Chapter 141: Manifestation

The screams of the red sleeves alarmed the palace, not only the virtuous concubine, but even the Emperor Jin Ming, who stayed in Jingren Palace.

It turned out that Concubine Xian invited Shui Qingqing to dinner tonight, and also invited Emperor Jin Ming.

After dinner, Emperor Jin Ming stayed in Jingren Palace for the night.

And the noise on the side of the Chuxiu Palace was too loud, and Emperor Jingren and Concubine Xian were both woken up.

As the virtuous concubine who is the master of the palace, such a thing happened in the palace in the middle of the night, of course she couldn't sit idly by, and immediately let Liuli inquire which palace it was from?

Liuli soon came back and told Empress Chen that it was a voice coming from Chuxiu Palace.

As soon as he heard that it was Chuxiu Palace, Emperor Jin Ming's face instantly darkened, and he said coldly and disgustedly: "It's uneasy to be grounded, I'm really ashamed of her identity - continue to sleep, don't bother with her!" ”

Emperor Jin Ming thought that Empress Chen had been imprisoned for a few days, couldn't stand it anymore, and began to make trouble with the demon moth again, so he didn't want to deal with her at all.

Concubine Xian's heart is as transparent as a mirror.

If it were normal times, Emperor Jin Ming was reluctant to mention the queen more, of course Concubine Xian couldn't ask for it, but tonight all this couldn't be let pass so easily.

So, Concubine Xian sat up and persuaded Emperor Jin Ming softly: "Your Majesty, there was such a loud noise in the queen's palace in the middle of the night, and the entire harem was alarmed. The concubine is now temporarily in charge of the harem, so can she let it go, isn't it a mouthful? ”

"Besides, I just heard this voice so terrible, as if something terrible had happened—now that it has been closed in recent years, nothing bad can happen in this harem!"

After listening to Concubine Xian's words, Emperor Jin Ming lost his sleepiness and said coldly: "You have a point. In that case, you will go on a journey at my command! ”

After getting the permission of Emperor Jin Ming, Concubine Xian did not hesitate, got up and hurriedly dressed everything, led a group of palace people, and rushed to Chuxiu Palace.

When she arrived at Chuxiu Palace, Concubine Xian went straight inside, and kept coming straight to the apse for a while.

As soon as she entered the courtyard, she saw the red sleeves who fled in a panic and were covered in blood, as well as the palace people who were full of panic, and Queen Chen, who was extremely angry when she chased out the door.

When she saw the blood-dripping scissors that Empress Chen was holding tightly in her hand, and the urgency on her face that could not be concealed, Concubine Xian smiled with satisfaction in her heart, but she asked Empress Chen for peace with an indifferent courtesy.

And Liuli, who was following her, was quick to lead the palace people to hold the red sleeves who fled out.

Seeing this, Empress Chen seemed to have been poured a basin of cold water on her head.

She stood up under the eaves, put the sharp scissors in her hand into her sleeves, looked at Concubine Xian coldly with cold eyes, and said with a solemn attitude: "In the middle of the night, Concubine Xian is not good at accompanying the emperor, how did she run to the Chuxiu Palace of the palace-Concubine Xian doesn't know that if the palace is punished and grounded here, although the palace can't go out at will, the cats and dogs outside don't want to step in at will!" ”

Hearing Queen Chen's undisguised humiliating words, Concubine Xian didn't care, her eyes swept coldly from Queen Chen's blood-stained sleeves, and said coolly: "The queen's mother made such a big disturbance in the palace in the middle of the night, and the emperor was already noisy and couldn't rest, so the special concubine came to check - Niangniang, the emperor cares about Niangniang, but it is not comparable to cats and dogs." ”

After that, without waiting for Empress Chen to reply, she already said coldly to the group of palace people standing in the courtyard: "Fang Cai, who is shouting here and disturbing the palace?" The emperor specially ordered the palace to bring back the people who had disturbed the palace, and said that they would be dealt with strictly. ”

Concubine Xian knew that the person who screamed and shouted was Red Sleeves, and the person was also arrested by Liuli and them, but she still pretended not to know and asked such a question, but her eyes looked at Sheng Yu, who was shrinking to the side and extremely nervous.

Concubine Xian wanted to see that after Sheng Yu read the note handed to her by someone she had ordered, she came back to her senses and was willing to change her mind and took the opportunity to escape from Chuxiu Palace because of the opportunity she gave her......

It turned out that after Shui Qingqing made a request with Concubine Jian before dinner, as soon as she left, Concubine Xian let herself stay in the Chuxiu Palace, and quietly handed Sheng Yu a note, telling her that the queen would soon be defeated, and if she didn't want to be a victim in the hands of the queen, she would quickly take advantage of the red sleeves and leave Chuxiu Palace.

In order to prevent Sheng Yu from believing her words, Concubine Xian wrote the word 'Sheng Yu' at the place where the note was signed, so that Sheng Yu understood that the person who helped her was Shui Qingqing, who had replaced her identity before.

Otherwise, Concubine Xian, who had never known Sheng Yu in her life, suddenly helped her, how could Sheng Yu dare to believe her words?!

But if Shui Qingqing came forward to help her, Sheng Yu believed it.

Because she knew that Shui Qingqing had always been grateful to her father and the Sheng family for saving her life, she even guessed that Shui Qingqing helped her escape from Chuxiu Palace because her father was worried about her and asked her to help her......

And from the moment he received the note, Sheng Yu has been entangled in his heart.

She is not a fool, from the time Empress Chen was grounded to the sudden mention of her as a first-class palace maid, she sensed that something was wrong.

What's more, as well as the errand she did for Queen Chen before, as well as the intimidation of her by Red Sleeves, all made her feel like she was trapped in prison in Chuxiu Palace, and she couldn't live in peace.

It's just that when she thought of the promise that Empress Chen promised her, knowing that it would be dangerous to continue to stay by the queen's side, Sheng Yu was still unwilling to give up halfway......

It wasn't until she heard the red sleeves' threatening words to her, and the terrifying murderous aura in Empress Chen's eyes, that Sheng Yu was really scared at that moment and realized how terrible the environment she was staying in was.

What's more, seeing Queen Chen poisoning Red Sleeves now makes her even more frightened - Red Sleeves is the most trusted cronies around her, and she can kill them if she says she will kill them, if she commits something in the future, won't she have no way to live......

Thinking of this, Sheng Yu didn't hesitate in his heart, and when he heard Concubine Xian's words, he hurriedly stood up, plucked up the courage to point to the red sleeves and said: "Back to Concubine Xian's words, it was Aunt Red Sleeves' house that a powerful ghost appeared in the house to ask for her life, which frightened the aunt, so that the aunt was frightened and shouted and disturbed the palace......"

"Shut up!"

Hearing her confession, Empress Chen's expression changed greatly, her eyes glared at her fiercely, and she gritted her teeth and said hatefully: "What kind of ghost is there to ask for his life, it's just a red-sleeved nightmare...... You don't want to talk nonsense, spread rumors here - the emperor hates the harem the most for strange and chaotic things, be careful that trouble comes out of your mouth and takes your life! ”

Empress Chen dared to let tonight's incident get out, and she knew that the scars on the back of the red sleeves could not be discovered by Concubine Xian, so she couldn't help but scold Sheng Yu sharply, and at the same time stepped forward quickly and personally went to Liuli and others to snatch the red sleeves.

When Red Sleeves saw her coming, his blood-stained body trembled violently, and he fled to the side unfreely, his eyes glaring in horror and not daring to look at her.

Hearing Sheng Yu's words, Concubine Xian's heart was relieved, and she dodged in front of Queen Chen, and said coldly: "Since it is the red sleeves that disturb the palace and disturb the emperor's sleep, this palace is ordered by the emperor to take her back to investigate and deal with it clearly!" ”

Empress Chen's whole body instantly turned cold.

Concubine Xian pointed at Sheng Yu with her slender hand and continued: "Since this palace maid knows the truth, she will take her with her—come and take the two of them away!" ”

Concubine Xian gave an order, and the palace people behind her immediately stepped forward and pulled Sheng Yu away.

Seeing that Concubine Xian was going to take Sheng Yu away, Queen Chen's heart was clear, and she already thought that all this tonight must be related to Shui Qingqing, and even more related to the fire twenty years ago, and she suddenly hated blood in her heart, and she was even more frightened and frightened than ever.

Gritting her teeth to suppress the panic in her heart, Empress Chen looked at Concubine Xian with cold eyes, and then fell on the trembling red sleeves behind her, and sneered: "Red sleeves are just nightmare fright, why does Concubine Xian make such a fuss and make such a big fuss?!" Do you really think that now that you are in charge of the palace, you can do whatever you want to go wild here in the palace? ”

Concubine Xian said coldly: "I'm afraid that the one who is wild is the queen's mother." As soon as the concubine came in, she said that the concubine was on the emperor's order, and if the mother had any objections, please go up with the emperor and say it. ”

After that, he didn't have a meaningless verbal dispute with Queen Chen, and led the palace people to leave with Sheng Yu with Red Sleeves.

Seeing that the red sleeves were about to be taken away by Concubine Xian, Queen Chen's eyes were about to split, and her heart was scared, as if she was being pressed tightly by a boulder, almost suffocating-

If this world knows her best, knows what she does, there will be no second person except Red Sleeves.

Therefore, if Red Sleeves is taken away, and then Concubine Xian and Shui Qingqing join forces to force her to say everything, then she will really be finished......

Thinking of this, Empress Chen rushed forward desperately, and the blood-stained sharp scissors in her hand stabbed towards Concubine Xian Liuli and others, causing everyone to scream in horror.

And Queen Chen took advantage of the chaos and stabbed the sharp scissors towards the neck of the red sleeves again, wanting to take advantage of the chaos to destroy the mouth of the red sleeves.

As long as Red Sleeves dies, it will be a hundred......

If it is said that Red Sleeves still had a trace of affection and hope for Queen Chen before, at this time, seeing that she was still bent on killing herself, Red Sleeves was completely dead, and she was even more resentful of Queen Chen.

Regardless of the sharp scissors, the red sleeves clenched Queen Chen's hands tightly, preventing her sharp scissors from piercing herself, staring at her with dead eyes, and said in despair: "I have been loyal to my mother for decades, and I have never married in my life, but I didn't expect that at this time, my mother actually didn't care about the slightest love, and was bent on killing me...... Could it be that the mother's heart is made of stone, so ruthless and cold-blooded! ”

Hearing the heartbroken and desperate words of the red sleeves, instead of feeling guilty, Empress Chen glared at her with tears in her eyes, and said sharply: "If you are really loyal, you should not hide it from this palace, nor will you turn against this palace at this time, let alone hinder this palace's ......"

Red Sleeves didn't expect that he had worked hard to serve Queen Chen for decades, and he had done all the bad things for her, but he didn't expect that in the end, Queen Chen not only didn't appreciate it, but also blamed herself, and wanted to kill herself like someone else......

The red sleeves who were hit hard, both physically and mentally injured, the bleeding from the place where he was stabbed before, the strength of holding Queen Chen's hands in his hands couldn't help but relax, his eyes looked at Queen Chen with dead eyes, and he sneered and hated: "Niang Niang is really the most ruthless and unrighteous person in this world, and it was in vain that Princess Wuning was so good to you back then...... Aunt Pity is looking for me today, and she will come to you tomorrow, so wait for retribution! ”

Empress Chen's eyes sank, snatched the scissors from her hand, and stabbed her heart without saying a word!

There was an uproar all around, Concubine Xian, Liuli and others wanted to come forward to save, but they were afraid that the scissors in Queen Chen's hands would hurt people, so they could only watch the red sleeves die under Empress Chen's scissors.

However, at the last moment, among the palace people behind Concubine Xian, a figure suddenly rushed out of the oblique thorn, and at the last moment, pushed the red sleeves aside.

The sharp scissors in Queen Chen's hand fell, but they deviated from the heart of the red sleeves and pierced her waist.

Seeing that Red Sleeves had escaped her life again, Queen Chen, who had killed the red-eyed Queen, became angry and raised her eyes to look at the person who pushed Red Sleeves away.

At first glance, Empress Chen was shocked!

The person dressed as a palace maid in front of him was Shui Qingqing!

From the accident of Red Sleeves to the present, Queen Chen has long understood that everything tonight, from the so-called poor aunt turning into a ghost to ask for her life, to Concubine Xian leading people to break into the palace to take away Red Sleeves and Sheng Yu, everything was planned by Shui Qingqing.

Even, Wang Zhongren's imprisonment was also done by Shui Qingqing.

Therefore, Queen Chen hated Shui Qingqing in her heart, and she really wanted to cramp and peel her skin, and break her corpse into thousands of pieces to relieve her eyes.

At this time, Queen Chen, who was hating Shui Qingqing to the core, suddenly saw Shui Qingqing appear in front of her, and the hatred that surged up in her heart could no longer be restrained, and the last trace of reason disappeared, and she immediately left her red sleeves and stabbed Li Qingqing towards Shui Qingqing's heart.

Concubine Xian didn't expect Shui Qingqing to suddenly appear here, so when she saw Empress Chen attacking her, she was so frightened that she hurriedly asked the palace people around her to come forward to rescue.

But when Shui Qingqing pushed down and saved the red sleeves, she was also slipped by the thick snow under her feet, and her body fell together with the red sleeves, just a stone's throw away from Queen Chen......

Seeing that Shui Qingqing was about to die under Queen Chen's sharp scissors, a break from drinking exploded in everyone's hearts like thunder-

"Stop!"

Drinking and falling, people from another county poured into the small courtyard, but it was Emperor Jin Ming who personally drove to Chuxiu Palace.

It turned out that Shui Qingqing, who couldn't sleep anymore, had been hearing the movements of Chuxiu Palace.

When he heard the screams of the red sleeves, he immediately got up and rushed to the door of Chuxiu Palace, waiting for the arrival of Concubine Xian.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for Concubine Xian to come quickly, and with the dictate of Emperor Jin Ming, she broke into Chuxiu Palace without delay.

Shui Qingqing hurriedly took Xiaoxi and mixed behind the palace people brought by Concubine Xian, and entered Chuxiu Palace together......

And all this that happened here just now, Shui Qingqing looked at it quietly, but she breathed a sigh of relief in her heart-

In fact, in the past few days after the assassination, looking at the dying Nameless and Sanshi, Shui Qingqing has been thinking about how to bring the heinous Empress Chen, the crown prince, and Bai Haoqing to justice.

But thinking about the evil things they did, they didn't leave any clear evidence that could be convicted, but it made Shui Qingqing at a loss and resentful.

Shui Qingqing, who was desperate, had to take a risk and force Queen Chen to show up by herself.

She first took out a medicine list and asked Emperor Jin Ming to convict Wang Zhongren, so as to arouse Empress Chen's anxiety.

And when Empress Chen had not yet come up with a countermeasure from Wang Zhongren's arrest, she took advantage of her anxiety and anxiety to let Aunt Pian pretend to be a ghost to intimidate Red Sleeves, thus revealing the secret on the back of Red Sleeves, so that Queen Chen was flustered and shocked, and turned against Red Sleeves, who was also afraid of panic, so as to force her to show her original form......

It is true that when planning these things, Shui Qingqing did not expect things to go so smoothly.

That's because she underestimated Queen Chen's cold-bloodedness and ruthlessness, and she didn't expect that she would ask for Red Sleeves' life without mercy after discovering that the back of Red Sleeves had left evidence of the fire twenty years ago.

Shui Qingqing thought that Empress Chen was hypocritical and vicious to herself and her mother, but she had some emotion for the loyal servants who had followed her for decades, but she didn't expect that she was so hypocritical and vicious to anyone......

While breathing a sigh of relief, Shui Qingqing thought of the first time she saw Empress Chen coming out of the house with sharp scissors in her hand, and immediately quietly asked Xiaoxi to go to Jingren Palace to invite Emperor Jin Ming-

She wants the emperor to see with his own eyes how the queen of the Great Jin Dynasty carelessly cares about people's lives and how she kills people with sharp weapons in public.

It is even more important to let Emperor Jin Ming know how she set up a poisonous scheme to frame her mother and destroy the marriage between her mother and Emperor Jin Ming in order to pursue a selfish desire twenty years ago......

Sure enough, Emperor Jin Ming, who was awakened by the terrible screams of the red sleeves and couldn't sleep anymore, heard Xiaoxi's announcement, saying that Empress Chen was killing people with a sharp weapon in Chuxiu Palace, and Emperor Jin Ming couldn't sit still anymore and rushed over to Chuxiu Palace.

When Emperor Jin Ming came to the apse, he saw Empress Chen hurting people with a silver weapon from a distance.

When he hurriedly approached, he saw her stabbing the scissors in her hand towards Shui Qingqing, and he was immediately so shocked that his heart was about to jump out of his heart, and he shouted at Queen Chen without thinking about it!

Emperor Jin Ming's loud shout, like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, exploded on the top of Empress Chen's head, and finally pulled her back to her senses from her almost crazy actions.

The hand holding the sharp scissors froze in mid-air, and Empress Chen thought that she had heard the tinnitus wrongly, and looked in disbelief in the direction where the sound came from.

The next moment, when she saw Emperor Jin Ming's angry face clearly, her whole body trembled with fright, and the scissors in her hand could no longer be held, and fell to the ground with a 'click'......

"The Emperor's ......"

Empress Chen's body also softened, kneeling in the snow with a white face, her whole body trembling like the smell of falling in the cold wind.

Concubine Xian and the palace people in a courtyard also knelt down to ask Emperor Jin Ming for their guilt, shouting, 'The emperor is angry!' ”

But how can the monstrous anger in Emperor Jin Ming's heart be extinguished? !

stepped forward and slapped Empress Chen's cheek hard, and Emperor Jin Ming almost used all his strength to directly fan her to the ground, and even knocked her teeth out.

"Poisonous woman, if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't have known that you were so vicious, not only murdering in front of the palace people, but also not letting go of your own nieces - you are extremely vicious!"

"Your Majesty, no...... That's not true...... Everything was deliberately framed by their concubines, and the concubines were forced to be helpless, and the concubines were wronged......"

Ignoring the knocked out teeth and numb cheeks with pain, Empress Chen got up from the snow and cried to Emperor Jin Ming in a panic: "All this tonight is because they collaborated to frame the concubine...... Please believe in the emperor's concubines, the concubines and the emperor have been together for 20 years, and the emperor must believe in the concubines......"

"Believe you?! But I believe that I was blind twenty years ago, so I married you as the crown princess! ”

After so many things happened, and even after seeing Empress Chen's rampant public killing, how could Emperor Jin Ming still believe Empress Chen?

Listening to the words of Emperor Ming of Jin, Empress Chen's whole body trembled violently, her face was as white as a ghost, her bloodless lips were even more swollen and bleeding, her hair and clothes were messy, and she was embarrassed to describe it, and there was still half a point of majesty and solemnity of Empress Jin.

"Your Majesty, the concubine is really wronged, I ask the emperor to believe in the concubine this time...... Believe me for the last time, the concubine is really wronged......"

Empress Chen was like a fish on the verge of death, struggling desperately, but what she said was so pale and powerless.

Emperor Jin Ming looked at her with cold eyes, and then landed on the blood-stained scissors that fell in front of her, and laughed mockingly: "They framed you?!" Could it be that they also made you do the killing of people? Who are they—Virtuous Concubines?! ”

Concubine Xian trembled in fright, and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, the concubine has been wronged, the concubine has never framed Niangniang, and when the concubine arrived here, Niangniang had already stabbed the red sleeves......"

"Your Majesty, tonight's matter is not about Concubine Xian's mother, I did it!"

Regardless of the cold snow, Shui Qingqing knelt down respectfully and admitted it calmly.

Hearing this, Emperor Jin Ming looked at her with complicated eyes, and said in surprise: "Why are you doing this?" ”

Shui Qingqing said firmly: "I just want to uncover the truth about my mother's fire twenty years ago, and give my mother justice!" ”

When Emperor Jin Ming came to the apse before, he heard the last words that Red Sleeves said to Empress Chen.

At that time, Red Sleeves also mentioned Princess Wu Ning and Aunt Pian.

Now that I heard Shui Qingqing mention Princess Wuning, and personally admitted that tonight's incident was deliberately done by her, Emperor Jin Ming couldn't help but notice the unusual state of affairs.

When Emperor Jin Ming was puzzled, Concubine Xian stepped forward to help Shui Qingqing in the snow, and said to Emperor Jin Ming: "Your Majesty, since the queen and the county lord have their own grievances to be tried, it is better to let everyone go to the main hall to judge this matter, so as not to wronged the good people!" ”

Even if Concubine Xian Niangniang personally helped her, Shui Qingqing was reluctant to get up, insisted on kneeling in the snow, and said sadly to Emperor Jin Ming, who was hesitant: "Your Majesty, the sudden fire that my mother encountered twenty years ago was not accidental, but Empress Chen instructed the red sleeves to set fire to hurt people, and wanted to burn her mother, so that her mother could not be the emperor's crown princess......"

In the end, although her mother survived by luck, she ruined her appearance, and Queen Chen finally entered the East Palace as she wished and became the crown princess, and even became the queen...... But in the end, the queen still couldn't spare her mother, and killed her along with the Yang family - so I implore the emperor to retry the case of one of my mothers, and the truth about the fire in the Chen Guogong Mansion twenty years ago. ”

As soon as these words came out, not only Emperor Jin Ming was shocked, but Concubine Xian and the palace people were also dumbfounded.

Empress Chen's heart sank suddenly, and her face was as desperate as ashes.

And the red sleeves who were dying kneeling on the side heard Shui Qingqing's words, and their dead eyes were stunned at first, but the next moment they looked at the shocked and desperate Empress Chen with hatred......

Suddenly, the entire apse was silent, and everyone looked at Emperor Jin Ming's gloomy face that was about to drip, and they didn't dare to come out.

After a long time, Emperor Jin Ming raised his eyes and looked at the cold morning light in the sky with a heavy heart, and said solemnly: "In this way, according to what the county lord of Guanqing said, the case of Princess Wuning will be retried!" ”