sick princess

Princess Longqing looked at He Xiang with a half-smile: "I also want to know the answer to this question. He Xiang, if you haven't opened that box, how could you tell the color of the pair of glass bottles in one gulp?" ?”

He Xiang secretly regretted her slip of the tongue: "Servant... slave..."

Her eyes fell on the pair of broken glass bottles, she had an idea, and said: "After the broken glass bottles were discovered, many people saw the appearance of the glass bottles, and the slaves also saw it at that time. "

"Oh? Really?" Princess Longqing, as the first daughter of the Empress Yuan, has always been very dignified, and He Xiang felt the pressure under her gaze: "You have to think clearly, if you answer dishonestly, you will commit a crime." It's the crime of bullying the king!"

He Xiang trembled in fright: "Everything I said is true, I dare not lie to Your Majesty and the Eldest Princess."

Princess Longqing turned her head and looked at Baoluo with great interest: "Baoluo, what do you think of this matter?"

"I don't really understand these things." Baoluo said in a daze, "Since I knew that the glass bottle was broken, which caused the emperor's grandmother and father to be furious, all I can think about is how to make the emperor's grandmother and father not be angry. , don’t get angry at the queen mother, I don’t have the heart to think about other things.”

"Then have you ever noticed what those pair of shattered glass bottles look like?"

Baoluo shook her head blankly.

Emperor Zhaode and the Empress Dowager also gradually tasted the conversation from this conversation, and looked at He Xiang rather unkindly.

"The queen mother and the emperor's brother have also seen it. Baoluo's reaction is the reaction of ordinary people. Ordinary palace people know that the emperor's brother and mother's queen are furious, and it is too late to panic. How can they have the heart to carefully examine the broken glass bottle? "Princess Longqing paused: "Unless——she knew what this glass bottle looked like early on."

"No servant, no servant!" He Xiang denied it in a panic.

"I haven't said anything yet, why are you panicking? Could it be that you have ghosts in your heart?" At this point, the smile on Princess Longqing's face had completely disappeared.When she wasn't smiling, she looked more majestic, pressing every step of the way, as if she wanted to see through He Xiang's disguise.

"Aren't you telling the truth? Who ordered you to do such a thing!" Although Princess Changtai and Princess Longqing do not get along on weekdays, she and Princess Longqing have the same interests in this matter.

The birthday ceremony was destroyed in the palace. In the final analysis, what was lost was Princess Changtai's face. Naturally, Princess Changtai hoped to find someone who could do it as soon as possible, so that she could breathe a sigh of relief for herself.

Emperor Zhaode looked coldly at Concubine Hui who was standing beside him: "I remember, this lotus fragrance is the maid by your side, right? Concubine Hui, come and explain to me what is going on here !"

"Your majesty, this has nothing to do with the concubine, the concubine doesn't know anything!"

"You don't know? He Xiang is your court lady, and you actually told me that you don't know what she has done? If it wasn't for your instigation, where would she have the guts to throw down the birthday gift that Emperor Sister Changtai presented to her mother? "

"The concubine just ordered He Xiang to stay with the empress dowager so that she can share her worries at any time. The concubine really doesn't know what He Xiang has done! The concubine assists the empress dowager in organizing the empress dowager's birthday banquet. If something goes wrong at the banquet, The Empress Dowager will naturally be reprimanded by the Emperor and the Empress Dowager, but the concubine will not be able to please her! Why would the concubine do such a thing that harms others and does not benefit oneself!"

"Really? I see that when the emperor's sister-in-law was questioned by the queen mother and the emperor's brother, the concubine Hui was very happy. I thought that the concubine Hui had such a big ambition. After the trust of the emperor's brother, he will replace the emperor's wife." Princess Longqing had never been used to these enchanting concubines, so she spoke very bluntly.

"Eldest princess, you just said that before the truth is found out, you can't make a judgment lightly. Why are you rushing to convict me now that it has not yet been determined whether He Xiang is guilty or not, and whether He Xiang belongs to me? You seem to be covering up the crime for someone." Concubine Hui slowly organized her thoughts, and refuted the words of Princess Changtai.

"You mean, Bengong is framing you? What a joke, you have nothing worthy of Bengong's plan!"

Princess Longqing glanced at Concubine Hui contemptuously, and flicked off the non-existent dust on her body.

This action made Concubine Hui feel that in the eyes of Princess Longqing, she was as insignificant as dust, not worth mentioning.Since she gave birth to the sixth prince, although she was not favored much in this palace, no one dared to despise her like this.Princess Longqing's action made Concubine Hui's eyes turn red instantly, feeling that she had been insulted.

"Don't cry, make trouble, and hang yourself. If you did this today, you'd cry your throat out, and no one would sympathize with you." Princess Longqing hated these concubines the most, and she couldn't move at all. Just come to this set.Why, is it possible that she is expected to be as sympathetic as a woman is to a man?Come on, looking at Concubine Hui's aggrieved face, she will only feel disgusted.

"Brother Huang, no matter who is behind the scenes, this lotus incense has no place to escape. Let's try this lotus incense carefully. It is not a trivial matter to slander the mother of a country in public. This matter needs to be investigated and found out. Otherwise, what is the majesty of my heavenly family! If you catch those who are behind the scenes and do not repent, you must be severely punished, so as to make an example to others!"

Princess Longqing really hated the person behind the scenes.

She doesn't care how those concubines fight and get jealous in the harem, but she absolutely shouldn't have brought the affairs of the palace outside.

Regardless of the mediocre relationship between Princess Longqing and the Empress Dowager, Princess Changtai and even Emperor Zhaode, as an important member of the clan and a direct descendant of the royal family, she is the one who pays the most attention to maintaining the majesty of the royal family.This time she stood up, not to help Empress Xu who had no friendship with her, but some concubines in the harem did annoy her and pushed her to Empress Xu's side.

He Xiang took a deep look at Concubine Hui, was stunned for a moment, and said: "This matter was done by my maidservant alone, no one instigated it. Because this maidservant is jealous of Miss Dujuan next to the empress, she wants to teach her a lesson. Just smashed Princess Changtai's glazed vase. The slaves were obsessed with ghosts for a while, and made such a big mistake, they really have no face to plead for themselves. Please punish the emperor."

"Just now you were bitten to death and refused to admit that you did this. Why did you become so righteous all of a sudden? Don't tell me, you really have repented..." Princess Longqing's eyes fell on Hui Concubine and He Xiang looked back and forth for a while, then sneered, "Or, what kind of information did someone send you that made you dare not tell the truth?"

Emperor Zhaode couldn't bear it anymore: "Pull this low-servant down for interrogation, I don't believe it, I can't pry her mouth open!"

What he said was to interrogate He Xiang, but Emperor Zhaode's suspicious eyes had already fallen on Concubine Hui. Obviously, he didn't believe that this matter had nothing to do with Concubine Hui.

Princess Longqing is right. Now that the imperial concubine is grounded, he has always disliked the queen.If the empress made any serious mistakes while in charge of the palace, it is very likely that the power of the six palaces will fall to Concubine Hui and Concubine Feng De.Concubine Feng De has always kept herself safe, but it was Concubine Hui who took advantage of her bedtime a few days ago and was ambitious to seek more rights...

When Emperor Zhaode saw Concubine Hui pleasing to his eyes, Concubine Hui was right in everything she did; once he became suspicious of Concubine Hui, he felt that Concubine Hui was premeditated in everything she did.

"Your majesty, it has nothing to do with the concubine at this time. Although He Xiang is a concubine on the surface, she actually has another owner. How can the concubine order her? I hope the emperor will find out the truth and return the concubine." A clean one."

"At this point, you still want to drag other people into the water. Concubine Hui, concubine Hui, I really misread you. I thought that the only ignorant person in the palace was Mrs. Zhuang, but I didn't expect you to give in too much!"

After hearing Emperor Zhaode's words, Concubine Hui felt flustered.She knew that she had completely lost Emperor Zhaode's trust.

If she had known earlier, she would not have gotten involved in these matters.Although the power to be in charge of the palace is important, it is not worth her to trade Emperor Zhaode's trust in her.With Emperor Zhaode's trust and love, she will get everything sooner or later; without Emperor Zhaode's trust, even if she gets everything, she will lose it sooner or later!

"Your majesty, the concubine is wrong! The concubine is really wrong! The concubine knows that He Xiang belongs to the imperial concubine, and she also knows that the concubine is going to arrange someone to restrain the empress dowager on her birthday. The concubine did not do so out of selfishness. Stop it... But the concubine really never ordered someone to break Princess Changtai's vase and frame the empress. It was the concubine's fault, the concubine admitted it, it was not the concubine's fault, the concubine could not admit it! Your Majesty, please Find out the truth and return my concubine's innocence!"

Facing Concubine Hui's begging, Emperor Zhaode turned his head coldly: "You have been lying! Now, I don't know which words of yours I can believe and which words I can't."

Concubine Hui slowly collapsed on the ground: "Why don't you trust your concubine...Since the imperial concubine can place someone by your side, why can't you place someone beside your concubine? Trust the imperial concubine as always, but don't believe what the concubine said?"

Emperor Zhaode slowly frowned when he heard the words, and said coldly: "How do you compare with the imperial concubine? At least, the imperial concubine has never lied to me again and again like you!"

At this time, Emperor Zhaode heard the people around him report: "Your Majesty, that He Xiang refused to recruit anything, and now she has committed suicide. The servants did not expect that she carried a highly poisonous substance on her body from the very beginning. Failure to stop her in time was the fault of the servants, please punish her!"

The person below carefully took out a wooden pendant: "She hid the poison in this pendant. The poison is so overbearing that it can kill people in the blink of an eye. I have little knowledge and have never seen such a thing. Such poisons."

"Bring me all the imperial physicians on duty in the imperial hospital!"

Emperor Zhaode issued an order, so all the imperial physicians had to rush over as quickly as possible.

An experienced old doctor looked at the wooden pendant carefully for a while, and suddenly turned on the switch of the pendant, only to see a little milky white juice flow out of it.

"Your Majesty, this tree is called 'Seeing Blood Sealing Throat', and it grows in the land of Yunnan and Guizhou. Once the juice in it touches the wound, it will kill people in an instant."

Hearing this, the Empress Dowager and Emperor Zhaode changed their expressions almost instantly.Someone actually brought such a highly poisonous thing into the palace right under their noses!What would happen if they didn't find out in time?Thinking about it makes people shudder.

"Brother Huang, my sister has also heard about this tree. This tree grows in hot areas and is a rare toxin... I heard that the place where Concubine Hui's father, Mr. He, works is close to the land of Yunnan and Guizhou... ..." Princess Changtai stared at Concubine Hui with her sharp eyes, "I don't know what someone is trying to do by bringing this poison into the palace. It's simply impossible to guard against!"

Emperor Zhaode's eyes froze: "Come here, search for Concubine Hui's palace for me!"