Chapter 198 Concubine Xian is not a pushover

After this incident, Emperor Xuanwu could not go to the harem again. Concubine Xian was frightened, so he had to stay with her in Hexi Palace.

It was human nature, so the empress had to show her understanding and "gladly" gave up the emperor.

"Empress..."

Fenyun approached: "Who do you think wants to kill Concubine Xian and the Sixth Prince?"

The empress shook her head: "She is the favorite of the emperor, and she should bear all this. It depends on whether the emperor is willing to protect her. There are no secrets in this palace for the emperor."

So for so many years, she let Concubine Li provoke her and never took any harsh action against her.

Beautiful concubines come and go in the palace, each of them has been favored by the emperor, and then forgotten by him.

No one can say whether today's Concubine Xian will be the next Concubine Li.

She is the empress, she can ignore anyone.

Anyone... no one is worthy of her personal action.

Hanging Mirror Department -

In the dim torture room, various torture instruments are hung on the uneven walls. Some of the old torture instruments have bright red rust because they have been used too many times.

There is no one else in the empty torture room. On the human-shaped wooden stake, there is only a blood-stained palace maid tied, who is the palace maid captured by Jiang Xinyue.

She was already covered in wounds from the beatings, and her eyes could no longer focus. She seemed to see a figure sitting in front of her in a blur.

The little maid tried to open her eyes wide, and a bright yellow corner of clothes came into view: "Emperor...Emperor..."

The dim light shone in from the high window, shining on his face for a while, and then on his body. The person leaning lazily in the huge armchair was the expressionless Emperor Xuanwu.

"Bring him up!"

The handsome man's face was full of indifference, and he didn't say a word. He just waved his hand, and the guards of the Suspension Mirror Department came forward with several terrified people.

"Ying'er!"

The middle-aged man in the lead saw the dying little palace maid, and his first reaction was not concern. Instead, he rushed forward and slapped her in the face: "You loser, what have you done? Why were we suddenly brought to the palace? Your family doesn't expect you to let us live a good life, so don't drag us down! You loser, what have you done?"

The peasant woman was holding a little boy in one hand, her expression a little numb, as if she was no longer surprised by such things.

"Heh!"

The maid spat out a mouthful of blood and looked at the man with disgust: "Why aren't you dead yet?"

"How do you talk to me? I'll beat you..."

"Come on, take them away."

The guards stepped forward and prepared to take them away. Emperor Xuanwu raised his lips slightly: "The woman stays."

The maid's expression was obviously moved, and her hidden hands kept struggling.

"Tell me, who told you to sprinkle white phosphorus powder on Cheng's clothes?"

The maid's eyes showed surprise.

The emperor was talking about phosphorus powder, and didn't ask about cotton wool.

It means...

he knew that she was just the one who sprinkled the phosphorus powder, and there was someone else who put the cotton wool.

The peasant woman was strangled by the guards. The young maid closed her eyes and then opened them again: "If I tell you, can the emperor guarantee that my mother will leave safely?"

"As long as you write a confession, I will guarantee her safety."

The young maid's eyes flashed: "The Empress Defei promised me that as long as I complete this task, she will help me kill my father."

She was sold to this couple by a trafficker. She was beaten and bullied by the beast since she was a child. When she grew up, the beast set his eyes on her body again. After abusing her, he sold her into the palace as a slave for a few taels of silver. From childhood

to adulthood, the only person who was kind to her was her adoptive mother.

But the foster mother was also a pitiful person. She was abused by this beast when she was a girl. Her family felt that the family shame should not be exposed to the public, so they forced her to marry him.

As a result, after the marriage, the foster mother was beaten every two or three days.

In the past, the foster mother was a graceful beauty. Every time she was beaten, the foster mother would try her best to save her.

But on the night when she was insulted, when the foster mother saved her, she was beaten into a fool by the beast.

She would never smile at him tenderly again.

"I'm telling you one last time, tell me who is behind this, otherwise I will kill you and your adoptive mother, and promise your adoptive father and two younger brothers treasures, beautiful wives and concubines, so that they can live happily for the rest of their lives."

The person behind the scenes couldn't be Concubine De. She had been pretending to be a Buddhist for more than ten years, so how could she fail at this critical moment?

If she had done this, there would be no way that there would be so many flaws, and Xu Ying'er would definitely not be alive today.

So people who are not cruel enough can't achieve great things.

The person behind the scenes wanted to kill the Sixth Prince and Jiang Xinyue, but showed mercy to Xu Ying'er, which was the biggest failure.

"No!"

The thing that Xu Ying'er feared most in her life was that the beast lived a good life.

Tears finally burst out of her eyes. After a moment, she suddenly smiled coldly: "It is said that the emperor is ruthless. I used to see that the emperor loved and doted on Concubine Xian a lot, and I thought it was a misunderstanding of the emperor's family. Now I know that everything in the harem is controlled by the emperor. No wonder the queen was bullied so badly and was unwilling to do something against the will of heaven and earth, because as long as she moved, the emperor would know everything she did. The emperor has a powerful hand and eyes, doesn't he know that Concubine Xian is not a good person?"

The emperor had already guessed who was behind her, and was waiting for her to write it down, so that it could become evidence to threaten the queen in the future.

Xu Ying'er was unwilling to accept it!

Her foster mother was the first person to treat her well, and the queen was the second to treat her like a human being...

If she had to betray the queen to save her foster mother, she would give the queen an account with her life.

Before that, she had to help the queen get rid of Concubine Xian, her biggest enemy.

"Whether she is a good person or not, what does it have to do with you wanting to harm her?"

Emperor Xuanwu laughed again: "You all know in your heart that in this palace, all the people who are loyal to the Holy Mother died tragically. Concubine Xian is smart, brave, and decisive in killing. I like her very much. So she likes to act, and I will act with her. You blind people have to provoke her. You may not be able to take her revenge. Even if the one who hurts her is the empress, when she grows stronger under my wings, the empress will become her dead soul under her knife."

Xu Ying'er laughed. The emperor was finished. He actually knew from the beginning that Concubine Xian was ambitious and that Concubine Xian was good at singing and writing.

But he not only tolerated it, but also pretended to know nothing and acted with Concubine Xian.

He himself couldn't tell whether he used Concubine Zhenxian more or loved her more!

Poor Queen Mother...

she can't help.