The Empress Arrives: Rebirth of Concubine Hua

Chapter 420: Zhuang Qing’s Personal Letter
Concubine Wan said bitterly.

"You are my dowry maid, I have always treated you well!
You are about to die, but you still don't tell the truth! You even falsely accuse me!
Could it be that I put poison in your room? !

You better tell the truth, otherwise, I will kill all your clans!"

Xiaochun was also forced to kneel down, but Luoyu was still hesitating when Xiaochun had already spoken in a trembling manner.

"Your servant, your servant says, don't kill my entire clan!

I know that if I don’t tell others, I will suffer the same fate as Luo Yu!

I did all this, I found the things, and I poisoned them!"

Nian Shilan breathed a sigh of relief, finally asking this question.

But her face was filled with sadness and anger.

"You are just a slave, and I have never treated you harshly! Why did you want to murder my Fourth Prince?"

Xiaochun was trembling with fear, as if she was struggling with herself whether to tell the truth.

Yinzhen said lightly.

"If the reasons you give can convince me and everyone else, I will spare your life and not execute your entire clan.

If what you said strikes me as false, I will immediately have you torn into pieces and your entire clan exterminated!"

As soon as Yinzhen finished speaking, Xiaochun immediately spoke loudly.

"It was the servant who was ordered by Lady Li! Lady Li said,
There are only two little princes in the palace now. If the two little princes are gone,
Since the emperor has no children, he will love and pamper her more!
If she gave birth to another prince, she would be able to gain status through her son.

Who knows, maybe the little prince can become the crown prince!"

Concubine Li did not expect that the truth would be exposed so quickly and thoroughly. She was still standing aside watching the fun, but suddenly she became the focus of everyone's attention.

But she couldn't plead guilty!
Concubine Li was calm for once, she walked to the bottom of the steps, stood still and bowed.

"Your Majesty, I cannot possibly say these words to a lowly maid who casually attacks me.

I, your concubine, do not have the courage to murder the heir to the throne, so I beg Your Majesty to investigate this matter."

Ulanara was originally watching the fun from the side, wanting to see how Nian Shilan would handle things today. She didn't expect to hear the maid in Qixiang Palace say that it was Concubine Li who ordered it, just because Concubine Li had two extra princes in the palace.

Ulanara thought that Concubine Li was really stupid and evil.

No matter how much he wanted to support her in the beginning, she still set her sights on the Third Prince.

It is tolerable and unbearable.

This chess piece is useless.

Ulanara said immediately.

"Your Majesty, I was deeply distressed when I heard that the Fourth Prince was murdered by a villain.

But since this servant pointed out, Concubine Li wanted to murder more than just the Fourth Prince.

And there is my Third Prince, so I can no longer just stand by and watch.

Please, Your Majesty, please understand clearly, my Third Prince and Concubine Hua's Fourth Prince,
They are still so young~ How dare they? ! "

Concubine Li looked at Ulanara in disbelief. It was clearly she who hinted that she wanted to get rid of the Fourth Prince!

Nian Shilan looked at the look that Concubine Li gave Ulanara and her heart moved.

As I guessed, the matter of the poisoned toys was probably also caused by the involvement of the Ulanara family.

However, the Ulanara family is very powerful and has deep roots, and cannot be eliminated overnight.

Nian Shilan thought, it would be better to pin the matter on Concubine Li today, so that Ulanara could relax her vigilance a little.

Nian Shilan said to Yinzhen.

"Your Majesty, I deeply agree with what the Queen just said.

The Third Prince and the Fourth Prince are still so young, but they have already been targeted.

No matter who this person is, I beg Your Majesty to punish him severely.

Otherwise, if everyone in the palace had their eyes on the heir to the throne,

Don't you want to make the former dynasty and the harem live in unrest? "

Yinzhen nodded and said.

"I think so too. Nothing will be allowed to happen to my heir!"

Su Peisheng suddenly came close to Yinzhen and whispered something in his ear. Yinzhen said, "Is it really so?"

Su Peisheng took a step back and bowed.

"Your Majesty, I dare not lie. The guard Li was greatly favored by the emperor.
Naturally, I am very concerned about the people and things around the emperor.

Guard Li heard about the incident at Yikun Palace and found me.

He told me everything he knew.

However, the decision on how to deal with it still needs to be made by the Emperor."

Yinzhen looked at Concubine Li with a half-smile on his face.

"Lady Li, even when the servants around you pointed it out, you refused to admit that you murdered the heir to the throne.

Then I don't need to save face for you anymore. Su Peisheng, pass it on!"

Su Peisheng received the order and immediately spoke loudly.

"Send the second-class guard of the inner palace, Li Ke, to the audience!"

So the former secret guard An San appeared in front of everyone in the harem for the first time with his real name Li Ke, a second-class guard in the inner palace.

"Your subordinate Li Ke pays respect to His Majesty! Long live the emperor!"

Concubine Li looked at the unfamiliar handsome guard in confusion. She didn't understand what this man was going to do, but from what the emperor had just said, he was bound to do something bad to her.

Concubine Li could no longer maintain her forced calmness.

"Your Majesty, I don't know this person!"

Li Ke smiled and said to Concubine Li.

"It doesn't matter if you don't know me, but I know you very well."

After saying that, Li Ke took out a few letters from his arms and presented them to Yinzhen with both hands.

Su Peisheng hurriedly took the letter and held it in his hands before Yinzhen.

The envelopes all had "Personally from Mr. Zhuang" written on them.

Yinzhen frowned and picked up an envelope.

"What is this? The handwriting on this envelope looks unfamiliar."

Li Ke bowed.

"Your Majesty, these letters were all written by Concubine Li.

Except for the words on the envelope, which were not written by Lady Li herself,
Every word in it was written by Concubine Li herself.

If Your Majesty doesn’t believe it, just open any letter at random.”

Yinzhen asked Li Ke as he casually opened the envelope.

"Where did you get these things?"

Li Ke replied very honestly.

"I occasionally discovered that the concubines of Li Guiren had contact with people outside the palace.

I originally thought it was a letter from Concubine Li.

However, letters from the empresses and concubines were all delivered personally by special people, but letters from Concubine Li were always secretly taken out of the palace by palace servants.

The subordinates were worried that Concubine Li would collude with outsiders and do harm to the Emperor, so they paid some attention to her.

It was discovered that Concubine Li had close contacts with a man named Zhuang Qiyuan outside the palace.

My subordinates have checked and found out that this man named Zhuang Qiyuan came to Beijing last year.

The place he came from was Wuyi Lane in Jinling, the hometown of Concubine Li, and the subordinates suspected that this person had a past relationship with Concubine Li.

So they went to explore his residence and found many tokens.

My subordinates were afraid of being discovered by him, so they only took a few key letters.

The contents of the letter were all about Concubine Li asking for the "method to exorcise the demon". Concubine Li also said,
The emperor's heir is her inner demon, and sometimes
Your Majesty, please take a look and you will know. I cannot continue to say anything more!"

Li Ke's hesitation to speak immediately aroused speculation among the concubines.

In the harem, the thing that is difficult to say out loud is probably that Concubine Li has a private affair with someone.