"In order to keep this secret, you want to commit suicide?" Lin Xin'er continued to ask, "You said that the emperor threatened you to keep the secret, do you also want to say that the emperor threatened you to replace the crime of killing Taiyi Chen and find an excuse to abolish the queen?
?Or rather, the person standing behind you and threatening you is the emperor?"
These questions are very inconsistent with Jiang Ziyin's description. Ximen Jinglie also wanted to find out the real culprit who assassinated Imperial Physician Chen, and would not deliberately let Jiang Ziyin take the blame.
Therefore, Lin Xiner insisted on her own opinion, there must be someone else!
"No, the person who threatened me at first was not the emperor." Jiang Ziyin shook his head gently, "I don't know who he is. He is veiled and I can't see his face. If I don't follow his orders
If I do it, he will publicize the affairs of the emperor, the late emperor and concubine Ru, and he will use my name. The emperor will not let me go, and Prince Xuan and Prince Lingxuan will also be involved.
It’s embarrassing and there are many connections. I hope the world can be peaceful and the palace can be peaceful..."
"If this matter is made public, what will the emperor do to you?" Lin Xiner asked.
Could it be that Ximen Jinglie's attitude towards Jiang Ziyin is more serious than taking on the crime of murder?
"Mingjie." Jiang Ziyin said without any hesitation. This was what Ximen Jinglie used to threaten her to keep it a secret.
Those who knew about it back then were either dead, sent to the frontiers, or were being coerced based on their own weaknesses and did not dare to say a word.
And her weakness is related to reputation. She always regards her reputation as the most important thing and wants to be a respected queen.
"Although the crime of substituting murder made me a cruel and vicious woman in the eyes of others, compared with the other unspeakable stains imposed on me, which are enough to make a woman despised by the world,
It's nothing." Jiang Ziyin said, "That person is the emperor. All he needs to do to accuse his woman is an edict. Even if someone may vindicate me in the future, the lost reputation is irreparable.
How can the water be recovered?"
"Are you afraid that the emperor will lay unwarranted charges on you? It's just reputation, is it that important? As long as you have a clear conscience, why should you fear slander? God has eyes." Lin Xiner said.
"God sometimes closes his eyes. You are still young and there are some things you haven't seen yet." Jiang Ziyin sneered softly.
"But reputation is nothing compared to Che'er's safety. I said everything I needed to say and told Prince Xuan that although Che'er is very ignorant sometimes, please look at my face and don't argue with him.
, please try your best to protect him, the throne is not important, as long as he can live, I will be satisfied." Hiding his smile, Jiang Ziyin's expression fell into silence again.
"Do you think the masked man is a greater threat than the emperor now?" Lin Xiner asked.
Jiang Ziyin stated the existence of that person, but did not reveal the identity of that person.
"No matter who you are, you are terrible. The last thing I should do is live in this palace." Jiang Ziyin said leisurely.
If she had hoped that Ximen Che would have a high level of self-respect before, now she has no intention of doing so. Compared with Ximen Yin, Ximen Che is really far behind.
She now hopes to have the opportunity to take Ximenche away from the palace and escape from all the dangers that are coming, even if she becomes a poor person.
But, can it?
"Okay, I don't have any more questions. If my father knew that I also knew about his youth, I don't know how he would hit me." Ximen Hen touched his head, as if he had been hit in the head, and stood up and left the table.
side.
Jiang Ziyin raised his head, glanced at Ximen Hen, and happened to meet Ximen Hen's eyes.
Ximen Hen's eyes lit up and he said to Jiang Ziyin, "Concubine, I just pretended that you didn't say what you just said. Even if you did, I didn't hear it."
With that said, Ximen Hen turned around and strode out of the house.
"Concubine Jiang, don't worry about the prince. The prince once saved me. I will try my best to save his life. As for the throne, he really has no ability to sit on it." After Lin Xiner finished speaking, she followed Ximen Hen out of the house.
The door of the house is closed, and the sunlight that takes the opportunity to slip into the house is driven out again.
Jiang Ziyin was like a statue, sitting stiffly on the chair.
Her palms were sweaty.
If the story of the concubine began to surface through her mouth, she had already ignored the emperor's threat to her. At this time, reputation really didn't mean anything. She cared about it very much, but it had been lost too early.
In Cuizhu Pavilion, Gu Qingcheng is leading people to investigate and inquire.
Ximen Yin sat in front of the piano and looked at the busy soldiers and guards quietly.
Ximen Hen did come around for a while, but left quickly.
And the person he expected to see never showed up.
It wasn't until Gu Qingcheng led people to investigate and found nothing and left that Ximen Yin received the news that Lin Xiner had gone to Leng Gong.
Ximen Yin's eyes suddenly cooled down, with a cold and malicious look.
She really knew how to choose the moment. He was waiting for her, but she ignored him.
After Lin Xiner left Leng Gong, she followed Ximen Hen to his residence.
"Mrs. May?"
Lin Xiner looked at the woman accompanying Zhao Rong with some surprise.
Ximen Hen was also surprised to see Mrs. Mei.
"See the Second Prince." When Mrs. Mei saw Ximen Hen coming back, she stood up and saluted gracefully. Then she turned to Lin Xiner and said, "Ms. Lin."
"Why are you here?" Ximen Hen asked.
Although it was a curious inquiry on behalf of everyone, Mrs. Mei felt a little cold when she heard it. She was someone who shouldn't be here...
What about her?
Mrs. Mei unconsciously glanced at Lin Xiner again. No matter who she was, as long as she was Lin Xiner, she was an abandoned concubine divorced by Prince Xuan. She could come and go freely in the palace, following the second prince.
It seems that there is nothing wrong with being together, and... the woman in the room who is recuperating at the second prince's place, and the woman who once followed the second prince to Prince Xuan's Mansion, they all seem to be able to appear here, but she should not come.
of.
And she came with the permission of Prince Xuan, with the purpose of "getting closer" to the second prince. This "getting closer" was different from the kind of "closeness" she wanted.
"I... followed Prince Xuan into the palace." Mrs. Mei paused for a moment and replied, "Envoys from the Yuehua Kingdom came to see the saint, so the prince took me into the palace to meet my relatives in my hometown. Now they all
During the discussion, it was inconvenient for me as a woman to be present, and there was no place to go, so I walked around casually. I walked here unknowingly and saw that this garden was very quiet. I stepped in accidentally, not thinking that it was the residence of the second prince."
What a coincidence that I accidentally walked to such a secluded place!
Lin Xiner said nothing and walked into the room where Mu Ran was.