Chapter 307 Xie Zhe, I want to be the queen
The palace maid held onto Concubine Zhang tightly and reminded her, "Your Majesty, His Majesty is still here!"
Concubine Zhang sobbed, rushed to the bed again, and held Xie Xiang's little face in her hands.
The once lively and domineering little girl was now terribly pale, with her collar open and her skin under the candlelight faintly showing a horrible blue-gray color.
"Xiang'er, don't scare mother! Xiang'er!"
Concubine Zhang wept bitterly, holding Xie Xiang's hand and pressing it against her cheek, "Xiang'er, why are you so cold? Mother will warm you up!"
She glared at the imperial doctors again, "Why don't you hurry up and make the medicine?!"
The imperial physician shook his head, bowed helplessly to Xie Zhe, and replied, "The princess has been in the water for too long, there is no way to save her."
The bedroom was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.
Concubine Zhang said slowly: "What did you say?"
The imperial doctors said in unison, "Your Majesty, we express our condolences!"
The hall fell into even longer silence.
After an unknown amount of time, Concubine Zhang suddenly let out a deafening scream of pain, like a mother wolf who had lost her cubs, and threw everything at the imperial physician like a madman.
Lying on the couch was her most beloved daughter.
She poured all the things she couldn't get in her youth into her daughter, spending a lot of money to buy her brocades, silks, pearls and hairpins and other treasures, punishing the young ladies from noble families who opposed her, raising her to be spoiled, willful and carefree. Her Xiang'er was the proudest princess in the world.
Xiang'er is even closer and more important to her than Rui'er!
But, how could her baby suddenly fall into the water and die? !
She hugged Xie Xiang tightly, her face ferocious as she roared furiously, "You are lying! You accepted Wei Si's favors and deliberately said that my Xiang'er is dead! I tell you, if you can't save Xiang'er, I will bury you all with me!"
Everyone looked at her quietly.
Xie Zhe's eyes were filled with strange emotions. He suddenly reached out his hand towards her and said compassionately and gently, "Xiang'er is dead. I am also very sad. Imperial Concubine, come here and let me hold you."
Concubine Zhang was breathing rapidly and looking at him through tearful eyes.
The middle-aged emperor has fiery shoulders and looks very majestic.
He was the man she had admired since she was young, the man she was willing to betray her master to get.
He said he was very sad, but Concubine Zhang didn't see any pain on his face.
For the first time ever, she shook her head at Xie Zhe.
She pointed at Wei Si with hatred, tears rolling down her cheeks, "Your Majesty, I want her to pay for Xiang'er's life!"
Wei Si's expression was calm, and there was even a hint of pity in her phoenix eyes.
She said, "Whether you believe it or not, I definitely didn't kill Xie Xiang."
"She died in your palace. Who else could it be if not you?!"
Wen Xingluo stepped forward to block Wei Si, staring intently at Concubine Zhang. "What a coincidence! I was admiring the moon with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince in the red-lacquered pavilion tonight, and I happened to see who pushed the princess into the water."
She recounted the entire story of her encounter with Xie Xiang tonight and how he was pushed into the water by a palace maid. Finally, she said quietly, "According to the princess herself, that young maid worked in the flower room, and for some reason she became very close to the princess. She even encouraged her to poison me. Concubine Zhang, please think carefully. Whether the princess succeeds or falls into the water tonight, there is only one outcome: a feud between you and my mother."
Although Concubine Zhang was in extreme pain, her mind gradually became clear.
She suddenly looked at Queen Mei.
In the palace, the person who most hoped that she and Wei Si would fight to the death was Queen Mei!
Empress Mei chuckled. "I've always heard that Princess An Ning is a gifted speaker. Seeing her today, I can see her reputation is truly well-deserved. But the princess travels without her trusted aides, but instead brings a maid from the flower room. Listen to this, Princess. Does that make sense?"
Concubine Zhang's eyes were filled with a struggle, and then she looked at Wei Si, "Wei Si, ever since you returned to the capital, you've repeatedly opposed me! You and your daughter have motives to kill Xiang'er!"
Xie Xuchi suddenly said, "If the Imperial Concubine doesn't believe Ningning, then I can testify that Xie Xiang was indeed pushed into the pond by a palace maid. At the time, An Ning and I were in the pavilion admiring the moon, and we saw exactly how Xie Xiang fell into the water."
Concubine Zhang lost her composure and shouted, "Prince, Xiang'er is your sister. What's wrong with your indifferent and nonchalant attitude?! How could you...how could you testify in favor of Wei Si and her daughter?!"
"I'm just telling the truth."
Xie Zhe was playing with a string of beads made from Buddha bones.
After listening to this for a while, he ordered Sun Zuosi, "Find that palace maid."
Everyone waited anxiously for half an hour before the guards brought in a palace maid.
Like Xie Xiang, she was soaked and pale, as if she had just been pulled out of the water.
Wen Xingluo glanced at her face and pointed, "It's her."
The guard reported: "We fished her out of the pond. Her embroidered shoes were lying by the pond, along with a suicide note and a gold hairpin."
Xie Zhe picked up the suicide note.
The handwriting on it was sloppily written, saying that she had received a golden hairpin as a reward from Wei Si, who asked her to find a way to get rid of Xie Xiang. It also said that after she pushed Xie Xiang into the water, she felt guilty and therefore chose to commit suicide by drowning.
Xie Zhe threw the suicide note in Wei Si's face and said, "Read it yourself."
Wei Si picked up the suicide note, glanced at it, and said calmly, "I don't know her, and this gold hairpin is not mine. I think someone framed her."
"Who would risk their own life to frame you?!" Concubine Zhang held Xie Xiang's cold little hand in one hand and tightly covered her heart with the other. Her well-maintained fair and smooth face suddenly became covered with a few fine lines overnight. "Wei Si, no matter how much you hate me, you shouldn't come after my daughter!"
Wen Xingluo wanted to defend his mother.
However, with the young palace maid committing suicide by drowning, the case seemed to have reached a dead end, and even her arrangement for the prince to act as a witness was of no avail.
She looked at Queen May.
The woman, who was nearly forty years old, had decent makeup and wore a gorgeous phoenix robe. She sat upright and drank tea with a very graceful posture.
She had no children, yet she was able to secure the throne and rule the harem for twenty years...
As if she noticed her gaze, Empress Mei even smiled at her calmly.
Wen Xingluo withdrew his gaze.
Tonight, she had a new understanding of Mei Chuyi.
In the depressing atmosphere, Xie Zhe twisted the Buddha bones one by one.
The corner of his eyes fell on the bed.
There lay his daughter.
daughter……
Xie Zhe didn't feel anything about this word because he had many daughters.
Compared to the so-called family happiness, he prefers the pleasure of pursuing power and dominating the court.
He even felt that Xie Xiang's death was a good thing.
Because he could use Xie Xiang's life to threaten Wei Si to hand over Bai Yujing's whereabouts.
He said quietly, "Wei Si, murdering the princess is a serious crime. I'm afraid I'll have to inconvenience you and An Ning by sending them to jail."
Wei Si raised her eyebrows and said, "I have something to say. Your Majesty, please move to the side hall."
Arriving at the side hall next door, Wei Si said, "I can tell you the whereabouts of Bai Yujing."
Xie Zhe was not surprised.
He stroked her hair with a smile, "Si Si, if you had submitted to me earlier and been of one mind with me, why would we have ended up like this tonight? You should know that among all the concubines in the palace, you are the one I am most satisfied with."
"But I have a condition." Wei Si avoided his hand and looked him straight in the eye. "I want to be the queen."
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