Concubine Mo Hui could no longer control herself. The anger and hatred in her heart completely burst out at this moment. "Yes...Jia Rong was really well-behaved and obedient before. Unfortunately, since she went to Concubine Wan, you There, she no longer recognizes me as my mother-in-law. She puts Concubine Wan first in everything and regards you as her biological mother. Ming'er and I are nothing in her eyes. We tried to persuade her with good intentions, but she was angry instead. We are meddling in other people's business..." "Oh, that's right, we don't have any ability, we can't give her everything she wants. She wants to climb high, she wants to climb higher, we can't stop her... She will be killed tomorrow Damn it, you are still lying there dying, not knowing whether to live or die. Concubine Wan, I would like to ask you, how could she end up with such a tragic death while she was with you?"

Concubine Wan's face darkened. She never expected that Concubine Hui, who had always been timid and did not dare to go against her, would actually dare to scold her in front of the emperor? There was a bit of coldness in her eyes, really give her a little Her face became lawless. Concubine Wan suppressed the anger in her heart, pretended to be aggrieved and choked out a cry, then she held the handkerchief and started crying. "Concubine Hui, what are you doing? You are not looking for death. The murderer of Jiarong is blamed, but he blames me. I treat Jiarong as my own daughter, am I still wrong?"

The emperor's face was full of displeasure. He looked at Concubine Hui coldly: "Concubine Hui, Jiarong's death has nothing to do with Concubine Wan. Why are you yelling at her? As Jiarong's mother-in-law, you can't control her well. She...you still have the nerve to preach to others here?"

"You are really presumptuous. Come here, take Concubine Hui down immediately. She will not be allowed to leave Ziyang Palace without my order."

Eunuch Zhou agreed, and immediately called the guards to come in and take Concubine Hui away. Concubine Hui looked at the emperor protecting Concubine Wan, and her heart bled with hatred. Her eyes were red, and at this moment, she didn't care about anything. He gave up completely. "Your Majesty, it has always been like this... No matter what happens, you always protect Concubine Wan. Your eyes and ears are all blind and deaf. As long as she cries. After a few words, you completely lost your mind. Apart from her, looking at the concubines in this palace, is there anyone else in your heart?"

"You don't know right from wrong, true from false, and you blindly indulge her and protect her, a snake and scorpion woman... You are not a wise king at all..." "Pa"... The emperor slapped her hard. On Concubine Hui's face. "How dare you, Concubine Hui, how dare you call me blind and deaf, and how dare you question and reprimand me? Who gave you the courage? Don't you want to live anymore?"

Concubine Hui fell to the ground. She held her painful cheek and looked at the emperor with a pair of scarlet eyes. "I don't want to live anymore... What's the point of living? Jiarong is dead, and Ming'er will be in trouble now. My two children are about to be gone, and if possible, I would rather sacrifice my life to live in exchange for theirs."

"It's a pity that no matter what I do, I can't get Jiarong's life back. Your Majesty, Jiarong is also your daughter. If she dies, won't you feel sad and hurt?"

The emperor's face was livid and he didn't want to see Concubine Hui again. "Come here, drag this madman out for me immediately. Put her in the cold palace. From now on, I don't want to see her again..." Concubine Hui's eyes were full of tears. Angry, she gritted her teeth and climbed up from the ground with her arms. "Being thrown into the cold palace? Being thrown into the cold palace again? Oh, I have really stayed in that place enough. I don't want to go back to the cold palace at all... Think about it back then, I really regret it, why should I hold it back and take the blame for others?"

"If I hadn't taken the blame, I wouldn't have stayed in the cold palace for so many years, and my son and daughter wouldn't have endured so many years of indifference. Jiarong wouldn't have lost his life because of that vain glory and wealth. A life..." Concubine Wan's face changed, and her eyelids twitched uncontrollably. She screamed: "Concubine Hui, what do you want to do?"

Seeing how excited she was, Concubine Hui raised her head and laughed. Her eyes flashed with the fearlessness of risking everything. "What do I want to do? Oh, of course I want to tell the truth about that year. For this day , I have waited too long."

"I can't go to hell carrying that scapegoat. Otherwise, I will die with my eyes open..." The emperor frowned, his eyes full of darkness. "What happened that year, which one are you talking about? Could it be that the queen's miscarriage was Wasn't it you who caused it? Now how long has passed, you still want to beat me up, and who do you want to support you? "

Concubine Hui narrowed her eyes and stared at Concubine Wan. She raised her arm and pointed at her: "It was her...it was not me who caused the queen to miscarry, but Zhao Waner. It was she who secretly instigated me and asked me to harm the queen."

Concubine Wan's face turned pale, and her body could not help but tremble slightly. Without thinking, she denied it: "Concubine Hui, you are spitting blood..." "Your Majesty, Concubine Hui, she is slandering my concubine, she is Crazy, she is trying to pull it off."

The Queen walked in from outside the palace at some unknown time. Her eyes were stained with frost, and she sneered and asked Concubine Wan: "Oh? Really? Concubine Wan, are you still making excuses now?"

Concubine Wan raised her head and looked at the door of the palace. Xiao Xuanmo supported the queen and walked in from outside the palace. Behind them were a group of veterans headed by Song Hui. The emperor's face became extremely ugly. He He frowned and looked at the queen: "Queen, what are you doing? You're so good, why did you bring so many people here?"

There was no longer any timidity or fear in the queen's eyes. Next to her stood her son to support her, and behind her stood countless veterans to protect her. She had chips and confidence, and she didn't have to. Afraid of Zhao Waner. Over the years, she has suffered enough from Zhao Waner's cowardice. Today, she must take back all the pain she has endured. What belongs to her, what belongs to Mo'er, she will take back. The culprit who caused her miscarriage must plead guilty and be punished... The queen entered the inner palace and did not answer the emperor's questions. She walked in step by step, passed the emperor directly, and walked in front of Concubine Wan. Concubine Wan had not responded yet. Come over, with a snap, the queen slapped her hard on the face. Concubine Wan was completely stunned. She fell to the ground, and there was a roar in her head. She covered her cheek and raised her head in disbelief. Looking at the queen, "You...you actually hit me." There was no warmth in the queen's eyes. She looked at Concubine Wan condescendingly and coldly. "This slap is for the child who died back then."

"Zhao Waner, it's not just the children of this palace... Looking at the entire harem, which concubine has you not tortured?"

Concubine Wan's eyes were red, she bit her lip and looked helplessly at the emperor: "Your Majesty... you have to make the decision for me, I am innocent. The Queen and Concubine Hui, they are all slandering me..." The Emperor He stepped forward and grabbed the queen's wrist: "Queen, you dare to beat Concubine Wan like this in front of me. Have you ever taken me seriously? You should apologize to Concubine Wan immediately, otherwise , I will never spare you lightly."

In the past, whenever he said these words, the queen would be afraid and bow her head to him. Unexpectedly, the queen did not lower her head like before. Her eyes were cold and she looked at the emperor coldly. She raised her head He raised his chin and raised his voice and said: "I am the queen of Nan Chu and the mother of a country. Why shouldn't I teach a little concubine a lesson? I dare to ask Your Majesty, what law of Nan Chu has I violated? Which palace rule did you violate?"

Song Hui and other officials immediately agreed with the queen. "The queen is right... Concubine Wan has misbehaved and killed too many people. As the mother of a country, she should take action to reprimand the concubines to set the record straight."

"Yes, Your Majesty, if you continue to protect Concubine Wan, will you ever be worthy of the ancestors of the Nanchu royal family?"

"The crimes that Concubine Wan has committed over the years are too serious and evil. I am here this time to attack the evil concubine and punish the evil and promote the good."

"Please, Your Majesty, you must be fair and strict so that you can stop everyone in the world from talking."

The emperor's face turned green. He shook his arms and pointed at the queen, Song Hui and others. "You...are you trying to force the palace?"

Xiao Tingyan, who had been silent all this time, couldn't help but sneer. There was a hint of contempt in his eyes: "Brother, what are you talking about? How dare the queen unite with the ministers and force your majesty? The queen just wants to get a life for herself It's just fair..." "What is the truth about the queen's miscarriage back then? Why don't we calm down first and listen to what Concubine Hui has to say. Concubine Hui has been taking the blame for so many years, so she should have the most say. "

Xiao Tingyan's words still received responses from Song Hui and other courtiers. Concubine Wan had no master, and she looked at the emperor in panic... The emperor looked back at her coldly with a sullen face: "You don't have to panic, you are not afraid of slanted shadows when you are upright. If you hadn't done those things, they wouldn't have falsely accused you."

Concubine Wan's heart sank suddenly, and her whole body felt like falling into an ice cave. Concubine Hui looked at the queen, Song Hui and other courtiers, and she suddenly felt more confident... She gradually straightened her spine, cleared her throat, and What happened that year was explained in detail. More than ten years ago, she made a bowl of lotus seed soup with her own hands and sent it to the queen for her to drink. Unexpectedly, a large amount of saffron juice was added to the lotus seed soup. The queen couldn't help but After two sips, she felt pain in her lower abdomen and had a miscarriage on the spot. The imperial doctor had no time to save her. That miscarriage almost took half of the queen’s life. Concubine Hui looked at the queen with some guilt: “That child was almost already dead at that time. She turned into a human form. She is a very beautiful princess... The queen and mother-in-law blamed me. If I hadn't given you that bowl of lotus seed soup, you wouldn't have had a miscarriage and lost the princess."

She knelt down and knelt down towards the queen. This apology, many years late, was her most sincere apology at the moment. Her relationship with the queen at that time was quite harmonious. It was precisely because the queen trusted her that she drank it without hesitation. A bowl of lotus seed soup that she made by herself. A bowl of lotus seed soup ruined her relationship with the queen, and even ruined the lives of her and her children. The queen's eyes turned red, and she couldn't help but wipe the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief. She turned her head and couldn't bear to look at Concubine Hui. Concubine Hui continued with a hoarse voice: "At that time, after the empress had a miscarriage, a doctor discovered a problem in the lotus seed soup. I couldn't explain it. I had no idea what happened. What...seeing that the emperor was about to convict me and execute me...who knew that in the end it was Concubine Wan who begged for me on my behalf."

"Over the years, I have always been grateful to Concubine Wan for her life-saving grace... If she hadn't begged for mercy, I would have died long ago. Who knows, all of this is false... Zhao Waner planned all of this. Where is the lotus She had someone secretly put the saffron in the soup, and she used me as a sword to stab the queen fiercely."

"It's in vain that I have regarded her as a benefactor and been grateful for so many years. If someone hadn't told me the truth, I might have been kept in the dark until my death."

After she said that, her eyes were full of hatred and she looked at Concubine Wan. Concubine Wan did not dare to look directly into her eyes. She murmured in a low voice: "No, that's not it. What does all this have to do with me?" ?You are united to slander me and put me to death."

Mentioning the already formed daughter, the queen felt extremely sad. She pinched the handkerchief and wiped the moisture from the corners of her eyes. She sneered: "Concubine Wan, you are still quibbling until now. It seems that you are You won’t shed tears until you see the coffin. If that’s the case, then call the witnesses to come forward.”

Concubine Wan was startled, her eyes full of surprise. "Witness? What witness?"

It was impossible. She had already dealt with all the witnesses back then, so she did not believe that there would be any witnesses to testify against her. Concubine Wan raised her chin and snorted coldly at the Queen: "Empress, you want to slander me. I'll just say it straight, why bother trying to make things up and find some false witnesses?"

"Ha... don't think that we are afraid of you because you colluded with the courtiers to force His Majesty." As soon as Concubine Wan finished her sentence, a familiar figure walked in from outside the palace. When that figure gradually approached, Wan Concubine The concubine could see this person's appearance bit by bit. She was an elderly nun. Her temple hair was gray, and her face had obvious signs of aging. There was a deep scar on the left side of her face... That scar was shocking. , people couldn’t help but stand on end when they saw it. What was even more eye-catching was that she was lame in one leg, and she came in with a cane. When everyone’s eyes fell on the hand holding the cane, , three of the five fingers have been lost. Only the two thumbs and middle fingers are left, and the rest of the fingers have been chopped off. How miserable. Losing the legs, and having the fingers chopped off... This must be what I have experienced. A nun who was brutally tortured and lived an ignoble existence. Concubine Wan's eyes were almost straight. She looked at the person who slowly walked up to her in disbelief. No, it cannot be called a human being, but a ghost crawling out of hell. Concubine Wan screamed in fright, and she quickly hid behind the emperor. She was so guilty that she did not dare to look into the eyes of the old woman. The old woman grinned and smiled. "Concubine Wan, what happened when you saw this servant? Is there such a big reaction? The slave is Xiuyun, don’t you remember the slave?”

If Nanny Li were still here, she would probably faint from fear. This Xiuyun, together with Nanny Li, served Concubine Wan when she entered the palace. Back then, the two of them were the most capable helpers around Concubine Wan. , the most satisfactory right-hand man. The emperor frowned and looked at the old woman in front of him in disbelief. "You... you are Xiuyun? I remember that you used to be a very beautiful girl, how could you become like this? ?”
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