Chapter 318: The cunning Concubine De
She was so brazen that she brought out Xiao Ronghua, who had been tortured to the point of losing her human form, without even closing the door. Did she think that others didn't find out fast enough?
Relying on his love, she was really getting more and more... more and more...
Cruel and ruthless, and treacherous, he really didn't want to use words like this on Jiang Xinyue.
But she actually tortured and killed concubines in the palace, and her behavior became so extreme. What stimulated her?
"Yuer, what happened to you? Tell me, I will definitely..."
"Your Majesty, I suspect... Lu Yin may be dead."
"What?"
Killing concubines alone was not enough, and they also killed palace maids?
In this entire palace, the one who was the most sympathetic to the palace maids was not Concubine De, but Jiang Xinyue.
Anyone who has served her or seen how much she dotes on her servants in her palace would want to come to Hexi Palace.
How could such a person...
"Your Majesty, are you listening to me anymore?"
Emperor Xuanwu was dazed: "I am listening, you say."
"When I was in the palace to escape the summer heat, Jiangchuan said that Lu Yin had come and she sent Xiao Ronghua over and asked Jiangchuan to hide her. When Concubine De came just now, Lu Yin was not there, and I was afraid..."
"Did Lu Yin send her over?"
Emperor Xuanwu breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, Jiang Xinyue didn't kill her, otherwise he would have to spend a long time to accept all this.
"Xiao Ronghua, is it Concubine De who has brought you to this point?"
The two words "Concubine De" were magnified in Xiao Ronghua's ears like a magic spell, repeating endlessly. It seemed as if an illusion appeared in front of her eyes, and she felt that Concubine De was everywhere around her.
One moment, Concubine De was pulling out her nails with pliers, the next moment, Concubine De was whipping herself with a whip dipped in chili water, and the next moment, Concubine De was scratching her face with a knife.
They were all Concubine De, all of them were Concubine De.
"Don't come over... Don't come over, all of you don't come over..."
Xiao Ronghua suddenly went crazy, pulled out the sharp gold hairpin on her head and pointed it at the emperor and Jiang Xinyue. She was not only targeting the two of them, but anyone who wanted to get close to her was forced back by her gold hairpin.
"I was wrong, I was really wrong, I know I was wrong, please forgive me, okay? I will never talk back to the Imperial Concubine again, I will never dare to do it again, don't pull out my tongue!" After
these words were spoken, everyone thought that it was Jiang Xinyue who tortured Xiao Ronghua.
And Jiang Xinyue, who appeared in Xiao Ronghua's mouth, widened her eyes and understood it in an instant.
Xiao Ronghua was sent to Hexi Palace by Concubine De on purpose!
She knew that Lu Yin was going to betray her!
After Xiao Ronghua was imprisoned by her, Concubine De should have abused her every day, constantly and repeatedly telling her in her ears that she was treated like this because she was disrespectful to the Imperial Concubine and because she talked back to the Imperial Concubine.
At first, Xiao Ronghua definitely didn't believe it. She thought that Concubine De just wanted to frame Jiang Xinyue, and even thought that Concubine De's methods were so reckless and low-level.
When people are sober, they will think that they are the smartest. Moreover, what Concubine De did at that time was called the Goebbels effect in the professional knowledge that Jiang Xinyue learned-a lie repeated a thousand times becomes the truth.
In fact, it is caused by psychological cumulative suggestion. Of course,
it didn't work when Xiao Ronghua was sober, but when she was tortured to weakness and collapse, every lie that Concubine De said would become the truth and be instilled into Xiao Ronghua's mind.
She now believes that she is suffering inhuman treatment because she offended the imperial concubine.
Concubine De is indeed a strong opponent. If Jiang Xinyue had acted rashly from the beginning and launched a massive search in Yanqing Palace, she would have fallen into her trap.
But Jiang Xinyue would never do anything herself if it could cause trouble for the emperor. Even if Concubine De had thousands of traps waiting for her to step into, she would still drag the emperor to cushion her back.
"Your Majesty, I don't know what Concubine De hinted to Xiao Ronghua, but I have not been in the palace for the past few months. Xiao Ronghua's injuries are accumulated in recent months. If Your Majesty doesn't believe it, you can summon a few old teachers in the flower room who can graft fruit trees. I am more interested in food than torturing concubines. Concubine De... Concubine De knew that Lu Yin was going to betray her, and deliberately asked Lu Yin to send Xiao Ronghua to me."
She said anxiously . She was about to cry out loud: "I beat Lu Yin this morning just for show, to make Concubine De behave herself. Your Majesty, you were there, Lu Yin was walking briskly at that time, and she was grateful to me for showing mercy, right? If Lu Yin really dies, Concubine De can say that I beat her to death, and I will never be able to clear myself even if I jump into the Yellow River."
The emperor patted her hands and was about to speak when suddenly a noisy voice came from outside the door: "Help! Help!"
"What's going on? Wang Dequan, go out and take a look!"
As soon as the gate of Hexi Palace opened, Concubine De, covered in blood, stumbled in. The moment she saw Emperor Xuanwu, she rolled and crawled over: "Your Majesty, save me, the dumb slave... the dumb slave has gone crazy." As
soon as the words fell, a middle-aged eunuch with an ugly face and a dagger in his hand rushed in with a distorted face, holding the dagger and rushing towards Concubine De.
Concubine De fell at the emperor's feet. How could the guards let the eunuch get close to the emperor? They flew up and kicked the dumb slave out.
"Leave him alive!"
The emperor shouted, and the sword that was originally on the neck of the dumb slave did not swing down.
The palace servants rushed to help Concubine De, but found that she had been stabbed in the abdomen. She became weaker and weaker due to excessive blood loss.
She grabbed the corner of the emperor's clothes and said, "Your Majesty, dumb slave... dumb slave is the eunuch in my palace who is responsible for cleaning the lotus pond. Lu Yin... Lu Yin found out that he raised piranhas in the lotus pond, so he killed her... killed her to silence her. I saw him push Lu Yin off the rockery, and he... stabbed her with a dagger... I... well..."
Her wound was very painful, and she turned pale and sweated profusely. The lower abdomen she was holding was bleeding continuously. Before she finished her words, she fainted from exhaustion.
Wang Dequan walked in from outside: "Your Majesty, Lv Yin's body was found on the rockery outside Hexi Palace. There was a hole on her forehead. She must have been pushed down by someone and her head hit the small rockery below."
The palace architecture is exquisitely beautiful. There are small rockeries under the big rockery, which are combined to present a sense of hierarchy. When Lv Yin fell, her head hit the sharp stones below, which led to such serious consequences.
All of this seemed to correspond to what Defei said.
Emperor Xuanwu had already asked Tang Shiliang to invite the imperial physician immediately. He did not detain Concubine De first and then interrogate her. He directly let Concubine De receive treatment in the side hall of Hexi Palace, and he took Jiang Xinyue to sit in front of the hall and wait for the mute slave to wake up.
Jiang Xinyue also thought that it was better to interrogate her directly. Who knows whether the cunning Concubine De will send someone to assassinate the mute slave?