Seeing that Xiao Shiyi was keeping to himself and not talking, Yin'er and Yin'e suddenly became panicked.
Following Yinzhen's line of sight, they looked down and saw layers of chili powder that was bright red, so shocking that they were stunned and then filled with anger.
This... is this something that humans eat
Would you faint after taking one bite
To use such means to murder the Emperor's prince, the word "desperate" is not enough to describe the viciousness of the person who did it!
The Tenth Prince was still in a daze, but the Ninth Prince slammed the table with a gloomy expression.
In his previous life, Yinzhen had a high fever that was violent but unreasonable. He still remembered how heartbroken his mother was after Xiao Shiyi left. From then on, his mother treated him like the apple of her eye. This was also because of transference of feelings.
He had already sworn a solemn oath in this life to protect Little Eleven for the rest of his life and let him live a long and healthy life. This must have been his mother's wish. But right under his nose, someone dared to harm him!
Spending every day in the study, who doesn’t know that Yinzhen loves sweets
The Ninth Prince was so angry that he was spinning around: "How can this be possible..."
Yin'e came back to his senses, and shared the same hatred with his ninth brother. A cold light flashed in his usually honest little eyes, "We must get to the bottom of this matter. The person behind this must not be spared!"
Yinzhen finally came out of his autism and looked up blankly, only to hear his brother's horrifying words. He was so frightened that he trembled and dropped his chopsticks. He shook his head and said, "Ninth brother, tenth brother, no one is trying to harm me! This was specially prepared by the emperor's father. The emperor thought I was addicted to chili peppers!"
The Eleventh Prince explained very quickly, and even his baby voice was frightening.
…
Even more frightened than him were Yinzhen and Yin'e!
The harsh words had already been said, and the only thing missing was the sentence of killing all nine generations of the clan. They were immediately choked and let out a burst of earth-shaking coughs.
"Haha, old father, the emperor still doesn't understand our Eleventh Prince's preferences..." This is Yinzhen.
"My mind has been a little confused lately. Look at me, what nonsense I have said, haha." This is Yin'e.
"It's too late to make another one right now, so I'll share the food with you. After school, go pay your respects to Mother and ask her to have a good talk with Father Huang and ask him to treat his brain... Well, no. How can you use chili powder as food?" Yinzhen said with a dry laugh, "Tenth Brother, do you think it's okay?"
Yin'e nodded like a chicken pecking at rice: "That's right, that's right, let's do it this way, let's do it this way."
The Eleventh Prince suddenly felt that he was saved.
He raised his chubby hand and wiped his face, pretending he hadn't heard the words "The dog's life must not be spared", and said with tears in his eyes: "Ninth Brother, Tenth Brother, you are so kind."
*****
When the three brothers went to Yikun Palace hand in hand, Concubine Wen was there. On the day of the prince's wedding, after she had entertained the female relatives and went out to look for someone, Yun Xiu could not find any trace of her. After asking someone, she found out that Concubine Yi had not returned to the palace in a sedan chair.
Concubine Wen was a little anxious, and she had a feeling that something was wrong. She went to the Cining Palace to pay her respects the next day. Seeing that Yunxiu was safe and sound, she was completely relieved. Because of the joy of the prince and his wife's wedding, she forgot to ask for a while, until she just remembered it, and hurriedly packed up and set off to visit.
This visit allowed her to catch Yin'e.
Concubine Wen glanced at her own son suspiciously. Why did he leave his own mother's Yongshou Palace and sneak in between the ninth and eleventh children
Yin'e was wronged, wronged. How could such a coincidence happen in the world? He was just joining in the fun, but he was caught by his mother
His eyes were about to pop out of the sky!
The Tenth Prince shrank his neck and took small steps to hide behind Yinzhen. Concubine Wen was furious when she saw this. She was about to scold him when Yunxiu persuaded her gently, "The Tenth Prince must have something important to do when he came. Why are you glaring at him? And he even called me Yi'er Niang. There's no palace rule that says you can't pay respects."
Concubine Wen snorted, and her anger subsided a little.
Everyone said that the Ninth Prince was a devil and had misled the Tenth Prince, but she was the only one who knew that was not the case. Yin'e looked honest, but he had as many tricks as Yin'er, but he was cunning and knew how to give advice secretly behind people's backs!
With Yinzhen in the lead, he would not be criticized by the emperor, nor would he be taught a lesson by his brother. Just looking at his reading, it is clear that Yinzhen has made some progress in calligraphy practice, but what about him? He is still at the bottom, and even Xiaoyi is trying to catch up...
Whenever she saw the Ninth Prince, Concubine Wen felt guilty. How could such a good child end up playing with the Tenth Prince
Well, Youyi’s mother spoke well of him, so let’s forgive him this time.
Here, the Tenth Prince saluted tremblingly under high pressure. Over there, Yunxiu took a sip of warm milk. After hearing Yinzhen's aggrieved accusation, she immediately choked up and said, "Ahem..."
"Empress!" The palace servants hurriedly took a handkerchief, some helped her to calm down, some handed her water, and some looked at her lower abdomen with concern.
Yun Xiu wiped his mouth and said in a hoarse voice: "Nothing."
"Your Royal Father..." She was at a loss for words for a long time, so she could only comfort him, "Mother knows, can you tell him later? There will be no more chili powder in Yinzhen's rice."
After getting the confirmation, Yinzhen's soft and pale face broke into a relieved smile, and Yin'e and Yin'e quickly pulled him away.
Yun Xiu was speechless for a moment, and then she saw Concubine Wen trying to hold back her laughter. Finally, she couldn't hold it back anymore and burst out laughing: "Your Majesty is truly a kind father."
"..." Yun Xiu was silent for a few breaths and then slowly said, "I am increasingly confused by the emperor's actions. It's just that the chili powder..." It can be considered understandable.
He then told Concubine Wen in detail the whole story of Xiao Eleven's assassination.
Now she has recovered from her shock and is no longer as frightened as she was yesterday or the day before. When she narrated the story, her tone was light and a little cold.
"I was wondering why you disappeared that day..." Concubine Wen was shocked, frowning, and muttered in disbelief, "Reaching your hand to the emperor, how audacious... This is for no reason, is there any law?!"
Then he asked her, "Is Yinzhen injured? Have you found out which palace did it?"
"Yinzhen is fine, all thanks to the medicine powder prepared by the Imperial Hospital, one of which is the chili powder that the emperor loves." Yun Xiu smiled lightly, and then sighed, "As for the person behind the scenes... This matter is very strange. To be honest, I have no idea."
There were many people in the palace who were enemies with her. But Huipin was confined to her house and could not go out, Pingpin was sick and bedridden all day, and as for the other concubines, they were all submissive to her, so how could they dare to make trouble
If the emperor finds out about the assassination of Eleven, all of them will lose their lives.
Besides, the assassin was a martial artist, so he was definitely not sent to the palace by an ordinary family. I don't know how he passed the selection and lay dormant for so many years. Maybe he was a force outside the palace... Could it be Suo Etu
But this doesn't make sense. What good would it do to ruin the prince's wedding
"Could it be that it was a nail left by the Tong Jia family?" Concubine Wen frowned and suddenly said, "After all, there was the late emperor's Empress Xiaokang."
"You mean... Longkodo?" Yun Xiu raised her eyebrows in surprise. "That makes sense. But Longkodo is crippled and beaten to death. Even if he survived, how can he contact the palace? He can't go back to Tong Mansion anymore."
"That must be someone in the palace." Concubine Wen's expression gradually became solemn. After a pause, she whispered, "Do you remember Huipin's actions in recent years? She openly criticized her daughter-in-law, proposed taking a concubine in front of the empress dowager, and even despised the royal bloodline... Compared with the past, she is completely a different person. I didn't notice it at first, but that day when the emperor demoted her and scolded the eldest prince for being 'better than a woman', I felt that it was going too smoothly."
"After hearing what you said, I just remembered... and that Cheng Shi, the concubine that Concubine Hui wanted to marry for the eldest prince, who suddenly appeared, where did she find her? Last year was not an election year!"
When Concubine Wen thought about it carefully, she felt that everything was unreal.
As soon as the words fell, the room fell silent.
"There is someone behind the scenes manipulating this. The first wife's difficult birth might have been planned." After an unknown amount of time, she said, "The person who planned this... is most likely the same person."
After saying this softly, Yun Xiu suddenly fell silent.
She closed her eyes, hiding the cold anger in them, and smiled self-deprecatingly: "I was too careless, thinking I was safe, but I didn't expect there was a poisonous snake lurking in the dark."
She noticed that something was wrong with Huipin, but she didn't think too much about it. She was too arrogant.
"It's not your fault." Concubine Wen shook her head and held her slightly cold hand. "Who could have expected this? If Xiaoyi hadn't been assassinated, I would never have thought of the past years."
Yunxiu felt warm in her heart and her brows relaxed.
She tried to recall, "Cheng... the daughter of the commander-in-chief of the Han army. By the way, do you remember which flag she belonged to?"
Concubine Wen corrected her, "She is the daughter of the vice governor."
Then he said uncertainly, "Zhengbai Banner? ... Xianghuang Banner?"
It happened several months ago. They just treated it as a joke and passed it by. Who would remember it
But the Han army flag commander... There are so many people with the surname Cheng. Tu Yue, who was the deputy commander of the Manchu Bordered Yellow Banner, once mentioned it in a letter to her family, saying that he almost made a fool of himself by mistaking this Cheng commander for another...
If you can’t find it, how can you follow the clues
Yunxiu suddenly became worried.
"You are already a married woman, and you are not afraid of being tired of worrying about this and that." Concubine Wen scolded her, "Why do you need to worry? I will ask Alinga to find out."
“…Okay.” Yun Xiu was about to nod, but suddenly, as if she had thought of something, her eyes lit up and a slight smile formed on her lips.
She said, "There is a way."
******
The next morning, the sun was shining brightly in the sky.
The Yanxi Palace where Huipin lived was deserted and overgrown with weeds. Apart from the occasional housekeepers who swept the place, the eunuchs in the kitchen, and the stewards sent by the Ministry of Internal Affairs to distribute the monthly allowances, it seemed as if there was no one in the palace.
But today is different—
Outside the palace gate, there was a royal carriage with a golden canopy and imperial flags, and it was accompanied by a large number of palace servants. The noise was so loud that even Concubine Hui, who was chanting in the small Buddhist temple, opened her eyes.
"Ying'er, go and take a look."
Ying'er bowed silently, walked around the long corridor, and slowly pushed open the palace door with a creak.
The moment the light shone into the hall, she suddenly opened her eyes wide, with panic and fear rising up in her.
I saw Concubine Yi in a gorgeous golden and red flag dress, with her flower ornaments and jade beads bathed in golden light. Behind her followed a group of sturdy maids who smiled at her softly, "I am not feeling well. Yesterday I specially asked the emperor for an order. I want to come and see your master so that I can have some personal conversation."