The Legend of the Concubine in the Harem

The Marquis of Anguo and his wife arrived at the palace very quickly.

Yes, husband and wife.

When the wife of Marquis Anguo, who had been bedridden for a long time, heard that the affairs of the Zeng family involved her own family, she no longer cared about anything else and forced herself to be carried over.

Although the fact that her daughter was successfully appointed as the crown prince was indeed a shot in the arm for her, her physical condition was such that she still had to stay in bed most of the time.

The wife of Marquis Anguo was wearing a formal gown for a marquis’s wife and a nearly opaque hat on her head. The black veil hung down, making her skinny body look even smaller.

Ruan Xiang'e followed her parents with an uneasy look on her face, and paid her respects to the emperor and empress on behalf of her mother who was in poor health.

"Here is the testimony obtained from the Zeng family. You, Marquis Anguo, can read it yourselves." With a look from Xie Yuzhen, Xia Zhi handed a stack of newly written testimonies to the family of three.

Marquis Anguo first read it quickly with a gloomy face, then walked to his wife and read it to her in a low voice.

Through the black veil hanging from her hat, Ruan Xiang'e could feel her mother's body trembling slightly, and she found it very unbelievable what her father read in a deep voice.

It turned out that the mother of his cousin Zeng Suqiu was killed by her first husband, Doctor Zeng; it turned out that the death of his maternal grandfather was not accidental, but was secretly poisoned by Doctor Zeng. They even did not let go of the family of the adopted son of the Ai family, saying that they encountered a mudslide on the road and no body was left. In fact, they sent people to kill them, threw the bodies into the valley, cut down trees, pushed rolling stones and soil together...

Even the fire that happened when the wife of Marquis Anguo had a difficult childbirth was caused by them.

And behind Doctor Zeng, the surname he revealed was so familiar that the whole family couldn't help but feel frightened.

"......Mother......" Ruan Xiang'e suppressed her fear and raised her hand to gently support the trembling Lady of Marquis Anguo.

Covered by the black veil, the wife of Marquis Anguo had red eyes—not out of sadness, but a strong murderous intent.

Although she felt a little uncomfortable, she still acquiesced to her daughter's overly intimate action, and then she cried sadly, and moved her body with difficulty to lie on the bamboo couch below her: "Your Majesty, please punish this man severely, your majesty, your majesty, your majesty, your majesty, your majesty...your majesty's father has been loyal to the emperor and the country all his life, and he dared not slack off in the slightest. How could he have known that he would encounter such a tragedy in his old age...and your majesty's sister is so innocent, she just gave birth to a child for that bitch!"

The wife of the Marquis of Anguo suddenly tightened her hands, and a clear sound of tearing cloth was heard. It turned out that she had used her fingernails to tear the cushion on the bamboo couch: "How could there be such a cruel and vicious person, his first wife... actually had the heart to kill her... using a stone inkstone...?"

She couldn't say any more, and a wild beast-like howl emanated from her throat, followed by a spine-chilling "cracking" sound as if something was stuck in her trachea.

"Mother!" Ruan Xiang'e frantically tried to calm the wife of Marquis Anguo, while Marquis Anguo rummaged in his arms and took out a used medicine bottle.

Seeing this, Xie Yuzhen, who was sitting on top, hurriedly said, "Go and ask the imperial physician to come."

"Yes, your majesty." Xia Zhi left with his hands in his pockets.

The emperor frowned since some time ago. "Old Scholar Ai... although he did not always follow the mother's wishes in the past, he was a typical Confucian gentleman who upheld orthodoxy. Therefore, he contradicted the late emperor several times over the issue of establishing a crown prince."

The emperor was the adopted son of Empress Dowager Hu. In the last years of the late emperor's reign, the couple had almost completely fallen out. The throne did not fall entirely on the emperor at that time. On the surface, the late emperor doted on his youngest son and acted as if he was competing with his hated wife for this son. In fact, he just couldn't do anything about Empress Dowager Hu, so he used the emperor as an excuse to disgust her.

Of course, the emperor was not a good filial son in the popular sense. He found countless opportunities to help his father ascend to heaven.

Xie Yuzhen lowered his eyes and looked at the volume of testimony left on the table in front of him. In order to avoid losses in testimony or mistakes made by a recording official, the interrogation process in Dasheng always required at least two or more officials to record the prisoner's testimony and the interrogation process at the same time. The one just given to the Anguohou family was only one of them.

She gently picked up a piece of paper and turned it over. "Even if old Master Ai is only dedicated to maintaining orthodoxy, but... in the eyes of others, as long as he does not support me, he has stood on the other side."

The person he was talking about was the late emperor.

Xie Yuzhen looked at the emperor who seemed to be thinking about something: "Yue Niang gained a lot from her trip to the southwest this time."

"General Yunhui returned victoriously, and she captured all the royal families of Xinnan Kingdom. Naturally... obviously, it means the general who guards the country first?" The emperor narrowed his eyes and instantly connected the connections between these people. "Marquis Anguo once worshipped General He as his teacher. General Zhenguo and General He also have a deep relationship. If he intervenes in the affairs of these two families, it will indeed be much more convenient than others."

General Xian Zhenguo also did not openly support Empress Dowager Hu. As a wild man from the mountains, he did not understand these complicated things at all and even avoided them on purpose.

No matter what.

No matter what.

One afternoon, a young general who was returning from riding a horse fell in love with Lady Ye, who was also riding a horse on the official road, at first sight.

There was no sudden accident giving him a chance to be a hero and save the beauty. The two horses galloped and competed with each other until they reached the city gate almost at the same time. They smiled at each other in the afterglow of the setting sun, and this was the beginning of a relationship.

Ye Lianxin's mother, Princess Kangle, had been taken care of by Empress Dowager Hu for a period of time. She, her daughter, and her invincible son-in-law, naturally, like the old scholar Ai, became "traitors" in the eyes of some people.

Looking into Xie Ruizhen's eyes, the emperor was finally able to understand her true thoughts at the moment. However, this was not enough to make the emperor, who was completely immersed in this love, happy. He could feel that Xie Ruizhen was not very happy, but full of melancholy. He thought that as a husband, he should do something to make his wife happy.

"Then let's investigate the He family." The emperor said, turning to look at Marquis Anguo, who was shocked that General He appeared in the testimony. "Marquis Anguo, you personally take a team to investigate."

As he said this, he glanced at the eunuch who had been waiting for a long time and said, "Li Zong, you should also pick a few people to go with you. Be sure to be thorough and not wrongly accuse loyal and good people, and even more so, not let go of those who do evil."