Chapter 201: Killing to silence

others Xie Zhangyi swallowed his saliva and said weakly, "I put... cotton wool in the clothes."

"You put cotton wool in the clothes because you knew in advance that someone would put white phosphorus powder in them?"

Xie Zhangyi's eyes were not focused, but full of fear and terror. He shook his head and kept crying, "I don't know... I don't know anything..."

"Uh..."

Suddenly, a "whoosh" sound came from the air, and then Xie Zhangyi looked painful, and blood flowed from the corner of her mouth.

"Plop!"

After she fell to the ground, everyone saw clearly that a long arrow had been inserted into her back.

"Your Majesty!"

Xi Que and Shuang Jiang were so scared that they quickly stood in front of her: "There is an assassin, protect your Majesty!"

Jiang Xinyue lived very close to the inside and could not be seen from the outside. She looked at Xie Zhangyi, who was lying in a pool of blood with blood spitting out of his mouth, propping himself up and writing something under his body with his fingers.

The guards of Hexi Palace were robbed, and when Xi Que shouted, they drew their swords and chased after him.

Someone was afraid that Xie Zhangyi would expose himself, so he sent assassins to kill him and silence him.

Jiang Xinyue pushed Xi Que and Shuang Jiang away, walked down in two or three steps, and kicked Xie Zhangyi over with her foot.

Under her clothes, there was an unfinished word written in blood, and before people could see it clearly, the blood had already spread over.

"Your Majesty..."

Xi Que wanted to say something, but Jiang Xinyue raised her hand to stop her. She said with a cold face: "Take Xie Zhangyi's body to the Suspension Mirror Department."

Everyone was puzzled as to why the Concubine Xian wanted to send Xie Zhangyi's body to the Suspension Mirror Department. Xi Que and Jiang Chuan knew it.

Your Majesty did this to warn the Suspension Mirror Department.

They spent four or five days without finding a result, or maybe they found a result but didn't tell her the result because of someone's suggestion.

Also, she was telling the emperor in disguise that no matter who he wanted to protect, she would not let anyone who wanted to hurt her child go.

Yikun Palace -

Wang Dequan put the Phoenix Seal and the Golden Book, which represented the symbol of the Queen's power, into a gift box made of satin fabric: "Your Majesty, I will take my leave now."

The Queen sat on the bed. The cool breeze in the early morning made her feel a little cold, so she gathered her cloak, but she was too thin, and the cloak was empty and didn't seem to be warm at all.

She closed her eyes: "Thank you for your trouble, Eunuch Wang."

"I dare not..."

Wang Dequan sighed and wanted to say something comforting, but he felt that this was not something he, a eunuch, could do.

He was not the poor Queen, but just sighed that things in the world are impermanent.

But in the palace, losing favor and regaining favor are just a matter of a moment. He would not step on any concubine who lost power, nor would he flatter the favored concubine.

When people are down and out, it is better to make a good relationship than to make enemies.

Wang Dequan walked out first, and Fenyun followed behind, holding the fifth prince, looking at her master distressedly: "My queen, why... This is clearly not you who did it, why did you admit it? My queen and the emperor are separated, what should I do in the future?"

"If I don't acknowledge you, I will be the next Li Guiji."

Overnight, the queen seemed to have aged a lot, and two fine lines appeared at the corners of her eyes: "Although I didn't ask anyone to put the phosphorus powder in, it was the Zhu family who did it to eliminate the threat to me. The emperor has long been dissatisfied with the fact that people in Chang'an only know the Zhu family but not the royal family. If I don't acknowledge this matter on behalf of the Zhu family, the Zhu family will disappear from this world tomorrow."

She laughed at herself: "Fenyun, have you seen a concubine who can survive in the palace after her family was destroyed?"

When Li Guiji was favored, she was only a concubine, but she had already attracted the jealousy of so many people. After she was demoted, those people bullied and humiliated her madly, making her life worse than death.

She is the empress. If the Zhu family falls, how can those who are jealous of her let her go?

"Empress Xianfei, our empress said not to see guests, you can't go in."

The voice of the palace maid's obstruction was getting closer and closer, indicating that she could not stop it.

"Creaky~"

The tightly closed door was pushed open, and Jiang Xinyue walked in: "I pay my respects to the empress."

The queen said with a cold face: "What are you doing here? Are you here to laugh at this palace?"

Jiang Xinyue sighed, with a look of grief and despair: "How could it be? I am the biggest joke in this palace, how dare I laugh at the empress's joke?"

"You have already got the phoenix seal and the golden book, but you still speak in such a weird tone. Jiang Xinyue, don't go too far."

"Your Majesty, don't you know?"

Jiang Xinyue looked puzzled. "I only took the Phoenix Seal. The Emperor has already said that the Golden Book will be kept by Concubine De, and I will manage the palace affairs with Concubine De. I am young and inexperienced, and I think they will not accept it if I manage them, so I will not manage them. All the affairs in the palace will be left to Concubine De. I will not do such a thankless job."

Her meaning was very clear. Sooner or later, the Phoenix Seal would be returned to the Empress. She would not do such a tiring and complained thing, lest she would be laughed at for holding chicken feathers as a token of authority in the future. It

also proved to the Empress that she had no idea about the position of Empress, and there was no need to be so hostile to her.

The queen looked at him with scrutiny: "Now the emperor dotes on you, he will listen to you no matter what you say, have you ever thought about replacing me and becoming the master of the harem?"

"Become the master of the harem, and then what?"

She stared with a pair of innocent big eyes: "Isn't it enough for me to have the emperor?"

The queen was stunned at first, and then she didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

Is it because she is young, so she has nothing to fear, thinking that having the emperor's favor is better than being the queen?

"What's good about being an empress?"

Jiang Xinyue complained as if she were a close sister, and seemed to be defending her: "My empress, you have to visit me every morning and evening, and you can't even take a nap. When you go out, there is always a large group of people following you. They tell you that you can't do this, that you shouldn't do that, and remind you all the time that you are the empress, you have to be careful with your words and actions, you have to be dignified and elegant... You have to manage the harem for the emperor, you can't be jealous... You can't be petty... There are too many things you can't do. My empress, compared to being the master of the harem like this, I would rather have the emperor's favor and be a carefree concubine who doesn't have to pretend to be strong."

Being an empress without the emperor's understanding and favor

would mean she would be nothing more than a high-ranking female official who receives a monthly salary. Everything should be based on the emperor and the overall situation, but what about herself?

If the price of being an empress is to lose herself, then Jiang Xinyue would rather be a favored concubine who can act coquettishly and have a little temper to the emperor.

The empress looked at her sincerity from the bottom of her heart and had to believe that what she said was what was in her heart.

She really didn't want to be an empress.