Concubine falling from heaven

Chapter 69 The truth emerges
"Master...uh..." Xiao Hai was about to urge Mu Xuanchen to go up to court, but unexpectedly seeing such a scene, he lowered his head at a loss for a moment.After some difficulty, he finally settled down and said leisurely, "Continue, continue, both of you continue."

After speaking, he left like flying.

Seeing Xiao Hai running away, Meng Zihan couldn't help laughing.

But Mu Xuanchen said in a low voice: "When did you fail?"

"I don't know, I learned it from you anyway." She raised her head with a confident look.

Mu Xuanchen hooked his lips into a charming smile: "But... I haven't learned enough yet."

"Do you understand now?" He rarely responded with a provocative tone.

Meng Zihan pursed his lips and chuckled lightly: "Well... I think it will be enough to practice a few more times."

Glancing at him secretly, and seeing his gentle expression, she began to want to tease him: "You go to court first, before it's too late, I'll let you check and accept after I've practiced."

Sure enough, he immediately changed his face after hearing this: "What did you say?" He asked in a cold tone.

Meng Zihan saw it, terrible!He took it seriously!And the look of being angry is too scary.

Without even thinking about it, she threw herself into his arms and said with a flattering smile, "I'm just joking, why do you take it so easily? You can't tell the truth from the lies."

He poked her little head: "Let's see if you dare to talk nonsense in the future."

"Don't dare! Absolutely! Guaranteed! I swear!" She raised three fingers to make an oath.

"Okay!" He patted her finger lightly and said, "What oath, have you ever kept your oath? It's getting late, I'll go to court first."

Meng Zihan stuck out his tongue, he saw through it all.

She sent Mu Xuanchen to the door, and didn't return to the mansion until he got into the carriage, and the carriage drove away. Mu Xuanchen sat up straight when he saw her return to the mansion through the window of the carriage, and his face was filled with happiness.

Today is already the third day after the death of the court lady Su'e, Mu Xuanchen is waiting for the result he wants.

During this period, Concubine Hui always wanted someone to bury her, but she was always obstructed by Mu Xuanchen, so she hated her even more.She was also afraid that something would happen after a long time, so she was worried all day long.

face down

An Lingfei stood not far away and looked at Mu Xuanchen. Seeing his expression, Mu Xuanchen felt that the prediction seemed to be coming true, so he took Ye Feng to the place they had agreed upon.

Concubine Hui had been waiting anxiously, and when she saw Xia Dynasty, she immediately found Mu Xuanyi and complained to him.

"Your majesty, you have to decide for your concubine." She threw herself into Mu Xuanyi's arms with pear blossoms raining on her face.

"What's going on? Who bullied you again?" He took her into his arms and let her sit on his lap.

Concubine Hui wiped the corners of her eyes with a silk scarf and choked up, "Today is the third day after the death of my concubine's little maid, Su'e, but the body is still on display in the mortuary and has not been buried yet. Please allow my concubine to bury her for her." For safety."

"According to Aifei's words, could it be that someone prevents Aifei from being buried for the little maid?"

"Your majesty is right. It is Prince Chen. The concubine wants to enshrine Su'e, but Prince Chen has repeatedly obstructed him. I don't know what he has in mind." Whenever Mu Xuanchen was mentioned, she became furious. .

"Prince Chen?" Mu Xuanyi was thoughtful.He thought the matter was over long ago, but he ignored that he would never give up once encountering something about Meng Zihan. He wanted to calm down, but he also knew that Mu Xuanchen would never let anyone hurt Meng Zihan. people.

"Your Majesty!" Seeing that Mu Xuanyi was silent, "You have to be the master for my concubine."

"Your Majesty..." At this moment, someone outside called Concubine Hui softly.

"What's the matter?" Concubine Hui asked angrily, frowning.

"The maidservant wanted to bury Su'e just now, but His Royal Highness Chen Wang drove the maidservant out. Now His Royal Highness Chen Wang is staying in the morgue, and no one is allowed to approach."

"Oh!" Mu Xuanyi snorted, "When did my second brother become interested in dead people?"

"Let's go and have a look together."

Hearing what Mu Xuanyi said, Concubine Hui was in a good mood immediately, thinking that he could make decisions for herself, and see how Mu Xuanchen would deal with it.

Mortuary in the dungeon
Mu Xuanchen and Ye Feng stood in front of the female corpse. An Lingfei pointed to Su'e's corpse and said, "His Royal Highness, the officials have been sending people to watch over this corpse day and night these days. There was a black bead-shaped trace, and after inspection by the doctor, it was confirmed that it was poisoned by 'bone erosion water'."

Mu Xuanchen looked down, and saw that there was really a black mark on the neckline that An Lingfei had pulled open, and it was in the shape of a bead. Ye Feng compared the bead on the neck of the female corpse, and the black mark actually matched the bead. of.

Obviously, this court lady named Su'e did not hang herself by throwing herself into a well, but died after being poisoned.

"Master, it seems that someone is planning to destroy the corpse after killing someone to silence them." Ye Feng said, looking at the palace lady's neck.

Mu Xuanchen pursed his lips and remained silent, slightly squinting his eyes revealing a ruthless look.

With a sharp shout, Mu Xuanyi followed.

"See Your Majesty, see Concubine Hui." The three of them saluted together.

"Get flat." Mu Xuanyi's eyes fell on the female corpse, and then he turned his head and asked, "What is the second brother doing?"

When Concubine Hui saw it, she immediately ran to Su'e's body and pulled her skirt. With trembling hands, she said angrily, "Don't you think it's too much, Prince Chen? Not only will Su'e not be allowed to go to the ground for peace, but also after she dies." Humiliation, don't you know how important the reputation of your daughter's family is?"

Upon hearing Concubine Hui's accusation, Mu Xuanchen stared coldly, but said calmly, "Oh? So does Concubine Hui think it's important too?"

Concubine Hui reckons that he already knows everything, that she ordered Su'e to ruin Meng Zihan's reputation, but now she keeps reminding herself that she must not let herself be confused.

"Prince Chen, don't go too far. The emperor is still here, and you are so rude to me." After pulling up Su'e's clothes with courage, she came to Mu Xuanyi and said anxiously: "Your Majesty, my minister The concubine doesn't care so much with Prince Chen, so please ask the emperor to quickly order Su'e to be buried."

"Hmph!" Mu Xuanchen snorted coldly, "It's fine to have a burial, but the person who should do it must be taken care of."

"Who is the second brother referring to?" Mu Xuanyi asked.

"Deal with the person who instigated Su'e, the court lady, to lead the eldest prince and concubine Chen to the forbidden area, the person who falsely preached the imperial decree, the person who murdered people, and the person who wanted to destroy the corpse."

"Your Majesty, my concubine has been wronged." Concubine Hui hurriedly cried out for her innocence.

"Concubine Hui, did the king say that you did it? Why are you pleading guilty in such a hurry?" Mu Xuanchen smiled lightly.

Concubine Hui was momentarily speechless by Mu Xuanchen's words: "Bengong...Bengong... Your Majesty, concubine doesn't mean that."

Mu Xuanyi had already fully understood what Mu Xuanchen meant, frowned and looked at Concubine Hui, sensing her evasive words, immediately waved away her sleeves.

"What did the second brother find?" Mu Xuanyi walked into Mu Xuanchen and asked.

Under Mu Xuanchen's gesture, Ye Feng stretched out his hand and unbuttoned Su'e's skirt, revealing signs of neck poisoning. Mu Xuanyi was startled, and Mu Xuanchen explained: "Brother, please take a look."

"Why is there a black deposit on her neck? What is it?" Mu Xuanyi asked puzzled.

Mu Xuanchen replied: "The deposition is caused by the necklace on her neck. This necklace has been soaked in 'bone erosion water' and is extremely toxic. The person wearing it will be affected by the poison even through clothes." Injury, but the poison will not appear immediately, the poisoned person will have symptoms of thirst, accompanied by dizziness, and the poisoned place will show signs of poisoning after three days."

Mu Xuanchen walked up to the distraught Concubine Hui with his hands behind his back and continued: "My brother guessed that someone was afraid of the incident, so they were going to kill people to silence them, and gave the deceased a necklace soaked in 'bone erosion water', and asked The deceased immediately put on the necklace. The deceased obeyed the order to put it on and prepared to escape at night, but found that he was extremely thirsty, so he came to the well to drink water. Unexpectedly, the poison surged up, and he fell into the well after feeling dizzy. Presumably all of this... The murderer has been watching in the dark."

"You..." Concubine Hui wanted to stop him from continuing, but unexpectedly received Mu Xuanyi's heart-piercing look.

"I was thinking of sending someone to abandon the body after she died completely the next day, or pretending to find the body inadvertently, and then bury her with compassion, but unexpectedly, I was bumped into by this king, so I sent people over and over again. I came here to get the corpse back, and said that I want her to be buried in peace with high-sounding reasons, but in fact I want to destroy the corpse." Mu Xuanchen fixed his gaze on Concubine Hui's face again and asked, "I don't know if this king Guess it, right?"

Concubine Hui trembled all over and explained to Mu Xuanyi: "Your Majesty, this concubine was wronged, and this concubine doesn't know why this girl was poisoned, why is there poison on her necklace..."

"Could it be that you want to say that I sent you a poisonous necklace?" Mu Xuanyi asked with an angry face.

"Concubine, concubine doesn't mean that. Concubine is wronged. Your majesty... please forgive me..." Concubine Hui knelt on the ground with trembling shoulders and pulled his dragon robe begging for mercy.Before coming here, he thought that he could make decisions for himself, but unexpectedly, he shot himself in the foot.

Mu Xuanyi pulled her dragon robe and broke free from her, then said: "If you haven't done it, shouldn't you let me investigate thoroughly? Why do you say it's a favor?" Seeing Concubine Hui's expression stunned, Mu Xuanyi continued to ask , "Who else dares to touch the things I gave you except yourself? Who else do you want to shift the responsibility to? Who else do you want to be your scapegoat? I didn't expect that you would even have my son and my sister-in-law to harm."

"The concubine was really wronged... Your majesty... how could the concubine harm the concubine Chen and the eldest prince? Even if it was to harm someone, there should be a motive, right? How could the concubine harm the two of them? Knowing that They are the most important people in the emperor's heart, how could the concubines harm them?"

Seeing Concubine Hui burst into tears, Mu Xuanyi frowned and thought for a moment, and took a step forward to reach out to help her up. After all, he is not a fickle person after a one-night husband and a hundred days of kindness, and...

"emperor!"

Seeing Mu Xuanyi hesitate, Mu Xuanchen stopped immediately.

Concubine Hui was overjoyed to see that Mu Xuanyi couldn't bear it, but when she heard Mu Xuanchen stop her, she immediately felt resentment piercing her heart like a thousand arrows.

"Bring people in." Mu Xuanchen ordered, and the two maids were immediately brought in.

"What did the second brother bring the two of them in for?" Mu Xuanyi asked, withdrawing the hand that was about to help Concubine Hui.

Mu Xuanchen walked to the side of the two maids and said: "These two young maids know what happened. They saw Concubine Hui order the deceased to pass on a false edict, and they also saw Concubine Hui bestow the necklace on the deceased and let him 'Go with peace of mind'."

Mu Xuanyi walked up to the two maids and asked, "Is what Prince Chen is telling the truth?"

The palace maid lowered her head and nodded repeatedly: "Yes!"

"Are you concubine Hui's maids?" Mu Xuanyi suddenly changed the subject.

The two maids said in unison: "Yes!"

"Since you are Concubine Hui's court ladies, why do you have to testify against Concubine Hui? Don't you know that Concubine Hui will be severely punished if you do this?" Mu Xuanyi still spoke on behalf of Concubine Hui from the beginning to the end, as if he wanted to protect Concubine Hui on purpose. Mu Xuanchen couldn't help clenching his fists behind his back.

The two maids also realized something when they heard this remark, they knelt on the ground trembling and dared not speak.

"Why aren't you talking?" Mu Xuanyi asked coldly.

"Look, Your Majesty, the concubines are wronged. They must have been bought by the king of Chen, so they slandered the concubines. Maybe...they were the ones who planted the poison on the concubines." Concubine Hui suddenly bit back, Mu Xuan Chen pursed his lips tightly and did not make any excuses, but Ye Feng and An Lingfei were a little anxious, and wanted to explain to Mu Xuanyi, but were stopped by Mu Xuanchen.

"Your Majesty!" Just when Concubine Hui thought she could get away with the crime, one of the maids said, "Even if it is death, this slave must tell the truth."

"Say!" Mu Xuanyi frowned.

Mu Xuanchen, Ye Feng, and An Lingfei were a little surprised, thinking that they would temporarily change their minds because they were afraid of death.

"Back to the emperor, at that time, the maidservant accompanied the concubine Hui and the fourth prince to pick a girl, and for some reason stopped the sedan chair on the way, followed the eyes of the empress and the fourth prince, and saw that the eldest prince was accompanying Princess Chen on a tour. The servant girl only heard the empress said that the eldest prince could be dealt with in this way. Later, the empress came to Su'e and she didn't know what to say. A sum of money said she did a good job, and also gave her a valuable pearl necklace with emeralds, and let her go on the road with peace of mind."

Mu Xuanyi became angrier the more he listened, and turned to another court lady: "Is she telling the truth?"

"There is no falsehood." Another court lady affirmed, feeling the anger in Mu Xuanyi's words, she said again, "As the maidservant of Concubine Hui, I shouldn't have betrayed the master, but seeing the always loyal Su'e has suffered such misfortune, the servants are also afraid of what will happen to her, and Su'e has always been kind to others, but she is just foolish and loyal, the servants do not want her to harbor hatred for Jiuquan, so they come out to testify, and ask the emperor to be the master."

"Hua Yanhui! What else do you have to say?" Mu Xuanyi roared angrily. Concubine Hui had already collapsed to the ground in fright. You are so vicious and want to eradicate my son!"

"Your Majesty! Please spare your life!" At this moment, Concubine Hui could only keep begging for mercy.

Mu Xuanyi clenched his fists and strode out of the dungeon, followed by a group of people. Concubine Hui looked back at Su'e who had been killed by her, and followed in fright.

"Your Majesty! Your concubine is wrong! Your Majesty..." Walking outside, Concubine Hui knelt down in front of Mu Xuanyi again, hugged her leg and begged him for forgiveness.

"Father!" At this time, the fourth prince also rushed over, and when he heard the report, he felt that something must have happened.

The fourth prince saw Concubine Hui who was kneeling on the ground, almost crying, and hurriedly knelt on the ground to beg for mercy: "Father, please spare Mother and Concubine."

"Forgive her? Could it be that you also participated in it?" Mu Xuanyi was furious at this moment, he never expected that someone so close to him would commit such a bad deed.

"My son..." The fourth prince did not expect Mu Xuanyi to ask such a question, and was obviously panicked.

"Your Majesty, this matter has nothing to do with Qing'er, it was done by the concubine alone." Concubine Hui's words made everyone stunned.

The fourth prince looked at Concubine Hui in disbelief: "Concubine Mother..."

"Please don't blame Qing'er, Your Majesty, it's my concubine's fault."

"What a loving mother and filial piety, even closer than a real mother and son..." Mu Xuanyi sarcastically said that their mother's kindness and filial piety were actually reflected at this time, "Come here!"

"Preach my will, put Concubine Hui into limbo!"

After Mu Xuanyi finished speaking, he left in a huff, even though the Fourth Prince shouted, it was useless.

Two guards drove Concubine Hui to the cold palace, and the fourth prince hurriedly followed: "Concubine Mother, all sons are incompetent and cannot save Concubine Mother."

Concubine Hui took a deep breath, leaned close to the fourth prince and whispered a few words, the fourth prince nodded before stopping.

On the other side, An Lingfei said with a long sigh of relief: "This time the matter is finally settled, and Concubine Hui has also received the punishment she deserved."

"Yeah, thanks to Commander An's help this time, Concubine Hui was able to stop the destruction of the body." The stone in Ye Feng's heart fell to the ground, and he turned to look at Mu Xuanchen, only to see that he was still frowning , so he said puzzledly, "Master, the matter has been resolved, and Master seems to have something else on his mind."

Mu Xuanchen smiled indifferently: "Solved? I'm afraid it's only half solved."

"You mean... the fourth prince?" Ye Feng asked quietly after looking around.

An Lingfei answered Ye Feng's question: "Although the Fourth Prince and Concubine Hui are not biological mothers and sons, as the emperor said, they are closer than biological mothers and children. No matter what Concubine Hui's plans are, the Fourth Prince treats this concubine He treats her as his own mother, so Concubine Hui was cast into the cold palace because of His Royal Highness, the Fourth Prince will naturally not let it go, if he is still obsessed with it, I am afraid it will cause more troubles."

Mu Xuanchen said with a smile: "Commander An has said everything the king wanted to say, as expected of you and I being bosom friends for many years."

Seeing Mu Xuanchen's smiling face, An Lingfei and Ye Feng knew that he didn't take the fourth prince seriously, so they naturally wouldn't worry that he would not be able to deal with the fourth prince.

"His Royal Highness." The three of them were walking when the voices of two court ladies suddenly sounded behind them.They walked up to Mu Xuanchen and knelt on the ground with both hands and begged, "His Royal Highness, please save the lives of the servants."

An Lingfei and Ye Feng looked at each other, then looked at Mu Xuanchen suspiciously.

Mu Xuanchen didn't have any look of astonishment, and said calmly: "Are you afraid that you will be implicated for exposing the murder of Concubine Hui, and that someone will harm you?"

The two maids nodded: "The slaves and servants know that today's action is overstepped, but..."

They knew that the rumored King Chen would not be swayed by anyone's words, and it was voluntary to tell the truth and expose Concubine Hui just now, so they didn't have the mentality of success, they just wanted to see if he would see it in his favor. They extended a helping hand for his sake, if they didn't want to, they could only wait for the fourth prince to kill them.Even so, he was worthy of his own conscience and worthy of the dead Su'e.

"Master...this..." Ye Feng looked at Mu Xuanchen hesitantly.

Mu Xuanchen said in a deep voice without changing his expression: "Get up! You follow me back to the mansion."

The two maids looked at each other and thanked them repeatedly in surprise: "Thank you, Your Highness, Prince Chen, thank you, Your Highness, Prince Chen." They did not expect this to be the result.

Mu Xuanchen turned his head and said to An Lingfei: "Please trouble Commander An to tell Concubine Qin that the two maids who originally belonged to Concubine Hui are wanted by the king, and she will handle it for her."

"Yes!" An Lingfei also knew that at this moment, only by asking Concubine Qin to come forward to handle all the affairs of the two maids, so she didn't say any more.

Sitting in the carriage, Xiao Hai waited for Mu Xuanchen and Ye Feng. When he saw the two coming with two maids from a distance, he was at a loss as to why he brought the maids here for no reason.

After they approached, Xiao Hai asked curiously: "Master... are you going to take these two maids back to the mansion?"

"En!" Mu Xuanchen nodded and walked into the carriage.

Xiao Hai looked at the two court ladies, then at Ye Feng, and then approached and asked, "Hey, I said Ye Feng, is it possible that my master has taken a fancy to these two girls and is planning to take them back to be side concubines or concubines? ...It looks pretty pretty..."

"Don't talk nonsense!" After Ye Feng finished speaking, he got on his horse.

The two maids didn't dare to get into the carriage, so they sat on the other side of Xiao Hai, Xiao Hai greeted them with a smile, and then drove back home.

At the gate of Prince Chen's Mansion, Mengyun immediately smiled when he saw the carriage coming from a distance, and was about to turn around to call Meng Zihan, when suddenly two women dressed as court ladies fell into her sight.

For so many years, their Royal Highness Chen Wang never brought any women back to the mansion, let alone let them ride in a carriage. What happened today?
"Xiaoyun, have they come back?" Meng Zihan muttered after asking, "It took me a long time to go, and I don't know what to do."

(End of this chapter)