Chapter 226 Concubine Rong goes crazy
"Pa!"
Jiang Xinyue didn't care whether she was weak or not, and slapped her directly: "If you are not in your mind, I can help you wake up, you don't have to thank me."
"You!"
Concubine Yu went to pull Emperor Xuanwu's hand: "Your Majesty! Look at her! She dared to hit me in front of you. If you were not here, she..."
"You are right. If Your Majesty was not here, I would let Jiang Chuan slap you hard in the face. Now I just slapped you, you should kneel down and thank me."
Her expression seemed to say: Why are you so ignorant?
The emperor withdrew his hand from Concubine Yu, coughed twice, and tolerated Jiang Xinyue's "rudeness".
He waved his hand, and a tied-up eunuch was pushed in. He knelt on the ground and looked up at the empress dowager with a wolfish look.
"Isn't this Eunuch Quan from the empress dowager's palace?"
Pei Wu covered her mouth after she finished speaking, looking as if she had said something wrong, and glanced at the empress dowager with guilt.
Concubine Yu was dumbfounded. So, the person who poisoned was the empress dowager?
"Empress Dowager! Empress Dowager, save me!"
Eunuch Quan struggled desperately to get to the empress dowager: "Empress Dowager, I put two conflicting spices into Concubine Xian's teacup and incense burner respectively. As soon as I went out, I was caught by Eunuch Tang. Empress Dowager... they knew about it a long time ago, you..."
"Shut up!" The
Queen Mother shouted, "Who told you to slander me here? I have never let anyone do such a thing."
Eunuch Quan cried and said anxiously, "Empress Dowager, how can you say that? I have served you for fifteen years. I have done so many evil things for you. Now that I have been arrested, you don't recognize me and don't save me. You can't do this! The spices you gave me also have a portion in Gui Ma's hands. You said... If it doesn't work the first time, we can try a second time. We must make Concubine Xian go crazy and lose her composure at the Queen's funeral so that you can take back the Phoenix Seal, right?"
"Nonsense, complete nonsense!"
The Queen Mother glared at Eunuch Quan, then turned to Emperor Xuanwu and said, "Are you just going to watch a dog slave frame his own mother and do nothing?"
The Emperor stood beside Jiang Xinyue and said, "Whether it is a frame-up or not, we will know after we investigate."
The main hall of the Hall of Supreme Harmony was full of ministers, and it didn't take long for what happened inside to spread.
Even though she was the Queen Mother, the court officials would not pretend not to know when such a conscienceless and bad thing was exposed.
Especially, this was the Empress's mourning hall.
The Queen Mother made trouble in this place, which meant that she did not take the Empress, the mother of a country, seriously at all.
To look down on the Empress like this, in other words, did not take the Emperor and the civil and military officials of the Manchu court seriously.
"Wang Dequan, go and bring in Concubine Rong."
Concubine Rong?
Wasn't Concubine Rong in a suspenseful situation?
The Queen Mother turned her head to look at Pei Wu, but Pei Wu looked innocent, which confused the Queen Mother.
Didn't Pei Wu say that Concubine Rong had a way to escape, and that she wanted to plot against Concubine Xian, so she didn't need her to save her?
Concubine Rong no longer had the gorgeous pearl hairpin on her head, and her clothes were simple and plain. As the culprit who set the fire and "burned" the Queen Mother to death, her appearance caused a commotion.
"How dare she come? Didn't the emperor execute her?"
"Is there something hidden behind this? Why does the atmosphere seem so weird to me?"
"Just wait and see! It has nothing to do with us anyway." "
Aunt, why are you not happy to see me?"
Rong Fei sneered, "Are you afraid that I will tell all the ugly things you have done, and that you will reach the end of your role as empress dowager?"
"You... why are you talking crazy?"
Rong Fei laughed, "Crazy? Is there anyone in the world crazier than your aunt? You always told my sister and me that everything you did was for the Wu family, to save my brother and mother, but why didn't you tell me that my mother died of illness two years ago? You used my sister and me to help you eliminate all the concubines in the harem who hindered your power. You said you wanted to support my sister and me to become queen, but in fact You want my sister and I to be your puppets, and you to be the real master of the harem."
Before the empress dowager could even speak up to defend herself, Concubine Rong continued, "Oh! No... Aunt's ambition is not just to be the master of the harem, you also want my sister and I to give birth to an heir, and then find a way to depose the emperor, or... let me poison the emperor and send him directly to see the late emperor, so that you can support my young son to ascend the throne and become the Holy Mother Empress Dowager who rules the country from behind the curtain."
"You...you..."
The empress dowager covered her chest, trembling as she pointed at Concubine Rong, and was so angry that she sat down on the chair with a thump, her breathing becoming rapid.
Concubine Rong knew too many of her secrets: "When Concubine Xian was pregnant, your aunt arranged for someone to put a large amount of safflower in her tonic soup, hoping that she would have a miscarriage. However, after Concubine Xian found out, you used the dog in Hexi Palace and planted dog lice on the dog's body that were fed with highly poisonous drugs. As long as Concubine Xian hugged the dog, she would have a miscarriage and die immediately."
Unfortunately, the Queen Mother's wave after wave of attacks failed to break through the copper and iron walls of Hexi Palace. Concubine Xian escaped and gave birth to a healthy Sixth Prince.
"On the night of the Sixth Prince's full moon, several glass ornaments imported from overseas were smashed in the Empress Dowager's Cining Palace. The Empress Dowager cursed the Sixth Prince in her bedroom that he would die of deformity like Concubine Shu's child. I saw it with my own eyes and heard it with my own ears. Aunt Empress Dowager, can you swear to heaven that you didn't do these things?"
Yes!
These were all done by the Empress Dowager!
Not only did she curse the children born by Jiang Xinyue, but she also wished that any prince born to someone in the palace who was not hers would die early. If it weren't for the pregnancy of one of her obedient concubines, she would rather the emperor be childless.
"You dare not swear?"
Concubine Rong raised her hand: "You dare not, but I do! You once wanted to kill the Empress's eldest and second princes, but they were killed before you could do it. The reason why you are so cruel to the Emperor's princes and your own grandsons is because..."
"Enough!"
The Queen Mother rushed to Concubine Rong and strangled her neck hard: "Are you crazy? You want to die yourself, and you want to use me as a cushion?"
Emperor Xuanwu said coldly: "Wang Dequan, pull the Queen Mother away."
"Emperor, do you really want to believe her? She is full of nonsense, don't believe her."
With the help of Wang Dequan, Concubine Rong broke free from the empress dowager's stranglehold, and laughed loudly: "The empress dowager is indifferent to the emperor and cruel to the prince, all because... because she is not the emperor's biological mother! The empress dowager gave birth to a princess, who was drowned in the bathtub. Your Majesty, you are the son of the late emperor's most beloved concubine Jing Guifei, who was replaced by the empress dowager with the corpse of the princess, causing Concubine Jing Guifei to be unable to bear the blow and die of hemorrhage."
What?
Everyone widened their eyes and looked at the empress dowager in shock.