Chapter 125 The truth is revealed
Boom—
a thunderclap struck the sky above Jingren Palace, and Concubine Shu was so frightened that she woke up from her bed: "Lian Xin! Lian Xin!"
Lian Xin, who was on guard outside, quickly lifted the quilt and stood up: "Madam, I'm here, what's wrong with you?"
Concubine Shu's chest rose and fell violently, and her forehead was covered with cold sweat. After a long time, she said: "I had a nightmare, pour me a cup of hot water."
Lian Xin hurriedly obeyed and quickly brought her a cup of hot tea.
"Ding ding ding ding..."
The hand holding the teacup was shaking violently.
"Bang!"
The teacup fell to the ground with a sharp cracking sound on the floor paved with gold bricks.
As if some signal was triggered, the door of Concubine Shu's bedroom was pushed open with a "bang". Jin Wuyong, wearing a nightgown with only a pair of eyes exposed, rushed in and chopped Lian Xin, who was about to scream, unconscious with a knife.
"Fei'er, come with me quickly. The matter has been exposed. The emperor has ordered the Suspension Mirror Division and the Grand Eunuch Guards to catch me everywhere. If they catch us, we will die."
Before Concubine Shu could react, Jin Wuyong grabbed her wrist and sprained her ankle during the tug.
She finally woke up from her dream, shook off Jin Wuyong's hand, and slapped him on the face: "Useless thing, you can't even handle such a small matter, and you dare to implicate me."
The man in black was stunned for a moment and stopped: "Small matter? This is a matter of life and death for Zhenpin. I don't even care about my family for you, and you treat me like this?"
The disheveled Shufei straightened her appearance, put on the airs of a concubine, and glanced at him with disdain. She glanced at him, then sat down on the couch behind the screen: "I am the Concubine Shu, and you are just a watchdog of mine. You have to do whatever I tell you to do, otherwise do you think I will spare your life?"
She snorted and laughed: "I just asked you to sleep with a woman, but you are so useless. This must disappoint me. If the matter is exposed, you should take all the responsibility on yourself. Why bother to hurt me?"
"You..."
The man in black shook his head: "It's useless to say these anymore. The emperor already knows that you ordered me to do it. Come with me quickly. I know a way to escape from the palace."
Who would want to die if they can live?
Those beautiful memories with the emperor seemed to be fading slowly and becoming meaningless.
She grabbed the hand of the man in black, her eyes determined. When she left the palace, she would find a chance to kill Jin Wuyong, and then live in seclusion in a place with few people.
It could be considered revenge for her father.
"Bang!"
The whole Jingren Palace was as bright as day, and torches and lanterns surrounded Shufei and the man in black.
The emperor stood in the middle of the crowd, looking at her coldly. The empress, Defei, Liangfei, Li Guipin, Rong Guipin, Jin Zhaoyi, Zhang Wanrong, Ye Guiren and Jiang Jieyu...
All the concubines in the harem who could be named, except Jiang Xinyue who was pregnant in Hexi Palace, were not there, and everyone else looked at her with saccharine joy.
"Your Majesty!"
Concubine Shu immediately pushed the man in black away and ran towards Emperor Xuanwu crying, as if she was the biggest victim: "Your Majesty, Guard Jin is crazy. He suddenly rushed into my concubine's bedroom and said he wanted to elope with me. I was scared..."
She ran halfway and her eyes suddenly widened. The wolf-like figure being suppressed by several guards, who else could it be but Jin Wuyong? This person is Jin Wuyong... Who was
the one who just pulled her? The man in black took off his mask, revealing a face that was 80% similar to Jin Wuyong, especially the eyes, which were 100% identical. But the next moment, the man in black raised his hand and tore off a piece of human skin mask from his face. It turned out to be an ordinary face that had no impression after seeing it. The man walked past Concubine Shu coldly without any emotion on his face, kneeling on the ground and reporting to Emperor Xuanwu: "Your Majesty, Concubine Shu did have an improper relationship with Jin Shiwei, and it was Concubine Shu who ordered Jin Shiwei to go to Hexi Palace to harm Concubine Zhen. Concubine Shu has confessed just now." The emperor heard everything, and even heard Concubine Shu asking Jin Wuyong to take all the responsibility. In fact, when Jin Wuyong was arrested in Hexi Palace, he did not reveal a word about Concubine Shu, but only said that he secretly loved Concubine Zhen, and planned all this with his lust and audacity, wanting to be intimate with Concubine Zhen. As a result, Jiang Xinyue was very angry after hearing this, and she did not believe that Jin Wuyong would dare to commit such a serious crime of confiscating the family without being instructed. What Jin Wuyong didn't know was that on the afternoon that Jiang Xinyue had met Jin Zhaoyi, Jin Zhaoyi had already gone to Chengqian Palace to ask for an audience with the emperor. Moreover, she reported to the emperor that her own brother had an affair with Concubine Shu, and that Concubine Shu had used her body to exchange for her brother's life for her, and was preparing to murder Concubine Zhen. Moreover, they were going to destroy Concubine Zhen's innocence first, and then lead the emperor to Hexi Palace, catch them in bed, and thus frame the child in her belly as a bastard, not the emperor's child. After hearing this, Emperor Xuanwu did not immediately confront Concubine Shu. He knew that Concubine Shu was used to making excuses, and that she had her biological mother, Empress Dowager Wu, as a backer. If there was no real evidence, he would not be able to do anything to her based on Jin Zhaoyi's report alone. Jiang Xinyue had already cursed the emperor eight hundred times in Hexi Palace. When Jin Wuyong knocked Frost and Magpie unconscious in the dark, the dog emperor had already been watching outside the house with his guards. But he had to wait until Jiang Xinyue was thrown onto the bed and screamed before he broke in with a few eunuchs who were skilled in martial arts. Did he still think he was very considerate by not letting the guards come in to see her being grabbed by another man's wrist? Fortunately, Jiang Xinyue had made sufficient preparations. She took out a pair of scissors from under the pillow and stabbed Jin Wuyong in the shoulder blade. Before the eunuchs came closer, Jin Wuyong was bleeding profusely and fell to the ground in pain. When Emperor Xuanwu followed the eunuchs and rushed out from behind the screen, he saw Jiang Xinyue covered in blood, still holding a pair of scissors, and defensively pointing the tip of the knife at everyone. Jin Wuyong, who fell to the ground, rolled on the ground in pain, and didn't even have the strength to struggle. The scissors were stained with poison powder from Imperial Physician Yan, which could cause severe pain in the wound, make the body powerless, and make it impossible to commit murder. Anyway, Jin Wuyong committed such a crime that could exterminate his entire clan, so would the emperor not ask an imperial physician to check his wounds? He probably hoped that Jiang Xinyue would send him to see Prince Yan with a pair of scissors! Jiang Xinyue has always adhered to the principle of never handing her life over to others, and she has done it to make herself safe.
Emperor Xuanwu was very quick, snatching the scissors from her hand and throwing them aside: "If you leak even a word of what happened today, I will chop off your heads." Those
who could accompany the emperor to "catch the adulterer" were of course his own confidants, and it was impossible for them to leak the news.
The emperor was probably talking about Concubine Zhen's heroic stabbing of Guard Jin.
If Guard Jin died, it is estimated that the Empress Dowager would frame Concubine Zhen again, saying that she killed someone to silence him.