The palace wall reflects the moon

Chapter 42 Spring Hunting Five

"Your Excellency, it is indeed a human bite," Xin Wei opened her mouth and said nonsensically, "I just had an argument with another Jieyu and was bitten by her, but we have reconciled and we don't want this matter to escalate any further. Please keep it a secret, sir.”

Doctor Xu naturally agreed and started to help her clean the wound.

But Liu Qingshu wanted to get to the bottom of it: "Who is it that's causing trouble with you? You can tell me and I will stand up for you."

She had enough confidence to say this.If something happened to the queen, Concubine Liu would be respected in the palace.

"Sister Concubine Liu, don't ask." The medicine applied to the wound felt like it was being burned by fire. Xin Wei endured it and said, "It's just a dispute over words. It's a trivial matter."

After the blood stains were washed away, Liu Qingshu could clearly see the scars crisscrossing her arms, which were shocking.

After the imperial doctor left, Liu Qingshu asked anxiously: "What have you experienced in the past?"

Xin Wei rolled up her sleeves.

"It's all in the past, not worth mentioning."
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Before sunset, the queen was about to be escorted back to Jinling City, and Shen Xiao gave Xin Wei permission to see her.

Xin Wei stepped into this cold and remote room. The queen was neatly dressed and sitting on an armchair against the wall, but her hair was missing the dazzling array of pearls.

In such a situation, he still behaves well.

When the queen saw her coming, she said with a cold look: "Who are you and how can you come here?"

"Of course it was time to come, so I came in." Xin Wei looked at her, trying to see some embarrassment on her face, but it was in vain, "I have something that I don't understand, and I want to ask the queen."

"What's the matter?"

"Why does the queen take Jiang Qingyue's portrait and search for someone who looks like her all over the world?"

"It's okay to tell you," the queen snorted, "If Concubine Liu hadn't entered the palace with this face, how could Concubine Hui have fallen out of favor so easily?"

Xin Wei felt ridiculous in her heart.

The queen still thought that Concubine Hui was favored for a while, and also thought that Concubine Liu's appearance caused Concubine Hui to fall off the pedestal.

In fact, Shen Xiao's drunkard didn't care about drinking. He had never doted on Concubine Hui, and he also intended to make the Meng and Liu clans hostile.

Xin Wei said: "Do you think this face is useful?"

The queen looked at her face and sneered coldly: "Otherwise, how could you be able to sleep with me? It all depends on this face. The emperor has never forgotten this face, and that's why you are where you are today. In the final analysis, the glory and wealth of you and Concubine Liu are all. I gave it all to you, but you are ungrateful, especially Liu Feien who took revenge..."

"You are wrong," Xin Wei looked at her indifferently and said calmly, "Concubine Hui fell out of favor because Meng Da Sima was gone. Concubine Liu was reused because her father, General Liu, was a rare general, and I didn't have any at all. This face is always useless to the emperor."

The queen lowered her eyes, as if considering her words.

No, no.

It was clear that Concubine Hui's fall from grace and Concubine Liu's gain in favor were her fault. It was clear that it was only her own carelessness that brought Concubine Liu to life. It was clear that Xin Jieyu also slept with her...

"You heard that I was able to sleep with you, and you felt unhappy, so you accepted King Duan's appointment, right?"

It wasn't until something happened to the queen that Xin Wei slowly understood why Shen Xiao had publicly acknowledged that he favored her.

His purpose was to ensure that the queen was sufficiently stimulated to go to King Duan's appointment.

Women are like this, easily impulsive when jealous.

The queen sat up straight and said solemnly: "Why am I unhappy? I have a lover, why should I be unhappy for the sake of the emperor?" Concubine Hui sees Concubine Liu as a thorn in her side again."

The queen did have an encounter with Prince Duan before she entered the palace, and in the three years after entering the palace, Shen Xiao treated her with respect and treated her like a guest, treating her with a touch of gentleness that seemed to be absent.

Even if the queen sits in the most respected position among women in the world, she cannot help but look forward to the harmony of the phoenix and the phoenix, to marry and become husband and wife, with unquestionable love.

After all, as proud as Concubine Liu, her heart has been shaken before.

After the queen smiled coldly, her smile became more and more sad, her eyes turned red, and two lines of tears fell down.

"He pulled up my hair and painted my eyebrows, but he still refused to consummate the marriage with me. Father-in-law Xi said that he was depressed and worried that he could not give Jiang Qingyue the position of Queen. When he saw me as the Queen, he had feelings for his old friend. Ashamed, keep a respectful distance.”

"Jiang Qingyue is dead. There must be someone on the grave! How can I untie the knot in his heart? Eunuch Xi said that as long as any woman is even remotely similar to Jiang Qingyue, the emperor will look at her twice. , I will find someone more like him, hoping that he will feel comforted and stop alienating me."

"But with Concubine Liu and you, he still treats me like this... I, the queen, am like a joke!"

"I'm not willing to accept it. Who is he? I didn't look down on him at all when he was the ninth prince. I wanted to marry the prince, and Prince Duan also fell in love with me... Why did I become his queen? Why should I Staying like a widow?!"

"I went to see Prince Duan just because of a thought. It was just a thought. I just wanted to talk to him. It was so painful in my heart, but why did I do such a thing..."

Although she was angry in her heart, she knew after all that she was a queen. If she had an affair with someone and broke her virginity, she would die without a burial place and would also bring harm to her mother's family.

Even if the emperor was merciful and spared her whole family, how will her sisters live with themselves in the future after she ruined the clan's reputation?
Over the past half day, she had been thinking over and over again, why could she not control her raging impulse, which led to a big mistake?

Why did she do such a stupid thing? !
Xin Wei looked at the queen with cold eyes, her demeanor completely gone, and she closed her eyes, feeling extremely cold in her heart.

Everything Mr. Xi said and did was under the emperor's instructions.

In this case, it was Shen Xiao who induced the queen to summon a "substitute" into the palace.

Liu Qingshu was originally in Jinling City, and Shen Xiao should have known that there was such a woman who was somewhat similar to her.

What he couldn't have expected was that the queen felt that a substitute was not enough, so she reached out to Gusu and fished out the real Jiang Qingyue by mistake.

The Queen calmed down a little and asked, "Did the Emperor ask you to come here?"

"Yes."

"What did the emperor ask you to tell me?"

Xin Wei shook her head.

Shen Xiao didn't say anything. To this day, he had nothing to say to the queen. He probably just wanted her to see what happened to Cao's daughter and relieve her hatred.

"Then why did the emperor ask you to come?" The queen looked at her with a pair of ferocious eyes, "Why did the emperor ask you to come?"

Xin Wei did not answer the question and only said: "Do you remember that there is a maid named Ruyun who is still in Dali Temple?"

Last time after Concubine Hui gave birth prematurely, Shen Xiao detained this maid from Shen Shuning who could be used as a witness. He detained it instead of silencing her, which showed that this person was useful.

The queen's eyes trembled: "What do you want to say?"

"Ruyun has confessed a long time ago. When you return to Jinling, you will be charged with more than just filth and disorder. You brutalized concubines, killed the emperor's heirs, and even interfered with the government. As a queen, you actually ordered Prime Minister Cao to exclude dissidents, harmed the country and the people, and corrupted the government. …”

Xin Wei finished counting calmly and said with a smile: "You often say that Princess Sichen, I think you, the queen, abide by women's virtues. But it turns out that you are just sneaking around. What qualifications do you have to presume on the princess? The eldest princess is upright and has no fear of criticism from the world, but you should stay in the gutter and not see the light."

(End of this chapter)