The Biography of Concubine Wen Xi in Qing Palace

Chapter 466 Assassination ([-])

After the emperor shared breakfast with Wanyu and Linlan, he had a chat with the two about the sealing of the Six Palaces, but before he even said a word, Eunuch Li Jian, who was serving the emperor personally, beat Qian'er Entering the room, he replied to the emperor: "Your Majesty, the assassin was tortured overnight in the Punishment Department. He fainted and forced to wake up, woke up and fainted again. After tossing and tossing for a long time, he finally let out a few words from his air, just"

"Just what?"

"It's just that he didn't answer the question. From the people around him, his confession is really unbelievable." Li Jian presented the confession to the emperor and spread it out for reading. The so-called confession was nothing more than a twisted nursery rhyme.

The more the emperor looked, the more angry he was, he slammed the confession heavily on Li Jian's face and said angrily: "What did I ask you to ask, what did you ask? I couldn't find anyone behind the scenes, so I took you to ask!"

Li Jian was so frightened by the emperor, his knees trembled and he begged for forgiveness: "Your Majesty, please forgive me! In fact, this servant has also found out about this person in private. , one day bumped his head and became a fool. He babbled all day long, and couldn't even do ordinary work, and he would inevitably be beaten and scolded by the nuns."

Wanyu didn't raise her head, she just fiddled with the green plum on the table and said calmly: "You want to tell the emperor and this palace that the person who attacked this palace last night and seriously injured the guard is a fool?"

Li Jian kowtowed and made a promise, but he didn't want Wanyu to get angry immediately, so he scolded severely: "The people in front of the emperor usually work next to the emperor, do they all look like this?"

It is rare for Wanyu to be so aggressive, the emperor looked at her like this, and comforted her: "Don't get angry, and hurt yourself carefully." As he spoke, he glanced at Li Jian again, and asked: "The lunatic knows that he is wearing night clothes? The lunatic Knowing that he is wearing a veil? A lunatic taking someone’s life with a knife? A lunatic will not stop if he doesn’t hurt Concubine Wan? Tell me, if he is stupid, how can he do such an orderly thing?”

"This"

Just when Li Jian was at a loss for words, an internal eunuch outside the palace asked for an order to enter.

When the man saw the emperor, his face turned pale with fright, and he knelt down and replied: "Your Majesty, this slave is the internal prisoner on duty in the Department of Punishment. He replied to the emperor's words. The assassin from the Department of Punishment was taken into custody last night. He just couldn't bear the punishment. He bit his tongue and killed himself!" "

"Ridiculous!" The emperor's Longyan was furious, and he slapped the table with his palm and asked: "How does the Punishment Department do things? The mouths of the executioners are all stuffed with dirty cloth, why bite their tongues and kill themselves?"

Hearing the movement of that palm slap, one knew that the emperor's palm was seriously injured.Wan Yu took the emperor's hand, put it on the palm and covered it, and asked the inner eunuch, "Has anyone seen him?"

The inner eunuch shook his head and answered: "No, no one has entered the darkroom since last night except the execution mother. The man didn't enter the darkroom all night, and the mothers kept rolling their eyes when they looked at him, fearing that he was sweating too much during the torture. If you don’t take some water, you may die of dehydration, so you took the gag cloth and thought about feeding him some water. How could the dirty cloth be opened to poop.”

Lin Lan sneered, and muttered: "He can kill himself in this way, so he is not a fool. Is there anyone in his family?"

"Alone with no relatives."

The emperor pondered for a moment, and said helplessly: "So, even if you want to trace the source, you will lose the clue."

Rong Yue has always acted cleanly and without leaving any excuses. This time, in order to clear her suspicions, she actually hurt herself and won the trust of the emperor. Now that assassin is not allowed to live, if she insists on entanglement, the whole palace may be completely disturbed.

She turned her head and saw the unconcealable worry in the emperor's eyes, so she raised her voice and said: "Forget it, the left and right concubines and concubines are fine, if the entanglement continues, it will make people in the harem uneasy. Hurry up later. The guards patrol, such things can be prevented before they happen." She said, looking at the emperor with burning eyes: "Actually, we are all second, and the important thing is the safety of the emperor. Today's matter is thanks to the guard Shen Only now can he keep his ministers and concubines safe, the guard Shen in the past also risked himself to block the sword for the emperor, such a loyal person, the emperor should make good use of it."

The emperor frowned slightly, nodded slightly relieved and said, "It's a capable and sincere hiss."

He paused for a while, took a breath, looked puzzled and said: "I remember that he was not on duty yesterday, the place where Wan'er was killed is so remote, how could he save you in time?"

Wan Yu's expression was unusually calm, and she jokingly said: "What is he doing, he has done good deeds by accident, and now the emperor still blames him for running around at night?"

The emperor waved his hands and smiled: "Forget it, the imperial garden is not the forbidden area of ​​the harem, he is serving by my side, so he can come and go freely."

Outside the window, the snowfall was gradually weakening, and Wanyu went back to the palace with Linlan's protection after lunch that day.

Sitting in the sedan chair along the way, watching the brick-red patches on the long street and corridor, the snow falling in the air, falling like pear blossoms, turning into mud and dust, without a sound.

She opened the car curtain a little, and seeing the narrow palace surrounded by red bricks and green tiles, she suddenly felt a little out of breath.

This road was originally the one she walked side by side with Rong Yue when she first entered the palace.

People who used to sacrifice their lives to protect each other are now thinking about how to take their own lives.

For a moment, I always felt that such calculations and cold wars were really boring.

It is rare to have a sincere person in this palace, and it is for this reason that Lin Lan who walks with her in the sedan chair in front of her, or Shen Ye who has sacrificed her life to save her several times, are especially precious.

Back in his own palace, Shuangfu, the eunuch in charge of Chengqian Palace who was serving in front of Rong Yue, came to see him. He was all smiles, and he yelled at the palace attendants to put down a lot of nourishing goodies, and said with a hypocritical smile: "Miss Wanfei, these It's all the wishes of our imperial concubine. However, the empress is also injured, so it is inconvenient to walk around to express condolences in person, so I have a servant to come and see, only to see that the empress Wan is safe and sound, so I can feel at ease, right?"

Wanyu sat quietly on the warm seat, raised her eyes to look at him with a half smile but not a smile: "I'm sorry to trouble my father-in-law to go through this, the imperial concubine has a heart."

Lin Lan, who was sitting by the side, was merciless, with a sour face and a snort at the tip of her nose: "Your mother sees that Concubine Wan is safe, how can she feel at ease? I'm afraid she won't be able to eat or sleep at night. Think of some new tricks, just want to get rid of them and make it quick?"

Shuangfu was embarrassed for a while, and didn't reply to Linlan's words, and retreated after beating a thousand people.

Wanlu took the teacup, skimmed off the tea foam and took a sip, the bitter taste immediately spread to her heart along her taste buds.

She held the stars in the corner of her lips in disgust, took out the silk and spat: "It's so bitter."

Lin Lan glanced at the slightly rippling tea surface, and sighed with a clear expression: "The black tea that Yunchan and the others have carefully selected is not bitter, it is my sister's heart that is bitter."

Wanyu smiled lightly, and closed the teacup with ease: "This kind of life will last forever. In fact, whether it is bitter or not lies in people's hearts. I used to think that she still had a little conscience, and I was always unwilling to really hurt her." She... But she doesn't want to be merciful again and again, on the contrary, she wants to get even worse, and wants to take my life."

Her subordinates clenched their fists secretly, but her face was extremely calm, as if snow had fallen to the ground outside the window: "The old love has been exhausted. From now on, I will have nothing to do with her."

(End of this chapter)