Now that the imperial court has sent a messenger to Liaozhou to thoroughly investigate the death of Jian Yiyou's family, Liaozhou's assassin Zheng Keji and his subordinates breathed a sigh of relief, and they also settled down - but on the side of the imperial capital, in the palace, from the empress dowager down, no one can relax.

After all, the Huiyi Palace where Concubine Nuan lives is not a remote palace, and she herself is not a master who no one knows if she is dead!

Adjacent to the Mingren Palace, formerly known as Huishu Palace, Huiyi Palace was built in the former Wei Dynasty earlier than Qianyong, and was originally intended to house the childless concubines of the first emperor - but later there was a rebellion between the new monarch and the concubines. Lun's affair once caused a palace coup d'état at that time, and the whole country was moved by it. Swinging for years.

Although Emperor Wei, who had a quarrel with his mother, finally died at the hands of his uncle, and even the throne was usurped by his uncle, the former Wei still changed the rules and ordered the concubines who had nothing to do after the death of the first emperor to go to the palace and not stay in the palace any longer.

Because this palace was built next to the residence of the Queen Mother, of course, the location will not be bad, not to mention the heart of the palace, it is also an important place in the palace.

And then it happened here that the concubine was almost hanged, who can rest assured?

After all, not to mention that Concubine Nuan gave birth to a "posthumous son" to the first emperor, and now the main hall of Huiyi Palace lives in the main hall of Emperor Duanhua's mother-in-law, Empress Dowager Su, and her sister-in-law, Princess Changxing; In the Mingren Palace next door, there lives Emperor Duanhua's grandmother, the Empress Dowager!

Even if Empress Dowager Su has already helped find out the real culprit, before the whole thing is completely settled, the palace will obviously continue to carry a heart.

The imperial tombs are generally selected within a hundred miles of the imperial capital, and the palace near the imperial tombs is naturally not very far.

The case personally supervised by the Empress Dowager, the Empress Dowager, and the Emperor, the palace people ran back and forth almost riskily, and finally brought back the news in the evening of the next day: The records of the palace proved that the things seized from the chamberlain who murdered Concubine Nuan were indeed not in the luggage of Concubine Fu when she was in the palace.

Concubine Fu was about to breathe a sigh of relief when she heard this, but she didn't want the palace people to hesitate and said something: "The housekeeper and father-in-law over there in the palace said to the slave maid that during Concubine Fu's stay in the palace, someone in the palace asked the palace maid over there to send her something, and more than once!" ”

This is not the point, the point is, "The father-in-law in charge called the palace maid who passed the things over on the spot, and the palace maid said that she was entrusted with a tall and burly chamberlain, who seemed to be from the imperial capital!" ”

At this moment, Concubine Fu's heart that had just been put down suddenly rose again: "You are talking nonsense!" It's something that simply doesn't matter! ”

"What the slave said is true!" The people of the palace didn't fight with her - the person who could be sent on this trip must be trusted, and he couldn't afford to quarrel with Concubine Fu so that his face was red and his neck was thick.

Sure enough, although the Empress Dowager and the others did not express their position immediately, their eyes suddenly became a little deep, and the Empress Dowager was silent for a while, and in the end she read on Concubine Fu's refuge in herself, and ordered: "Thoroughly investigate the whereabouts of the chamberlain, see if he has been to the palace, and whether he has asked someone to hand over something to Concubine Fu?" ”

Although according to the memories of the father-in-law in charge of the palace, this was already the year before last, but under the orders of the empress dowager, it was still turned out: although the chamberlain Li Yong had never served Concubine Fu, he did go to the palace to care for Concubine Fu and sent a lot of food and clothing.

What made the Queen Mother and her entourage turn blue the most was that one of the dishes was made into mandarin duck noodles!

Although Li Yong is just an internal servant, he is a man in the end, and he actually sent such a thing to the concubine of the first emperor, and there is no need to say what his intentions are!

Of course, Concubine Fu didn't admit it at all: "The concubine never paid attention to this Li Yong when she was in the palace, and after she went to the palace, she never received condolences from anyone or anything - not to mention that even if the concubine received it, the concubine would not pay attention to it!" The concubine is the concubine of the first emperor, when the first emperor was there, the concubine was once ranked among the nine concubines and was in charge of a palace, how could she not even understand such rules? ”

He also said, "The so-called palace maid who was entrusted by Li Yong to pass things to the concubine, when the concubine was still in the palace, she was quite sarcastic and difficult for the concubine, and the concubine saw that she was too late to take a detour, let alone receive the things transferred to the concubine from outside her hands!" This is certainly slander! ”

But at this time, the palace people found out another detail: "This Li Yong is tall and burly, he is also diligent in his work, and he has good skills in handling flowers and plants, and several palace stewards before him have deliberately transferred him to his subordinates, and even the father-in-law of Xuanming Palace, where His Majesty lives, also has a blue eye for him - but he took the initiative to ask to serve in Huiyi Palace!" ”

Although there is a queen mother and a concubine living in Huiyi Palace now, and a prince, because Empress Dowager Su is not only not the biological mother of Emperor Duanhua, but also supports her own son to compete with Emperor Duanhua for the throne, it would be good if she would not die inexplicably in the future, let alone power; Not to mention Concubine Nuan's mother and son, although the mother and son are rich and noble in this life, if they want power, they think too much.

But the invitations issued by other palaces to Li Yong were also repaid, Xuanming Palace, that is where the emperor is located.

To put it mildly, even if this place is swept in a corner where the emperor will not go at all, it is a bunch of people who squeeze their heads and grab it! There is a way that people go to high places, and water flows to low places, Li Yong doesn't want such a good opportunity, he has to get into the powerless and powerless, once the Empress Dowager Su is unlucky, it is impossible to say that he will also involve the palace people's Huiyi Palace, saying that he has no problem, who believes it?

Although the Empress Dowager has always been protective of the people around her, she couldn't help but change her face when she heard the words, and she was angry: "Then after he goes to Huiyi Palace, can he have a private relationship with the Fu family?!" ”

This time, it was Yuguo in front of the Queen Mother who came out to reply, Yuguo's face was very bad, she had been serving the Empress Dowager closely, and her power in Mingren Palace could be imagined!

It's just that power is accompanied by responsibility, although Concubine Fu, who had an accident this time, belongs to the concubine of the first emperor in terms of status, and it is not her turn to be a female official, but it happened in Mingren Palace, and she is to blame.

Of course, now is not the time to worry about these - after Yuguo settled down, he said: "Concubine Fu herself has never been in contact with anyone, but Concubine Fu's confidant palace maid Lianyi often goes to Huiyi Palace and is very familiar with several palace maids who serve Concubine Nuan. According to the memories of the palace maids who served Concubine Nuan, Lianyi would occasionally ask them euphemistically about Concubine Nuan's work and rest habits. Lianyi's explanation to them was that she was worried that when she went to Huiyi Palace to look for them, she just rushed them to get out of their bodies, and those palace maids told her that they were defenseless. ”

"Lianyi?!" When Concubine Fu heard about this, she showed a look of disbelief, "She has indeed been serving me, but I have never let her go to Huiyi Palace to associate with Concubine Nuan's people!" ”

Concubine Fu was obviously really panicked, so much so that she even forgot to claim herself.

But at the moment, no one has the heart to pick such a thorn - the Empress Dowager only said coldly: "You don't know that you didn't do this, it's just, what about the evidence?" ”

"The Empress Dowager, the concubine didn't expect such a thing to frame the concubine, but where would she prepare any evidence that is not proof?" Concubine Fu was so anxious that she knelt on the ground and kowtowed, and said with tears in her eyes, "But the concubine is really wronged, the concubine is not blessed, and she has never given birth to any heirs for the first emperor. What reason does a concubine have to ruin all this?! ”

The Empress Dowager looked at her with complicated eyes, and then looked at Yuguo: "Is there anything else you haven't said?" ”

"Yes." Yuguo glanced at Concubine Fu, who was bloodstained on her forehead, expressionlessly, and continued in a calm tone, "When the first emperor was still alive, Concubine Fu was very dissatisfied with Concubine Nuan's ability to accompany her from time to time, and frequently bullied Concubine Nuan by her position, and even forced Concubine Nuan to the point where she didn't dare to go back to the Lanqiu Palace where she lived casually!" ”

As soon as she said this, Emperor Duanhua's eyes when he looked at Concubine Fu also changed: the emperor remembered that he had also seen it at that time, and Concubine Nuan was chased all over the garden by Concubine Fu like a clown, dodging everywhere, in a hurry and embarrassed.

But he heard Yuguo continue, "Later, the first emperor died, and although Concubine Nuan was pregnant at that time, she couldn't break it off because she was still young, so she went to the palace with Concubine Fu. In the palace, it is said that Concubine Nuan was very excluded due to her age and the Wuhuan people. Concubine Fu was happy to see this, and together with the palace people there, she did some things to Concubine Nuan. The soft and soft that Concubine Nuan brought to the palace was almost all snatched away, so that before Concubine Nuan found out that she was pregnant, she didn't even have a decent quilt, so she could only lie down with her clothes - fortunately, it was not very cold at that time! ”

This can only explain the badness of Concubine Fu, but there is another paragraph below, "Not long after, Concubine Nuan appeared to be happy, and the father-in-law in charge learned that he did not dare to slack off, and after telling the palace, it was confirmed that Concubine Nuan was pregnant with the widow of the first emperor, and the palace naturally could no longer support Concubine Nuan like an ordinary concubine, and there were also rewards and imperial doctors in the palace to go one after another." At that time, Concubine Fu was both envious and jealous, and she once cursed Concubine Nuan in private for having a miscarriage, or having a difficult birth and two deaths! ”

Yuguo said this and concluded, "So, it is very likely that Concubine Fu poisoned Concubine Nuan out of jealousy!" ”

Concubine Fu was completely desperate when she heard this: because what Yuguo said that what she had done to Concubine Nuan before, including cursing Concubine Nuan for having a difficult birth, and that both mother and child were dead, were all true.

In this case, there are two witnesses, Lianyi and Li Yong, can she still explain clearly?

The Empress Dowager may be a little unbearable because of these days of getting along, and she is willing to listen to her explain a few more words - the question is that she has no evidence, what explanation do she have to give?

And Emperor Duanhua, who was under the head of the Empress Dowager, looked at her and already revealed clear dissatisfaction and murderous intent!

So even if the Empress Dowager still has pity for herself, how can she go against Emperor Duanhua's will for herself?

"Isn't it you?" Concubine Fu knew that she had no luck, but calmed down, she stopped kowtowing to the Empress Dowager, turned to the Empress Dowager Su not far away, and muttered, "Li Yong was found by you...... You didn't forgive me at all! Right? Because when the Empress Dowager wanted to pass your son out, I stood up and spoke for the Empress Dowager, and then your son really passed out, you can't do anything to the Empress Dowager, you can only hate me, especially when I come back - it must be you!! ”