"hiss--"
The maids were applying ice cubes to Queen Zhu's face, but they didn't want to touch her sore spots, so she waved them away: "Get out of here, everyone."
She was also in a daze today. She was actually instigated by the good concubine and ran to find trouble for the concubine Zhen.
She wasn't such a restless person in the past, but this time she didn't know if she was so angry because of the emperor's unbridled pampering of his concubines that she completely lost her usual sanity.
"My queen is too impulsive today."
They all took the ice cube from the palace maid's hand and gently pressed it back and forth on her swollen face: "It looks like..."
She couldn't find a suitable adjective for a moment, but Empress Zhu gasped: "Like a brainless idiot."
She was silent for a while, and she thought so in her heart.
Calm and self-possessed, strategizing and calm, this is her queen.
Today, she behaved badly in Hexi Palace and acted against the emperor everywhere. She looked like a queen who had been kidnapped by a good concubine. Her behavior was quite similar to that of a good concubine. No wonder the emperor couldn't help but beat her.
The good concubine was slapped thirty times, but the empress only received this one slap, out of consideration for her queen's dignity.
Queen Zhu closed her eyes, then suddenly opened them again and straightened up: "Who changed the incense in my room?"
The only incense used in Yikun Palace has always been Phoenix Tail Incense, because it is an incense that can only be used by the queen of the main palace, and it is a symbol of status.
Just like the reason why emperors have always only used ambergris.
But when Concubine Liang came to see her this morning, what she smelled was agarwood incense. At that time, she wanted to ask various questions, why did she change the incense without permission?
But the news brought by Liang Concubine shocked her so much that for a moment she forgot to ask about the incense and listened to Liang Concubine spitting bad things about Concubine Zhen.
In just a moment, her mind became confused and everything was beyond her control.
How could she become such an irritable and brainless person?
After smelling the familiar phoenix tail fragrance, she suddenly remembered the different fragrance she had smelled in the morning.
Fenren immediately walked over and opened the curtain, and saw a strange palace maid hiding the incense ashes behind her in a panic.
"Who are you? What are you doing here?"
Many people stepped forward to catch her, but they didn't expect the palace maid to run very fast, like a loach, flying towards the door.
"Get her!"
Neither the palace maids nor the eunuchs in the courtyard reacted. Besides, even the incompetent people were too frightened to step forward when they saw the palace maid holding a dagger in her hand. How could they go up and arrest the person after hearing the different opinions?
Fortunately, the guards were guarding the door. When they heard the shouts, they rushed out one after another, knocked the palace maid's dagger to the ground, and captured her.
Jiang Xinyue walked in when the palace maid was arrested. She opened her mouth in surprise: "What's going on? What happened?"
Could it be that the Queen was assassinated?
But there was no blood on the dagger. If it was an assassination attempt, it must have failed.
"Ms. Zhenbi, save this slave!"
But the palace maid suddenly shouted: "This slave has put the medicine that made the queen mad into the incense according to your instructions. Please ask the empress Zhen to send this slave out of the palace as we agreed before."
Queen Zhu also chased out with the help of the palace maid. When she heard the palace maid's words, she frowned and looked at Jiang Xinyue.
She was waiting for Jiang Xinyue to explain to herself.
No wonder...no wonder she doesn't look like herself anymore. It turns out that someone added something to her incense.
Jiang Xinyue walked up to the palace maid and chuckled: "Ye Jieyu promised to send you out of the palace, so after you harmed the queen, you still want to blame me on this palace?"
Her fluttering words made the palace maid's eyes widen, with a look of horror on her face. She seemed to have never expected that Jiang Xinyue would tell Ye Jieyu so easily.
Empress Zhu was not a fool. She immediately said: "Keep her under my watch. She is not allowed to commit suicide. Otherwise, I will punish you all to Xinzheku."
Then he signaled Jiang Xinyue to come in: "Zhen concubine, you have also seen that what happened today was not my original intention. Someone put something in my incense, which caused my temperament to change drastically."
Jiang Xinyue, who had prepared some words, immediately changed what she wanted to say, and said with an understanding face: "I naturally believe that the Queen is innocent, otherwise how could I come and tell you that you are instigating a fight between the Queen and me behind the scenes? The person we are related to is Ye Jieyu?"
"How could it be Ye Jieyu?"
Empress Zhu couldn't figure it out: "She is like that..."
Useless things.
"The Queen, do you still remember that when I first entered the palace, I was slapped and punished by Li Guiji for picking a begonia?"
"What does this have to do with Ye Jieyu..."
No!
Empress Zhu thought for a while and looked at her with clear eyes: "You and Ye Jieyu were drafted into the palace in the same year."
The main reason is that Jiang Xinyue was so favored that all the beautiful ladies who entered the palace in the same year as her were overshadowed. If Jiang Xinyue hadn't mentioned it herself, Empress Zhu would have forgotten that she and Ye Jieyu were from the same class.
Jiang Xinyue nodded: "The begonia was not picked by my concubine, but by Ye Jieyu. It was also the imperial garden that she took me to. It is understandable that I didn't know that the begonia was Li Guiji's favorite thing. After all, I was just the concubine of a fifth-grade official before and had never entered the palace. But Ye Jieyu is the legitimate daughter of General Ye and has been in and out of the palace since she was a child. She didn't know that it was Li Guiji's love affair with the emperor. tree?"
Impossible, she must know.
She tricked Jiang Xinyue into wearing the begonia with certain knowledge. No one believed her even if she said it was not intentional.
"What does this have to do with the palace maid putting manic drugs in my incense?"
Jiang Xinyue took out the witchcraft villain from her sleeve and put it under Empress Zhu's eyes: "My Lady, this is a brocade. I saw it in the palace of a concubine when I was serving in the late emperor's harem. , because they are not allowed to be worn in the palace, the concubine uses it as a lining, which is said to have the effect of keeping warm in winter and cooling in summer. And this concubine, I have checked, is Ye Jieyu’s aunt."
It's not surprising that the Ye family has a lot of glory.
"And the palace maid just now."
Jiang Xinyue said nonsense without blushing: "She has a very good relationship with Yang Er in Concubine Palace. I have seen her several times in Hexi Palace. Concubine Chen now suspects that Yang Er is not the wife of Liang Fei. People, they are all spies installed by Ye Jieyu, they just use the good concubine and the queen as a weapon in her hands."
Ye Jieyu actually had such scheming intentions but acted like a fool. Empress Zhu really didn't suspect her.
"Why did you tell me this?"
Jiang Xinyue smiled: "I just don't want to let go of the person who really harmed me."
Empress Zhu gritted her teeth and said, "I will not let go of those who make trouble in the palace."
Ye Jieyu had caused her such a huge humiliation, and she would definitely make her pay a heavy price.
