Chapter 223: Disregarding Family Affection

"But if you don't plead guilty, the Empress Dowager will kill you. Do you plan to die now, or take the blame and try to survive?"

She would die if she said it, and she would die if she didn't.

This was not a good choice for Concubine Rong. The things that the Empress Dowager did behind her were enough for her to die ten thousand times. Concubine

Rong stretched out her hand and tidied her hair that was scattered behind her to the front. She used her hands like a pointed comb to restore her hair to a smooth shape. She smiled at Pei Wu: "Okay, I admit it..."

Pei Wu also smiled at her: "That's right! He who knows the current affairs is a hero. When I am promoted by the Emperor, I will definitely plead for you."

She smiled with a smug look on her face, as if she was a person of great influence who could walk between the Empress Dowager and the Emperor with ease.

Is this the person that the Empress Dowager Aunt has found to replace her and Concubine Shu?

She is indeed a beauty, and is more patient than her and Concubine Shu. She can endure until now without asking for a title.

Better than her...

But Aunt keeps saying that she wants to restore the Wu family and bring her brother and mother back from Ninggu Pagoda.

Her current behavior does not seem to be for the Wu family at all. Instead, it seems that she must cultivate a favored concubine like Jiang Xinyue to consolidate her own position.

Aunt, she wants to control the harem!

Under the guise of restoring the Wu family, she wants her and Concubine Shu to obey her. Now that the two sisters have done all the bad things and are no longer useful, she is going to train new people.

Ha!

The Empress Dowager Aunt underestimated her too much. She is not that fool like Concubine Shu, who was played around by her.

"Before that, I want to see my aunt for the last time. Please help Miss Pei to pass on the message for me."

"The Empress Dowager doesn't have time to see you now. If you have anything to say, just say it to me. I will definitely tell her for you."

Do you think she will die after taking the blame, and you don't want to waste this time?

She doesn't have any affection for her aunt and niece, so don't blame her for being cruel.

"Then Miss Pei, please tell the Empress Dowager for me. I wish her to get what she wants, control the harem, and be extremely honored."

During the time of the late emperor, she relied on her son to dominate the harem, and she really thought she was the best in the palace fight. She didn't even realize that the late emperor didn't like her at all. If she wasn't the biological mother of the late emperor's only prince, she probably wouldn't even be able to get the position of concubine.

Relying on her son to step up to the throne, she fed her own ambitions and felt that she should be the big shot who controls the former dynasty and the harem.

The emperor expelled the Wu family, killed the Song family, guarded against the Zhu family, reused officials without background in the court, emphasized imperial examinations, and liked talents...

How could such an emperor allow her, a woman, to manipulate him? The Queen

Mother will not be able to get what she wants after all, so let her send her off again.

The Queen Mother passed away, and the palace was filled with sorrow.

Defei knew that she was a target on the cusp of the storm, so she deliberately kept a low profile and reduced her presence.

Jiang Xinyue had not expected the Queen to be so determined to die, and she wanted to push Rong Fei to the front, so that everyone would mistakenly believe that Rong Fei was the emperor's white moonlight, and Shu Fei was just a scapegoat.

Unexpectedly, the Empress was willing to sacrifice her life to help her deal with Concubine Rong for the sake of the Fifth Prince.

Her plan was no longer useful, and Concubine De became the culprit who "forced" the Empress to death.

Everyone in the palace is talking about it now, saying that if Concubine De had not wrongly accused the Empress of poisoning the Third Prince, the Empress would not have died at all.

The old lady of Duke Cheng's cane was intended to take the Empress' life.

People always sympathize with the weak, not to mention that the Empress is no longer a weak person, but a dead person.

The days ahead for the Duke Cheng's Mansion will not be easy.

Jiang Xinyue just asked the emperor one question: "The old lady of Duke Cheng's Mansion is still strong and healthy. I heard that her tiger-head cane can be used to beat tyrants and treacherous ministers. Is it true?"

The emperor poked her to the bed with his finger and said: "Only you dare to ask me such a rebellious question. If anyone else asks me, you can try the consequences."

He died after trying.

Jiang Xinyue quickly climbed up from the bed, hugged Emperor Xuanwu's arm and acted coquettishly: "Isn't it?" "

Why?"

Emperor Xuanwu stared at her: "Are you afraid that I will become a tyrant one day and be beaten to death by the old lady of Duke Cheng?"

"How could that be?"

Jiang Xinyue glared at him angrily: "The emperor is not a tyrant! If she dares to hit the emperor, I will kill her. I don't understand any tricks."

"Although I know that you are saying sweet words to make me dizzy, I was still fooled by you."

Emperor Xuanwu pulled her off his arm, put her sitting on the bed, and said sarcastically: "Don't worry, Duke Cheng is the one who knows current affairs best. Yesterday he personally delivered the tiger-head crutch into the palace and returned it to me, and asked the old lady to take off her mourning clothes and kneel down to worship the empress at the palace gate."

If he didn't do this, Duke Cheng was afraid that his mother would not even be able to save her life.

The emperor saw Jiang Xinyue's small action of breathing a sigh of relief. He thought Jiang Xinyue was worried about the queen's affairs, so he put his arm around her shoulders and said, "Is it difficult for you to arrange the fifth prince here?"

If the fifth prince grows up and is provoked by someone with ulterior motives, he may think that it was Jiang Xinyue who killed his mother and ruined his bright future.

Keeping him around is an unstable disaster for Jiang Xinyue.

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Your Majesty, Fenyun brought the fifth prince to ask for an audience."

Before she could finish her words, Fenyun came with the fifth prince.

During the period of mourning for the empress, the emperor could not visit his concubines. Last night, the emperor did not stay in Hexi Palace, but showed up in the Hall of Supreme Harmony early in the morning before coming here, intending to accompany Jiang Xinyue to finish breakfast and then go to the Hall of Supreme Harmony together.

Fanyun knew this, so she came here at the right time.

"Let her in."

The emperor walked out and sat in the flower hall. Jiang Xinyue also hurriedly put on her clothes, not wanting others to think that she was disrespectful to the empress.

In fact, it was still very early, and the concubines should have gotten up at about this time and then went to the Hall of Supreme Harmony to burn incense for the empress.

But Fenyun is a close person to the Empress, and the Fifth Prince is young and pitiful, so she can't act too relaxed when she is the saddest. Concubine

De has been very timid, and Jiang Xinyue can't let anyone say that she doesn't respect her.

When she got dressed and came out from behind the screen, Fenyun had already knelt in the flower hall with the Fifth Prince: "Your Majesty, I beg your Majesty to agree that when the Empress's body is moved to Dongshan for burial in the imperial mausoleum, I will let the Fifth Prince and I go to Dongshan to guard the Empress's mausoleum."

This is a bold and somewhat offensive request.

The Fifth Prince is a royal heir, and only the Emperor can decide whether he stays or leaves. How can there be room for a maid to influence him?