"What did the Princess Consort of the Carefree Kingdom send?"
Li Wei paused for a moment, then walked over to Yuwen Wuji and whispered the words.
Upon hearing this, Yuwen Wuji was quite surprised.
"Seriously, such a thing exists?"
After thinking for a moment, Li Wei said, "This kind of thing came out of the palace."
Yuwen Wuji was even more surprised, and then became angry.
Could it be that his favorite concubines are also secretly using this kind of thing? I wonder if it has been tested. They are not worth the death of the concubines, but what if they hurt him?
"Li Wei, return to the palace and thoroughly investigate this matter for me!"
He was furious. After saying that, he added, "Summon Physician Zou!"
Li Wei looked at the angry emperor, whose face showed signs of aging. Even though the emperor himself didn't want to admit it, people do age as time goes by.
With the Emperor no longer in the palace and state affairs now handled by the cabinet, the inner palace has become Lu Yinghong's personal fiefdom.
She planned to kill Song Wenyue while the emperor was away, and then take her child and raise it herself.
Unexpectedly, Song Wenyue was a troublemaker; her sister got her a strange medicine that supposedly could repair that area.
She had been in the palace for many years; she knew that kind of medicine all too well, and she had even used it herself. But as time passed and she grew older, the emperor no longer wanted to come to her. What good would it do to use it?
However, she was very displeased with Song Wenyue's petty nature, as she had to flaunt what she had gained.
"Your Majesty, why not punish Consort Zhen on the grounds of corrupting the harem?"
Lu Yinghong waved her hand, "She only took out some medicine, which cannot completely kill her. If she doesn't die, she will always be the Sixth Prince's biological mother."
Only when she dies will this child truly side with her.
What kind of charges could completely destroy Song Wenyue? There are only a few.
He murdered the emperor and plotted to kill the imperial heir.
Lu Yinghong's eyes flickered, as if she had thought of something, and she asked, "Has my sister set off?"
The old woman said, "The Emperor's decree had just been issued when the disgraced Consort Gao was already being escorted to Chenliu."
Lu Yinghong scoffed, a mocking smile curving her red lips.
“I looked down on her back then. She only relied on her good relationship with the Empress to give me attitude at every turn. Things change, and before thirty years have even passed, she has already fallen.”
The old woman didn't reply, but just carefully watched her mistress.
I feel that my master is getting too powerful right now. There's a saying: "Pride comes before a fall."
Isn't that exactly what her master is like now?
"Come closer, I have something to tell you."
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After the people from the Jingzhao Prefecture left the Xuan Prince's residence, the Xuan Prince's Consort was so angry that she tore up a handkerchief.
Unconsciously, King Xuan and Emperor Yongle widened their pupils and opened their mouths wide.
No, is this still the gentle and quiet princess of their family?
"How could anyone be so malicious! I finally managed to marry my daughter off, do you know how hard it was for me?!"
Yongle looked at his mother hesitantly, his eyes filled with disbelief, confusion and shock.
"Mother, am I a burden to you? Why are you so eager to throw me away?"
"That's not what Mother Consort meant," Princess Consort Xuan hurriedly explained. "What Mother Consort meant was, with such an excellent husband as Son-in-law Shen, don't you want to marry him soon?"
As he spoke, he winked at Yongle.
Yongle and his mother exchanged a knowing glance and smiled.
"Then I'll leave the task of catching the murderer to Mother and Father. I'm going out to play! I have an appointment with Shen Qingque to go boating on the lake today!"
Watching his daughter rush out in a great hurry, King Xuan sighed, "A daughter is like a tree that cannot be kept at home once she grows up!"
Once Yongle's figure had completely disappeared through the doorway, the two elders' faces darkened considerably.
"The Lu family has really gone too far. Do they think that just because Lu Yinghong has become an Imperial Noble Consort, she can have any influence in the court?"
Although the people from the Jingzhao Prefecture were investigating, Yongle was the apple of the eye of Prince Xuan and his wife, so how could they not investigate thoroughly themselves?
King Xuan himself was in charge of the Court of Judicial Review, so he was naturally adept at investigating such cases and quickly discovered that the Lu family was behind it.
"Why the Lu family?" Princess Xuan asked, clutching the tattered handkerchief, her mind filled with confusion.
"Perhaps it's out of jealousy." Prince Xuan had handled so many cases and seen all sorts of motives. "The Lu family was jilted because of Yongle, and later they finally managed to get engaged to the Song family, only to have that incident happen on their wedding day. Look at our daughter, although she's older and spoiled, she's been arranged to marry into such a good family like the Shen family. Especially since Shen Qingque even achieved the third-highest rank in the imperial examination. If you were in that situation, wouldn't you feel resentful?"
"It wasn't our daughter who harmed her child!"
King Xuan sighed and said, "But Cui Yan did break off the engagement with the Lu family in order to curry favor with our family. Our daughter is indeed getting better and better, and given that Lu Yinghong is currently in power, it is only natural for the Lu family to want to vent their anger."
"Hmph! You've forgotten who you are just because you've gained power. You're still the emperor's own brother, yet you still have to keep your tail between your legs!"
King Xuan: "..."
Although Prince Xuan was reluctant to admit that his queen was telling the truth, he still couldn't help it... Why was he being ridiculed by his queen today? It was all because the Lu family had gone too far!
He wants to get revenge on the Lu family!
Lu Yinghong never expected her elder sister to cause her such trouble. Lu Shi thought to herself, her younger sister is now an Imperial Noble Consort, the head of the harem. Her family had also contributed significantly to the disaster relief efforts in Yunzhou; once the relief work was over, the Lu family would surely be able to rise again.
Therefore, seeing that the princess's life getting better and better, she thought of her poor daughter. The more she thought about it, the angrier she became, and she wanted to cause trouble for Princess Yongle.
She also didn't expect that the princess would have a maid to help her try on clothes, so the powder didn't get on Yongle's body.
Thinking that Yongle was alright anyway, the matter would naturally come to an end, so when the people from the Jingzhao Prefecture came to her door, she was caught off guard and had no reaction.
"What are you doing?" Lu shouted.
"Lu, you risked your life to murder the princess. Come with us!"
"How dare you! Who gave you permission to speak to me like that! Do you even know that my sister is an Imperial Noble Consort!"
The people from Jingzhao Prefecture were all favored by Prince Xuan. That man was the emperor's own younger brother. No matter how nice the Imperial Noble Consort spoke, wasn't he still the emperor's concubine?
Seeing her disregard for decorum, the crowd immediately seized her and escorted her back to the Jingzhao Prefecture.
The damage to Lu's face and body made her a laughingstock among her neighbors.
Lu couldn't understand why, even though she had been very discreet, the investigation had still traced her back to her!
Caught red-handed, and with the Emperor Xuan's instruction, Lady Lu was imprisoned on charges of plotting to murder the Prince's son. She should have been sentenced to death, but because of the presence of the Imperial Noble Consort, she was only sentenced to exile.
She never imagined that her momentary act of anger would ruin her life.
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