Chapter 443: Conclusive Evidence

"Concubine, don't you have anything to say?" The loving mother, the Empress Dowager, was especially angry. After all, she was the one who raised Chunjia single-handedly.

No matter how many barriers there are between mother and child, there is a sincere affection after all.

Moreover, on New Year's Eve, the emperor learned that she was poisoned and there was not much time left, so he threw down the palace banquet and went to the palace to perform his filial piety in the wind and snow.

Where can we see the situation where the concubine betrayed the emperor at this moment?

Immediately turned his head, looked at Yunfenghuang closely, and shouted, "This Yishi Ai's family remembers that he was born in a humble family. According to the rules of the court, it was not easy to be a concubine! It was you who ensured that she was promoted all the way. Rong! In the end, she did such a shameless thing at Ai's family's birthday banquet! You...you..."

The loving mother, the Empress Dowager, seemed extremely angry. She couldn't help but press her heart, and scolded bitterly, "Are you deliberately trying to be mad at your family!!!"

"Queen mother, calm down!" Seeing this, the queen hurriedly stepped forward to support her loving mother, the queen mother, and comforted her in a low voice, "Queen mother, all this is the fault of the noble concubine, it is the fault of Yi, and it is the fault of Du Langu. What's the queen mother doing? Please don't harm yourself because of other people's crimes!"

After some reassurance, he also looked at Yun Fenghuang, and said in a deep voice, "Concubine Min, you are His Majesty's love. But Yi Shi, whom you carried with you, did such a frenzied and shameless act. You ask yourself, but you feel sorry Your Majesty, I'm sorry Liugong, I'm sorry..."

Yun Fenghuang's face turned ashen, and suddenly interrupted her words: "You two ladies, what the guards talked about just now can only prove that they happened to meet Yi Shi and this Du with the surname in the grove. But whether there is an affair between them has not yet been found out, but why rush to cuckold His Majesty? Could it be that the two empresses really hope that His Majesty will be betrayed?"

"Up to now, you are still thinking about making excuses?" The queen sneered, "It's just that you tell me that as a palace, living alone with middle-aged foreign ministers, or in a secluded grove, isn't it in accordance with etiquette?! "

Yun Fenghuang glanced at Du Langu coldly, Du Langu looked at her without fear, and even looked suspiciously in his eyes, but the imperial concubine quickly turned her eyes to look at Yi Xing'en, her eyes were warning, and her voice was slow Said: "Of course this is not in accordance with etiquette, but the two empresses never asked Yi Shi why she appeared there, right? To put it bluntly, why did Yi Shi have any reason to betray His Majesty?"

"In terms of the status of the person she serves, what kind of person is this Du, worthy of being compared with His Majesty?"

"In terms of appearance and talent, this man surnamed Du is also unworthy of carrying shoes for His Majesty!"

"In terms of age, Your Majesty is similar to this person surnamed Du. Is it worth Yi Shi's love for Du? Although Yi Shi came from a humble background, judging from the fact that she first entered the palace and took refuge as a concubine, she has good eyesight!"

"Furthermore, as for Yi's status in the palace, the two empresses also said just now, considering her background, it was a surprise to be concubine, let alone now that she is in Zhaorong, and she has a concubine to take care of her. There are also two biological princesses! Although Zhaoqing is raised in front of this palace, it is inconvenient to meet her, but the seventh princess is raised by Yi himself!"

"Let's talk about the emperor's favor again. In the past two years, because of the newcomers entering the palace, Yi's emperor's favor is not as good as before, but for the sake of the seventh emperor's daughter, how can your majesty forget her? He always goes there several times a month. .”

"If someone like Yi Shi wants to get out of the wall, then the ten prince's birth mother Ping Xianyi, wouldn't even the eunuch be spared?!"

Gu Zhen was annoyed and laughed: "I am going to ask Yi Shi carefully. It is clear that His Majesty has treated her well, why is he so kind and revengeful! In the eyes of the noble concubine, it is the evidence of Yi Shi's innocence?!"

"Tell me, Yishi, why did you appear in that forest?" The imperial concubine ignored the queen's words, looked at Yi Xingen, and said slowly, "Speaking of the truth, since I am here, I will naturally decide for you Ben Gong remembers that you have always had a calm personality, and you are not the kind of person who walks around with nothing to do. Especially the seventh emperor is still young and very clingy. It is even more impossible for you to throw her to the palace people and go to the grove alone! But Is there someone or something that made you have to go there? So that you met this surnamed Du that you didn't expect at all? Huh?"

"Your concubine, don't mess around here!!!" Yun Fenghuang's words almost clearly led Yi Xingen to follow her tone to retract the confession. The queen naturally couldn't bear it, and said with a somber face, "No matter what Yi Shi The reason is past, she must be really innocent, after seeing Du Langu, why didn't she leave immediately?! And what the guards saw, it was Yishi who was holding Du Langu not to leave!"

Yun Fenghuang had a cold face, and said in a cold voice: "The Yi family is a delicate and weak woman. If someone surnamed Du is bribed and deliberately framed, there are ways to detain her! The empress is the lord of the six palaces. Rong is also under your command. When something like this happened, you didn't help Yi Shi, but instead suspected Yi Shi everywhere, what's the reason for that?"

Then he continued to ask Yi Xingen, "Tell me, you went to the grove and saw this man surnamed Du, what happened next? Did he threaten you? If so, just speak out. Do you think that the people of this palace can't protect you here?"

Obviously worried that the concubine would not dare to speak out due to some concerns, the concubine's tone became a little more gloomy, "You don't think about others, you don't think about yourself, you also think about your two flesh and blood! Zhaoqing remembers It’s fine if it’s under the name of the palace. What about the seventh emperor? If you are soft-hearted for a moment, call the seventh emperor..."

"Concubine, you are enough!" The empress dowager, the loving mother, looked on here coldly, feeling that the empress was really incompetent, and she was caught by such a trick, and she was still entangled by the concubine until now.

Of course, the Queen Mother also regretted it in her heart.

She really didn't know what happened, she just thought that neither the queen nor the imperial concubine was a good thing.

Although it looked at the situation at the time that the queen had caught the concubine's handle, she still had to prevent the two from teaming up to trick her, so she agreed to the concubine's request and let her come together.

If she knew this, she would have rejected the imperial concubine.

Without Yun Fenghuang present, relying on the confessions of the guards, it is not an understatement to finalize the matter of Yishi's cheating?

In the end, he was suspicious for a while, and unexpectedly gave Yun Fenghuang a chance to struggle!

The loving mother Empress Dowager said with a cold face, "In any case, it is a fact that Yi Shi lives alone with a foreign male and a widow. Based on this, you, the person who has supported Yi Shi with one hand, should avoid suspicion!"

Yun Fenghuang looked annoyed, and wanted to say something, but Queen Mother Yuan immediately pressed her chest again, panting slightly: "The Ai family is old, and after all the previous troubles, it is becoming more and more useless now. If you think the Ai family is not qualified Speaking of you like that, the Ai family doesn't want to say any more."

"..." The imperial concubine's eyes flickered, presumably because she was worried that she would be convicted of contempt for the empress dowager, but she didn't dare to contradict her, she just held back her breath and said, "What the empress dowager taught me is that the concubine is reckless."

After a pause, she was still not reconciled, and said again, "It's just that you know, Empress Dowager. Yi has been in the palace for many years and has always been cautious in his words and deeds. How could he do such a rebellious thing? There is no deceit in it! Besides, The concubine said something heart-wrenching: At the beginning, there were many women who were selected into the palace, but Yi was the only one who was favored by the concubine and His Majesty, and was able to break the rules and become a concubine. It can be seen that he has a beautiful heart! Such a person, even if he really had an affair Foreigner, why is it so easy to be caught? Eighty percent, someone deliberately framed him!"

As he spoke, he gouged out Du Langu's eyes again.

Obviously suspected that this foreign minister was bribed by someone to deceive his confidant general.

The loving mother Empress Dowager ignored her complaints, and looked at the group of people kneeling below, and said slowly: "Okay, the testimony of the guards just now, the people from the Ai family, all heard clearly. Since the imperial concubine has a heart Doubt, then how about this, Yi Shi and Du Langu, let’s talk about it separately, what’s going on?"

"..." Yi Xingen was about to cry, and subconsciously glanced at Du Langu, but when she touched the cold expression on the other side, she immediately flinched, turned her head, and said in a low voice, "My concubine..."

After saying two words, he subconsciously looked at Yunfenghuang again.

Seeing Yun Fenghuang's eyes were like knives, she flinched even more. After a moment of hesitation, the queen mother became impatient, but she gritted her teeth and said in a deep voice, "I just drank a few more glasses of wine, some Bored. So go for a walk in the woods."

The queen snorted: "Then what happened to bumping into Du Langu? One of you is a concubine of the Tian family and the other is a foreign minister. Don't you know how to avoid suspicion after meeting?!"

"Because I drank too much at the time, I mistook...Master Du..." Yi Xingen clenched his fists and said in a low voice, "Mistaked Master Du...for His Majesty! So I grabbed Master Du's clothes Jiao, said something... something that shouldn't be said!"

She didn't dare to lift her head when she said this, especially avoiding Yun Fenghuang's sight, and said quickly, "All this is the fault of my concubine's greed! Master Du wanted to leave immediately, but was caught by my concubine I can't walk away with the hem of my clothes."

The loving mother, the Empress Dowager, sneered and turned to Du Langu: "Is that true?"

Du Langu was silent for a moment, did not speak, as if acquiesced.

The Empress Dowager then looked at the Empress, and said unhurriedly: "It doesn't seem to make sense..."

Just thinking about it, "Where is Tong Shi? Check it out, how many days has the emperor not been to Yi's?"

If the emperor had indeed been ignoring Yi Shi for some time, it is understandable for Yi Xingen to lose his composure; but if the emperor has only been there recently, then it is obviously nonsense.

And to be honest, as far as Yi Xingen just saw Du Langu's hesitant behavior, ignoring the imperial concubine's hint and taking all the blame, and saying that she and Du Langu were innocent, blind people wouldn't believe it!

So the loving mother Empress Dowager is not in a hurry.

She believed that there was something to do between the two, and it was fine if no one knew about it in the past, but now that the truth has been revealed, she will definitely be able to find out the clues based on how she speaks with confidence!

After a while, the people from the harem came to fetch Tong Shi, and saw that the superior, Chunjia, had only visited the seventh princess five days ago, and stayed at Yi Xingen's place.

At this time, the empress dowager and the empress' faces were very relieved and gloomy, but another palace official came in a hurry and told the empress in public: "Return to the empress, the servant just went to the banquet to ask, and the people in front of the empress Zhaorong have long In two days, I will entrust the money to the palace servants who served at the Baiguan Banquet in front, and let them see Master Du get up and leave the banquet, and notify the female relatives!"

"Furthermore, Mistress Zhaorong did leave the banquet just now with the excuse of being overwhelmed with alcohol, but the ladies around could see clearly that Mistress Zhaorong only drank two cups of fruit wine from the beginning to the end. In the previous banquet, Mistress Zhaorong Even after drinking more than a dozen cups of similar wine, he was calm and composed, and he never got drunk again!"

"When Empress Zhaorong left, she was still bringing the Seventh Imperial Daughter with her."

"According to the confession of the palace maid who took care of the Seventh Princess, she carried the Seventh Princess and walked back with Mistress Zhaorong. Halfway there, she was ordered by Mistress Zhaorong to put down the Seventh Empress and stay where she was. Afterwards, Mistress Zhaorong hugged her Seeing the Seventh Princess leave, after a while, she wiped her tears and sent the Seventh Princess back, and asked her to lead the Seventh Princess back to the residence first..."

The empress dowager and queen became angrier the more they heard, and questioned Yun Fenghuang again: "What more do you have to say?!"