Wu Mi continued to report:
"Your Majesty, after verification, this woman is from the capital, the daughter of Wang, a commoner."
"Her elder sister was selected into the palace as a concubine four years ago and drowned in a pond three months later."
"This girl was bought by the palace stables manager to raise horses half a year ago. The manager resigned five months ago and has left the capital."
"The king's concubine?" Concubine Shu recalled for a moment, then looked at the woman.
"Concubine Wang fell into the pool accidentally. Why do you blame Concubine Zhuang?"
"What accident? It was murder. My sister's maid saw with her own eyes that Concubine Zhuang pushed my sister into the pool and drowned her, but the emperor didn't believe it and openly covered up for her, saying that the maid had framed her and had her beaten to death!" the woman said hatefully.
Concubine Shu retorted, "Don't slander His Majesty! I still have some memory of this old case. His Majesty was with Concubine Zhuang that day, and she had no time to harm your sister... That maid was slandering..."
"Hehe..." The woman just sneered, obviously not believing it.
It was determined that the emperor deliberately gave false testimony in order to protect Concubine Zhuang.
Helian Qi glanced at Concubine Shu with a cold expression, "Who ordered you to enter the Purple Gold Palace and take out the Soul-Separating Incense worth a thousand gold coins? If you tell the truth, I will let you die alone. If you don't, the entire Wang family, young and old, will be buried with you."
According to the laws of Dayan, murdering a concubine would not result in the extermination of the entire clan.
She was the only one who died.
Xue Jinyan saw that she had discovered the emperor's mistake and immediately said, "Your Majesty, murdering a concubine is not a crime serious enough."
"I see Concubine Zhuang day and night, and the soul-leaving incense on Concubine Zhuang's horse will hurt me. She plotted to murder the emperor, and her entire clan must be killed. She deserves it." Helian Qi's face was cold.
Upon hearing this, Wang's daughter showed a trace of panic on her face. She suddenly pointed at Concubine Shu and said, "It's her! She ordered me to do it!"
Helian Qi looked at Concubine Shu. Although he suspected Concubine Shu first, was she turning against him too quickly?
It makes people suspicious.
Concubine Shu knelt down hurriedly, "Your Majesty, please be clear! I have never seen her. You can check. I have never summoned any of the palace maids in this palace!"
"You don't need to see me in person. Send your chief palace maid Zhenzhu to give me the Soul-Separating Incense. You said that you don't like Concubine Zhuang, so you are willing to help me..." said the daughter of the Wang family.
"Your Majesty, she wronged me! I didn't..." Concubine Shu cried out in injustice, and suddenly she seemed to remember something, and looked at Wang's daughter and said:
"You said my maid gave you poison. You saw it clearly! I sent Pearl to serve His Majesty a few days ago. Was it really her you saw?"
Wang's daughter glanced at the palace maid serving the emperor and pointed at her and said:
"Yes, it's her! Although she is serving the emperor, it doesn't stop her from doing things for you..."
The palace maid she pointed at knelt on the ground in fear, her legs weakened, and she stammered:
"Your Majesty, I am not Pearl, and I have never seen her..."
This is not a pearl at all.
But she was a palace maid in front of the emperor.
Concubine Shu breathed a sigh of relief and looked at the emperor and said, "Your Majesty, please understand! Zhenzhu caught a cold on the first day of her trip. I was afraid that she would pass her illness to everyone, so I asked her to stay in the house and not go out. So it is impossible for this woman to see Zhenzhu..."
"I dared to trick her with your maid, and she was just making up stories. Your Majesty, you can see clearly that she has never seen my maid. I don't know who told her the name of my maid, and she framed me with nothing!"
Concubine Shu pointed at Wang's daughter and asked angrily:
"Who ordered you to do this? Why did you frame me?"
When Wang's daughter saw that the matter was exposed, she closed her eyes and said, "I won't tell anyone."
The situation was deadlocked for a moment.
At this moment, Madam Ping stared at the Wang family girl and said hesitantly:
"I saw her go to Jinxiu Pavilion..."
Jinxiu Pavilion is where Xue Jinyan lives in the Zijin Palace.
Xue Jinyan's expression changed slightly, "What nonsense are you talking about? I have never seen her!"
"I saw her sneaking out of Jinxiu Pavilion this morning..." Madam Ping regretted it deeply:
"If I had known that she was in charge of Concubine Zhuang's horse, I would have taken her down long ago..."
This morning she accidentally saw this woman coming out of Jinxiu Pavilion, behaving stealthily.
But Jinxiu Pavilion is Xue Jinyan's residence.
Nanny Ping didn't care much about the Xue family's affairs, but she didn't expect...
Helian Qi looked at Xue Jinyan, his eyes sharp as a knife, "Did you instruct?"
"I haven't!" Xue Jinyan immediately denied, "I haven't seen her at all!"
Wu Mi thought carefully for a moment, then stepped forward and reported, "Your Majesty, I discovered something when I was investigating the case. The concubine was the one chosen by the princess to enter the palace."
The princess consort at that time was the late Queen Xue.
After she and Concubine Shu both became pregnant, in order to prevent Concubine Zhuang from favoring her alone, they each selected some people as concubines.
There are girls from good families and also maids who come with the bride price.
This concubine Wang was the one chosen by Empress Xue.
So...
Everyone's eyes fell on Xue Jinyan.
It all makes sense.
This girl named Wang was arranged by the Xue family.
No wonder she wanted to frame Concubine Shu...
"What nonsense are you talking about? She is not from the Xue family at all." Xue Jinyan said angrily.
The Wang family girl suddenly kowtowed and said:
"No one instructed me to do this. This was all my own idea. I sold myself into slavery to avenge my sister. I saved some money and bribed the stable manager to let me work here... I bought this Soul-Separating Incense from a black medicine dealer I knew before..."
"I have an irreconcilable relationship with Concubine Zhuang. I did it all by myself!"
It was just like the scene when the Linlang Palace was burned down.
Reappear before your eyes.
All the evidence points to Xue Jinyan, but naturally someone will come out to confess and keep her safe.
"Drag her away and interrogate her strictly." Helian Qi said coldly.
But everyone knew that if Ms. Wang refused to speak, there would be no result from the trial.
The case can only be left unresolved.
…
Tang Miaoling and Wei Yingya watched the whole process in fear.
When they returned to their residence, they were both scared to death.
"I was so scared, so scared, I thought someone was going to frame us both. Fortunately, Xue Jinyan framed Concubine Shu... otherwise I would have been finished the moment she was identified!" Tang Miaoling poured herself a cup of hot tea to calm herself down.
Wei Yingya nodded in agreement, "Me too. It's just that Concubine Shu is cunning and can come up with this idea to prove her innocence..."
"Why does Xue Jinyan always want to harm Concubine Zhuang? The last time Linlang Palace was burned down, it was also her who sent people to do it... How deep is their hatred?" Tang Miaoling was puzzled.
Wei Yingya thought about it carefully and said, "The first time she harmed Concubine Zhuang, it was to frame Concubine Ning. Now... maybe they had already made an enemy last time, so she took the initiative to attack first?"
"It's terrible, these people are terrible." Tang Miaoling muttered silently: "I want to go back to the palace!"
“Aren’t these people still the same people in the palace?” Wei Yingya was puzzled.
Tang Miaoling said, "There is a cousin."
Wherever my cousin is, my heart is at peace!
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