Reborn imperial concubine

Back in the mansion, Gu Sheng went straight to the front yard, but the chief follower reported: Jiudian was summoned by the queen after noon and left the mansion.

Gu Sheng wandered back and forth in the front yard, not waiting for anyone to return, so he hurried out and went back to his yard.

As soon as she entered the bedroom, she turned away all the servants.

With a letter and a string of beads in her pocket, she couldn't wait any longer, she wanted to burn everything first, and then wait for His Highness the Ninth Prince to return to the mansion to discuss countermeasures.

After Shiliu brought the brazier as ordered, she also sent the door out. Gu Sheng closed the door and window, and hurriedly took out the letter to read it.

Due to extreme nervousness, she could recognize every word in the letter, but she couldn't even read the meaning of it together. Gu Sheng closed her eyes anxiously, took deep breaths repeatedly, opened her eyes, read it again, and finally took the letter with trembling hands. I understand.

It was too late to check the handwriting, and she didn't have the ability to tell the truth from the fake, let alone ask outsiders to compare.

Just the crazy radical words between the lines in Concubine Xi's letter had already frightened Gu Sheng's eyes to blacken.

In that letter, Concubine Xi actually said that she would act according to "His Ninth Highness's request", which was simply an ironclad conspiracy.

Gu Sheng even suspected that Concubine Xi forged the letter on purpose to retaliate against His Royal Highness for not visiting the palace for a long time.

But just for this festival, is it worthwhile to burn everything?

Gu Sheng didn't have time to think about it. When he handed the letter into the brazier, he hesitated for a moment, worried that if he burned the letter, he would destroy the evidence to clear him of the crime. Should he wait for His Highness the Ninth Prince to come back to discuss?

Anxious like ten thousand ants biting the bones, she got up and paced back and forth by the brazier, then shouted out the door: "Send someone to the main courtyard to guard, and report to me as soon as His Highness comes back!"

The maid outside should claim to be.

Gu Sheng patiently waited in the bedroom for a while.

The time was stretched infinitely, and after a while, she couldn't bear it any longer, so she made a resolute decision: destroy the evidence first.

The letters were torn into small pieces and burned one by one. She squeezed out the slightly incomplete ones with tongs, and turned them into ashes in front of the fire, leaving not even a scrap of debris.

But the string of tourmalines is not easy to handle.

Needless to say, this string of bracelets is roasted and melted, and it is difficult to roast them black.

Put it on the fire for half a day, take it out and take a look, the gold part has changed a little bit, the tourmaline beads have not even changed their color, and after standing in the air for a while, when you touch it, the chain is still cold!

There was a buzzing in his head, thinking of Jiang Han asking her if he wanted to help dissolve it before leaving, Gu Sheng couldn't help frowning.

Gold can be melted away with aqua regia, but she can't do anything with tourmaline, so she has to go to the iron shop to find someone to help.

Gu Sheng made up his mind, put the bracelet back into the armhole, put on his cloak, and prepared to leave the mansion.

As soon as I arrived at the gate of the courtyard, I saw the little eunuch in the front courtyard rushing to report: "Master, the queen announces you to enter the palace."

"Now?" Gu Sheng turned pale with shock, it's already halfway through the application time, what's the rush to announce her into the palace?

Gu Sheng was so anxious that she was not a super-grade prince, how could she dare to find an excuse to refuse the call of the queen?

From a glance, he could see the eunuch from the palace hunched over, walking towards the small courtyard in small steps, with dust on his wrists, bouncing and blowing in the wind.

Gu Sheng's arm holding the bracelet was numb from tension, and suddenly remembered that just now, the chief follower in the front yard reported that His Royal Highness Ninth Prince was also at the queen's place.

Gu Sheng seemed to have grasped at straws suddenly, as if as long as he could see Jiang Chenyue, all difficulties would be solved, so he immediately prepared to go to the palace.

Taking advantage of the time to go back to the house to change clothes, Gu Sheng hid the hot chain in the box under the bed.

Before leaving, she ordered Shiliu to guard the bedroom, and no one was allowed to enter.

After entering the Kunning Palace, Gu Sheng was ushered into the compartment by the maid, and politely paid respects to the queen. When he was seated, he dared to use his peripheral vision to search for the trace of His Royal Highness Ninth Prince.

Jiang Chenyue was sitting on the armchair under the empress's hand. Ever since Gu Sheng entered the room, her eyes had been following her, but after all, they were in front of the empress, and the two of them didn't say hello.

There is only a coffee table between Gu Sheng and His Highness the Ninth Prince.

She thought that seeing Jiang Chenyue would make her heart calm down, but when she looked at her, the suppressed fear and panic in her heart seemed to be opened, and her eyes turned red.

Gu Sheng hurriedly picked up the tea bowl, lowered his head and took a sip to cover up his gaffe.

Jiang Chenyue immediately stood up, walked up to her, bent down and reached out to cover her cold back, as if she wanted to take the teacup in her hand.

A warm feeling spread from the back of his hand, Gu Sheng raised his eyes in surprise, and the moment his eyes met, Jiang Chenyue whispered to her: "Why is your face so ugly?"

Gu Sheng's dry lips trembled slightly, she didn't know what her face looked like now, but she could probably guess it.

She replied with an inaudible voice: "Your Highness, when can I go back? I have something urgent to tell you."

Jiang Chenyue's eyes fluttered slightly, but without answering, she took the tea bowl in her hand, straightened up, handed it to the hand of the maid at the side, and said: "It's cold."

The maid immediately put on a cup of steaming sweet tea.

"Hey!" The empress immediately covered her mouth with a veil, and joked pretendingly displeased: "I don't know how to restrain myself in front of the empress mother. Who do you want to envy to death?"

Jiang Chenyue glanced sideways at the queen, her lowered eyes raised the corners of her lips, and she only returned a slightly restrained smile.

Immediately, the queen raised her hand lovingly and ordered: "Everyone is here, let's serve the food."

Gu Sheng raised her head eagerly to look at Jiang Chenyue, she didn't want to stay in Kunning Palace for dinner, she wanted His Highness Ninth Prince to quickly decline and take her back to the residence.

Jiang Chenyue has already noticed something strange at this moment——

The queen seemed to be holding her back on purpose all afternoon, and now even the stupid companion has announced it. It seems that the queen was instructed by her father for some reason.

Although I haven't seen the reason yet, I can be sure that no matter what reason I find today, it is impossible to get out of the body.

I can only be patient and wait to see what kind of medicine is sold in my father's gourd.

Gu Sheng couldn't swallow the whole dinner, and His Highness Ninth Prince's attention was always on her.

The queen naturally fell into the low pressure created by those two people, and suddenly Jiang Chenyue asked: "Queen mother, when will father ask you to let us go?"

The Queen suddenly tensed up, with an embarrassing look on her face——

This is tearing off that layer of window paper.

The queen was actually confused. The emperor suddenly ordered her to summon Prince Luo and the ninth concubine successively. She felt that it was nothing more than a matter of marrying the princess.

But when Jiang Chenyue asked this question, the queen panicked, and turned her head to ask the other party: "How do you know that your father asked you to come? Did something happen?"

Jiang Chenyue lowered her eyes and picked up the wet wipes on the table, wiped her mouth carefully, was silent for a moment, and replied in a low voice: "If the father, Emperor Xuan Erchen, sees you later, please ask the mother to block the news of the harem immediately, no matter what happens. Don't let Concubine You know for now."

As soon as these words came out, the faces of the queen and Gu Sheng turned pale.

"What do you mean?"

"Your Highness!"

The queen immediately stared at Jiang Chenyue with wide eyes: "What happened?"

"Don't worry," Jiang Chenyue raised her eyebrows, and looked at the two almost paralyzed women in front of her indifferently: "My son was probably put together by some bastard, it's no big deal, wait and see if he can play What a trick."

Gu Sheng couldn't help trembling all over, his eyes fixed on Jiang Chenyue, his lips moved, he wanted to tell about Concubine Xi, but he didn't dare to face the queen.

Jiang Chenyue seemed to be aware of her urgent panic, looked sideways at Gu Sheng, reached out to hold her cold paw, raised it to her lips and pecked, a hint of cunning flashed in her pale golden eyes: "Don't worry, I'm alone before going out!" I have fed Xiaohua for you, so I won’t starve to death when I go back later.”

Gu Sheng was so anxious that tears were about to come down, he didn't have the heart to joke, just thinking about going all out, and taking a step to speak in front of the queen, there was a call from outside——

Just as His Royal Highness had expected, the emperor's summons came.

Gu Sheng and the queen wished to stick on Jiang Chenyue's body and follow together, but they couldn't delay after all, they could only watch His Highness Jiu walk out the door.

Gu Sheng chased all the way to the gate of Qianqingmen Palace, but he didn't dare to scream, so he could only whisper to Jiang Chenyue's back: "I'm waiting for you to come back."

**

His Highness the Ninth Prince was introduced into the main hall, and as soon as he entered the door, he saw the three elders present and more than a dozen speakers from the six divisions.

Jiang Han was standing next to his father's imperial case, and there was a shivering woman kneeling in front of the imperial case, it was Concubine Xi.

Kneeling behind them were two men dressed as craftsmen, not like servants in the palace.

The battle is really not small.

Just a few steps closer, before he had time to salute, the emperor put on a sullen face, casually picked up a stack of letters on the imperial case, and smashed his head and face at Jiang Chenyue.

Jiang Chenyue bent down to pick up the letter calmly, pulled out the letter paper, and scanned the contents of the letter.

The emperor suppressed his anger and whispered: "You explain to me."

Jiang Chenyue glanced at Jiang Han who was standing aside, shrugged and said, "Father, calm down, this word is not for my son, I may have to explain it myself by the second sister."

There was an uproar in the hall, and the ministers whispered.

After all, the emperor was partial to the little prince in his heart. Hearing this, he immediately looked suspiciously at Jiang Han who was standing beside him.

Jiang Han turned around calmly and reported back: "Father is clearly aware, Concubine Xi has already obeyed the law, and when Master Chen comes back from the search, everything will come to light."

Jiang Chenyue raised her eyebrows and looked at Jiang Han: "Really? Then before the truth comes out, I have to trouble the second sister to briefly describe the past, otherwise Gu really doesn't know which crime to plead guilty to."

Jiang Han smiled politely, looked at the minister Wang Li, and ordered, "My lord, tell Prince Luo about the criminal evidence you found."

Wang Li bowed to accept the order, and then spoke forcefully, how to find out the process of concubine Xi and Prince Luo's affair, and the process of getting the two craftsmen who made the eighteen tourmalines to confess their crimes.

After Jiang Chenyue listened to his indignant accusation in a relaxed manner, she didn't make any rebuttals, but turned around with her usual expression, walked up to Concubine Xi, knelt sideways on one knee beside her, and spoke in a soft voice. Ask: "Ma'am, did you really write those letters?"

The makeup on Concubine Xi's face was all worn out from crying, she turned her head to look at His Highness Ninth Prince dumbly, shivered suddenly, and immediately touched her head to the ground, crying in a high voice: "I'm sorry! I'm sorry! That bracelet was made by the concubine herself. ! Has nothing to do with His Highness!"

"Don't worry." Jiang Chenyue lifted her left shoulder and continued to ask: "Who gave you those letters?"

"Ah Jiu." Jiang Han suddenly interrupted the questioning, and said in a deep voice: "There is no need to quibble, in order to deceive others, you used my trust in you to send a letter for you. I never thought that you would have a relationship with Concubine Xi. This level of deeds!

If Mr. Wang hadn't found out about this matter, who else would have access to these letters?You are really clever but you are mistaken by cleverness. "

Instead of being angry, Jiang Chenyue smiled, tilted her head and squinted her eyes: "Gu uses you to send a message? Is this smart? It's not as safe as using your father to send a message."

The emperor has long been used to his little Huangjue's casual and laughing appearance, no matter how big the matter is, it seems like a joke when it is said from the mouth of the nine emperors.

The atmosphere in the hall also eased along with this less intense confrontation.

Originally, everyone couldn't understand why Prince Luo did such a thing.

Everyone knows well that this emperor has always been in a state of being unable to support the wall with mud.

His Highness the Ninth Highness refused to accept the entire force in Xijiang, so why not accept it for nothing, but secretly form a party with an unfavored concubine for rebellion?

But the real evidence is all in front of her eyes, Concubine Xi has such a brain capacity, she can't even pretend to be a fake.

If the string of eighteen tourmalines were really found in Prince Luo's mansion, it would indeed be conclusive evidence of the crime.

Thinking about Prince Luo's unpredictable behavior since he was a child, it doesn't seem so strange that this incident happened now.

Jiang Han could tell that the Jiuhuangmei in front of him didn't take this matter seriously at all.

That's right, with Jiang Chenyue's mind, if this matter is carefully investigated, it will be "come to light" within two days.

Not long after, there was a group of royal guards walking outside the hall.

Immediately afterwards, the commander of Jinyiwei, who was wearing a third-rank official uniform, stepped into the main hall with a wooden box that was a foot long, knelt on one knee and said, "Reporting to the emperor, this wooden box was found from the bedroom of Tianshui Pavilion in Qingyi Garden." There is a string of beads inside, which matches the shape of the stolen goods in the picture.

When the guards searched the bedroom, they were strongly resisted by the servant girl in the mansion, saying that the master forbids anyone to enter. "

After finishing speaking, the commander opened the wooden box in public, carefully took out the bracelet in it, handed it to the eunuch, and presented it to the Holy Majesty.

The emperor took the string of beads, held them up in front of his eyes, carefully read the inscriptions on the beads, and immediately burst out with anger!

He has always favored the Ninth Emperor's daughter, but this child has never let him worry about it since he was a child, and his behavior is weird and unpredictable——

Back then, batches of Tong Shi were sent to Concubine You's palace, but Jiang Chenyue refused one by one, but on the empress's day, she forcibly usurped the daughter of a viscount with a low status.

The princess of Xijiang is eager to ask for a marriage. The emperor intends to transfer the power of Xijiang to the hands of the Nine Emperors, but he is strongly rejected.

Now, the emperor has written the names of the Nine Emperors on the imperial edict on the Hall of Supreme Harmony, but unexpectedly, there will be another plot of rebellion!

A burst of anger rushed to his forehead, suppressing his rationality, Emperor Qi You slammed the bracelet at Jiang Chenyue's feet, and scolded: "You bastard! You...you..."

The old eunuch next to him hurried forward to support the emperor, and all the ministers in the hall knelt on the ground.

"Father, calm down." Jiang Chenyue changed her sloppy attitude, bowed solemnly and said, "This bead string must have been hidden in the son's mansion by a traitor, in an attempt to frame it as a frame for blame, and please ask the father to order the family's mansion to investigate this carefully." It happened."

Jiang Han sighed suddenly when he heard the words, his eyes were full of disappointment: "Are you still unwilling to plead guilty?"

She walked towards Jiang Chenyue, with the tip of her nose touching, she lowered her voice and said, "Continue to investigate, what good will it do for you?"

Seeing Jiang Chenyue's eyes were full of sarcasm, Jiang Han immediately bowed his head and approached, and whispered: "The bead string was found in A Sheng's bedroom, she has not yet accepted the canonization, and she cannot receive the legal protection of the super family. If something happens, your Ninth Concubine may not be able to keep it, and Second Sister can't bear it either."

Jiang Chenyue's pale golden eyes suddenly tightened, her face turned pale for a moment, Gu Sheng's terrified face appeared in her mind, she turned to Jiang Han stiffly, and asked softly, "What did you do to her?"

Jiang Han sneered, but did not answer, Xiu Ran turned around, cupped his hands and said to the emperor: "Father, my son also suspects that there is fraud in this matter, in order to prove Ah Jiu's innocence, we must ask the Clan House and the Metropolitan Procuratorate to investigate at the same time! "

The emperor closed his eyes and said in a deep voice, "Broadcast to the Censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate."

Jiang Chenyue still stood silently in the center of the hall, as if everything around her disappeared instantly, leaving only herself in the world, alone.

I thought that I would never be able to get rid of the immature and unreliable image for the rest of my life, but I didn't realize until this moment that the seemingly unreachable maturity and responsibility will be smashed down at the moment when fate bestows disaster on me.

People grow up in an instant.

The self-confidence of being omnipotent will disappear in an instant.

I always thought that I was like those all-powerful and dominant victors in the history books, but I didn't know that there were only a few heroes who could really go to the end in thousands of years.

I've never had that kind of luck.

The book only taught Jiang Chenyue how to be a hero with ease, but it didn't mention how those incompetent people who fell halfway could face desperation with a slightly more decent attitude.

Therefore, Jiang Chenyue could only bend her knees stiffly, slowly knelt down in front of the imperial case, like a real waste, touched her head to the ground, and responded with a mournful voice——

"Son, plead guilty."

Jiang Han raised the corner of his mouth unobtrusively.

She bet that Jiang Chenyue didn't dare to take Gu Sheng's risk.

**

In the Kunning Palace, the early winter night was cold and cold. Seeing that the Ninth Concubine was still standing stiffly waiting in front of the palace gate, the queen walked up to Gu Sheng herself, and said in a warm voice: "It's cool at night, go back to the house and wait?"

Gu Sheng came back to his senses, bowed his head and replied shyly: "Thank you mother for your compassion, Sheng'er wants to wait a little longer, His Highness should be back soon."