Concubine's Survival Handbook

Chapter 431 The Empress Dowager Arrives
At this time, Song Yuan had already returned to the Palace of Qianqing with a normal expression, but the servant girl who served him tea was nowhere to be seen.Song Yuan frowned, and when he was about to call someone to ask him, he suddenly heard noises outside the hall, and Song Yuan faintly felt a bad premonition.

At this moment, the door of the palace was kicked open, and Zhao Duo walked in with a mocking smile on his face, but he was actually holding the maid by the collar in his hand, dragging her all the way in.

"What do you mean?" Song Yuan frowned, looking at the woman's bruised face, his heart flashed with anger, after all, her face was five points similar to Li Sisi's.

Zhao Duo raised his eyebrows at the sound, he threw the woman out casually, and saluted Song Yuan perfunctorily.

"I would like to ask Your Majesty what this means. I know Your Majesty has always been suspicious of me, but there is no need to use such lowly means to frame me!" Zhao Duo's face was filled with righteous indignation, but his eyes flashed Kind of mocking.

Although Song Yuan didn't have much capital, he had been with Zhao Yu for a while and had seen a lot of methods. He understood Zhao Duo's intention in an instant.

This time the poisoning failed, if he pursued it by himself, he would follow the woman to find Zhao Duo, so he bit back first, saying that Song Yuan deliberately framed him, so that even if Song Yuan wanted to be the emperor in the future Punishment for his crimes will also come true.

"Tell me what's going on." Although Song Yuan could guess some of Zhao Duo's intentions, he didn't know how to deal with it, so he had to use the strategy of delaying the attack first.

"I was going to enter the palace today to pay my respects to His Majesty, but I was stopped by this woman before I arrived in front of the palace. She insisted on giving my order to poison His Majesty, and said that His Majesty was missing, and the poison might be onset. She begged me to save her. If your Majesty has any dissatisfaction with your younger brother, you can speak it out directly, it would be too despicable to do this."

Zhao Duo's brows and eyes were full of rebelliousness. He glanced coldly at the woman kneeling on the ground. The woman couldn't help shaking when she met his cold gaze, and her face was extremely pale. Extremely scared.

"I'm afraid this servant girl has hysteria, that's why she babbled so nonsense. How could I be poisoned if I'm doing my job right now? If the sixth brother can't get angry, I'll fine her with three months' monthly salary."

Song Yuan couldn't bear to look at the woman on the ground, and he didn't want to make a big deal out of it. Now that the situation in the court is not stable, and Zhao Duo's power is all over the place, he must not be easily moved at this time. However, he didn't have the skill and courage to fight Zhao Duo so as not to be discovered by the other party.

A look of surprise flashed across Zhao Duo's eyes when he heard the words. He had just entered the palace as soon as he received the news that the poisoning was successful, but before he was happy for a long time, he learned that the emperor had returned to the Qianqing Palace. Sue first, and if it doesn't work, send the maid as a scapegoat, but he didn't expect the emperor to want to solve this matter like this, and he didn't mean to trouble him at all.

Suspiciousness flashed across Zhao Duo's eyes, he pulled out a smile and said, "Your Majesty really cares about women and jade. If it wasn't for the beauty of this court lady, I would have thought that Your Majesty had changed someone else."

Song Yuan was startled when he heard the words, but his expression did not change at all, after all he was still wearing a mask.

"How could you let go of the servant girl who provoked your relationship so easily!"

At this moment, the Empress Dowager suddenly walked into the palace, her phoenix eyes narrowed slightly, and she looked at Zhao Duo with a bit of coldness.

Neither of them expected that the Queen Mother would come here, Zhao Duo was the first to react, and he lowered his expression and said, "See the Empress Dowager."

The queen mother waved her hand gently, and walked towards Song Yuan with a calm expression. The emotions in her eyes were very complicated, and Song Yuan felt a little flustered in his heart. He quickly raised a smile and said, "Why is the queen mother here?"

"If Ai's family doesn't come, I'm afraid there will be more moths in the future." The queen mother's phoenix eyes turned slightly, her red lips slowly curled up, and there was some deep meaning in her words.The queen mother walked towards the woman, raised her chin with her hand, and scrutinized her face carefully.

"It's like, it's like, otherwise, how can a servant girl who has just entered the palace for less than a month serve the emperor?" The queen mother sneered, and looked at Zhao Duo with a bit of coldness in her eyes.

Zhao Duo's expression was a bit gloomy. Although he kept the woman's background very concealed, if the Queen Mother really wanted to investigate, he would definitely be able to find out that he was the one who bought the woman in the first place.

At that moment, Zhao Duo gritted his teeth and didn't hesitate anymore. He drew out the long sword at his waist and stabbed straight at the panicked woman.

"Where is the traitor who dares to sneak into His Majesty's side, and even try to sow dissension! You don't get me quickly!" Zhao Duo hadn't finished speaking, and the sword tip had already pierced into the woman's chest impartially. The front of the skirt suddenly fainted with a cloud of blood.

The woman's eyes were full of disbelief, she looked at Zhao Duo, and slowly fell down.Zhao Yu pulled out his long sword and threw it on the ground, ignoring the empress dowager's ashen complexion, he quickly said in a deep voice: "It was my negligence that almost fell into the trick of the person behind the scenes, and I wanted to force the woman to tell the story behind the scenes If you accidentally miss it, I hope the Empress Dowager and Your Majesty will not be offended."

The queen mother sneered and said: "I saw it clearly just now, the point of the sword stabbed impartially, remember that you were not weak at the hunting ceremony, why did you miss it today? Or are you afraid that she will tell her Instigated by whom?"

The queen mother pressed her step by step, and she didn't have the slightest intention of giving Zhao Duo a step down.

"What's the meaning of the empress dowager?" Zhao Duo said with a bit of gnashing of teeth, he looked at the empress dowager coldly, wishing to stab her with his sword immediately.

"Until this matter is clarified, His Highness the Sixth Highness must be wronged to live in the clan's residence temporarily." A calculating smile appeared on the lips of the Empress Dowager.

Zhao Duo sneered in his heart, he knew that the Queen Mother wanted to confine himself in this way, so as not to covet Zhao Yu's throne, but Zhao Duo didn't care, as his people were also placed in the clan mansion, sooner or later there would be One day he will settle the score with them.

"Then please ask the Queen Mother and Your Majesty to investigate clearly and return the minister to justice as soon as possible." Zhao Duo said while letting the guards on both sides take him down.

"Let's all back down." Seeing that Zhao Duo was being taken down, the Queen Mother heaved a sigh of relief. After she pushed back all the people in the hall, she looked at Song Yuan who was silent at the side with complicated eyes.

Seeing the queen mother looking at him, Song Yuan tried to show her a stiff smile.

"It seems that the empress dowager should know all about it. I don't know if I also want to stay in the clan mansion temporarily."

(End of this chapter)