The charming empress is too good at fishing, and the ruthless emperor has fallen

But the lover?

Where did the lover come from?

There was no correspondence!

Jingshu took a deep breath.

Although she was so angry that she wanted to vomit blood, she still forced herself to calm down and sort out her thoughts. The only thing was that someone was harming her.

The shadows of many people suddenly flashed in her mind, including the Queen, Concubine Xie, Concubine Ning... and finally stopped at Shen Guibin.

This dead woman was inexplicably hostile to her when she was in the East Palace. He even drugged her wine in order to make her have an affair with the guards. He used ruthless means to make it clear that he wanted her life.

Jing Shu had a gut feeling that the fact that she was slandering her as having a lover in front of Lu Zan, including the fact that she almost died of fever after blocking Lu Zan's knife, was probably Shen Guibi's handiwork.

At this time, Jingshu suppressed the hundreds of emotions in her heart and knew that her first priority was to clear her name of having a lover.

Just because Lu Zan didn't kill her in the past doesn't mean he won't kill her because of this in the future.

As for the moment, Lu Zan suspected that she was blocking the knife to gain status. First, she had to express her attitude, otherwise, the kindness would change.

"I didn't dare to deceive the emperor. In such a critical situation at that time, I really didn't think too much. I just saw someone injured and rushed over. In fact, I also felt a little regretful in my heart. After all, that knife was really too powerful. It hurts, and it almost killed my concubine, who is timid and afraid of death."

Jing Shu stated his true state of mind at that time word for word, making it clear that he had no utilitarian intentions in blocking the knife.

What she said was true.

Those utilitarian attachments were all born after blocking the knife!

Jing Shu lowered her head and didn't notice that after she finished speaking, Lu Zan's cold and sharp eyebrows became slightly calmer.

"It seems that I have misunderstood my beloved concubine. My beloved concubine is a noble-minded person. If anyone else were in such danger, they would act bravely regardless of their own safety, right?" Lu Zan's tone remained the same. indifferent.

"Your Majesty is so complimentary. If it happens again, I'm afraid I won't have the guts to defend others like this again." She said honestly.

Lu Zan stared at her respectfully bowed head, feeling satisfied.

But for some reason, I remembered that during the previous private meeting with her, every time she softly begged him for a position, there was always a small flame in her eyes that refused to admit defeat.

Rather than the low-brow and submissive attitude in front of me.

Lu Zan suddenly felt uncomfortable again, and there was an additional layer of suspicion in his heart. His face instantly turned cold, and he said in a calm tone: "My beloved concubine is injured. It's time to rest more. I'm leaving now. I'll see you another day."

After saying that, he walked out of the inner hall.

Jing Shu then raised her head, frowned and stared at his leaving figure, pursed her lips and secretly grinded her teeth: "What a bitch! I won't give her a place!"

She will be bullied to death by the women in his harem!

In an instant, I cursed him ten thousand times in my heart!

However, before the scolding was finished, Wang Zhong, the eunuch in charge of the imperial palace, suddenly turned back and said with a smile on his face: "Your Majesty, your Majesty just forgot. He came today to claim your throne for your Majesty."

"Really?" Jing Shu's eyes suddenly lit up.

"Of course it's true." But then, Wang Zhongxi said with a smile, "The Holy One has decreed that the empress should be consecrated as a concubine! As the empress of the Yicui Palace!"

After saying that, I waited for Jingshu to thank you.

Jing Shu was stunned for a moment and then realized: "Ah? That's it?"

"Uh, what's your dissatisfaction?" Wang Zhong's smile froze, he didn't expect her to dare to say that.

"...No, concubine, thank you for your grace." Jingshu turned around and immediately lowered her head reluctantly as a gesture of thanks.

"Your Majesty, that servant will leave first." Wang Zhong squeezed her sweat for her and withdrew with a smile.

As soon as Jing Shu saw his figure disappear, the anger in her heart surged up again!

She almost died!

As a result, a concubine from the fourth rank was given!

Dogs, men, people!

"What did she say?" Lu Zan saw Wang Zhong following him and glanced at him.

"Ms. Concubine Jing looks at him and seems a little disappointed..." Wang Zhong looked at his expression and said truthfully.

Lu Zan immediately lowered his eyes, twitched the corners of his lips with a sneer, and then walked away.

In the blink of an eye, a month passed.

During this period, Lu Zan never came once.

Rumors in the palace spread every day, saying that Jing Shu was not favored, so she only got a concubine position by blocking the knife for Lu Zan.

Jingshu's life is getting worse day by day.

Fortunately, the wound on her waist had long since healed. With the cream given by Lu Zan early in the morning, it didn't leave any scars. However, this time her vitality was severely damaged, her energy and blood were greatly depleted, and she couldn't eat anything good. So her body Still quite weak.

In the evening, the little palace maid Chunlan came back with a food box.

Jing Shu sat there, turned her head and glanced at the cold rice and the two cold vegetable dishes, and said casually: "I don't have much appetite, you can take these and eat them."

Chunlan was young and saw that she really didn't want to eat, so she happily went out with her lunch box and ate with Chunxin, her best friend.

However, not long after, only a scream was heard outside.

"Your Majesty, something is wrong! The food Chunlan brought back from the imperial kitchen was adulterated with gravel!" Xiu Qing went out to take a look and came back to report.

Jingshu stood up and went over to take a look, and saw Chunlan vomiting blood with blood dripping from her mouth, and her face was filled with tears in pain.

"Go and ask for the imperial doctor quickly!" Jing Shu looked tense and ordered quickly.

When she realized that this meal was originally for her, her waist suddenly felt a dull pain, as if the wound hadn't healed yet.

However, after waiting for a long time without seeing the imperial doctor, Eunuch Chen from the Ministry of Internal Affairs came.

"Your Majesty, this little palace lady has injured her throat. I'm afraid she will become mute and can no longer serve your Majesty. I will take her back to the House of Internal Affairs for treatment." Chen Deshun said.

"Then I'll have to thank Eunuch Chen." Jingshu didn't think much and let Chunlan be taken away, thinking that Chunlan would be cured.

However, early the next morning, she went to the imperial garden for a walk to exercise. While walking on the palace road, she saw two eunuchs pulling a cart with a corpse covered with a white cloth.

Jing Shu covered her mouth and nose, not wanting to look.

It is not uncommon for people in the palace who make mistakes to die often.

However, when the cart passed by her, she glanced casually and saw one arm of the corpse exposed from under the white cloth, with only half of the little finger on its left hand.

"Wait a minute!" Jing Shu shouted quickly with her eyebrows twitching.

"Your Majesty?" The eunuch pulling the cart was confused.

Jingshu took a few steps forward, lifted the white cloth, and saw Chunlan's distorted face that had obviously experienced a lot of pain before her death.

"Ah!" Xiu Qing took a look and screamed in fright. He quickly covered his mouth and carefully looked at Jing Shu's face.

The expression on Jing Shu's face was very calm.

She gasped.

Is this what Chen Deshun said, will he take Chunlan back for treatment?

"Do you two know how she died?" Jing Shu asked in a calm voice.

"How did he die? It looks like he was played to death!" A eunuch replied casually, and was quickly pulled by his companion. Realizing that he had made a mistake, he immediately put the white cloth on the eunuch and pulled the cart to leave.

"Where are you taking her?" Jing Shu stopped them again and asked.

"Where else could it be? Once you get out of the palace, then out of the capital, just throw it on the mass grave outside!" the eunuch said impatiently.

"I'd like to trouble you two father-in-law to bury her well." Jingshu took off a jade bracelet from her wrist and gave it to him.

"Okay." The eunuch took a look at the jade bracelet and smiled, as if he was laughing at her naivety. He responded and left again.

"Empress..." When the two figures walked away, Xiu Qing looked at her with some worry and fear.

Jing Shu sighed.

The next moment, her heart was on fire: "Let's go to the Ministry of Internal Affairs!"

The House of Internal Affairs has always been a place where servants come and go, and the empresses of the various palaces will not lower themselves to come here in person.

When Jing Shu arrived, Chen Deshun was sitting there drinking tea. When he saw her coming, he didn't even want to stand up and salute. He only raised his eyebrows and asked, "What is the purpose of concubine Jing here?"

"Where is Chunlan? I came here to see if she had been tortured to death by Eunuch Chen." Jingshu said bluntly.

"What does the empress mean by this?" Chen Deshun's expression immediately changed, "She is a piece of trash whose throat was slit. She didn't stand up and just rejected her last night. What does she have to do with our family?"

"Eunuch Chen, do you think I am a fool?" Jingshu asked him.

"Of course your Majesty is not a fool, she just doesn't want to be welcomed by the Holy Emperor." Chen Deshun smiled sarcastically, "It was not our family that killed the little palace maid, but the one who killed the little palace maid, but the one who was useless and unable to protect her! The Empress wanted to cause trouble for our family. , let’s wait and see when we have the opportunity to sleep with you!”

Hearing this, Jing Shu pursed her lips and stood there without saying a word for a long time.

The original desire to pull Chen Deshun's hair suddenly disappeared.

Another fire was burning quietly in his chest.

Lu Zan refused to admit that he had slept with her, so everyone in the harem still thought that she had never slept with her, right?

Then she would find a way to force Lu Zan to sleep with her, and everyone would know that she slept with him!

In the end, Jing Shu just gave Chen Deshun a cold look and left.

Another two days passed peacefully.

In the evening, news came from the imperial court that Concubine Shen from Chuxiu Palace would be sleeping tonight.

However, when Lu Zan finished handling his official duties at night and was about to go to Chuxiu Palace, he saw Wang Zhong coming in with a hurried look and reporting: "Your Majesty, it's not good. Concubine Jing accidentally fell into the water and fell into a coma! It seems... ...it was Shen Guibin who moved it!"