Chapter 73: Killing and destroying one's heart
"Oh?"
Emperor Xuanwu stopped writing and looked up at Zhang Wanyi: "Unjust? You don't know? Do you think I'm blind?"
Wang Dequan lowered his head, not daring to look at the angry face of Emperor Xuanwu. He wanted to remind Zhang Wanyi that it would be better to confess her guilt as soon as possible.
In the harem, there are no secrets as long as the emperor wants to know. In the past
two days, the emperor has made the entire palace busy in order to investigate the incident of Concubine Zhen falling into the water.
In order to find out the guard with a chest injury, he mobilized a large martial arts competition and even lured him with the former guard. What's so strange about finding out that Zhang Wanyi passed by the lake at that time?
Zhang Wanyi struggled desperately: "I passed by the lake that day, but I didn't hear any noise, nor did I hear Concubine Zhen's call for help! I think... I think someone dragged her into the water, and I walked very fast, so I missed it. Your Majesty, I really didn't..."
"Enough!"
Emperor Xuanwu didn't want to listen to her excuses anymore, and said directly to Wang Dequan: "Zhang Wanyi has a perverse personality, is jealous and vicious, and will be demoted to Zhang Ronghua from today, and confined to the side hall
of Zhongcui Palace." He didn't even plan to give her the main seat in Zhongcui Palace, and made her move to the side hall.
The emperor knew how to kill people and destroy their hearts.
For concubines in the harem, status and dignity were more important than life, but he grasped Wan Ronghua's life in an instant, pinched her neck, and made her face turn pale in an instant.
Wang Dequan winked, and immediately an eunuch carried the paralyzed Zhang Wanyi... no... Wan Ronghua down.
Wan Ronghua was thrown on the cold floor of the side hall in a daze. She suddenly grabbed Wang Dequan's clothes like crazy: "Why? Why is the emperor so cruel to me? Zhenpin also caused Concubine Li to fall into the water, and not only was nothing wrong, but she was also promoted. I just passed by and didn't save Zhenpin. Why did the emperor treat me like this?"
Wang Dequan ruthlessly withdrew his Wang Dequan was holding his clothes, with a amiable face and a smile on his face: "Master Wan is confused. Concubine Zhen is now the favorite of the emperor. If you make Concubine Zhen unhappy, the emperor will only make you more unhappy. Don't blame the emperor for being cruel. You can only blame the culprit who made Master Wan deal with Concubine Zhen."
Wan Ronghua was slightly startled, and even her pupils shrank for a moment because of shock.
She took a few steps back, and seemed extremely afraid of the "culprit" mentioned by Wang Dequan.
Wang Dequan saw all the secrets, and when he returned to the study, he told the truth: "Let Wan Ronghua be so scared, I'm afraid..."
He didn't finish his words, but Emperor Xuanwu understood what the old man wanted to say.
"Empress Dowager!"
It was the Empress Dowager who wanted Concubine Zhen's life!
Emperor Xuanwu was almost certain that his vicious biological mother wanted to take away her beloved things from him again.
"Bang!"
A pair of fine official kiln enamel porcelains were broken in Cining Palace, and Empress Dowager Wu grabbed the back of the chair with her hands, veins exposed.
Her chest rose and fell violently, and her face was terribly gloomy: "The emperor has lost his mind for a woman. I am his biological mother, and he dared to treat me like this. It seems that I have been silent for too long, so that a little concubine dared to use me as a raft to compete for favors."
Behind her, Nanny Gui calmed her down: "Empress Dowager, calm down. The emperor was just temporarily deceived by the treacherous concubine, and he was not really against you, the Empress Dowager. Don't ruin your body for unworthy popularity. The emperor will understand your good intentions."
"Can I still count on this rebellious son?"
Empress Dowager Wu slapped the back of her chair, making it slap. "I knew long before that rebellious son overthrew the Wu family that he was just like his heartless father. I shouldn't have counted on him to bring honor to the Wu family or to me."
She was so angry that she was shaking. After forcing herself to calm down for a long time, she sat on the chair with a sinister look in her eyes. "How is Concubine Shu's health?"
Aunt Gui asked respectfully . Jing replied: "With your love and care, the Empress Dowager, Shufei will naturally be very well. The Imperial Physician Qu who diagnosed your pulse is a master in prenatal care. The Empress Dowager and the little prince will be safe. You can rest assured." The Empress Dowager
Wu then showed a smile and put her hands together in front of her chest and prayed: "Buddha bless you...Buddha bless you..."
She only hoped that Shufei could give birth to a prince of the Wu family's bloodline, so that she could overthrow her own son and support her grandson to ascend the throne.
By then, she would be the Empress Dowager who ruled the country from behind the curtain, truly above all others.
In Hexi Palace, Imperial Physician Yan, who came to take care of Jiang Xinyue, stood aside with his body hunched. The weather was clearly April, which was neither cold nor hot and was very comfortable, but beads of sweat kept rolling down his forehead.
Being an imperial physician... and being able to bring honor to the family... is what all medical students aspire to do in their lives... but being an imperial physician... means tying your head to your belt and being ready to sacrifice your life for the harem at any time.
Imperial Physician Yan felt that his life was about to be in danger.
Who would have thought that the emperor's favorite concubine, Concubine Zhen, was actually a good actor?
What about falling into the water and fainting, and being on the verge of death? It
was all acted out by Concubine Zhen, and she forced him to act along.
"Doctor Yan, is it hot?"
Jiang Xinyue looked at the old man with a smile. No matter how he looked at that smile, Doctor Yan found it creepy: "No, no, no... I'm not hot... Not hot..."
"Xi Que, bring a chair to Doctor Yan. Don't be polite
, Doctor Yan." Doctor Yan didn't dare to sit down. He thought that Concubine Zhen was trying to intimidate him. His knees went weak and he knelt on the ground, crying bitterly: "Concubine Zhen, please spare my life! I... I know nothing, I will not say anything. I have old people and young children at home. I beg Concubine Zhen to spare my life!"
What?
Jiang Xinyue felt that her attitude was very kind, and quickly asked Xiaoxuanzi to pull the person up: "Dr. Yan, I was poisoned in the cold palace before, and it was thanks to your miraculous healing that I was saved. I have always remembered it in my heart and can't thank you enough. Why would I want to take your life?"
I just wanted to pull you over and tie you to a boat.
Doctor Yan raised his head cautiously, looking at the face of Concubine Zhen, who looked like a serpentine beauty, and trembled: "Really...really not going to kill me?"
Jiang Xinyue nodded, with a particularly sincere expression.
Doctor Yan heaved a sigh of relief and wiped the cold sweat off his face with his sleeve: "Thank you, Concubine Zhen. Your Majesty, please let me live. I will keep the secret for you and will never reveal a single thing."
"Don't worry."
Jiang Xinyue smiled: "Anyway, no one will believe you if you tell it to others. Who would risk their own life to win the emperor's sympathy and not frame anyone?"
She was pushed into the water, but she did not tell the emperor who pushed her, let alone suspect who pushed her.
Not only that, she also tried to prove the innocence of Concubine Shu in front of the emperor.