Chapter 1331 The Concubine Should Not Be a Big Enemy (6)
As a result, Wen Congyun became more grateful and kinder to these guards, but the guards still had to patrol and did not have much time to waste on greeting Wen Zhaorong, so they soon said goodbye and left.
Wen Congyun heaved a sigh of relief, thinking that she had fooled them and made them forget that there was no one to take care of and serve the Third Prince.
However, just as the guards were about to leave, the leader suddenly spoke up and reminded them, "Wen Zhaorong, the Third Prince is alone in a dangerous place, and no one around him is there. You must check the servants around the Third Prince. They are so negligent in their duties, don't they care about the safety of their master? If you are severely punished this time, wouldn't it be a disguised way of condoning them? This is not good for you or the Third Prince."
The smile on Wen Congyun's face froze instantly. She didn't expect this person to bring it up so tactlessly. She had no choice but to nod and agree: "Of course, I will definitely not let these audacious servants go!"
After finally sending away a few guards, Wen Congyun felt a headache about her current situation. She was a smart person, so she knew that her plan had put herself in trouble.
At this moment, she actually hoped that the emperor would completely ignore them mother and son, so that she could quietly suppress the matter and protect the people serving the third prince.
The Third Prince is the most important person to her. Those who she can place to serve the Third Prince are naturally her confidants. If these confidants get into trouble because of this time, then she will lose more than she gains, and the loss will outweigh the gain.
However, her prayers did not come true this time. The emperor did not dote on them mother and son, but he had not yet completely ignored them, especially since the guards were involved. So after he inquired about it, he learned that the third prince was actually neglected by the servants who served him, and he was immediately furious.
No matter how unpopular the Third Prince was, he was still the Emperor's son. The Emperor could ignore him, but what right did the servants who served the Third Prince have to despise and neglect him? How dare they bully their master?! Too arrogant!
As a result, the servants who served the third prince suffered. The emperor was so angry that he beat them severely and ordered people to interrogate them.
Wen Congyun was terrified. These were her confidants, and she was the one who deliberately sent them away, leaving the Third Prince alone. What if these servants could not withstand the torture and betrayed her?
So Wen Congyun hurriedly pleaded with the emperor, saying that these servants had always been serving the Third Prince and had taken good care of him in the past. This was just an accident and not intentional. He hoped that the emperor would forgive them this time because they had been responsible in the past and let them atone for their sins.
However, the emperor didn't care whether these people had taken good care of the prince in the past. He saw that they had neglected their duties and ignored the third prince this time, so they could be punished.
Wen Congyun's plea made the emperor angry. He felt that as a mother, she did not love her child at all, but she actually pleaded for the servant who had failed in his duty. So the emperor scolded her, saying that she could not distinguish right from wrong and was weak and useless.
This was a serious rebuke. Even Wen Congyun, who was strong-hearted, could not help but feel so shocked that his face turned pale when he heard the emperor's words.
What shocked her even more was that the servants could not bear the torture and confessed that it was she who ordered them to leave one by one, leaving the Third Prince alone.
The emperor looked at the confessions of his servants, and his eyes looked at Wen Congyun with fire in them.
"Wen! It was you who sent these servants away from the third prince? What on earth do you want to do?" The emperor questioned Wen Congyun angrily.
Wen Congyun's head buzzed, as if she could not hear anything. She only saw the emperor's furious expression and his mouth opening and closing. She thought: It's over, they confessed...
She was so panicked that her mind was in a mess. She couldn't think of any excuse to exonerate herself. She was used to doing things with conspiracies and tricks, and she always did it secretly. Now that her calculations were made public and exposed in front of everyone, she panicked.
"Your Majesty! It's unfair. I didn't do these things..." Wen Congyun instinctively began to deny her guilt and defend herself, "The Third Prince is my biological son! How could I possibly harm him? I sent the people around him away and let him get into danger. What benefit would it bring to me? Your Majesty is very insightful. Someone must have framed me..."
It has to be said that Wen Congyun was quite quick-witted. Her words really shook the emperor's suspicion of her. After all, Wen Congyun really had no reason to harm her own son.
Wen Congyun was always good at observing the emperor's words and expressions, so how could she not see that the emperor was wavering? So she started crying again, trying hard to defend herself, just to deny the confessions of the servants.
Perhaps she was lucky. Apart from these confessions, the servants could not find any other evidence to prove that it was Wen Congyun who sent them away from the third prince. The emperor was therefore skeptical. The servants' one-sided words could not really incriminate Wen Congyun, but the emperor did not really believe her. Therefore, the emperor finally found a crime of "laxity in managing subordinates and condoning servants to deceive the master" and fined Wen Congyun three months' salary and confined her to house arrest for half a year.
Those servants who neglected their duties were beaten with the stick thirty to sixty times and then driven out of the palace. As for whether they could survive, it depended on their luck.
Wen Congyun was unable to take care of herself. Not only did she lose a group of confidants, but she also left a bad impression on the emperor. She lost three months' salary for nothing and was locked up for half a year without being able to go out. She felt very aggrieved and could not bear to end up like this.
After she was under house arrest, she finally had time to think carefully about where she had gone wrong in her calculations, which led to this situation.
Wen Congyun thought about it several times and had to admit that it was because he was too careless, too impatient, and too dismissive of Lu Shichu that things got out of control.
Lu Shichu did not contact the Third Prince in person as she had expected, but instead called the guards - this was the most direct reason why things got out of control.
Wen Congyun found out the reason and couldn't help but vent her anger on Lu Shichu, thinking that it was because she didn't follow her plan and that's why she suffered such heavy losses.
She was very conceited and bold. Perhaps it was because she had never failed before, and this time she miscalculated with Lu Shichu, so she held a grudge against Lu Shichu.
However, she didn't think about it. Did she have to let her scheme and use him at the beginning of the road? Why? The world didn't revolve around her. She failed to scheme against others, but instead blamed the victim? Who gave her the face?
When Lu Shichu found out that Wen Congyun lost more than she gained, he was extremely happy. She deserved it. Who made her plot against him?
(End of this chapter)
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