Chapter 143: Death Without Proof

After Yun Fenghuang's concubine Jin Zhen, Liugong couldn't help congratulating her.

The gift given by the noble concubine was especially heavy, almost in time for the gift from the Yanlan Palace to congratulate the queen on the birthday of the Qianqiu Festival last year.

As a result, some people in the palace commented that the real concubine was coming in a menacing manner, and even nobles such as the empress and concubine dared not beat her up.

The low-ranking concubines have limited vision and don't know what to do, and they are very envious: they are not born high, relying on their beautiful wrists to get high, isn't this the counterattack story they want to empathize with?

After inquiring again, Wei Hengyan, who followed his feet to fill his capacity, was also promoted by the real concubine-for a while, Lanzhou Yeyu Pavilion was full of people, and many concubines from other palaces tried their best to get close to Yunfenghuang. recommend.

However, Yun Fenghuang didn't have the time to pay attention to them, what a joke, she didn't have no one under her command, why would she distribute good things to outsiders?

Besides, it was too late for her to follow the queen to figure out the palace affairs, so she ordered Chen Zhu to send out all those who asked An to show her loyalty.

The court concubines failed to please her directly, but they still refused to give up, and turned to please the palace concubines under Yun Fenghuang's hands.

For example, Yi Xing'en, Qu Hongzhuan and others who are familiar with Yunfenghuang, they usually take care of them a lot, and they are also clever. Seeing that the master doesn't care about the concubines outside, they don't dare to have too much contact with them, and they all look for them. With an excuse to decline.

Of course those concubines were very unhappy in their hearts, but they had no choice but to settle for the next best thing and take care of the other concubines.

After all, there were a lot of people assigned to Yunfenghuang Palace before, although most of them would look at the face of the lord, a small number of concubines were flattered, and they really got close to these people's sisters and sisters, and promised to have a chance with Yunfeng Huang recommended them...Of course, if they had the opportunity, whether they would dare to speak up, and whether they were willing to speak up was another matter.

Both Chen Zhu and Xie Hengyu saw it, and reported it to Yun Fenghuang in private, asking if there was any need to interfere?

"Let them intrigue." Yun Fenghuang waved his hand nonchalantly, "Your Majesty ordered this palace to help the empress, and it's definitely not enough to rely on people like Xuanqing Palace. Wei Jieyu, no, Wei Chongrong is also young. Although these palace concubines are soft-spoken and useless, they may not be able to do things. Let them hang around like this, if there are some outstanding ones, it would be good to gather them together?"

If she only wanted to be a real concubine and take care of her own one-acre three-point land, even if she had no one under her command, she could live a good life in the palace with the emperor's favor.

But looking at what Empress Dowager Yuan and the emperor meant now, they wanted to push her to seize the power of empress, not to mention the future, just because of this expectation, it is impossible for Yun Fenghuang to be alone in this palace.

Of course, even without the plan of the Queen Mother and her son, Yun Fenghuang himself would not be willing to be an ordinary concubine, relying on the emperor's favor to live - this feeling of joy, anger, sorrow, life, death, honor and disgrace in the hands of others is simply terrible!

Yun Fenghuang would rather be ruined halfway, and absolutely unwilling to be so passive.

Therefore, you must have wings, and because of your low background, it may not be so smooth for a noble girl who is too rich, and it is easy to backfire——Wei Hengyan's background is not low, Yun Fenghuang feels that among the people in his group , one Wei Hengyan is enough. For other things, it is better to try to win over concubines with ordinary backgrounds and solid talents.

In this way, Wei Hengyan is out of tune with other people, even with the support of his family, he can't make any splashes...

Yun Fenghuang's arrangement is consciously thoughtful, but things are unpredictable: within a few days, something went wrong with the concubines she let loose.

Fengyi Jin of Xuanqing Palace fell in love with a bracelet of Baolin An's in Chengyue Palace. However, the bracelet was a relic given by An's birth mother before entering the palace. An's pushed her down on the palace road and walked away!

After getting up, An Shi cried alone for a while, then sent the maids away, and drowned herself.

After receiving the news, Yun Fenghuang was simply...

Jin Fengyi knelt in the hall and shivered, crying with snot and tears: "My lady forgive me! My lady forgive me! I really didn't expect this to happen! I know I was wrong! Please forgive me! Please forgive me! where!"

This Jin Fengyi entered the palace in the same batch as Yi Xingen, a daughter-in-law from a poor family, served the emperor once, but both the emperor and Yun Fenghuang had already forgotten about her.

It is also because of this that money is tight and Su Chang is not taken seriously.

Although Yu Yunfenghuang's reputation and the new establishment of Xuanqing Palace, the people in the palace are quite honest and did not dare to take away her daily duties. But compared to Yi Xingen and other concubines who are often favored by Yun Fenghuang, the Jin family is far behind.

Therefore, after being honored as the master and receiving all kinds of praise and envy from outside, Jin felt that although she was nothing in Xuanqing Palace, she was also considered a person in front of the concubines outside——An Baolin had a higher status than her so what? The empress Cui was demoted from Concubine Xin to Jieyu, and the emperor hasn't seen her for many days.

She has just been crowned as the real concubine, and the emperor comes over every three days!

The Jin family didn't believe that neither Cui Jieyu nor An Baolin dared to clash with the real concubine over a bracelet!

It's just that she didn't expect An's to throw herself into the water, and now it's over, the matter has become a big mess, no matter how confused Jin is, she knows that she has caused trouble for the master - although she has no sense of restraint when facing outsiders, she knows that in In the eyes of the host, she is nothing, but she is really scared at the moment, lying on the ground, shaking like a sieve, the kind who will faint anytime and anywhere, it looks very pitiful.

But Yun Fenghuang didn't mean to pity her at all, he didn't even scold her, he just asked all the accompanying concubines to come over, and finally asked Chen Zhu: "Did Cui Jieyu go to Baoser Xiaozhu?"

"Go." Chen Zhu glanced at the Jin family on the ground, and said in a deep voice, "Now he is kneeling in the court asking the empress to make decisions for her palace people."

After a pause, "The empress is changing clothes, and seems to be planning to ask the loving mother, the empress dowager."

Mrs. Jin was listening, becoming more and more frightened, and couldn't help screaming: "Your Majesty, please save me! Please, Your Majesty, please save me! As long as your Majesty saves me, I will do anything..."

Before he finished speaking, Chen Zhu, who received Qingdu's wink, stepped forward and kicked her until she rolled on the ground twice before stopping. He opened his mouth and spat out a mouthful of blood, struggling to say something , but was unable to speak for a while due to weakness.

Chen Zhu snorted coldly: "What lowly servant girl dares to call herself 'I' in front of the empress?"

Turning to Yun Fenghuang, he showed a loyal and respectful attitude again, "Is your empress going to the Fangyin Hall?"

"I'm definitely going." Yun Fenghuang looked around and saw that all the concubines he saw were trembling, and even the pregnant Yi Xingen was very well-behaved. He snorted coldly and said slowly, "My palace You came from a humble family background, thanks to your loving mother, the Empress Dowager, and Your Majesty, you are here today! You people are from a more difficult background than this palace, but you are all daughters of poor families. Therefore, no matter how merciless this palace is outside, Facing you, I think I have never owed anything!"

The concubines were silent for a while, and it was Yi Xingen who took the lead and said: "The empress's kindness to my concubine is as great as a mountain, and my concubine's body is unforgettable!"

Only then did he express his attitude sparingly, saying that being able to serve Yun Fenghuang as a palace man is simply a blessing from three lifetimes of cultivation.

Yun Fenghuang didn't care about these unintentional flattery, he just said: "Originally, after Wei Chongrong was promoted, I wanted to consider each of you one by one. But now something like this happened... If it is for some important reason, you I have beaten, killed, robbed, and I am not a timid person! But now, just for a bracelet?!"

"I'm missing you, you're eating, you're wearing it, you're wearing it, and your eyelids are so shallow?!"

"Speaking slowly, as concubines, even when I was at home, the maids bought by the family for five taels of silver have never done such a shameful thing!!!"

The most important thing is not just embarrassment—Yun Fenghuang managed to beat the queen so easily, and now the palace people began to bully others and even killed them. How could she still compete with the queen for power? !

Yun Fenghuang became more and more angry as he spoke, grabbed the tea bowl and threw it directly on Jin's head, "This is the first time I've seen such an idiot like you when I grow up so big! It's an eye-opener today!!!"

Jin shi lay on the ground, sobbing and unable to speak, she only looked at Yunfenghuang with pleading eyes.

"From now on, you all remember a word for me." Yun Fenghuang looked away from her, wiped his fingers with a handkerchief, and looked at the concubines with low eyebrows and pleasing eyes with a sneer, "I can tolerate it." You eat dry rice, but you will never tolerate it while you are eating dry rice while dragging me down!"

As he spoke, he ordered Chen Zhu, "The Fengyi Jin family committed suicide after a dispute with An Baolin from Cui Jieyu's side, so I don't know what happened!"

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty!!!" Shocked, Jin climbed towards Yun Fenghuang, but she didn't climb very far, and was forcibly dragged down——After a long while, in the Fangyin Pavilion, Yun Fenghuang held Cui Lianye's table With eyes that were about to breathe fire, she told Queen Mother Yuan calmly: "...my concubine has been following the empress to investigate Hu Fengyi's death these days, so I have neglected the Lanzhou Yeyu Pavilion, but I don't know the details. After all, Jin Fengyi and his attendant died suddenly, and An Baolin also passed away, so only An Baolin's court lady can testify about the truth of the matter, which is somewhat one-sided."

When she said this, she smiled at Cui Lianye, "Of course, I don't suspect Cui Jieyu that the people under your command are talking nonsense, it's just that the state-owned state-law family has family rules. To be able to frame her with empty teeth, the palace isn't going to be messed up, is it?"

Cui Lian trembled in the night: "Jin Fengyi is the same age as you, only fifteen years old this year, and his servant is also about the same age... The concubine Zhen is really cruel-hearted! Such cruel methods!!!"

"What do you mean by Jieyu's words?" Yun Fenghuang turned his face as soon as he said it, the smile on his face disappeared suddenly, and he asked with a blank expression, "Could it be that you suspect that Jin Fengyi's master and servant were the victims of this palace? !Then Cui Jieyu is taking herself too seriously—what kind of person are you? This Palace needs to murder someone in the palace for you?!"

"I'm afraid you won't succeed if you become my palace!"

Before Cui Lianye could speak, she continued, "Furthermore, according to what An Baolin's palace lady said, the dispute between the two parties was nothing more than a bracelet, even if the bracelet was a relic from An Baolin's deceased mother, and An Baolin was not dumb. Stolen things, why don't you go back and complain to your master, and let you come to negotiate with me? Is it possible that my house has shallow eyes, and you want to occupy such a little thing?!"

"If Cui Jieyu failed, then An Baolin committed suicide in despair. There is another theory."

"However, An Baolin didn't even return to the Chunfeng Courtyard where Cui Jieyu lived, and threw water directly... This is too confusing!"

"It's almost like I'm afraid that Cui Jieyu will be involved and people will be suspicious if I die if I go back!"

Turning to the head while speaking, "Empress Dowager, I think that this matter is probably due to someone who hates my concubine for being loved by you and Your Majesty, and specially designed to frame Xuanqing Palace!"

Cui Lianye's cold demeanor could not be maintained, resentment radiated from his whole body, tears fell from his eyes, and he said in a hateful voice: "Empress Dowager, this concubine dares to swear by her family and life, and this concubine knew nothing about it beforehand! Moreover, An Baolin has always been honest and cowardly, otherwise, as Baolin, how could she be snatched away by a mere Fengyi?"

"Yeah, the concubine can't figure it out either." Before the words finished, Yun Fenghuang interjected, "Jin Fengyi is just a small fengyi, and I don't feel proud in front of my concubine. Where would I have the guts to snatch Baolin?" I’m afraid this An Baolin isn’t just plain honest and cowardly? But this makes people wonder, Baolin’s position among the palace concubines is more than superior than inferior.”

"When I first entered the palace as a concubine, Baolin was the first concubine, and the master was also a concubine at that time. It was the same status as Cui Jieyu at that time, so I didn't suffer any grievances!"

"As the saying goes, living in a place where one's energy nourishes one's body, no matter how weak one's nature is, after all, she is a serious concubine who is being served by someone, and why is she being frightened by a little Fengyi?"

"Or, this An Baolin's life is not Baolin's life at all, he has long been used to being lower than himself, and even being stepped on by the slaves?"

Seeing that Cui Lianye was pressing her chest, she seemed to be fainted on the spot, Empress Ji had no choice but to stand up: "Concubine Zhen, be careful! Cui Jieyu has always been generous, you can't just talk nonsense!"

In front of the Empress Dowager Yuan, Yun Fenghuang was not afraid of the Empress. Not only was she not afraid of the Empress, she also wanted to show her loyalty to the Empress Dowager Yuan, so she smiled slightly: "Empress Empress, where is this concubine talking nonsense? Baolin was robbed by Feng Yi I don’t even dare to sue, I just dare to seek death by myself... This kind of thing, I have never heard of it before!"

"Now that Jin Fengyi's master and servant are gone, it is impossible to find out the truth. Of course, it can only be speculated."

"According to what Cui Jieyu said, An Baolin's actions are not due to long-term bullying, and he has long been used to being bullied by inferiors; it must have been done on purpose, deliberately targeting Xuanqing Palace!"

"No matter what it is, if Cui Jieyu doesn't pursue it, the concubine will not let it go!"

She said sternly, "After all, Cui Jieyu doesn't feel sorry for An Baolin, but a concubine in the palace must not die in vain!"

If Queen Mother Yuan wasn't present, Empress Ji would have wished to slap her across the face: Everyone knows how the people in your palace died, how dare you say such a thing! ! !

The queen took a deep breath and was about to speak when the emperor received the news.

"It's only been a few days since the summer vacation, how many concubines have died? Is this how the empress presides over the harem for me?!" When Chunjia came in, his expression was cold and he was in a bad mood. Go back to rest and say it's up to you to deal with it.

This move made the empress and Cui Lianye feel cold.

The emperor clearly blamed them for disturbing Queen Mother Yuan's rest.

In fact, Empress Ji should not have brought Cui Lianye to the Fangyin Hall. After all, the highest status among the three empress dowagers is Empress Dowager Ji, and only Empress Ji has been in the harem on a daily basis over the years.

But who told this incident to have something to do with Yun Fenghuang?

Empress Ji is well aware of the eloquence and skills of her predecessor, and now she has the support of Queen Mother Yuan and Chunjia, making it even more difficult to deal with. The queen was worried that her aunt and nephew would have nothing to do with her, and the Queen Mother Ji's temper was not very good. If she got stiff, Yun Fenghuang went to Chunjia's mother and son to cry and complain, maybe what would happen.

On the contrary, Queen Mother Yuan, although she has a lot of grievances with the Ji family.

But this one is better than Yun Fenghuang, that is, Empress Dowager Yuan is not as shameless as Yun Fenghuang, so she is reasonable...

At least the Empress Dowager Yuan recognized the truth in the scene.

I won't do that kind of nonsense.

And in front of Empress Dowager Yuan, Yun Fenghuang should not have dared to do anything wrong.

In the end, the queen didn't expect that Yun Fenghuang was young, but his methods were ruthless, so he came directly to the death without proof!

Even want to beat back.

Now that the emperor is here and there is such an obvious bias, Empress Ji and Cui Lianye exchanged glances with bitterness in their eyes.

Sure enough, Chunjia asked the story coldly, and let the queen and Cui Lianye leave on the grounds of "no evidence and no evidence".

Seeing this, Yun Fenghuang smiled, and was about to step forward to act like a spoiled child, but Chunjia turned to look at her, and asked slowly: "The master and servant of the Jin family really died suddenly? Why did such a good person die suddenly?"