The night at the end of May was already a bit hot, and the lights in Yanqing Palace were brightly lit. The third prince was speechless after waking up.
The imperial doctors took turns to go to battle, but could not find the reason.
Concubine De shook her head frequently: "Impossible, this is impossible, Imperial Physician... Imperial Physician, didn't you say that the poison has been cured? Why is this happening? Why is the third prince speechless?"
The doctors at the Imperial Hospital all knelt on the ground: "This... Back to the Emperor, back to Concubine De... The poison in the third prince's body has indeed been eliminated. Wei Chen... Wei Chen and others don't know why the third prince lost his voice. ah!"
The third prince sitting in the corner of the bed had no color on his face. He was as pale as a piece of white paper. His eyes were dull and he was hugging his knees and crying silently.
No matter what Emperor Xuanwu told him, he didn't respond.
Concubine De immediately cried and fell into the emperor's arms: "Your Majesty, I have never done anything bad in my life, why do those people do this to Xuan'er? If they want revenge, they will come after me! I want my life. It doesn’t matter if I want to make my concubine poisonous and mute, I am willing to endure it, why should Xuaner endure all this?”
The emperor's eyes were full of pain, and his throat was congested. The hand holding Concubine De tightened slightly: "Tomorrow, send the queen's golden book to Concubine Yu and lift her confinement. Concubine De, your first priority now is, Just take good care of the Third Prince, and there is no need to worry about the rest..."
On the surface, she seemed to feel sorry for Concubine De, but the color on Concubine De's face suddenly disappeared when he was holding her in his arms: "Concubine... Concubine, I obey the decree."
Even though all the agencies were exhausted, she still made a wedding dress for Concubine Yu.
Initially, she designed Concubine Yu and Jiang Xinyue to fight, and Jiang Xinyue did what she wanted, and defeated Concubine Yu.
Although Concubine De was aiming to be the first of the four concubines at the beginning, but ended up getting an advantage over Jiang Xinyue, getting the Queen's Golden Book was still a big gain.
Now, not only has her previous efforts been wasted, but everything has returned to where it started. She offended the queen and had a falling out with Concubine Xian. The golden seal circled around and returned to Concubine Yu.
Concubine Yu is the queen's lackey. If the gold seal falls into her hands, what's the difference between it returning to the queen's hands?
Can the queen let her go?
The emperor now also mentally blamed her for neglecting the third prince because of palace power, causing him to lose his voice.
This game...
She must break!
After a heavy rain, it seemed that summer had completely entered. The sudden change in weather made all palaces unprepared for midsummer.
Jiang Xinyue woke up from the heat early in the morning. As soon as she opened her eyes, she saw a magpie coming over with a basin of ice: "Madam, the Ministry of Internal Affairs has only carved out this little bit of ice for the time being. Except for Chengqian Palace, Cining Palace, and Kunning Palace, Palace and Yanqing Palace of Concubine De, we are the only ones who got a pot here."
The reason why the concubine De was available was because the third prince suddenly lost his voice last night. The emperor loved the third prince so much that he specially ordered the Ministry of Internal Affairs to send it to him early in the morning.
Jiang Xinyue got up and washed her face with cold water before she felt cooler. She turned to ask Magpie and Shuangjiang: "How is the third prince?"
Both of them had distressed looks in their eyes. Shuangjiang sighed and said: "Originally, the imperial doctor said that all the toxins had been removed and the third prince was awake, but... for some reason, the third prince who woke up could not speak. .”
This is impossible!
If someone wants to kill the third prince, then he must be poisoned by a poison that has no cure, and he will not have a chance to wake up. But he woke up last night, which means that the person who poisoned him was Concubine De herself. How could it be possible for his own son to lose his voice?
Of course, it is not ruled out that someone deliberately poisoned the third prince to silence him to prevent him from becoming the prince in the future.
Then the only suspects are her and the Queen.
After all, if the third prince is deposed, only the concubines of the prince in the harem will benefit.
Wouldn't that just point at her and the queen's noses and call them murderers?
But compared to the fact that the empress poisoned the third prince, Jiang Xinyue preferred that it was Concubine De who directed and performed a good show herself.
It's just that he didn't control the degree well, which caused the third prince to lose his voice.
Concubine De must have wanted to kill two birds with one stone at first!
The first person he wanted to harm was her, the stumbling block in taking away the position of the virtuous concubine. If he failed to get rid of her, the second one would be the queen.
For Concubine De, it was only a trivial matter to fabricate the lie that the queen murdered the third prince in order to have the fifth prince be crowned prince.
The most pitiful one is the third prince.
The third prince was poisoned. First he was in critical condition, almost died, and then he became mute...
As soon as this news came out, everyone was speculating, who is the real culprit behind the scenes?
It couldn't be Concubine De anyway. Concubine De was just such a son. How could she lose her biggest support?
Everyone felt that Concubine De was pitiful.
"Wow!"
"Ah! Someone is dead!"
She had a headache all night, but all the imperial doctors in the palace were invited to Yanqing Palace. The queen, who had an even worse headache, was startled by the sound of breaking porcelain and screaming.
She was very flustered...
After Jiang Xinyue left yesterday, people from the Xuanjing Division came. Unless Concubine Xian was missing a priceless imperial green jade bracelet, the Xuanjing Division received a report from someone in the Hexi Palace and came to investigate.
When she was not losing power, how could the gang of slaves from the Xuanjing Division dare to search the Yikun Palace?
But before she could get angry, the Xuanjing Division found out that the little palace maid guarding the gate had picked up Concubine Xian's bracelet and deliberately didn't return it but kept it for herself.
The little palace maid insisted that it was given to her by the Concubine Xian.
After the people from Hexi Palace refuted, she tried to change her story, but was gagged and taken away by the people from Xuanjing Division.
As for what the little palace lady wanted to say, "The wise concubine eavesdropped on the queen's conversation and wanted to silence the slave." There was no chance to say it out.
The people from the Xuanjing Division had offended Concubine Xian before, and they were just trying to make up for it by trying to please Concubine Xian. They naturally would not disappoint Concubine Xian when they came to her door to do things for Concubine Xian.
"We are the emperor's people, why should we be afraid of the virtuous concubine?"
Some of the guards from the Xuanjing Division didn't understand and asked questions.
The director glared at him: "What I'm afraid of is not Concubine Xian, but Concubine Xian's love affair with her. I don't understand this kind of human affairs. You deserve to be here for three years and you are still a little guard."
The palace staff in Yikun Palace were not enough, and they were negligent in everything. This morning, in the utility room of Yikun Palace, another female corpse was found who committed suicide by taking poison.
The face of the female corpse was so beaten that it was swollen and bleeding, and it was almost impossible to recognize who it was.
But Concubine De often brought the third prince to Yikun Palace to play in the past, and they all recognized her with a little effort: "Empress, this is Ning Feixiu, the maid in charge of the third prince."
The queen, who smelled the conspiracy, was about to order someone to turn over the body, when the sound of chaotic footsteps sounded at the door.
The leaders were Lu Yin and the emperor in the Imperial Concubine Palace.
"Your Majesty, Feixiu was punished last night and almost fainted. She still had to go out to fetch water to wash up. The slave girl saw something was wrong and followed her all the way to Yikun Palace... The slave girl felt strange and went back to report to the empress. A suicide note was found under Feixiu's pillow... Your Majesty, please make the decision for the third prince!"
