Chapter 324: Death Makes a Will
When they first got married, she was in her youth, her skin was white and red, her hair was black and soft, her eyes were bright and clear, and she smiled like a peach blossom in spring.
Now, however, she was pale and skinny, and there was no glimmer of light in her dark eyes.
Empress Wen asked, "I don't know what His Majesty summoned his concubines, what is the so-called matter?" β
The old emperor did not answer directly, but waved his hand and said tiredly.
"Everyone else goes down."
Xiao Ti and the others all withdrew from the study.
The door was shut, and everyone had to keep their distance from it to prevent eavesdropping on the conversation between the emperor and queen.
Xiao Ti stood under the porch, his eyes looking ahead, as if he was distracted, but in fact he was listening to the voice in the study.
His five senses are naturally sharper than ordinary people, and no one else can hear the movement in the study room at this distance, but he can hear it.
In the Shang study, the old emperor asked slowly.
"Did Concubine Yue's death have anything to do with you?"
Empress Wen asked rhetorically: "If the concubine says no, will you believe it?" β
The old emperor was silent.
Empress Wen curled the corners of her lips and smiled sarcastically.
"It seems that you have already convicted the concubine in your heart, even if the concubine denies it, you will not believe it, even so, why should you ask the concubine again."
The old emperor sighed: "Wangxue has already said everything, you don't have to resist uselessly." β
Empress Wen: "It turns out that Wangxue was caught by you, no wonder the concubine hasn't seen her today, what did she say to you?" β
"She said that you poisoned Concubine Yue."
Empress Wen seemed to have heard some joke in the world, and laughed unceremoniously.
"Huh! As the queen of the main palace, can this palace use it to poison a little concubine?
Even if she is lucky, what if she can really give birth to a prince?
This palace is the queen, and when her son sees this palace, he also has to be honored as the queen mother of this palace!
Even if he is lucky enough to inherit the throne in the future, he must respect this palace as the queen mother!
What reason does this palace have to poison Concubine Yue's mother and son?! β
Talking too much in one breath, coupled with her emotional excitement, made her breathing become rapid, and she couldn't help but cough violently.
The old emperor didn't mean to let the imperial doctor Xuan show her.
He just looked at her quietly.
Empress Wen covered her heart and coughed so hard that she couldn't straighten her waist.
In the silence of the study, only her cough kept ringing.
It took a while for her cough to subside.
Only then did the old emperor speak slowly.
"So, you refuse to admit your crime of harming Concubine Yue?"
Empress Wen was already crumbling at this time, and her face was so pale that she did not look like a living person.
But she still tried her best to maintain her demeanor as a queen, and she was authentic word by word.
"The concubine is not guilty!"
The old emperor's eyes showed a deep look of disappointment: "I have given you one last chance to confess and be lenient, but you don't want to cherish it, even so, I can only deal with this matter impartially." β
Empress Wen asked in a trembling voice.
"What does Your Majesty plan to do with your concubines? Is it a white silk? Or poisoned wine? β
Old Emperor: "If you kill someone, you will have to pay for your life, thinking about the relationship between you and my husband and wife, I will not make your crimes public, and in the future, I will announce to the public that you have died of illness, so as to preserve the last bit of dignity for you and the Seventh Prince." β
Empress Wen looked at him in amazement.
Even if she had already seen it, she couldn't help but feel in a trance when she heard the emperor's words that he was going to kill herself.
She entered the palace at the age of fifteen to marry the emperor, and she can still remember the scene of that year, the wedding of the prosperous era of ten miles of red makeup, and she married him under the watchful eyes of the public.
At that time, she was still innocent of a girl, thinking that she could grow old with the emperor in the future, and she had no doubt about her affection.
But the cruel reality gave her a slap in the face.
After so many years, all her expectations for the emperor have been worn out, and all that remains in the end is despair.
After a long time, Empress Wen came back to her senses, tears slipped from the corners of her eyes, but a strange smile appeared on her face.
"It is said that a husband and wife are a hundred days a day, and Your Majesty and the concubine are husband and wife, but you have never believed in the concubine.
Even so, the concubine has nothing to say.
The concubine can only die to make her will, and the concubine is innocent! β
Xiao Ti, who was standing under the porch, heard this, and secretly screamed in his heart!
The next moment he heard a muffled sound coming from the Shang study's room, followed by the old emperor's shout.
"Queen, what are you doing?! Come on, call the doctor! β
Everyone hurriedly rushed into the study, and saw Empress Wen lying on the ground, and the wound on her forehead was bleeding continuously.
There was blood on the corner of the table next to her, and it was obvious that she had hit the corner of the table with her forehead just now, trying to kill in this way.
The old emperor hurried towards her, and almost fell because he ran so fast.
Fortunately, Xiao Ti flew over and helped him with light skills.
After the old emperor stood firm, he hurriedly bent down to see Empress Wen's situation.
Wynne immediately had the Imperial Physician summoned.
He and another eunuch worked together to help Empress Wen up, and let her lie on the soft collapse that the old emperor used to rest on weekdays.
The old emperor covered the wound on Empress Wen's forehead with a silk handkerchief, and said bitterly.
"Why are you so stupid?!"
Empress Wen's eyes were half-open, and her breath was faint.
She said with difficulty.
"Your Majesty, the concubine has never harmed Concubine Yue."
The old emperor really didn't expect that she would still insist on her innocence at this time.
He couldn't help but have a thought in his heartβ
Could it be that Empress Wen was really wronged?
The Imperial Doctor soon arrived.
They gathered around the soft collapse and carried out emergency rescue for Empress Wen.
The rest of the unrelated personnel were all invited out.
Xiao Ti was no exception, he and Wei Xiao stood at the door of the Shang study's room.
Wei Xiao smiled defiantly at Xiao Ti.
"King Langjun, everyone said that you solved the case very quickly, and now it seems that it is nothing more than that, I have found out the real murderer of Concubine Yue, but you still haven't found anything."
Xiao Ti asked calmly, "Do you really think that Empress Wen is the real murderer?" β
Wei Xiao asked rhetorically: "Otherwise? Empress Wen has sufficient motives, coupled with Wangxue as a witness, who else can the real murderer be if it is not Empress Wen? β
Xiao Ti did not answer.
He was also suspicious of Empress Wen at first, but judging from Empress Wen's reaction just now, she really didn't look like a murderer.
Wei Xiao sneered: "Why don't you speak?" Is there nothing to say? β
Xiao Ti didn't bother to respond.
Looking at today's posture, he won't be able to go back for a while, and he doesn't know if he will be worried?
Thinking of this, Xiao Ti called a little eunuch and commanded.
"You help this king send a message to the Fa Division, saying that this king will go back later today, so that they can do whatever they need to do as usual."
After saying that, he casually handed over a silver ingot.
The little eunuch happily took the silver ingot: "The slave and maid will do it." β
Wei was very dissatisfied when he saw Xiao Ti ignoring his existence, and was about to continue to provoke, when he suddenly caught a glimpse of someone in the distance hurriedly running towards this side.
The little eunuch said loudly: "His Royal Highness the Seventh Prince has arrived!" β
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(End of chapter)
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