The Legend of the Concubine in the Harem

Wang Xuanshi was shaking with pain, her mouth was bitten and she said, "How dare you..."

There was another shrill scream. Xie Yuzhen didn't say anything to her. He twisted the wound hard, and when she opened her mouth, he took the two severed fingers and forced them into Wang Xuanshi's mouth. Wang Xuanshi's hands and feet were tied so tightly and she felt dizzy from the pain. It was only after the food was fed into her mouth that she realized what it was. She immediately exerted brute force to struggle and rolled on the ground, vomiting continuously.

After finally spitting out the severed finger in her mouth, Wang Xuanshi finally broke down when she saw the woman in front of her, who was several times more ferocious than a demon, picking up the severed finger from the ground and trying to feed it to her again without any disgust. She said, "I'll tell you! I'll tell you!"

Xie Yuzhen threw the severed finger away and asked: "Who told you about Concubine Ning?"

Concubine Wang felt pained, wronged, and scared: "My family... took the opportunity to come in to mourn for Concubine Huaijing, and met with me. They said that the queen would not live long, and asked me to express my attitude as soon as possible..."

"You are showing your attitude by running into Kunning Palace and barking like a dog?" Xie Yuzhen's eyes became more and more ferocious, "No! The ladies of the court only cry in the daytime, but you are doing it in the middle of the night, and after the comet appeared. Could it be that someone in your family has the ability to predict the future and calculated the time when the comet would appear... Lady Selected Concubine, you are not honest."

She raised the sword in her hand again. The blade of the sword was still stained with warm blood. Wang Xianshi watched the sword light approaching her face. Xie Yuzhen's voice was also extremely cold: "After the comet appeared, who took advantage of the night to inform you to cooperate with the previous dynasty to start an uprising?"

The comet rising from the east is indeed a big event, but what has happened in the palace in the past few days that is not a big event?

It's just that since ancient times, people have regarded the strange star phenomena that appeared in the sky as warnings or dissatisfaction from God. In serious cases, some people in the society would take advantage of the situation to cause unrest, which would then cause the government and the people to follow suit and seek an explanation.

Regardless of whether Concubine Ning really poisoned the late emperor, and whether the Queen was really an accomplice, if anyone had planned to target the Queen, wouldn't this comet phenomenon be a ready-made excuse?

Xie Yuzhen deduced that no matter whether the story of Concubine Ning poisoning the late emperor was true or not, someone must have made preparations long ago and planned to bring down the queen. It was only because of the appearance of the comet tonight that he took advantage of the situation to push the plan forward.

Moreover, the content that he had someone tell Princess Wang also said that once the matter was exposed, the first person to be sentenced to death would be Concubine Ning, and then even if the Queen did not die, she would lose her position as Queen...So when Princess Wang came to the Cining Palace to provoke the Queen who had just lost her child, she deliberately said that Concubine Ning had confessed her guilt and committed suicide!

But from the time Xie Yuzhen learned of the fifth prince's death and rushed to Kunning Palace, and then went to Lefu Palace to get the system back on track, it was impossible for the emperor to get around to ordering the death of Concubine Ning so quickly - the matter involved the death of the previous emperor and the queen mother and the concubine, no matter whether it was true or false, it was impossible for her to be executed without any trial or investigation!

What’s more, Concubine Ning is not just an ordinary concubine. She is also a princess of the royal family, and her mother died to save the emperor!

This suicide alone made Xie Yu realize that few of the words spoken by the imperial concubine could be believed. Unfortunately, although the queen looked serious and cold, she was softer than anyone else in her heart. She was worried and confused. After a series of blows in the past few days, she finally...

I don't know whether this was the intention of the person behind the scenes, or whether it was something that Princess Consort herself came up with based on the information she received, but it doesn't matter. She could say such words at such a heart-wrenching moment, which in itself showed that she had the bad intention of angering the Queen to death!

"If you don't tell the truth, I will cut off your nose." Xie Yuzhen said coldly.

Concubine Wang was in so much pain that she burst into tears. "I told the truth. It was indeed my eldest sister-in-law who told me about Concubine Ning and the Queen, and asked me to make plans early. Tonight, someone came to my residence in Changrui Palace to deliver a message after the comet appeared. They said that they would sentence Concubine Ning to death in the previous dynasty, and would also dethrone the Queen. They asked me to expose this matter in the harem, and the bigger the better..."

Xie Yuzhen stared at Concubine Wang's eyes carefully for a while and found that she was indeed shocked and scared, with no signs of lying. He couldn't help but reflect on the fact that he was also distracted and confused.

"Everything I said is true..." Wang Xuanshi wailed.

Xie Yuzhen heard hesitant footsteps coming from behind him. He raised his sword and turned around, only to see the eunuch sitting on the ground crying. The eunuch had a pale face and a terrified look on his face: "My Lady, this..."

Following his line of sight, Xie Yuzhen looked at the bloodstained Wang Xianshi and said, "Don't be afraid. She was stabbed twice because she was not honest. I will not let her die here and dirty the Queen's place for nothing!"

After that, she looked at Wang Xianshi again and asked, "Who was the one who gave you the message?"

Wang Xianshi shrank back and answered, "Yes... It's a palace maid I don't know. I only heard others call her Aunt Wang Yue..."

Xie Yuzhen didn't know this person either.

She turned around: "You'd better tell the truth."

Concubine Wang sobbed twice and shrank even smaller. She felt resentful but did not dare to retort, fearing that this crazy woman would really destroy her face or simply kill her with a sword... In the Dasheng harem, it was not allowed to punish concubines privately. Even if a concubine made a mistake and had to be punished, the empress had to be informed first, and then the people from the Shanggong Bureau would carry out the punishment.

Wang Xuanshi endured the pain and admitted defeat, but she secretly felt hatred in her heart - she had to survive, only by surviving could she avenge today's humiliation. She didn't believe that the Emperor would allow Concubine Zhao to cause the palace concubine to become disabled. The humiliation she suffered today would be returned sooner or later!

Xie Yuzhen didn't know about her hatred, nor did he care.

After she went out, she took a bloody sword and asked Li Fei if she remembered an aunt named Wang Yue, who was about thirty years old. Although Li Fei's mind was full of confusion and she was dazed, she still subconsciously searched for information about the palace people in her mind: "There is such a person, the treasurer of the Shanggong Bureau, who was recently assigned to manage the pavilion warehouse outside your Shouning Palace..."

After hearing the news, Xie Yuzhen ignored Concubine Li's puzzled face and went to find Yun. She told Concubine Wang that it was a treasurer named Wang Yue who instigated her to come and cause trouble in the middle of the night. She then said, "I have some important things to do in the Lizheng Palace, so I can't spare my time. You should send someone to find this Wang first. No matter whether he is dead or alive, we must catch him first!"

She wanted to see who in the previous dynasty would take the lead in blaming the vision of the comet rising from the east onto the Queen!

I have to sort out all these complicated things before I can continue to act.