Chapter 219 Wearing a Dragon Robe

The minister who was holding the emperor's arm was frightened by his eyes and let go of his hand. The bright yellow rushed into the raging fire without any hesitation.

When the guards responsible for protecting the emperor's safety saw that the emperor had rushed in, they also snatched the buckets of water from the eunuchs. Some poured the water on themselves and rushed in, while others quickly went to put out the fire.

Others went in with buckets of water. When they found the emperor, they poured a bucket of water all over him without saying a word.

It was because of this that the emperor felt his whole body quickly cool down, and the burning pain in his body was not so strong.

"Yue... cough cough cough cough..."

Emperor Xuanwu had just opened his mouth when he was choked by the thick smoke and started coughing. He tried hard to open his eyes to identify the direction: "Yuer... cough cough cough... Yuer, where are you?"

"Your Majesty! It's the Empress!"

Who else could be pinned down under the beam if not the Empress?

The emperor looked around: "Rescue the Empress first."

"Your Majesty... cough cough cough... It's too dangerous here, please go out! Your subordinates and others will look for Concubine Xian inside."

"I say... let you rescue the Empress first!"

He shook off the guards and looked around while enduring the pain in his body.

"Your Majesty, be careful!"

"Bang!"

A piece of burnt wood broke above Emperor Xuanwu and fell down with a bang. Fortunately, the guard reacted quickly and knocked Emperor Xuanwu away, but the guard was hit on the head and bleeding.

"Um..."

The huge sound woke up Jiang Xinyue who fainted at the window. As soon as she made a little sound, she felt someone grabbed her shoulder.

A shout came from her ear, sometimes far and sometimes near: "Yuer...Yuer, wake up...Yuer..."

Emperor Xuanwu was pushed to the window by the guards, and then he found Jiang Xinyue unconscious on the ground. She was terribly burned, her consciousness was blurred, and her breathing was even more difficult.

"Empress... Empress... Save... Save Empress..."

The emperor took off his soaked dragon robe, wrapped her up, and held her horizontally in his arms. He didn't care that his face was covered in black ash, and ran out with her in his arms.

Some of the guards carried the Empress, and more of them protected the Emperor to prevent the beams from falling and hitting him. Empress

Dowager Wu had already heard the news and rushed over. She was followed by Pei Wu instead of Concubine Rong.

"Where is the emperor? Where is the emperor?"

Her face was filled with anxiety: "How can you, useless bastards, let the emperor go in to save people? If anything happens to the emperor, I will bury you all with him!"

"Boom!"

With a loud noise, the door of the Yikun Palace's sleeping hall was burnt and collapsed. In the thick smoke and firelight, the tall and mighty emperor was only wearing a white middle-length robe, and his body was covered with black soot, even his face was not spared. The black smoke-smoked cheeks were left with scratches and blood was oozing out.

He held the unconscious Concubine Zhenxian in his arms, like a fearless warrior, rescuing his beloved girl.

Jiang Xinyue was conscious; through her half-closed and hazy eyes, she could still see Emperor Xuanwu's face, his lips pressed tightly into a line, and a determined look in his eyes as he held her and rushed out.

"Is she wearing... the emperor's dragon robe?"

"Oh my God! She is covered with the emperor's dragon robe, and the emperor actually... Does the emperor want to make Concubine Xian the empress?"

"That's impossible! Concubine De is still here! In terms of seniority and family background, Concubine De is better than Concubine Xian in every way."

"But didn't Concubine De's third prince be deposed? Concubine Zhenxian has two sons, the fourth prince and the sixth prince, and the emperor loves her so much, she can give birth to several more children! If the empress is like the current empress, who can't give birth, she will be deposed sooner or later,

right?" What's the point of adopting a fifth prince if he's not her own son?

Defei was in the front row, watching helplessly as the emperor put Jiang Xinyue, who was covered in a dragon robe, on the ground. Xi Que and Shuang Jiang immediately rushed over and fanned her with their hands.

The guards carried the empress, whose half of her face had been burned, on a stretcher. The imperial physician who had been waiting came forward to diagnose and treat the empress.

"Catch her!"

A shrill cry cut through the sky. Emperor Xuanwu had just washed Jiang Xinyue's face with water when he saw Rong Fei stumbling out from behind the burning house with fear on her face.

Fenyun ran out with blood all over her face, chasing after her: "Your Majesty, it was Rong Fei who set fire to the Yikun Palace."

What?

When Concubine Rong heard this, she stopped in her tracks. Because it was too sudden, a fire starter fell out of her sleeve.

"Dingling..."

A bloody silver hairpin fell from her hand. Fenyun had already knelt at the emperor's feet, accusing with her bloody face that was deeply scratched by the hairpin: "Your Majesty, there are not enough servants in the Yikun Palace, and all kinds of monsters want to bully our master. Today, the master felt a little better and wanted to talk to Concubine Zhenxian. I and Xi Que were guarding outside. The fire started from the back hall, so when I found it, it had already burned to the master's bedroom. I asked Shuangjiang and Xi Que to find a way to put it out. She opened the door and went to the back to see what was going on. Who would have known... who would have known..."

She pointed at Rong Fei with trembling hands in fear: "Who would have known that I would actually see Rong Fei holding a fire starter and smiling sinisterly at the fire. I felt that Rong Fei was responsible for the fire, so I wanted to pull her out to ask her for an explanation. However, she stabbed my cheek with a hairpin. I let go of my hand in pain, and Rong Fei was able to run away. The net of heaven is vast and long, and nothing can escape it. She was caught red-handed by your Majesty."

The strong-willed empress woke up from the pain when the imperial doctors simply cleaned her wounds.

She struggled to crawl over, but was held down by everyone: "Your Majesty, please do not move. You still have large areas of burns on your body. You must go back to the Imperial Hospital for disinfection before the burnt rotten flesh can be removed. Otherwise, it will easily become infected, which can be fatal."

The Queen had long wanted to die, and today she was risking her life to find a way out for the Fifth Prince.

"Your Majesty!"

Her throat had been damaged by the thick smoke, and the words she spoke were rough and unpleasant, but every word was heartbreaking: "The person who put cotton wool in the clothes of the Sixth Prince's wet nurse was Concubine Rong... She wanted to kill Concubine Xian today and then put the blame on me. It's a pity that she failed! Your Majesty, please give justice to Concubine Xian and me!"

Jiang Xinyue sat on the stool brought by Wang Dequan. She looked like she hadn't come to her senses yet. She lowered her head and let Xi Que and Shuang Jiang wipe her hands and neck, and comb away the burnt part of her hair.

The two little girls were so distressed that they burst into tears.

Who would have thought that the empress would use her own life to frame Concubine Rong?

The half of the empress's face that was burned was covered with blood blisters. After saying those words, she fainted from the pain and died on the bier.