"It's not good! Concubine Xian committed suicide! Open the door quickly! Please save my concubine quickly!"
Hearing the sound inside the door clearly, Jiang Nianjiao, who was running all the way, felt that her body was unstable. If she didn't have the strength to hold on, she almost fell to the ground.
The guards at the door obviously didn't know how to deal with such a situation, and the guard on the left only asked the guard on the right to quickly inform His Majesty.
However, Jiang Nianjiao said anxiously, "What are you still doing? Hurry up and open the door to save people!"
The guards didn't react at first, but when they saw Jiang Nianjiao, they immediately stopped the palace door and said, "Miss Jiang? Didn't you go back already? Why are you back again!"
However, Jiang Nianjiao had no intention of explaining to them why she was here at this moment.
She just stared angrily and said with tears in her eyes, "Hurry up and open the door! You keep delaying! My aunt is really dead! Can you bear this responsibility!"
Perhaps Jiang Nianjiao's aura was too overbearing, or perhaps the guards received a warning from Chamberlain Liu tonight. Although they knew it was against the rules, they still opened the palace door under Jiang Nianjiao's intimidation.
Only one of them opened the palace door and asked the other person to quickly inform His Majesty.
When the door suddenly opened, Yan'er, who had been beating on the door for help, was not expecting it. As soon as the door opened, she fell over the threshold.
However, she didn't care that she fell. Yan'er's face was full of panic. She pointed tremblingly at the inner room and said, "Your Majesty is inside, go and save her!"
Naturally, the waiter did not hesitate any longer, and Jiang Nianjiao was naturally prepared to follow him in.
But the guard at the door stopped her.
"Miss Jiang, according to the rules, you can't go in!"
"Let me go! I want to see my aunt! If any of you dare to stop me today! I will let that person leave here forever in the future!" Jiang Nianjiao said fiercely.
However, even though she was so threatening, the guard still stopped her. Seeing one of the guards trying to grab Jiang Nianjiao's arm, Jiang Nianjiao suddenly bit the man's arm, causing the man to suffer pain. At this moment, she didn't know where the energy burst out. When the guard was in pain, she just pushed the guard away hard, and then she quickly walked into the door.
The guards were naturally only prepared to swarm him.
But the leading guard suddenly turned around and glanced at Jiang Nianjiao, who looked like a demon. He had some impressions of Jiang Nianjiao. He also knew the relationship between this girl and Concubine Yuxian, so the guard who felt compassion for him only He shook his head slightly towards the guard who was following Jiang Nianjiao.
Those guards listened to their master's orders after all, so after their master gave the order, they no longer wavered.
At the same time, Jiang Nianjiao followed the man into the main hall. At this time, the main hall doors were open and the lights were brightly lit.
Jiang Nianjiao saw the white silk hanging on the beam almost as soon as she stepped into the hall, although there was a secret guard in the room who had already taken down Concubine Yu Xian who was hanging on the beam.
But Jiang Nianjiao still felt dizzy looking at Fang Bailing.
If the guard beside her hadn't helped her up, she would have fallen to her knees.
But even so, she still felt that her hands and feet were cold and weak at the moment.
She felt like she was stepping on cotton with every step she took.
And her head also saw her aunt's lips turned purple and her face pale at the moment, as if she had been hit hard.
This short journey felt like it had never been so long before. ..
Auntie will be fine!
With this thought in mind, she rushed to her aunt who was lying on the imperial concubine's bed.
However, when she held her aunt's hand, although the hand was still soft, there was clearly no trace of warmth in her palm.
Jiang Nianjiao only tried to test her aunt's breath with trembling hands, but there was no trace of breathing at all.
When Jiang Nianjiao confirmed that she was not even breathing, her mind went blank for a moment.
Until Zhao Nianze, who was staying in the palace for the night, arrived and suddenly yelled at the people below, "What are you doing standing still! Why don't you hurry up and declare the imperial doctor!"
When Jiang Nianjiao heard this, she just emerged from the chaos
Consciousness returned to consciousness.
She glanced at Zhao Nianze dejectedly and said, "My aunt has no breath."
Zhao Nianze took three steps at a time and came closer. He then tested Concubine Yu Xian's breathing just like Jiang Nianjiao did before.
Until it was confirmed that there was no movement between the wings of Concubine Yuxian's nose, the anxious look on his face turned into darkness and anger in just this moment.
Yan'er, who suddenly met his eyes, was frightened by his bloodthirsty eyes and took a few steps back.
"Your Highness..." Yan'er trembled and knelt on the ground.
"Didn't I tell you to serve your mother well? Why did your mother become like this?" Zhao Nianze asked in a low voice.
Yan'er said in a trembling voice, "My Majesty said that I don't need my servant to be on duty tonight... I never expected that your Majesty would suddenly commit suicide!"
In fact, everyone understands that today's matter has nothing to do with Yan'er. After all, she is just a slave. Normally, she will do whatever her master orders.
What's more, who would have thought that Concubine Yuxian would do such a thing.
However, Zhao Nianze obviously still couldn't accept that his mother-in-law suddenly chose to leave him in this way.
So he just continued to question Yan'er, "You didn't expect it? You spend time with her day and night. Can't you tell there's something unusual about her?"
"Okay, cousin, stop talking. In the final analysis, this is my fault. I felt something was wrong today, but I didn't expect... I was still a step too late."
After hearing Jiang Nianjiao's words, Zhao Nianze just allowed his wandering thoughts to come back. In fact, if he was really wrong, maybe he was the one who was most at fault.
As a son of a man, he could not understand the uneasiness in his mother's heart. She was wronged, and he could not return her innocence.
Instead, she was confined in this cold palace and suffered a lot of injustice.
After realizing all this, all the anger that was originally filled him turned into grievance and regret.
"It is not my fault……"
Zhao Nianze only made a thump and knelt down in front of Concubine Yu Xian who was lying on the imperial concubine's couch.
No one knew when Emperor Yong arrived. He looked coldly at the lifeless woman lying on the imperial concubine's bed, his features and eyes full of solemnity.
He never stepped forward to take a closer look at the woman. It seemed that she couldn't accept that Concubine Yuxian had chosen this method, and she seemed to have some kind of anger towards the other party.
When Emperor Yong's side servant Liu saw that Zhao Nianze was too silent in his sorrow, and seemed to have forgotten his father for a moment, he couldn't help but cough lightly to remind the successor in Emperor Yong's heart.
However, Zhao Nianze seemed to have not received the reminder at all.
When Emperor Yong entered the room, everyone in the room knelt on the floor, only respectfully greeting the Holy Father.
Only then did Zhao Nianze realize that Emperor Yong was coming. He felt miserable, thinking that his father must be even more sad. After all, Concubine Yuxian was a close couple who lived with him day and night.
However, when he came into contact with Emperor Yong's eyes, he only felt a chill rising from the soles of his feet.
His eyes were as cold as the biting ice water in a cold pond in the twelfth lunar month, and there seemed to be a layer of anger and confusion hidden under the ice.
It was his look that only made Zhao Nianze endure the intention of comforting Emperor Yong. He didn't look like he needed comfort at all.
I'm afraid no matter how random a stranger is in the world, no one will be more indifferent than his father.
It was also at this time that he suddenly remembered the question that he had been lingering in his mind before but had not asked.
Although Emperor Yong felt that his son's eyes had been staring at him, he did not accept his son's gaze. He only said in a rather cold voice, "How could such a thing happen? Didn't I tell you to keep an eye on me?" ?”
Faced with Emperor Yong's harsh criticism, Yan'er was not sure whether she should step forward to explain, but the guard who took Concubine Yuxian down from the top said, "It was my subordinate who neglected his duty and failed to notice in time." The strangeness in the inner room.”
Emperor Yong said coldly, "Since you know what mistake you have made, go down and receive the punishment yourself."
After speaking, the man only thanked Emperor Yong and then retreated.
Emperor Yong seemed to have discovered that there was an uninvited guest in the palace who shouldn't be here at this time.
He looked at Jiang Nianjiao and was slightly stunned. After a moment, he asked, "Why are you here?"
Jiang Nianjiao's eyebrows trembled slightly, "I... When I was preparing to leave the palace, I felt a strong sense of uneasiness in my heart. I just wanted to make sure that my aunt was safe..."
As the words fell, tears came to my eyelashes again.
Emperor Yong just sighed when he heard this. At this moment, he still had the indifference he had at the beginning. He only said indifferently, "It's hard for you to have such filial piety. After all, the good concubine did not hurt you in vain. It's just that the palace There are palace rules, so I can’t just let you go.”
Then he thought for a moment and said, "I just miss you and I feel filial piety, and the third child will return in triumph soon, and your marriage will be put on the agenda. If I punish you, the wounds you will suffer will not be beautiful. It's better." You should stay at home during this period and think about your past."
After Emperor Yong said this, he originally thought that Jiang Nianjiao should thank him for his arrangement.
After all, my daughter has a fragile body and a weak mind. If she really suffered the punishment of the rod, she would probably feel humiliated.
Jiang Nianjiao didn't want to, but suddenly asked, "Your Majesty, do you mean that I will not be allowed to leave the Jiang Mansion from now on?"
Emperor Yong nodded, and then added, "On the day you and the third child get married, the ban will naturally be lifted."
However, after hearing this, Jiang Nianjiao suddenly knelt on the ground and said, "If this is the case, Gillian has thanked His Majesty for your grace, but Gillian does not dare to accept such grace. Jiao knows that she has violated the law, so please ask Your Majesty Just give me twenty strikes with the wand."
Hearing this, the crowd was in an uproar.
Although Zhao Nianze was shrouded in the pain of losing his mother at the moment, when he heard Jiang Nianjiao's words, he couldn't help scolding Jiang Nianjiao, "Are you stupid? After twenty strikes with the cane, you are not afraid of death?"
