Chapter 195 Extremely Vicious
Jiang Xinyue guessed correctly that the empress had invited people to the Yikun Palace, because the fifth prince had not seen his father for a long time and missed him very much.
Wang Dequan had no choice but to remind the emperor: "Your Majesty, today is the fifteenth day."
On the first and fifteenth day of the month, you have to stay in the Yikun Palace.
Emperor Xuanwu frowned, and was very reluctant to go to the empress.
The fifth prince was just over one year old, and she raised him to be obedient and overly sensible, so that his father had no fun in enjoying the joy of family.
Unlike their little dumpling, who was well-behaved, he would cry loudly when he was unhappy, making everyone busy.
He can also poop. Yue'er said that he pooped on his father to send money, and that the national treasury would be very abundant this year.
What is Yue'er doing now?
Is she waiting for him?
But he has asked Tang Shiliang to go to Hexi Palace to explain the situation. It is not that he wants to break the contract, but it is the palace rules. Even if he does not consider the face of the queen, he cannot ignore the face of the fifth prince.
The queen said that recently she always felt that the fifth prince looked more and more like the late prince Duanhui, the first child of him and the queen, and the child he loved very much but could not keep.
"Your Majesty? Your Majesty?"
The Empress called several times before Emperor Xuanwu responded, "Hmm?"
"Your Majesty, look, the fifth prince can walk."
Fenyun was originally holding the fifth prince, but the fifth prince was sharp-eyed and saw the figures of the emperor and the empress from a long distance.
Although he was still young and didn't see the emperor often, he knew in his memory that his father looked like this, so he struggled down from Fenyun's arms and walked towards the two of them with a staggering step, with an excited smile on his face, babbling.
"Mother... Mother... Father... Father..."
He called his father and mother incoherently, but because he couldn't speak in coherent words, he could only say overlapping words.
But this was also considered speaking very quickly.
Emperor Xuanwu now thought that all of his children were cute, and of course, the sixth prince was the cutest. It was because of the Sixth Prince that he found the other princes lovable.
"Sheng'er, come to your father."
"Ahhh! Ah..."
"Your Majesty! Your Majesty! The nurse in Hexi Palace...Hexi Palace was burned to death."
Tang Shiliang shouted as he ran, "Hexi Palace is in chaos. I heard screams from inside, but the palace gates were closed. I saw flames rising to the sky, and screams..."
"Bang!"
Before he could finish his confusing words, Emperor Xuanwu rushed out first. The Fifth Prince just walked in front of the Emperor and was about to throw himself into his arms, but he fell on his face.
"Sheng'er!"
"Fifth Prince!"
The Empress and Fenyun's exclamations did not make the Emperor look back even once.
Are Concubine Zhenxian and the Sixth Prince the only ones in the palace who are worthy of his panic and fear?
"Your Majesty..."
Fenyun helped the crying Fifth Prince up with a distressed look, and looked at the Queen who was looking at the door of Yikun Palace: "The Fifth Prince's palm is bleeding from the fall."
The Queen closed her eyes. For the first time when a concubine got into trouble, she did not rush over immediately, but picked up the Fifth Prince and blew on his palm carefully: "Summon the Imperial Physician to clean the Fifth Prince's wound." "
Your Majesty Concubine Xian, this is..."
"Yuer!"
"Yuer, open the door! Are you okay? Is little Dumpling okay?" When
Imperial Physician Yan heard the Emperor's voice, he stopped and prepared to wait for the Emperor to come in and report together.
"What is this?"
Unexpectedly, Jiang Xinyue seemed not to hear him and continued to ask, "What's on this dress?"
Doctor Yan could only ignore the emperor's shouting outside the door as much as possible, and continued, "It's phosphorus powder, and it is white phosphorus powder which is the most easily self-igniting. Even without fire, when the temperature in the air reaches a certain temperature, it can burn by itself. And there are cotton wool threads sprinkled on this dress. I just dissolved a little bit of it with water and found that these cotton wool threads were soaked in flammable liquids. That's why Nanny Cheng was engulfed by the flames in an instant."
When she leaned over to touch the clothes, the cotton wool threads in the tray stuck to her hands and clothes.
Those cotton wool threads were almost invisible to the naked eye, but each of them had been soaked for a long time. Doctor Yan pointed to the cup of yellow hot water and said, "My queen, these cotton wool threads should have been soaked for more than a month. They were prepared when the Sixth Prince was just born. If the Sixth Prince came into contact with them, the consequences would be disastrous."
Nanny Cheng was an adult, so when the fire started, it took so long to burn out. Fortunately, Xiao Xuanzi and the others poured seven or eight buckets of water together. Otherwise, Nanny Cheng would be burned to ashes, and the fire would not be extinguished.
And the Sixth Prince was so small that he would be turned into ashes in an instant.
This method can be said to be extremely vicious.
Doctor Yan had been the imperial physician in the palace for decades, and he had never seen concubines fighting each other in such a cruel and vicious way.
Not even a complete body was left.
Emperor Xuanwu shouted for a long time outside the Hexi Palace, but no one paid attention to him. Thinking of Tang Shiliang's words that there was a fire inside and the palace gate was closed, he panicked: "Wang Dequan, find someone to smash this door for me."
A little palace maid hid behind the corner of the wall and kept looking into the Hexi Palace. After seeing the miserable screams and fire inside, she wanted to go back and report.
But the maid in Hexi Palace rushed out, shouting to ask for Doctor Yan. She was also afraid that the Sixth Prince was not dead, and she was not sure if she could report back.
If something went wrong, the master's deeds would be exposed.
"You cunning bastard, we're going to catch you."
The two guards behind Jiangchuan grabbed the little maid by the collar and lifted her up: "Take her back and hand her over to Concubine Zhenxian for disposal."
Xiao Xuanzi quietly led people around the back door of Hexi Palace and caught two eunuchs who wanted to secretly pass the news out of the palace.
And the person who received the news was also caught.
No matter whether they were related to this matter or not, their words did not count, and they were all thrown in front of Concubine Zhenxian.
At the gate, Emperor Xuanwu had already called in his guards and was about to force the door open, but it was pushed open from the inside. Jiang Xinyue, crying bitterly, jumped out and fell to the ground. The emperor quickly reached out to catch her: "Yuer, you...you..."
The smell of burnt meat did not dissipate. Nanny Cheng's burnt body lay in the yard. Jiang Xinyue trembled in his arms: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, you let me... Can you take Xiaotuanzi out of the palace? I beg you. I have never asked for wealth and honor in my life. I have no regrets in my life as long as I can get the emperor's love. I can die, but Xiaotuanzi is innocent. Why... why would someone be so vicious to kill him? "
She cried bitterly: "Doctor Yan said that phosphorus powder and cotton wool soaked in flammable liquid, those people want my son to be burned to ashes!"