The Six Palaces of Favorites: The Black-bellied Emperor's Cold Concubine

Chapter 345 Exploring the False and the Real (4)
Sang Wanrong smiled knowingly, her eyes drifted out of the window, she seemed a little hesitant, and after a short pause, she said: "I just heard something on the way here, I wonder if you are interested in hearing it. But it's not a good thing, I'm afraid you will be upset when you hear it."

Seeing her expression, Qingchen knew what was going on in the palace again. Even if she didn't go out and fight with others, others would not stop. She smiled lightly and said, "Am I still upset about other things now? ? Just say it.”

Sang Wanrong thought for a while and said: "Just now on the way here, I heard that something happened to Xiao Ronghua, and the little eunuch who ran the errands said that he seemed to be poisoned, and the empress rushed to her side when she found out. Fortunately, the imperial doctor rescued her in time, so she saved her life. At any rate, she is lucky, and did not harm the dragon fetus in her womb."

Qingchen was a little puzzled and thought about it for a while, before asking: "Since Xiao Ronghua became pregnant, the empress sent the two most suitable nuns around her to take care of her. The eating and drinking utensils have been inspected carefully before they are willing to be used by Xiao Ronghua, how could Xiao Ronghua be poisoned with such thorough protection?"

Sang Wanrong curled her lips and sighed: "So speaking of human scheming, only you can't think of it, and no one can't do it. I heard that someone put a poisoned steel needle in Xiao Ronghua's clothes. She didn't know it. Some of them were stabbed while changing clothes and got poisoned as a result."

"A steel needle that has been quenched with poison?" Qingchen almost screamed, and after a quick thought, he said, "It must not have been made by someone in her palace. No one can touch the closet in the inner room except for the girl next to her." It is obvious that the scope is too small and it is easy to make people suspicious, no one dares to take such a risk, I guess that the clothes were probably tampered with at the clothing bureau or on the way back."

Sang Wanrong nodded, "I think so too, the emperor has already ordered people to strictly investigate, but there are so many people in the clothing bureau, Xiao Ronghua is just an ordinary concubine, and no one will look at her clothes specially. It's too easy to do something, and you can't even check it."

"What is this person's motive?" Qingchen seemed to be lost in thought, extremely puzzled, "With Xiao Ronghua's current status, even if he gave birth to a prince, he would not be able to keep him by his side. The emperor will definitely choose someone with a higher status. The concubine came to raise this child, the eldest son of the emperor is of great significance, concubines above the fourth rank have the opportunity to fight for the custody of this child, this is actually a beneficial and harmless thing, why can't this child be tolerated?"

Sang Wanrong pondered and said, "Unless...someone wants to compete for the position of the eldest son of the emperor."

Qingchen was stunned for a moment, and immediately thought of Concubine He Gui, and what Sang Wanrong said seemed reasonable, the one who had a child in the palace now was Concubine He Gui, but when he thought of Concubine He Gui, Qingchen always felt very awkward in his heart, for some reason, he felt that this matter might have nothing to do with her.

"Aside from this reason? Is there any other reason?" Thinking in my heart, I still asked like this.

Sang Wanrong groaned for a long time but still shook her head, as if she couldn't think of anyone else who would do such a thankless thing, "Then the only reason left is to deliberately make things difficult for Xiao Ronghua, could it be that she has offended someone before?"

Qingchen thought for a moment and said: "Xiao Ronghua fell out of favor not long after entering the palace. She is lucky to be pregnant with this child. Even if she offends anyone, she doesn't have too much grievance. She won't do such a murderous thing. If..."

(End of this chapter)