Beijing——
Concubine De wept in Chengguo Palace for three days. On the fourth day when she was preparing to return to the palace, she finally got rid of the spies placed by the emperor in Yanqing Palace and found a chance to talk to her father.
Duke Cheng Guo exhaled heavily from his nose: "A mere daughter of the Minister of Justice has forced you into such a situation. Is she too capable, or are you too incompetent?"
Concubine De lowered her hands to her sides and clenched her fists tightly: "Doesn't father know whether she is capable? Isn't the person who instigated the Zhu family's mistress to use her connections in the palace to take action against the sixth prince, not one of my father's people?"
Cheng Guogong frowned: "Don't say these words again in the future."
Everyone thought that the late empress's mother's family had murderous intentions for the sixth prince, so they put white phosphorus powder in the wet nurse's clothes.
They didn't know that the reason why the Zhu family went beyond the late empress and took action against the sixth prince was because the personal maid next to the Zhu family's mistress was a traitor who had an affair with Duke Cheng Guo in the early years and was coaxed by him to do his bidding with sweet words.
Duke Cheng Guo promised her that as long as the sixth prince died, he would take her as his concubine.
Now that lowly maidservant girl followed the Zhu family whose home was confiscated and came all the way to the capital.
Concubine De believed that with her father's viciousness, he would never let the maid arrive in the capital alive.
In this way, no one in this world will know what he did.
If Jiang Xinyue had no ability, how could he be forced to take action personally?
Concubine De took a deep breath: "Was my grandmother really killed by assassins from the Zhu family? Or did my father use the name of an assassin to put my grandmother to death in order to calm the emperor's anger?"
"Snapped!"
Duke Cheng Guo turned around and gave Concubine De a slap in the face: "You still have the nerve to mention it? If you hadn't lost your mind and poisoned Xuan'er, your grandmother wouldn't have beaten the queen with a cane for you and taken back the tiger stick to the emperor. Excuse. The queen is dead, but if your grandmother is still alive, will the emperor let the Chengguo Palace go?"
This is a disguised admission.
The Zhu family assassinated their grandmother, but the injury was not fatal. In order to calm down the anger of the people and the palace towards the Duke of Chengguo after the queen's death, his father chose to take one life for another.
"Father……"
Tears fell heavily from her eyes. Concubine De did not turn her face away, but lowered her tearful eyes: "If one day, I have to sacrifice my daughter's life to save the Chengguo Palace, With all the glory and wealth, would my father abandon me without hesitation?"
grandmother……
Her grandmother was the only person who treated her well without asking for anything in return. In order to protect her father and her, her grandmother would die generously without hesitation.
But my father was not sad at all. He had already thought of a way out when he asked his grandmother to beat the queen.
He was responsible for his grandmother's death.
Without a killer, my grandmother would have died, either from illness or from guilt over the death of the queen.
"Don't think about whether these are available or not."
Cheng Guogong did not answer her question directly: "What you have to do now is to stand still and don't let Jiang Xinyue catch you. You don't have to worry about Xuan'er. I have found a famous doctor and I will let him speak. Remember. Now, I told you to stand still and just don’t do anything, Jiang Xinyue... My father will find the right time to eradicate it for you. When necessary, you’d better show repentance in front of the emperor. There is no impermeable wall in the world. You Be prepared for a rainy day.”
"The daughter knows. If the father has nothing else to do, the daughter will return to the palace first."
In the Duke's Mansion, she couldn't even cry as much as she wanted, because the seven emotions and six desires that a normal person should have were not allowed in her body.
"Um!"
Duke Cheng Guo nodded with satisfaction: "While that concubine of the Jiang family has not returned to the palace, it is business to quickly arrange for your own people to enter Hexi Palace."
If Jiang Xinyue comes back, Hexi Palace will be like an iron barrel again.
Yanqing Palace——
A dull shouting sounded, and Lu Yin was at the door. She closed her eyes nervously and covered her ears with her hands, pretending that she couldn't hear.
The muffled sound contained a frightened plea for mercy: "Empress De Fei, I know I was wrong, wuwu... don't kill me, don't kill me... wuwuwu... uh..."
The person begging for mercy inside had his mouth covered and could only make short, rapid sounds of pain.
Until the smell of blood came from the room, Lu Yin quickly waited at the door with a basin in hand.
Concubine De came out with bright red hands, washed her hands in the copper basin, and wiped away the water stains with a cloth: "I don't want to hear anyone in the harem say they heard screams or cats meowing. Do you understand? ?”
Lu Yin nodded quickly: "I will ask people from the Ministry of Internal Affairs to come over tomorrow and repair the windows and doors here."
Make some soundproofing designs.
Concubine De snorted lightly and walked away.
Several palace maids who usually had a very good relationship with Lu Yin finally dared to take a deep breath and grabbed Lu Yin's arm: "Sister Lu Yin, the empress is getting more and more scary. I... I want to be transferred to another empress' palace. "
"I...I want it too!"
A suppressed cry sounded: "Sister Luyin, I am old and young. I don't want to die in the palace..."
"okay!"
Lu Yin couldn't bear it, but she still managed to make up her mind: "You will do your errands for the queen, and nothing will happen to you. I will pretend that I have never heard those words just now. If they reach the ears of the queen, I will also I can’t save you.”
Several little palace maids were so frightened that they trembled and closed their mouths.
in the room--
A woman wearing pink palace clothes, barefoot and with disheveled hair, was lying on the ground, her ten fingers were dripping with blood, and all her fingernails had been pulled out.
Their fingers were connected to her heart, but she was in so much pain that she couldn't move.
Lu Yin opened the door and came in. The people on the ground raised their heads. It was Xiao Ronghua who had disappeared in the palace. The emperor searched vigorously and searched the entire harem but could not find him.
There are even rumors that before Xiao Ronghua disappeared, he always said that he could hear screams at night and that he should have been captured or eaten by ghosts.
It made people panic.
It was the imperial concubine's order that the harem was not allowed to discuss the matter, so the rumors of haunting did not continue to spread.
"Bang!"
The huge sound was particularly harsh in the dark night. Jiang Chuan suddenly opened his eyes and ran out without even putting on his clothes: "What's going on? Such a big noise?"
The palace was mostly empty. The emperor and his concubines went to Qinzhou to escape the summer heat, and the palace suddenly fell silent.
The concubines who stayed did not have to compete for favor. They spent the whole day either admiring flowers in the Imperial Garden, admiring the scenery in the Scenic Pavilion, or meeting up in twos and threes to play Pai Gow or something like that.
Life in Hexi Palace was extremely peaceful.
However, because the empress had sometimes told her that the guards in Hexi Palace should not be relaxed, so even if the harem was so peaceful, Jiang Chuan did not dare to neglect, for fear of harming the empress and the sixth prince in the future.
