Chapter 71: The Great Martial Competition

If it were someone else, they would have cried and begged for justice from him, accusing this and that, and in short, they would have dragged down all the favored concubines in the harem.

Even if they didn't drag down, they would always show their weakness and indirectly guide him to suspect a certain concubine.

Concubine Pianzhen is different from anyone else. Concubine

Li Gui had a grudge against her, but she didn't mention it.

The queen also plotted against her, and Emperor Xuanwu didn't know if she found out, but she also helped the queen to speak. This silly girl, she was sold and still helped count money. Thinking back

carefully, it seemed that Jin Zhaoyi and Zhang Wanyi had also made things difficult for her, but she seemed to have forgotten it in a blink of an eye and didn't take their bullying to heart. There were

only two times. One time was because she was beaten for Shuangjiang. The next day, she rolled up her sleeves and beat up the maid of Concubine Li Gui.

The other time was when Concubine Su killed Xiao Aijiang. She designed Concubine Su to be reprimanded by him. Every time, she fought back for the people or pets around her.

It was because he favored her too much and never protected her that everyone in the harem thought that Concubine Zhen was good-tempered and easier to bully.

If the concubines in the harem knew what the emperor thought, they would probably kneel at the gate of Chengqian Palace and cry out for injustice.

Let's go back to the time when Concubine Chu was still in Changchun Palace. Concubine Chu instigated Concubine Zhen's sister Jiang Baolin to hang herself in Xihe Hall, and pretended to be a ghost to scare Concubine Zhen.

Where is Concubine Chu now?

Oh!

She was demoted to the lowest rank of a concubine and sent to the Xinzheku as a slave.

Let's take a look at Concubine Su in the palace of Concubine De...

She killed Concubine Zhen's puppy and falsely accused Concubine Zhen of hanging the puppy's body on the door to scare her.

As a result, she was caught by the emperor when she tried the same trick again. Not only was her leg tendons cut, but she was sent back home. To avoid disaster, the Su family moved out of the capital.

You don't need to find out what happened to Concubine Su, you know she will die.

And there is Jiang Yuan, who was once Jiang Shunyi and is now a slave in the cold palace. Let alone Sheng Chongzhengong! Before Concubine Zhen entered the palace, she was still quite respectable in front of the emperor.

Because she poisoned Concubine Zhen, the emperor hated her and she had no hope in this life.

And Wan Guiyi, because she went to the cold palace and said a few bad things about Concubine Zhen, the emperor demoted her to Zhang Wanyi on the pretext that the concubines were interfering in government. With

so many people's experience, no concubine in the harem dared to touch Jiang Xinyue easily. Even

with such protection, the emperor still felt that he did not protect her. If the concubines in the harem knew about it, they would be so angry that they would vomit blood.

"You should take good care of yourself. I will seek justice for you."

Jiang Xinyue fell limply into Emperor Xuanwu's arms: "Your Majesty, in fact, I also want to find out who murdered me, but I also know that Your Majesty is in such a position, it is lonely at the top, and there are always many unspeakable secrets. If the murderer cannot be touched, I will not seek revenge. As long as Your Majesty treats me well, I don't care about anything, even if I have to sacrifice my life, I will be happy. So Your Majesty, promise me that you won't make things too difficult for yourself, okay?"

It was impossible to sacrifice her life, but it didn't affect her ability to satisfy her desire to move Emperor Xuanwu.

How could she be so soft? How could she be so compromising for the one she loved?

Emperor Xuanwu held her tightly, as if holding a treasure that had been lost and found again: "Yuer, don't say these unlucky words. It was my fault in the past that I didn't take care of your safety. From now on, with me here, no one can hurt you." The

next day was a sunny day, the sun was not too hot, and the breeze was warm. Emperor Xuanwu ordered a martial arts competition to be held in the Wude Hall of the palace, and ordered all the eunuchs to participate.

The champion would be selected and appointed as the sword-bearing guard in front of the emperor, so no one was allowed to be absent, and all the eunuchs had to participate.

But there were so many eunuchs that it would take more than one day to gather them all.

But those who could gather quickly on the first day had been excluded as the murderer by Emperor Xuanwu.

The rest of the people who asked for sick leave, went home to visit relatives, were injured on duty, and those who did not gather in time were the focus of Emperor Xuanwu's attention. They

were all young talents, each of them was majestic and tall. The concubines in the harem dressed up in fancy clothes these days and went to the parade ground of Wude Hall to watch the guards compete.

Although they were all the emperor's women, except for the empress, Defei, Shufei, Liangfei, Rongpin, Liguifei and other "old people", they were all young boys and girls, and their hormones were overflowing.

"Your Highness, don't you want to go and have a look?"

Shuangjiang had just come over to feed her some meat and bones, and after washing her hands, she returned to the study in Hexi Palace, and stood beside Jiang Xinyue and said, "I heard that the Empress and Consort De both have brothers who work in the Imperial Guards. This martial arts competition is so grand that almost all the ladies in the harem are going!"

Except for Consort Li Gui, who was confined by the Emperor, and Ye Baolin, who was injured on the face, and Consort Zhen, her own.

"What's there to see?"

Jiang Xinyue threw a newly written piece of rice paper into the brazier, and the beautiful handwriting on it was instantly devoured by the flames and burned into black ash.

Shuangjiang was a little puzzled: "My queen, why do you want to burn such beautiful words?"

Jiang Xinyue smiled and said, "It's not that good. You think it's good because you have a filter for me."

Although she didn't understand what her master was saying, Shuangjiang still stood beside her, helping her grind the ink while looking at the words she wrote.

It was clearly very beautiful.

The word "Zhen" jumped on the paper. Before the last stroke was added, the voice of Xijue came from outside: "Ye Baolin, Ye Baolin, you can't go in, our queen..."

"Get out of here!"

With a "bang", the door of the study was kicked open, and Ye Baolin ran straight to Jiang Xinyue, staring at her angrily.

The red marks on her face had not yet disappeared, and she questioned: "Jiang Xinyue, did you do this on purpose?"

The wolf-hair brush was placed heavily on the pen holder. Jiang Xinyue looked over with a look of neither sadness nor joy: "Didn't the nanny in Chuxiu Palace teach you the rules?"

Ye Baolin put his hands on the table, squinted his eyes, and said in a bad tone: "I beat Concubine Li, but the emperor didn't do anything to me. Who do you think you are? You are not qualified to teach me the rules? You think you are so great just because you have been favored for a few days? Believe it or not, I..."

"Pah!"

Jiang Xinyue was not used to her bad habits, and slapped her head to the side: "I am Concubine Zhen, and you are just a little Baolin. Who do you think you are? How dare you shout in front of me? Xi Que, slap her mouth."

After all, this was Hexi Palace, Jiang Xinyue's territory, how could Ye Baolin be so presumptuous?

In a short while, she was suppressed by several eunuchs, and Xi Que attacked her from both sides, leaving new wounds on her face.

In the end, Ye Baolin wanted to know that the nobility of the palace was not determined by family background, but by the rank of the concubines.

Those who committed crimes should be beaten.