The daughter of a general is reborn to save the whole family of the marquis

The atmosphere in the Zichen Palace was very solemn. Concubine Xie had rarely experienced such a grand scene, and her face turned pale after entering.

"Your Majesty, I am here to pay my respects. I wonder why the Emperor summoned me here?" Although Concubine Xie was panic-stricken, her words and actions were still calm.

The emperor's voice came down from the high platform: "This morning, has Lady Xie been to the Queen's Fengwu Palace?"

Lady Xie: "I woke up early and heard that the Queen was not feeling well last night, so I went to Fengwu Palace to visit her. However, the Queen had already gone out of the palace with the Emperor, so I did not see the Queen this morning."

The emperor pointed to the bloody sleeves on the maid's tray and said, "Does your Excellency Xie recognize this thing?"

Concubine Xie looked over and saw that the blood on her sleeves had dried and turned black. She was still shocked: "Your Majesty, I don't recognize this thing."

The Emperor said: "Master Xie is your brother. That piece of sleeve was cut from Master Xie's clothes. Master Xie doesn't even recognize the piece of sleeve of your brother?"

Lady Xie said, "Your Majesty, my brother has more than one piece of clothing, and I have had very few opportunities to meet him, so I cannot recognize every piece of clothing he wears."

What she said makes sense.

The emperor was silent.

The guards who went to search Concubine Xie's palace came back.

Yin Shao knelt before the emperor and said, "Your Majesty, I found this thing in the corner of Lady Xie's bedroom where the tables and chairs were piled up."

The thing was still on the tray. It was a piece of burnt yellow white paper, with only a corner left. On it were written three words: "Kill the Concubine"!

Even the word "kill" was burned a little bit, but it can be clearly seen that it is the word "kill".

This piece of paper seemed to be thrown into the brazier and burned in order to destroy evidence. Perhaps the wind blew during the burning process, and the half-burned paper flew to the corner of the wall and was blocked by tables and chairs, so Concubine Xie did not find it.

The emperor slammed the table and stood up: "Xie, you are so bold that you dared to murder the imperial concubine and frame the queen! Why don't you tell the truth!"

Concubine Xie was stunned. There was a thunderclap in her world, and she was unable to come back to her senses for a moment. She was completely stunned.

The emperor asked angrily again: "Xie, why did you want to murder the imperial concubine? What grudge did she have against you?"

The Queen burst into tears. "Thank you, my lady. I treat you like a sister. Why did you frame me like this? Just because Concubine Zheng once said that it would be best to marry Princess Anding to Nanqi to establish a peaceful relationship between the two countries, you hate Concubine Shang? You are willing to kill her?"

Concubine Xie was shocked and frightened, and quickly denied: "I didn't!"

"You don't have it? How do you explain the letter that Lord Yin found?" The Queen said:

"I remember now. On New Year's Eve, you arranged for the maid and the palace maid to send Miss Xie back home. Did you arrange for someone to steal Mr. Xie's clothes at that time? Just to put the blame on Mr. Xie for killing the imperial concubine?

"This morning, when you saw that things were not going as you had expected, you hid two blood-stained sleeves under my bed and tried to put the blame on me! Mr. Xie, you are truly a vicious person! You even dared to murder your own brother and the mother of a country!"

The emperor also remembered that Xie Mingqiong had entered and left the palace.

Concubine Xie shouted at the top of her lungs: "It was you, the Queen, who asked me to arrange for the maids and the palace maids to follow Mingqiong back to the Xie Mansion. What does this have to do with me?"

The Queen said angrily, "It is true that I asked you to arrange for the nanny and the maid to accompany Miss Mingqiong back to the palace, but the nanny and the maid are your people, aren't they? And I never thought that you would use the nanny and the maid to make a fuss, murder the imperial concubine, and put the blame on Lord Xie. When you failed to put the blame on him, you turned to put the blame on me!"

The emperor asked, "Which maidservant followed Xie Mingqiong back to Xie Mansion? Lord Yin, go and fetch them!"

After a while, the nanny and the two palace maids were brought up to the Zichen Palace.

One of the palace maids was at a loss and had no idea what had happened, but the other palace maid and the nanny confessed.

"Mr. Xie asked me to escort Miss Mingqiong back home on the surface, but in fact he asked me to steal the clothes that Mr. Xie often wore." said the nanny.

Another palace maid said exactly the same thing.

"We stayed in Xie's house for more than half a month before we finally succeeded. After that, we quickly returned to the palace."

Lady Xie's face turned pale with fear, and her whole body was shaking with anger. She pointed at the nanny and the palace maid angrily, her lips moving together, and she was unable to utter a word for a long time.

The Queen said, "Mrs. Xie, we have evidence and witnesses. You are still trying to make excuses. Do you want to implicate the Xie family? Considering that we have been like sisters for many years, you should just admit it and stop making excuses. I will ask the Emperor to leave your body intact for the sake of Princess Anding."

Concubine Xie was startled and looked abruptly at the Queen. Their eyes met in mid-air. Concubine Xie suddenly remembered what Nanny An had said when she met her outside the Zichen Palace.

The Xie family.

Her daughter is Princess Anding.

Concubine Xie suddenly understood that it was the Queen who wanted her to take the blame and die.

It turned out that from the moment the Queen was preparing to deal with Xie Lin and Chu Heyi, she had already thought of a series of escape routes. She would first kill the Imperial Concubine and then put the blame on Chu Heyi and Xie Lin. If this succeeded, the Imperial Concubine's death would be completely over.

Unfortunately, it didn't work, and the queen thought of ending the murder by making her pay with her life.

Every step she took was within the Queen's calculations, from arranging the nanny and the palace maids to sending Xie Mingqiong home...it turned out that it had started so long ago.

She didn't even notice it.

She always thought that she and the queen were in the same boat, and if the queen dared to sacrifice her, she could bring the queen down.

But now, she realized that she was too naive. It was the Queen who had always been controlling her, using the future of the stable princess and the lives of the Xie family to control her.

Perhaps, she was wrong from the moment she did that thing for the Queen twenty-two years ago.

She thought that the Xie family had done the Queen a favor and that the Queen would treat her and her family well. However, only now did she understand that if the Queen was willing, it would be a favor. Otherwise, it would be a handle for the Queen to sacrifice her at any time.

She is so stupid.

I only realized it now, but there is no room for maneuver.

All the strength in her body was suddenly drained away, and she instantly collapsed from her kneeling position on the ground like a ball of mud, sitting in the hall.

"I am guilty. I murdered the imperial concubine and framed Xie Lin and Chu Heyi. When the first plan failed, I came up with a second plan and framed the queen instead."

As Concubine Xie spoke, her face was as pale as death, her eyes were lifeless, and in an instant she burst into tears.

Xie Lin suddenly spoke up: "Mr. Xie, you and I are siblings. Why did you murder the imperial concubine and put the blame on me? Is there any deep hatred between us siblings?"

Everyone reacted and realized that, yes, Concubine Xie had no reason to put the blame on Xie Lin. Xie Lin was her younger brother, the one who shouldered the responsibility for the growth of the Xie family. What reason did Concubine Xie have to put him to death?

The queen's heart was lifted again.