The Biography of Concubine Wen Xi in Qing Palace

Chapter 568 Cause of Death
On the 27th day of the first lunar month in the [-]th year of Kangxi, Lin Lan gave birth to a healthy prince at full term. The emperor also became a little happier because of the happy event, and the illness gradually recovered after half a month without medicine.

The emperor named the child Yinti, which means stretching and blessing, and has great expectations for the child, as well as the meaning of stretching the blessings of the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang.

Qin Tianjian said that this child is auspicious and born under the protection of Beifengxing, which is a metaphor for the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang protecting the Qing Dynasty and the descendants of Aixinjueluo's family in the spirit of heaven.

Therefore, the emperor loved the child very much, and maybe he could be raised under the knee of his biological mother.

Due to recovering from illness, while taking care of state affairs, he did not forget about Ming and Qing harem affairs. The first thing to bear the brunt was to call Wu Zuo to inquire about the cause of the death of Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang.

How did you know that this question almost drove the emperor mad, so in the afternoon, all the imperial physicians from the imperial hospital who had treated the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang were sent to the Qianqing Palace for questioning, and after a short while, all of them were sent out together, and each of them went into caution. The criminal division leader is responsible for fifty.

Originally, she wanted to directly execute Baotai, but because she was the cousin of Empress Renxiao, she was leniently treated, and she was severely punished and received eighty sticks as an example.

Liang Jiugong was stunned by this kind of treatment. He couldn't understand the reason, and he didn't dare to talk too much. He didn't know the seriousness of the matter until the emperor called him to bring Tong Shi.

The emperor called Rong Yue as the Tong family, not the imperial concubine, it can be seen that from the bottom of his heart he hates her extremely.

On the other side, Wanyu was accompanying Lin Lan in the Yonghe Palace who was still in confinement not long after Fang gave birth, completely unaware that earth-shaking changes had taken place in the Qianqing Palace.

It was nearly dusk when they returned to the palace, but outside the Changchun Palace, there was a crowd of people and guards from the imperial palace, and the leader was Shen Ye.

Jin Li blocked the door to prevent them from entering, and only after everyone saw Wan Lai respecting Fu Li, Jin Li said: "Your Majesty, it is the emperor's order to search the palace!"

Wan Lai and Shen Ye looked at each other, smiled and nodded: "Your Excellency, you can do things according to your will."

After the words fell, he ordered Jinli to open the palace gate, and entered along with the crowd.

She calmly sat on the seat in the main hall, the people in front of the imperial court had the most nimble hands and feet, and she wished to turn Changchun Palace upside down in three or two strokes.

About an hour later, Shen Ye walked in quickly alone, and frowned when he saw Wanyu, "Your Majesty, why don't you ask?"

Wan Yu glanced at his slightly raised sleeves, and said: "Don't ask, what sir finds, just present it to the emperor."

Shen Ye firmly held the brocade box in one hand, shook his head and said, "How can this be done, you know what's inside."

"My lord finds anything, just present it to the emperor." Wan Yu's tone became more and more determined, she looked at Shen Ye firmly, and said with a smile: "My lord is not the only one who searched the palace today. If you want to cover up, you will be seen by others." But beheading is a capital crime.”

"Wei Chen is never afraid of death." Shen Ye clasped his hands together and turned around to leave, only then did Wan Yu call out to him in a panic: "Brother Ling You, trust me."

Shen Ye stopped and froze for a moment, then looked back at Wan Yu with soft eyes.

Just one glance is enough to understand the other party's mind.

He opened the palace door, cleared his throat and ordered in a solemn voice: "Everyone stop, something has been found."

After saying that, the guards and palace people came together, Shen Ye pressed the brocade box on his sleeve heavily into Li Jian's hand, and said: "This is what was found in the imperial concubine's palace, it looks very suspicious. Please Father-in-law took it to let the imperial physician examine what it is."

Li Jian took the brocade box and opened it for a look, then he sighed deeply and slapped Wanyu a thousand times, then waved his whip and said, "Come on, empress, concubine, please let me go with your servant. The emperor is now The Qianqing Palace is waiting for you."

Before leaving the palace, Wanyu took a hard look at Shen Ye who was full of worry, and smiled brightly at him.

In the final analysis, she didn't know how much chance she had of winning this battle, but she was afraid that today would be the last time to see her old friend, and she wished she could capture the shadow in her eyes, imprint it in her mind, and remember it firmly.

All the way to Qianqing Palace, at that time the emperor was sitting in the first place, the empress dowager Renxian was second, but Rong Yue was kneeling in the main hall and weeping like pear blossoms and rain.

Li Jian presented the brocade box, and the emperor ordered the imperial physician to test it, but when it was found that it was poisoned to the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang, the emperor was furious, and threw the brocade box at Wanyu, and the powder flew up and fell on Wanyu. All in one.

"Tell me! What is this?"

Wan Yu pretended to be shocked, knelt down and kowtowed: "Your Majesty, my concubine has never seen this thing, and I don't know what it is!"

"You don't know?" Rong Yue, who was kneeling beside her, wiped away tears and stared at her fiercely, and said with tears in her voice, "You remember that Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang was ruthless to Empress Xiaozhao in the past, and asked the emperor to give her a finger wrench containing musk. It has ruined her life, so I want to poison the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang with a grudge!" She pointed at the brocade box on the ground and said angrily, "The thing was found in your palace, how dare you deny it?"

"The concubine has never seen this thing before, and I don't know what the imperial concubine is talking about." Wan Yu looked at her with frowned eyes, and said coldly: "If it's like what you said, why didn't the emperor send the concubine here first?" , but want the empress to kneel here?"

Rong Yue was speechless for a while, and he hesitated for a while to defend: "If you didn't intend to blame me, how could I have been suspected by the emperor?" After saying that, Rong Yue paid three respects to the emperor and Empress Dowager Renxian, and said: "Your Majesty , Empress Dowager, the ministers and concubines have seen the clues of this matter early in the morning. It's just that I dare not tell you in detail without any evidence! But I don't want to get involved with myself now, I really regret it!"

Empress Dowager Renxian gave her a white look: "If you have any proof, then you can say that you don't feel troubled by crying?"

Rong Yue got up slowly, and called out from the hall: "Bring me in!"

Wan Lai looked back, only to see that it was Que Zhen who was beside Rong Yue, walking in with a woman's pistol.

Taking a closer look, I saw that the person who came was Yun Chan!

"Yunchan." Wanyu was shocked, her eyes widened and she called out, "Why did you come here?"

Yun Chan ignored her, but walked to Rong Yue's side, and knelt down to the first emperor.

The emperor glanced at her and said thoughtfully: "You are serving by the noble concubine's side, how can you get close to the imperial concubine?"

Yun Chan burst into tears when she heard the words, kowtowed her head like pounding garlic, and said: "This servant is really scared, so I went to find the imperial concubine to be the master for the servant. I didn't realize many things in the past, but I only found out about her later."

She looked at Wanyu with a slight flicker in her eyes, and said with a sob: "In recent years, the imperial concubine has often accompanied the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang, and more often she has made meals that fit the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang's heart. The servant has seen the empress dowager Xiaozhuang before. Adding something from the brocade box to the food, I didn’t know what it was at the time, until one day I heard a few gossips between the imperial concubine and the palace servants serving in the small kitchen in the palace, and then I realized that this thing is a poison that can kill people!"

"The maidservant was worried about this incident day and night, and later the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang became seriously ill and passed away, only then did she know that this incident happened."

The more Yun Chan said, the more she shuddered. She was kneeling upright, but suddenly she got up and walked to Yun Chan's side, and slapped her hard on the face: "Bitch! You want to learn from Yun Chan in the past. Is Shanlai framing Bengong? What a slave who eats inside and out!"

(End of this chapter)