Dong Gong Mei

Chapter 317 Explained
Concubine Pei blurted out: "Qingyue is someone close to the Empress Dowager, how could she testify for you?"

The Queen Mother raised her phoenix eyes and smiled noncommittally.

Qingyue knelt on the ground and dared not make a sound.

Lan Ruo said: "Did you forget, imperial concubine? The servant also worked in Changxin Palace before, and Qingyue and the servant are like sisters in private."

"Really?" A playful look appeared in the Queen Mother's eyes for a moment, and she asked lazily: "Qingyue, the Ai family also wants to see, how can you testify to your good sister?"

"Slave..." Qingyue glanced at the queen mother in fear, faltering, but did not dare to speak.

The imperial doctor and Ting Wei beside him were worried, and they couldn't wait for the answer, so they urged: "What's going on? How did the imperial concubine find out?"

"That's right, the poison that our imperial medical office can't even find out, how did the imperial concubine find out, tell me quickly!"

But Qingyue knelt there with her head down, but didn't speak.

The emperor glanced over the people in the hall, and saw that the empresses and concubines all had different expressions, while a group of imperial doctors were all dazed. The more he looked, the more he felt that this was a conspiracy.

Thinking of Nan Xing being so innocently involved in such disputes at such a young age, his heart was immediately disturbed beyond measure.

He rubbed his temples, and finally his eyes fell on Zhao Xiwei: "Crown Princess! What's going on?"

Seeing that the emperor's patience had almost worn out, Zhao Xiwei knew that the time had come, so he bowed his knees and replied, "Reporting to Your Majesty, in fact, this matter is not complicated. When the imperial concubine empress threw away the cakes, it happened that Qingyue went to the imperial concubine. Sending things in the palace, I overheard the imperial concubine saying a word."

"What did you say?"

Zhao Xiwei said: "The imperial concubine took it and smelled it, and said that this pastry will make you vomit!"

The emperor had doubts on his face: "Is this really true?"

Qingyue, who had been hanging her head all the time, knelt a step forward: "The servant did hear this sentence..."

"Nonsense!" Concubine Pei retorted, "I'm just talking casually. How can I know that Lan Ruo is really poisoned? This bitch's method of poisoning is so secret that neither the imperial doctor nor the court officer can find out. How can I know?" Will you know it by smelling it?"

"..."

After saying a word, there was an instant silence all around.

The queen mother shook her head and smiled sarcastically: "Yes, the imperial physician and the court lieutenant couldn't find out, how did you know it just by smelling it? If you don't explain clearly, let alone the emperor suspects you, even the Ai family will suspect you It's-"

"Concubine..." Concubine Pei Gui had never felt so aggrieved before.

She looked at the emperor with a look of bewilderment and helplessness on her face: "Your Majesty, my concubine can't explain it...it's really just a coincidence!"

The emperor was silent.

Concubine Pei was anxious and angry, so she couldn't help raising her voice: "Your Majesty, this concubine has been with you for so many years. Don't you know who this concubine is? Yes, Concubine Shu is your favorite, but she doesn't care about you anymore. To be favored, can it be compared to Empress Gu back then? At that time, the emperor and empress were inseparable, and the six palaces were in vain. What kind of favor was this? Even so, the concubine has never been jealous! As for competing with a concubine Shu! Your Majesty, you also said that although the concubine has a quick temper and bad temper, there is one advantage of the concubine, that is, she never bothers to compete with other women!"

Concubine Pei is the second woman beside the emperor.

She shouldered the family responsibilities, and when she entered the palace, it was also the time when the emperor and empress loved each other the most.She understood better than anyone else that it was impossible for her to have his love in this life.

Now she was standing under the throne, looking around in a daze, only feeling that she was full of eyes watching the show.

For the first time, she felt the bone-chilling cold and endless loneliness.

A cloud of mist gradually formed in her eyes, and she asked disappointedly: "The concubine did so much for His Majesty and the Empress back then, but now, in His Majesty's heart, don't you have any kindness for the concubine?"

I don't know if the queen was mentioned, but the emperor's face suddenly showed a bit of sadness, and his eyes dimmed.

He sighed, his voice was in a trance, and he answered irrelevantly: "That's right, the Empress was not in good health back then, and you helped her share a lot of pressure..."

At that time, Empress Gu was not liked by the Queen Mother, and Concubine Pei was also repeatedly suppressed by the Queen Mother.

The noble concubine is straightforward, and she doesn't like to cater to the queen mother, so she simply turned around and formed an alliance with the queen to fight against the queen mother together.

It is precisely because of this that after the queen passed away, the emperor handed over the power of the six palaces to the noble concubine.

Of course, because of this, Concubine Pei is hated by the Queen Mother even more...

The emperor was a person who valued affection, so he felt a little guilty when he thought of this, and comforted him: "I know you are not such a jealous person."

"Your Majesty..." Concubine Pei was a little moved, she stared at the man in front of her, and murmured: "It's really just a coincidence, you have to trust my concubine..."

Sometimes, clumsy explanations are more convincing than eloquent ones.

Compared with her previous fangs and claws, the pitiful appearance of hesitating to speak at this moment, not to mention the emperor, even Zhao Xiwei was a little shaken——

However, the next moment, she quickly softened her heart.

She smiled slightly, and her voice was as calm as a lake in the dark night: "First, as early as when the narcissus was snatched, the behavior of the imperial concubine was already very suspicious. The imperial concubine is not a person who likes flowers and plants, why did she suddenly want to go to the greenhouse Moving flowers? Second, I heard that the imperial concubine and the concubine Shu have never met each other, why did they suddenly visit the Pearl Mirror Hall? If these are all coincidences, then it is too coincidental."

"Eating narcissus by mistake will cause vomiting. Anyone with a little knowledge of pharmacology knows this kind of thing. Does it really take research on narcissus to know?"

When it came to the point of life and death, Concubine Pei Gui was no longer as cute and pitiful as before.

She approached Zhao Xiwei, her eyes were aggressive, and she asked back: "You keep saying that it is the poison of the palace, so please answer, if it is the poison of the palace, then it will definitely leave traces, but why did the imperial physician and the court do it? The lieutenant couldn't find any toxicity?"

She stretched out her palm, looked at the purple-red nails on it, and sneered: "If it is really the poison of this palace, it has been a day, why didn't this palace clean up the poisonous powder? Let it Left under the nail? Just waiting for you to expose the truth?"

"Zhao Xiwei, your physical evidence is perfect, but if you can't explain it, then I can say that you and Concubine Shu colluded to frame me!"

The emperor also began to favor Concubine Pei: "Yes, the imperial physician and the court officer have already identified that the bowl of milk soup that the little princess ate is indeed not poisonous. Now that you say that the poison was poisoned by the concubine, then I want to know, Concubine Gui How did you poison it, and how did you make it impossible for people to find out? And why did the imperial concubine leave marks on her hands?"

(End of this chapter)