Chapter 426: Vicious
Yunniang’s two arms were broken, her face turned pale with pain, she knelt on the ground, curled up in pain.
“No… I didn’t…”
She denied it repeatedly, but she couldn’t explain why she hid on the beam in the middle of the night, waiting for an opportunity to assassinate the Queen Mother.
Jiang Xinyue withdrew from the emperor’s arms, took the hot water delivered by Shuangjiang to “suppress her surprise”, and said slowly: “Did Shi Fei send you here?”
Shi Fei?
Yunniang looked at her in surprise, then lowered her head, trying to hide the person behind her with silence.
Soon, Wang Dequan brought people to the Yanxi Palace: "Madam Shi Fei, the emperor wants you to go to Kunning Palace for questioning."
The nail stuck in the palm of her hand broke with a "snap", and the bare flesh could be seen bleeding at the seam.
Shi Fei forced a smile: "I have already gone to bed. It is not suitable for me to see the emperor in such a disheveled state. Eunuch Wang, can you allow me to change clothes first?"
"Madam Shi Fei, please do as you please, but please hurry up, the emperor is waiting!"
Shi Fei changed into a sapphire dress, with her hair loose and without any decoration, and soon came out: "Thank you for waiting, Eunuch Wang."
The night was silent. Shi Fei followed Wang Dequan and looked at the back of Wang Dequan's head. She felt that he looked hateful.
"Eunuch Wang has served the Emperor for many years and never accepted bribes. I really want to know what benefits the Queen Mother has given you. My family is much stronger than the Jiang family. I can afford what she can give. Why does Eunuch Wang insist on getting on her boat?"
Which of the concubines in the palace doesn't want to bribe Wang Dequan?
But Wang Dequan is the Emperor's confidant. No one dares to ask for it without absolute certainty. What if
he tells the Emperor everything? Wouldn't it mean that he will lose favor before he even gets it?
What did Jiang Xinyue promise this old man?
Wang Dequan said without even turning his head: "I have never received any bribe from the Queen Mother, and the Queen Mother has never promised me anything. All I did was to comply with the Emperor's wishes. Whoever the Emperor wants to protect, I will protect. Whoever the Emperor wants to help, I will help. Concubine Shi, please don't speculate rashly. Isn't there a saying that goes, 'Misfortune comes from the mouth?'"
The world has really changed. A mere eunuch dares to threaten concubines.
Do you really think that their Zhenbei General's Mansion is a pushover?
Concubine Shi snorted coldly, pushed Wang Dequan away in front of her, and quickly left him behind.
If you don't want to say it, just say it. Why are you making up such a high-sounding excuse?
The world is bustling, and everyone comes for profit. The world is full of people, all for profit.
Without profit, how can there be help without reason?
"Eunuch!"
The eunuch next to Wang Dequan was angry: "The Queen Mother was polite to you, she..."
"Hey!"
Wang Dequan raised his hand to stop him from speaking: "She is rushing to death, why should we stop her?"
He also asked him why he helped the Queen Mother?
Isn't she the answer?
Because the Queen Mother treated him as a normal old man and gave him the respect and dignity he had never received.
He is already the first attendant around the emperor. He has everything, but what he lacks is a decent respect.
He doesn't need many people to look up to him, but at least... no one is allowed to look down on him.
The Queen Mother treated every palace maid the same. She never thought that the maids and eunuchs were inferior to others. As long as everyone did their own job well, life would be easy.
Which maid and eunuch in Chengqian Palace didn't envy Xi Que and Shuang Jiang? Who didn't want to be Jiang Chuan and Xiao Xiangzi?
The Queen Mother was very protective. Once
you become her confidant, you can be more unrestrained in front of the emperor.
Even so, the emperor always praised that the servants in Kunning Palace were more lively and smart than those in other palaces.
Other palaces also want to be lively and smart!
But the emperor would think it was an offense, and he would drag them out and beat them with a stick after just two words.
When Concubine Shi arrived at Kunning Palace, she still saw Jiang Xinyue lying on the bed and the emperor sitting beside the bed.
"Your Majesty..."
"Pah!"
"Hiss—"
Concubine Shi was halfway through her squatting posture when the small porcelain bottle suddenly shattered at her feet, and the fragments flew up and cut her cheek.
Meng Qingyu pushed Yunniang to kneel down: "Your Majesty, this man has confessed that he was ordered by Concubine Shi to come to Kunning Palace to harm the Queen Mother."
Concubine Shi showed a shocked and confused expression: "What? I ordered? I don't even know who she is, how can I order her?"
Yunniang looked up at her: "Concubine Shi, how can you turn your face against me? It was you who said that as long as the Queen Mother was killed, you could replace her as the empress. You also resented that I didn't give her enough medicine and didn't make her bleed to death, and ordered me to do it without stopping, and find an opportunity to kill her, right?"
"What on earth are you talking about? I don't understand a word you say."
Concubine Shi knelt at the emperor's feet, looking up and crying: "Your Majesty, I really don't know her, I really don't know who she is!"
Xi Que pulled a little maid forward: "Then Madam Shi, why did you bribe Eunuch Hong from the Jingshifang to beat the tea-serving maid from Kunning Palace?"
The little maid who was pulled over not only had injuries on the corners of her mouth, but also bruises and redness on the corners of her eyes and cheeks, and her cheeks were half swollen.
It was obvious that she was beaten badly.
Eunuch Hong was also pushed to the ground. He didn't even dare to raise his head before throwing out the bag of silver: "Your Majesty, please spare my life! Your Majesty, please spare my life! I will never dare to do it again. It was Concubine Shi who asked me to teach the little palace maid in Kunning Palace a lesson. I was blinded by greed and I am guilty. Please, Your Majesty, spare me. I agreed because I was afraid of offending Concubine Shi. Please forgive me, Your Majesty."
After begging for mercy, he dared to raise his head. When he saw the face of the little palace maid, he moved his mouth in surprise: "No..."
"Wuwuwuwu..."
The little palace maid covered her face and cried bitterly: "I deserve to die. The queen is unconscious now, and I still caused such a thing. I deserve to die. Please punish me, Your Majesty, wuwuwu..."
The perpetrators cried out for forgiveness and begged for mercy, while the victims demanded punishment. How could such a thing happen in this world?
Concubine Shi grabbed the emperor's trouser legs: "No... it's not like that, Your Majesty... I just wanted to teach this maid who wet my shoes a lesson, I didn't..."
"If Concubine Shi hadn't long been resentful of my queen, how could she beat her like this just because of a small mistake made by a maid? In the final analysis, it's because she hates our queen that she has such great malice towards the palace maids of Kunning Palace!"
Shuangjiang's words defined Concubine Shi's nature of hurting the little palace maid as the worst.
Because of hatred, she even wanted to kill Jiang Xinyue, so she took out her anger on the palace maids of Kunning Palace because of such a small matter.