The Legend of the Concubine in the Harem

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A bad premonition came over Liu Shuyi.

In an instant, she thought of her maternal family.

They started out as medical professionals, and this family has been passed down for several generations since the previous dynasty. They had long since abandoned medicine and turned to literature, but the family still had some secret recipes that were not passed on, and the Doushen Incense was one of them.

However, because aristocratic families all regarded being a doctor as a lowly profession, the Hong family today, a hundred years later, still regards themselves as a scholarly family to the outside world. Only some people who are very close to the Hong family know that before the Hong family became an aristocratic family, it had a history of offering secret medicine, being granted a title, and being given the surname Hong.

But... Old Imperial Physician Bai has always been a member of the royal family and has nothing to do with the Hong family. How could he know so clearly?

After a brief moment of panic and confusion, Liu Shuyi shuddered violently.

Yes.

Although they had lost the city fortresses, hundreds of years of savings had been destroyed and looted by the royal family, and even the servants and hidden households passed down from generation to generation had followed the imperial army in raising the banner of rebellion and destroyed the behemoths that had once been rampant on this land, but...the royal family and the court were still always on guard against them.

Even if they are just some dead branches and fallen leaves, those in power will never allow them a chance to revive.

"Mrs. Hong?" The emperor turned his gaze towards Liu Shuyi with great displeasure. "That's strange. All the palace maids you used have gone to Yuchunju. When did your family's secret medicine end up in the hands of Xu Xiaoyi, an ordinary woman from another family?"

"Ridiculous!" The emperor slammed the table.

If Concubine Xu had grown up in the Liu family, she might have had a chance to get the secret medicine from the deceased Hong. In that case, it would be difficult for her to defend herself in this situation today. Even if the charges could not be completely pinned on her in the end, she could not escape the fate of being implicated.

fortunately.

Although her mother, Madam Xu, did not have much knowledge, after hearing that a concubine's daughter in the Marquis of Jing County had died for no reason at that time, she decisively decided to hide the death from her daughter and raise her herself.

Fortunately, after entering the palace, Concubine Xu had the opportunity to rescue her imprisoned mother. She was absolutely unwilling to bow her head for the sake of her birth as the daughter of a marquis and the so-called blood relationship with whom she had never been close for a single day. She was determined to sever the blood relationship with these man-eating wolves and tigers.

Originally, as long as Liu Shuyi could prove that Concubine Xu really wanted to frame her with abortion, then even if the plan of the Bewitching Incense had some loopholes, it wouldn't be a big deal.

However, her plan failed, and the loopholes in the matter of the Huoshenxiang became more and more obvious.

"Cui Liu, Cui Liu, tell me the truth!" Liu Shuyi could only barely maintain her sanity under the tremendous pressure of panic. The already thin true energy in her body became gradually chaotic as her mood became unbalanced. Her chest and lungs ached slightly with every breath. This feeling aggravated Liu Shuyi's panic. She began to vaguely regret her decision to give up tempering her body for the emperor's favor and not want to sacrifice her slender and beautiful body.

"Tell me, did Lady Xu deliberately plot to harm me?!"

Like Liu Shuyi, Jiaqi also looked at Cuiliu who had just arrived with an uneasy look on her face. Cuiliu first knelt on the ground and kowtowed three times before she stood up and looked at the ground in front of her: "Your Majesty, I took the sachet away, but... the beautiful lady has never tortured Jiaqi, let alone had any contact with Fangfei in private. I was tending to the flowers and plants in Yuchun Residence, and I have seen Jiaqi go out for no reason several times at night."

As she spoke, Cui Liu glanced at Jia Qi and said, "Since she also came from the Yanzhang Palace, I reminded her several times not to make mistakes. Also, since I never saw Jia Qi going out at night again, I thought she had changed her ways. But this morning, the beautiful lady was going to set up an altar for the imperial concubine outside Yuchun Residence, but something went wrong with the sacrificial items..."

"The beautiful lady ordered Jiaqi to go to the Shanggong Bureau to ask what happened, but she didn't come back for a long time. When I was helping to clean up the altar, I found that the beautiful lady didn't wear the sachet to protect the pregnancy. Because the lady was kind to me, I dared to ask." Cui Liu sobbed as she spoke, "The lady just said that she was busy and forgot, and asked me to go to the room to get it for her. When I went to get the sachet, I found that it was very wrong, so I told the lady about it..."

"My wife said that maybe when Jiaqi was packing these little things, he was careless and accidentally confused the sachet she made for practice with my wife's... But the material and pattern of the sachet are exactly the same as my wife's. It's not an accidental mistake, it's clearly a bad intention."

Cui Liu spoke with great emotion, wiping her tears with her sleeves as she spoke: "I told the lady about Jiaqi's previous night outing. The lady comforted me and said that Jiaqi's sister was in Yanzhang Palace, and there had always been some old grudges between Yuchunju and Yanzhang Palace. Jiaqi just missed her sister but didn't dare to show it, so she had to act this way..."

"Later, my wife just asked me to find the sachet I usually used and take it with me, then she took Sister Shuangyi out to look for Jiaqi who had not returned for a long time." She sobbed softly, and her appearance was not as beautiful as Liu Shuyi when she was crying, but it made people feel more real.

Liu Shuyi broke out in a cold sweat.

She did deliberately wait for Concubine Xu to come on the palace road. It was indeed Jiaqi who came first, and Concubine Xu came later, and they had a conflict in words... But Liu Shuyi had always thought that the conflict was planned by Concubine Xu long ago. Why now, after listening to Cuiliu's narration, it seemed... as if there was another dark hand that plotted against both of them?

She trembled in her voice: "Your Majesty, what I said is true. I really thought that Lady Xu wanted to frame me, and I didn't know that this was the case with her..."

Liu Shuyi tried desperately to find any trace of a third party involved in this matter. On the other hand, she was unwilling to give up the idea that Concubine Xu had deliberately framed her, and she was conflicted for a while.

At this moment, Concubine Chen, who was twisting her Buddhist beads, suddenly asked, "Concubine Xu is pregnant, so she is not allowed to go to Lefu Palace to mourn. She only needs to set up a platform outside Yuchun Residence to offer sacrifices. The offerings are all prepared by the Shanggong Bureau. How could something go wrong?"

As soon as the words came out.

Xie Yuzhen realized it immediately.

Concubine Chen had another purpose for coming here today, and her purpose...if she wasn't like the Third Princess' wet nurse, who was determined that the Queen would kill the Crown Prince, then she was targeting Concubine Deng, who also controlled many affairs of the Shanggong Bureau!

"I don't know what kind of thing could have happened that would make Concubine Xu so anxious and go out with a big belly?" Concubine Chen said in a light tone and expression, and looked up at the emperor expressionlessly.

Xie Yuzhen, who was sitting next to the emperor, felt a sudden frost on his face. In Chen Guipin's dark eyes, there was a pool of extremely calm hatred.