No matter how much Wei Jingxuan felt reluctant in her heart, she finally walked to the Yangxin Hall when the sky was getting dark. She tried her best to maintain her composure and crossed the knee-high threshold, curtsying to Hongli who was sitting behind the imperial desk.
Hongli did not wake up, and said with an indifferent expression: "My concubine, do you know that I sent you here today, what do you mean?"
Wei Jingxuan maintained her kneeling posture, lowered her head and said: "I am ignorant and do not know the emperor's intention. Please make it clear!"
The next moment, a heavy blow fell into Wei Jingxuan's ears, followed by words that were extremely terrifying to her, "Wei Jingxuan, you are so brave to do such a ridiculous thing, did you know
crime?!"
For a moment, her heart felt as if it was about to jump out of her throat. Even though she was as thoughtful as Wei Jingxuan, she could not remain calm at this moment and said in a panic: "I don't understand what the emperor means!"
Hongli walked up to her with a cold expression. Before Wei Jingxuan could say anything else, the sound of a slap could be heard clearly, "At this time, you are still here pretending to me. I might as well tell you that Li Jifeng has already taken them all.
, he entered the palace not to assassinate me and the queen, but to see you, my concubine!"
Wei Jingxuan's legs went weak. Did what she was most worried about happen after all? Li Jifeng... was really killed by him this time. If Li Jifeng were here at this moment, he would definitely eat him alive!
She said in a panic: "This... this is simply impossible. I can only be considered an acquaintance with him. How could he risk sneaking into the palace just to see me? Moreover, when he assassinated the queen, everyone witnessed it with their own eyes.
Yes, how could it be false?"
Hongli sneered and said: "The assassination is true, but it was just an expedient measure he used to protect you. He has a very deep love for you. Unfortunately, he still cannot bear the punishment. He told the truth."
." As he spoke, he clamped Wei Jingxuan's chin and said word by word: "You are so brave, you actually dare to have an affair with someone and commit adultery in the palace!"
"No, I have never done anything like this. As for having an affair, it is completely untrue." The severe pain in her jaw caused Wei Jingxuan's voice to become distorted, and she said with tears, "I am a humble person. I am so lucky.
I was favored by the emperor and allowed my slaves to accompany me. Later, I made my concubine one of the six concubines and let her live in the Yongshou Palace. I was very kind to my concubine and I never dared to do anything disloyal to the emperor.
thing!"
"Still quibbling!" Hongli let go of his hand in disgust, "As early as when you were banned in the Yongshou Palace, you had an affair with Li Jifeng, so that's why he risked his life to save his life under the siege of the divine crow.
You; even after you were released from the ban, you sneaked into Yongshou Palace many times to have private meetings with you, right?"
"No!" Wei Jingxuan said with tears streaming down her face: "I swear that I am innocent. The night before, I felt a little uncomfortable and went to bed early. I had no idea when he came in until I heard what was going on outside.
"I just woke up from the sound. When the queen came in, I didn't even get off the ground, so why did I come to have a private meeting?"
A strange look flashed across Hongli's eyes, and he said, "According to what you said, Li Jifeng wronged you? Then tell me, why did Li Jifeng do this?"
Wei Jingxuan knelt on the ground with tears in her eyes, "I don't know why Guard Li did this, but there is one thing that I haven't figured out until now."
Hongli glanced at her and said coldly: "What's the matter?"
Wei Jingxuan tried her best to calm down and wiped away her tears: "The Empress said that she encountered a black shadow sneaking into the Yongshou Palace on the way. She was worried that the concubine was in danger, so she went to the palace to visit; but the night before, the Empress brought a lot of palace people.
Seven or eight, this is not an ordinary number of people traveling. Even if you include the palace attendants, this number is still large. In addition, there are Fang Guards and several others. I asked about them and they were there at that time.
Palace, moreover
That night, on the order of the Queen, she was specially transferred to the palace. May I ask the Emperor, does the Queen have the ability to predict the future? Otherwise, how could she have made preparations in advance and even placed the guards before seeing the shadow of the assassin?
Okay; also, as soon as the empress entered the concubine's palace, she kept saying that she wanted to search the palace, as if she expected the assassin to be in the concubine's palace; doesn't the emperor have the slightest suspicion about all this?"
Hongli narrowed his eyes and said coldly: "You mean, the Queen deliberately framed you? Even Li Jifeng and his confession were arranged by the Queen?"
"The empress empress has a virtuous reputation spread all over the world. I dare not have such ridiculous thoughts, but this matter is indeed suspicious." As she said that, she said firmly: "No matter what, the crime of adultery is
, I will never admit it to you, because I have never done anything like this. I beg the emperor to investigate clearly!"
Hongli's face was gloomy and he said: "If you go by what you said, the assassination was fake? But don't forget, the queen was indeed injured, and Qi Kuan almost died!"
Wei Jingxuan immediately said: "Yes, the queen was injured, but she was only injured on her arm, and her life was not in danger. If the assassination was really carried out, as an assassin, she would kill her with one blow, so how could she make such a mistake!"
Hongli looked at her silently, and suddenly raised the corners of his lips, revealing a smile of unknown meaning, which puzzled Wei Jingxuan. The next moment, Hongli's thumb touched her lips that had been carefully decorated with lipstick, "Wei Jingxuan
, I have always known that you can talk, but today... you still gave me a surprise. You keep saying that you dare not have such thoughts, but you keep accusing the Queen of colluding with Li Jifeng to harm you!"
"I'm not talking nonsense, it's true..." Before Wei Jingxuan could finish, Hongli said: "It's true that the queen brought a total of eight people that day, Qi Kuan, Jin Ping, four palace attendants, and others.
There were two palace attendants from the Changchun Palace. Concubine Ying was worried that the queen would return so late, so she sent her own palace attendants to accompany her. What a coincidence. At this moment, something happened in the Yongshou Palace, and they followed the queen.
Go in. As for Fang and the guards,
...You only know that the queen transferred them to the inner palace, but you don't know that the queen has discussed with me that Yongxuan wants to learn boxing, but the master who taught him martial arts is not good at boxing, so the queen proposed to choose a few good ones from the guards.
fist
The man of the law taught Yongxuan, and Guard Fang and the others had just taught Yongxuan the Vajra Boxing. When they were leaving, the imperial concubine asked them to escort the queen back to the palace before leaving. As a result, they happened to run into Li Jifeng's incident.
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His words set off a storm in Wei Jingxuan's heart. It turned out that Nala Xianyue...had long expected that she would make a fuss about Guard Fang's appearance in the inner palace, so she blocked all loopholes in advance.
Over the years, she has always been on guard and careful, never letting Nala Xianyue find an opportunity to deal with her. Over time, she even forgot that Nala Xianyue was also a person who either did nothing or never did anything; after learning about Li Jifeng,
, he set out to lay a dragnet to kill her, not even leaving her a chance to escape.
It's all the fault of that idiot Li Jifeng. Even if he killed himself, he actually harmed her. This time... I don't know if he can escape.