in the sound of swallows

Chapter 144 Chaos in the Harem
As soon as Xiuping entered, she whispered a few words in Concubine Hua's ear. Concubine Hua raised her eyes, looked at the things in her hand, and smiled lightly: "Do you still need her to give it to me? If it could be used, I would have already It’s used, but it’s not possible.”

"My master said that this thing is colorless and tasteless, and it's the top grade she got at a high price." Xiuping said, "Your Majesty, look..."

Concubine Hua's expression moved slightly, she looked up at the cleaning lady, and said in a low voice, "Go down."

"Yes." The palace maid replied and followed her out.

Xiuping spoke boldly: "Your Majesty and my master are on the same boat, so naturally my master will not harm your mother."

"That's true." Concubine Hua's eyelids moved, and she pulled the embroidery screen with a chuckle and said, "This palace has accepted the things, and I thank your master on my behalf."

"Your Majesty, you are welcome." Xiuping saluted with a smile, and the maid Hongzhi behind her came up and stuffed money into Xiuping's hand.

Xiuping exited happily.

Concubine Hua didn't even touch the bag on the table, and said in a low voice, "You dare to use unscrupulous methods on the emperor. She is not helping me, she is simply trying to kill me."

Hong Zhi whispered: "Slave take it and throw it away?"

"It's okay, you keep it, just don't move." Concubine Hua narrowed her eyes: "She wants to use me, but she is a little tender."

"According to my servants, the concubine Shen is quite ambitious, why don't the master use her as a pathfinding stone? It's also good to try the emperor's will."

Whenever the emperor came back here, he would leave in the middle of the night, and Hongzhi didn't know what went wrong.

Concubine Hua snorted softly: "The emperor doesn't want to see her, she is useless, she can only be used to fend off arrows. If you want to talk about temptation, I have another idea..."

"Crack." There was a sound from the inner hall.

Concubine Hua stopped talking, turned her head, and looked over sharply: "Who is it?"

Hongzhi went in two steps and grabbed a cleaning maid to come out.

"Slave...Slave didn't hear anything." The little maid trembled in fright.She had been packing up things in the inner hall, and when she left, she found out that the empress was receiving Xiuping outside.I didn't even have time to go out, so I could only listen to everything inside.

Concubine Hua snorted, looked at the little maid for a long time, thought for a while, and smiled, "Don't be so afraid, I won't make things difficult for you if I let you go."

In the Imperial Garden in Chunri, one more body fell under the rockery after one night, and it looked like he had fallen to his death.

Baoshan gestured at the appearance of the corpse, and was very surprised to tell his master the news: "I heard that she is a little maid who is very favored by Concubine Hua in the palace. Concubine Hua asked her to deliver snacks to Concubine Xi yesterday, but there was no response. Go back. When you find someone, they are all dead."

Another human life, Shen Guiyan Fu's forehead, no wonder people say that there are piles of bones in this palace.

The life of a court lady is thinner than paper, and it doesn't matter if one of them dies, but now it happens to be the critical moment when the emperor is implementing the New Deal.

The criminal law of the New Deal has been changed. The original ancestral system was to protect bureaucrats. Officials killed people, only exile, not capital punishment.However, in the new policy implemented by Gu Chaobei, murder pays for life.Except for officials and the emperor and queen mother who have the power to dispose of life and death, the rest of the people have no right to kill indiscriminately.Violators will pay with their lives.

An official in the court was dissatisfied with this criminal law, so he just caught up with the murder case in the harem and asked the emperor: "If the concubine kills the maid, what should I do?"

As a result, the emperor was above the court hall, and said with a straight voice: "Pay for your life."

Then this matter will become a big issue, and it will be shown to the world. The real culprit must be found out, even the concubines will pay for their lives.

Concubine Xi's face turned pale, and she obediently cooperated with the Ministry of Criminal Justice to solve the case.

"I have no motive to kill a little maid, she has no complaints with me."

That's what I said, but I didn't have a bottom line in my heart.Concubine Hua has had a lot of friction with her recently, and if she wanted to bite her, she really couldn't avoid it.

Concubine Hua didn't add insult to injury, but helped and said, "Sister Concubine Xi has always been on good terms with me, so it is unlikely that she killed her."

Concubine Xi stared blankly at Concubine Hua, not understanding what she meant.

The Ministry of Criminal Justice conducted an autopsy and then interrogated the people in the palace. In just two days, they collected witnesses and brought them to the emperor, saying that the only one who had the motive and reason for the murder was the concubine Xi.

Gu Chaobei doesn't care about the truth of this case at all, he just needs to find a concubine to set an example and tell people in the world to kill for life, even if the concubine kills the maid.

What's the use of arresting a palace official to take the blame?Ministers will not kill people by themselves, they are all called domestic slaves.

But he was hesitant to ask him to attack the concubine. After thinking about it, he asked the Criminal Ministry to collect evidence.

Qing Huan hid in her own palace to watch a good show, and all the high-ranking empresses started to fight with each other, so she could just take advantage of this gap to benefit the fisherman.

As a result, people from the Ministry of Punishment actually came to her palace, fumbled here and there, and found a pair of bloody shoes.

Before she regained her composure, she was imprisoned in the prison.

"The sinner, Qing Huan, who was a concubine, murdered the court lady and paid for her life by killing."

Qing Huan was dumbfounded, and it took him a long time to react before he started yelling in the prison: "The concubine is wronged!"

It's a pity that the dungeon is so deep that no one can hear her voice.

The harem was quiet for a while because of this matter, Shen Guiyan asked Gu Chaobei: "The emperor knows that Qing Huan is not the murderer, why did he lock her in?"

"She is just right." Gu Chaobei gave such a sentence.

Shen Guiyan frowned, right?Regardless of whether he was a murderer or not, he sent his bedside person to death row just because he fit the word?
This person still doesn't know the fact that Gu Chaobei doesn't speak up to others, so he just thinks that the emperor is ruthless.

Concubine Qing went in without knowing why, Concubine Fu went to help and said a few words, but she didn't know what the emperor said, so she also became quiet and never mentioned this matter again.

Within a few days, Concubine Qing was sent to the guillotine, and the people all over the world were shocked, and finally faced up to the laws of the New Deal.

Kill for life.

All the concubines felt a sense of sadness when the rabbit died. There were too many people like Qing Huan who wanted to climb up the ladder. Why did the emperor let her take the blame and die?

Concubine Xi fell ill for a while, and after the illness passed, she began to copy Buddhist scriptures by hand.Concubine Hua is still active in various palaces as if nothing happened.

Now she is the only one in the harem, and anyone who sees her has to respectfully salute.Shen Guiyan stayed behind closed doors after giving birth, and the concubine Xi also began to worship the Buddha, so among the remaining people, the most competitive one is none other than Concubine Fu.

But Concubine Fu is not stupid, and there are powerful forces behind her, so she is not so easy to deal with.Although he is high-profile and looks down on others, he has not made any mistakes.

What should we do?Concubine Hua's eyes moved, thinking of Shen Hanlu.

Shen Hanlu is designing a "spectacle".

The emperor's prejudice against her was too deep, and he didn't know how to get rid of it, so he could only try to please her.To please an emperor, her beauty is useless, so it can only be done spiritually.

What Gu Chaobei is most concerned about now is the New Deal, so Shen Hanlu thought of a way to send the emperor a plaque, and it would be sent from the sky.

(End of this chapter)