Palace scheming: Empress Leng Palace

Chapter 77

As night fell and the stars were dotted, the Cuiwei Palace, which had always been deserted, became bustling like never before. The lights were brightly lit everywhere, and the lake was also glowing softly under the reddish light.

At this moment, Cuiwei Palace seems to be holding a grand festival celebration. There are constant comings and goings of palace people, one after another, all surrounded by their master, stepping into this place that no one has paid attention to for many years. Cool palace.


The first person to come here was Hua Heng, a young imperial physician who was ordered by the Fifth Prince. At this moment, he only brought a medical boy with him, and he was staying in the inner hall to treat Lu Yunqing.

And the last ones who came here were the emperor Xuanyuanze who was specially invited by the queen mother's order, and the concubine Hua who had already received the news of Fugui but kept her face secret - He Ruowan.


When the two arrived, a group of palace people greeted them and got up one after another.At this time, Fugui's originally weak legs could finally stand up straight, and his heart, which was chilled by Xuanyuan Yihan's stare, gradually warmed up again.


"My sons and concubines send my respects to my mother, and wish my mother good luck! Be in good health!" Xuanyuanze and He Ruowan both bowed to Situ Xianyu who was sitting in the upper seat, and then looked at Situ Xianyu standing next to him with a cold and handsome face. Xuanyuan Yi's eyes are complex.


"Well, no courtesy!" Situ Xianyu responded lazily, then looked at Xuanyuanze with a serious face, and asked: "Your Majesty, do you know why the Ai family asked you to come here at this moment?".


"My mother has been practicing for many days, and I have never dared to disturb her. I really don't know why my mother is here today?" Xuanyuan Ze raised his handsome eyes, and his voice was clear and clear, as if he was talking to all the people standing around him. Nothing to see.


Situ Xianyu smiled slightly, but did not answer, but asked He Ruowan again, "Concubine Hua, do you know why the Ai family asked you and the emperor to come here?".


He Ruowan's heart tightened slightly, but she smiled gently and calmly on her face, she bowed respectfully, and replied:
"Is the queen mother summoning my concubine to come here because of the theft from the Shang Palace Bureau today? This afternoon, the father-in-law Fugui, the supervisor of the Shang Palace Bureau, came to inform the courtier and concubine that someone in Cuiwei Palace had stolen the tribute from the Shang Palace Bureau and asked the concubine to come forward." Ask for an explanation for them. The concubine didn't know the specific reason at the time, so she asked Eunuch Fu to bring the thief back, and then handed it over to the concubine to deal with. But until now, the concubine has not seen Eunuch Fu bring him back .”


As soon as the words fell, Fugui at the side immediately took a step forward and knelt down towards the queen mother, and said sharply: "The queen mother has clearly noticed that the slaves discovered that the Shang Palace Bureau lost many items today, and then followed the clues to find that those things were actually in Cuiwei Palace. This is how the slave told the Empress Ming to come and get someone."


steal?

Xuanyuanze frowned slightly, looking at the servants and servants in this hall, then at the displeased-looking queen mother and the handsome fifth younger brother, he couldn't help but wonder, what happened in Cuiwei Palace?
They were so alarmed that the queen mother and fifth younger brother came, and Wan'er knew about it beforehand. Could it be that she was the only one who didn't know what happened here?

"But today, my lord not only saw you chasing people in Cuiwei Palace with people all over the palace, but also saw you abusing your power, disregarding human life indiscriminately, and blatantly wanting to die." Xuanyuan Ze snorted coldly, his cold eyes A sweep of Fugui immediately made his legs tremble and his head lowered.


"The empress dowager, please forgive me. The slaves didn't want to save their lives at that time. It's just that the slaves and their party were all frightened by Yun...the empress accidentally fell into the water. It just so happened that the fifth prince arrived in time, and the slaves..." Fugui fell on the ground and kowtowed , speaking incoherently, seeing He Ruowan's beautiful eyes could not help but be gloomy, and she had already made a decision in her heart.


"Falling into the water?" Xuanyuan Ze's eyes darkened, his heart skipped a beat due to an inexplicable shock, he glanced at Fugui and Xuanyuan Yi respectively, and his body was already walking quickly towards the inner hall.

"Your Majesty, Yun Qing is still in a coma and is very weak. Your Majesty should not look at it." With a flash of Bai Ying, Xuanyuan Yihao recklessly blocked Xuanyuan Ze's way, his handsome eyes were full of indifference without warmth.


"Coma?" With a heartbeat, looking at Xuanyuan Yi, who was not avoiding Hao, he couldn't help casting his handsome eyes on Fugui who was kneeling on the ground again, and said in a deep voice, "Tell me, what's going on?".


On the way to Cuiwei Palace, he wondered if that woman Yun Qing was bored and caused some trouble?
But she didn't expect that she would fall into the water and become unconscious again this time.

Damn, can't she be a little quieter?


"Damn the slave, damn the slave!" Fugui was frightened by the cold eyes that completely enveloped him like ice, and the little heat that was left just now disappeared. kowtow desperately.


He didn't expect that there would be someone who cared about the abandoned queen inside, and he was also the queen mother's favorite young son, a well-known ruthless prince—Xuanyuan Yi.

Coincidentally, he was also bumped into the scene where he would not save himself, which made him speechless and terrified.


But that's all, I thought that the emperor dotes on the concubine Hua, and he has the empress secretly instructing him, so the emperor would not make things difficult for himself.

But who would have thought that this young emperor, who has just been in power for a long time, would have such a captivating look in his eyes, which made him tremble uncontrollably under his gaze even though he had lived a long time.


At the moment, he is busy talking about Yunqing and Bitao's going to make a fuss in the Shang Palace today, and how he found the handkerchief that Bitao left behind and saw that it was the gold thread stolen by their Shang Palace, and then he reported it to Concubine Hua After that, he sent people to Cuiwei Palace to capture the thief and explain the whole story one by one.


Of course, he ignored the fact that they deliberately deducted Cuiwei Palace's share and Concubine Hua's secret order, and only talked about his innocence and the fact that Bitao and the others had stolen.

Moreover, he asked people to present to the empress dowager one by one the lost objects of the Shang Palace Bureau found from Cuiwei Palace, to show that he did not wrong them, and that it was they who stole first, so he brought people to search.

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Third watch, Khan, what time is it today?
(End of this chapter)