Chapter 680: Car Overturn
"Is it... the Emperor?" Concubine He said this softly.
The two palace maids standing behind her knelt down with pale faces.
But the new green and broken red behind Shen Chuliu just stood there with their eyes lowered.
"Although the saying that good and evil will be rewarded in the end is sometimes false. But in the harem, people who are too vicious will not last long. Concubine Yang in the past was like that, and so are you now. Concubine Yang is cruel and ostentatious, and you think you are low-key, but because you are so good at hiding, who is not afraid of you?"
Shen Chuliu looked at her with a smile: "I'm so scared of you that I want to kill you."
"You don't know, the one who exposed all this to the public was not Concubine Li De, nor Concubine Qian Shu. It was the maidservant of Concubine Qian Shu. But do you know where that girl came from? She is the Second Prince's wife. Yes, she is Li Qiushui, whose face was disfigured by you back then."
"The person she assigned to Concubine Qian Shu, a person you never paid attention to, easily exposed you. Cong Meng, Qi Meng, Chenxiang Fuxiang, have all been taken to the Internal Criminal Department. And there is also your lost eunuch." Shen Chuliu spoke softly and told Concubine He all these things as if chatting about family matters.
He Fei's breathing was rapid for a long time, but gradually she calmed down.
"You already know everything."
"Yes, I know. I'm just very curious, very curious. Why? You have always been favored, from the time you were a concubine to now, why?"
He Fei laughed: "Why?"
"Your Highness, Concubine Jing is of noble birth. From the first day you entered the palace, you have been high and mighty. Even when you were of low status before, no one dared to bully you. You rely on the Shen family to live recklessly. Naturally, you don't understand why I do this."
Concubine He smiled and said, "Do you know? When I was eleven, my family was destroyed and I was sent to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. I didn't want to, but I had no choice. Even becoming a slave was considered a good outcome. My illegitimate sisters either became prostitutes or playthings. In the end, they all died."
"But do you know how I live? Because I am good-looking, how many people in the Ministry of Internal Affairs covet me? They are all eunuchs, and they covet me! I have no choice but to rely on a nanny, but she has a bad temper and likes to beat and scold people. I would be beaten just because I was a little late in bringing foot washing water. Have you ever suffered such hardship?"
Shen Chuliu didn't say anything, just looked at her.
"I knew from childhood that my family was innocent. I was innocent too. But who cared? I was finally taught well in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and sent to the harem, and assigned to Changle Palace. I was originally a third-class maid, but because of my good looks, Concubine Yi couldn't stand me, so she made me a rough servant. With less money and more work, being beaten was commonplace."
"In the end, she needed me to win her favor again, and she also wanted me to be grateful to her. Haha. I really didn't care at that time. I only wanted to overturn the case for the Su family. But that was such a difficult thing to do."
"At that time, I didn't care about anything, not even the baby in my belly. As long as I could bring down the Feng family and overturn the case for the Su family."
"But the wealth and splendor of the harem are so dazzling that gradually, you no longer think so." Shen Chuliu smiled again, with sarcasm and understanding.
"Your Su family has overturned the verdict, but you are still a Su beauty. You haven't even been given a title for many years. Your body is broken, and even if you try hard, you can only give birth to a daughter, but you regret it, wishing you hadn't had a miscarriage."
"You think I'm too lucky, so you want to stand on Concubine Li De's side, but you're not sincere. You even let Zhen Chongyi think you're loyal to her. Empress Dowager Feng was optimistic about you before she died, and she was right. You're really a natural conspirator."
"That's right. I just made Zhen Chongyi think that I would bring down the Fourth Prince. She was willing to take the risk to harm you. But in the end she couldn't say it was my idea. She didn't have any handle on me." Concubine He also laughed.
"I really hate you, you, Concubine Li De, Zhen Chongyi, and the idiot Feng Suxin. You all rely on your good family background to act recklessly. And what about me? I should be the same as you, but what kind of life am I living?"
"The emperor dotes on me? Does he really dote on me? Ah? Does he know that sometimes I can't even afford to reward the servants? He dotes on me, sending me so many good things, but he never gives me a single cent. But what about you? Do you need money? He still remembers to give you gold and silver."
"That year I had a miscarriage. During my confinement, I wanted to go to the temporary palace, but the emperor didn't ask me if I wanted to go. To outsiders, it seemed like a great favor to take me out to relax. But did you know that from then on, I developed leg pain because of the coolness of the temporary palace? How old was I at that time?"
"One year there was a strong wind and all my windows were broken. Yes, someone came to fix it the next day, but what did I hear you talking about? Even the Yao family, which was nothing at the time, only had the outer room broken, but all of mine were broken. Because I don't have a single glass window."
“No matter I was above the nine concubines in the past or I am now, in the eyes of the Clothing Bureau, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the Kitchen, I am stingy. But can they believe me? I don’t have any money.” Concubine He smiled, but tears also came down.
"You are so pitiful." Shen Chuliu shook her head with pity: "You are so pitiful."
He Fei paused and looked at her: "Do you think I'm pitiful?"
"Yes, you are really pitiful. There must be something hateful about a pitiful person. You don't even know what you want, aren't you pitiful?"
"You suffered when your family encountered great disasters when you were a child, but there are tens of millions of people suffering in this world. Are they all like you, who start to harm others as soon as they find a way out?"
"In the final analysis, you are just jealous because of your low self-esteem."
"You hate the concubine for pushing you out like a plaything, but on your first night in the emperor's bed, why didn't you kneel down and try to explain yourself? The emperor probably won't force you. He might even put you aside because you are the daughter of the Su family."
"But at that time, you might not be able to see that the emperor and the Feng family would take action, and you wouldn't dare to gamble."
"You hate that the emperor is not good enough to you, but when it comes to the emperor, aren't you always a worry-free and sensible concubine? The emperor is busy with all kinds of affairs, and you want him to worry about what kind of window that concubine uses?"
"So, you are pitiful. You have a heart that wants to be superior to everyone else, but in fact you have very low self-esteem. You are inferior, jealous, and envious. You long to become us, but you can never become us. So, you want to play with us at your will. Look, you have succeeded."
"But there is always a loophole. When you destroyed Li Qiushui's appearance, you probably thought she was the least important person. But did you ever think that you would fail in her way?"
(End of this chapter)
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