The Biography of Concubine Wen Xi in Qing Palace

Chapter 655 Arson behind closed doors ([-])

It was the night when Wan Lai was attending bedtime, and when she and the emperor rushed over, most of the east side hall of Yongshou Palace had been burned down, and thick black smoke and burning smell filled the air, as if in a purgatory on earth.

The inner supervisor and guards who were fighting the fire kept moving the water dragon guns to spray water at Yongshou Palace. Zhuo Lan was protected by the Sanliang Palace and hid under the eaves, soaked in water all over her body, as if she was trapped in a snowy night fawn.

The palace man wrapped a quilt for her, and added Mrs. Tang to keep her warm.

Only the injured arm was half hanging in front of his body, the blood and flesh were scorched, which made people frightened to look at.

The emperor hurriedly walked up to Zhuo Lan, hugged her in his arms, and said comfortingly, "It's fine if there's nothing to do, and it's fine for people to have nothing to do."

Seeing the emperor, Zhuo Lan's accumulated fear and grievance burst out instantly, and she wept: "Your Majesty, someone is going to kill my concubine, someone is going to kill my concubine!" She said, choked up when her arm was touched by the emperor. He cried out in pain, and the tears couldn't stop streaming down.

The emperor hastily grabbed her arm, and seeing the wound felt like a knife, and shouted hoarsely: "Where's the imperial doctor? Hurry up and announce the imperial doctor!"

Seeing that the emperor was angry, he hurriedly came forward to check on Zhuo Lan's wound, and replied after a short while: "Ms. Jia is enduring the pain, so I will apply the burn ointment for you, and then bandage the wound." it is good."

Zhuo Lan snuggled into the emperor's arms, she didn't know whether the wound was real pain or fake pain, she just heard her panting and screaming, which made Wan Yao's heart throbbing with pain.

After applying the medicine, seeing the imperial physician bandaging the wound, Wan Yu leaned forward and took a look, the flesh on her arm was scorched black and bright red, with yellow medicine powder mixed with the secretion of the wound, it was frightening.

She gathered herself together, and then pretended to be concerned and asked the imperial doctor about the situation: "It looks serious, will there be scars?"

The imperial doctor looked distressed, and said to him from left and right: "There is still an excellent Xiaohen powder in the imperial hospital, and it will not be very conspicuous after the wound is scabbed and taken out every day."

The emperor yelled at Liang Jiugong angrily, and asked: "How did you become a chief eunuch!? The Ruyi Pavilion was flooded before, and the Yongshou Palace is flooded again today! Just think that the Forbidden City is the crematorium in the backyard of your house ?"

Liang Jiugong's face immediately changed when he heard the words, he hurriedly ran to the emperor, slipped and knelt down, kowtowed and said: "The emperor forgives your sins! This slave deserves to die, this slave deserves to die!" He slapped himself with all his strength as he spoke.

Seeing this, Zhuo Lan stopped crying and persuaded: "Your Majesty, I can't blame Eunuch Liang for this matter. The fire in the Ruyi Pavilion is still a natural disaster, but today there is a fire in the concubine's palace, but someone wants to put the concubine to death!"

Hearing what she said, the emperor asked with a concentrated expression: "Why do you say that?"

Zhuo Lan covered her face and sobbed softly: "Today, my concubine became tired after dinner, thinking that there would be too many people waiting on her and she would always make a fuss and couldn't sleep well, so she sent the palace guards away, leaving only the night watchman. A few people. They were sleeping deeply and heard a strange noise outside the hall. When they were thirsty, they called the palace servants to add tea, but after calling for a long time, no one came, so they got up suspiciously. The outside is locked, no matter how hard you push it, you can’t open it. Immediately afterwards, thick black smoke came in through the crack of the door, and when you looked closely, the circle of flames outside the dormitory was already bursting into the sky.”

Zhuo Lan said, rubbing her chest with lingering fear in her heart, and said: "The concubine was so frightened, she desperately pushed the main door of the dormitory, and Yibi shouted for help. Suddenly, two men in black broke through the window and stabbed the concubine with sharp knives. The concubines were terrified, dodged left and right, and started arguing with them. Because the thick smoke obscured their eyes, the two of them were not as familiar with the environment in the palace as the concubines. Only then did I find my concubine in the dark. Later, when the fire spread into the bedroom, my concubine crawled all the way to the edge of the Ling window, jumped out of the window and escaped!"

The emperor's expression suddenly changed, and he said furiously: "This is unreasonable! Who has the courage to kill and set fire in the palace, but still has the king's law in his eyes, and I? Liang Jiugong, go and investigate immediately! Search the Forbidden City tonight. Find those two assassins who assassinated the concubine Jia!"

Liang Jiugong responded to the sound and wanted to go, but Li Jian ran over in a panic from a distance, panting and calling: "Your Majesty, the fire in Yongshou Palace is extinguished, but only six palace residents died!"

"Six?" Zhuo Lan asked doubtfully, "There are only two eunuchs and two palace maids on watch at night, how could there be six of them?"

Led by Li Jian, a group of people walked outside the bedroom, only to see four charred corpses lying crookedly on the ground.

Immediately, Zhuo Lan couldn't bear the stimulation and knelt on the ground, her temples were disheveled and she yelled like a mad woman: "Xiao Xiazi! Xiao Qizi! Bing'er, Pei'er! I'm sorry for you."

The emperor hurriedly pulled her up from the ground, and Zhuo Lan plunged into the emperor's arms and cried even louder: "Your majesty, they must have been knocked unconscious by the thief, and they were burned to death before the fire ignited." go."

The emperor comforted her a few words, and then she heard Wanyu reprimanded calmly: "Everyone is dead, wrap the straw mats and carry them out of Yongshou Palace first, people still need to live in this area, are you two confused? "

Seeing that the palace people started to get busy, Li Jian was a little embarrassed and wished the emperor a blessing, saying: "Your majesty, there are still two dead people inside, do you want to see?"

The emperor said coldly: "Inside? This door is locked, how can there be anyone inside?"

Li Jian glanced at the broken window, and said respectfully, "I don't know if you can go in through the window."

Zhuo Lan's eyes flashed when she heard this sentence, and she hurriedly pulled the emperor's lapel and said, "Your Majesty, although the concubine's bedroom is not a big deal, it has twists and turns. Blinded by Qi, he couldn't find Ling Chuang to escape and was burned alive inside."

The emperor nodded, followed Li Jian inside with a flick of his sleeves.

Zhuo Lan followed closely behind, and when Wanyu caught up with her, she wiped away tears and looked at her with a smile: "I'm really sorry, it's so hard for the imperial concubine to go to bed once and catch up with this bad luck. It's all the fault of the concubines."

Wan Yu glanced at her and sneered, "What kind of tricks are you playing?"

Zhuo Lan remained silent, and only waited to walk in front of the two scorched corpses whose clothes had been burnt and tattered before she screamed in horror, pointing at the corpses and said: "Your Majesty, it's them two!"

The emperor looked carefully, although the two were burnt to pieces by the fire, they could still see that they were wearing nocturnal clothes, and it was even more surprising that the clothes on the two were torn, but the black gauze covering their faces was intact.

The emperor raised his eyebrows and signaled Li Jian to step forward to take off the veils of the two, and Li Jian murmured with Yi Bi: "Perhaps the two of them soaked their veils in water to cover their noses to prevent the smoke from entering their lungs. It was burned beyond recognition."

During the speech, the veil was lifted.

But after seeing one of them, Wanyu suddenly felt like several cold airs were forced into her body by her blood, and she froze in place and couldn't move.

That person is clearly the eunuch serving in the Yonghe Palace, the Three Treasures!
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