The Biography of Concubine Wen Xi in Qing Palace

Chapter 435
It was early autumn, and it was cold and desolate.

The emperor waited for Wan Lai to take the medicine before he was willing to leave. When he entered the Qianqing Palace, it was already dusk.

At that time, in the deep and empty palace, the emperor was sitting on the golden dragon throne in the middle of the hall.The two rows of dragon head palace lanterns in front were lit by the palace people, and ambergris powder was added to the Boshan furnace.

Misty smoke rises from the hollowed-out gap of the incense burner, and the sweet earthy fragrance instantly fills the hall.

However, for some unknown reason today, the fragrance is also mixed with a bit of murderous air, which makes people feel chilly.

Rong Yue had already been taken to the side hall by the guards to wait, Liang Jiugong hurriedly announced her when he saw the emperor returned to the palace.

Rong Yue hesitated a little, her bright eyes were full of tears, she didn't dare to look at the sitting emperor at all.

Walking forward a few steps, reaching the center, after a little bit of blessing, he hit his knees on the ground again and said: "My concubine sees the emperor."

The emperor was extremely calm, and called out: "How do you perform such a grand ceremony? Get up."

Rong Yue got up on the ground, but her heart was filled with infinite fear.

Just now, when I was in the side hall, I wanted to inquire a few words, and then I knew what happened in the palace today.

No matter how shrewdly she planned, she didn't want to leave Wanyu room to turn around, and even beat her up, putting herself in danger.

The emperor looked at her with cold eyes: "I just regained Wan'er's position. When I questioned you that day, you only said that you were wronged. How about today? Are you still talking like that?"

The emperor's last sentence was extremely serious, his questioning and solemnity suddenly pierced Rong Yue's nervous nerves like a sharp knife.

The extreme fear in her heart was like a thin crack in the ice on the frozen lake in winter, and it split like a spider's thread in an instant, spreading to her whole body.

Rong Yue's eyes were a little distracted, she wanted to argue, but she didn't know where to start.

I don't even know what the emperor knows now, I'm afraid that what I say is wrong.

Her throat was tight, it was really dry and unspeakable.Seeing the emperor staring at him sternly, it took him a long time to squeeze out a dry sentence: "Your Majesty, my concubine has been wronged."

"Wronged?" The emperor sneered: "If you are wronged, what will happen to the lives of the seventeen members of the midwife and mother's family? You say you are wronged. A poisonous spider appeared in Wan'er's palace and killed her, and she almost died with the food of the weeds. , I want to know who wronged you!"

He was shocked for a moment, and his brows gradually became suspicious.

She was aware of the fact that the midwife and her family were silenced, but there were poisonous spiders in the Changchun Palace, and the poison of mylabris in Wanyu's meals, Rong Yue had never heard of these things.

She is a very shrewd person, now that Wanyu is trapped in the Changchun Palace, with so many eyes staring at him, how can she dare to strike again?
"Your majesty, I don't know what you mean!"

The emperor's face was condensed, and he was extremely disappointed. He handed her the plain paper of evidence thoroughly investigated by the Ministry of Punishment, and said calmly, "Look for yourself."

Rong Yue took the plain paper with trembling hands, and every sentence she said was against her, just like in the past when she didn't plan to frame Wanyan, there was no way to refute it.

After a thorough investigation by the Ministry of Criminal Justice, Rong Yue distributed to Liugong's anti-poison sachets, only the Changchun Palace's sachet contents were replaced with 'spider-grass', and then Changchun Palace dropped a large amount of deadly poison on people at night Spiders, poisonous spiders are excited and restless when they smell the smell of 'Arachnid Grass', and they are afraid of Changchun Palace inside and outside the palace, almost hurting Wanyu's life;

In addition, a small amount of mylabris poisonous juice was indeed found in the food Wanyan ate, and according to the account of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the servants of the imperial dining room, since Wanyan was confinement, everyone has received the imperial concubine's will, and there is no need to treat Wanyan wholeheartedly.

Seeing such a thing, Rong Yue became even more shocking.

Apart from ordering the imperial dining room and the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Wannai to make troubles, when did I do anything else?
Besides, the sachet was made by him, how could he be so confused that he wanted to leave a tell to attract suspicion?
Without thinking too much, she immediately understood that all of this was Wan Yu's scheme to point the finger at herself.

After all, he still underestimated her.

The emperor saw her staring blankly at the testimony on the plain paper and said nothing for a long time, so he looked at her teasingly: "How? You were so convincing just now, why are you speechless now?"

"The concubine never thought of harming her." Rong Yue said these words calmly.But she also understands that in the face of the overwhelming evidence, she can't argue with her own mouth alone.

The emperor was naturally not surprised by her rebuttal, but instead asked: "You never thought about it, but you actually did it! I really can't see clearly, what is going on under your kind and tender face? Hiding a heart that is as poisonous as a snake and a scorpion! In this way, I am afraid that Yinyou's leg injury was also caused by you!"

Faced with the emperor's persecution, Rong Yue's heart was filled with fear.But she can't panic, not at all.

If he let go of his confession at this moment, the crimes he suffered in the Forbidden City these years, as well as his various schemes, will be in vain after all.

In fact, it is a good thing for the midwife and her family to be exterminated. If so, there will be no witnesses for that matter.

There is nothing to check, and he desperately refuses to admit it, what can the emperor do to her?

Suddenly she was full of determination, and suddenly raised her eyes to look at the emperor, tried her best to stabilize the trembling all over her body, and said with a clear face: "The emperor really believes that these things are done by the concubine? The concubine has served the emperor for more than ten years. With Wan'er fully convinced, why is she making so many assumptions about her courtiers and concubines?"

At this point, she simply raised her voice, half questioning: "Because of some unsubstantiated clues, the emperor is sure that it was a concubine who murdered the concubine. The evidence of the evil things that the concubine did in the past is conclusive, how did the emperor treat her?" of?"

Although it was a life-saving strategy, there was some sincerity in the words, and the grievances of these years were also called out together: "In the past, the concubine Wan used Bo Luo to use medicine to instruct the concubine to be completely injured. There is no hope of getting pregnant. The emperor only If you just believe her, then the matter hastily ended!"

The emperor's tone was slightly cold, and he deliberately emphasized: "Wan'er is now Concubine Wan." After saying that, he sighed in vain: "What happened that day was deliberately framed by Concubine An Li, what has it to do with Wan'er? Now that Mrs. Li is dead, your resentment should be gone!"

"Why did the concubine want to get rid of it?" Rong Yue said with a wry smile: "In the past, when the emperor believed in Concubine Wan and understood this matter hastily, how did you know that the person behind the scenes was Concubine An? He insisted on deposing his position and imprisoning his concubines?" Her face was full of tears, and tears fell silently: "If it weren't for this, how could the concubine's mother pass away, and how could the father be estranged from the concubine's life?"

Facing her heart-wrenching words, the emperor didn't care at all: "It's because of these that you hate Wan'er, so you framed her like this? It was Concubine An who harmed you in the past, what with me and Wan'er?" Dry?"

Rong Yue smiled, her smile was as gorgeous as a flower blooming on her face: "What the emperor said is true!"

Her complexion was gloomy, and she was extremely disappointed in the emperor: "Then, the emperor, how could the concubine not know such a simple truth? Concubine An is dead, why did the concubine want to murder Concubine Wan? She has no heirs, and she is on good terms with the concubine. Can a concubine make a mistake?"

(End of this chapter)