Chapter 161: Hasty to Convict

"Knock!"

The tightly closed small wooden box was thrown on the small table where Jiang Xinyue and the emperor were drinking tea, making a muffled sound that displeased Emperor Xuanwu.

Empress Zhu was like a victorious rooster, valiant and proud, and her expression seemed to say: "Princess Zhen, have you been caught by me? This time you are dead."

Jiang Xinyue's body trembled slightly, as if she was frightened, and the emperor was even more unhappy.

Her affectionate peach blossom eyes were full of frost, and she looked up at Empress Zhu: "Are you too presumptuous in front of me, Empress? Who taught you to dare to throw things in front of me?"

Empress Zhu immediately admitted her fault: "I was too flustered for a moment and slipped. Your Majesty, please forgive me."

But she was thinking in her heart that when the emperor liked Concubine Zhen the most, she found a reason to execute Concubine Zhen, and it was right for the emperor to hate her for a short time.

It was a bad thing to get her either way, so what if she was presumptuous once?

After a long time, no matter how deep the feelings were, they would fade, and no matter how strong the hatred was, it would disappear, and she would still be his empress.

"What is this?"

"What is it? Your Majesty, just open it and you will know."

Empress Zhu winked at Yang Er, and Yang Er immediately knelt before the emperor: "In reply to Your Majesty, I am Yang Er, a slutty maid in Hexi Palace. It was I...I who reported Concubine Zhen to the Empress. I happened to see Sister Xi Que beside Concubine Zhen holding this box, and I secretly looked at it out of curiosity. Inside was a witch figurine of the Emperor and the Empress, with steel needles stuck all over its body. Concubine Zhen was cursing the Emperor and the Empress. I was scared in my heart, afraid that the Emperor and the Empress were really cursed, so...so I was determined to go to the Empress to report it."

"Please forgive me, Your Majesty. I really didn't mean to betray Concubine Zhen. I just didn't want to see Concubine Zhen make more mistakes."

"What are you talking about?"

Xi Que stared at her, "You...how can you talk nonsense? When did I ever take the witch figurine? I haven't even seen this box. Who bribed you and gave you so much money to let you frame Concubine Zhen?"

"I didn't!"

Yang'er said loudly, "Every word I said is true. If Your Majesty doesn't believe me, just open the box and see if I'm lying."

The wooden box, which was neither too big nor too small, seemed to contain something extraordinary. Yes, it contained Concubine Zhen's life and property.

Emperor Xuanwu's fingers turned white from pinching, and he wanted to see but didn't dare to.

Not for anything else...

He was afraid that Jiang Xinyue had made it to vent her anger when she and she had a quarrel some time ago.

If she really did it, he couldn't open the box.

The Empress and Concubine Liang were eyeing it covetously. If they knew about it, the entire court and the harem would know about it. Even if he wanted to protect Jiang Xinyue, he would be drowned in spit.

He knew that he had lost his mind for a woman, but his first reaction was not how to deal with Jiang Xinyue, but how to refuse to open the box, and then send the Empress and Concubine Liang away, and then he would find a way to burn the box and deny it.

What bad intentions could Concubine Zhen have?

She certainly didn't mean it.

Things done when people are angry cannot be counted.

"Is the emperor thinking about how to exonerate Concubine Zhen?"

Otherwise, how can it be said that Empress Zhu is the first wife of Emperor Xuanwu?

She knows more about the emperor than anyone else.

The emperor kept silent with a sullen face, and Empress Zhu said aggressively: "Your Majesty, please don't think about such unrealistic things. Before I came, I had already notified all the concubines in the harem to come to Hexi Palace and wait. Now there should be a lot of people standing outside, waiting for you to deal with Concubine Zhen!"

Jiang Xinyue's bedroom was already crowded with concubines from the harem. They listened to the quarrels coming from the inner room and dared not make a sound.

God and earth are conscientious, they didn't want to come to watch the emperor, the empress, Concubine Liang and Concubine Zhen fight, but someone went to their palace and said that Concubine Zhen was practicing witchcraft in the palace. The emperor wanted to punish Concubine Zhen and let everyone in the harem come to see it so that they can be alerted not to do wrong things.

The Emperor really loves Concubine Zhen. He even tolerates her witchcraft and wants to clear her name and pretend that nothing happened.

"Puchi!"

The light laughter seemed very abrupt in the serious atmosphere, but the person who laughed was Concubine Zhen?

Shouldn't she be crying and begging for mercy?

"What are you laughing at?"

Concubine Liang covered the wound on her face: "What are you laughing at?"

"I'm laughing at the Empress and Concubine Liang!"

Jiang Xinyue smiled so hard that her eyes narrowed: "Before I entered the palace, my mother said that the women in the palace were scheming and asked me to be careful and not to call others sisters easily. At first, I didn't believe it. Since I entered the palace, the Empress, Concubine Liang and Concubine De have been very good to me, and I have also abided by my duties and never had any conflicts with them. Later, I got "I have come to the favor of the Emperor. First, it was you, Concubine Liang, who suddenly became difficult to me and made things difficult for me. Now, the Empress Dowager has not even opened the box, but is eager to convict me. This really chills my heart!" Empress

Zhu frowned, her eyes twitched wildly, and a bad premonition came to her mind. She reached out to take the box on the table, but was pushed away by Emperor Xuanwu. He took the box in his hand and finally opened the mysterious "veil".

"Hiss--"

The scene in the box made Emperor Xuanwu take a breath of cool air.

He widened his eyes, looked at the little man in the box, and then looked at Jiang Xinyue who was holding back tears. A huge tsunami of anger occurred in his heart.

Empress Zhu hesitantly said, "Your Majesty, inside..."

"Pa!"

"Ah!"

A slap with all the accumulated anger hit Empress Zhu in the face, and she was slapped back.

That dignified and delicate face swelled up at an incredible speed, and blood flowed from the corner of her mouth.

Her head was buzzing, and the half of the ear that was hit seemed to be unable to hear clearly.

After a long while, she stood up with the help of Fenyun, and looked at the two witch dolls thrown on the ground by the emperor: "How...how could this happen?"

One of the little dolls was the emperor, and his body was full of big steel needles and small silver needles. Those silver needles were inserted from the top of the doll's head to the soles of its feet, and the dense needles made people's scalps numb.

But the other little kid was obviously not the empress, her birth date... her birth date was Jiang Xinyue!! ? ?

The little kid's face was smeared with black dog blood, emitting a foul smell, her hair was messed up, and two large steel needles were inserted into her bulging belly, aiming at Concubine Zhen's belly.

Concubine Liang was also frightened enough, and she turned her head to look at Yang'er.

The little palace maid named Yang'er was so scared that she almost fainted. Jiang Xinyue felt that her body, kneeling on the ground, was shaking like Parkinson's disease.