuyao" climbed onto the bed, the emperor was extremely furious. His profile was as fierce as a demon crawling out of hell. Dark clouds rolled violently in his eyes. He looked at the palace maid lying on the bed as if he was looking at a corpse.
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Oh yeah, so why is he so angry?
These were foreshadowings that were not revealed in the novel, so Li Shuyao had not thought about them carefully before.
After Qingyao's reminder today, Li Shuyao suddenly came to her senses. The emperor's behavior in the original novel was very strange.
It was just a palace maid climbing onto the bed, why was he so furious...
Li Shuyao stretched out her finger and pulled Qingyao's sleeve, with "I want to eat melon" written all over her fair little face.
Qingyao was pulled to no end by her, so she didn't even look at the confrontation over there. She turned her head and leaned close to Li Shuyao's ear. She lowered her voice and quickly explained the reason -
"You know the Imperial Concubine Dong E back then, right?"
Li Shuyao nodded repeatedly.
"I heard that before Imperial Noble Consort Dong E entered the palace, she was married."
"But she was probably not satisfied with her marriage. After attending a banquet in the palace, she had sex with the late emperor..." [1]
When Qingyao said the last few words, her voice was almost too soft to be heard.
Only when Li Shuyao came closer could he hear her words completely.
I was shocked again. Is this also a private part of the novel?
She remembered that there was no such erotic content in history...
What's wrong with the author? Is he writing the novel as unofficial history?
Even though she was thinking this, Li Shuyao couldn't help but feel excited. She quietly leaned towards Qingyao and said, "What happened next? Tell me in detail."
Qingyao glared at her. It was already amazing that she knew all this.
But Shu Yao asked her to explain it in detail. Is this something that can be explained in detail?
If the emperor over there heard this, both of them would lose their heads!
No, that's not right. Shu Yao is pregnant with the dragon heir now, so the emperor can't bear to take off her head.
Then she would be the only one who would be in trouble.
Thinking of this, Qingyao immediately shut her mouth and refused to utter another word no matter how Li Shuyao begged.
Li Shuyao shook Qingyao's finger for a while, and seeing that her eyes were determined as if she wanted to join the party and she refused to look at herself, she knew that she probably wouldn't hear any gossip.
I sighed helplessly in my heart. Forget it. If I don't say it, then don't blame her for imagining it.
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On the other side, after Liang Jiugong finished talking about the rumors, he stood up and clapped his hands. Then several guards came in from outside and carried out the palace maids and eunuchs at his feet one by one.
Soon the sound of swords being drawn was heard outside, followed by a few dull "bangs", and finally everything returned to silence.
Li Shuyao was so frightened that her hands and feet turned cold, and Qingyao's little face turned pale in an instant.
Huipin was still kneeling on the ground, her body shaking involuntarily a few times.
As for Uya... she couldn't even cry, her heart was filled with extreme horror.
All the fantasies I had before suddenly became blank after I heard those sounds that sounded like heads falling to the ground.
But that’s not all.
The emperor on the couch still had a serious expression.
He didn't even bother to blink, and continued to fiddle with the ring in his hand. After a few breaths, he waved in the direction of Nanny Lin.
Nanny Lin came out with a few account books.
Li Shuyao was watching from the side and felt that the account books in her hands looked strangely familiar.
Could it be the matter concerning the Ministry of Internal Affairs that Nanny Lin was investigating before?
Qingyao also looked at her at this time, with the same puzzled look in her eyes. She didn't understand. They were clearly talking about Uya's stirring up trouble in the harem, so why did it suddenly involve the Ministry of Internal Affairs?
However, this time it was Li Shuyao's brain that worked faster.
Before Qingyao could figure it out, she happily grasped a few of Qingyao's fingers and shook them left and right. "Wuya, it's the Wuya clan. Doesn't their family also work in the Ministry of Internal Affairs?"
"It must be because Nanny Lin found out something serious and discovered that Wu Ya was also involved, so she brought the account books here to talk about it."
Qingyao suddenly realized, "So that's how it is!"
After she finished speaking, her eyes revealed some admiration for Li Shuyao, but this time she didn't dare to praise her for "becoming smarter".
Otherwise Shu Yao will be angry.
So he racked his brains and thought, "Shu Yao, you are amazing. You actually thought of the idea right away. I hadn't figured it out yet."
Li Shuyao puffed out her chest, hummed with pride, and then said, "Of course. As the saying goes, 'A red flower grows redder when it's near a red flower, and a black flower grows blacker when it's near a black flower.' If I always play with you, I'll become smarter, okay?"
Qingyao opened her mouth: "..."
So why is it that Shu Yao can praise herself for "getting smarter" but she can't?
Qingyao couldn't figure it out.
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