She was so blatant that she brought out Xiao Ronghua, who had been tortured until he lost his human form, without even closing the door. Did she think others didn't find out quickly enough?
Relying on his love, it becomes more and more... more and more...
He really didn't want to use words like cruel and scorpion-hearted on Jiang Xinyue.
But she actually tortured and killed concubines in the palace, and her behavior became so extreme. What stimulated her?
"Yue'er, what happened to you, tell me, I will definitely..."
"Your Majesty, I suspect... Lu Yin may be dead."
"What?"
It's not enough to kill the concubines, but also kill the palace maids?
In the entire palace, the one who is most considerate to the palace residents is actually not Concubine De, but Jiang Xinyue.
Anyone who has served her or seen how doting she is on her servants in her palace will not want to come to Hexi Palace.
How could such a person...
"Your Majesty, have you listened to my concubine again?"
Emperor Xuanwu was in a daze: "I'm listening, tell me."
"When I was still in the palace for summer vacation, Jiang Chuan said that Lu Yin had been here. She sent Xiao Ronghua over and asked Jiang Chuan to hide her. When Concubine De came just now, Lu Yin was not there, and I was afraid..."
"Did Lu Yin send her here?"
Emperor Xuanwu breathed a long sigh of relief. Fortunately, it was not Jiang Xinyue who killed him, otherwise it would have taken him a long time to accept all this.
"Xiao Ronghua, is it Concubine De who brought you to this point?"
The word "virtuous concubine" magnified in Xiao Ronghua's ears like a magic spell, in an infinite loop. It seemed that there was an hallucination in front of his eyes, and he felt that there were virtuous concubines everywhere around him.
One moment, De Concubine was pulling out her nails with pliers, another moment, De Concubine was beating herself with a whip dipped in pepper water, and another moment, De Concubine was scratching her own face with a knife.
They are all virtuous concubines, here are all virtuous concubines.
"Don't come over...Don't come over, you all don't come over..."
Xiao Ronghua suddenly went crazy, pulled out the sharp golden hairpin on her head and pointed it at the emperor and Jiang Xinyue. She was not only targeting the two of them, but anyone who wanted to get close to her was forced back by the golden hairpin.
"I was wrong, I was really wrong, I know I was wrong, please spare me, okay? I will never talk back to the Imperial Concubine again, I will never dare again, don't pull out my tongue!"
After saying this, everyone thought it was Jiang Xinyue who tortured Xiao Ronghua.
Jiang Xinyue's eyes widened when she appeared in Xiao Ronghua's mouth, and she understood instantly.
Xiao Ronghua was specially sent to Hexi Palace by Concubine De!
She already knew that Lu Yin was going to betray her!
After Xiao Ronghua was imprisoned by her, Concubine De must have abused her every day. She kept telling her repeatedly that she was treated like this because she was disrespectful to the Imperial Concubine and because she talked back to the Imperial Concubine. .
Xiao Ronghua definitely didn't believe it at first, thinking that Concubine De was just trying to frame Jiang Xinyue, and even thought that Concubine De's methods were so reckless and low-level.
People feel that they are the smartest when they are awake. Moreover, what Concubine De did at that time is called the Goebbels effect in the professional knowledge Jiang Xinyue learned - a lie repeated a thousand times becomes the truth.
In fact, it is caused by accumulated psychological hints.
Of course it doesn't work when Xiao Ronghua is awake, but when she is tortured to the point of weakness and collapse, every lie told by Concubine De will turn into truth and be instilled into Xiao Ronghua's head.
She now believed beyond belief that she suffered inhuman treatment just because she offended the imperial concubine.
Concubine De is indeed a strong opponent. If Jiang Xinyue had acted rashly from the beginning and went to Yanqing Palace to conduct a massive search, he would have probably fallen into her trap.
But Jiang Xinyue would never do anything to trouble the emperor. Even if Concubine De had thousands of traps waiting for her to step on, she would also pull the emperor to support her.
"Your Majesty, I don't know what Concubine De has hinted to Xiao Ronghua, but I haven't been in the palace for the past few months. Xiao Ronghua's injuries have been accumulated in recent months. If the Emperor doesn't believe it, you can still summon a few people in the flower room to meet. The master who grafted fruit trees, I am more interested in food than in torturing the concubines, Concubine De... Concubine De knew that Lu Yin was going to betray her a long time ago, so she deliberately asked Lu Yin to send Xiao Ronghua to concubines."
She was so anxious that she cried loudly: "This morning I was just trying to show off to Lu Yin, to make Concubine De calm down. Your Majesty, you were there. Lu Yin was walking as fast as flying at the time. I'd like to thank you for your mercy, right? In case Lu Yin If she is really dead, Concubine De can be said to have been beaten to death by the concubine, and even if the concubine jumped into the Yellow River, she wouldn’t be able to wash her away.”
The emperor patted her hand and was about to speak when suddenly there was a noise from outside the door: "Help! Help!"
"What's going on? Wang Dequan, go out and take a look!"
As soon as the door of Hexi Palace was opened, Concubine De, who was covered in blood, stumbled in. The moment she saw Emperor Xuanwu, she rushed towards him and crawled: "Your Majesty, save my concubine, the mute slave... The mute slave is crazy."
As soon as he finished speaking, an ugly-looking middle-aged eunuch rushed in with a dagger in his hand, his face twisted, and he rushed towards Concubine De with the dagger in his hand.
Concubine De fell at the emperor's feet. How could the guards let the eunuch get close to the emperor? They flew up and kicked the mute slave out.
"Keep alive!"
The emperor shouted loudly, and the sword that had been placed on the mute slave's neck stopped swinging.
The palace people scrambled to help Concubine De, only to find that Concubine De had been stabbed in the abdomen. Excessive blood loss made her weaker and weaker.
She grabbed the corner of the emperor's clothes: "Your Majesty, the mute slave... The mute slave is the eunuch in charge of the concubine's palace... responsible for cleaning the lotus pond, Lu Yin... Lu Yin found him raising piranhas in the lotus pond, and was killed by him... Murder and silence. I bumped into him pushing the green grass and falling down the rockery, and was stabbed by him... with a dagger... My concubine... um... "
Her wound was so painful that her face turned pale and she was sweating profusely. The lower abdomen she was holding was bleeding continuously. Before she could finish her words, she fainted from exhaustion.
Wang Dequan walked in from outside: "Your Majesty, Lu Yin's body was found on the rockery outside Hexi Palace. There was a hole in her forehead. She must have been pushed down hard and her head hit the small rockery below."
The architecture in the palace pays attention to aesthetics. There are small rockeries under the big rockery, which together create a sense of hierarchy. When the greenery fell down, its head hit the sharp stone below, which would cause such serious consequences.
All this seems to correspond to what Concubine De said.
Emperor Xuanwu had asked Tang Shiliang to quickly call for the imperial doctor. Instead of imprisoning him first and interrogating him later, he directly asked Concubine De to receive treatment in a side hall of Hexi Palace. He and Jiang Xinyue sat down in front of the palace and waited for the mute slave to wake up. .
Jiang Xinyue also felt that it would be better to interrogate directly. Who knows whether the scheming Concubine De will send someone to assassinate the mute slave?
