Chapter 335 Cause of Death of the Former

Crown Prince "Your Majesty, I am Tong Xiuyuan. I entered the palace in the sixth year of Xuanwu. I got pregnant the following year. I miscarried in the third month of pregnancy. At that time, it was found that a palace maid accidentally pushed me. I suspect that she was bribed by Concubine De. Please give me justice."

"I am Shi Xiuyi. I entered the palace in the fourth year of Xuanwu. I got pregnant in the eighth year of Xuanwu. I gave birth to a son who died two days later. The prince who died cannot be included in the clan. My child has no place to go even after death. I also suspect Concubine De. Please give me justice."

"I am Concubine Zhuang. Six years ago, I was injured in a miscarriage and could no longer serve the emperor. I have been living in the Plum Garden. The imperial physician said that I ate too much safflower, which caused me to bleed profusely. I have been bleeding profusely in recent years. I am dying soon. I just want justice for myself and my child!"

"Your Majesty, please kill Concubine De!"

Those questions were made of the flesh and blood of Emperor Xuanwu's children.

The emperor grabbed Concubine De's neck again, dragged her to the door, pointed at the group of concubines kneeling outside the door and said, "Look for yourself, look for yourself how many murders you have committed?" Concubine

De's eyes swept across the faces of those concubines one by one. She thought that she stepped on these people and was in a high position. She should have forgotten these incompetent losers long ago.

However, the moment they appeared, she seemed to be pulled back to the time when she had just entered the palace.

The family did not just send her to the palace to win the emperor's favor, but also sent another sister to the palace.

That sister was extremely beautiful, comparable to the then Li Guifei. After being selected to enter the palace, she was isolated by all the concubines, and no one wanted to stand with her and have their glory taken away.

Defei knew that with her appearance, it would be difficult to get the emperor's favor.

So she pretended to be like a quail every day, and followed her sister obediently. The sister relied on her beauty and ordered her like a maid. Not only did she not resist, but she also took the initiative to help her do many things. Even the concubines who participated in the selection scolded her for being stupid, saying that she was a jerk who was happy to be bullied.

Her kind, weak and harmless image was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

She was the only legitimate daughter of the Duke of Chengguo’s mansion. Her cousin was beautiful, but the position in the palace was never based on appearance. What was more important was the power behind it. When

Defei entered the palace, she had not yet been favored, but she had already been given the title of Ronghua, while her cousin only gave a small promise.

The day before the emperor was going to summon her to his bedchamber, her cousin suddenly fell ill, foamed at the mouth, and died of bleeding from all seven orifices.

The next day, the Ministry of Internal Affairs came to Chuxiu Palace and said that the emperor had turned over the card of Defei, but Defei said that her cousin died, and she would go to Sheng'an Temple for her sake to ask the Buddha to bless her cousin to be safe and happy in the next life.

It was after that time that the emperor noticed her.

She was promoted all the way, and it took her six years to become Defei, and she raised the third prince. After that, her ambitions became bigger and bigger.

Whenever a concubine got pregnant, or if they were lucky enough to give birth to a child, she would try her best to get rid of it.

Because since she was a child, her father told her that as long as she eliminated things that were harmful to her, she would always be invincible. She was the only legitimate daughter

in the Duke of Chengguo's mansion. It was not that the Duke of Chengguo had no concubines, but the children conceived by those concubines either died in the womb or died with their biological mothers.

In short, her father could only have her as a daughter.

In the palace, there could only be one prince, the third prince, so that he could inherit the throne smoothly in the future.

The former crown prince...

Ha!

That idiot, she just coaxed him a few words, saying that her jade pendant fell into the pool. The jade pendant was a gift, and it would be a serious crime if it was lost.

After becoming the favorite, Concubine De took refuge with the Empress, and was kind and gentle in every aspect. The former Crown Prince and the Second Prince liked and trusted her very much.

The former Crown Prince's personal eunuch went to the East Palace to get him a cloak, and the people around him were distracted by various emergencies. Because of his love for Concubine De, the former Crown Prince leaned on the edge of the pool to get her jade pendant, but was pushed into the pool by Concubine De's men.

Concubine De still remembers clearly his eyes widened in disbelief when he struggled.

As for the Second Prince, it was much simpler.

When smallpox broke out inside and outside the palace, nearly a hundred children died of smallpox in the capital alone. Concubine De had had smallpox when she was a child, so she was not afraid of being infected.

She asked Duke Cheng to bring in a handkerchief stained with smallpox, and then made an undergarment for the second prince. While changing his clothes, she wiped the corners of his eyes and mouth with the handkerchief.

After the second prince broke out with smallpox, the queen had suspected that there was something wrong with the clothes, and she even asked the imperial physician to check it. The result of the examination was also no problem.

How could she know that the clothes sent were just a decoy, just to make the queen investigate in the wrong direction.

The medicine bottle in the pool was to make everyone think that the first prince was poisoned and fainted and fell into the water while watching fish. Defei was the first person to find him and rescue him, and all the palace maids who served the prince that day were executed.

She knew that the empress would investigate thoroughly, so she threw out the underwear on purpose to make the empress suspicious. The handkerchief stained with smallpox poison had long been burned by Concubine De.

She had so many handkerchiefs that looked exactly the same, how could the empress tell which one it was that day?

It was all Jiang Xinyue's fault... If it weren't for her, the emperor wouldn't have found out about her. If it wasn't for framing her for poisoning the third prince, she wouldn't have to reveal that she could poison.

Then, even if the emperor got the bottle in the pool, he wouldn't suspect her.

It can only be said that in order to deal with Jiang Xinyue, she exposed too many of her secrets.

Now, those things that have been exposed have become the last straw that broke her back.

The hateful looks of the concubines frightened her, and she stepped back: "Fei Xiu died in the Empress's palace. Who knows if this blood letter was forged by the Empress in order to overthrow her concubine? Or, the Imperial Concubine forced Fei Xiu to write it in order to let the Sixth Prince inherit the throne. Anyway, you and the Empress are of the same mind, otherwise she would not hand over the Fifth Prince to you, right?" Her

mind was not completely frightened, and she knew to use the Fifth Prince to distort the relationship between Jiang Xinyue and the late Empress.

"You just rely on the fact that there is no evidence, right?"

Jiang Xinyue sneered: "Then how do you explain that you killed Lu Yin and framed the dumb slave?"

As soon as Jiang Xinyue finished speaking, the emperor raised his chin at the door: "Bring him in."

The people from the Suspension Mirror Department led in a Cangsang woman wearing a gray linen dress. The woman looked at them from the corner of her eyes. When she saw Concubine De, she rushed over excitedly: "Your Excellency, Your Excellency, I finally found you. I... my husband came to the capital to look for you. Didn't you say you would return our daughter to us? Where are they?" They

have

already gone to heaven.