Chapter 163 Incense was replaced

"Hiss——"

The maids were applying ice cubes to Empress Zhu's face, but they didn't want to touch her sore spot, so she waved them away: "Get out of here."

She was also confused today. She was instigated by Concubine Liang and ran to find trouble with Concubine Zhen.

She was not such an impatient person in the past. This time, she didn't know if she was too angry about the emperor's bottomless attitude of doting on Concubine Zhen, and she completely lost her usual rationality.

"Your Majesty was too impulsive today."

Fenyun took the ice cubes from the maid's hand and gently pressed them back and forth on her swollen face: "You look like..."

She couldn't find a suitable adjective for a while, but Empress Zhu panted and said: "Like a brainless idiot."

Fenyun was silent, and she thought so in her heart.

Calm and self-possessed, she is able to plan and not show any emotion. This is what her Empress is like.

Today, she was making trouble in Hexi Palace and going against the Emperor everywhere. She was like the Empress who was seized by Concubine Liang. Her behavior was quite similar to that

of Concubine Liang. No wonder the Emperor couldn't help but hit her. Concubine Liang was slapped thirty times, but the Empress was only slapped once, which was out of consideration for her dignity as Empress.

Empress Zhu closed her eyes, and suddenly opened them again after a while. She stood up straight: "Who changed the incense in my room?"

The incense used in Yikun Palace has always been Fengwei incense, because it is the incense that only the Empress can use and it is a symbol of status.

It's the same reason why the Emperor has always used only ambergris.

But when Concubine Liang came to see her this morning, she smelled Shenshui incense. At that time, she wanted to ask Fenyun why she changed the incense without permission?

But the news brought by Concubine Liang shocked her so much that she forgot to ask about the incense for a moment, and just listened to Concubine Liang talking bad about Concubine Zhen.

In just a moment, her mind was confused, and everything was beyond her control.

How could she become such an irritable and brainless person?

Now, after smelling the familiar Fengwei incense, she suddenly remembered the different fragrance she smelled in the morning.

Fenyun immediately walked over and lifted the curtain, and saw an unfamiliar palace maid hiding the replaced incense ash behind her body in a panic.

"Who are you? What are you doing here?"

Fenyun went forward to catch her, but she didn't expect that the maid ran very fast, like a loach, and flew out of the door.

"Catch her!"

The maids and eunuchs in the yard didn't react. Besides, people with no skills were too scared to step forward when they saw the maid holding a dagger in her hand, so how could they listen to Fenyun and catch someone? Fortunately,

the guards were guarding the door. When they heard Fenyun's cry, they rushed out, knocked the maid's dagger to the ground, and captured her.

Jiang Xinyue walked in when the maid was caught. She opened her mouth in surprise: "What's going on? What happened?"

Could it be that the Queen was assassinated?

But there was no blood on the dagger. If it was an assassination attempt, it must have failed.

"Empress Zhen, save me!"

The maid suddenly shouted, "I have put the drug that made the Empress crazy into the incense according to your instructions. Please, Empress Zhen, send me out of the palace as we agreed before."

Empress Zhu also chased out with the help of the maid. When she heard the maid's words, she frowned and looked at Jiang Xinyue.

She was waiting for Jiang Xinyue to explain to her.

No wonder... No wonder she became different from herself. It turned out that someone added something to her incense.

Jiang Xinyue walked up to the palace maid and chuckled: "Jieyi Ye promised to send you out of the palace, so after harming the Empress, you still want to blame me?"

Her light words made the palace maid open her eyes wide, with a look of extreme fear on her face, as if she had not expected that Jiang Xinyue would mention Jieyi Ye so easily.

Empress Zhu was no fool. She immediately said, “Keep an eye on her for me. Don’t let her commit suicide, or I will send you all to the Xinzheku.”

Then she motioned for Jiang Xinyue to come in and said, “Princess Zhen, you have seen it too. What happened today was not my intention. Someone put something in my incense, which caused my temperament to change drastically.”

Jiang Xinyue, who had prepared some words, immediately changed her original words and said with understanding, “Of course I believe that the Empress is innocent. Otherwise, why would I come to tell you, Your Majesty, that the person who instigated the relationship between you and me behind the scenes was Concubine Ye?”

“Why would it be Concubine Ye?”

Empress Zhu couldn’t understand, “She is such a…”

useless thing.

"Your Majesty, do you remember that when I first entered the palace, I was slapped and forced to kneel by Li Guiji because I picked a crabapple flower?"

"What does this have to do with Concubine Ye..."

No!

Empress Zhu thought for a moment and looked at her with clear eyes: "You and Concubine Ye were selected and entered the palace in the same year."

It was mainly because Jiang Xinyue was too spoiled, making those concubines who entered the palace in the same year as her overshadowed. If Jiang Xinyue hadn't mentioned it herself, Empress Zhu would have forgotten that she and Concubine Ye were from the same year.

Jiang Xinyue nodded: "I didn't pick that crabapple tree, but Concubine Ye. It was she who took me to the Yu Garden. It's understandable that I didn't know that the crabapple tree was Concubine Li's favorite. After all, I was just a concubine of a fifth-rank official before and had never entered the palace. But Concubine Ye is the legitimate daughter of General Ye and has been in and out of the palace since she was a child. How could she not know that it was the tree of love between Concubine Li and the emperor?"

Impossible, she must have known.

If she must have known, she tricked Jiang Xinyue into wearing that crabapple tree. No one would believe her if she said she didn't do it on purpose.

"What does this have to do with the maid putting a manic drug in my incense?"

Jiang Xinyue took the witch figurine out of her sleeve and held it under Empress Zhu's eyes: "Your Majesty, this is Fu Guang Jin. When Nanny Xiang was serving in the harem of the previous emperor, she saw it in the palace of a concubine. Because it was not allowed to be worn in the palace, the concubine used it as an inner garment. It is said to have the effect of keeping warm in winter and cool in summer. And this concubine, I checked, is the aunt of Concubine Ye."

It is not surprising that the Ye family has Fu Guang Jin.

"And the maid just now."

Jiang Xinyue said nonsense without blushing or beating her heart: "She has a good relationship with Yang'er in my palace. I have seen her several times in Hexi Palace. I now suspect that Yang'er is not the person of Concubine Liang. They are all spies planted by Concubine Ye. She just uses Concubine Liang and the Empress as weapons in her hands."

Concubine Ye, actually has such a scheme, but pretends to be a fool. Empress Zhu really can't suspect her.

"Why did you tell me this?"

Jiang Xinyue smiled: "I just don't want to let go of the person who really hurt me."

Empress Zhu gritted her teeth: "I will not let go of those who stir up trouble in the palace."

Concubine Ye made her lose face so much, she must make her pay a painful price.