Harem: Biography of Concubine Qin

Chapter 126
With a cold resentment in his heart, he had no choice but to keep up with the emperor's footsteps.

Sure enough, the emperor walked straight towards the cell where Hongliu was held.
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In that cell, only Hongliu was alone, and there was no trace of Chen Wenxin.

A sullen look appeared on the emperor's face.

He guessed right, Chen Wenxin didn't want to see Hong Liu alone, but Liu Lan!

If you see Hongliu, why avoid him?
Even if it proves that there is no physical relationship between Liu Lan and Chen Wenxin, if there is affection between the two of them, the emperor will not tolerate it.

It should be said that if Liu Lan was a shameless person, he would force Chen Wenxin to violence.Then Chen Wenxin is innocent, even if he can't treat her as before, he will ensure that she has no worries about food and clothing.

If Chen Wenxin really had feelings for Liu Lan, how could he tolerate a woman who was unfaithful to him?
The emperor's expression has never been so ugly.

He turned straight and went to the cell where Liu Lan was being held, he knew that Chen Wenxin must be there!
Sure enough, Chen Wenxin's voice was heard in the corridor some distance away from Liu Lan's cell.

The emperor waved his hand to Chen Wenyi who was behind him, motioning him to keep quiet.

Then he stood at the corner of the corridor, where he could clearly hear the conversation between Chen Wenxin and Liu Lan.

I saw Chen Wenxin sitting on an armchair outside the cell, and said to Liu Lan sarcastically, "I hurt you? Did I hurt your brother? Hahaha, this is the funniest joke I've ever heard. "

Chen Wenxin laughed so hard that she coughed a few times, covered her lips with a handkerchief, and laughed while coughing.

Before this sentence, Liu Lan should have accused Chen Wenxin of harming her.

Chen Wenxin smiled and said: "You want to kill the emperor, I want to save the emperor, each is the master, I don't blame you."

The emperor suddenly remembered that Chen Wenxin was kidnapped to save himself.

And he was so preoccupied with the question of her innocence that he even forgot about it.

She said: "But you hijacked me, what did I do wrong? I wanted to protect myself, so I tricked you into making a pearl dress for me to pass on news to the emperor's people."

"If you hadn't hijacked me first, how could I expose your deeds in order to protect myself?"

"You know that I rescued the victims in Suqian, but you deceived me to be kind. Heh... do I deserve to be slaughtered and protect those who hurt me because I am kind?"

Liu Lan's voice sounded, "But didn't I say it? I won't kill you, but I want to take you back to Nanming! I still want to..."

Chen Wenxin interrupted him, "Why do you think that if you want to take me to Nanming, I have to be willing to go with you? There is my family in the capital, my husband and my second brother are looking for me day and night!"

"Why should I abandon all the people who care about and love me, abandon my honorable status, abandon my familiar environment, and go to Nanming with a traitor like you!"

She said coldly: "Your self-righteousness really disgusts me! What do you think you are? Do you think I was abandoned by the emperor, so I should be grateful to any man who wants to marry me?"

"Do you think it is a great grace for you to take me away without killing me? I have to obediently accept the inviolability?"

She paused every word: "You are wrong."

"Don't say that I have never doubted that the emperor will abandon me, even if the emperor really has a last resort to abandon me, I am the emperor's man in life, and his soul in death!"

"If the second brother hadn't come to rescue me last night, I wouldn't have gone to Nanming with you. I would seek death, and after my death, my soul would return to the capital to meet my parents and wait for the emperor to come back..."

Liu Lan was stunned when she heard that, "What about my brothers, what's wrong with them? They will be able to go home and reunite with their relatives soon..."

Chen Wenxin raised his chin, with a cold expression, "Your brothers were killed by you. You insisted on taking them to assassinate the emperor beyond your means, and you thought I was as stupid as a cargo and could be taken to Nanming with you .”

"And what I didn't expect was that you actually blamed all of this on me, and accused the emperor of having an affair with you."

She smiled coldly, "I used to think of you as an upright gentleman, a person who dared to act. I didn't expect you to frame me like this in order to escape the punishment of your own conscience?"

"If I knew this, I would rather freeze to death in the Qinhuai River that night than be rescued with such an unnecessary stain!"

Liu Lan was silent.

The air seemed to be stagnant, and Chen Wenxin, who had just spoken emotionally, stopped talking.

There was a long silence.

Liu Lan said first, "Perhaps as you said, this is the most disgraceful thing I've ever done in my life."

He chuckled, "I have never liked a woman in my life, except you. At that time, I really thought that after Kangxi abandoned you, you would be willing to come back to Nanming with me."

"I'll bring my brothers, sister, and you back to Nanming to meet my mother. She will...will be very happy."

"It was I who underestimated you. A chaste woman like you fought with me in order to protect the honor of your ancestors. You were so angry that I drew my sword. You are not afraid. How could you willingly serve your second husband..."

He laughed at himself, "If so, then you are not the one I like."

Chen Wenxin said in disgust: "Shut up."

"You don't have to say these words anymore. I asked the guards to remove the shackles from your mouth, not to hear you say these things."

"Anyway, if you don't say it, the emperor will already believe it."

She smiled sadly, "Even if I let the emperor listen to the testimony of Hongliu and all of them, I am afraid that the emperor will still have a little suspicion in his heart."

She finally said: "Although I hate you for framing me like this, you saved my life after all, and you and I owe each other nothing."

She got up and wanted to leave, Liu Lan said: "Wait."

"If I make it clear to Kangxi now, it's just my nonsense in a moment of anger, will he believe it?"

Chen Wenxin was taken aback for a moment.

"I'm afraid, it's fine if you don't explain it. If the explanation is clear, the emperor will suspect that it's just trying to cover up..."

She lowered her head to cover her lips with a handkerchief, and coughed a few more times.

Ignoring Liu Lan's call behind her, she left directly.

After listening to all this at the corner of the corridor, the emperor leaned against the wall with his eyes closed and remained silent for a long time.

Chen Wenyi stepped forward and cupped his hands at him.

"Your Majesty, is your suspicion gone now?"

Chen Wenxin did deceive them, saying that she was going to see Hongliu.

She didn't go to see Hongliu, but Liu Lan, but what she was talking about was not love and concubine, but not owe each other.

The emperor didn't hear the evidence of their love, but only heard the truth about Liu Lan's framed Chen Wenxin because of love and hatred.

This was exactly what he thought.

The emperor looked up at him, "Lan Xiang, do you blame me?"

"I dare not."

He lowered his crossed hands, "But Nian Nian's second brother dares."

"Actually, the emperor knows that Niannian has never hidden anything from you. She is such an innocent and kind person. If she really lost her integrity, she might have jumped into the Qinhuai River long ago."

"The emperor thinks that with her heart, if she loses her virginity, can she come back to argue with the emperor so plausibly?"

"In the heart of the emperor, is she actually such a shameless person?"

After Chen Wenyi finished speaking, he turned around and left. It was the first time he was so rude in front of the emperor.

He lowered his eyes, feeling disgusted by what he said.

The emperor looked at him in the shadow behind him, as if he wanted to say something, but he didn't know how to say it.

Chen Wenxin's back is lonely and lonely.

She was always worried that she didn't believe it, and she couldn't refute it.

Chen Wenyi's back is resolute and decisive.

He blamed himself for hurting Chen Wenxin with suspicion.

This time, he was really wrong...

After Chen Wenxin walked out of the prison, he walked alone to the small garden in the backyard of the government office.

The sun was just right today, and she was still wearing a cloak, so she felt hot after walking a few steps.

Just about to untie the cloak, Chen Wenyi came up from behind and patted her on the shoulder.

Well, if you don’t understand it, you don’t understand it.

She obediently undid half of the tie on her chest, and tied a bow again.

"Second brother, look, there are turtles in this small pond."

There is actually a small pond in the small garden, in which several taupe palm-sized tortoises are crawling, basking in the sun on the stones.

"Yes. The turtle is basking in the sun, so you should bask in the sun too?"

The two sat side by side on the big rock beside the small pond. The rock was too high for Chen Wenxin's feet to touch the ground, and it dangled in the air.

Seeing this, an old woman who was sweeping the garden came, bowed and asked them if they wanted fish food to feed the turtles.

Chen Wenxin asked for a box, and the old woman left, and the two of them talked while feeding the turtle.

"The emperor has gone?"

She picked up some fish food the size of rice grains from the food box, and threw them into the pond carelessly.

Chen Wenyi raised his eyes and glanced across the garden inadvertently, convinced that there was really no one else around.

"As you expected, he turned back before leaving the prison, and I also said what I should have said to him."

Chen Wenxin's so-called acting is actually two performances.

He acted in the first scene.Pretending to frame Concubine Liu Lan Jianyin, angering his accomplices and making them tell the truth.

When she secretly told Chen Wenyi how to interrogate Hongliu and those people, she told him the second scene.

It's just that this second scene was performed by herself.

She intentionally told the emperor that she was going to talk to Hong Liu, but in fact she was going to talk to Liu Lan.

If the emperor believed her, she would not come back to see who she was looking for. If the emperor came back, she would let the emperor hear her hatred and disgust for Liu Lan.

The emperor will therefore completely believe in her innocence.

But she wasn't happy at all.

She hoped that the emperor would just leave instead of doubting who she was looking for.

He never doubted himself like this before.Is it because he can't, or in the palace before, everything is under his control and he doesn't need to doubt it?
She sneered.

Why not yourself?
In the past, she had never tested the emperor's mind.

Chen Wenyi put his hands on her shoulders, turned her body to face him, and said seriously: "Nian Nian, even if you really lose your morals, I will not allow you to seek death."

"Even if the emperor doesn't want you anymore, the second brother will accompany you and take you home, do you remember?"

Chen Wenxin suddenly laughed, "Second brother thinks I'm so stupid? It's a small thing to lose integrity, but a big one to starve to death. Don't worry, how could I do such a stupid thing?"

Those words are all for the emperor, what life is his person, death is his soul.

What would rather jump the Qinhuai River than go to Nanming.

Pooh.

(End of this chapter)