Chapter 39: The Seeds of Vengeance
"Concubine Hua Niangniang committed suicide in Fengqi Pavilion, which must have something to do with the queen." Gonggong Liu looked around vigilantly, and only after making sure that it was safe did he cautiously say to Yan Ziming.
Because the emperor had already ordered the news to be blocked because of this matter, Gonggong Liu was worried that others would hear about it and report it to the emperor.
"Father-in-law Liu, what you said is true? Is the death of the mother really related to the queen? Yan Ziming's heart sank suddenly, and his eyes became cold, neither he nor Concubine Hua had ever put the gentle and virtuous woman of the queen in their eyes, so they never thought that Concubine Hua's death would be related to the queen.
If it is really as Gonggong Liu said, then the queen's city is too deep, and she has hidden it from them for so many years.
"Second prince, you just returned to the palace and don't know anything, it is said that because of the killing of the seventh princess back then, the queen called Concubine Hua to Fengqi Pavilion overnight." Gonggong Liu has always been loyal to Concubine Hua, but at that time, because of other things, Concubine Hua did not take him to Fengqi Pavilion, only brought a little palace maid to go, and now he regrets it.
"Could it be that the queen already knows that the queen mother did it?" Yan Ziming knew about this matter, because Concubine Hua had told him a long time ago, but he didn't understand why the queen would know.
Yan Ziming clearly remembered that Concubine Hua once said that the only one who knew about this was the nurse back then, and the nurse had been killed by himself, so who told the queen?
"Not only the queen knows, but now the entire palace knows." Because Yan Ziming was not in the palace before, he didn't know about the news, but Gonggong Liu knew it clearly.
"Then does anyone know what happened in Fengqi Pavilion last night?" Now Yan Ziming is sure that Concubine Hua's death is related to the queen, but he still doesn't know what happened.
"I heard that the emperor has ordered the news to be blocked, so the old slave has not heard any news." Although everyone knew that Concubine Hua committed suicide because the harm to the little princess was exposed, no one knew what happened in Fengqi Pavilion.
"Go check on this prince immediately, and find out what is going on at any cost!" Yan Ziming only wants to avenge Concubine Hua now, so he is willing to pay no matter what the price is, but now he must find out how Concubine Hua died in order to avenge her.
"Second prince, don't worry, the old slave has found someone who knows what happened." Seeing that Yan Ziming was angry, Gonggong Liu hurriedly said, he believed that the person he was looking for would be able to answer Yan Ziming's questions.
"Where? Don't hurry up and let him come and report the truth. Yan Ziming was a little impatient to know what was going on in Fengqi Pavilion, because only by knowing who killed his mother could he avenge her.
"Xiao Shunzi, don't hurry in and see the second prince." Gonggong Liu walked to the door and shouted loudly outside, believing that the person he was looking for would tell him all the news that Yan Ziming wanted to know.
"Xiao Shunzi see the second prince." After Gonggong Liu's words fell, a young little eunuch walked in quickly.
"Who are you? Do you really know what happened to Fengqi Pavilion last night? Yan Ziming looked at Xiao Shunzi carefully, but he felt that he had never seen it, so he couldn't help but be a little suspicious.
"Back to the second prince, the slave is in charge of the lamp in Fengqi Pavilion, and it happened to be a slave errand last night, so I can see what happened in the hall clearly." Xiao Shunzi replied very respectfully, looking at Yan Ziming's eyes full of flattery.
Because Gonggong Liu had already told him that if he handled this matter well, he would definitely not lose his benefits.
Although Xiao Shunzi was an errand boy by the queen's side, he was just a little-known minion, so he believed Liu's father-in-law's words and hoped that he could be promoted by Yan Ziming through his whistleblowing.
"Everything is recruited from the truth, if there is half a lie, this prince will not be spared." Yan Ziming has never trusted strangers easily, so he still has some doubts about Xiao Shunzi.
So Xiao Shunzi told Yan Ziming everything that happened in Fengqi Pavilion last night, including why the emperor gave Concubine Hua the death penalty and why Concubine Hua chose to commit suicide in the end.
"Hmph, it turns out that everything is a game laid out by the queen, it seems that the mother concubine really underestimated her before she entered the game." After listening to Xiao Shunzi's words, Yan Ziming's face was as cold as ice, his hands were clenched into fists, and the hatred and anger in his eyes were undisguised.
He must not let his mother die like this, he wants to avenge her, and he must make all those who killed his mother pay for it.
Yan Ziming only thought that his mother died unjustly, but he never thought that she deserved it, so more and more hatred was buried deep in his heart, and the seeds of revenge began to germinate.
"Second prince, the old slave is right, right? Everything is the queen's conspiracy, you must avenge your mother! Because of the urgency of the matter, Gonggong Liu only knew about it from Xiao Shunzi before, but now after listening to the whole thing, he is even more convinced that the queen killed Concubine Hua, so he hopes that Yan Ziming can avenge Concubine Hua.
"Not only the queen, but also Yan Zimo, and the seventh princess who came back from the dead, they are all the culprits who killed the mother concubine, and this prince will definitely let them pay for their blood debts." Yan Ziming has always been hostile to Yan Zimo, and now the hostility is even stronger, and as for the queen and the seventh princess, he doesn't plan to let go.
"Actually, the seventh princess is quite good, it was she who interceded for Concubine Hua, and the emperor was willing to exempt Niangniang from the death penalty." Xiao Shunzi is not very good at observing words and feelings, and he didn't see Yan Ziming's increasingly gloomy face at all, just telling the truth, although he had only seen Ling Yuwei a few times, but he had a good impression of her, because the servants and palace maids in Fengqi Pavilion liked her very much.
"Shut up, she's just hypocritical, it was her mother who hurt her back then, how could she be so kind to intercede for her mother?" In Yan Ziming's eyes, there would be no such person who would repay his grievances with virtue, because he and Concubine Hua were both people who would take revenge, so he didn't believe that Ling Yuwei would be so good.
"Father-in-law Liu, you go and do something right away." Yan Ziming's eyes looked coldly in the direction where Fengqi Pavilion was, this time he not only wanted to avenge Concubine Hua, but also to implement the conspiracy he had planned for a long time.
"Although the second prince commanded, the old slave is willing to go to the soup for the second prince." The old eunuch has always been a big celebrity around Concubine Hua, and now that Concubine Hua has passed away, he naturally chose to follow Concubine Hua's son Yan Ziming, so no matter what he asked him to do, he was willing.