Rong Qiu is the fourth son of the Rong family. He lost his father at an early age and his father was a bastard. He lived a hard life in the Rong family. He knew how to be hardworking and motivated since he was young. His entry into the Jinwu Guard had little to do with Concubine Rong. It was all due to his diligence in practicing martial arts. It was also because his son became a Jinwu Guard that his mother was finally no longer deducted money by her eldest sister-in-law and no longer had to worry about a lamp or a quilt to keep out the cold.
Mrs. Rong Si only has Rong Qiu as her support. If Rong Qiu dies, her world will fall apart.
As early as knowing that Concubine Rong had sent Rong Qiu, Shen Xihe ordered people to go to Rong Mansion to pick up Mrs. Rong Si and let her know that Rong Qiu was dead. Rong Qiu died while doing things for Concubine Rong.
Although this dynasty is tolerant of women, it does not follow the old system of obeying the father at home, obeying the husband after marriage, and obeying the son after the husband's death. Widows can remarry, set up female households, and do business. Even if they are talented in literature, they can enter the palace as female officials, and if they are brave in martial arts, they can enter the government as constables.
Even so, many women from wealthy families still depend on men. For Madam Rong Si, her son, who had just married and had no children yet, was everything to her, his heaven. Now her heaven had collapsed.
“Your Majesty… I have evidence of the Imperial Concubine’s guilt in my hands—” Madam Rong Si shouted at the top of her lungs.
With so many people watching, even the head of the Rong family couldn't stop it. Emperor Youning glanced at Concubine Rong and said, "Let her in."
In recent years, as Rong Qiu has emerged, he can use his identity as a Jinwu Guard to move around the palace more easily and gradually gain the trust of Concubine Rong. Rong Qiu helps her with many things.
Rong Qiu and Concubine Rong were not blood relatives. The cold treatment and torture he suffered in his childhood made him have a strong sense of crisis. He knew that if he made any mistakes, Concubine Rong would abandon him. Therefore, he tried his best to leave some evidence for his mother, so that if he met with an accident one day, his mother would have something to protect herself.
Madam Rong Si does not need to protect herself, as she has nothing left to live for, but she must make the person who killed her son pay the price!
She handed over a lot of evidence, but there was no evidence that could lead to the death of Concubine Rong. Rong Qiu had only begun to show his prowess in recent years, while Concubine Rong had already established herself in the palace. The most serious piece of evidence was that Concubine Rong intended to murder the Crown Princess.
Concubine Rong asked Rong Qin to find a cat slave that looked exactly like the Crown Princess. There are still many similar cats in the Rong family. This cat slave was found several months ago, and its paws had been soaked in medicine for a long time, which caused Zi Yu's accident.
Rong Jia hadn't finished treating a raccoon slave who looked very much like Short-lived. The raccoon slave that Short-lived held down looked exactly like it, and the medicine on its claws did match the wound on Ziyu. At this time, Sui Axi had been called by Shen Xihe. He gave Ziyu acupuncture to temporarily wake her up. Ziyu immediately pointed it out: "I ran into the Crown Princess's raccoon slave. I was afraid that the Crown Princess would look for it, so I wanted to bring it back, but I didn't expect it to be replaced by someone. I was caught off guard and was scratched by it. I don't know anything about what happened afterwards."
"The Imperial Concubine has put a lot of effort into dealing with me." Shen Xihe smiled faintly, his smile not reaching his eyes. "If I'm not mistaken, this raccoon was prepared by the Imperial Concubine for me, but somehow it ran away and was bumped into by Zi Yu. After the Imperial Concubine found out, she sent Guard Rong to look for it. Unexpectedly, Guard Rong met the escaped assassin in the kitchen, and the two fought. Guard Rong was defeated and died at the hands of the assassin."