Chapter 642 I'm really not Empress Jiang
Jiang Jinyan listened quietly from the side, but he couldn't help but get angry too. "You keep calling her a witch and falsely accusing her of bewitching the emperor. How did she ruin the emperor's empire and make the Empress Dowager directly judge her to be a witch? The Empress Dowager wanted her favorite son to be emperor, but she didn't get her wish, so you held a grudge for life. The Empress Dowager hates the Xie family. What does this have to do with my sister? It's really absurd."
The Empress Dowager was a petty and narrow-minded person. She was jealous of the Empress's position and jealous that her eldest son recognized someone else as his mother. When her eldest son became the Emperor, she was unhappy and eventually turned around and tormented her eldest son to defend her younger son.
Jiang Jinyan was close to the Cheng brothers and heard some secrets about the royal family from them. Regardless of whether Emperor Huijing had murdered his father or not, it was right of him not to let Prince Kang return to Shengjing. Otherwise, the Empress Dowager would have caused all sorts of trouble if she stayed in the palace.
With Prince Kang in the Northwest and the Empress Dowager in the Hengyang Palace, she couldn't do anything even if she wanted to cause trouble.
Their grudges and grievances had nothing to do with Jiang Fenghua and Xie Shang.
Xie Shang's eyes turned icy. "The Empress Dowager, in order to save your beloved granddaughter and grandson, will probably reveal Su Qingqing's whereabouts!"
“I really don’t know where she went. I only saw her once before I returned to Beijing. She said she wanted to find a way to get revenge on Jiang Fenghua.”
Now that she's back in Shengjing, she can't possibly be hiding so well, unless someone is helping her.
The ministers who were connected with the Su family have all become obedient now. Imperial Censor Zhu has been suffering from a stroke and has not recovered, so the Zhu family is no longer able to help her.
Who else is helping Su Qingqing?
Finally, they changed into civilian clothes and left the palace. Later, they received news that they had gone to Huguo Temple.
However, when they arrived at Huguo Temple, they discovered that the person who had been brought there was not Jiang Fenghua at all. There was even a woman pretending to be Su Qingqing making contact with the assassin.
Xie Shang said coldly, "You've been following us the whole time, where is he?"
Lin Feng and Ao Xue were both stunned.
Lin Feng hadn't expected this either. "They came in the direction of the city, taking the official road. There were other carriages on the road, but we couldn't possibly lose them!"
Ao Xue grabbed the woman in black by the collar, "Where did you move the Empress?"
"Empress Jiang has now gone to the underworld to apologize to the Su family. We have finally avenged our young master." After the woman finished speaking, blood flowed from the corner of her mouth, and she and her companions, determined to die, fell to the ground.
Seeing this, Jiang Jinyan thought, "Su Qingqing probably set a trap. She had long expected that Ruan Ruan wouldn't be kidnapped so easily, and even guessed that someone was following them."
He added, "Think again about any special markings you see on the carriages you encounter on the road."
“There are several carriages that look almost identical,” Ao Xue said. “This woman in black has been driving the carriages the whole time. She’s been heading towards Huguo Temple, while the other carriages are heading into the city.”
“Since we lost her near Huguo Temple, Ruan Ruan must be nearby. Let’s start looking from the intersection near Huguo Temple.”
“We came from the city, and we didn’t see any carriages entering the city on the way, so Ruan Ruan must still be outside the city,” Xie Shang said.
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At the same time, Su Qingqing was getting off a luxurious carriage. She said, "Thank you for your help, Your Highness. If Your Highness achieves great success in the future, I will celebrate for you even if I am far away."
"Madam Su, please leave quickly. This is all I can do for you. Whether you can avenge your entire Su family depends on your fate."
She added, "Jiang Fenghua and Xie Shang went on an incognito tour for more than half a year. I heard that she changed after returning to the palace. It seems that many people don't recognize her anymore. The current Jiang Fenghua is like a cannon. She doesn't care about anyone's feelings. She is so different from her former self. I wonder what happened to her outside."
She sneered, "There's another strange thing. As far as I know, Jiang Fenghua didn't leave the palace with the Emperor at all. The Emperor didn't take her with him when he left the palace either. She pretended to be sick in the palace and didn't show her face for more than a month. I guess she had already left the palace by then, or rather, she had already disappeared. The Emperor was furious."
"I understand." Su Qingqing only wanted to see Jiang Fenghua and then kill her. As for what she and the Emperor were up to, she didn't want to know.
Su Qingqing had already received news that Jiang Fenghua had been taken to Huguo Temple. She believed that many people probably already knew that Jiang Fenghua had gone to Huguo Temple!
She wasn't stupid, and she was very cautious. She knew that Jiang Fenghua was surrounded by many experts, so she never dared to show herself. She had already made arrangements for Ling'er. Now she wanted to avenge the entire Su family. If she could escape, she and Ling'er would live in anonymity. If she couldn't escape, she would be content even if Jiang Fenghua was buried with her.
As long as Jiang Fenghua dies, the Jiang family and Xie Shang will be devastated, and she will have avenged the Su family.
In fact, Su Qingqing had considered targeting her children, but she couldn't get into the palace at all. The Jiang family was even more cautious now, and the city was full of soldiers. Without help, she couldn't enter or leave the city.
As Su Qingqing watched the carriage gradually disappear into the distance, she had always wanted to erect memorial tablets for the Su family at Huguo Temple, hoping that they would ascend to paradise as soon as possible.
But she couldn't do that, and in the end, she only erected a blank stele for the Su family near Huguo Temple.
She hated Jiang Fenghua to the core, wishing she could kill her herself, skin her alive and tear her tendons out, making her wish she were dead.
Xie Shang is currently busy with the plague situation at Jishantang in the palace, and he never expected that Jiang Fenghua would lead a group of concubines to the funeral.
She was courting death by leaving the palace, and this time she didn't believe she couldn't be killed.
She considered assassinating them on the way, but it would be almost impossible, because they were accompanied by the Imperial Guards, and the Su family's assassins had been mostly eliminated. If she wanted to find help, it would only alert them, and she didn't have the financial resources to bribe assassins.
She had known all along that Jiang Fenghua would take her concubines to Huguo Temple when she returned to the city after her funeral. She thought that might be the only opportunity to assassinate her there, but she didn't expect that there was another group of people who also wanted Jiang Fenghua dead.
Jiang Fenghua was taken to a cave. When she woke up, she saw a woman dressed in rags standing quietly in front of her. She knew that the person in front of her was Su Qingqing.
Could it be that Su Qingqing has been disguised as a refugee and mingling among the refugees all along?
Jiang Fenghua asked, "Who are you? Where is this place?"
Seeing that Jiang Fenghua didn't recognize her, Su Qingqing asked suspiciously, "Jiang Fenghua, stop pretending. Now that you're finally in my hands, I'm going to kill you."
"I really don't know you. Who are you? I have no grudge against you. Why are you trying to kill me?" Her eyes were full of innocence. She had been drugged shortly after getting into the carriage, and her mind was working quickly. She hurriedly said, "To tell you the truth, I am not Empress Jiang at all. My real name is A Xian. I am from the Southern Kingdom. Xie Shang tricked me into coming to the Great Zhou Kingdom. He said that I look exactly like his empress and asked me to enter the palace and pretend to be his empress."
Su Qingqing was stunned when she heard this. "You're not Jiang Fenghua, that's impossible."
Jiang Fenghua then spoke in the southern dialect, "My name is really A-Xian, not Empress Jiang, did you hear that!"
Su Qingqing couldn't understand a word she was saying. "What did you say?"
She then spoke in the Han language of the Great Zhou Kingdom: "I said my real name is A Xian, not Empress Jiang. I have two relatives, one is my grandmother, and the other is my younger brother. If you don't believe me, come with me to the Southern Kingdom, and I will introduce you to them."
Su Qingqing stared at her and felt that her eyes were clear and bright, without any trace of Jiang Fenghua's shrewdness and ruthlessness, so she didn't seem to be lying.
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