The Biography of Concubine Wen Xi in Qing Palace

Chapter 643 Protesting ([-])

Zhuo Lan and Yuan Yuan were escorted by the palace people all the way into Ningshou Palace and into the Nuan Pavilion, where they were forced to kneel on the ground, and Qingzhu replied to the Queen Mother: "Report to the Queen Mother, I brought it here."

The Empress Dowager's voice was thick and filled with uncontrollable anger: "Do you see how kind these two are?"

Zhuo Lan took a look, and saw that it was Chen Baoping and his wife who turned back and knelt on the ground respectfully. Mrs. Chen was so sad that she shed tears all over her face.

Yuanyuan tugged on Zhuo Lan's sleeve lightly, Zhuo Lan finally regained her composure, and said in a deep voice, "Father, mother? What are you doing?"

"Do you still want to be called father and mother?" Wan Lai sighed softly, with dimples of dimples floating on her face, against the milky white smoke rising from the Boshan stove, she said with a sneer: "The two of them have already recruited. Concubine Jia, what is your identity? But you still have to be stubborn? "

Zhuo Lan stared at Chen Baoping and his wife dumbfounded. She had expected everything, but she didn't expect that these two people would confess this capital crime so recklessly.

So I bowed in panic and said to the queen mother: "Queen mother! I know my mistake, I am confused! My concubine"

"The sinful woman still dares to call herself a concubine?" The queen mother raised her eyebrows and glanced at her, and said to Qingzhu: "Qingzhu, take away her concubine uniform!"

Qingzhu made a promise, and took a few older nuns along with Zhuo Lan's words, then took off her clothes, leaving behind the thin gauze lining to cover her body.

Zhuo Lan shivered from the cold, curled up into a ball and whimpered endlessly.The Queen Mother said sharply again: "What is your identity? What is the purpose of entering the palace? After the death of the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang, did you order someone to poison the food in Aijia's food? Did the Sixth Brother and Princess Yunxi kill you? hand? Kang Changzai mother and son, but you took their lives? Why are you bewitching the emperor? If you are sensible, you will come here from the facts!"

Zhuo Lan sobbed and kowtowed: "The Empress Dowager knows! The concubine was wronged! The concubine just replaced Master Chen's daughter-in-law to serve in the palace, and the concubine has never done anything else! The queen mother"

"You didn't?" Wanyu sneered, and said calmly: "You acted cruelly without leaving any evidence of guilt. Of course you deny it now. Even if you don't say it, just because you have an unknown identity and sneaked into the palace, it is already a crime." It is a felony to deceive the emperor! This one alone is enough to put you to death!"

Even though Zhuo Lan was flustered, she also knew that the current situation was a predicament that Wan Yu carefully planned to put herself to death.

The crime of deceiving the emperor is a death penalty, but if it is only deceiving the emperor, she still has a way to survive based on the emperor's love for her over the years.

If you lose your sense of proportion and recognize other things, you will really cut off your retreat.

She broke her heart, pointed to the sky and swore: "This concubine has never done anything that the queen mother and noble concubine suspected. Since this concubine entered the palace, the emperor's favor has been a blessing for this concubine! Confused, I would not do such a thing of sacrificing my life! Besides, what is the benefit of concubine doing these many things? Concubine curses the gods all over the sky, if what concubine says is half false, she will be bombarded by five thunders immediately After death, you will fall into the endless hell, and you will not be able to be reborn forever!"

She cast the curse extremely hard, coupled with the sadness and certainty in her expression, it made the Empress Dowager suspicious.

Regardless of other matters, there is one sentence that she said is reasonable.

Murdering the emperor's heir, murdering the pregnant Kang Changzai, and even murdering the queen mother, these many things did not bring any benefit to Zhuo Lan, but caused her to get into a whole lot of trouble.

If it's her, it doesn't make sense.

Zhuo Lan saw that the Queen Mother was in deep thought, so she immediately straightened up and knelt down, wiped away her tears and straightened her face and said: "The crime of deceiving the emperor committed by my concubine is unforgivable, and how to deal with it depends entirely on the Queen Mother, the emperor, and the imperial concubine. The concubine has no complaints! But I beg the Queen Mother to forgive the life of my concubine and maidservant, Yuanyuan, she was summoned into the palace by my concubine, and everything is my concubine's idea, and has nothing to do with her!" After saying that, he kowtowed repeatedly.

Yuanyuan was very sad when she heard the words, moved her body to get closer to Zhuo Lan, and cried herself: "Miss, don't say that, this servant has been with the lady since childhood, and has regarded the lady as the relative of the slave!"

She stopped for a while, then turned around and kowtowed to the Empress Dowager: "Empress Dowager! Your imperial concubine! Please punish your slaves and maids, please forgive my concubine!"

Wan Yu stared at the two of them playing a bitter drama, her eyes flashed, and she said with a narrow smile: "It's true that the master and servant love each other deeply. Then how about your maidservant seducing the crown prince?"

When the queen mother heard Wanyan mentioning the prince, she couldn't help being suspicious: "What does the noble concubine mean? This maid has an affair with the prince?"

Wan Lai nodded and said: "Three out of five days, people freely entered and exited the East Palace. Many palace people have seen it, and the rumors spread wildly, but the courtiers reprimanded them to suppress the rumors slightly. It is always spread like this, the emperor and Yin I can't hold back on my face."

The Empress Dowager glanced sideways at Qing Zhu and asked, "Is this really the case?"

The matter between Yinreng and Yuanyuan is the most talked about by the servants after dinner, Qingzhu has heard about it, but because of bad luck, he dare not speak more with the Queen Mother.

Now that I have asked about it, I can only tell the truth: "If you go back to the Queen Mother, there is something wrong."

Before she finished speaking in detail, the Empress Dowager was already flushed with anger, and said angrily: "It's unreasonable! You have two masters and servants entering the palace, one of them seduces the emperor, and the other seduces the prince, it's really abominable!" Just now all the sympathy faded away, and he raised his hand to order: "Come here! Pull the concubine Jia and this maidservant down, and hang them immediately. There is no need to report to the emperor!"

Zhuo Lan and Yuanyuan were so frightened that they could only cry and beg for mercy.

Seeing that Zhuo Lan was in trouble, Chen Baoping knew that if the queen mother executed her, he and his wife would be the next to attack.

So he bit the bullet and said: "Queen Dowager, the felony committed by the humble minister and the concubine Jia is true, but the concubine Jia is the emperor's own concubine. If the emperor doesn't know about this matter, you will kill her hastily. I'm afraid yes"

"My lord Chen said this to protect himself, I forgive you." Wannao's voice interrupted Chen Baoping's words, she stared softly at Chen Baoping's slightly sick face, and asked: "My lord But are you feeling unwell?"

Chen Baoping coughed twice and said nothing, Wanyu said again: "Concubine Jia knows that I am suspicious of her identity, and I am afraid that I will force you to test your blood and reveal her identity. Just think about it, How could someone like her with treacherous thoughts keep the two of you alive?"

Chen Baoping frowned slightly, and boldly said: "I don't know what your mother said."

Wanyu shook her head and sighed slightly, and ordered Yunchan to call in Bai Changqing who had been waiting outside the hall.

"Physician Bai, go and take the pulse of Mrs. Chen and his wife, and see how it goes."

The queen mother on the high seat didn't know what Wanyu wanted to do, only Zhuo Lan stared blankly at the scene in front of her, feeling a chill in her heart one after another.

She ordered Yuanyuan to put Gu on the two of them. She thought that when she returned to Hangzhou and had an attack again, there was no way to recover and there was no cure, and she couldn't do anything to trace the source.

But Bai Changqing's pulse detection at this time completely disrupted her careful plan.

(End of this chapter)