Chapter 196 Concubine Li Gui committed suicide out of fear of crime
"Yuer, you..."
Emperor Xuanwu held Jiang Xinyue's face, but saw that her face was full of pain and fear. She shook her head: "Your Majesty... Please let me and Xiaotuanzi leave the palace, I beg you..."
She cried so hard and so miserably, almost howling.
People who are too kind will always be afraid when facing such vicious calculations.
Emperor Xuanwu hugged her tightly and kissed her tears again and again: "I will find out the real culprit behind the scenes, and I will eliminate all those who try to separate us."
A murderous anger appeared in the man's eyes.
What did he do wrong?
What did Yue'er and Xiaotuanzi do wrong again?
They just love each other, have they violated the heavenly law?
He wants his Yue'er to always be targeted, framed, and frightened so that she doesn't even want to stay in the palace anymore.
So many people want to separate them and don't want to see him happy, but he wants to make all those people unhappy.
"So..."
Emperor Xuanwu held Jiang Xinyue's face, wiped her tears with heartache, and said with red eyes: "Yu'er, don't talk about leaving the palace, leaving me... I can't live without you and the child."
As long as he thought that there would no longer be Yue'er and the Sixth Prince in the palace from now on, his heart would be empty, and he couldn't even feel the pain.
He couldn't... absolutely couldn't lose them mother and child.
Jiang Xinyue's crying gradually stopped in his comforting voice and turned into sobbing: "Your concubine... Your concubine is really scared."
Living in Xihe Palace, someone died in Xihe Palace, living in Hexi Palace, someone died in Hexi Palace again, how can a weak woman not be afraid of the viciousness of the people in the harem?
Emperor Xuanwu came in with Jiang Xinyue leaning on him. When entering the flower hall, Jiang Xinyue had already tidied her clothes and hairstyle, wiped her tears, and followed behind the emperor, just like a cold and extremely majestic favorite concubine.
"These people..."
Four eunuchs and a palace maid were all tied up and kneeling in the middle of the hall.
Jiang Chuan stepped forward, pointed at them and said, "Your Majesty, these two eunuchs are eunuchs in Hexi Palace. After Nanny Cheng was burned to death, they passed the news outside and were caught by the servants. One of them is Xiao Qianzi in the Empress Dowager's palace, and the other is Xiao Yinzi in Concubine Rong's palace. They were waiting for the news to come out of Hexi Palace. This palace maid... This palace maid is very stubborn and refuses to say which palace she is from."
"Your Majesty, we are wronged!"
Xiao Qianzi kowtowed vigorously: "We are here to deliver something to Concubine Rong at the order of the Empress Dowager. We met Xiao Yinzi on the way, and we went with him. We ran here because we saw the fire here. We really didn't want to inquire about the news of Hexi Palace!" Xiao Yinzi
also nodded desperately: "We are wronged..."
As for the palace maid, she didn't seem to expect that she would be caught. She didn't even think of what to say. She just stared at Jiang Xinyue with hatred.
"Tang Shiliang, remove her jaw."
"Crack!"
There was determination in the eyes of the palace maid. Before she bit the poison hidden in her mouth, Tang Shiliang stepped forward and removed her jaw.
She cried out in pain, and a small pill hidden in the tip of her tooth rolled to the ground.
Doctor Yan picked it up, peeled off the outer coating of the pill, and shook his head at the concerned emperor: "It is made of arsenic and cyperus rotundus, which are very common in the palace." There
are many cyperus rotundus planted in the Yu Garden in the palace. Few concubines know that cyperus rotundus is poisonous.
Eating it will make people feel nauseous, vomit, have abdominal pain, diarrhea, slow heartbeat, and even die.
Add arsenic to increase the toxicity, and it will be difficult to survive.
Emperor Xuanwu tightened his fingers and said, "Send her to the Mirror Department and tell the director of the Mirror Department that if he can't get any useful information from her, he should accept the punishment himself."
The Queen Mother and the eunuchs in Rongfei's palace said the same thing, and even Xiao Qianzi had a food box in his hand.
Xi Que opened it and saw that it was full of famous pastries and snacks in the Jiangnan area.
If they were not lying, then they had to start with the two eunuchs in Hexi Palace.
"Your servant... Your servant doesn't know to whom the message was passed. I have never seen it... Every time, I put the message outside the back door, under the flowerpot at the foot of the wall. After I left, someone would naturally take it. But Your Majesty... Your servant has only passed on a few messages, and has not done anything to harm Your Majesty and the Sixth Prince. I beg Your Majesty to forgive my servant."
Another eunuch shrank and stammered, his words not clear: "Your servant... Your servant... Your servant and... His situation is... similar... to his. Your servant passed... passed the message for... for money. They gave... a lot of silver. Your Majesty, please forgive me. I will never dare to do it again."
"Wang Dequan, go to Concubine Rong's palace and the Queen Mother and let them take the person back."
As for how to go back, Jiang Xinyue has the final say.
"Your Majesty! Your Majesty!"
Another eunuch ran in from outside: "Your Majesty, Concubine Li from the Yanxi Palace... Concubine Li from the Yanxi Palace committed suicide out of fear of punishment!"
"What?
" Emperor Xuanwu was stunned at first, then he turned his eyes wide and looked at the eunuch who reported the news. Finally, he clenched his fists behind his back, and the surging emotions in his eyes finally calmed down: "Is she dead?"
The eunuch lowered his head, feeling inexplicably scared: "When she was... found, she had already died."
Concubine Li... How could she commit suicide?
"This is the letter found in Concubine Li's palace."
The eunuch did not dare to delay and handed over a thick stack of letter paper with both hands.
There were traces of tears on the letters, and every word was cursing Emperor Xuanwu and Jiang Xinyue.
The words were so vicious that even if they didn't commit suicide, they would be dead if these letters were discovered.
After a while, another palace servant ran in: "Your Majesty, some things were found in the Yanxi Palace. Please take a look."
Arsenic, bamboo peach, phosphorus powder, cotton wool...
All the evidence pointed to Concubine Li. She was the one who planned all this.
After the Queen Mother and Concubine Rong rushed to Hexi Palace, they were told that the Emperor and Concubine Xian had gone to Yanxi Palace, and the two rushed to Yanxi Palace again.
The crime of murdering the heir to the throne, even if she is the biological mother of the emperor, the empress dowager, if the crime is proven, she will not be able to escape death.
No wonder she dared not delay on this matter.
It was already late at night, and the empress and the concubine came late after receiving the news. In the main hall of the Yanxi Palace, the body of Li Guiji, who was wearing gorgeous clothes and beautiful makeup, was placed.
She seemed to have made up her mind to die, and dressed herself up very beautifully.
Her maid Xia He rushed over like crazy when she saw Jiang Xinyue, and after being stopped by the guards, she still cursed: "Jiang Xinyue, you bitch, you killed my master!"