Chapter 213 Putting the Blame on Others
The emperor took his people to the storehouse to choose jewelry. Nanny Chang followed him, still as gentle and kind as before.
An Jiu felt that although this woman was a bit old, she still had her charm. But why was she posing so coquettishly in front of the emperor?
It was very uncomfortable to watch. An Jiu rolled his eyes several times when he saw Aunt Qu.
"Your Majesty, what do you want to choose today?" Nanny Chang asked softly, stroking her hair.
"I remember that my mother had a peach blossom hairpin. How come it disappeared?" the emperor asked casually.
After these words were spoken, before Nanny Chang could do anything, An Jiu was already stunned.
She remembered that the peach blossom hairpin was given to her by the emperor, right?
She tried hard to recall it three times and finally confirmed that it was definitely a gift from the emperor.
But, since the emperor has already given it, why is he mentioning it here?
What does he mean? Going back?
Or is it that he forgot because he was so busy?
An Jiu stared at the emperor's round head in confusion.
But Nanny Chang quickly found the hairpin.
The emperor pinched it and looked at it, and suddenly his face changed.
"Mammy, this hairpin seems wrong." The emperor said in a pretentious tone, "I remember there was a small hole here, and I accidentally knocked it. Why is it gone now?"
Nanny Chang was stunned and hurried over to take a look.
The hairpin is as smooth as new, with no dents at all, and it just feels wrong.
Of course, the things that the late emperor gave to Concubine Chun were all good things.
But this hairpin is not.
It's... fake!!!
Nanny Chang was shocked by her own thoughts. She looked up at the emperor, and in just a second her eyes were already blurred with tears: "I don't know what's going on?"
She paused and said, "Maybe the former Madam Liu replaced the real one."
Before the emperor could say anything, Aunt Qu stepped forward and said, "It's impossible. After Nanny Liu was taken away, we checked all the things. There's no way they were fake."
Aunt Qu called out to someone, “Check everything in the warehouse.”
The emperor has a lot of good things.
Some were his own, some were left by the previous emperor, and some were presented from various places.
After a while, Aunt Qu and the others found a lot of things that looked wrong.
An Jiu had seen some of them before, in the box that the emperor asked her to choose that day.
An Jiu seemed to understand something.
These things were replaced by the emperor.
She remembered that Aunt Qu's apprentice Xiaoyun was in the warehouse, but now there was no trace of her.
But are they going through all this trouble just to put the blame on Nanny Chang?
This is ridiculous. The emperor had said before that if he wanted to deal with Nanny Chang, he didn't even need evidence. So why would he set up such a big trap?
Then it would be easy to deal with Nanny Chang.
But where did the real stuff go?
[Go find it. I have already taken the real thing to Plum Blossom Villa and sold it.]
【Hahaha. 】
An Jiu "..."
Understood.
If it weren't for Nanny Chang's problem, those fake things would have remained there.
But why did the emperor sell those treasures?
An Jiu remembered how stingy he was before.
As the king of a country, he obviously has everything he wants, so why does he care so much about the money in his hands?
Could it be that...
Does he have other uses for the money?
So, they had to sell off their ancestral property as a last resort?
What is the place to spend money?
He is not interested in women...
And Nanny Chang's face became paler and paler as Aunt Qu continued to find fakes.
"How is this possible? Your Majesty, these things were really not exchanged by me. Please understand." Nanny Chang cried like a pear blossom in the rain, which made me feel pity for her. If the eldest prince saw it, he would definitely feel soft-hearted, but the emperor was not the eldest prince, he only felt disgusted.
"The warehouse is managed by Mammy. If it's not you, who else could it be?"
Nanny Chang shook her head: "Someone must have framed me."
"Framed?" The emperor pondered the words.
[It is I who is framing you. Didn't expect that? 】
【Hahaha. 】
The emperor said to Aunt Qu with a cold face: "Since Nanny Chang said that someone framed her, I have to investigate. After all, Nanny Chang is also an old lady who followed my mother, and I can't wrongly accuse her."
Before Nanny Chang could breathe a sigh of relief, she heard the emperor say, "To prove Nanny Chang's innocence, go to her room and check."
"Your Majesty..." Just as Nanny Chang opened her mouth to stop her, Aunt Qu brought people to her room and quickly found a lot of precious jewelry, as well as the butterfly hairpin that belonged to Concubine Chun that the tyrant saw at the beginning.
Nanny Chang was like a chicken with its neck strangled, unable to utter a word.
Aunt Qu held the butterfly hairpin and said, "Your Majesty, this hairpin, I remember, belonged to Concubine Chun." She flipped through the booklet and found a record there.
Seeing that the truth had been revealed, Nanny Chang cried, "Your Majesty, I missed Concubine Chun so much that I took her hairpin because I thought of putting it back in a few days. I only took this one. I really didn't exchange the others."
Her ass is really not clean.
An Jiu glanced at the emperor. No wonder he was so calm and composed when he talked to him about the hairpin last time. It turned out that he had already thought of a solution.
Kill two birds with one stone. Not only can you send Nanny Chang off with a legitimate reason, but you can also make Nanny Chang the scapegoat and make up for the loss of these good things in the warehouse.
Even if those things were discovered to belong to the palace in the future, they could openly say that someone from the palace stole them and sold them...
Anyway, it has nothing to do with the emperor, he was just deceived and cheated by his servants.
The emperor listened to Nanny Chang's explanation and sneered, "The evidence is irrefutable. Come, lock up Nanny Chang and interrogate her strictly."
Nanny Chang was taken away.
The emperor looked at the butterfly hairpin.
This hairpin is pretty, but its quality is very ordinary. I don’t understand why Madam Chang wants to keep it.
As for Nanny Chang’s other jewelry.
Aunt Qu looked at the things in the box and said, "Your Majesty, these things are also very valuable. Nanny Chang can't possibly have them."
"Is it from my mother?"
Aunt Qu shook her head. There weren't actually many pieces of Concubine Chun's jewelry left. Aunt Qu remembered most of them, and none of these styles existed.
The emperor sneered: "That was given to her by someone else."
An Jiu remembered the white-faced man he saw in Nanny Chang's yard not long ago.
That person obviously had an unspeakable relationship with Nanny Chang. In that case, perhaps he was the one who gave it to her.
She thought again of the three suspects Jiang Sheng mentioned today.
They were originally the chief stewards of the concubines, so it was not surprising that they received some rewards. As long as they found out who these jewelry belonged to, they could find the person.
The emperor thought the same. He asked someone to investigate while he waited for Nanny Chang's confession.
"I didn't expect this woman to be so stubborn. She said nothing and just took the butterfly hairpin. She also said that the hairpin was originally intended to be given to her by the late emperor, but was later taken away by my aunt." Jiang Sheng smiled and licked his lips: "What kind of toad's speech is this? Is she worthy of comparing with my aunt?"
Jiang Sheng gave her more than a dozen lashes at that time, but I won’t talk about it because Xiaojiu is still here, so people won’t think that he is a bad boy for beating a woman.
The emperor asked, "Who gave her those jewels?"
Jiang Sheng: "She didn't say, but I'll be able to find out soon."
He paused and said, "I suspect that she was the traitor back then. She sent the people from Jinxiu Palace away, giving the murderer the opportunity to go in and kill people."
This is very likely.
Even though Concubine Chun fell out of favor and the Jinxiu Palace was sealed, it would still be three days without someone visiting.
The more I think about it, the more suspicious it seems.
An Jiu listened to their conversation but was thinking about one thing: why did Concubine Chun fall out of favor back then?
Later, something bad happened to the Jiang family, and Jiang Sheng was the only one left alive...
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