Boom——
A thunder struck in the sky above Jingren Palace, and Concubine Shu was so frightened that she woke up from the bed: "Lian Xin! Lian Xin!"
Lian Xin, who was keeping watch outside, quickly lifted the quilt and stood up: "Mother, my servant is here, what's the matter with you?"
Concubine Shu's chest heaved violently and her forehead was covered with cold sweat. After a long time, she said: "I have a nightmare. Please give me a cup of hot water."
Lian Xin obeyed and quickly served her hot tea.
"Dang-dang-dang-dang..."
The hand holding the tea cup was shaking violently.
"Wow!"
The tea cup fell to the ground with a loud sound, making a harsh cracking sound on the floor paved with gold bricks.
As if some signal had been triggered, the door to Concubine Shu's dormitory was pushed open with a bang, and Jin Wuyong, wearing night clothes with only a pair of eyes exposed, rushed in and stunned Lian Xin, who was about to scream, with a knife.
"Fei'er, come with me quickly. The matter has been exposed. The emperor ordered the Xuanjing Division and the Ouchi guards to arrest me everywhere. If they catch me, we will die."
Before Concubine Shu could react, Jin Wuyong grabbed her wrist and sprained her ankle while pulling.
She just woke up from a dream, shook off Jin Wuyong's hand, and slapped him in the face: "You useless thing, you can't handle such a small thing, and you dare to harm me."
The man in black was stunned for a moment, and then stopped: "A small matter? This is a matter of protecting my concubine's life. I even ignored my family for your sake. You treat me like this?"
The disheveled Concubine Shu straightened her appearance, held the concubine's airs, glanced at him disdainfully, and then sat down on the couch behind the screen: "I am Concubine Shu, you are just a concubine. I am just a watchdog, you have to do whatever I ask you to do, otherwise do you think I will let you, this dog, live?"
She chuckled: "I just asked you to sleep with a woman, but you are so useless. This will also disappoint me. If the matter is exposed, you should take all the responsibility on yourself. Why bother to harm me?"
"you……"
The man in black shook his head: "It's useless to talk about this anymore. The Emperor already knows that you ordered me to do this. Come with me quickly. I know there is a way to escape from the palace."
Who wants to die if he can live?
Those beautiful memories with the emperor seemed to be slowly fading and becoming meaningless.
She grabbed the man in black's hand with a firm gaze. Once she left the palace, she would find an opportunity to kill Jin Wuyong, and then find a sparsely populated place to live in seclusion.
It can be considered as revenge for his father.
"boom!"
The entire Jingren Palace was as bright as day, and Concubine Shu and the man in black were surrounded by the flames of torches, lanterns and candles.
The emperor stood in the middle of the crowd and looked at her coldly. The empress, Concubine De, Concubine Liang, Concubine Li Gui, Concubine Rong Gui, Jin Zhaoyi, Zhang Wanrong, Ye Guiren and Jiang Jieyu...
All the concubines in the harem who could be named, except Jiang Xinyue, who was pregnant and had her baby in Hexi Palace, were not there. Everyone else looked at her with gloating.
"emperor!"
Concubine Shu immediately pushed away the man in black and ran to Emperor Xuanwu crying, as if she was the biggest victim: "Your Majesty, Guard Jin is crazy. He suddenly rushed into my concubine's palace and said he wanted to elope with me. I’m scared…”
Halfway through her run, her eyes suddenly widened. Who was that embarrassed figure being pressed down by several guards if it wasn't Jin Wuyong?
This person is Jin Wuyong...the one who pulled her just now...
who is it?
The man in black took off his mask, revealing a face that was 80% similar to Jin Wuyong, especially the eyes, which were 10% identical.
But the next moment, the man in black raised his hand and tore off a piece of human skin mask from his face. It turned out to be an ordinary appearance that he had no impression of after seeing it.
There was no emotion on the man's face. He walked past Concubine Shu coldly, knelt on the ground and reported to Emperor Xuanwu: "Your Majesty, Concubine Shu did have an improper relationship with Guard Jin. It was Concubine Shu who ordered Guard Jin to go to Hexi. The palace harmed Concubine Zhen, Concubine Shu has confessed just now."
The emperor heard everything, and even heard that Concubine Shu wanted Jin Wuyong to take full responsibility alone.
In fact, when Jin Wuyong was arrested in Hexi Palace, he did not reveal a word about Concubine Shu. He only said that he was secretly in love with Concubine Zhen and planned all this with daring and wanted to be intimate with Concubine Zhen.
As a result, Jiang Xinyue was extremely angry when she heard about it, and she didn't believe that Jin Wuyong would have dared to commit such a serious crime of confiscating his family and annihilating his clan if no one instigated him.
What Jin Wuyong didn't know was that on the afternoon when Jiang Xinyue met Jin Zhaoyi, Jin Zhaoyi had already gone to Chengqian Palace to ask for an audience with the emperor.
Moreover, she reported to the emperor that her brother had an affair with Concubine Shu, and that Concubine Shu used her body in exchange for her brother to work for her and prepare to murder Concubine Zhen.
Moreover, they planned to destroy the innocence of Concubine Zhen first, then lead the emperor to Hexi Palace, catch them in bed and rape them, in order to frame the child in her belly as a bastard and not the emperor's child.
After hearing this, Emperor Xuanwu did not immediately confront Concubine Shu.
He knew that Concubine Shu was used to making excuses, and she had his biological mother, Queen Mother Wu, as her backer. Without real evidence, Jin Zhaoyi's report alone would not be able to do anything to her.
Jiang Xinyue had scolded the emperor eight hundred times in Hexi Palace.
When Jin Wuyong took advantage of the night to knock out Shuangjiang's magpie, the Dog Emperor was already waiting outside the house with his guards to watch what happened.
But he had to wait until Jiang Xinyue was thrown down on the bed and screamed, and then he broke in with several eunuchs who were skilled in martial arts.
Did he still think he was being considerate and didn't let the guards come in to see her being grabbed by the wrist by another man?
Fortunately, Jiang Xinyue was fully prepared. She took out a pair of scissors from under the pillow and stabbed Jin Wuyong's shoulder blade. Before the eunuchs could come closer, Jin Wuyong was already bleeding and fell to the ground in pain. .
When Emperor Xuanwu rushed to the screen with the eunuchs, he saw Jiang Xinyue covered in blood, still holding the scissors, pointing the tip of the knife at everyone defensively.
Jin Wuyong, who fell to the ground, was rolling all over in pain and had no strength to even struggle.
The scissors were stained with the poisonous powder brought by Imperial Physician Yan, which would cause severe pain in the wound and make the whole body weak, making it impossible to commit murder.
Anyway, if Jin Wuyong committed such a crime of killing the nine tribes, would the emperor still ask the imperial doctor to look at his wounds? He probably wished that Jiang Xinyue would send him to see the Lord of Hell with a pair of scissors!
Jiang Xinyue has always adhered to the purpose of never leaving her life in the hands of others, and has made herself foolproof.
Emperor Xuanwu was very quick and took the scissors from her hand and threw them aside: "If even a word of what happened today is revealed, I will take off your heads."
Those who can accompany the emperor to "catch the traitor" are of course the emperor's own confidants, and it is impossible to reveal the information to the outside world.
What the emperor was talking about should be about Concubine Zhen's heroic stabbing of the golden guard.
If Guard Jin dies, the Queen Mother will probably frame Concubine Zhen again, saying that she killed the person and silenced her.
