On February 29, the eighth year of Yong'an, Wen Meiren, who lived in the Hanxiang Pavilion of Changxin Palace, was diagnosed by the imperial doctor as having been pregnant with a dragon heir for more than two months.

The next day, Emperor Yong'an sealed the fourth-grade Wen beauty as the fourth-grade Wen Jieyu.

On the afternoon of the second day of the third month of the eighth year of Yong'an, when the concubines in the harem were still talking about Wen Jieyu being pregnant with a dragon heir and pampering the six palaces, Queen Zhu passed down a rumor and ordered all the concubines in the palace to go to the Weiyang Palace to discuss matters.

This metaphor, like a big stone thrown into still water, instantly caused an uproar among the harem concubines.

In less than half an hour, all the concubines and concubines came to Weiyang Hall in a soft sedan chair.

When Concubine Ren walked into the hall door with Caiyi's hand, Concubine Ying had already arrived, and she was sitting in the first position on her left hand and drinking tea quietly. Seeing Concubine Ren, he got up and bowed to Concubine Ren, and the smile on the corner of his mouth was meaningful.

Concubine Rou sat in the first position on her right hand, and at this time her body was completely free of arrogance. After getting up and saluting Concubine Ren, he sat back silently. In the watery eyes, all that is revealed is loneliness.

Concubine Ren sat down for a moment, and the noble concubine came in with Miaoyue's hand, and after blessing the three concubines who were higher than herself, she sat down in the place where she came to ask for peace in the morning.

Then there are Cao Gui Concubine, Yu Concubine, Ling Concubine, Xue Jieyu and so on......

It wasn't until Butterfly Beauty came in from outside the hall with a huge belly and Huan'er's hand that the concubines sitting there were all stunned.

The body of the butterfly beauty is more than nine months old, and there is a possibility of giving birth at any time.

Queen Zhu was able to call all the butterfly beauties, so it can be seen that there is another good show to watch, but I don't know who is unlucky.

Butterfly Beauty held Huan'er's hand, with a humble smile on her face, and blessed the concubines with higher status than herself.

The first Concubine Ying first supported the heavy body of the butterfly beauty to be blessed, and even the emperor and Queen Zhu were exempted from the butterfly beauty's daily salute and greetings, how could Concubine Ying afford this worship?

With Concubine Ying as an example, other concubines will naturally not be so blind. So Die Meiren just held Huan'er's hand and turned around in a small circle in the Weiyang Palace, and then sat down in her seat.

Le Jieyu was the last to arrive at the Weiyang Palace, looking at the people in the hall, she held the hand of the palace maid and hurriedly saluted the person with a higher position than herself, and then sat quietly in her place.

Ziwan walked out of the inner hall, and said to the concubines who were seated, "Please wait, the queen will be there later." ”

Concubine Ying took the lead and nodded, watching Ziwan go in again.

Suddenly, a little eunuch brought in three men, two women, and five people from outside, and made them kneel in the hall.

Two of the three men and two women were the little eunuchs in the palace, and the other one man and two women looked like people outside the palace when they looked dressed like people outside the palace. One of them, a slightly older man with gray hair, kept touching his eyes with his sleeve, as if wiping away tears. His thin wrists, like dead wood, were torn and bloodstained.

The other two women, one of whom was about forty years old, was dressed in plain blue and relatively clean, with a bun on her head and two plain silver hairpins. The other younger, with his hair in a messy bun, was stained with blood on his gray-blue homespun clothes.

The cleanly dressed woman knelt on the ground, although she lowered her head, she kept looking at the concubines in the Weiyang Hall with her spare eyes.

As soon as she raised her eyes, she saw that Concubine Ying was looking at her with interest, and the woman was so frightened that she immediately lowered her head.

Concubine Wan sat facing those people, looking at the shocking bloodstains, she couldn't help but turn white, covered her mouth and vomited lightly.

Pin Marriage stroked Wan Concubine's back with her hand, and blocked a handkerchief in front of Wan Concubine, preventing Wan Concubine from looking at the five people again.

After another half a cup of tea, Empress Zhu walked out of the inner hall with Ziwan's hand. Compared with when the concubines came to greet her in the early morning, in addition to changing her clothes, Queen Zhu also tied a dark red medicine belt on her forehead.

Concubine Ying sat close to her, and she could faintly smell the strong smell of herbs coming from Empress Zhu's body.

Without waiting for all the concubines to get up and salute, Queen Zhu frowned and waved her hand, "Excuse me, the noise will give the palace a headache." ”

Concubine Ying leaned over, the pink beads on the hairpin on her head trembled, and her steps swayed back and forth, "The queen mother has a head wind?" Can you ask a doctor to come for treatment? ”

Concubine Ren also said, "Queen Mother, as the mother of the country, you must take care of your body." ”

"Bengong Dao wants to take care of his own body, but look at yourselves, one by one, is there anything that makes Bengong worry?" Empress Zhu held her forehead, and her anger suddenly reached the peak. She ignored Concubine Ying and Concubine Ren, raised her eyes and glared at Qingmeiren, and said, "Boldly Qingmeiren, you still don't kneel down for this palace!" ”

Qingmei didn't know what to do, and was knelt down with a puff by Queen Zhu, her eyes were full of fear, and even her lips were trembling.

Queen Zhu's voice, not only Qingmei was frightened, but the concubines in the hall were also frightened.

Empress Zhu pointed to the five people kneeling in the Weiyang Hall and said angrily to Qingmeiren, "Since you entered the palace, this palace has always loved you well, but I didn't think that you were so vicious. How can you do such a dirty thing. ”

"The queen's mother, the concubine, the concubine is wronged, the concubine is not ......" Qingmeiren looked at the five people kneeling on the ground, and then looked at Queen Zhu, and suddenly cried in fright, "The concubine is not, the concubine doesn't know ......"

"Dare to quibble!" Empress Zhu threw the wishful rope that Ziwan handed her in front of Qingmeiren and said, "You asked someone from outside the palace to help you bring this into the palace?" ”

Qingmeiren looked at the veil in front of her, shook her head again and again, and cried, "Queen Mother, there are no concubines, Queen Mother can't listen to Le Jieyu's words, Queen Mother, you have to check clearly!" ”

"It was this palace that checked clearly, so I knew that you were such a femme fatale! Now that the human evidence is there, this palace wants to see it, how can you quibble! ”

With the permission of Empress Zhu, the five witnesses who knelt on the ground began to tell themselves.

The neatly dressed woman claimed to be an inferior servant of the Qingmei family, named Zheng Er's family. When Qingmei was in the house, this Zheng Er's family was a fire-burning woman in Qingmei's room. The other young one is the big girl who played with Qingmei when she was young, and later she was allowed to go out when she was old. And the gray-haired old man was a witch with thaumaturgy.

These three people sang together, and they told the story of how Qingmei people sent messages outside the palace, and who got the dead jade into the palace through whose hands, it was clear and clear.

After these three finished speaking, the two little eunuchs kneeling next to each other began to tremble again, saying that they were the rough eunuchs in the Qingmei Palace, and only because they received the Qingmei people's silver money, they would lose their conscience and send a message to the Qingmei people to bring the dead jade to the palace.

Qingmeiren looked at the five people with red lips and white teeth, and the blacker and darker they touched themselves, and suddenly burst into tears uncontrollably.

She knelt down in front of Empress Zhu and cried, "Queen Mother, the concubine is wronged. The Zheng Er's family is indeed the concubine's fire-burning mother-in-law in her mother's house, but the concubine did not explain what to do with her. The one who can do witchcraft, and the slut who hugged the concubine when the concubine was young, the concubine didn't know it at all. Please also ask the queen to see, and please ask the queen to see! ”

Concubine Ying sat aside, and at the same time she felt contempt for Empress Zhu in her heart, she was also lamenting for Qingmeiren, since Empress Zhu tried so much effort to let her carry this black cauldron, how could she listen to her begging for mercy?

Sure enough, Queen Zhu raised her foot and kicked Qingmeiren to the ground, pointed at her and said angrily, "There are human and material evidence, you still dare to quibble!" ”

After speaking, he raised his head and said to the concubines sitting in the Weiyang Palace, "Qingmei people have evil intentions, and they buy the palace people to use witchcraft in the harem to assassinate Le Jieyu, which is a great crime!" Spread the decree of the palace, reduce it to be a talented person from the five grades, and be imprisoned in the Hundred Flowers Hall of Yongle Hall for life. ”

After listening to Empress Zhu's words, Qingcai swallowed in his throat and fainted.

Empress Zhu stroked Ziwan's hand and stood up, glared angrily at the concubines in the hall, and said fiercely, "The sky net is magnificent but not leaky, as long as you do that inconspicuous deed, you can always let the palace find out the clues." This vicious-minded Qingcai person is an example! ”

The concubines in the palace were all trembling, got up and bowed down to Queen Zhu, and said in unison, "The concubines are terrified!" ”

Qingcairen lay at the feet of Empress Zhu and woke up after a few deep breaths. Looking at Queen Zhu, who was high above, she bit her lip lightly, grabbed the hem of Queen Zhu's skirt and shouted to Queen Zhu, "Queen Mother, the concubine is wronged, the concubine is wronged!" ”

The answer to Qingcai was a cold snort from Empress Zhu.

"The concubine is wronged, and the concubine dies to prove her innocence!"

Saying that, before everyone could react, Qingcai people hit the bronze incense tripod with all their strength, and blood splashed everywhere.

Concubine Wan screamed in fright, staring at the bloody Qingcai people's faces. She grabbed Pin's hand fiercely, and didn't let herself faint again.

Qingcai people have become the second wisp of grievances in the Weiyang Palace.

Queen Zhu's face was also pale, she wanted to imprison Qingcai people and then kill them, but she didn't think that Qingcai people, who seemed to be weak on weekdays, actually had a strong personality.