Chapter 200: Dispute
Xie Zhangyi is a middle-aged woman with an ugly appearance and looks very timid: "To answer your Majesty, Miss Jian... Miss Jian said two days ago that she wanted to take a leave to go home, but the clothing department has to prepare summer clothes for the ladies of the palace and new clothes for the palace servants, so I did not agree."
"You're talking nonsense!"
Ms. Jian wanted to stand up from the ground excitedly, but was pushed down again. She shouted: "You agreed, and you said you would report it to Fang Dianyi. It was you who asked me to go home."
Xie Zhangyi looked frightened and hid behind Mo Zhangyi: "I... I didn't. The clothing room has been so busy recently. How could I agree to let you go home?"
Jiang Xinyue supported her head with one hand, and didn't seem to be in a hurry at all. With the other hand, she touched the snow-white puppy on her thigh: "When I asked someone to invite Fang Dianyi just now, I said very clearly that everyone who touched the clothes of the nanny must come. Why didn't you come?"
It would be fine if she didn't come, but she went to pack her things and hurried to leave the palace.
What else could it be if she didn't have something to hide?
According to the recollection of one of the embroiderers, she said that one night, she left something in the embroidery room. At that time, all the embroiderers had packed up and went to bathe, but she returned to the embroidery room.
As a result, she found Ms. Jian standing in front of the clothes they were sewing. She didn't know what she was doing, but she stayed there for a long time.
Because the candles in the embroidery room had been extinguished at that time, the embroiderer didn't see her movements clearly, but she was sure that it was Ms. Jian.
"You're talking nonsense!"
Ms. Jian pointed at the embroiderer and said, "I've never been to the embroidery room on any night."
She looked at Fang Rumeng, then at Xie Zhangyi, and suddenly sneered, "I see, Fang Rumeng, you and Xie Zhangyi have always had a very good relationship. Who in the entire palace doesn't know that you two are good sisters? You're not used to me always playing tricks on you, so you teamed up with her to get rid of me through Concubine Xian, right?"
"You think too highly of yourself."
Fang Rumeng laughed angrily: "Why should Concubine Xian bother to get rid of you? If the things you did were reported to the Shang Palace Bureau, you would not be able to escape death. It's just that I'm too lazy to deal with your childish tricks."
Jiang Xinyue reviewed the whole process from their argument, and rehearsed in her mind the scene that Xiu Niang saw when she returned to the embroidery room that night. If
she couldn't find anything wrong once, then she would simulate the scene twice, three times, four times... non-stop, repeatedly.
Whatever has been done will definitely leave traces, and there is no perfect crime in this world.
Fang Rumeng has a good relationship with Xie Zhangyi!
Jiang Xinyue opened her eyes suddenly. She had never heard Fang Rumeng say that she had made any good friends in the clothing room.
Why did Ms. Jian say that the entire palace knew about it?
With Fang Rumeng's cautious personality, even if she became friends with someone, she would not let everyone know.
And looking at the submissive character of Xie Zhangyi, it didn't seem to be Fang Rumeng's cupidity.
Jiang Xinyue raised her lip, "I also heard an interesting story here in the palace. It is said that during the reign of Emperor Shengfeng, a female official in the Sizhenfang was jealous of her boss's superb craftsmanship in making pearl hairpins. In order to frame her boss, she wore her boss's clothes at night and deliberately let another female official who passed by see her breaking the jade hairpin of the noble concubine, which resulted in the boss's hand being cut by the noble concubine. Three years later, the boss's daughter learned about this and she also entered the palace to do it." "Instantly, everyone's eyes fell on Xie Zhangyi. They didn't understand why the Concubine Xian specifically named Xie Zhangyi to express her opinion. Only Fang Rumeng reacted in an instant and looked at Xie Zhangyi: "I remember that you were
often
bullied in the clothing room before, and I saved you several times, but I really don't remember, were we very close?" Xie Zhangyi's eyes were red, and he looked like he was about to cry
.
Lin Siyi and Wang Siyi were completely confused. Even Ms. Jian looked bewildered.
Wasn't she going to kill her?
Why did Fang Rumeng suddenly turn her attention to Xie Zhangyi? Were they playing a trick on her?
But what shocked them was that under the scrutiny of Concubine Xian, Xie Zhangyi broke out in a cold sweat on her forehead, her body trembled, and she finally sat down on the ground in fear.
She kowtowed desperately on the ground: "Empress Xian Concubine, please spare my life... Empress Xian Concubine, please spare my life, your humble servant... your humble servant will never dare to do it again... never dare to do it again... your humble servant was just blinded by jealousy, and resentful... resentful of Fang Rumeng for taking away a series of Dianyi positions, so... so... "
Lin Siyi and Wang Siyi looked at each other, looking at her incomprehensibly: "Even if Fang Dianyi didn't come, the person who was promoted to Dianyi by Wang Zhangyi and I was Zhangyi Mo, not you, Zhangyi Xie. How can Fang Dianyi take your position?"
Xie Zhangyi looked at her with wide eyes: "Impossible! Concubine Rong..."
Xie Zhangyi realized that he had let the cat out of the bag, so he quickly covered his mouth and looked at Jiang Xinyue in horror.
"Heh!"
Jiang Xinyue smiled coldly: "Empress Rong tells you that the two Siyi masters chose you, but Fang Dianyi took away what should have belonged to you, right?"
Xie Zhangyi shook his head and refused to speak, but almost everyone heard the word Rong Fei.
What else could he not understand?
Empress Rong told Xie Zhangyi that she should have been promoted to Dianyi, but because Fang Rumeng was Jiang Xinyue's person, she easily took away what should have belonged to her.
She knew that Fang Rumeng and Ms. Jian had a bad relationship, so she stole Ms. Jian's clothes and dressed her up.
The two people's body shapes were similar, and in the dim light, their backs were exactly the same, so Xiu Niang recognized the wrong person.
It is estimated that the things dropped by the embroiderer were also hidden by Xie Zhangyi on purpose.
He wanted her to be a witness.
Xie Zhangyi is a loner and has no friends in the Shang Palace Bureau. Others dislike her gloomy and unlucky appearance and often bully her.
Fang Rumeng couldn't stand it and saved her several times. Unexpectedly, she repaid Fang Rumeng with ingratitude and actually held a grudge against her.
That's why Jiang Xinyue said, never sympathize with those who look pitiful, because their psychology has long been twisted and perverted.
Being nice to them is burying hidden dangers for your own safety.
"Did you put cotton wool or white phosphorus powder in the clothes?"
At least we have to figure out who one of the enemies is first, and as for the remaining one, we can start with the Empress.