Inside the Golden Palace, the First Prince and the Second Prince were at odds with each other and had been arguing for some time.
When Song Si was dismissed from his post, the position of Minister of the Household was left vacant, and both wanted their own men to fill it.
The emperor did not get annoyed when they argued, but listened carefully.
The officials secretly speculated in their hearts what the emperor really meant. If it was in the past, when the first and second prince argued like this, the emperor would have been annoyed, but today it was very unusual.
The officials did not know that the emperor had punished Song Wan Yue and dismissed Song Si, so he was happy to have finally gotten rid of the anger he had been holding in his heart.
He could also hear from the quarrel between the First Prince and the Second Prince who were their respective men.
Eunuch Huang came in quickly.
The emperor gave him an oblique glance, this old man has always been measured, if it wasn’t something big, he wouldn’t have come in at this time.
“What is it?”
“To report to Your Majesty, the prince of the Lady Shufei has died.”
There was dead silence in the Golden Palace.
The emperor stood up, eunuch Huang rushed forward to help support, the emperor stumbled, the officials fell to their knees, look at the emperor walked away from the face.
I didn’t hear that Consort Shu had any illness, how could she suddenly die.
The first prince did not react, when he got up for the morning court today, he also instructed the first prince consort to go to the An Guo Marquis’ residence early and let his mother-in-law go to the Jiang family, how come Consort Shu went at this time?
The second prince lowered his eyebrows, hiding the smugness in his eyes, without the Wu family of concubine Shu, it would be easier for him to clean up.
The first time I saw the carriage was at the entrance of the cold palace, eunuch Huang reached out to help the emperor down, but the emperor brushed his hand away, got out of the carriage and walked quickly into the cold palace.
The palace people knelt on the ground and cried.
“Shut up, all of you!”
The cries ceased.
The Emperor stepped into the room.
Consort Shu was lying in bed, her face flushed and her mouth smiling, as if she had fallen asleep.
The emperor’s pupils shrank sharply, a scene from that year flashed in his mind, he suddenly did not dare to go forward, “summon the imperial doctor to come here.”
The imperial doctor came quickly and was surprised to see Consort Shu’s appearance. He put down the medicine box and knelt in front of the bed to take Consort Shu’s pulse, releasing his hand after a long time and turning towards the Emperor, “Your Majesty, Your Majesty has been struck by the Beauty Smile.”
Boom!
Something exploded in the Emperor’s brain, making him turn a little nasty, “Investigate, investigate carefully for me, who poisoned Concubine Shu!”
Everyone in the cold palace was taken down, even the aunt in charge and the eunuch in charge were not spared, but no matter how much interrogation was done, none of them admitted.
In the cold palace, the Emperor sat dumbly in front of his bed, looking at the smiling face of Concubine Shu, and another face came to his mind, the one he had dreamed of, the one he had been dreaming of, but that person was married to his brother, with whom he was in love.
He remembered clearly the second day of her marriage with his brother, smiling lightly as she and his brother came to the palace to pay their respects, with a springiness between their brows that he could not hide, making him go mad with jealousy.
Later, when she gave birth to a child for her brother, he couldn’t stand it any longer and asked Consort Shu to trick her into coming to the palace, where he confided his feelings.
What did she do to him?
Saying that he should respect himself and that her heart had only been for his brother since the beginning, he was truly mad and forced himself on her.
Afterwards he thought she would fight him and seek death, but she didn’t, she just looked at him with hatred in her eyes.
At that moment he panicked, he wasn’t afraid of her making a scene, as long as she did, he had a hundred reasons to say that she had seduced him, but she didn’t, she just looked at him with such hatred.
He thought of his imperial brother, of the fact that he had a heavy army in his hands and would have dethroned him as emperor if he had known.
He could not lose this throne, and he could not be revenged by his imperial brother, who had personally fed her beauty’s smile.
The emperor closed his eyes, he would not regret what he had done, that woman should have been his, it was his brother who had robbed him, if it had not been for his brother’s sudden marriage proposal, he would have welcomed the person into the palace, he would have made her the empress, he would have made her the most honourable woman in the world in this word, and as soon as their son was born he would have made him the crown prince, not, not ……
The emperor slammed his fist on the bed, and Shu Fei’s stiff body seemed to tremble with it.
Eunuch Huang was alarmed, “Your Majesty!”
The emperor pushed him away, “Investigate for me, if you don’t find out all the people in this palace will be buried with you!”
……
In Concubine Zo’s palace.
The concubines come over to pay their respects.
Since Consort Xiao Xian had had a miscarriage, the affairs of the Six Palaces had been in her hands.
The lower-ranking concubines went back after paying their respects, and those who remained were those who had been close to Concubine Rou.
Consort Xiao was also present.
As they were talking, the aunt in charge hurried in from outside.
“What is all the panic about?”
“Your Majesty, the one in the cold palace is a prince.”
The house was deadly silent as the steward aunt spoke.
The tea dripped down the edge of the table and dripped onto her clothes, “What’s going on?”
“Slave servant has inquired, said that that one fell asleep last night after losing her temper, and this morning when the hour came she still had not risen, the housekeeper aunt went to call, only to find that she had already priced out.”
“Go, go over and have a look.”
Consort Zuo led the way, and a group of concubines went to the Cold Palace.
Many other concubines who had gotten the news also came and were standing in the courtyard.
There was no one waiting for them in the courtyard, it was very cold.
Consort Zuo hesitated for a moment and looked at Consort Xiao Xian, “Come in with me, sister.”
The two of them were the highest ranking in the palace, so Consort Xiao nodded and followed her in.
The Emperor was still sitting in front of the bed, looking at Concubine Shu on the bed.
At first glance, she looked as if she was having a beautiful dream.
Consort Xiao’s hand holding her handkerchief tightened.
Consort Zuo had a sad face, “Your Majesty, how did Consort Shu’s sister suddenly ……”
The emperor turned around, the scowl on his face scared Soft Consort’s heart almost jumped out of her chest, and her words stuttered, “Your, Your Majesty.”
“What is your weak heart?”
The emperor’s voice seemed to carry ice in it, and it made Consort Soft’s heart panic.
But after all, she had been in the palace for many years and had faced countless dangerous situations, even though her heart was panicking, her face did not see the slightest bit of panic, “Your Majesty misunderstood me, I am not faint-hearted, I am frightened, how did Sister Concubine Shu …… at once.”
The emperor stared at her with dead eyes, as if he wanted to see something from her face.
But Consort Zuo’s tears were falling more and more, and she was busy wiping them with her handkerchief.
His Majesty’s gaze moved to Consort Xiao Xian’s face and saw her standing there, without a trace of sadness.
The Emperor’s face grew more and more fierce, “It’s you!”
Concubine Xiao looked at her calmly.
The eyes overlapped with the pair in her memory.
The emperor stood up so violently that his chair was brought over and banged to the ground, but it did not shock back his sanity, he strided up to Consort Xiao Xian, grabbed her shoulders with both hands, “It’s not my fault, it’s your fault, if you had followed me, how could I ……”