Chapter 475 The Palace Maid Wants to Retire (1)
"Master Wen, the Queen wants to see you for something. You should go and meet her as soon as possible. Don't keep her waiting anxiously!" Shi Chu had just woken up when she heard a clear voice speaking in her ear. She looked over and saw a woman in a palace maid's outfit, looking at her anxiously.
"Okay, I'll go right away." Shi Chu said hurriedly. She walked out quickly while receiving the memories of the original owner. The original owner was called Wen Shi Chu. She was the master of ceremonies in the Queen's palace, specializing in etiquette teaching. She was just 25 years old this year, and she was just old enough to leave the palace. If nothing unexpected happened, she should be able to get her wish this year, leave the palace, return to her hometown, and marry and have children with her beloved cousin.
But an accident happened, and not only did she fail to leave the palace, she also lost her life in the palace.
Wen Shichu quickly arrived at Kunning Palace and asked to see the queen.
The queen was a beautiful woman in her thirties. Wen Shichu took a quick glance at her and found that although she was beautiful, her mental state was not very good. Because she was wearing a dull and solemn queen's attire, she looked even older.
"Greetings to Her Majesty the Queen. May Her Majesty live a thousand years and a thousand thousand years!" Wen Shichu bowed respectfully.
The Queen waved her hand, indicating that she didn't need to be polite, and then asked in a not very good mood: "Have the dancers and actors who are going to perform on the Emperor's birthday been trained? I hope nothing goes wrong and disturbs the Emperor's interest..."
"Your Majesty, they have all been trained." Wen Shichu recalled the original owner's work and talked about some of the things in detail. The Queen listened patiently and felt that there was no problem, so she let Wen Shichu go.
Wen Shichu returned to her own residence. Since she was a high-ranking female official of Shangyi, she could live alone in a small house. The small house was kept tidy and clean by the original owner.
The original owner had submitted her retirement application two months ago, and teaching the dancers and actors etiquette for the Longevity Festival was her last job before leaving the palace. After the Longevity Festival, she could, like other retired maids in the palace, leave the palace and go home with the money she had saved over the years.
Unfortunately, the original owner was not so lucky as to wait until she left the palace, because on the Emperor's birthday, a dancer she had taught turned out to be an assassin. She took advantage of the emperor's dancing to kill him, but of course she failed. The dancer assassin was killed on the spot, and those who had contact with the dancer suffered a miserable fate. They were all arrested and interrogated. The original owner had a love for the assassin dancer and was particularly dedicated when teaching her, so this exception became the reason why she was suspected of being an accomplice of the assassin dancer.
The original owner was tortured and tortured to find out who was behind the scenes. But she was an innocent person and didn't know the real identity of the dancer assassin. How could she reveal who was behind the scenes? But the chief judge thought she was just being stubborn and refused to confess, so he tortured her to death.
Wen Shichu thought of the original owner's experience, and immediately wanted to immediately put an end to the dancer and the person behind the scenes. They wanted to take revenge on the emperor, but they couldn't implicate innocent people. How innocent were the original owner and the other people who were also implicated? They just had a little intersection with the dancer because of various things, and talked to her, but they were arrested and even lost their lives. There was no place to complain about this injustice.
Of course, the emperor was also one of the murderers who killed the original owner. Wen Shichu didn't care whether he should look for the person behind the scenes. She only knew that it was the emperor's order that he would rather kill one person by mistake than let anyone go that caused the original owner to lose his life.
At night, Wen Shichu quietly changed into night clothes and disguised himself as a thin man. Then he went to the residence of the assassin dancer, stretched out his hand and strangled her neck quickly. So the assassin who caused a stir during the Wanshou Festival died quietly.
At least if she died like this, she wouldn't drag down other innocent people. As for the person behind her? Wen Shichu would know sooner or later.
And the Emperor...
Wen Shichu thought about it and decided to go all out. She moved flexibly in the palace like a nimble snake, avoiding the guards in public and the secret guards in private, and entered the emperor's bedroom.
The emperor slept like a dead pig and snored loudly. Wen Shichu glanced at him with disdain and thought that this man was lucky to be the emperor. If he was an ordinary man, he didn't know how much his wives and concubines would dislike him.
Wen Shichu hasn't thought of how to punish him yet. He was one of the people who killed the original owner, but he was still the emperor after all. If the emperor died suddenly, the palace would definitely be under martial law, which would affect her plan to retire and leave the palace.
So Wen Shichu didn't plan to kill him, but he couldn't let him go easily, so he took out a pill from the space. This pill was called Qingxin Guayu Pill. The effect was just like its name, which made people have no desires and demands. It was commonly known as - unable to get an erection.
From then on, the emperor had to keep himself clean. He could no longer think of favoring concubines in the palace. He could only look at them but not use them. However, the emperor was already in his forties and had dozens of children. Even if he could no longer use them, it didn't matter.
As for whether it would affect the concubines who slept with him, the effect of the Qingxin Guayu Pill gradually deepened. At the beginning, the speed just became faster, then faster, and finally became very fast. The person who took it would only think that he was gradually "getting faster" because of physical reasons. With this gradual progress and psychological preparation, he would naturally not vent his anger on the concubines. After all, he didn't have time to hide his situation.
After getting rid of his two enemies, Wen Shichu went back to sleep contentedly.
The next day, the death of the dancer really caused a shock. After all, she was strangled to death, and the imperial physician could prove it. So the emperor and the empress were furious and ordered an investigation into the cause of the dancer's death. They also ordered a thorough investigation of the people in the palace. After all, if someone could be killed silently in the heavily guarded palace, how could the emperor not worry that he would be killed silently one day?
Wen Shichu felt that the guards around him had become much stricter, the atmosphere in the palace had become depressing, the palace maids and eunuchs came and went in a hurry, and the relaxed and leisurely atmosphere of the past was no longer possible.
Because of the death of the dancer, the palace was under martial law, so the people behind her naturally could not do anything else. The assassination on the Longevity Festival could not be carried out, and the Longevity Festival went smoothly.
After Wen Shichu has finished this important task, he can slowly hand over other things on hand to his successor.
There is still no clue about the dancer's death. The murderer did it so cleanly that not a trace was left. Even the most skilled officials could not find any clues, so the case had to be left unresolved.
The empress took the opportunity of letting the older palace maids leave the palace to clear out many people of questionable identities. The emperor tacitly agreed to this, so Wen Shichu left the palace smoothly and became a free man.
(End of this chapter)
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