bastard returns

"Huatai powder! Why is there such a sinister thing in the palace!" After hearing this, the emperor slapped the armrest of the wooden chair with his palm.

The emperor knew the power of this thing. This medicine was made from several kinds of yin and cold things. It can not only cause pregnant women to abort, but also make the fetus die when it seriously hurts the woman's body. A jealous concubine used this medicine to murder a dragon fetus, which aroused the anger of the first emperor Longyan. Not to mention the execution of the concubine and the imperial physician who prepared it, he even issued a strict order to strictly prohibit the medicine from appearing in the palace.

But now, the concubine Yue's originally good pregnancy was gone because of the loosening of the fetus. How could the emperor not be angry.

"Where did that soup come from!" The emperor yelled at the maid who had spoken before.

The maid raised her head, glanced at the soup bowl in Zheng Taiyi's hand, suddenly trembled all over, trembling and buried her head again, unable to speak for a long time, seemed to be very scared.

"Are you deaf? I'm asking you something!" The emperor raised his voice again, and the court lady turned pale with fright, and looked as if she was about to faint. When he was about to speak, Shu's voice came from the side at this moment, "Your Majesty, don't ask, that bowl of soup was brought by my concubine Li Nanny."

The room was silent for a moment, Imperial Physician Zheng showed a look of panic, and retreated to the corner. Although the emperor had already guessed, he still felt unbelievable, "You really sent it here!?"

"Sister Hui Concubine...why, why did you harm my child?" Yue Concubine, who was lying on the bed looking weak, also propped herself up with a pale face after hearing this, and looked at Shu Shi sadly and said: "Sister Hui Concubine, my sister has always believed in you and respected you... If my sister has something you like the most, you can just come for her, and why, why did you take my child away!" There was a twist, as if the pain had reached the extreme, and she couldn't bear it anymore, lying on the edge of the bed and crying loudly.

Yue Concubine's cry was so tragic that the emperor felt distressed when he heard it, especially when he saw Yue Concubine was so sad, Shu's face was still expressionless, with an unmoved face, and he believed the situation in front of him for a while, Chong Shu Shi yelled angrily: "You vicious woman, why did you do this!"

"Your majesty, the concubine has not even finished her sentence, do you want the crime of murdering the dragon fetus to be confirmed on the concubine?" Shu Shi chuckled instead, "The soup is indeed made by the concubine. Mother Li sent it well, but the concubine has never done anything to murder the child in the concubine's womb, the concubine has a clear conscience!"

"Then tell me, why is there abortion medicine in that soup? Your servant brought this soup, and something happened to the concubine Yue after she ate it. It wasn't you who made it. Maybe she would fall into her belly by herself." Fetus, to frame you?" The emperor obviously felt that it was inconceivable that the Shu family would refuse to admit to the stolen goods.

"It's not impossible." Shu Shi said lightly: "There are records in the palace history books that the concubines of several dynasties would not hesitate to murder their own children as a way to fight for favor and frame, let alone an unborn fetus."

"Concubine Hui...you...!" Hearing what Shu Shi said, the concubine Yue who was crying happily raised her head and glared at Shu Shi. The respectful title of sister who opened her mouth and closed her mouth completely disappeared, "You It means that I intentionally dropped the fetus in my womb to frame you..." After she finished speaking, she let out a wow, and cried even harder, even ignoring the bloodstains on her body, she suddenly rolled off the bed , crawled to the emperor's side, hugged the emperor's calf and said: "Your Majesty, my concubine is so wronged, and my concubine's child died unjustly, you have to be the master of my concubine!"

Seeing Concubine Yue's miserable appearance, she really seemed to have suffered all kinds of grievances, the emperor hastily helped her up with his own hands, thinking that it was the same, how could such a delicate person as Concubine Yue be so cruel that he would drop the child in his belly with his own hands Frame others, and think of what happened at the gate of the palace on the day when Mrs. Shu returned to the palace, the emperor naturally felt that Mrs. Shu had a grudge against Concubine Yue because of what happened that day, so he used such insidious means to get rid of the son in Concubine Yue's womb .

"Concubine Hui, if you really recruited me, I will repay you based on my past affection." The emperor frowned and looked at Shu Shi, and said in a deep voice: "But if you don't recruit, it will be found out that this matter is related to you. , I will never forgive you lightly!"

Past love?Won't you forgive me lightly?Hearing such words, Mrs. Shu just wanted to sneer, what kind of person is the emperor, since she went out of the palace for a while, her heart was like a bright mirror, so she took what happened today as an example, without any real evidence, only relying on Ting Yue The concubine cried a few times there, and the emperor questioned her like this, where is there any share of the past love.

"The concubine is still a word, the concubine did not do it."

"In this case, before I find out the truth, I have to wrong you, Concubine Hui." The emperor flicked his sleeves, and said to Li Yigao who was waiting at the side: "Send Concubine Hui back to the palace. Do not step into the Hall of Jubilation."

Li Yigao responded, and led two eunuchs to "please go" Mrs. Shu, but at this moment, the Queen Mother's voice suddenly came from outside the bedroom, "Who wants to take Concubine Hui away?" , the Empress Dowager walked in from the outside with the help of Nanny Kang, and Sikong Xuan and Ning Yuan followed behind with first-class attendants. After entering the hall, Sikong Xuan immediately took a look at Shu Shi, seeing that everyone was safe, and then showed a reassuring expression.

In fact, from the moment when the emperor questioned the Shu family, if Ning Yuan hadn't pulled him, Sikong Xuan, who had been waiting outside, couldn't help but want to go in and speak for his mother. The soup was clearly served from the Queen Mother's Hall , How can you just put the hat on your mother and concubine's head like this?Later, when the Empress Dowager came back with the support of Mother Kang, it was the time when the concubine Yue was crying to the emperor the most. , Didn't make a sound until the emperor ordered the Shu family to be placed under house arrest.

Li Yigao obviously didn't expect the queen mother to come over suddenly, he was startled, and immediately stepped back and stood up. The emperor also calmed down, got up and asked the queen mother, and sat aside to serve the queen mother. I'm exhausted."

"The things in the harem are naturally something that the Ai family can take care of. There is nothing to worry about." The queen mother's face is not very good. Yet."

"The matter of the concubine Yue has been found out to have been drugged and murdered." The emperor explained everything that happened just now in detail, and said: "That's it, that bowl of soup that was drugged is actually Hui The people around the concubine sent it, and before the matter is really investigated, we can only wrong Concubine Hui for a few days."

After listening all the way, the queen mother glanced at Shu Shi and said, "Concubine Hui, why didn't you tell the emperor the truth?"

The emperor was taken aback, and couldn't help saying: "What truth?"

The corner of Shu's mouth pursed, and he knelt down suddenly, and said to the queen mother: "The concubine is incompetent, and cannot share the emperor's worries. If there is a misunderstanding between the emperor and the queen mother because of the concubine's affairs, then the concubine is really a millionaire." Death must be blamed!"

The queen mother nodded her head lightly when she heard the words, and said, "So that's how it is."

The emperor was puzzled, and asked suspiciously, "Queen Mother, what kind of riddle are you playing with Concubine Hui?"

"Since the emperor suspects that concubine Hui put medicine in the bowl of soup to cause the concubine Yue to have a miscarriage, then Ai's family may as well tell you frankly that the bowl of soup was served from the empress dowager's hall of Ai's family. Instead of doubting Concubine Hui, it’s better to wonder if Ai’s family drugged the concubine’s concubine Yue.” The Queen Mother’s tone was not very polite, but the emperor’s face was suffocated when he heard it, “Queen Mother, what you said is true. !"

"That's the truth. Is the emperor coming to suspect Aijia?" The queen mother narrowed her eyes and glanced at the emperor, making him speechless for a long while, and the concubine Yue, who had been helped up by the palace servants, heard this sentence His expression froze suddenly, as if he was a little dumbfounded.

"This... Zhen, how can I doubt the Queen Mother..." The emperor was also a little stupid, and didn't know how to answer for a moment. Seeing this scene, Shu Shi, who was kneeling by the side, blinked his eyes, and unexpectedly two drops of tears fell down. , choked up and said: "Queen Mother, why do you need to speak for the concubine? .”

"It's really stupid. If you don't say it, so many palace people in the Empress Dowager's Palace have seen it. As long as the emperor asks, he will naturally know that the soup is served from Ai's house. At that time, do you want to say it or not?" What's the difference?" The queen mother sighed, shook her head, and said to the emperor: "Concubine Hui has been ill for a while, and today she came to the Queen Mother's Hall to pay her respects to Ai's family. The family originally gave Concubine Hui a bowl, but Concubine Hui was thinking about Concubine Yue's place, so she sent Mother Li to bring the soup, how could such a thing happen."

After finishing speaking, the Queen Mother glanced at Imperial Physician Zheng, "Doctor Zheng, are you really sure that there is something wrong with the soup?"

"This..." Dr. Zheng's forehead was soaked with sweat, but he said truthfully: "Weichen has been in the imperial hospital for 30 years. Although he is not proficient in the subject of Qianjin, he can still test for Huatai powder." If the Empress Dowager doesn't believe it, it's better to send a few more imperial physicians to test it, so that they can prove it for me."

"The Ai family can still trust the doctor Zheng's medical skills. It is no doubt that the bowl of soup was tampered with, and the soup was brought out from the Ai family's palace. Since the Ai family is involved, the Ai family is bound to You can't sit idly by, you have to investigate to find out who is making trouble." The queen mother said to the emperor again: "The emperor must send someone to search the hall of the queen mother."

The emperor hastily cupped his hands and saluted, "The empress dowager speaks seriously, I will definitely not believe that this matter has something to do with the empress dowager, and why should the empress dowager have trouble with the dragon's fetus."

"Since this is the case, the Ai family also believes that it is too far-fetched to say that Concubine Hui prescribes the medicine." The queen mother continued: "It is purely accidental that Concubine Hui came to greet Concubine Ai's family, and it is also the same for Concubine Hui to give soup to Concubine Hui. By chance, how could Concubine Hui plan to such a degree that she just let Nanny Li take that insidious thing and put medicine in that soup? This is really unreasonable. Not to mention how Concubine Hui treated Yue Concubine's, the Emperor, you also take it into your heart, she was always thinking about Yue Concubine's dragon fetus even when she was using the soup at Ai's house, thinking of sending good things over, why bother to use crude and flawed means to destroy it? No matter what, the Ai family would never believe Yuebi's child."

Hearing what the Empress Dowager said, the Emperor also came to his senses. Indeed, in the past three months, other concubines in the palace were afraid that the Yue Concubine might make a mistake, so they avoided Fuyue Hall. Even the Empress rarely set foot there, and only the Shu family often Not to mention walking around the Fuyue Palace, she kept sending any good things to the Fuyue Palace. She completely regarded the concubine Yue as more precious than herself, and the first three months were when the fetal phase was unstable. If the Shu family really wanted to harm Yue Concubine's child, they could have done it without anyone noticing long before, so why wait until March has passed and the fetal phase is stable before using such a crappy method to make Yue Concubine Miscarriage.

For a while, the emperor looked suspiciously at the bowl filled with half a bowl of soup on the table, thinking about the strangeness in it.

Seeing that the situation was not going well, Concubine Yue panicked for a moment. She originally conspired with Sikong Xu to get this fake pregnancy, and she wanted to rely on Mr. Shu during the miscarriage so as to pull her off. It was only Shu's first three months. Obviously she was in frequent contact with her, but three months later she suddenly said she was sick and didn't see any customers. This almost made Concubine Yue very anxious, because she knew that the things disguised as fetal appearance in her stomach should not be kept for too long. Take it away, let it stay in the stomach, after the time limit, the connection between the Gu worm and the mother's body will become closer again, even if you want to take it off, you can't take it off, if someone sees her giving birth in October It's a bunch of bugs, why don't you tie her up and burn her to death immediately!

So when she saw that Mrs. Shu had sent Madam Li beside her to bring a bowl of soup, she didn't think too much about it, she just thought it was a great opportunity, and immediately mixed the transformed fetus that Sikong Xu gave her with I drank it together with the soup, and at the same time got rid of the contents in my stomach, I also blamed Shu Shi.

It's just that she never imagined that the things sent by Mrs. Shu turned out to be from the Queen Mother.

It's worth it!

If it is said that the Empress Dowager is going to kill her concubine Yue, I am afraid that no one will believe it. In addition, the Empress Dowager also said just now that this bowl of soup was given on a temporary basis. How could the Shu family have the ability to predict the future? Prepare in advance How about the abortion medicine waiting for this bowl of soup to harm her concubine?

Not to mention that in the first three months, Mrs. Shu showed great importance to Concubine Yue's fetus!

Concubine Yue panicked more and more, feeling that if the matter continued to develop, it would be bad for her, but the queen mother was sitting here, and she couldn't get in the conversation, so she could only break out in a cold sweat like an ant on a hot pot.

"Your majesty, the concubine has already said that this matter was definitely not done by the concubine. The emperor has a new dragon son, and the concubine has no time to be happy for the emperor. How could the concubine prescribe medicine to kill him?" Shu Shi said sadly, without stopping. Wiping her red and swollen eyes with a handkerchief, it was different from Yue Yu's dry howling. Not only was Shu's face full of grievances, tears were also streaming down her face. Thinking of the suffering she had suffered outside with Sikong Xuan all these years, the emperor felt in his heart. Pained for no reason, and said softly: "Get up, the queen mother said so, and I also believe that this matter has nothing to do with you, so I wronged you just now."

Only then did Shu stood up with the help of the palace servants.

"Okay, now it's time to find out where that insidious thing came from, Madam Li, when you brought the soup to Fuyue Hall, did you meet anyone on the way?" The queen mother looked at Nanny Li next to Mrs. Shu.

"Respond to the Empress Dowager's words." Nanny Li bowed, "I didn't meet anyone. When the servants rushed to the Fuyue Hall, the maids in the hall said that the Empress Dowager was having lunch, so I took the food filled with soup. After the box is left, it will be turned back."

"In this case, the place where the bowl of soup is most likely to be drugged is in the Fuyue Palace. It is easy to find out if you think about it." Opening the lid of the cup and lightly dusting the tea leaves floating on the water, he said, "Nurse Kang, you should take someone to check the Fuyue Hall up and down, inside and out, to Ai's family, and you must not miss any point." Something suspicious, understand."

"The servant takes the order." Madam Kang took the order without any ambiguity, and the palace servants who came out of the Empress Dowager's Hall with a ticket immediately began to search inside and outside the Fuyue Hall.

"Empress Dowager...what do you mean..." Yuebi said in a trembling voice with a bitter face, "Could it be that you are also suspecting...the concubine intentionally aborted...?"

"Concubine Yue, Ai's family is also for your own good. After all, judging from the current situation, the bowl of soup can be drugged, and only you in this palace can do it best." After a pause, the queen mother glanced at Concubine Yue, " Could it be that you still have something shady in Fuyue Palace?"

Yue's concubine's face turned crooked, she didn't know what to say at all, and she just left the contents of her stomach, her body was very weak, she gasped for a few breaths, and almost fainted.

After a while, Mother Kang came back with someone, with a solemn expression and a small porcelain bottle in her hand.

Seeing the porcelain vase, Yue Bi's legs went limp, and she said "it's over" in her heart, she couldn't stand still anymore, if it wasn't for someone around her supporting her, she might collapse on the ground immediately.

Imperial Physician Zheng took the porcelain bottle, took a sip, and immediately said in surprise, "This is Huatai Powder!"

"Really? It seems that the truth of this whole matter is about to be revealed." The Queen Mother closed the lid of the teacup in her hand forcefully, as if she had understood something, with anger in her eyes, "Nurse Kang, this thing is Where did you find it!"

"Yes..." Mother Kang seemed to have hesitated for a while before she said, "It's from the time that the concubine Yue was in the dressing table in another side hall... At first, the servants thought it was some expensive spices, but it smelled a fishy smell. Bring it over..."

"Really, it seems that this thing was really well received by Concubine Yue." The anger in the Empress Dowager's eyes became more and more intense, and she looked at Concubine Yue who seemed to be stupid, and shouted: "Concubine Yue, this matter You'd better give Aijia a clear explanation, otherwise you will spend the rest of your life in the cold palace!"

"I...I..." The concubine Yue trembled violently for a moment, but still bit her lips tightly, putting on a look of being wronged, "Empress Dowager, I don't know anything... I don't know why there is such a thing in the concubine's palace, it's a false accusation... a false accusation..."

After finishing speaking, the concubine Yue looked at the emperor again, "Your majesty, do you also think that the concubine deliberately wanted to abort the fetus in her womb? It is the emperor's flesh and blood! The concubine has been favored for many years but has been childless. My concubine's heart is hurting, now she has gone through thousands of sails to conceive a dragon fetus for the emperor, how can she do such a cruel thing to her own child, my lord!" After saying these words, she really burst into tears, looking very pitiful.

"This..." The emperor's character was already suspicious, and now that this matter has gone through many sudden changes, he was even more surprised, so he could only say to the queen mother: "Queen mother, if it is said that the concubine Yue will intentionally abort, it is to frame her." Others, it is really unbelievable, concubines in the palace have always been valued by their mothers, so why do Yue concubines do such an errand that hurts others eight hundred and self-defeating one thousand."

The Empress Dowager frowned tightly. In fact, she couldn't figure out why this happened. The reason why she was angry was because the matter involved the Empress Dowager's Hall, and even tampered with the soup brought out from her palace, even if it was for the Empress Dowager's dignity. It is also necessary to find out the truth of the matter, but now the truth seems to be found out, but it is becoming more and more mysterious. Which concubine is pregnant with a dragon seed? Crazy, who will knock out the flesh and blood in his stomach.

Could it be that someone was really framed?

Ning Yuan has been huddled in the crowd of palace people and watched all this with cold eyes. He knew that it was time for someone to stand up and push the matter to this point, so he turned his eyes sideways and looked not far away, standing with the Queen Mother's attendants. He Xiangu together.

He Xiangu won the favor of the queen mother since she entered the palace, so she followed the queen mother wherever she went. Now seeing Ning Yuan's eyes, she nodded her head slightly, stepped out, and saluted the queen mother: "Madam queen mother, I am old. I don’t know if I should say a word or not.”

The queen mother was worrying, but unexpectedly He Xiangu stood up, thinking of this fairy's ability, the queen mother could not help but relax a little, and said: "What clue do you see?"

He Xiangu nodded, "It's not entirely true, but from the moment I stepped into this hall, I felt a bloody aura lingering in this hall. At first, I thought it was just your concubine's miscarriage, and the excessive bleeding caused it. The bloody aura in the hall is too strong, but the old man suddenly realized that the bloody aura in this hall is not human blood, but gu blood."

"Xiangu might as well explain it clearly, the Ai family can't understand those mysterious and mysterious things." The queen mother flicked her sleeves, "What's so famous about this palace?"

"I'm so bold, I want to ask if your concubine's concubine's concubine is still there." He Xiangu bowed.

The Empress Dowager looked at Imperial Physician Zheng, and Imperial Physician Zheng looked at a concubine who was serving the concubine's miscarriage. The nun hurried out of the hall, and after a while, brought back a copper basin, saying: "Because the things are unclean, according to the The rule is to hand it over to the Imperial Hospital, so the slaves have been kept outside."

There is nothing formed in the copper basin, only a pool of blood and a few messy things that look like minced meat, which is very dirty and terrifying.

Imperial Physician Zheng explained: "Because your concubine took Huatai powder, the medicine is so powerful that the fetus turned into this appearance."

The Empress Dowager only glanced at it, then moved her eyes away, and asked, "He Xiangu, what do you want such filth for?"

"It's just to confirm the old man's conjecture." He Xiangu untied a sachet from her waist and opened it. There were some dried herbs in it. She picked out a few of them, tore them up, and sprinkled them on the pool of blood. water.

There was a sudden change, and the originally calm blood water suddenly began to shake slightly, and then the pieces of meat began to squirm horribly, one by one slowly swelled, and broke open, and then there were many ugly, leech-like things It got out from inside and began to swim back and forth in the basin.

The nanny holding the copper basin obviously had never seen such a horrible scene, she let out a cry of surprise, and let go, the copper basin knocked over on the ground with a bang, and those ugly things crawled all over the ground for a moment. Many timid maids in the palace screamed.