imperial concubine

Chapter 195 Torture
Originally, Su Wan thought that as long as she would rather die than let go, the queen would have absolutely nothing to do with her.Never thought that the queen would use such a shameless method!In this way, he really grasped his own weakness.

Concubine Shu on the side heard what the queen said, and asked with some confusion: "Your Majesty, the people who sent the pills to the East Palace have been found. Why are you mentioning Yiliang Palace now? You can't take advantage of this opportunity." Want to implicate wantonly!"

Now that the four princes of the Yiliang Palace are not here, another incident happened to Su Wan. If the queen excuses that there are Su Wan's accomplices in the Yiliang Palace, and then cleans up the entire Yiliang Palace from top to bottom, and then cleans up the whole thing. If this kind of atmosphere spreads to the entire harem, the Concubine Shu's family will really suffer. In the past, the empress would have some scruples, but now there is a reason not to be scruples at all.

Hearing Concubine Shu's words, the Queen sneered and said, "Su Wan did such a rebellious thing against the owner, it can be seen that the whole Yiliang Palace has been ruined by her! If you don't correct the Yiliang Palace After a while, I'm afraid that everyone in the palace will follow suit!"

Of course, the queen knows that there are quite a few people in Yiliang Palace who have the same heart with Su Wan, but there are probably no more than five fingers who can do such a crazy and rude thing as assassinating the prince with Su Va, and the rest of them just follow Su Wan. But it's not clear what Su Wan did.

And now the queen is going to take advantage of the fact that the prince is seriously ill to arrest all those who dare to oppose her in the entire harem. In this way, even if Emperor Chongwen finds out about this when he returns to Beijing, but seeing what happened before things, and won't be too angry.

Concubine Shu on the side heard the queen's words, and immediately sensed the queen's purpose, and said with a smile: "The empress is so implicated, I'm afraid it's inappropriate. Even if Su Wan really did this thing, with the status of those court ladies and eunuchs , how would they know?"

Su Wan knew.Concubine Shu is not speaking for herself, but Concubine Shu knows that her lips are dead and her teeth are cold. If the queen is allowed to start this, I am afraid that Shangjin Palace and Zhanqing Palace will not be spared!
Seeing Concubine Shu standing out for Yiliang Palace, the Queen asked with a sneer: "Before the big right and wrong, Concubine Shu would go all out to protect the crazy and rude people in Yiliang Palace. This is really worth pondering." .”

The empress's words meant that since Concubine Shu could speak for Su Wan, it might be related to the assassination of the prince. If not, why did Concubine Shu defend Su Wan everywhere?Even want to save the Yiliang Palace for Su Wan?
Concubine Lin Gui, who hadn't said a few words since entering the palace, said lightly: "What is there to ponder? It's nothing more than four words. If the queen wants to implicate her, don't blame us for joining forces to impeach the queen. "

If the queen is really allowed to do what she wants, it may not take a few days for the queen to wipe out all the dissident forces in the entire harem with the help of Yun Jingya, even a force comparable to hers like Concubine Shu. After all, the queen has too much advantage.

Hearing the word "impeachment" from the usually quiet Concubine Lin, the Queen's eyes shrank, and then she said with a smile: "Sister Lin, what are you talking about. I just want to punish those who have evil intentions in the center of the harem. other meanings."

Although I am a queen, I have never been favored by Emperor Chongwen. If Concubine Lin and other concubines in the harem impeach me this time, even if I am superhuman, I will definitely be abolished by Emperor Chongwen.

Seeing the queen's clothes softened, Concubine Shu next to Concubine Lin said with a smile: "Didn't the empress just want to clean up the Yiliang Palace from top to bottom? Why are you now a person with ulterior motives in the renovation palace?"

Although the two sentences look similar, in the eyes of scheming people like Concubine Shu and the Empress, there is a world of difference between these two sentences!If the Yiliang Palace is to be rectified, then of course all the people in the Yiliang Palace will be unlucky; if the people in the palace with ulterior motives are to be rectified, then it will only be a small part, and there will never be the kind of wanton implication that Concubine Shu said.

Hearing the sarcasm in Concubine Shu's words, the queen is indeed a master who has been in the palace for many years, she said without changing her face: "The decision was a bit hasty just now, not to mention that what Concubine Shu said just now is very reasonable, follow the advice of the good, the way is What the palace should do."

Although concubine Shu and Concubine Lin refuted her face in public, the queen didn't take it seriously.Firstly, there are not many people present today; secondly, I did act too hastily, so I should think about it in the long term.

Concubine Shu saw the empress subdued in disguise, and said with a smile: "It's no wonder that the empress has been able to rule the Six Palaces for many years. This kindness is really the best in the world. We should ask the empress for advice."

These words are Concubine Shu's satirizing the queen's changing face faster than turning the page.Concubine Shu asked herself, if she was sitting in the queen's position today, she might not be able to change at will like the queen.

Hearing Concubine Shu's words, the queen's expression remained unchanged, and she ordered Hui Xue, the maid beside her, "Hui Xue, go and bring all the personal maids of the Fourth Prince's Concubine, as well as the eunuchs who personally serve the Fourth Prince's Concubine!"

Hui Xue responded and turned to leave.Concubine Shu frowned, but said nothing.If there is really anything about Su Wan that the servants of Yiliang Palace know, it is the people who are close to him.The queen only brings such a few people with her now, which is already very kind.

Looking at Su Wan who was still standing silently in the palace, the queen sneered and said: "Su Wan, I will give you one last chance. If you say it, I am wrong to torture you; if you don't say it, don't blame me. You're welcome, Gong."

When these words were spoken before, the queen was still a little lacking in confidence, but after seeing Su Wan's pale face, the queen knew that she had caught Su Wan's weakness, so her voice gradually became louder.

Su Wan was silent for a while, then lowered her head and said in a deep voice: "Empress, Su Wan did not do these things. These things were framed and blamed on me. Empress must learn from them!"

The maids around him are basically the most loyal to him, especially Zhuru, if the queen really brought them here, the consequences would be really disastrous.

Hearing that Su Wan was still so stubborn, the queen sneered and said, "Okay, okay, okay! Su Wan, you have some backbone! I want to see how tough your bones are!"

Su Wan standing in the palace trembled, she knew what the queen meant.Although the queen did not dare to attack her because of the discipline of the harem, but severely punishing a few of her close maids was enough to torture herself.

After a silent confrontation for a while, Hui Xue led the guards to bring Su Wan's five personal maids and four personal eunuchs from Yiliang Palace.Hui Xue stepped forward and said: "I want to report to your empress, bring all the personal servants of the fourth prince and concubine here."

There were only five personal maids brought out from Yiliang Palace, but when Su Wan came here today, she brought water drops, so Hui Xue said that all the personal maids and eunuchs of the fourth princess of Yiliang Palace were brought with her. .

Looking at the court ladies and eunuchs kneeling in front of her, the queen asked coldly: "Which one of you has ever sent a letter to the fourth concubine? No matter what letter you send or who you send it to, tell me all about it! "

The queen knew that these ten people would not all be Su Wan's confidantes, as long as one of the ten people spoke up, the rest would be easy to deal with.If ten people don't open their mouths, I have a way to pry their mouths open!
The words echoed in the main hall for a long time, until the queen's voice was completely silent, none of the ten people spoke, the queen sneered and said: "Okay, I have a few hard bones like Su Wan, come here, let me drag you Go down and fight!"

Hearing the queen's words, ten people kowtowed on the ground in fright, but still no one spoke.But the guards who had been waiting behind the scenes heard the Queen's words, immediately came up and drove all ten people out of the palace to execute the sentence.

Gently waving the sleeves of the robe, the queen stood up, smiled and said to everyone in the palace: "Everyone, come out of the palace with me to see the scene of the execution! You know, ten people are executed at the same time, this is in the harem." It is also a rare scene!"

After finishing speaking, the queen took the lead and walked out. Concubine Lin and Concubine Shu looked at each other, then got up and walked out, followed by the second concubine, and finally, Yun Jingya commanded two eunuchs to forcefully pull Su Wan out.

In front of the main hall of the East Palace, ten mats were neatly spread out. Zhuru and Shuizhu lay down on the mats one by one, and each of them stood beside each of them, with two hands holding upper black and lower red boards. people.

Sitting on the chair that the maids had brought out long ago, the queen stretched out her hand to take the tea bowl from Hui Xue, took a sip to warm her body, and then asked, "Where is Su Wan? Let her stand at the front and take a good look at it." !"

As soon as the words fell, the two eunuchs who were pulling Su Wan by force pushed Su Wan to the front of the steps, and then Hui Xue nodded slightly at the leader of the guards below, only to hear the board fall on the ground with the whistling sound of the wind. On those people!
Su Wan knew that the reason why the queen made her stand so close was that she wanted to see ten of them being beaten so badly that she could break down and accept what the queen said just now, but the queen didn't know, Su Wan Wan has long been extremely tenacious.

I could only hear the board falling with the whistling of the wind, and the screams in front of the main hall kept coming and going.Su Wan looked at the ten people being tortured, with tears in her eyes, but her teeth clenched even tighter.She knew that she must not let go, or she would die without a place to bury her.

Hearing the miserable howls of the court ladies and eunuchs below, Concubine Lin Guifei was originally calm, and now she felt extremely uncomfortable, so she found an excuse and went back to sit in the palace, so as not to feel uncomfortable looking at these people.

After hitting it a few more times, the queen couldn't bear it, but Su Wan hadn't spoken yet, so naturally she couldn't speak first.Yun Jingya on the side saw the queen's difficulty, got up and walked over, and whispered a few words in the queen's ear.

The queen nodded, and then said with a sneer: "Stop first." The boards of the guards stopped in response, and the queen looked at Su Wan and said, "I don't know how the fight is going, please ask the fourth princess to go down and have a look. Enough is enough!"

This is a double entendre. If Su Wan went down to look at the bruised maids and eunuchs, she would definitely soften her heart and take the initiative to shoulder this matter.After all, Su Wan is just a lady who has never seen the big world, so she is naturally afraid when she sees blood.

Concubine Shu on the side frowned when she heard the queen's words. The queen's plan was so poisonous. If Su Wan admitted it, her life would be lost; With hatred, they scrambled to bite Su Wan.

Su Wan was forcibly dragged by two eunuchs to walk in front of several people, looking at their wounds one by one, looking at the beads of sweat on their foreheads, when she finally came up, Su Wan's face was already full of pain and tears.

Seeing Su Wan like this, the queen knew that the idea Yun Jingya gave her just now had worked. She looked at Su Wan who was in pain with a smile on her face, and asked lightly: "Fourth prince, concubine, should we fight or not?" ?”

Although the Queen's tone was as warm as the spring breeze in March, her words were as cold as the water of the Nine Rivers!
(End of this chapter)