Chapter 256: Death Without Proof
The words of Concubine Chun changed her face, and Wei Ning'er couldn't help but raise her head and look at her in surprise. [ ]
"Concubine Chun, you are arrogant. If you don't tell me why today, the Ai family will definitely not spare you. Slandering the future mother of the Qing Dynasty, there will be no forgiveness!" The empress dowager was furious and shouted coldly.
The emperor also frowned slightly, but did not say much.
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Concubine Xian, who was sitting aside, was obviously caught off guard. At this time, she calmed down slightly and then smiled: "Even if Sister Chun is dissatisfied with her sister, she should not slander her sister like this!"
"Yes or no, it will be known in a moment." Concubine Chun looked at her coldly, then turned around and looked at the emperor, respectfully saying: "Qingzhu, the palace maid in Yanxi Palace, was slandering Concubine Ling, and the following was the one who was in charge of the emperor. The emperor ordered Concubine Ling to deal with her. Concubine Ling wanted to teach her a lesson. Concubine Ling originally ordered the slaves of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to take the poison and wanted to get rid of Qingzhu. It was the slaves around Concubine Ling who discovered it in time, so she secretly saved her life. Qingzhu told me and others that the person who wanted to kill her was Concubine Xian." Concubine Chun looked at Concubine Xian: "Sister, you want to kill someone to silence her. Are you afraid that you will instruct her to harm Concubine Ling to be exposed?"
Concubine Xian didn't say anything. When she knew that Qingzhu had not died, she knew that she was in big trouble today. At this time, she could only respond to changes in the same way and never speak easily.
But the emperor looked at Wei Ning'er and said, "Where is that Qingzhu at this time!"
"In my intoxicated garden!" Wei Ning'er said respectfully.
"Wu Shu comes, send someone to spread it!" The emperor ordered Wu Shulai beside him.
"Yes, the emperor!"
"Concubine Chun and Concubine Ling get up and take their seats!" The emperor looked at the two people who were still kneeling on the ground and said in a deep voice.
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
The hall became quiet for a moment, and everyone felt a little depressed, and no one dared to speak.
It took about half an hour before Wu Shulai brought Qingzhu.
The moment Concubine Xian saw Qingzhu, she clenched her fists suddenly, and a killing intention flashed in her eyes.
"I, Qingzhu, pay homage to the emperor and the empress dowager!" Qingzhu walked to the middle of the hall and knelt down.
"If the Ai family remembers correctly, you were originally a slave in Yanxi Palace and served Concubine Ling!" the empress dowager asked in a deep voice.
"Qi Biography, I have been in the palace for almost twenty years. I had served by the Concubine Tai, and later served the Prince and Prince. After leaving the palace, I was assigned to Xianfu Palace as the supervisor, serving Guiren Xiu and Concubine Ling!" Qingzhu said respectfully.
The emperor looked at Qingzhu coldly and shouted in a deep voice: "Concubine Chun said that Concubine Xian was instructing you to harm Concubine Ling, is there any such thing?"
Qingzhu took a deep breath and said, "Your Majesty, when I served the servants and the prince, I went out of the palace with me and I wanted to take me with me. He said that I would give me a concubine, and wait for me to give birth to a man and a woman, and then make plans, but... in the end, he left me in the palace and asked me to be loyal to Concubine Xian. I dare not be negligent. When I was serving in Xianfu Palace, Concubine Xian ordered me to sprinkle a pollen that could induce asthma in the bedroom of Concubine Xiu. Later, Concubine Huixian had an asthma attack. Concubine Xian also instructed me to harm Concubine Ling and slander the Empress with the Queen Fu Heng!"
"Why do you want to be loyal to Concubine Xian?" the emperor sneered.
"I don't know!" Qingzhu took a deep breath and said. Although she knew some hidden information, she... didn't want to lose her life with the prince because of it. She just wanted Concubine Xian to die.
Over the past few years, she has been loyal to Concubine Xian, but she never thought that she would be regarded as an abandoned son by Concubine Xian and take her life in the end. How could she bear this tone?
"Emperor, let's ask the Prince and ask clearly!" The smile on the empress dowager's face was a little unnatural.
She naturally knew the most about this. Concubine Xian wanted to be a concubine of the prince, but... the empress dowager had selfish thoughts in her heart, so she asked the late emperor to give her to the emperor.
"Wu Shu comes, and I will enter the palace with the prince!" The emperor ordered Wu Shulai beside him.
Everyone could see that the emperor was very angry at this time. His concubine had an indescribable relationship with his brothers. How could he not be angry?
If it weren't for a noble prince or the queen whom the queen mother liked, he would have dealt with it long ago.
He and Prince Hongzhou are famous and absurd princes. They like to hold funerals and eat sacrifices. When they have nothing to do, they will organize funerals for themselves at home. Every time they start a funeral, he sits in the place where the coffin should be placed, and eats and drinks at the table of offerings. His concubines kneel under the ground and howl as usual.
When the eunuch went to pass the imperial edict to the prince's mansion, he and the prince were eating tribute while roaring at the concubines kneeling on the ground in a vague way: "Cry loudly, I am crying so quietly before I die. If I die, wouldn't you laugh!"
The housekeeper on the side smiled awkwardly and said, "Father-in-law, look, our prince is confused again. If you enter the palace like this, you may have a big problem. Can you report back to the emperor and enter the palace to apologize when our prince wakes up?"
"Emperor, the Empress Dowager and all the Empress Dowagers are waiting for the prince to go in the Changchun Immortal Hall!" The little eunuch also looked embarrassed.
At this moment, the princely concubine and the prince rushed over after hearing the news. Seeing that the prince was drunk, she almost lay down on the tribute table. Her face changed suddenly. She immediately drank to the two concubines who were kneeling on the ground and cried: "Get back to your house, it's embarrassing to see!"
"Yes!" Several people immediately stood up and left as if they were amnesty.
"Father Jin... Come and have a drink with me!" The prince and the prince laughed and wanted to get up from the tribute table, and the material fell to the ground, and it fell heavily.
"Master, help the prince back and rest!" said the legitimate concubine frowned slightly.
"Yes!" The manager immediately brought two servants in.
"Dad, I'm afraid the prince can't enter the palace anymore. I'll report my worries to the emperor!" said the legitimate concubine.
"This..., the concubine, the emperor and the empress dowager were waiting for." The little eunuch looked embarrassed.
The legitimate concubine was also a little worried and pondered for a moment: "Since it is not a state affairs, the mother-in-law will go to Changchun Fairy Hall with her father-in-law and apologize to the Empress Dowager and the Emperor!"
Everyone in the court knew that He Prince was a ridiculous prince, but his wife was a tigress. Not only did he control the Prince, but everyone in the palace was afraid of her.
The prince and the concubine didn't know what the emperor and the queen mother were about to summon the prince. It was not until she went to the Changchun Fairy Hall that she vaguely realized the difficulty of the matter.
When he learned that Prince and the others were carrying out funerals for him and were drunk, the emperor's face was extremely gloomy, but the empress dowager looked at the legitimate concubine kneeling below, thinking about something.
"With the Prince and the Prince, this palace maid said that she was the Prince who left her in the palace and asked her to be loyal to Concubine Xian. Do you know this palace maid?" the queen mother asked lightly.
When Prince Fujin heard this, his face turned pale. Isn’t the empress dowager’s meaning that her prince and Concubine Xian…
Although she is stingy, she is not stupid. If this crime is confirmed, then her prince will be over for the rest of her life. Not only the prince, but also the wife and concubines in the palace will have no way to survive.
Thinking of this, she couldn't help but look at Qingzhu who was kneeling on the ground, and was shocked in her heart, and then shouted: "Empress Dowager, don't listen to this slut, she is the prince's personal maid, a fox and charming man, always want to seduce the prince. I didn't allow her to leave the palace with the prince, and I taught her a lesson. She must have a grudge and slandered our prince. Empress, this kind of slut should be taken out and killed, so as not to cause trouble again!"
After talking to Prince Fujin, he was still not satisfied and rushed over to beat and kick Qingzhu, and started to splash.
"Enough!" The emperor shouted loudly, scaring her so much that she never dared to move again.
"Concubine Xian!" The emperor looked coldly at Concubine Xian who was still sitting on the chair calmly, and narrowed his eyes slightly.
Concubine Xian stood up and smiled and said, "Your Majesty, I don't know this palace maid named Qingzhu. I don't know anything she said."
"The emperor, it would be too vain to convict Xian of Concubine Xian with just a word from a palace maid. The Ai family would never believe that Concubine Xian had an old age with Princess. When it came to Lingpin, the palace maid confessed that she hated Concubine Ling to teach her a lesson, so she deliberately slandered Concubine Ling. Now she poured dirty water on Concubine Xian, which is really hateful. Concubine Huixian died of an asthma attack. This is what the imperial physicians can testify. As for the pollen that Qingzhu said that can induce asthma, the Ai family has never heard of it. I don't know where the pollen is?" The empress dowager shouted in a deep voice.
When Qingzhu heard this, she raised her head and looked at Lumo beside the empress dowager. She was about to let Lumo take out the pollen, but she saw a trace of apologies flashing in Lumo's eyes. Qingzhu's eyes suddenly felt a severe pain in her chest. The pain made her unable to even scream. Her head seemed to weigh a thousand pounds. She opened her mouth and wanted to say something, but blood overflowed from her mouth.
"Ah..." Seeing her like this, she screamed in fear.
The next moment, Qingzhu fell to the ground, unconscious.
Wu Shulai ran away at the emperor's instructions, reached out to explore her breath and pulse, and shook her head for a while: "Your Majesty, Qingzhu is dead, poisoned!"
The Empress Dowager suddenly stood up from the phoenix chair and shouted: "What a concubine Ling, who had secretly kept the slave who should have been killed by the war. She slandered Concubine Xian, and now she poisoned her to death. If you have no evidence of death, you are so brave."
This sudden change caught Wei Ning'er off guard. She couldn't figure out how Qingzhu died in vain.
Seeing that the Empress Dowager intended to shirk all the blame on her, Wei Ning'er suddenly knelt down on the ground, looked up at the emperor, and said in a trembling voice: "Emperor, I just couldn't bear to see someone die, so I saved her, and I had no other intention!"
The emperor was in a dilemma for a moment. If he insisted on pursuing, Qingzhu was dead. I was afraid that it would be unfavorable to Wei Ning'er if he did not investigate. But... if he did not investigate, how could he let down his hatred?
Chapter completed!