Chapter 270 Wang Ruer's Death
The snow was so deep that it almost reached my ankles. Everything was white all around, as if everything had turned into ice.
People were shivering from the cold just standing in the snow, but the woman was still dancing on the ice in her thin dance costume.
The dance costume is thin, as flimsy as a cicada's wing. It's so cold in the ice and snow that I'm afraid I'll freeze to death.
But this woman seemed unaware of the cold. She still smiled and danced in front of everyone.
The dance moves were graceful and the expression on her face was one of infatuation.
I don't know when she came, but there was a thick layer of snow on her dancing clothes. Now she was stretching her body and dancing towards the house.
Lin An was stunned for a moment. He looked in front of him, then turned his head to look at the Emperor behind him.
I didn't know this at the moment, and when I looked back I was really shocked.
His Majesty picked up the sword at some point and walked out with a gloomy face.
Lin An's heart skipped a beat. When he saw His Majesty coming out, he was about to bow to greet him, but He waved his sleeves and pushed him away.
Lin An slipped and his body hit the guard's scimitar.
He steadied his body and couldn't help but look up and forward, only to see that His Majesty had already walked to the side of the woman with a long sword in his hand.
Wang Ruer was dancing gracefully, dancing with ecstasy. Seeing that His Majesty was really approaching, he stopped happily.
She was so excited that she didn't notice the sword in His Majesty's hand at all.
Just watching the Emperor approaching her, Wang Ruer was so excited that she felt at a loss as to what to do.
"Your Majesty..." Wang Ruer stopped where she was. She had been standing in the snow for too long and her body was bruised by the cold.
The makeup that she had carefully put on all night now looked messy.
But she didn't care. She looked at His Majesty without blinking, her affectionate eyes filled with spring water. She didn't notice the gloom on His Majesty's face at all.
"Your Majesty." Seeing that His Majesty didn't say anything, Wang Ruer pretended to be shy and moved closer to His Majesty holding up her skirt.
Xiao Yu noticed Wang Ruer approaching, and his brows couldn't help but frown. The disgust in his eyes was obvious, but Wang Ruer was still immersed in joy and didn't notice it at all.
"Your Majesty." Wang Ruer stood in front of His Majesty, with only the figure of the person in front of her in her eyes.
Just as he was about to get closer, he was stopped in his tracks by a long sword: "Were you the one last night?"
Wang Ruer looked at the long sword blocking her way and her heart skipped a beat.
But when she met His Majesty, she was so surprised. To the point of forgetting everything and only thinking about future glory.
Wang Ruer shyly grabbed the hem of her skirt, her fingertips digging into her flesh.
She didn't know how Zhou Shuyun served him last night, but looking at the Emperor's expression, she stepped forward happily.
"It's my concubine..."
As soon as she finished speaking, a long sword stabbed straight at her neck.
Warm blood splashed out instantly, and Wang Ruer didn't even feel the pain as it flowed along the sword and fell onto her neck.
"Wan..." The cold wind was biting, and the icy sword was instantly stained with blood.
Wang Ruer looked at the bright red blood and didn't even realize it was her own. She just tentatively reached out her hand and touched her neck.
Until I felt a wetness on my fingertips and the sticky blood stained my entire hand.
Wang Ruer stared at the palm of her hand, and when she realized something, she screamed.
A sharp sound cut through the snowy night, and the guards around hurried forward.
But Wang Ruer could no longer move. She looked at the blood in her palm, and then she seemed to realize that the blood was flowing from her body.
With his eyes wide open, he stiffened his body and fell straight into the snow.
With a 'bang', a deep pit was created in the snow. The white snow was dyed a large area red.
Shen Fu stood there, watching this scene, and felt her whole body trembling.
The person who was fine the moment before now lay in front of him, covered in blood.
Shen Fu stared at the snow, breathing heavily.
At some point, His Majesty walked up to her and covered Shen Fu's eyes with his hands. Xiao Yu said in a low voice, "Don't look."
The hand in front of her was large and warm, and its palm firmly covered her eyes.
Shen Fu was forced to withdraw her gaze from the snow and look at the Emperor in front of her.
This was the first time she looked at His Majesty with such a strange, even fearful look.
When her eyes fell on the blood-stained fingertips of His Majesty, Shen Fu couldn't help but take a few steps back: "No..."
She shook her head and took a deep breath. But what I smelled in front of me was a strong smell of blood.
Shen Fu couldn't face it, at this moment she even wanted to run away.
“No…” Shen Fu shook her head and was about to leave. She pretended to be calm and walked back.
But a hand suddenly grabbed her from behind, and Xiao Yu reached out and grabbed her.
His Majesty held the sword in one hand, the fierceness between his brows had not faded yet, but he grabbed Shen Fu's wrist with one hand.
He used his palm to hold her tightly with his fingertips: "Don't be afraid of me."
There was still blood on the sword, but the hand holding the sword was clenched tightly.
Xiao Yu used his other hand to pull Chen Fu hard: "I will never hurt you."
The forest was completely silent. After His Majesty killed Wang Ruer with one sword, there was no sound at all.
Chen Fu left on the Emperor's sedan chair, but she couldn't help but look behind her.
In the snow, Wang Ruer's body had been frozen solid. She fell straight into the snow with her eyes wide open, as if she had died with her eyes open.
After taking a look, Chen Fu didn't dare to look around anymore and quickly lowered the curtain.
Only when she returned to Hehuan Palace did she feel relieved.
"Close the door." Chen Fu ordered Xiao Guizi who came to serve her.
Before she went to the Emperor's place last night, she instructed Xiao Guizi to go to Chuxiu Palace to look for Concubine Zhou.
It’s just that Xiao Guizi came back a little late, and before the two of them had time to meet, Chen Fu was captured by Lin An.
Xiao Guizi was stunned, obviously not knowing what was going on, and followed Chen Fu into the inner hall. Before she could say anything, Chen Fu said.
"Wang Ruer is dead."
"How could it be?" Xiao Guizi was obviously also extremely surprised, and all the words in her mind disappeared instantly after hearing what Chen Fu said.
"I saw Consort Wang last night. How come she died out of nowhere?"
Naturally, Shen Fu would not say that Wang Ruru was killed by His Majesty.
It’s just that Wang Ruer died too quickly, and she never had the chance to complain about her injustice.
Of course, Chen Fu would not believe that the person there last night was Wang Ruer. But she just couldn't understand why it should have been Zhou Shuyun but later became Wang Ruer.
How capable is Zhou Shuyun to be able to convince Wang Ruru to take the blame for her?
That's a capital crime!
Chen Fu lowered her head and took a sip of the tea in her hand: "I asked you to check last night, what did you find out?"
"The reason why I followed you here is to talk about this." Xiao Guizi nodded and said to Chen Fu:
"The young lady asked me to guard the Chuxiu Palace. I stayed there until midnight before I found something." He bent down and told Shen Fu in detail everything he had seen last night.
Chen Fu's hand holding the teacup also stopped: "You said that they both went out last night, and then Wang Ruer went back first?"
Xiao Guizi nodded and confirmed: "Yes, I was following behind at the time and saw it clearly."
"Wang Ruer came back in a panic, holding a pile of things in her hands." Xiao Guizi said, "It was just too dark, so I couldn't see clearly."
Wang Ruer went back first, holding something in her hands.
Chen Fu knew what this thing was without having to think about it.
I'm afraid it's the dance costume that Wang Ruer is wearing.
"Wang Ruer was dancing in front of His Majesty in her dancing costume, but His Majesty slashed her neck with a sword." Chen Fu put down the teacup in her hand, stood up and thought for a moment.
After a while, he couldn't help but turn around and asked, "Where's Miss Zhou?"
"Lady Zhou came back just as it was almost dawn." Xiao Guizi bent down. On New Year's Eve, the guards in the palace were much looser than usual.
Concubine Zhou came back in a swagger just when the guards were changing shifts.
Xiao Guizi thought of Zhou Shuyun's expression this morning and repeated, "Although Lady Zhou is wearing the clothes of a palace maid, it is difficult to tell who she is."
"But I could still recognize the figure at a glance..." Xiao Guizi said this and looked up at Chen Fu.
Whatever he wanted to say, he swallowed it back instantly: "Lady Zhou came back in a grand manner early in the morning, I promise!"
Shen Fu couldn't help but laugh when she heard this.
But the smile did not reach his eyes, and there was even a deep chill in his eyes.
From the moment she saw Wang Ruer in the bamboo forest, she knew it couldn't be Wang Ruer.
Wang Ruer doesn't have such courage, nor does she have such a good brain.
It was clearly Zhou Shuyun who did everything today. She was afraid that she had failed in her attempt to seduce the Emperor last night, so she shifted the blame onto Wang Ruer.
Although Chen Fu didn't know what method Zhou Shuyun used to make Wang Ruer wear the dance costume.
But Shen Fu couldn't help but admire Zhou Shuyun's trick, it was really powerful.
No wonder she was Shen Qing's only rival in her previous life.
Chen Fu sat on the chair and tapped the armrest with her fingertips:
"She must be feeling very proud right now!"
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Chuxiu Palace
As soon as Wang Ruru died, people from the Ministry of Internal Affairs came and sent people to collect Wang Ruru's things and burn them.
Chuxiu Palace is too small, and the east and west rooms are not far from each other. In Wang Ruer's room, there was only noise and crying, which came into the house one after another.
Zhou Shuyun sat in front of the charcoal brazier, her stiff palms turning from time to time. He was paying attention to the noise behind him, his face was calm and it was hard to tell what he was thinking.
Hong Xiu stepped forward and added a few cups of tea for her: "I, the servant, have already placed the spices of the aphrodisiac in the room of the royal concubine according to the young mistress's instructions."
"By now, those people may have received it."
As if they were in sync, as soon as the words fell here, the noise over there suddenly became louder.
Those people seemed to have found something, and immediately kicked the servant who was kneeling on the ground and crying: "You still say you don't have it, but your master secretly hid these things and harmed His Majesty."
"Catch him quickly and take him to the Ministry of Punishment for torture."
The maid cried even louder, and the noise was as if she was being dragged from the ground.
Zhou Shuyun stood in front of the window and saw the palace maid being dragged away through the half-open gap. The worry in her heart finally settled down.
"It's a pity for that palace maid." Zhou Shuyun lowered her head and looked at her hands that had turned purple from the cold.
She sighed softly, "I just followed the king's concubine, and now I'm afraid I'm going to suffer with him."
When Hongxiu heard this, she raised her head and looked at her mistress silently.
The young lady's words seemed sympathetic, but there was no trace of mercy on her face.
In those eyes as calm as water, it seemed as if the words just said were all illusions.
Hongxiu was startled and quickly lowered her head. Her heart was beating like a drum, and she quickly changed the subject and said, "My lady, now that the aphrodisiac incense has been stuffed away, does this matter really have nothing to do with us?"
But she had heard that Concubine Wang had her neck slashed by the Emperor's sword.
I heard that His Majesty was ruthless and it seemed that half of the neck was about to be cut off. Blood was splattered all over the ground, and half of the snow was red.
Hong Xiu couldn't help but tremble when she thought of that scene: "My lady, are we really okay?"
She has not forgotten who was the person who seduced the Emperor in a dance costume last night.
If His Majesty knew that he had killed the wrong person, Wang Ruer's fate today would be the same as their fate in the future.
Zhou Shuyun glared at Hongxiu, and the murderous intent in her eyes scared Hongxiu so much that she retreated repeatedly.
"You...you..." Hongxiu stammered, "I'm just worried."
When Zhou Shuyun heard this, her expression suddenly changed.
She didn't forget how embarrassed she was last night. Zhou Shuyun went there with the confidence that she would not fail, and she even put all her energy into it for last night.
She thought it was foolproof, but she never expected that even the Emperor, who was poisoned by the love potion, could reject her.
With a distorted expression for a long time, Zhou Shuyun looked at her almost frozen palms.
Her fair arms were covered with bruises and bruises; she had nearly died in the bamboo forest the night before.
If it weren't for the brainless Wang Ruer who blocked the way for her, the one who was stabbed in the neck by the Emperor today would have been her!
Zhou Shuyun couldn't help but shiver.
"God saved me this time, which is equivalent to giving me another chance to live!"
Zhou Shuyun pinched her fingertips so hard that her nails dug into the flesh.
She escaped from danger time and time again.
Even snatching back life from the hands of the King of Hell time and time again.
That’s not all. She had been sick before and even dreamed about things from her past life.
"What am I afraid of? Even the heavens are helping me!" Zhou Shuyun pressed her fingers on the window panes, watching the servants in the housekeeping department empty the room next door bit by bit.
Wang Ruer heard that the bodies could not be saved and were thrown into a mass grave. The room was empty, as if Wang Ruer had never been there.
Zhou Shuyun didn't know what she was thinking about, and she couldn't help but shiver.
She murmured to herself: "This failure is nothing. God is on my side. I will definitely find a way to take back everything that belongs to me!"
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