Queen Mother Tian was so angry that she was stunned. Her neck ached and her temples were throbbing violently. She pointed at Su Yao with disgust on her face.
Mother Tian was so overwhelmed by the look in her eyes that she could not stand. But Su Yao somehow managed to keep arranging the Buddhist scriptures in order. Then he said quietly, "It's not that I don't believe in gods and Buddhas, and I don't believe in retribution. But I think that Princess Jingming was very young and innocent when she died. Even if she is still alive, she would not disturb her relatives in this way."
Su Yao believed in the cycle of cause and effect and retribution. After all, she was a person who had lived a second life. But even if there was retribution, she had no grudges against Princess Jingming, so why would Princess Jingming be so picky with her
It is obvious that someone is taking advantage of the situation and using the death to achieve his own goals.
It is now clear that the so-called fire and warning were directed at her. If Empress Dowager Tian's accusation is true, then she will become a person disliked by Princess Jingming, and even the disaster star that caused the fire. How can such a person continue to be a companion in the palace
Not to mention being a study partner, the unlucky girl's fate could be even more miserable.
For example, a few years ago, a high-ranking official in the imperial court believed that his daughter had killed her grandmother, so he drowned her in a pond.
This is not without precedent. The person behind this is really sinister. Not only does he want her to be driven out of the palace, but he also wants her to have no life at all from now on. If she goes out with the name of a disaster star, who will have to stay away from her in the future? Even the disasters that had nothing to do with her before will eventually be blamed on her. Relatives may not be relatives anymore, and friends may not be friends anymore.
Queen Mother Tian stared at Su Yao with her scarlet eyes, her voice a little hoarse: "Then why did the fire start out of nowhere?"
"Yes, why?" Su Yao asked the same question, and then said slowly: "If Princess Jingming doesn't like my kung fu, it must have worked in the past, right? When was it usually? Queen Mother, think about it?"
Empress Dowager Tian subconsciously thought of Tian Xun - it was Tian Xun who saved Princess Jingming's position before.
She realized the hidden meaning of Su Yao's words. For some reason, she felt as if something was suddenly pulling at her heart. She looked at Su Yao with bloodshot eyes and a fierce and vicious look.
"Your Majesty, the dead cannot be resurrected. If Princess Jingming were still alive, she would not want to be a tool for others to manipulate her mother." Su Yao sighed softly. Thinking of the little girl who was only four or five years old and was brutally murdered, she understood Empress Dowager Tian's madness a little more. She shook her head and suddenly changed the subject: "Besides, now we should first find out whether this fire was a natural disaster or a man-made disaster."
Empress Dowager Tian moved her lips, but before she could say anything, someone outside announced that Concubine Pang had arrived.
The fire in the small Buddhist temple in the Cining Palace was a big deal. As soon as Concubine Pang received the news, she hurried over. Seeing Su Yao kneeling on the ground and Empress Dowager Tian also sitting on the ground in a similar state of embarrassment, she hurriedly and anxiously helped Empress Dowager Tian up: "Madam, are you okay?"
Seeing Empress Dowager Tian shaking her head in despair, Concubine Pang was shocked. She knew that she would not get anything out of her by asking her, so she turned around and asked Mother Tian: "Mom, what happened? Why did the Cining Palace catch fire out of nowhere?"
Mother Tian was called out and stepped forward quickly: "Your Majesty, it wasn't a fire, it was just a fire that burned the tent and the Princess's tablet... Fortunately, the servants discovered it quickly and put out the fire immediately, but the Queen Mother was also very scared..."
Concubine Pang naturally knew that Princess Jingming's longevity tablet was the empress dowager's lifeblood. If anything happened to her lifeblood, the empress dowager would naturally be furious.
So she immediately asked angrily: "Who is guarding the small Buddhist temple? What are the people here doing?!"
Su Yao thought the same thing. She looked at Empress Dowager Tian who was in a trance and asked Concubine Pang to investigate thoroughly.
Concubine Pang then remembered her, and seeing that she was still kneeling, she raised her eyebrows and called her to get up, and asked her if she knew what was going on.
Su Yao shook her head and told him about the fire in the small Buddhist temple not long after she had enshrined her Buddhist scriptures. She said in a mocking tone, "I don't think I'm a very evil person. I don't believe that the Buddhist scriptures I copied by hand can arouse the anger of Her Royal Highness the Princess. Rather than saying it was a natural disaster, I suspect it was a man-made disaster. Someone just wanted to frame me on purpose."
The direction of her words was actually very obvious.
And that is exactly the case.
Before she entered the palace, Tian Xun was already by the Eleventh Princess's side, winning her favor and instigating her to target her and dislike her.
And now, probably seeing that the Eleventh Princess's anger had no effect, he turned his attention to other things.
But Su Yao has never been someone who can swallow his anger.
What's more, Tian Xun used such despicable and inferior means.
Let’s not talk about what kind of person Queen Mother Tian was, but Tian Xun actually received the favor of Queen Mother Tian. It was because Queen Mother Tian was kind to her that she was able to become the companion of the Eleventh Princess. But in turn, she could still ruthlessly use Queen Mother Tian’s most painful wound to attack others.
Such people... ..
There is no need to save face, just fall out right away.
Concubine Pang was a little surprised, but after Su Yao said that, she immediately understood what Su Yao meant.
To be honest, she didn't like Tian Xun either.
She had seen girls with too many ideas and thoughts before, but it was really annoying for someone like Tian Xun to hide behind everything and use others as a tool. She immediately asked in a deep voice, "Who was serving in the small Buddhist temple before?"
Mother Tian glanced at Queen Mother Tian, and seeing that she didn't say anything, she quietly called the name of a palace maid.
The palace maid immediately fell to her knees, trembling, and was so frightened that she couldn't even speak clearly.
Concubine Pang calmly instructed Aunt Cui who came with her: "Go and ask the people from the Ministry of Punishment to come over. They are becoming more and more unruly. What kind of place is this? How can these servants make mistakes? If something really happens and hurts the Empress Dowager's body, who should be held responsible for this matter? Who can bear the responsibility?! Investigate! Ask the Ministry of Punishment to investigate for me and find out which immortal is causing trouble here!"
What kind of ghosts and gods appearing? That can only deceive people like Empress Dowager Tian who are too concerned.
In Concubine Pang's opinion, this was a trap that was too crude and despicable.