phoenix returns to the world

Chapter 176
"Empress Qi, in the depths of the grass, a man is caught," just now, the head of the guards with swords, came from the front.

"Bring it up!" The queen took a meaningful look at Concubine Wan Gui, and found that her expression had changed, and her gaze was directed straight ahead.

The guards took the order and immediately got up from the ground to carry out the order.

Concubine Wan Gui felt flustered, and prayed that her cousin was not caught. The hands hidden in the wide sleeves kept clenching into fists, and her face was not as calm as before. The man she is holding is really her cousin, so how should she choose?

While Concubine Wan Gui was anxiously waiting, the guards pushed a man forward, which disappointed Concubine Wan Gui. The man he grabbed was none other than the man in Concubine Wan Gui's heart, the man she once wanted to enter the palace. Cousin who gave up.

Wan Zhiwei took a deep look at Concubine Wan Gui, as if deeply apologetic. It's not that he doesn't understand the open and secret struggles in the palace. At this time, he probably knows it too. This time he was able to enter the palace without hindrance. A trap was designed to completely defeat Concubine Wan Gui. He closed his eyes and opened them again, as if he had already made a decision.

"Kneel down!" The chief guard brought the prisoner to the empress's side, and immediately ordered the man to kneel down.

At this time, Wan Zhiwei didn't seem to have heard anyone talking to him. He stared at the queen coldly, thinking in his heart that it was this woman who framed them. This time, it might be a bit serious. He was thinking about how to make his cousin Don't get involved with him.

The chief guard looked at the unruly man who was still standing, and immediately came to the man's side, kicked him on the knee, bent his leg immediately, and knelt down straight on the cobbled ground, knees The crushing pain came, and I couldn't help it, and frowned.

Concubine Wan Gui looked at this scene, and her fingertips were firmly dug into the flesh. At this time, she must not speak. If she made a sound, her cousin's life would be lost.

"Concubine Wan Gui, do you know this man?" The Empress took a deep look at Concubine Wan Gui, her face was stern.

"Empress, I don't understand what you're talking about, how could I know this man?" Concubine Wan Gui lowered her eyebrows, pretending not to care, lowered her head, and gently adjusted the hem of her clothes, looking very casual.

"Oh, then my sister is planning to give up," the empress said with special meaning, causing Concubine Wan Gui's hands to straighten her clothes to pause slightly, but she still did not raise her head, and her ears were extremely sensitive to listen.

"Very good, a bold assassin, dare to break into the palace at night, and say, who sent you here, what is your name, and what is the purpose of entering the palace?" The queen said sharply, and her eyes shot at Wan Zhi In Wei's body, there is a lot of posture that if he doesn't cooperate well, he will definitely make him look good.

The queen's voice fell, but there was no answer from the man.

It seems that it is still a tough bone!
"Don't think that if you don't speak, I can't do anything about you. I will know who you are right away. Even Concubine Wan Gui, who is always good at scheming, is so taciturn. Does anyone here know this assassin?" The empress just wanted to confirm the relationship between Concubine Wan Gui and this strange man again. If this man was handed over to the Ministry of Criminal Justice, with the methods of Wan's family, she would definitely not be able to ask anything, and she would lose it in vain. Such a good opportunity to rectify Wan's.

The queen couldn't let go of Wan's deception to her for more than ten years. As long as the queen thought about how deep the relationship between the two of them was at the beginning, and even told her a lot of her thoughts, she would feel that she was very sad. Stupid, it's hard to stop the anger.

Moreover, according to Wuji who rescued her from the palace, the palace change initiated by the fifth prince Jun Haoyu was vaguely related to the Wan family. Moreover, after the emperor put down the rebellion, she returned to the palace and found that Madam Su was dead.

Su Momo has been with her for more than ten years, but she never expected to die so embarrassingly. When she found her body, she couldn't bear to look directly at her. She was stabbed in more than a dozen places, but it was not a fatal injury. The imperial doctor told her that it was Bleeding out to death, one can imagine how painful Su Momo was when she died.

In this palace, the people around her who could touch her were no one but the scheming Wan Shi. The queen stared at Wan Shi's eyes with a layer of hatred.

Just now, someone passed a note to her, Wan Shi will be here tonight to meet her old lover, Wan Zhiwei, and she brought a large group of guards here, and now, she is very disgusted when she sees Wan Shi, Even the little pretense at the beginning couldn't hold on.

"Report to the Empress, this servant knows this person," at this moment, a palace maid came out from behind the empress. This court lady was probably over 24 years old. The empress raised her eyebrows and said softly, "Oh ?”

The maid immediately knelt in front of the queen, this person was none other than the maid who was on duty last night, the maid who was used by Concubine Wan Gui as a punching bag to vent her grievances in the bedroom.

When Concubine Wan Gui heard this familiar voice, she immediately raised her head, her sharp eyes fell on the maid's body tightly, at this moment her gaze deepened, she seemed to feel something was wrong, she could no longer pretend to be calm, and scolded Said, "Bold palace maid, how can you speak, I don't know the dignity, let's see if I don't tear your mouth!"

Concubine Wan Gui said, she was about to rush forward and tear the mouth of this palace maid.

The empress saw Wan Shi's guilty conscience, and immediately shouted loudly, "Stop, Concubine Wan Gui," but Wan Shi acted as if he hadn't heard what the empress said, and quickly pinched the mouth of the maid who was kneeling on the ground. In an instant, blood flowed from the maid's mouth.

"Stop, pull Concubine Wan Gui away for me!" The queen's voice raised a little more, the guards saw that Concubine Wan Gui didn't obey the queen's order, so they stepped forward and pulled the maid away.

A group of guards stood between Concubine Wan Gui and the maid. The maid's mouth kept bleeding, but her eyes stared at Concubine Wan Gui with hatred, as if there was a deep hatred.

"What's your name? If you tell me everything you know, I will naturally reward and punish you," the queen's voice fell. The maid wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth and stared at Concubine Wan Gui fiercely again. , chills down the spine.

"Report to the empress, the maidservant is called Xiaoye, and has been assigned to Concubine Wan Gui's palace for three months. Last night, the maidservant was on duty to watch the night for Concubine Wan Gui. Concubine Wan Gui let the maidservant in. The maidservant didn't know why, so she knelt in front of Concubine Wan Gui. Then I vented my anger on my servant and took a rest for a day. Tonight, my servant could not sleep, so I just came out and met Concubine Wan Gui sneaking out of the palace, and walked all the way here..." She opened her sleeves at this point , revealing the arm covered in bruises.

The queen glanced at the bruised arm, nodded, believed Xiaoye's words, and signaled her to continue talking with her eyes.

However, Xiaoye paused, with fear in her eyes, she looked at Concubine Wan Gui, then at Empress Empress, she hesitated to speak, the queen seemed to see Xiaoye's embarrassment, and said, "Tell me the truth Come out, I forgive you for your innocence!"

When Concubine Wan Gui heard this, her shoulders seemed to drop slightly, and a fear of waiting to be sentenced rose from the soles of her feet. She did not expect that she would be so careless tonight, not only being plotted against, but also being followed all the time. Did not notice.

"The servant was hiding behind a big tree not far away, saw Concubine Wan Gui hugging the man, and said a lot of things, because the servant was a little far away, I just vaguely heard a few words, 'Follow me', 'Marry A wife and a child'..."

"Shut up! You dare to spread rumors and make trouble. How could this palace do such a thing with this strange man and say those rebellious words? This is simply a frame-up. Who in the world ordered you to do so?" Frame this palace!" Concubine Wan Gui felt chills down her spine when she heard the maid's words, she couldn't bear to listen, she stopped loudly, and stared at the palace lady fiercely, at this moment, she wished she could kill this palace lady right away!
"Empress, what my servant said is true, if there is even half a lie, the sky will be struck by lightning, and I will die!" Xiaoye gave Concubine Wan Gui a hard look, Concubine Wan Gui, don't you always care about the lives of palace people? Is it because of the grass, do you know that you are afraid at this time?
Two months ago, the eunuch Xiao Chuanzi, who lived with her in the palace, died. When she found his body, his handsome face was covered with scars, and even his body was bruised in several places, and his whole body was swollen. Must have been drowned for days.

She spent all the money in her hands to find out that he was beaten to death by Concubine Wan Gui. She vowed to avenge Xiao Chuanzi, so when Concubine Wan Gui lost power, she came to serve in her palace. She was not afraid of Concubine Wan Gui's beating and scolding , I just wanted to find an opportunity, and my hard work paid off, so I finally let her wait.

In the palace, the older maids like to find someone to confide in, and they all like to look for eunuchs who have just entered the palace and have no way out.And those father-in-laws who have become eunuchs because they have no money will inevitably encounter all kinds of troubles when they first enter the palace. The eunuch develops a good impression of the maid, and over time, the eunuch and the maid will have trysts, the maid mends clothes for the eunuch, embroiders a purse or something, and the eunuch gives the maid some earrings and the like, and if the two have a little money, they will also meet together. Entrusting someone to buy a house outside the palace for them to live outside the palace after they reach their full age, which is also called anti-food.The palace is a place that cannibalize people without spitting out their bones, and the father-in-law and maids in charge are no strangers to it. Occasionally they catch a couple and accept some favors, and it's over.

"Bold, Wan Shi, what else do you have to say! How can you be worthy of the emperor by doing this? Someone, take down Concubine Wan Gui, put her in prison together with this man, and send someone to protect this maid. Go report to the emperor, everything will be decided by the emperor!" After the queen finished speaking, she turned and left without even looking at Concubine Wan Gui.

Concubine Wan Gui struggled against the restraint of the guards, and shouted, "Queen, I was framed by someone, don't listen to the nonsense of this lowly servant girl!"

However, the queen ignored it at all.

Wan Zhiwei took a deep look at Concubine Wan Gui, and while the guards were not paying attention, he broke free from the shackles. After entering the prison, he has no control over life and death, and he must not implicate Ziqiong.

I saw that Wan Zhiwei drew out the guard's knife and deliberately stabbed at the queen. Immediately, the chief guard became alert and drew the knife to chop off. Wan Zhiwei's head was instantly chopped off, blood splashed everywhere, and the head fell on the ground. It rolled on the ground for a few laps before stopping, its eyes widened, as if it had landed on Concubine Wan Gui, strangely mysterious.

However, at this moment, the palace maid of Xiaoye also died. A hidden weapon flew from nowhere, and shot straight into the palace maid's neck artery, killing her on the spot.

Regarding this unexpected situation, the queen was also taken aback. Originally, she just wanted to let the emperor see Wan Shi more clearly, so that he would place Wan Guifei in the Wanhua Palace forever and never summon her.

It is currently impossible for the emperor to abolish the Wan family, because the emperor still wants to keep the Wan family useful for the time being, and Wan's elder brother is still the emperor's hand to collect money. Secretly managing the treasury's income for the emperor, the current situation in the four countries is unstable, and they need to save a lot of funds. In case of war with any country, the military expenditure is not a small expenditure.

But this time Jun Haoyu's rebellion made the emperor vigilant, and secretly kept an eye on the movements of the countries, and even ordered the brothers of the Wan family to collect a lot of money for him. The queen observed that the emperor vaguely mentioned Wan Guifei these days, There seems to be momentum to be favored again.

Originally, the queen also came here tonight with suspicion, and just found out the truth of the matter, but she did not expect that the witness and the person involved died. It seems that someone is secretly helping Wan.

The empress sighed in her heart, and glanced at Wan Shi, but she was surprised to see the heartache that Wan Shi hadn't had time to hide.

Looking at her cousin whose head was in a different place, Wan's tears couldn't stop streaming down her face. Her body softened and she fell straight to the ground. The bloody scene before her eyes lingered in her mind for a long time...

(End of this chapter)