The Six Palaces of Favorites: The Black-bellied Emperor's Cold Concubine

Chapter 1097 The Intentions Are Sinister (13)
Qing Chen sneered and said: "Since Wei Ronghua is so well informed, he saw that the palace had taken people into the palace a few days ago, so why didn't he come out to report to the emperor at that time, but waited until today to testify against the palace? I really want to save people, isn’t it too late to say now? Or are you waiting for such an opportunity, the life and death of others is not important, the important thing is whether I drink this bowl of medicine or not!"

The emperor looked over sharply, and also heard the loopholes in Wei Ronghua's words, and asked coldly: "Isn't that true, since you saw Jinxiu take a mother and child into the palace, why didn't you come and tell me? But you have to wait until the matter is irretrievable before you come to tell me, why are you so relieved? From whom did you know that the imperial concubine has such a secret recipe in her hand? Tell me!"

The emperor stopped drinking, and Wei Ronghua trembled in fright, he couldn't even speak coherently, and stammered: "Concubine, concubine also inadvertently heard the little eunuch chewing his tongue, saying that he is the imperial concubine. I got a secret recipe, and then...then secretly took a mother and child into the palace, intending to use the child's hard work as medicine. However, the concubine has no real evidence, how dare he easily testify against the imperial concubine..."

Xiao Jun snorted coldly full of sarcasm, and said with a smile: "Wei Ronghua is also a mother. Is this your pity for your son? Don't dare to testify easily, but you have to wait until the child dies and get it." You dare to tell me based on real evidence, the imperial concubine killed someone, right?"

"Your majesty, concubine... that's not what concubine means..." Wei Ronghua was a little incoherent, she couldn't understand, shouldn't the emperor send someone to find the corpses of the mother and child, as a real evidence to send the imperial concubine, right? Why did the spearhead suddenly turn to her?

Wei Ronghua didn't give up, and reminded: "Your Majesty, no matter what, it's not the concubine's fault that the imperial concubine has such intentions. The concubine couldn't believe that the imperial concubine would really kill people to take blood..."

"Shut up!" The emperor ordered angrily: "Fuquan, go find the imperial physician to test the medicine, and let them tell Wei Ronghua what is in the imperial concubine's bowl of medicine!"

Then he turned to ask Qingchen: "But it's true as she said, did you ask Jinxiu to pick someone into the palace?"

Qingchen hurriedly knelt down and said: "The emperor forgives the sin, this matter should have been told to the emperor, but the concubine felt that the emperor was so busy and didn't want to let the emperor worry about these trivial matters, so she didn't say anything. Besides, the concubine is the imperial concubine As an assistant to the Sixth Palace, and to hold the Phoenix Seal on behalf of the Empress, I still have the right to do so, if this makes the Emperor feel displeased, I ask the Emperor to forgive me."

Xiao Jun didn't say anything, just looked at her with deep eyes, waiting for her to continue. He believed that she might have her reasons for doing this, but it was definitely not for cruelty to take a baby's heart and soul.

Seeing the emperor like this, Qingchen had no choice but to continue: "The concubine missed the cakes that the emperor took the concubine out to eat that day, so he asked Jinxiu to go out of the palace to buy some. On the way back, Jinxiu met a woman who was crying. A baby was thrown at the entrance of the nursery hall. Jinxiu asked her, why did she throw away her baby? The woman said that it was because after the baby was born, she got a strange disease for some reason, and a lot of expensive medicinal materials were used. , but nothing can be cured, he was only a few months old, and they spent all their savings in order to treat him. They really couldn't afford it, so they decided to put the child in the nursery. After all, it was an orphan established by the imperial court. In the shelter, the imperial court allocates money to take care of the children inside. Even if they are sick, they are not afraid of having no money for medical treatment. Jinxiu felt that she was very pitiful, so she came back and talked about it with the concubine. I privately decided to bring them into the palace, hoping that the imperial doctor can show me what's going on."

After hearing her words, the emperor's expression softened a lot, and he asked again: "Even so, there's no need to bring people into the palace, let Gu Yunfeng go and have a look, isn't it?"

Qingchen was surprised and said: "Has the emperor forgotten that the imperial doctor is not allowed to treat ordinary people casually? Besides, if they don't know why, they may not be willing to accept the kindness of the imperial doctor Gu. If the child's illness is really serious It needs a lot of expensive medicinal materials to cure it, and Gu Yunfeng's little salary may not be of much use, so it's better to take it into the palace, and the concubine just needs to order what is needed, and there is no need to go through a lot of trouble. How can medicinal materials be better than those from the Tai Hospital?"

"I forgot about this." The emperor stretched out his hand to support her and asked, "What about the mother and child now? How is the child's illness? Has it improved?"

Qingchen hurriedly replied: "The child was born with a febrile illness from the womb, and it is really not easy to cure, but Imperial Physician Gu saved the child's life. When he is older, he will be able to take medicine, and the medicine will control it. Well, when they are not sick, they are no different from ordinary people, so it is not a problem to support themselves in the future. The concubines sent some silver taels to their families to subsidize their families, so that they would not go bankrupt for the sake of their children and make their parents and family members live on the streets. "

After thinking for a while, he added: "The mother and son haven't left the palace yet, but because the weather has been too hot these two days, the concubine was afraid that the children's health would not be able to bear it, so I asked someone to change their place of residence. Bring their mother and child up, and the emperor himself will ask for clarification. As for the blood-stained baby that Wei Ronghua mentioned, the concubine really doesn't know what's going on, so please ask the emperor to look into it."

The blood-stained swaddle was thrown by Jinxiu by the river in the middle of the night, so she knew they would look for evidence, so it's better to let them do it.

After hearing her words, Wei Ronghua sat down on the ground with a pale complexion. At this moment, she knew that she was doomed. If Qingchen really used that prescription, maybe she would be able to get out of it, but now this matter has become Even if the emperor did not punish her, she believed that Qingchen would never let her go.

Wei Ronghua felt chills in his heart, but felt very ironic. Concubine Xian thought that the imperial concubine trusted her so much, but now it seems that it was just a trick for others to expose her true face.

Even though the virtuous concubine is cunning, the imperial concubine is not a vegetarian. It depends on who of the two sisters can have the last laugh.

Sun Dexin and Shi Zhan came in to salute, and the emperor ordered impatiently: "Look at the bowl of medicine on the table, and tell Wei Ronghua everything about what herbs are in this bowl of medicine."

The two were busy responding, Xiao Jun opened the curtain and went to the outside room a little annoyed after giving the order, after the two imperial doctors tasted it one after another, they carefully distinguished: "Master Wei, this bowl of medicine contains Eucommia, Zhuru, and Ejiao... ..."

Afterwards, even Wei Ronghua himself couldn't hear what they were talking about, but at the end he asked with tears in despair: "Isn't this medicine made of human blood?"

The two imperial physicians were slightly taken aback, and looked at her in surprise, and said in astonishment: "My lord, there is no human blood in this medicine, and it is very rare to use human blood as medicine, unless you got something weird. symptom."

"So that's the case, I understand." Wei Ronghua closed his eyes in despair, two lines of tears rolled down his cheeks, and murmured: "This is fate, it seems that I am destined not to wait until Heng'er grows up." It’s the day when I grow up. How much I long for her to call me mother, and I’m afraid this wish will not come true until I die.”

(End of this chapter)