Chapter 74: Kindness and force
Who is the real murderer?
It is naturally whoever the emperor guesses or suspects.
In short, even if all the women in the harem are guessed, it will not happen to Concubine Zhen.
She is the biggest victim and almost lost her life!
Imperial Physician Yan just put the medicine back in his stomach and his heart was lifted again: "Zhen... Concubine Zhen, I am stupid... I really don't know what your Majesty means, please tell me clearly."
Jiang Xinyue used kindness and force, and felt that Imperial Physician Yan was about to collapse. When he estimated that it was almost time, he sighed and said: "Uncle Yan, Yue'er did not want to enter the palace. My father sent me in for glory and wealth. Uncle Yan, you have seen how many calculations and murders I have made along the way. In my eyes. If I still don’t know how to protect myself, I’m afraid that soon, there will no longer be a person like Concubine Zhen in the palace. "
She looked sad, with tears in her eyes: "Uncle Yan, our families are old friends, and Xinyi is my best friend before I entered the palace. My difficulties are inhumane, and I can only tell you a few things. Uncle Yan, are you willing to help me?"
Yan Xinyi is the only daughter of Doctor Yan. She is really innocent and kind, without any ulterior motives.
The original body knew Yan Xinyi's identity before entering the palace, and deliberately made friends with her, thinking that after entering the palace, she could use Doctor Yan to win favor for herself. Now
it has benefited Jiang Xinyue, who came from another world, and it is also the only good thing the original body has done.
If the original body had not made enemies everywhere, Jiang Xinyue would not have been plotted against by so many people, so she did not feel guilty at all for using the original body's connections.
Besides, in this palace, no matter whether you fight or not, those who are not smart enough will die.
The person who pretended to be the maid of Concubine Shu did exist, and she was indeed the Empress Dowager's person. The reason why Shuangjiang sprained her foot was that they had painted the cobblestones in advance.
Empress Dowager Wu, as the number one person in the harem whose status was far higher than that of Empress Zhu, had countless spies reporting Jiang Xinyue's whereabouts to her.
As long as Emperor Xuanwu found out this, the real culprit behind the scenes, Empress Dowager Wu, would not be able to escape.
But after the maid sent Xi Que and Shuang Jiang away, she was caught and slapped, and told to behave herself and not to think about things she shouldn't, such as the emperor's favor. Empress
Dowager Wu must have been angry that she had snatched the emperor away from Concubine Shu, and thought that she was deliberately hostile to Concubine Shu. She
probably wanted to teach her a lesson, but she didn't want to cause any more trouble in the fragile mother-son relationship between her and the emperor, so she could only shock Jiang Xinyue in this way.
But her moves were obviously not good enough in front of Jiang Xinyue, a level 10 scholar of "The Legend of Zhen Huan".
So she played along with her, using what she learned from her doctoral degree in psychology, and hypnotized herself on the spot.
Zhang Wanyi, who was passing by the lake, only saw the palace maid pushing Jiang Xinyue into the water, but she did not see that Jiang Xinyue deliberately clashed with the palace maid. During the argument, even the palace maid could not remember whether she pushed Jiang Xinyue down or Jiang Xinyue herself did not stand firmly and fell down.
As for the guard who grabbed her feet under the water, he was a character she made up.
However, it is true that there are water plants at the bottom of the water, and they were deliberately tied into knots.
If someone accidentally falls into the water, they will definitely be entangled in panic and cannot be untied, and can only die under the water in the end.
But fortunately, she was not pushed into the water without preparation, but changed her posture as soon as she fell into the water, dived with her head facing the bottom of the water, and when she touched the knotted water plants, she immediately swam to a safe place. She
held her breath underwater for three full minutes, then deliberately drank a few sips of water, pretended to swallow water, and floated to the surface to ask for help.
When Emperor Xuanwu asked her, including when she woke up with a dizzy head, it was because she was still hypnotized at the time. She really thought that someone was pulling her feet under the water, and she stabbed the other person with a golden hairpin, and narrowly escaped death.
When people lie, some subconscious expressions, movements, and eyes cannot deceive others.
Emperor Xuanwu was a shrewd person who was very good at observing people's micro-expressions. If such a person studied psychology in the future, he would probably become a great god in the academic world.
Jiang Xinyue did not dare to underestimate him.
Lying might be seen through, but if even she was deceived by herself, how could it be considered a lie?
What she said was all true!
She was sure that even if she hadn't fallen into the water at that time, she would have been pushed in one day. The knotted waterweed at the bottom of the water was specially prepared for her.
But that person should not be Queen Mother Wu. This time, Queen Mother Wu was destined to take the blame for the person behind the scenes.
Jiang Xinyue was lucky enough to escape the disaster of falling into the water that would take her life soon.
When Doctor Yan came out of Hexi Palace carrying the medical box, he looked up at the square blue sky and felt for the first time that the palace was a cage that would eat people without spitting out bones.
It can turn a naive girl who knows nothing about the world into a scheming and terrible girl.
But Concubine Zhen is right. He is old and has no children to inherit his legacy. The head of the Imperial Hospital has always been a descendant of Empress Zhu. No matter how skilled his disciples are in medicine, they have no hope of promotion.
After he dies, I am afraid that no one will take care of his only daughter.
Without the support of her mother's family, her daughter's husband's family will bully and look down on her in the future.
But what if her daughter is on good terms with the favorite concubines in the palace?
Who in the minister's family would not offer his daughter as a sacrifice?
Ordinary people would not dare to let their daughter be unhappy at all.
Concubine Zhen...
Concubine Zhen was indeed seriously injured when she fell into the water. We can't let the emperor let go of the person who hurt Concubine Zhen so easily!
Xi Que patted his chest: "When did the master find out that there was something wrong with the palace maid?"
If she hadn't been discovered early, she might have died.
Jiang Xinyue looked at Shuangjiang's swollen ankle and said, "I knew something was wrong when Shuangjiang sprained her ankle. How could the cobblestone road produce oil so much that it covered Shuangjiang's soles?"
What a coincidence, when Shuangjiang sprained her ankle, Concubine Shu's maid came to invite her to sit in Jingren Palace?
Too many coincidences are not coincidences, but man-made.
Seeing that Emperor Xuanwu was about to make a big fuss in the palace for him, Concubine Shu lost favor, and even the Queen Mother was angry enough, and it was unknown what Dawu Bibi would come up with in the end!
The biggest winner is her!
Not only did she get the promise of Emperor Xuanwu, but she was also named Zhenpin.
Although the emperor's promise changed every day and was worthless, it proved that her status in the emperor's mind was different from that of an ordinary concubine.
The emperor's promise is worthless, but the emperor himself does not think that the woman who is worthy of his promise is the one he loves most at this moment.
Concubine Shu and Concubine Li were too stupid to seek more benefits for themselves in the limited love of Emperor Xuanwu.
She is different. She wants everything except the emperor's love.
"But..."
Xi Que looked at Jiang Xinyue worriedly: "If the emperor can't find the guard with a wound on his chest, doesn't it prove that you are lying, master?"