"It doesn't matter what my concubine thinks of you. What's important is that His Highness thinks you have a side that no one knows about you."
Wu Chongyuan looked at Empress Wang proudly: "Guanshi Zhou, who abused Concubine Shu to death, was once a person who served you, the empress. Over the years, she has been exchanging letters with Duke Qi's government. Every year, she collects famous peonies from Luoyang and sends them to her. Go to Duke Qi’s Mansion.”
"So, will His Highness the Crown Prince think that the person who murdered Concubine Shu was actually you, the Queen?"
Feng Tao led her to the lotus pond in the inner courtyard of the palace, saying that the prince had been to the Luoyang Palace to untie his knot with her. Queen Wang had a bad premonition at that moment. Concubine Shu's death was related to the events surrounding the Luoyang Palace. Stewardship is inseparable from relationships.
Now in Wu Chongyuan's mouth, it has been confirmed!
What else doesn’t the queen understand?
"You used the palace steward to kill Concubine Shu, and then framed the fault on me. You really took great pains to sow discord between me and the prince."
The Queen was extremely angry and laughed back: "Have you buried this line about Manager Zhou for long enough?"
"The Queen is honored!"
"Your Majesty, don't talk about the relationship between mother and son with me. The concubine just used some tricks, and the prince blamed you for Concubine Shu's death. When he came back from Luoyang, he was not very close to you, the queen."
"Why do you always have such wishful thinking? Do you think that if you adopt someone else's son, then you are truly your legitimate son?"
Wu Chongyuan sneered mockingly: "My biological mother died at the hands of my legitimate mother. I still want to see how the Crown Prince and the Empress are so kind to their mother and filial to their son?"
He used Manager Feng to drive a wedge between Xiao Shi and her prince brother, and then killed Concubine Shu, framing the blame on her.
It was absolutely impossible for Wu, a cruel person, to blatantly lure her to the lotus pond in the inner courtyard just to tell him that she was using Concubine Shu's death to frame her?
Seeing Wu Chongyuan's round belly, Queen Wang took a step back warily: "Wu Xi'er, you have such a deep plan!"
But obviously, today Wu Chongyuan showed her true face to others and was ready to go all out.
The queen's subtle movements did not escape Wu Chongyuan's gaze.
She laughed wildly: "The queen has already fallen into the concubine's urn, do you think you can still escape?"
"Besides the lotus pond in the inner courtyard today, apart from Feng Tao, only the concubine and the queen are there. The concubine will let the queen have her mouth to explain clearly."
After Wu Chongyuan said these words viciously, she took a few steps back and approached the courtyard railing, and then fell into the lotus pond.
With a splash of water, Feng Tao shouted anxiously: "Help, someone has fallen into the water!"
"Someone fell into the water!"
"Come on, someone has fallen into the water!"
Feng Tao's voice, full of anger, shouted for help, as if a huge stone had been smashed into the silent lake in the inner courtyard of the East Palace. As his shouts echoed, the alarmed palace residents ran towards the lotus pond.
Yue'er, who was hiding beside the bushes in the lotus pond, was so shocked that she saw Feng Tao plunge into the lotus pond to rescue Wu Chongyuan who fell into the water.
"This is so shameless!"
Yue'er opened her eyes wide and said angrily: "The person will be rescued later. Is Feng Tao going to say that the queen mother pushed Wu Chongyuan into the water?"
Her sister Yue has finally made progress!
Next to her, Li Sixu felt as if my royal sister had just grown up.
She calmly reached for Yue'er's head and rubbed it: "Next, when you need Sister Yue's help, you go and find my senior brother Wang Ziqing and fourth brother."
no!
If you want to save your mother, why do you need to find Dr. Wang and the Four Emperors?
Isn't it time for her and sister Sisi to testify and let their father see Wu Chongyuan's true face?
Yue'er is confused!
But looking at the calm eyes of his royal sister, it always felt like the royal sister knew something in advance.
Yue'er, who always obeyed Li Sixu's advice, couldn't care about so much at the moment. She took advantage of the chaos and got out of the bushes and ran to Mingde Hall to find someone.
As expected by Li Sixu, Feng Taocai rescued Wu Chongyuan ashore, and his father, accompanied by Uncle Ning and palace officials, appeared beside the remote lotus pond in the inner courtyard.
After all, Wu Chongyuan was still pregnant with the dragon heir.
Seeing that she was about to give birth, she came to the East Palace to watch the ceremony today, and such an accident happened?
Seeing Wu Chongyuan shivering from the cold, Xuanzong finally felt pity for her. He took off his outer robe and put it on Wu Chongyuan.
Wu Chongyuan, who fell into the water and caught cold, fell into Xuanzong's arms: "Your Majesty, my concubine's stomach hurts so much. They all blame me for being useless. I accidentally slipped and fell into the water!"
"Since Qing'er was sent to the prince's residence, I have been thinking about and reflecting on my concubine day and night during the time I was raising my baby. I deeply regret that I have repeatedly bumped into the empress. I took advantage of the wedding of His Highness the Crown Prince today to have the opportunity to see the empress. Concubine I want to apologize to my empress."
"I saw from a distance that Eunuch Feng came to see the Queen and led the Queen to the inner courtyard of the palace. Then I followed her here and wanted to beg the Queen to let me take Qing'er back to the Hanbing Palace."
Wu Chongyuan clutched her stomach and groaned in pain: "There was a dispute between the concubine and the empress, and she accidentally fell into the water. This matter has nothing to do with the empress. They all blame the concubine. It is the concubine's fault."
"Your Majesty, I'm so scared. I'm afraid I won't be able to protect our child..."
Wu Chongyuan's breath was weak and she looked at the queen standing by the court railing.
Ever since Wu Chongyuan fell into the water, the queen had been quietly watching her flopping and struggling in the water, watching Feng Tao jump down to save her, and watching Xuanzong happen to arrive, and Wu Chongyuan, who was as weak as if she was about to faint, fell into his arms.
At this moment, the queen stood in the shadow of the trees at night, her face dark and unclear.
What a splash of dirty water!
Everyone said that she fell into the water and had nothing to do with it, but everyone pointed the evidence towards herself.
The most important thing is that Wu Chongyuan fell into the water tonight, which was just a means to lure the emperor to the lotus pond in the inner courtyard. What was really involved was to blame Concubine Shu's death on her.
The emperor was made to think that she was ruthless and would do anything to make the prince only have her as his legitimate mother.
Emperors have been suspicious since ancient times!
Sure enough, the next moment, Xuanzong saw her walking out of the shadow of the tree, and he sensitively sensed something was wrong.
"Feng Tao, why does the prince want to see the queen at this time?"
"this!"
Feng Tao hesitated to speak. Under Xuanzong's gaze, he hesitated and said: "There is some misunderstanding between His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and the Queen about the death of Concubine Shu."
Xuanzong looked at Feng Tao, waiting for him to continue.
Forced by an invisible pressure, Feng Tao had no choice but to continue: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince learned from the mouth of the palace maid who served Concubine Shu that before her death, Concubine Shu was humiliated in every possible way by the steward of Luoyang Palace."
"Concubine Shu is seriously ill. Not only did Manager Zhou refuse to summon the imperial doctor, he also forced her to eat cold rice, sour vegetables, and drink moldy tea."
"The palace maid asked steward Zhou to hire an imperial doctor, but steward Zhou imprisoned the palace maids around Concubine Shu. The queen had no palace maids to serve her, and she was treated harshly in all kinds of ways. Soon she was gone."
