Chapter 334 See
"Is your sister a palace maid?" Rong Que asked.
Yue Niang shook her head.
"No, no, my sister was the Jade Concubine during the previous emperor's time. I don't know what crime she committed back then and was sent to the cold palace. I didn't hear from her for a long time and then I asked someone in the palace to inquire about her. I heard from the maid who used to serve her that she was sent to the cold palace.
My family has no power or influence, and I have no way to save my sister, so even though I have been thinking about her in my heart all these years, I have never dared to have any improper thoughts.
Today, I am honored to enter the palace, and my thoughts and reluctance are born in my heart. "
She kowtowed loudly.
"I beg your majesty to release my sister."
"How old is your sister?" Rong Que asked her expressionlessly.
"My sister is only five years older than me."
Rong Que frowned, "She is only five years older than you? But she was a concubine during my father's time? Why do your words sound so absurd to me!"
Yue Niang immediately said, "Your Majesty, I dare not lie. My sister entered the palace to serve at the age of nine. Later, she was favored by the late emperor and was made a mistress. She rose step by step and became the Jade Concubine."
There was indeed such a person in the palace who climbed from a palace maid to a concubine, but was banished to the cold palace within two days.
Rong Que had heard of it, but couldn't remember which concubine it was.
Now that she said that, Rong Que was right.
But he didn't know whether the Concubine Yu that Yue Niang was talking about was the madman who died a few days ago or the person who died in the cold palace before. After all, there were indeed other corpses in the cold palace.
There was the crazy woman, the woman at the bottom of the well, and so many corpses in the back room.
Looking at Yue Niang, Rong Que was silent for a moment, "After I ascended the throne, the cold palace has been cleaned up. There is no one there. Maybe King Yu caused chaos before and was killed."
Knowing that Yue Niang was setting a trap for him, Rong Que simply played along and brought up King Yu to cause trouble.
Yue Niang looked at Rong Que in sorrow, "Really? Is it true? My little sister..."
She didn't finish her words, but sighed deeply, "In fact, when I entered the palace, I had already thought about this result, but I didn't give up. I even drew a portrait of my sister, wanting to find out something. I didn't expect that Your Majesty is so kind and I am lucky to meet Your Majesty here. There is no need to ask separately, Your Majesty has told me everything."
With a look of sorrow and a bitter smile, she took out a folded portrait from her sleeve and unfolded it.
Rong Que took a closer look and found that the woman in the portrait was exactly the same as the crazy palace maid.
"You told the Queen all this, but she forbids you to mention it to others?"
Yue Niang sighed and nodded, "People in the cold palace are unlucky. This is the first time that Your Majesty is hosting a Hundred Flowers Banquet. I can understand Your Majesty."
Rong Que shook his head as Yue Niang finished speaking.
"It's not bad luck, but your sister was not killed by King Yu. She died a few days ago."
Yue Niang looked at Rong Que in shock for a moment.
Rong Que said sadly: "However, the murderer has been found. The person who killed your sister is the princess of Da Qi, the Concubine Qi who is now under house arrest by me.
The case was originally solved yesterday, but today is the Hundred Flowers Festival and we didn't want to disturb so many people's good mood, so we kept it a secret.
You are the victim's sister, so it's okay for me to tell you that I will definitely deal with Concubine Qi who killed your sister in a way that will satisfy the people of the entire Great Yan Dynasty."
Yue Niang: Huh?
I came to the palace to release Concubine Qi, not... Why did you convict Concubine Qi?
"Your Majesty, is it really her? She is a princess of Daqi. What kind of conflict could there be between her and my sister, a person in the cold palace?"
Rong Que said, "Who knows? Anyway, we have all the evidence now. We can announce it tomorrow morning after the banquet."
After saying this, Rong Que felt that he had fulfilled his role as bait, so he stood up and said, "I am sorry for your loss." He left before Yue Niang could react to what had happened.
As soon as he left, Yue Niang bit her lip, clenched her fist tightly, and punched the ground.
She hadn't finished her next sentence yet.
She also wanted to say that the reason why the Queen didn't let her finish her words was because one of the palace maids who served her sister at the time came from Zhao State.
She wanted to invisibly direct the fire to Su Qingqing. Even if she failed, at least she would plant a thorn in Rong Que's heart.
But now...
The emperor told her that there was evidence and witnesses, and the murderer was Concubine Qi?
How the hell was she supposed to continue with this?
Are you trying to say that Your Majesty, your investigation was wrong and what I said was right?
She was afraid that she would be chopped to pieces on the spot by this wife-slave emperor.
Sighing, Yue Niang stood up with the help of the stone table in the pavilion, glanced vaguely from afar in the direction of the pavilion where Su Qingqing was, then lifted her skirt and left.
She couldn't see Su Qingqing's pavilion from the pavilion she was in, but the pavilion on Su Qingqing's side could see the scene on their side clearly.
The old ladies who sat at the same table with Su Qingqing were naturally closer to her because of their political stance. Who wouldn't want the court's military power to be completely controlled by the Su family army?
But while chatting, he caught a glimpse of the pavilion opposite and saw the wife of the head of the escort agency kissing and hugging the emperor.
The faces of several old ladies turned pale immediately.
They wanted to scold Yue Niang, but they didn't understand why the emperor went there out of the blue.
And after the hugging, embracing and kissing, the emperor actually sat down and talked to her for a long time.
What does this mean?
Did she take the initiative to seduce the emperor or were there problems between these two people?
If it was Su Qingqing with another man today, they would definitely not doubt Su Qingqing's loyalty to the emperor, but if it was the emperor with another woman...
Since ancient times, emperors have never had an empty pillow.
An old lady from the Marquisate took Su Qingqing's hand and said, "You are pregnant now, everything else is secondary. The safety of you and your child is the most important thing. Don't get stuck in a rut. If you can, fight for it. If you can't, fighting for it will only hurt yourself."
Of course Su Qingqing knew that these old ladies were all kind to her.
She smiled and shook her head. "I don't care about that. Right now, what I care about most is..."
She paused and glanced around. Xiao Rui immediately understood and turned around to stand guard outside the pavilion.
Su Qingqing took out a map from her sleeve and placed it on the table.
"I have only one purpose for holding this Hundred Flowers Banquet today, which is to find an open and aboveboard opportunity to talk to a few seniors about something."
As the map unfolded, it was discovered that these old ladies were all military generals in the mansion. Even if they themselves did not know how to read maps, they knew a lot from what they had seen and heard.
The atmosphere suddenly became solemn.
Su Qingqing clicked on three places on the map.
"Of these three places, one was originally guarded by the soldiers of the Duke of Zhenguo. Now that the Duke of Zhenguo has fallen, his soldiers have been annexed. However, since they are not our own soldiers, we are not confident in using them. When the time comes to fight on the battlefield, we can't charge forward confidently."
