At the same time, Zhu Di, who was far away in Peiping, suddenly received a secret letter from Ying Tian.
The secret letter was written like this: Because Concubine Ji gave birth to two sons in a row and favored Rilong, Concubine Li Shu and Sun Guifei were frightened and conspired to frame Concubine Ji for adultery. The emperor was furious and killed Concubine Ji. Sun Guifei confessed before her death, and Li Shufei also mentioned it when she was drunk and talking in her sleep.
Zhu Di's hands began to tremble.
Mom, after all these years, I finally found out the cause of your death.
You have indeed been framed.
Concubine Li Shu! I, Zhu Di, swear by the name of King Yan of the Ming Dynasty, I will never let you go!
Just go down and accompany Queen Ma.
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Li Shufei asked someone to quietly tell An Ran to tell Lao Zhu about canonizing her as queen.
An Ran ignored him at all.
As a result, Li Shufei asked someone to send a piece of paper to An Ran, which was filled with words that An Ran once cursed Lao Zhu when he was drunk.
An Ran was so frightened that she was covered in cold sweat. She tried to balance herself, but finally decided to compromise.
Anyway, even if he talks about it in a book, Lao Zhu may not agree.
Other ministers may still object.
The next day, An Ran wrote a memorial to Lao Zhu, saying: The post should not remain vacant for too long, otherwise the sixth palace will be without an owner, which is a sign of great chaos.
Concubine Li's wife is virtuous and virtuous, dignified and gentle, and has the style of a mother caring for the world. She is the best candidate for the queen.
Several ministers actually seconded the proposal.
It seems that An Ran is not the only one who is being coerced.
Concubine Li Shu only took a fancy to his current status in the court and asked him to choose a leader.
As a result, Lao Zhu tore up the memorial directly.
An Ran once again made a trick to ask Lao Zhu to make Li Shufei his queen.
Lao Zhu called back directly.
He knew that An Ran was coerced by Li Shufei. Thinking that Li Shufei suddenly asked Zhu Bai to move out, she must have said the same thing to Zhu Bai, but was rejected by Zhu Bai, so she wanted to take revenge on him.
Li Shufei was doing these little things behind his back, which made him very unhappy.
In the past few days, he did not call Concubine Li Shu. Instead, he called Concubine Yang and Concubine Zhou. These young concubines took turns attending the bed.
When Concubine Li Shu learned about it, she locked herself in the palace room, covered her mouth and screamed.
She was furious. This Zhu Chongba, since she was a teenager, promised her to be the queen if she conquered the world.
Otherwise, why would she be willing to follow this bastard around everywhere.
During the day, he moved with the army, and at night he had to serve this man who was as energetic as an ox.
As a result, he conquered the world, and said that it was not easy for the yellow-faced woman to take care of the children at home. She was the original wife and he wanted her to be the queen.
Now she is almost forty, and she finally managed to survive Queen Ma, but Zhu Chongba still refused.
He never thought about giving her a status, he had been lying to her all along.
If she waits any longer, she will really lose all her beauty, and Lao Zhu will ignore her even more.
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Early in the morning, I heard someone making noise outside. Lao Zhu was very unhappy to be woken up and asked, "What's the matter?"
The eunuch came in and reported: "Empress Li Shufei is ill."
Lao Zhu's face darkened: "She is sick, just ask the imperial doctor to see her. What's the fuss about?!!"
The eunuch lowered his head: "Your Majesty is outside now."
As soon as she finished speaking, Concubine Li Shu ran in with disheveled hair and hugged Lao Zhu: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, do you want to make me the queen? It's great."
Lao Zhu frowned: "What's going on?"
Concubine Li Shu pointed at Concubine Zhou on the bed: "Concubine Ji, you vixen, do you think that since you gave birth to two sons for the emperor, I can't do anything to you? Do you know what the emperor hates most, what he hates most is people treating him badly. Loyal. You Mongolian woman, I want the emperor to believe that you are unfaithful. It is too easy, hahahaha. Just write a letter and the emperor will believe you. Go to hell."
Concubine Zhou was so frightened by his nonsense that she shrank into a ball.
Lao Zhu was stunned, grabbed Li Shufei's arm, and asked through gritted teeth: "What did you say?"
Li Shufei seemed to suddenly wake up, huddled up, and looked pale: "I didn't say anything. When I woke up this morning, I suddenly had a severe headache, as if I had caught a cold and was talking nonsense."
Lao Zhu narrowed his eyes and looked at her: "You said the letter written by Concubine Ji to her adulterer was a fake?"
Concubine Li Shu began to cry again: "Oh, oh, Your Majesty, it's not my fault. Concubine Sun asked someone to write the letter. I just asked someone to put it in Concubine Qi's wardrobe."
Lao Zhu was so angry that he raised his hand and slapped Li Shufei in the face, causing her to flutter aside and hit her head on a pillar, causing her to faint.
The palace people were so frightened that they all knelt down and fell to the ground.
Old Zhu clenched his fists and thought, he wanted to kill Concubine Li Shu right now, but thinking about Zhu Xi and Zhu Fan, he held back and said to the eunuch in charge: "Take this bitch down and lock him up in the palace. We won't Scream, don’t let her out!! We will lock her up until she dies. Keep your mouths shut and don’t tell King Qin and King Jin!!”
Concubine Li Shu cried, laughed and screamed in her room at night, but by early morning there was no sound.
The next morning when the palace servants brought her food, they found her lying on the ground, her body cold.
Lao Zhu asked people to inform Zhu Xi and Zhu Fan, only to say that Concubine Li Shu suddenly suffered from a serious illness and died of ineffective treatment.
Zhu Bai quietly inquired from the imperial doctor and said that Li Shufei seemed to have been poisoned and went crazy. However, because Lao Zhu did not ask anyone to take her pulse on the spot, and she died too quickly, there was no time to confirm the diagnosis.
Zhu Bai smiled: "Oh, it turned out to be poisoning."
Although Zhu Di is in Peiping, it is easy to make Concubine Li Shu "eat the wrong thing".
Moreover, Zhu Di will know what can cause people to suffer from temporary schizophrenia just by asking Zhu Ju.
For example, if you grind a few Datura seeds into powder and put them in tea, you will not notice them.
Tsk tsk, it is indeed me, Emperor Yongle, good at killing two birds with one stone, ruthless enough, I like it.
Moreover, Zhu Di specifically waited for me to move out of the palace before finally closing the net to prevent me from being suspected of being implicated. It was really a tacit understanding of cooperation.
Speaking of which, Concubine Li Shu's strange behavior has a reasonable explanation.
Zhu Fang was eating when he received the news of Concubine Li Shu's death.
He didn't want to eat with others, but he felt it was too lonely to eat alone, so he often asked his concubines to watch him eat.
The meal lasted for half an hour without saying a word, as eerie and silent as a shadow.
When the person who delivered the letter finished speaking, Zhu Ping didn't say anything and just said: "I understand."
Then eat again.
As soon as the messenger left, Zhu Xi suddenly stopped, turned to look at the concubine given to him by Lao Zhu, and smiled as if he was crying: "Tell me, my mother was poisoned to death by my father. "
The concubine shrank back in fear.
Zhu Fang: "If you don't feel guilty, why are you hiding? Ah, by the way, you are a Mongolian."
The concubine knelt down and said, "I am not a Mongolian. I have been staying in the palace and I really don't know anything about the affairs in the palace."
Zhu Xi turned around and said, "Her voice is so unpleasant. Cut her tongue so that she can never bother me again."
The concubine screamed and struggled, but was held down by the guards.
