Chapter 218 The Water Fell

Jiang Xinyue let her know: "I am a person who is prepared for the rainy day. I have already met Jiang Zhaoyi when she was still in the cold palace."

All the subsequent plans, including Jiang Zhaoyi deliberately going to the gate of Hexi Palace to ask for an audience, but Jiang Xinyue decisively refused, were arranged by them early in the morning, deliberately put on a show for the queen to see.

It was to make the queen think that Jiang Zhaoyi and Jiang Xinyue didn't know that the person behind the poisoning was actually her.

In the past, the queen didn't take Jiang Zhaoyi seriously at all. She was her cannon fodder, used to intensify the conflict between Jiang Xinyue and Li Guiji.

As long as her goal was achieved, she didn't care whether the cannon fodder was dead or alive.

Although Jiang Xinyue agreed to cooperate with Jiang Zhaoyi, she did not consider her a friend, nor did she give her any special care.

Jiang Zhaoyi had to eat coarse food, wash clothes, act crazy and act stupid in the cold palace, trying to save her life.

In just half a year, she aged 20 years due to overwork and exhaustion.

Her beautiful face was gone, and her favors were gone. If she had not relied on her father, the Minister of Personnel, to take care of her, she would have been bullied to see Prince Yan.

Jiang Zhaoyi wanted to make the queen fall at the hands of the cannon fodder she despised the most.

The more the queen listened, the more shocked she became: "The third prince...was it your doing?"

"No!"

Jiang Xinyue denied: "I am the same as your majesty, I never do anything to children."

The queen was frightened and felt mixed emotions. The beauties who entered the palace every year were really better than their predecessors. Even an old hand like herself was fooled.

She thought Concubine Xian was really innocent and kind, but a little girl with a bit of a delicate mind.

But it turned out that her every move was under her control. She took one step, and Jiang Xinyue took ten steps. The gap between them was narrowed so rapidly.

“Yes, in my life, since entering the palace, the little kindness I had was used in the wrong places, which led to my disastrous defeat today…”

Jiang Xinyue did not respond, but looked at her quietly.

The queen sat up with the help of a small table, straightened her skirt that was stained with blood, wiped the blood from her lips, and then she became the dignified queen who remained calm even when faced with a catastrophe: "Jiang Xinyue, everyone in the harem wants to be the queen, but you are the only one who thinks the position of queen is a hot potato. But you have to know that sometimes the emperor's favor is a death warrant. Only when you are in a high position, those people dare not act rashly. Ahem... "

The palace was dark, and the doors and windows were closed tightly. Jiang Xinyue suddenly had a bad premonition: "The queen..."

"There's a fire! It's bad... There's a fire in the queen's bedroom! Hurry up and find someone to put out the fire!"

Xi Que and Shuang Jiang were waiting outside. Suddenly, they saw the flames from the roof behind the bedroom rushing up to the sky. They were all shocked.

The two knocked on the door, but the door of the Queen's bedroom in Yikun Palace was made of the finest gold-thread ebony, which was extremely sturdy. No matter how they knocked or kicked, the door did not budge.

This door...

when was it locked from the inside?

Xi Que's hands were swollen from banging, and she realized that it was useless to continue like this, and the fire was getting bigger and bigger. This was not a solution.

She looked around and said to Shuangjiang, "You go over there, I'll go here and see if there are any windows that can be opened. If they can't be opened, find something to smash it open."

Shuangjiang nodded and ran over there quickly. She and Xi Que were about to turn around, but they saw Fenyun holding a torch and walking out from behind: "I advise you not to come over."

"Cough, cough, cough..."

The hall was already filled with thick smoke. The queen was choked by the black smoke and kept coughing, but she covered Jiang Xinyue's mouth and nose with a cloth soaked in water, with determination in her eyes: "Concubine Xian, I will help you get rid of Concubine Rong, and you promise me... you must promise me to take good care of the Fifth Prince for me!"

Speaking of the poor child, the queen burst into tears: "Don't tell him... don't tell him that I killed his mother. I just... just want to have a child of my own."

Even if she wasn't the queen, Lan Cainü would not have survived.

A favored concubine, pregnant, with no one around her, could kill her and her unborn baby with a flick of a finger, just as easily as crushing an ant.

It was the queen who protected her, allowing her to give birth to the child safely without being discovered.

It is hard to say that Lan Cainu was not willing to die for the fifth prince's bright future.

"Promise me... to take care of... the fifth prince..."

Just as the flames burned the beams in the palace and were about to hit Jiang Xinyue, the queen pushed her away and was hit directly. She fell under the beam in pain and spit out a mouthful of blood: "I know that Jiang Zhaoyi tampered with my incense, which caused my frequent headaches. I will help you clean up the broken silk now. As long as you... as long as you promise to me, help me take care of the fifth prince, let him... let him grow up safely, marry, have children, and be crowned a king..." After

being crowned a king, he can go to his own fiefdom, and from then on he can do whatever he wants in the vast sea and the sky.

The last gift that the Queen gave to the Fifth Prince was... freedom...

Being an emperor was too difficult, and being the Emperor's Queen was too bitter.

She didn't want the Fifth Prince to become a man like his father in the future, who would betray his deep affection and go to hell in the future.

Jiang Xinyue said nothing and tried to pull her, but she couldn't move. The beam pressing on the Queen was as heavy as a thousand pounds, and Jiang Xinyue's palms were full of blisters from the scalding beam.

The Queen grabbed her sleeve tightly, and the fire on the beam had already ignited her clothes, but she smiled brightly: "Jiang Xinyue, your kindness is used in the right place, and your kindness is sharp. You are more suitable to be the Queen of Dayan than me..."

After that, she closed her eyes and fell under the beam forever.

Jiang Xinyue checked her breath and found that she just fainted, so she began to look for a way out.

Combined with what the Queen had just said about helping her get rid of Concubine Rong, she guessed that the Queen didn't really want her life, so there must be an escape route inside.

She looked around and saw thick smoke that made her unable to open her eyes, and she was crying physiologically. Her

breathing also began to become difficult...

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty, you can't go in! It's too dangerous!"

After hearing that the Yikun Palace was on fire, Emperor Xuanwu rushed over immediately. After seeing Xi Que and Shuang Jiang, who had been stopped in a safe area by the guards, he realized that something was wrong and was about to rush in immediately.

But he was dissuaded by the people around him: "Your Majesty, the fire is too big. Even if the Empress is in there, it must be... Your Majesty, the dragon body is the most important!"

"Let go!"

The emperor drew the long sword from the waist of the sword-carrying guard and pointed at the minister who blocked him: "Whoever dares to block me, I will kill his entire clan."

The veins on his forehead were exposed, and there was a ferocious beast in his eyes, as if he could suddenly kill people at the next moment.