Chapter 156 Pay with Life

"Give... give her death?"

Pei thought that at most she would be beaten, but she didn't expect the emperor to be so ruthless that he wanted to sentence her to death?

"Your Majesty!"

Although Pei Zhongshu expected that the matter would not end well, otherwise he would not come forward in person, but he did not expect the emperor to make such a decision.

Pei Rongyan is the only girl in the Pei family. She has three older brothers, so it is inevitable that her family favors her a little.

That's why her temperament has become like this.

If the sons and wife in the family knew that he could not save their only daughter even after coming forward in person, they would not know how to cry.

"What?"

Emperor Xuanwu frowned, "Didn't you say that I could punish you in any way I wanted? Or is it that Pei Aiqing is just talking big, and actually thinks that my beloved concubine is not worthy of Pei's life. Your daughter's life is more valuable than Jiang Aiqing's daughter's life, right?"

Without giving Pei Zhongshu a chance to explain, the emperor angrily scolded, "I think you have been sitting in high positions for too long, and you have become so eccentric that you don't take other people's lives seriously, but only think that you are noble. Zhenpin is my woman. If I can't even get this little bit of justice for her, then how about letting you, Pei Zhongshu, be the emperor?"

"I dare not!"

As soon as the emperor showed his might, all the masters and servants in the room knelt down. Jiang Xinyue also wanted to kneel down with the group, but Emperor Xuanwu grabbed her arm: "You are heavy, don't kneel down."

After saying that, he thought about it again and pulled up the empress.

When he saw the clothes on the empress yesterday, he was really angry and felt that his painstaking efforts were not cherished by Concubine Zhen.

But after calming down, he figured it out.

Concubine Zhen is still weak now, and the Jiang family is not enough to confront the empress's mother's family. Concubine Zhen is afraid of the empress's power, so she is unwilling to confront the empress head-on. This is human nature.

So when he just wanted to pull Concubine Zhen, he pulled up the empress again.

Women's jealousy is sometimes really terrible, which will make them crazy and kill another woman.

For example, Concubine Li Gui.

"Your Majesty!"

Li Guipin knelt at the feet of Emperor Xuanwu: "Have you forgotten the oath you made to me when we were close to each other in the past? My grandfather is dead, my father has been ill in bed for a long time, and I only have my mother. Are you going to kill my only relative? Why don't you just kill me?"

She grabbed the emperor's clothes and cried bitterly.

Jiang Xinyue pulled the sleeve of the man in front of her, her eyes full of grievance. Emperor Xuanwu held her hand: "Zhenpin is the victim in this matter. It's useless for you to cry or make trouble in front of me. The injured people haven't cried out for injustice yet, but you are crying and begging, which makes me open my eyes."

He tried to gain sympathy and play the emotional card.

Jiang Xinyue sneered in her heart. This trick is certainly useful when a man loves you, but when he is ruthless, you use your emotions to try to wake him up. Isn't that just adding to the joke?

"Empress Zhen, I am really wrong. Please spare my life, Empress Zhen, please spare my life!"

Pei was spoiled and arrogant, but she still knew that she was afraid of death.

In the final analysis, this matter was that the emperor wanted to seek justice for Concubine Zhen. As long as Concubine Zhen didn't care, the emperor would have nothing to say.

"Spare my life?"

Jiang Xinyue raised the corner of her mouth with a cold smile: "Today I spared your life, who will spare my life in the future? I am not a three-year-old child, I don't believe Pei Zhongshu's words. I don't know the snake girl at all. If no one instructed her, she must have gone crazy, running to the palace with great difficulty just to kill me?"

Her affectionate almond eyes flashed with scorching heat. Guang Mang: "Besides, I don't think that the emperor's harem is a market that allows a common snake woman with no connections to come and go freely in the palace. Concubine Li and we all know who is behind this. It will be ugly if we fall out. Originally you wanted two lives from me, but now I only want one life from you. Why is that not possible?"

Yes!

Why is that not possible?

"Madam Zhen..."

"Lord Zhongshu!"

Jiang Xinyue interrupted Zhongshu Pei's unreasonable excuses: "I respectfully call you old sir, but are you so lax in your judgments and work? As long as the victim is not dead, you let the perpetrator go unpunished, giving her the opportunity to continue to harm others, again and again?"

"I... your old minister..."

"If that's the case, then I really have to doubt your ability, Zhongshu Pei. Is it because you are old and unable to do the job? If that's the case, I can suggest that the emperor choose someone more capable to replace you, old sir."

She emphasized the three words "old sir", emphasizing that he was old and could no longer take on the important task of Zhongshu Ling, which centered imperial power.

If you want to save Pei, you have to admit that you are not capable and resign. The emperor has many people waiting to take the throne.

Resign...how is that possible?

Pei Zhongshu looked at Pei deeply, and then looked at Li Guipin with difficulty, as if he was weighing something.

In just a moment, Pei Zhongshu knelt on the ground and kowtowed heavily: "Old minister...I obey the order!"

Pei's eyes widened, and tears fell from her eyes: "Father, I obey the order...What order do you want to obey? The emperor wants to kill me, he wants to kill me! Father, please save me...That's not what we said when we came here, you said I would be fine...Father! I don't want to die!"

She hasn't enjoyed enough of her glory and wealth, how can she die?

"Pa!"

Pei Zhongshu slapped Concubine Pei on the face and said cruelly: "When you did this and implicated Ni'er, you should have thought of this outcome."

Emperor Xuanwu waved his hand impatiently: "Come, take Concubine Pei away and give her white silk."

He did not think that Concubine Zhen was vicious, because she was not the first to hurt people. She was setting an example to scare others who wanted to hurt her.

Emperor Xuanwu was very happy that his Yue'er finally knew how to protect herself.

He liked kind women, but not cowardly ones.

Concubine Zhen was kind, but her kindness was sharp. She could protect herself and hurt those who wanted to hurt her.

In this way, the emperor would not have to worry about her all day long.

"Your Majesty!"

Concubine Li screamed, fell backwards, and fainted.

Emperor Xuanwu didn't even look at her, and said to Secretary Pei: "Concubine Li and the Pei family conspired to kill Concubine Zhen and her baby. From today on, you will be demoted to the sixth rank of Concubine Li and moved to the Yanxi Palace."

The Yanxi Palace is the farthest from the six palaces in the east and west, and the closest to the cold palace. If you go there, you will never see the emperor again in your life.

What's the difference between this and being banished to the cold palace?

Moreover, Concubine Li's status has been downgraded again and again, and there is no possibility of promotion.