The Legend of the Loved One

Chapter 111

Taking advantage of the time when the ladies gathered together to release an extremely important message, the faces of the guests present obviously had different expressions, and they all secretly planned their ideas in their hearts.

During the banquet, the singing and dancing were still going on leisurely. After Chu Xue chatted with the concubines around her for a while, she raised her eyes and saw Qiu Yan quietly entering from the entrance of the hall.

Qiu Yan walked to the position opposite her, and nodded slightly towards her through the crowd, she knew what she was thinking, and not long after, she withdrew from the banquet.

As soon as the protagonist left, the guests, who had no choice but to stay, also dispersed.

She was walking leisurely in the imperial garden, and after a while, she bumped into Li Jiaoyun.

Li Jiaoyun greeted her and said, "Why didn't your empress take the sedan chair?"

She just drank a few glasses of wine, and her face was still a little red at this time, she smiled and said: "Just now, I felt a little hot after drinking wine, and I think it's cool in the garden, so let's go, isn't my sister also sitting in a sedan chair? Let's walk together!"

Li Jiaoyun responded with a smile, and the two sisters walked leisurely in the garden.

In the early summer afternoon, everything was quiet except for the chirping of cicadas on the branches. In the garden, lotus lamps stood quietly, and weeping willows supported the wind. Except for the maid holding an umbrella, everyone followed behind. The two talked softly all the way, and the surroundings were lazy. Relaxed summer scene.

Then just turned out of the imperial garden, this leisure was suddenly broken, I saw a group of guards passing by the palace alley, all the young people held their halberds tightly, their faces were solemn, and people panicked.

Seeing them, one of the leaders came up to salute, "Greetings to the two empresses."

Li Jiaoyun hurriedly asked, "What happened?"

The guard bowed his head and reported, "I want to tell you, Madam, just now someone discovered that an assassin had sneaked into the inner palace, and the servants are going to arrest him."

"Assassin?" Li Jiaoyun was taken aback, and looked at Chu Xue in bewilderment.

Chu Xue also restrained herself, and asked, "Did anyone be hurt?"

"So far no one has been found to be in danger, but the assassin seems to be heading towards Qutai Palace." The guard answered truthfully.

"Then hurry up and arrest her, and send more people to ensure the safety of Concubine Wan!" Chu Xuegan hurriedly ordered.

"Yes." The guard hurried forward after responding.

Seeing that Li Jiaoyun's face was pale, Chu Xue hurriedly comforted her, "Don't worry, sister, there is only one assassin, and there are so many guards in the palace, he will definitely not let him escape, besides, he hasn't hurt anyone yet!"

Looking around, Yan Ling stepped forward and persuaded: "Master, the situation is chaotic at the moment, we should not move around anymore, hurry back to the palace."

Chu Xue nodded, and said to Li Jiaoyun: "This place is closer to Yufu Palace, sister, don't go, hurry up and go to my place to have a rest."

The children had already returned to the palace with the nurse, and they were the only ones walking at this time, so safety was the most important thing anyway, Li Jiaoyun nodded, and followed Chu Xue to Yufu Palace first.

Not long after the group returned to Yufu Palace, they saw that Fugui had something to report.Fugui looked anxious, as if something serious happened to him, seeing him like this, Chu Xue hurriedly asked: "What's the matter, what happened?"

Fugui's tone was a little anxious, "My lord, something went wrong about capturing the assassin... The assassin was caught, but something serious happened. The guards didn't dare to act rashly. They want to come to ask for your order first."

Chu Xue and Li Jiaoyun looked at each other with surprise, Li Jiaoyun asked in surprise, "What's wrong? Didn't the assassin hurt Concubine Wan?"

"No, no, Concubine Rong, please don't worry, no one was injured. It's just, just..." Fugui's face was really ugly.

"What's the point at this time, why don't you say it!" Chu Xue pretended to be angry.

"Yes." Seeing that the atmosphere was almost brewing, Fu Gui said directly: "My lord, it turns out that the man is not an assassin, but the concubine Wan's best friend. When the guards entered, the two were still lingering."

"What?" As soon as the words came out, Li Jiaoyun was so shocked that she could not close her mouth from ear to ear, only to hear Chu Xue say angrily, "Bastard, it is about the chastity of concubines, how can such words be arranged at will?"

Fu Gui immediately knelt down and said, "Master, please calm down. How dare the slaves arrange such things to insult Concubine Wan. It was actually witnessed by a group of guards, and the evidence is conclusive. It is not a slave's lie."

"The evidence is solid?" Li Jiaoyun had already reacted, and asked quickly, "What evidence is there?"

Fugui stretched out his hand and presented a dark blue sachet in front of the two of them, saying: "This is the sachet found on the man's clothes. According to the confession of the palace maid of Qutai, it was made by Concubine Wan herself. Embroidery."

Li Jiaoyun looked at the sachet, then turned her eyes to Chu Xue, and asked anxiously: "My lady, what should I do if something like this happens?"

Chu Xue sighed, frowned in regret, and said, "Although Concubine Wan hasn't served her bed yet, she is still a legitimate concubine who has been granted the title. If the emperor and queen mother know about it, they will definitely be furious."

"But such a big matter, sooner or later they have to know! How to make a decision now?"

Chu Xue looked at Li Jiaoyun, and said after deliberation: "There at Qutai Palace, if you and I go over now, I'm afraid it will spoil our eyes... In this case, let Zhou Yu go there first. This is not a trivial matter, and Zhou Yu must check carefully If the evidence is convincing, go report it to the emperor. After all, Concubine Wan's mother's family is also a high-ranking one, and if I deal with it rashly, there may be something wrong."

She turned to Fugui, and said: "Just follow my orders, no matter what, those two people must take care of them first."

"Yes." Fu Gui stepped back and hurried to find Zhou Yu.

He sighed all the way, the master's arrangement was very good, Concubine Wan said she was sick and hid in the palace today, but Wang Xing'an was invited for a tryst, if the two of them were not tricky, how dare he, a guard, break into the forbidden area of ​​inner power without permission?So they just lighted up a little bit of incense, but they didn't expect that the two of them would actually commit a scandal. If Concubine Wan is really innocent, as a palace concubine, how can they let a foreigner enter the bedroom?
Therefore, they just pierced the window paper for the two of them, and it was Concubine Wan herself who really overcame the thunder.This is all right, the innocent body is gone, and the guards who caught the assassin caught him straight. This time, it is no longer a problem that can be solved by confinement.

She deserves it, who told her to have such a vicious heart to harm her master, who was about to give birth at that time, if there was a slight mistake, it would be a dead body and three lives!For such a poisonous person, one death would be considered cheap for her!
As soon as Fugui left, only Li Jiaoyun, Chu Xue and a few maidservants were left in the palace. Li Jiaoyun sighed: "It's not a dangerous assassin, it's finally reassuring, but the emperor can't avoid such things happening in Qutai Palace." I'm going to get angry again."

But Chu Xue sighed and said: "But the matter has already happened, no matter how angry the emperor is, he has to deal with it! So many guards have seen it, and I don't know if I can stop you? Now, it's up to the emperor how to deal with it. , Concubine Wan's father, after all, is the Minister of War, Lord Zhao Chu!"

When she finally said the name, she subconsciously accentuated her tone.

Li Jiaoyun sighed: "No matter how high the official position of Concubine Wan's family is, it is a serious crime to mess up the palace, besides..."

The voice suddenly stopped, and Chu Xue looked at her suspiciously.

Because the palace is full of close maidservants, there is no need to be very shy, Li Jiaoyun just whispered to Chu Xue: "Besides, I heard that because of the military power, the emperor has already intended to reorganize the military department."

Li Jiaoyun's natal family supervised the military power for the imperial court in Yanzhou. It was not very surprising that she could get such news, but this news shocked Chu Xue.

The reorganization of the Ministry of War means that Song Chen will probably reshuffle the officials of the Ministry of War. At this time, it is also appropriate to re-examine the current principals. Maybe the case of the Yue family in the past has a chance to come back.

Although their Chu family is said to be a civil servant, but in addition to being a conferred grand master, his father also holds the position of the capital censor. It is his duty to entangle Bai Si.Besides, having followed Xu for so long, she didn't believe that Zhao Chu could really be innocent.

There is also Chai Jin, the servant of the Ministry of War that Uncle Xiaocheng mentioned last time, and he is also Daddy's old department, and he is still determined to reverse the case for Daddy, and there is also Uncle Qin Mu, you must know that Anxihou is also a force that should not be underestimated. , if they can work together to reverse the case and take revenge, it seems that it is just around the corner.

Hope gradually emerged in her heart, but she was clear-headed and did not show a strange expression. She just expressed her surprise and said: "I can't help the state affairs, and I can only help the emperor share the worry about the harem. gone."

Li Jiaoyun nodded in agreement, after such a thing happened, she would not be able to return to her own palace to relax, and could only stay and accompany Chu Xue to wait for Zhou Yu's letter.

Zhou Yu acted swiftly, and after personally inspecting the scene of "catching rape", he detained the relevant people in Qutai Palace and tortured them individually.

Concubine Wan was the master, but she was only under house arrest, but Wang Xing'an and the palace officials in her palace were not so lucky. They were taken to the torture room one after another, and experienced the power of the inner court prison for themselves.She has not been in the palace for a long time, and she is out of power, a group of palace people are not very loyal, and they recruited one after another after a slight punishment.Only the guard who was obsessed with her was still a man, he only wanted to protect her, even if the inner court supervisor tried his best, he never uttered a word.

However, even if he did not admit it, with the gathering of witnesses and the testimony of Concubine Wan's close maids in Qutai Palace, the great crime of dirtying the palace was firmly placed on her head.

After listening to Zhou Yu's report with a sullen face, Chu Xue said to Li Jiaoyun, who had the same unattractive complexion, "Sister, the matter has come to this point, the emperor must know, so I will trouble you to accompany me."

Li Jiaoyun nodded and went to Qinzheng Palace with her.

Qinzheng Hall.

After listening to the report of the two sisters, Song Chen, who had just withdrawn from government affairs, naturally had a very ugly expression.

Although he didn't like Concubine Wan, she was also his concubine in name. May I ask which man in the world can be calm about such things?What's more, the palace people of Qutai Palace also confessed that Concubine Wan ordered Wang Xing'an to murder Chu Xue. Thinking that Xue'er was still pregnant with two children, Xuan'er and An'an, if she made a mistake, she would be dead. He really couldn't bear the catastrophe of his life.

The king said: "Concubine Wan has repeatedly caused troubles since she entered the palace. Although she has been punished, she has no regrets. She tried to murder the concubine and the heir. Now that the palace is dirty, she will be dealt with according to the palace rules and given a stick to kill. , Ling Chi. His mother’s upbringing was not good, and he must also bear the responsibility, and his father, Zhao Chu, was abolished from the position of Shangshu, and he was demoted to Zuo Shilang, and he was fined for three years.”

As soon as this remark came out, Chu Xue, Li Jiaoyun, and Zhou Yu who was waiting for the order all bowed their heads and said yes.Zhou Yu hurriedly stepped down to work, because it was still daytime, and the two sisters could not be disturbed, so they both left.

This time, when Chu Xue was in danger during childbirth, Song Chen wanted to comfort her, but when he saw the hills of papers on the imperial case, he had no choice but to suppress his thoughts for the time being, and waited until the night to meet Yufu Palace , and then appease his beauty.

In fact, Chu Xue really didn't need any reassurance, she had known about Concubine Wan's harming her since confinement, and now that she gave her concubine death with solid evidence, she finally felt happy in her heart.For Xuan'er and An An's two children, she didn't bear it at all. After all, she wasn't the one who should blame herself.

And this move cut off Zhao Chu's position as Shangshu, which really suits her heart.

It is easier to move a Minister of the Ministry of War, or it is easier to move a Minister of the Ministry of War. The answer is too obvious. The concubine is a felony, and the Zhao family is not exiled. Reasons for injustice.

What you owe will eventually be paid back.

With a calm expression, Chu Xue walked slowly in her own sedan chair in the magnificent palace.

(End of this chapter)