"The Imperial Concubine..." Concubine Yu looked at Chen blankly, and then said excitedly: "She... why did she do this, why did she kill Dongmei and Xiao Quanzi?"
Mrs. Chen shook her head and said, "This concubine can't answer your Majesty's question. You have to ask the Imperial Concubine to find out." As soon as she finished speaking, she saw Concubine Yu walking back quickly. She quickly caught up with her and said, "My Majesty, where are you going?
Over there is the Yanxi Palace."
Concubine Yu stopped and gritted her teeth: "I want to see the emperor immediately and ask the emperor to seek justice for Dongmei and the others."
Mrs. Chen thought for a while and said: "Then I will go with you, so that I can help you explain this matter clearly."
Concubine Yu nodded and went to the Yangxin Hall with her. Hongli was meeting with the ministers inside. They waited for a while before being summoned.
"Concubine Yu, why are you and Concubine Wan anxious to see me?" As soon as Hongli finished speaking, Concubine Yu knelt down and cried: "Please make the decision for Dongmei and Xiao Quanzi, and give them justice!
"
Hongli came down and helped her up and said: "I am already investigating this matter. Don't worry, I will definitely find the murderer who killed them. Don't be too impatient."
Concubine Yu cried and said, "Concubine... I found the missing hairpin." As she said that, she handed the silver hairpin that she had been holding tightly in her hand to Hongli.
Seeing the blood-stained silver hairpin, Hongli was greatly surprised and said, "Where did you find this hairpin?"
Concubine Yu cried so much that she could not speak. Mrs. Chen said from the side: "To inform the emperor, I and Concubine Yu found the hairpin in the grass outside Yanxi Palace."
"Yanxi Palace?" Hongli didn't expect that this matter would be related to Xianyue. After thinking for a moment, he frowned and said, "How did you know there was a hairpin in the grass?"
Mrs. Chen hurriedly recounted the cause and effect of the incident, and then said: "If Concubine Yu's jade bracelet hadn't happened to be broken, I and the others would not have discovered that the original hairpin was like a mysterious thing.
The numbers are the same."
Hongli's eyes swept across the two of them, and finally stopped at Concubine Yu, "Do you suspect that this matter is related to Concubine Yu?"
Concubine Yu choked up and said: "I don't want to doubt the imperial concubine, but if it has nothing to do with it, why is the hairpin outside the imperial concubine's palace? Also, why did the imperial concubine deliberately bring Xia Guifei to falsely accuse the imperial concubine today?!"
Hongli asked doubtfully: "Slandering you? Where do you start with this?"
Concubine Yu wiped away her tears and said: "Today, noble Xia said in front of my concubine that I killed Dongmei and Xiao Quanzi. The imperial concubine was standing nearby, but she did not stop her. She looked coldly at my concubine's suffering from Xia.
An insult from a nobleman." After saying that, she cried again: "Your Majesty, Dongmei and the others have been serving you for more than ten years, how could I be cruel enough to harm them?! It was clearly the imperial concubine who deliberately instigated nobleman Xia to say those words."
Hongli hesitated for a moment and said: "Sixi, go and invite the imperial concubine and Xia Guiren to come over."
Si Xi retreated as he was told, and after about half an hour, he brought Xianyue and Xia Qing in. After they had bowed, Xianyue glanced at Concubine Yu and Concubine Yu without leaving a trace, and lowered her eyes and said, "I don't know, the emperor
I have summoned my concubine and noble Xia to come, what are your instructions?"
Hong Liyang waved the silver hairpin in his hand and said, "Honorable Concubine, do you recognize this hairpin?"
Xianyue took a closer look, shook her head and said, "I have never seen this hairpin before, but...why does it look so much like the silver butterfly-shaped hairpin that Concubine Yu mentioned before?" After that, she said
Seeing the dark red dried blood on the hairpin, she exclaimed in shock: "Could it be this one?"
Concubine Yu said painfully: "Yes, this is the branch. Someone used it to blind Dongmei's eyes and ears, and pierced her ten fingers. And this person..." She suddenly raised her hand and pointed at Xianyue.
He said with hatred: "It's you, the imperial concubine!"
Xia Qing frowned and said: "Concubine Yu, don't talk nonsense in front of the emperor. The imperial concubine will never do such a thing. Dongmei and the others..."
"Were they killed by me?" Concubine Yu intercepted her words and immediately shook her head and said: "Noble Xia, I know that you were originally a person close to the imperial concubine, but how could you help her confuse right and wrong like this?
You have wronged me!"
Regarding her heartache, Xia Qing said coldly: "I have not helped anyone, nor have I wronged anyone. Everything I said is the truth; the deaths of Dongmei and the others have nothing to do with the imperial concubine.
"
"If it has nothing to do with it, why was this silver hairpin found in the grass outside Yanxi Palace?" Hearing Concubine Yu's words, Xianyue and Xia Qing both had a look of surprise on their faces. No wonder Concubine Yu took the initiative to mention the hairpin.
, which turned out to be this idea.
Xia Qing calmed down and said: "Really? But even so, it may not have anything to do with the imperial concubine. Maybe the perpetrator deliberately dumped it there, or someone deliberately said it was found there. In fact,
Where exactly it was found, no one knows.”
Mrs. Chen lowered her face and said, "Mr. Xia said that, are you doubting me?"
"I don't dare." Before Xia Qing finished speaking, Mrs. Chen said: "You say you don't dare, but in your heart you are very brave. I tell you that this hairpin is from my maid Yuan Xiangxun.
When the beads were found in the grass outside Yanxi Palace, there was nothing false about them."
At this time, Concubine Yu suddenly came to Xianyue and said sadly: "I know that the empress has never liked me, but I have always respected the empress and never dared to be disrespectful to her. The same goes for Dongmei and the others.
You...why did you want to kill them?"
Xianyue stared at her and said, "Concubine Yu, just based on a hairpin, do you think she was the one who caused the harm?"
"If it wasn't the empress, why was that hairpin found outside the empress' palace?" When she said this, a cold smile appeared on the corners of Concubine Yu's lips, with her back to everyone.
Xianyue saw it in her eyes, smiled faintly, turned to look at Hongli, and said slowly: "Your Majesty, do you believe that I am the crazed murderer?"
She wanted to know how much Hongli trusted her after going through so much, whether it was one or two points, or five or six points.
Hongli looked at her and didn't speak for a long time. Such silence made Xianyue's heart gradually sink, and she even had an urge to escape. She was afraid...afraid of hearing doubts about herself from Hongli again.
Xia Qing saw that something was wrong and said quickly: "Your Majesty, I believe that the imperial concubine will never be the murderer. That hairpin was deliberately thrown there to frame the imperial concubine. Don't fall into the trap of the traitor."
Concubine Yu immediately said: "Your Majesty, Concubine Yi's Chonghua Palace is close to Linyuan Pool. Logically speaking, if someone drowned in the pool, Concubine Yi would definitely hear the sound, but she and the palace attendants of Chonghua Palace had nothing to do with each other.
He insists that he has never heard anything, and it is clear that he intends to protect others, and the imperial concubine and Yi Fei have always been on good terms, and apart from the imperial concubine, I really can't think of anyone else."
[Author's digression]: I have something busy these two days, so there are only three updates today. Please forgive me.