Chapter 334: Suing Concubine De
"You!"
"The Emperor is here--"
The eunuch's announcement outside the house startled Concubine De, and a bad premonition surged into her heart.
She squatted down, grabbed the shoulders of the third prince tightly with both hands, and her eyes revealed fear: "Xuan'er, you save your mother once, just once, from now on, I will never ignore your feelings again, okay?"
The third prince didn't understand what happened, and saw his father coming in angrily from the door.
Concubine De was halfway through her salute when she was slapped in the face. She flew to the side and hit the stool. She was so painful that half of her ear was tinnitus for a moment and could not hear any sound.
But soon the emperor's thunderous voice came: "De Fei has harmed the palace ladies and is unkind to her. Now she wants to harm the Sixth Prince. Her crimes are too numerous to list. From today on, her title will be stripped. After being tortured in the torture chamber for 60 days, she will be demoted to a commoner and taken to Fengxian Hall to atone for her crimes."
So, the emperor has already found out that the Empress's two children were killed by De Fei, right?
Otherwise, why not Xinzheku? Not the cold palace? Not the shady place that everyone is afraid of? But Fengxian Hall, where the spirits of the previous emperors are enshrined.
De Fei struggled to open her eyes. No! She didn't want to go to the torture chamber. The torture chamber was dark and dark from morning to night. A normal person couldn't stand it for three days. She would go crazy if she was locked up for 60 days.
"Your Majesty, I don't know what you are talking about."
She knelt down and raised her swollen face: "Your Majesty knows what kind of person I am. Normally, I can't bear to step on an ant to death. How could I do such a crazy thing? Someone must have framed me. Please investigate and clear my name." "
Before her death, the Empress gave me something, Ning Feixiu. I'm sure you haven't forgotten it, right?"
The Empress's eyebrows jumped violently. How could she forget?
Ning Feixiu was the Third Prince's personal maid and one of her most trusted people. It can be said that even Lu Yindu's status is not as good as Ning Feixiu, otherwise the important task of taking care of the Third Prince would not have fallen on her.
But in order to frame Jiang Xinyue, the plot was exposed. In order to cover up the truth, Ning Feixiu was killed by Defei, and the body was found in the palace of the Empress, which led everyone to believe that it was the Empress who poisoned the third prince.
"You...you..."
Defei pointed at Jiang Xinyue and was speechless for a long time.
Not to mention Defei, even the emperor who came with her was in shock. Before the Empress died...she gave something to Yue'er?
Why had he never heard of it?
"Your Majesty!"
Jiang Xinyue raised her hand to her forehead and knelt down, saying in a sonorous and powerful voice: "I want to sue Concubine De and the Chengguo Mansion. They were the murderers who killed the late crown prince and the second prince. The queen gave me Ning Feixiu's blood letter before she passed away. Since I got the blood letter, I have been worried about the safety of the sixth prince every day. But I am afraid that once the blood letter comes out, it will cause unrest in the front court and the back palace, so I have been hesitating."
She took the blood letter from Xi Que's hand . She took the blood letter and held it above her head: "Your Majesty, I finally understand today that a person with a vicious nature will never change. For the safety of the fourth, fifth, and sixth princes, I have to reveal her true face. I only hope that no prince in your harem will die a violent death from now on."
The blood letter detailed how Concubine De bribed the people around the crown prince and the second prince, deceived their trust, and then pushed them step by step into the abyss of death.
Not only that, the concubines in the palace had miscarriages in those years, and the children born always died within three to five days. They were all caused by Concubine De.
Emperor Xuanwu read ten lines at a glance, and his fingers pinched the blood letter very hard. He couldn't suppress his anger. He gasped, pinched Concubine De's neck, and lifted her up from the ground.
No matter how many curses he uttered, they were all turned into strength under his hands, pinching Concubine De's face until it swelled up and purple, with her feet off the ground, thrashing non-stop.
"Father! Father! Father..."
The Third Prince finally came to his senses from his daze, rushed to the emperor's feet, knelt down, and grabbed his clothes: "Father, it's all my fault, it's all my fault. If I hadn't been born, my mother wouldn't have made the same mistakes again and again. I beg you... I beg you to spare my mother's life. I am willing to go to Fengxian Hall. From now on, I will fast and chant Buddha's name, and serve the Empress' spirit tablet in Fengxian Hall. I will go and ask for her forgiveness. I beg you to spare her life."
His head was like iron, banging on the ground, and his head was bleeding.
The Defei's throat made a "hehe" sound and she almost fainted.
"Bang!"
The emperor waved his hand and the Defei was thrown out. Her body hit the table and then fell to the ground. She lay on the ground and kept vomiting.
The third prince was still kowtowing: "Thank you, father, thank you, the Royal Concubine, thank you, father, thank you, the Royal Concubine..."
"Have you thought it through?"
Emperor Xuanwu's face was cold: "If you choose to exhaust the father-son relationship between us today, from now on, I will no longer consider you my child. You just stay with this vicious woman and stop dreaming about those things that will never belong to you."
Tears fell from the corners of the third prince's eyes: "Father has Empress Zhen, fourth brother and sixth brother. Father has many choices. Mother has nothing. She only has sons. Father... sons have never thought about being a prince or an emperor. Sons just want to be a leisurely person in peace and stability. Please... father and daughter."
He is already eight years old and is no longer the child who knew nothing two years ago. He knows what he is giving up with these words today.
But...
if staying away from the disputes in the palace can make my mother give up her obsession and be at ease to just be his mother, then giving up everything is worth it.
But if it is just to let Defei guard Fengxian Hall, why did Jiang Xinyue take out the blood letter?
Wildfires cannot be extinguished, and spring breezes will bring them back.
How can we live in peace if the disaster is not eliminated?
"The Third Prince has been studying in the Prince's School for some time. Has he learned that if a prince breaks the law, he shall be punished as a commoner? Not only is Defei the real culprit behind the eighteen deaths in the palace, she also killed the former Crown Prince and the Second Prince, as well as most of the pregnant concubines in the palace. They were separated from their children by her. You plead for her, you forgive her sins, but what about those people she killed? Do they have a chance to beg for mercy?"
"If everyone does not have to pay for killing so many people, then will the entire harem be in chaos?"
Kill whoever you dislike, as long as you don't pay with your life.
Concubine Wen, the remaining concubines, and Noble Lady Ye had long since listened to Jiang Xinyue's advice and brought all the concubines who had experienced miscarriage or child loss to Yanqing Palace.
When they heard the third prince pleading for their mother, they all knelt at the door and cried.