An Lingrong's Rebirth: Red

The letters from the Fourth Prince of the Old Summer Palace were considered family letters, and therefore did not need to go through layers of screening like memorials from ministers before being presented to the Emperor.

Usually someone is assigned to keep an eye on it and send any letters to Su Peisheng as soon as they come in.

Su Peisheng would look at the emperor's attitude today and choose a time when he was in a good mood to deliver it.

The Fourth Prince's letters were very simple. Most of them contained poems or articles he had learned recently, and occasionally he would express a few words of missing someone in the letters.

He never talked about how he was doing in the Old Summer Palace, nor did he mention that he wanted to go to the Emperor's side. Instead, this made the Emperor take a closer look at his letters and ask a few more questions about his situation.

But this time it was different, the letter was much thicker than usual. Su Peisheng had been hinted by Zhen Changzai these two days that he wanted to see if there was any letter from Concubine Hui, so as to know how she was doing in the Old Summer Palace.

Therefore, as soon as he touched the thick letter, Su Peisheng knew that Concubine Hui's letter was probably sandwiched among the Fourth Prince's family letters.

Because of Cui Jinxi, Su Peisheng did not have much affection for Zhen Changzai, and he would not touch the letter from the Fourth Prince to the Emperor just for the money.

He pretended to be calm and delivered the letter to the emperor.

"Your Majesty, the letter from the Fourth Prince has arrived."

The emperor put down the pen in his hand and picked up the envelope with a complicated expression. "It seems that there are a lot of letters this time, but what happened to him?"

"There is no news from the Old Summer Palace that the Fourth Prince is unwell," Su Peisheng pretended to recall. He hummed as if to confirm, "Indeed, there is no news. Perhaps it is because the Emperor left the Garden not long ago, and the Fourth Prince suddenly couldn't hear any news from the Emperor, so he missed him too much."

Su Peisheng made a cup of tea for the emperor, and his guess was reasonable.

The emperor had no doubts and opened the letter without hesitation.

The letter was just like usual. The Fourth Prince told about what books he had learned and what characters he knew. When the Emperor saw the handwriting, he smiled. "Your handwriting has improved. The characters are full and strong, but they are too frivolous. You still need to temper your temper."

Su Peisheng didn't understand these calligraphy techniques, he just smiled and waited until the tea was eight-tenths hot before handing it to the emperor.

The emperor took a sip of the tea, commented on it, and then turned to the next page.

The next page was not a letter written by the Fourth Prince, but a self-certification letter from Shen Meizhuang.

In the letter, Shen Meizhuang confessed how Zhen Changzai framed her and how her unborn child was a ghost baby. She also listed the evidence that Zhen Changzai bribed the Imperial Observatory and those so-called eminent monks.

The remaining pages contained the testimonies of the palace maids who served Zhen Chang, and every word of it shocked the emperor.

The teacup in his hand fell to the ground, and Su Peisheng felt his scalp tighten, and he knelt down neatly. "Your Majesty, please forgive me. I must have tried the wrong temperature."

Xiao Xiazi also knelt down behind him. At this time, he didn't know the difference between 80% hot and 70% hot. He always felt that there was not much difference when he drank it.

I was even muttering in my heart that the emperor's anger was too inexplicable.

The emperor's face was livid, and he had no intention of listening to Su Peisheng's words of apology and begging for mercy. He flipped through the letters page by page, and after the testimonies was what Shen Meizhuang wrote, expressing her surprise and expectation as a new mother.

Her writing was brilliant, and when she mentioned the fetal movement and surprise, and the emperor's tenderness and care, the emperor's expression softened.

But soon the joy turned into sorrow, and Shen Meizhuang began to question the heavens, why they allowed her child to be born into the world and let him bear the infamy of being the unlucky one.

She was in grief every day, worried about her child and even more worried about the emperor. Until the child was maliciously aborted, she didn't even know whether she was sad or relieved at that time.

Every word she spoke seemed sincere. Even though the child was borne by Zhen Changzai at the order of the Emperor himself, she could not help but empathize with Shen Meiyu and was extremely sad.

Especially when he saw that the child's so-called father-killing and bad luck were all deliberately framed by Zhen Chang, he became extremely angry.

I was actually deceived and played around by a little concubine, and even ordered the abortion of an imperial heir.

The emperor kept cursing in his heart, wanting to kill her, wanting to kill that vicious and vicious Zhen Huan.

"How outrageous! How outrageous!" The emperor slammed the letter on the table. He tried hard to suppress his anger and not lose his composure.

But the feeling of being fooled could not be shaken off. The more the emperor thought about it, the angrier he became, but his face was as calm as dead water.

There were already people kneeling on the ground in the Yangxin Palace. When Su Peisheng saw the emperor's face, he knew that if he spoke at this moment, he would probably bring all the emperor's anger upon himself.

Therefore, he could only kneel quietly and wait for the emperor to ease his anger a little.

The emperor counted the beads and it took him a while to suppress his anger.

"Xiao Xiazi, go to Yuanmingyuan and bring back Concubine Hui. Su Peisheng," the emperor hesitated for a moment, "invite Concubine Zhen over, and arrest all the people in Yongshou Palace."

"Yes." Su Peisheng agreed immediately. After asking someone to clean up the spilled teacups in the hall, he straightened his expression and went to Yongshou Palace with a smile to convey the emperor's order.

Zhen Huan was anxious in the palace. She had never received any news about Liu Zhu, and Xiao Yunzi had just followed the Queen's people to the Old Summer Palace. Everything was unknown, and she could only wait anxiously.

But as soon as she saw Su Peisheng, she immediately suppressed her anxious look, "Eunuch Su, does the emperor have any instructions?"

Su Peisheng bowed slightly, his face was not strange at all, and even full of smiles, "The emperor has just got a piece of calligraphy, and wants to invite Zhen Changzai to take a look at it."

Zhen Huan smiled immediately after hearing this. The emperor was well-read and talented, and he had his own opinions when talking about poetry, calligraphy and painting. "Please wait a moment, eunuch. I will bring the pajamas I embroidered for you."

Su Peisheng did not rush her and waited quietly for Zhen Huan to get her pajamas before he cleared the way and took her to the Yangxin Palace.

As soon as she went out, she met a group of guards passing by. Zhen Huan was quite curious and looked at them from a distance for a few more times, "Eunuch Su, this is..."

"I haven't heard anything about it. I guess it's time for the guards to change shifts."

Although Zhen Huan had doubts about this, she didn't think it was a serious matter that would endanger her, so she stopped paying attention to it and followed Su Peisheng to the Yangxin Palace.

After the few people left, the team of guards immediately surrounded the Yongshou Palace and captured all the palace servants for interrogation.

As soon as Zhen Huan stepped into the Palace of Tranquil Longevity, she felt that the atmosphere was a little stagnant. None of the palace servants smiled at her, and they didn't even greet her.

But Su Peisheng beside her was still respectful. Zhen Huan felt a little relieved and entered the inner hall with confidence.

Su Peisheng did not go in. He kept Huanbi as well, said goodbye to Zhen Huan, and then closed the door.

"Your Majesty was in such a hurry that I didn't even have time to dress up properly." Zhen Huan smiled tenderly as she unfolded the embroidered nightgown. "Your Majesty likes the pattern of a golden dragon emerging from the clouds. I have finished embroidering it today. Please take a look and see if you like it."

The emperor looked sullen and just glanced at the nightgown casually. "Not bad, put it over there."

"Your Majesty...is not in a good mood?" Zhen Huan felt that the Emperor was not as gentle as before, and could even be said to be a little cold. "Did something happen?"

The emperor nodded, and he pushed the letter written by Shen Meizhuang to Zhen Huan and asked her to read it carefully.

Zhen Huan didn't understand what was going on, she picked up the letter and read it carefully, one line at a time. Her originally calm expression immediately changed, and the hand holding the letter began to tremble slightly.

Shen Meizhuang's tearful words frightened Zhen Huan. She shed tears unconsciously. No one knew whether these tears were shed for Shen Meizhuang or for herself.

But Zhen Huan knew very well that even if Xiao Yunzi went to the Old Summer Palace and really killed Liu Zhu, it would not be able to reverse the current defeat.

She pressed the papers against her chest and looked up at the emperor pitifully.

The emperor looked at Zhen Huan silently. Now that she was crying, she seemed more like Chun Yuan, with that little movement of biting her lips and those eyes that seemed to want to say something but couldn't.

"Your Majesty..." Zhen Huan finally spoke, but she didn't know what to say. Should she argue that she didn't do it, or should she talk about their past love and friendship and ask the emperor for a lenient sentence?

"You are the one who did all these things." The emperor sighed and finally asked this question. In fact, he already had the answer in his mind, and the so-called evidence should have been in his hands by now.

Zhen Huan didn't say anything. She sighed and finally nodded slowly.

The emperor also let out a long sigh. In this ghost fetus case, he was deceived by his most beloved concubine, and together they wielded the knife against his hard-earned child.

Maybe this is God's retribution to me.

"I did bribe the Imperial Observatory, but if His Majesty still remembers, the Imperial Observatory only said that the heir to the throne is connected to His Majesty by blood, and if the heir to the throne is impacted by Yin Qi, it will affect His Majesty's dragon body."

The tears on Zhen Huan's face never stopped flowing, and they continued to flow down in strings, "The theory of ghost fetus has never been confirmed by the Imperial Observatory."

The emperor thought about it for a moment and suddenly remembered that the person who proposed the theory of ghost fetus was a high monk.

Zhen Huan knew that the emperor had remembered it, so she did not remove herself, "I admit that I bribed the Imperial Observatory, but I really do not have the ability and financial resources to bribe so many monks.

In fact, even trying to bribe the Imperial Observatory was a helpless move for me.”

Zhen Huan didn't dare to directly implicate the Queen. After all, the evidence of her private meeting with Prince Guo was still in the Queen's hands. She was afraid that if she implicated the Queen, it would implicate the entire Zhen family.

Zhen Huan wiped away the tears on her face, placed the letters neatly on the table, and then slowly knelt on the ground.

"I plead guilty. Please punish me, Your Majesty."

Now that Zhen Huan no longer makes a fuss or argues for herself, the Emperor is unable to bear the heart to sentence her to death.

"You said it was a helpless act. How could it be a helpless act?"

Zhen Huan just shook her head. She didn't dare to say anything, let alone say anything. She could only remain silent.

The emperor instantly decided on the candidate because he could threaten Zhen Huan and bribe so many monks at the same time.

It was the Queen. Once upon a time, Zhen Changzai's child was killed by Lin Musk, so she had an unclear relationship with the Queen.

It seems that even house arrest could not stop her, and now she has started to stir up trouble in the palace again.

"Let me ask you one more question. You and Concubine Hui are sisters. How could you be so cruel as to harm her?"

Zhen Huan's face turned pale. She knelt there in a daze, swallowed the words "to protect herself", and instead said it was jealousy.

"Since Sister Mei is pregnant, the Emperor has focused all his attention on her.

She was given an imperial physician and a midwife, which the concubines had never had before.

Although the Emperor often comes to rest here, it seems that his mind is no longer here."

Zhen Huan reached out and grabbed the corner of the emperor's clothes, tears streaming down her face again, "When I first entered the palace, the emperor doted on me in every way. Even when I did something wrong, the emperor always stood by me."

"But I never thought that the emperor would not believe me about Concubine Tian's child loss." Zhen Huan raised her hand to touch her face, and the tears on her face wet her fingers. "The emperor slapped me and locked me up for a long time... a long time..."

The emperor remained silent. He slowly stopped counting the beads with his hands.

"I was jealous, and it was my fault." Zhen Huan wiped away her tears again. She swallowed the words that the emperor had ordered to abort Mei Jie's child, "All that love and time was wasted after all."

The emperor's expression did not show much emotion. He looked down at Zhen Huan who was kneeling at his feet, but what he was thinking about was her entanglement with Prince Guo.

They talk about love and discuss the past, but I'm afraid they may not only be thinking about me.

The emperor favored him, and the favorite concubine also fell in love with him. I couldn't understand what was good about a man who coveted the concubines. He didn't look like a prince at all, and was just a pervert.

"Let's go to Baohua Palace and pray for Concubine Hui's son." The emperor said in a calm tone, as if he was discussing the excellent calligraphy he had written today.

“Your Majesty and I both have blood on our hands. I only ask that Your Majesty compensate Sister Mei and let her forget about me.

I am a concubine of the Zhen family, thank you for your grace, Your Majesty."

Soon, Zhen Huan was taken to Baohua Palace. Except for Huanbi, no one in Yongshou Palace was willing to follow her.

The heavy door of Baohua Hall opened, but then quickly closed again. The dust that was stirred up flew in the sunlight and did not settle for a long time.

The palace servants in Yongshou Palace were also dismissed one by one and sent back to the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

At the same time, Xiao Yunzi had just arrived at the Old Summer Palace. He followed the girl Huichun sent by the Queen to the Bitong Academy, but as soon as he entered the gate, he found an opportunity to leave quietly.

At this time, he didn't know that Zhen Huan had already confessed her guilt, and was still thinking of ways to find Liu Zhu in Bitong Academy.

His heart was in a state of confusion, and the poison in his arms was like a branding iron, burning him and making him feel upset.

Soon, he found a guarded woodshed. In order not to be discovered, he quietly climbed up the wall and onto the roof, found the location of the woodshed, and lifted the tiles to take a look.

Xiao Yunzi was lucky. The hole he opened was just above Liuzhu's head. He was able to see Liuzhu with her hands and feet tied at a glance. He looked carefully and found that she did not seem to be injured.

Although the person was found, how to save her became a problem. But if it was just to kill her, it would be much easier.

Xiao Yunzi took out a packet of poison and a thin rope from her clothes on her chest, and slowly let the rope down through the hole.