Chapter 243 Xiao Ronghua is missing
Jiang Xinyue nodded: "Today, the fourth prince got a nine-ring combination. He was thinking about the third prince and wanted to send it to his third brother to play with. I thought that the lotus in the Defei Palace was in full bloom, so I could go and see it... I never thought... the yellow lip fish in the lotus pond would bite people. In order to save the little palace maid who slipped and fell, the magpie fell in."
Was bitten like this?
Emperor Xuanwu knew about yellow lip fish. In fact, because of its high price, few people in the folks could afford it. Most of them were sent to the palace and became a famous delicacy in the palace banquet.
Although this fish is big, I have never heard of it biting people!
And the wound on the magpie's leg is more than just biting people, it is simply trying to swallow her into its stomach.
Such a terrifying yellow lip fish, never heard of, let alone seen.
No!
Seen!
Yue Er said it was in the palace of Concubine De.
He not only saw it in Yanqing Palace, but also fed it. At that time, he was very surprised, why the yellow lip fish didn't eat fish food. Concubine De said that it was because the palace people often fed it with small fish and shrimps, so it didn't like to eat tasteless fish food. Now
it suddenly occurred to him that it didn't like to eat fish food because it loved to eat... human flesh?
Doctor Yan shook his head: "This is not a yellow lip fish, it's a piranha. Miss Xi Que's leg will definitely be left with a scar."
And it's a scar the size of a bowl. If she gets married in the future, I'm afraid her husband's family will dislike her.
Jiang Xinyue felt very guilty. She had clearly noticed that the fish was not right, but she did not tell Xi Que to be careful.
Xi Que was the first person who treated her wholeheartedly after she came to this strange dynasty. He firmly believed in her no matter what she said, and did what she said, putting his own life aside.
Although she was not as smart and steady as Shuangjiang, nor as quick-witted and agile as Jiangchuan, nor as quick-witted as Xiaoxuanzi, she was like a little sun, shining and warming everyone with her liveliness and cheerfulness. There
were too many smart people in this palace, and Xi Que was rare.
Now that Xi Que has been bitten like this and has lost her former vitality, Jiang Xinyue feels a tightness in her chest and a pain in her throat. She feels sorry for her but doesn't know how to comfort her.
"Your Majesty... I'm fine... I'm fine."
Xi Que forced herself to smile foolishly at Jiang Xinyue: "I will follow Your Majesty all my life. I won't marry... I won't marry, and it doesn't matter if I have scars. Your Majesty won't dislike me anyway, right?"
Her voice trembled, and it was obvious that she was in great pain, but she pretended to be relaxed because she didn't want Jiang Xinyue to worry.
"What nonsense are you talking about?"
Jiang Xinyue wiped her tears, walked over and held her hand: "I was thinking of marrying you out of the palace in a grand manner!"
Why waste your youth in the palace?
Life is only a few decades long, so enjoy yourself and enjoy what you should enjoy.
"Okay, stop crying."
Emperor Xuanwu stepped forward and held her back, "No matter how serious the matter is, it's time for you to have lunch. I will go to see Concubine De later, and you can come with me."
If Concubine De really raised such a ferocious fish, she must be severely punished.
The emperor wanted to vomit whenever he thought of the yellow croaker eating human flesh, and he didn't want to eat this kind of fish again in his life.
After instructing Doctor Yan to give Xi Que a good treatment and leaving Shuangjiang here to take care of her, Jiang Xinyue left the room worriedly.
After walking a few steps, Jiang Xinyue suddenly stopped and asked Xiao Xuanzi: "Where is Xiao Ronghua?"
Xiao Xuanzi was stunned: "Didn't she...go with Jiang Chuan and the others?"
Jiang Xinyue thought about it, the last time she saw Xiao Ronghua, she seemed to see her walking among the group of people in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. She
didn't know when she disappeared while walking.
Jiang Xinyue grabbed the emperor's hand: "This morning, the concubines came to pay their respects to me. After they left, Xiao Ronghua came back and begged me for help. She said that she accidentally discovered that Concubine De was imprisoning and abusing palace people, and she was afraid that Concubine De would silence her. I wondered if it was a misunderstanding. It happened that the Fourth Prince was worried about the Third Prince, so I wanted to find out. I didn't want Xi Que to get hurt accidentally, so I didn't notice Xiao Ronghua... Your Majesty, you said she..."
Could she have been silenced by Concubine De?
The emperor understood what she meant without her saying it.
"Let's go!"
The emperor didn't even bother to have lunch. Since it was a matter of life and death, he couldn't just sit back and watch: "Go to Yanqing Palace." It has been rumored in
the harem that Concubine De is a hypocrite. Since the death of the empress, it seems that she finally couldn't suppress the beast in her body, and she frequently did things that were inconsistent with her personality.
The emperor doesn't hate ambitious people.
But if you do whatever it takes to achieve your ambitions, and are vicious and have no bottom line, then you are repeatedly stepping on the human nature that Emperor Xuanwu hates the most.
Jiang Xinyue knew that the emperor liked women who were gentle and lovely, delicate and kind, who could rely on him and believe in him in everything.
But he didn't think about it. If among the three thousand concubines, a concubine who could gain his favor, trust him in everything, depend on him, and leave things to him to deal with, how could she be incompetent?
Some things are just deliberately ignored because of love.
Just like he treated Jiang Xinyue. He knew that she was scheming, smart and decisive, but he still found suitable reasons for her behavior again and again.
Defei is different from Jiang Xinyue. If she wants to rely on the emperor for everything, the grass on her grave will be five feet high.
She can only rely on herself.
In the beautiful and harmonious lotus garden with exquisite scenery, the huge yellow lip fish shuttled in the lotus pond, and the fish eyes that were so black that they seemed to be able to suck people in emitted a faint cold light.
Suddenly, the lotus leaves shook violently, and the water in the pond turned bright red.
There is an attic above the lotus pond. Someone sprinkled a handful of white powder on the attic on the second floor. The pond, which was dyed red by blood, instantly returned to its original state, as if the brutal scene just now had not happened.
The water in the pond was clear, and the lotus garden was still a peaceful and tranquil scene.
Suddenly...
a skeleton with a gnawed face floated out of the water, leaving only a half-swollen and pale face. That one eyeball was wide open, and the extreme fear made her look particularly ferocious and terrifying.
Jiang Xinyue followed Emperor Xuanwu to Yanqing Palace again. The atmosphere in the palace was low and depressing, probably because of the shadow of the assassination of the old lady of the Duke of Chengguo Mansion.
As soon as she walked into the flower hall of the main hall, she saw Lu Yin supporting the weak Concubine De, who seemed to have cried for a while, coming out.
When Concubine De saw the emperor, tears welled up again. She rushed over and grabbed his sleeve and shook her head: "Your Majesty, your concubine... your concubine's grandmother... this is not true, it's not true, right?" "
It's true, the old lady of the Duke of Chengguo was shot in the shoulder blade by a hidden weapon, and the hidden weapon was highly poisonous."
She expected to hear the emperor denying this, but it turned out to be the opposite.