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Chapter 705: Many Cheats 26
As for if the emperor finds out that she was the one who schemed against Prince Anjiang and the female official, would it affect her plan... there is no need to worry about this. Even if the emperor finds out, as long as Prince Anjiang and the female official did it, the emperor will still hate Prince Anjiang and Concubine Qing no matter how much he knows that they were schemed against - although Concubine Qing did not do it, the female official was her subordinate, and she will never escape the charge of failing to command her subordinates.

It would be best if the Emperor disliked the Prince of Anjiang so much that he was demoted to a commoner.

As for Concubine Qing, to be honest, if Concubine Qing had not been very close to the Emperor on the day of the banquet, it would have been difficult for her to go to the palace. Otherwise, she would have plotted against Concubine Qing directly, which would have been more effective.

Because the person behind the scenes was wearing a mask, the emperor lost the clue here.

In fact, it is still unclear whether the masked man seen by those people is really the person behind the scenes. After all, if the person behind the scenes can arrange this matter, will he do it personally? It is a bit unlikely. After all, what if something unexpected happens during the arrangement process and he is caught? It is very likely that it was arranged by his subordinates, and this subordinate has nothing to do with the person behind the scenes on the surface. In this way, even if something unexpected happens during the arrangement process, as long as this subordinate is a dead man and commits suicide after being caught, it will not be traced to the person behind the scenes.

The emperor was furious when he saw that he could not find any further clues. After all, he was the Son of Heaven and ruled the whole world, but he was played like this by others and could not find the murderer. It would be strange if he was not angry.

The emperor got angry and not only killed these cannon fodders, but also took his anger out on Concubine Qing and the female official.

The female official was not killed, after all, she was also plotted against. But considering that she was blind and had stayed in the palace for so many years, she was still tricked by the person behind the scenes. The emperor sent her to the cold palace and locked her up.

——In fact, he was just venting his anger on others because the female official was totally brought into trouble without any cause.

According to the female official, the reason she was tricked into going there was that when she was coming back from the toilet, she ran into a maidservant who was serving a low-ranking concubine in Concubine Qing's palace. The maidservant told her that Concubine Qing had been doused with soup and was changing clothes in a certain palace, and asked her to tell her about it since she had run into her.

How could she know that her acquaintance would cheat her, so she went there naturally, without thinking that the other party had been bribed.

As a result, as soon as she entered, before she had time to be surprised, Concubine Qing was not in the palace, but Prince Anjiang came in.

She knew she was being plotted against at that moment, and seeing Prince Anjiang quickly retreat, she naturally also quickly retreated.

If someone had not reported it to the Queen later, and the Queen and the Emperor had brought people to investigate, this little episode would have been passed over and would not have been discovered at all.

So she wasn't wronged?

But it was no use accusing her any more. The emperor was unhappy, so it was good enough that he only sent her to the cold palace and did not chop off her head.

Concubine Qing was demoted to Concubine Qing. The reason was exactly as the people behind the scenes had expected. It was because Concubine Qing was not good at controlling her subordinates. As a female official, she could still be deceived into such a place in such an environment in the palace. As for Prince Anjiang, the emperor did not vent his anger on him. After all, if it were not for the emperor, but for someone else, Prince Anjiang could still hold the host responsible. After all, he came to the host's house to attend a banquet, and was splashed with soup by the host's poorly managed servants. When he wanted to change his clothes, he was set a trap by the host's poorly managed servants and almost made a mistake. As a guest, Prince Anjiang did not say he was angry, so what right did the emperor have to be angry?

Fortunately, his eunuch was a strong and powerful one. When his mother chose him to serve her, she thought that he could both guard him and serve him at critical moments.

It turned out that according to his eunuch, after he entered the palace, his eunuch was also planning to go in, after all, he had to help him change his clothes, but the eunuch who led the way, plus another eunuch who appeared out of nowhere, actually prepared to attack him and knock him out. - Apparently the enemy was well prepared, fearing that the eunuch leading the way could not defeat him alone, so they prepared another person.

But the person behind the scenes obviously underestimated the power of the eunuch arranged for him by his mother.

Because his eunuch knew a little bit of fighting and kicking, the attack of the two men failed. On the contrary, his eunuch knocked the two men down. Seeing that they could not win, the two men ran away immediately. He also immediately realized that something was wrong and retreated. Otherwise, his eunuch would be useless and would be knocked unconscious. The other party would then knock him and the female official unconscious as well, and put him and the female official together. If they were touched by the thing that was suspected to be aphrodisiac, and something really happened, he would be doomed. Of course, even if nothing happened, it would be hard to explain why they were put together like that. It was clear that they were trying to kill him.

This was the guess made by Princess An, who was good at palace fighting, after Prince Anjiang returned to the Prince An Mansion and told his mother about the matter. Of course, needless to say, Princess An was furious at the thought that someone wanted to kill Prince Anjiang. She had been running to the palace with Prince An these days, asking about the results of the investigation into this matter and wanting to see who the murderer was.

Seeing that everyone in Prince An's mansion was so angry about this, the emperor didn't have the nerve to vent his anger on them. After all, if this matter got out, no one in the royal family would dare to enter the palace for banquets. He was afraid that if he went in one day, he would be so angry that he would be demoted to a commoner when he came out.

Those who knew would say that the emperor did nothing wrong, while those who didn't would probably speculate whether the emperor wanted to take action against members of the royal family and deprive some of their titles, so he deliberately let members of the royal family enter the palace, set up traps to make them make mistakes, and finally stripped them of their titles.

After all, such a thing happened in the palace, and then the emperor stripped the title of Prince Anjiang. It would be strange if the royal family did not think that all this was instigated by the emperor. After all, if it was not instigated by the emperor, who would dare to do such a thing in the palace?

——This is the real reason why the emperor did not dare to vent his anger on Prince Anjiang. Otherwise, if he was not afraid that the royal family would think that he wanted to strip him of his title and cause some trouble, otherwise, seeing that the female official and Concubine Qing had been angered by the emperor, Prince Anjiang would definitely be angered as well.

Not only did the emperor take his anger out on Concubine Qing and the female official, he also took his anger out on the empress. After all, the empress was the master of the harem and was responsible for managing the harem, but she had caused such a big mess and allowed people to stir up trouble in the harem. She had no idea that such a thing had happened at such a banquet, so she must be responsible.

This is just like when a banquet is held at a private residence in the countryside and something goes wrong, the hostess will not be able to take charge of the household chores.

The queen was scolded by the emperor, but she did not dare to cry out that she was wronged, because when what happened that day, she knew that the emperor would definitely scold her for such a big thing.

Although the Queen was a little unhappy about being scolded by the Emperor, she felt it was worth it when she thought that the Emperor would have a worse impression of Concubine Qing. After all, Concubine Qing's downfall was beneficial to her.