"Your Majesty, I dare to put my neck on my head as a guarantee, and my dowry will definitely not do such a thing!" Concubine Xuan felt as if she had fallen into an ice cellar. She left her seat and knelt down. She raised her legs and swore, "Not to mention that Wang Linglai is... Princess Minghui is the consort of the East Palace, and I am a palace concubine. How can the people around me not know the etiquette and have something to do with Wang Linglai?"
"It is said that I and Wang Linglai are not relatives and have never had any contact. The only intersection was that the former Empress Dowager and her mother, the Empress Dowager, summoned three prospective consorts to the palace for an audience. I followed the empress to Qingci Palace. We had a simple banquet. In that short time, none of my waiters, except Bao Niang, ever left my side!"
"And Bao Niang is an old member of Yanlan Palace, but she is not a concubine as the rumors say!"
"This matter is absolutely wrong. Is there anyone who is deliberately slandering the honor of the royal family? I ask the queen and sister Xianfei to find out clearly. I am very fair to you and my sister Ruifei!"
She didn't care about the sour feeling in her heart at that time, and admitted that she was not capable, "Before, an old man from Yanlan Palace had sex in private, which disturbed the Concubine Xian very much! After that incident, I We have also thoroughly investigated whether Bao Niang was promoted to fill the vacancy in the East. But the Queen and Xian Fei must both know that I am young and ignorant, and I have not entered the palace for the first time, so I will inevitably act cautiously."
"A thorough investigation of my identity may not really clear up the Yanlan Palace in the east!"
"After all, Zheng has been a concubine for nearly ten years, and her position in the palace is deeply rooted."
While Concubine Xuan was defending herself, Concubine Zheng turned the blame for what the Empress and Yun Fenghuang had expected. The two concubines exchanged tacit glances, and Empress Ji slowly said: "At that time, since the left and right were left alone, I shut up, because I don’t want to doubt me. After all, I am from a famous family, and the dowry brought specially to the palace is not so inappropriate. Even Princess Minghui’s quasi-consort dares to take advantage of it. But there are a lot of criticisms outside Ruming, both the government and the public. I have heard that even just now, there were many censors writing doubts, asking the royal family for an explanation, so that the people of Tiandong would not misunderstand Bidong's vision."
"If you don't, you can just wrong me first."
"I don't dare." Concubine Xuan was anxious and asked bravely, "I dare to ask... what happened to the palace search?"
Empress Ji laughed and did not shut up, but asked Yun Fenghuang to answer on her behalf: "Someone in my dowry has already confessed. The Empress Dowager left three prospective consorts to have a banquet that month. The person in front of me is indeed Wang Linglai's boy." Pulling and pulling, giving and receiving privately. Is the same with Concubine Rui... Is it possible that Concubine Rui's Hansu Palace didn't have the throne before?"
Concubine Xuan's heart sank, she raised her head and looked up at her, pleading with her eyes: "Sister, I am absolutely right and my sister Ruifei is wrong! I beg you, sister, to bring justice to my sister Ruifei!"
She wondered if Ji had an affair. The reason was very clear. The Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager Ji were dissatisfied with Princess Minghui's marriage, and they couldn't go against it openly, so they had an affair. Even if the trick of arranging the dowry of the emperor's concubine was done by someone close to Wang Linglai instead of himself, it still shows that the family has no way to control the east and the family tradition is not upright.
How can such a thing match the blood of Xiaozong and his direct princess
In this way, Princess Minghui's marriage can be canceled and a good son-in-law can be chosen. In the situation where the Empress Dowager and Empress Dowager Ji are already very close, even if Chunjia still has the final say on the princess's marriage, they still have ways to intervene and influence it.
... In fact, Concubine Xuan and Concubine Rui were not very interested in the candidate for the prince's consort.