Chapter 308: The Crisis Arrives
Watching the imperial concubine leave, Lu Mo couldn't help but sneer and thought to himself, the Empress Dowager really raised a ungrateful wolf. She has regarded the imperial concubine as her own for so many years, but she is just the most useful chess piece in the imperial concubine's heart.
At this moment, the Empress Dowager was also very conflicted. In the past few days, she slowly calmed down and realized that it was impossible for Concubine Ling to be poisoned. It was someone else, but there was no clue.
But she could not spare Wei Ning'er easily. In addition, the imperial concubine has been paying her respects these days. She knew that the purpose was nothing more than to kill Wei Ning'er and death.
More than a year after the empress passed away, Concubine Ling favored the harem, and even the imperial concubine who was in charge of the six palaces was suppressed by her, but Concubine Ling knew her tactfulness and never had any trouble.
But when the emperor thought that the emperor still refused to make the imperial concubine the queen, he pushed him to the point of being obsessed with him, the empress dowager was worried. After all,... the imperial concubine was her niece and her relative. Only she was qualified to sit in the queen position, and she was not allowed to let others snatch it.
But if the emperor drags on it year by year, the threat to the imperial concubine will become greater and greater.
"Lu Mo, come here and go to the Criminal Office to pass on the will of the Ai family. At all costs, interrogate those servants to the Ai family!" The empress dowager suddenly turned around and said to Lu Mo.
"Yes, Empress!" Lu Mo nodded gently.
"There is another secret thing in the Ai family that you have to do!" The empress dowager suddenly waved to Lu Mo and whispered a few words in her ear.
After hearing this, Lu Mo felt shocked. She didn't understand why the Empress Dowager had to surrender herself to death.
In Lu Mo's opinion, the Empress Dowager was very smart and could not have known that this was not done by Concubine Ling, but she chose to let Concubine Ling be a scapegoat. Could it be that it was because of the Imperial Concubine?
Lu Mo couldn't help but remember the words of the Empress Dowager who said that the Imperial Concubine was the daughter of an old friend, but at this point it seemed that this old friend was probably not simple.
The concubines in the palace, no matter how favored you are, no matter how arrogant you are, as long as the empress dowager is determined to die, you will never be able to escape. Lu Mo believes in this.
When things got so far, Lu Mo was powerless. Who could have expected that the imperial concubine would have such good luck? But now she would not be so stupid as to admit it. Thinking of this, Lu Mo said in his heart, "Miss Ling, don't blame me, I have to do it. Don't worry, you won't die in vain. I will kill the imperial concubine in the future, which will be considered as avenging you."
On August 20th, five days passed since Mid-Autumn Festival. Lumo went to Shenzheng Department for interrogation of the slaves in accordance with the order of the Empress Dowager. Soon, it was reported that Jingqi, the first-class palace maid next to Concubine Ling, confessed that on the day of making moon cakes, she had accidentally seen Concubine Ling holding a small porcelain bottle in the room.
Although Hu Shijie was present, he could not stop him, but he immediately sent a small eunuch to notify Wu Shulai.
At this time, the emperor was attending court. After learning the news, Wu Shulai didn't care about so much, so he walked up to whisper a few words in the emperor's ear.
"Go to court!" The emperor's face changed suddenly. He shouted loudly and hurried out of the Qianqing Palace and headed to the Yanxi Palace.
Wei Ning'er didn't expect the Empress Dowager to send someone to search the palace, but she saw the clues in the Empress Dowager's cold face.
After about a quarter of an hour, a eunuch walked out of the house with a small porcelain bottle.
"What is this? Find out for the Ai family!" The empress dowager handed the small porcelain vase to the imperial physician beside her.
Several imperial physicians worked hard for a while before reporting: "Qi Bao, this is made of several poisonous weeds such as aconite, heartbreaking grass, and oleander. It is very toxic. Madam Qiu was infected with this poison that day!"
"Empress Dowager, this little porcelain vase is not my concubine, and I have never poisoned me!" Wei Ning'er's face changed drastically. She remembered that she had looked carefully in her bedroom these two days, afraid that someone would frame her, and she still couldn't avoid it.
The Empress Dowager glanced at her coldly and said with a smile: "Concubine Ling, speaking of it, the Ai family has given you poison twice. The Ai family has to admit that those two times it was the Ai family who believed in slander and wronged you, but this time, you are reaping the consequences."
After saying that, the queen mother looked at Lu Mo: "Give this poison to Concubine Ling!"
"Empress Dowager, I have not harmed anyone, please let me observe." Wei Ning'er would never take the poison no matter what.
"Concubine Ling, the Ai family will give you a good time and stop it yourself. Not only do you poison, but you also secretly hide poison. The Ai family will never tolerate you!" The Empress Dowager sneered.
When Wei Ning'er heard this, she suddenly raised her head and looked at the Queen Mother. She didn't understand why the Queen Mother had to force her to death and why she couldn't let her go.
Can't we tell from the empress dowager's shrewdness that she was wronged? Or... the poison was put in by the empress dowager's people. The jade hairpins, jade paintings and people who came to search the palace these days were all from Cining Palace.
"Empress Dowager, why did you kill me? Since I asked me that I have never done anything that would harm you or the emperor since I entered the palace. Why can't you tolerate me?" Wei Ning'er took a deep breath and said.
Facing Wei Ning'er's questioning, an unnatural look flashed in the queen mother's eyes, and she said for a while: "If you want to blame, you will blame you for being born at the wrong time and entering the palace!"
When Wei Ning'er heard this, she felt endless coldness sweeping over, and the Queen Mother... she always wanted to let her die.
"The Emperor's Grandmother" Just when Wei Ning'er was about to despair, the voice of Princess Hejing sounded behind her.
"Li Li, why did you enter the palace?" Looking at her beloved granddaughter, the coldness on the empress dowager's face was replaced by a touch of softness.
"Grandma Emperor, are you going to kill the Empress Dowager for such a reason?" Princess Hejing looked at the Empress Dowager with a look of surprise and said, "In Lili's heart, you are always so kind and peaceful. You have always been kind to the empresses in the harem. As long as they did not make a big mistake, they will not investigate in depth. Why can't the Empress Dowager be tolerate the Empress Dowager alone?"
The queen mother took a deep breath and said, "She poisoned Madam Qiu from Ai's family and hid poison in the palace. She might threaten the emperor and your emperor Ama at any time. How could the emperor grandmother tolerate her!"
"Grandmother of the Emperor, Li Li doesn't believe that the Empress will poison people, let alone that poisoning her will not be of any benefit, and will also put her in a place of irreparable consequences." Princess Hejing believed that Wei Ning'er would not do this no matter what.
"The emperor is here!" At this moment, the eunuch's voice sounded outside.
"Emperor!" Princess Hejing immediately met.
The emperor nodded gently, walked to the empress dowager, bowed slightly and said, "Emperor Mother!"
Chapter completed!