Chapter 202: I Don't Want to Be an Empress
However, for Empress Zhu, being an empress is her lifelong pursuit.
As the saying goes, honey to one person is poison to another.
People's pursuits are different.
The empress sat back in her seat and her tense body relaxed: "You came to Yikun Palace today just to tell me all this?"
Jiang Xinyue shook her head, looking lonely: "Your Majesty, I have something to say, but I don't know who to tell. After thinking about it, only Your Majesty can listen to my nagging."
She bit her lip: "Your Majesty... Your Majesty showed me Xu Ying'er's testimony, but I didn't believe her, so I checked privately. It was obviously Concubine Rong who sprinkled things on Nanny Cheng's clothes."
"Concubine Rong?"
The empress couldn't help but think of the empress dowager. After all, the empress dowager had disliked her as the empress for a long time, and she hated Jiang Xinyue even more.
"It's her!"
Jiang Xinyue's expression was full of resentment: "The Emperor has clearly found out the real murderer, but he didn't tell me, and let you, the Empress, take the blame. It was all thanks to a female official in the Clothing Room who reported to me that Xie Zhangyi of the Clothing Room had put something in Nanny Cheng's clothes, so I found out. Your Majesty, if I can find out, I don't believe that the Suspense Department can't find out. But they clearly found out, but didn't tell me. Tell me, did we get it wrong before? The one the Emperor liked when he was young was Concubine Rong, not Concubine Shu?"
The Empress' mind was full of lightning and fire, and she almost stopped thinking because of Jiang Xinyue's words.
If so, then the Emperor hid it too deeply.
"In order to provoke me to deal with Concubine Shu, Concubine Rong once told me a secret."
She whispered in the Queen's ear, "It was Concubine Shu who killed the baby in her belly."
So it was logical that the Emperor executed Concubine Shu. Was he actually avenging Concubine Rong?
"Did Concubine Zhenxian go to Yikun Palace?"
Concubine De stroked the golden book she had just obtained, with a sinister light flashing in her eyes: "She was so impatient to go to the Empress to flatter me, is she afraid that the Empress will deal with her after getting the Phoenix Seal?"
Lu Yin twirled the handkerchief in her hand: "What should we do? Should we explain to the Empress?"
The Emperor had said earlier that he would hand over the Golden Book to them and let them help Concubine Xian manage the harem, but the Empress went to Yikun Palace these two days and kept silent about this matter.
The Empress was allowed to misunderstand that Concubine Xian was in charge of both the Phoenix Seal and the Golden Book.
"What do you want to explain? The Golden Book was given to me by the Emperor for safekeeping. Do you want me to refuse and hand over both the Phoenix Seal and the Golden Book to Jiang Xinyue?"
Concubine De lost the title of Concubine Xian, the leader of the four concubines, last time. She was a little upset and reflected on herself. Was it because she pretended to be too Buddhist that the Emperor thought she was not capable of the job?
So this time, she wanted to let the Emperor see her ability to govern the six palaces.
As for the Queen, today, she doesn't want to flatter anyone anymore.
Jiang Xinyue came out of the Queen's inner palace, her eyes fell on the little palace maid who had just blocked the door, and she took out an ice-green jade bracelet with excellent water head and color from her wrist: "She is a loyal protector of the master, she deserves a reward."
But the fear in her eyes frightened the little palace maid so much that she trembled and dared not refuse at all. The hairs on her body stood up.
Concubine Xian was warning her to shut her mouth and know what to say and what not to say.
Otherwise...
After leaving Yikun Palace, Jiang Xinyue's expression turned cold, and the murderous aura in her eyes was strong.
Jiang Chuan shook his hand, and there was a circle of red teeth marks at the base of his palm, which was already bleeding.
Jiang Xinyue took a look and said, "Let's go to the Imperial Hospital and ask Doctor Yan to check you out. Human teeth can also be poisonous."
Jiang Chuan nodded: "Your Majesty, that little palace maid..."
Jiang Xinyue smiled and said, "Go and inform the people in the Suspension Mirror Department and tell them that when I came to visit the Empress, I lost a priceless bracelet that the Emperor gave me."
Jiang Chuan knew that his Majesty never traded at a loss.
Yesterday, after the Emperor and the Empress had a big fight, they sent away most of the palace people, which just made it convenient for his Majesty to raid today.
They chose to come at the busy lunch time. There were not many people in the Empress's palace. The extra people were busy working. In the huge Yikun Palace, there was only one palace maid guarding outside.
Jiang Xinyue walked to the gate and asked Jiang Chuan to cover her mouth. She then approached the empress's bedroom with Xi Que.
Jiang Chuan didn't know what her empress had heard, but it must be something very important, otherwise her face wouldn't be so ugly now.
In Chengqian Palace, the emperor read the letter from Chang'an at a glance. The more he read, the angrier his face became.
"Bang!"
The fist landed hard on the mahogany table. Bloody wounds appeared on Emperor Xuanwu's hands. All the palace maids in Chengqian Palace knelt on the ground.
Wang Dequan saw this and quickly asked Tang Shiliang to get the golden medicine: "Your Majesty, you must not hurt yourself. If Concubine Xian sees this, she will be distressed."
Hearing the word "Concubine Xian", Emperor Xuanwu's anger subsided a little. Because of the Rong Fei incident, he felt guilty towards Jiang Xinyue, so he said: "Wang Dequan, serve me with pen and ink. I want to appoint Jiang Yanxi as a minister to investigate the corruption case of officials in Guangdong on my behalf."
The Zhu family was a local emperor in Chang'an, but they dared to reach out to his harem. Seeing that he punished the queen, he also threatened him with the father of the remaining concubine, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi.
You know, if the queen had not been willing to hand over the Fengyin and insisted that she was the one who put the phosphorus powder, the emperor would have ordered the execution of the entire Zhu family.
OK!
Let's have a head-on confrontation and see who is the tough one.
Jiang Yanxi was able to obtain evidence of Shangguan's corruption and safely escape pursuit, the emperor does not believe that he relied on luck alone.
It is perfect for him to be the minister.
Yue'er is a smart woman, this point, when she was holding the emperor's heart, Emperor Xuanwu had already felt it deeply.
She will find out who the real murderer who wants to kill the sixth prince is. I hope that when the time comes, she will understand... Everything he did was to pave the way for her.
The queen is not a concern, the difficult part is to overthrow the Zhu family behind the queen. Concubine
Rong is not the point either. The point is how to make the queen mother unable to open her mouth again without being scolded by the officials for being unfilial.
He wanted to play the long game and catch the big fish.
"Your Majesty, Miss Pei from the Empress Dowager's palace wants to see you."
"Miss Pei?"
The emperor thought for a moment, and a face that looked like a fairy or a demon appeared in his mind: "What is she doing here?"
"I don't know."
Emperor Xuanwu put his injured hand behind his back: "Let her in."
What will happen if a beautiful girl enters Chengqian Palace in thin clothes?
The Empress Dowager raised her lips with satisfaction, and then sighed at Concubine Rong: "I let Concubine Shu be your shield and pretended to be incompatible with you, but you still failed to make the emperor pity you. I had no choice but to do this."