0p0 Chapter 152 The Emperor Was So Angry That His Liver Pained
Chapter 152 The Emperor Was So Angry That His Liver Pained
In contrast to the warmth of the Qiao family, the Yangxin Palace in the imperial palace was cold and gloomy.
The emperor sat alone on the couch, while Eunuch Wu and others were waiting outside.
What happened tonight made the emperor lose his mood to celebrate the New Year. After the palace banquet was cancelled, he returned to the Yangxin Palace alone, ate a few bites casually, and then ordered people to remove the food.
They were just waiting for Lord Zhan and the commander of the imperial guards to report back with their findings.
But the two men took a long time to report, and the emperor became more and more impatient as he waited.
He got angry again, "Let's go and see if they are incompetent or if they are just slacking off and going away to celebrate the New Year."
Eunuch Wu knew that the two of them would never have the courage to go and celebrate the New Year, but he did not dare to delay and planned to go and inquire about the situation in person. Then he saw Lord Zhan walking quickly towards him.
He hurriedly asked, "Did you find anything?"
There was a ghost incident during the New Year's Day, and it involved two people whom the emperor did not want to mention. Eunuch Wu looked at the emperor's extremely gloomy face and was really worried that if something went wrong, there would be a few more deaths in the palace.
Zhan Daren shook his head in embarrassment, "We've checked every household along the road from the city gate to the Lin family's house, but no one has provided any useful clues.
The Lin family closed the gate in the evening. The ancestral hall collapsed, and the gatekeeper was called to the ancestral hall to help. During that time, the Lin family gate was unattended.
Eunuch Wu's heart sank.
Nothing was found, how could the emperor calm down his anger?
Inside the room, the emperor also heard Lord Zhan's words clearly, and he punched the couch hard.
When Lord Zhan and Eunuch Wu heard the noise in the house, they hurriedly lowered their heads and went into the house. Lord Zhan repeated what he had said to the emperor.
The emperor was silent.
The atmosphere in the room was so depressing that Eunuch Wu felt a chill down his spine.
"However, I discovered another thing."
Master Zhan spoke, breaking the dead silence, "During the interrogation of the Lin family, one of Marquis Changning's concubines confessed that the Marquis Changning had been looking for an embroiderer in the palace."
The emperor asked solemnly, "What embroiderer?"
“It is said that before his death, Lin Yuanbo instructed the Marquis of Changning to find the person and capture him in his hands, as this person could affect the life and death of the entire Marquisate.
But the Marquis of Changning couldn't find anyone, so he drank to drown his sorrows, and only then did he say a few more words after drinking."
Master Zhan raised his head slightly and said, "I was worried that the concubine might be lying, so I used some torture.
The concubine then confessed that she had an affair with Lin Yuanbai behind the back of Marquis Changning. She had heard Lin Yuanbai complain that the embroiderer was boring in bed, and she even dreamed of becoming his legal wife.
"I thought that when someone pretended to be the late Crown Prince and was playing tricks tonight, they also mentioned an embroiderer. Fearing that the two incidents might be implicated, I brought the concubine into the palace and locked her up in the Ministry of Punishment."
The emperor began to frown when he mentioned the embroiderer.
The puppet that framed the former crown prince was indeed made by an embroiderer in the palace, and that embroiderer was also hired by Lin Yuanbo.
But after the death of the former crown prince, he asked Lin Yuanbo to kill the embroiderer.
Could it be that Lin Yuanbo was so bold as to secretly hide the embroiderer?
What does he want to do?
Threatening the emperor?
Thinking of this possibility, the emperor's face turned pale, veins on his forehead throbbed, and anger surged in his heart, "Bring the concubine here."
He wants to interrogate him personally.
Master Zhan quickly agreed, "Yes, I will go and fetch him right away."
The emperor glanced at Eunuch Wu.
Lord Zhan is his man, but at this moment he doesn't trust anyone, so naturally he won't believe Lord Zhan's one-sided words.
Eunuch Wu understood and hurriedly followed Lord Zhan to the Ministry of Punishment.
Lord Zhan ordered, "Open the door and bring the person out."
Upon hearing this, the guard hurriedly took out the key and opened the cell door. However, when he reached out to pick up the woman on the ground, he was startled.
The woman is cold!
He hurried to feel the woman's pulse, then plopped down on his knees, "Please forgive me, sir."
Lord Zhan's expression changed, "What happened?"
As he asked this, the man had already strode into the cell and felt the woman's pulse. His eyes were filled with fear as he muttered, "Dead? How could she be dead?"
Eunuch Wu's expression also changed drastically.
A quarter of an hour later.
Lord Zhan knelt before the emperor with a pale face.
The emperor was so angry that he kicked him and said, "How could a good person die after being brought into the palace for only a few moments?"
"Damn slave."
Master Zhan knelt on the ground and said, "I didn't expect that concubine would have palpitations. I was careless. I should have been more careful."
"Heart palpitations, another heart palpitation. How many heart palpitations are there in this world? I've experienced them all."
The emperor looked at Master Zhan with a gloomy expression, "Wang Yuan's son died of a heart attack, and today this concubine is also suffering from a heart attack. How could such a coincidence happen?"
Lord Zhan looked up in shock, "Your Majesty, are you saying that someone in the Ministry of Punishment attacked that concubine?
But it’s not easy to get into the Ministry of Punishment, and the time is so short…”
The emperor slammed his palm on the table and said, "If I ask you about everything, what use would you be?"
Why is there so much useless trash around him?
Master Zhan was so frightened that he trembled and said hurriedly, "I will go check it out right away."
It's an eyesore if I leave it there.
The emperor waved his hand irritably.
After Lord Zhan left, the room became quiet again, with only the emperor's heavy breathing remaining.
Suddenly, there was a loud bang outside, and a brilliant firework exploded in the air, followed by a second, a third...
It was the people outside the palace who were celebrating the New Year.
The emperor's expression became even uglier.
While others were celebrating the New Year happily, he was so angry in the palace that his liver ached. He swept everything on the table and only then was he able to vent a little of his anger.
After taking a deep breath, he suddenly asked, "What is the King of Xinjiang North doing?"
Things have been particularly bad recently, and it seems that it was all after Su Heting came to Beijing. The emperor looked at the fireworks exploding outside the window and wondered if Su Heting was his unlucky star.
Regardless of whether it was true or not, and regardless of who was behind the incident tonight, he had to alienate Su Heting and Qiao Xi, kill Qiao Xi as soon as possible, and then use Su Heting to lure out the Queen and Yi Qing.
Once Yi Qing is dealt with, and Su Heting subdues the various local governors, everything will be back on track...
Eunuch Wu had already known what happened to Su Heting after he left the palace, but he thought about the emperor's mood tonight and that hearing about it would only make him even angrier, so he endured it and didn't tell him.
Now that the emperor had asked, he had no choice but to speak carefully, "I heard that the King of Jiangbei had an argument with the Princess of Jiangbei after returning home.
The Princess of Jiangbei went back to her parents' home in anger. Miss Su and the old man also followed her to the Qiao family and took away all the food from the Second Prince's mansion.
Later, King Jiangbei also went to the Qiao family. At first, the Qiao family refused to open the door, so King Jiangbei ordered the Jiangbei army to surround the Qiao family and climb over the wall to get in.
Right now, everyone is celebrating the New Year at the Qiao family's house, and with those Xinjiang Northern Army patrolling, it's difficult for our people to sneak in."
Therefore, they had no idea what the current situation of Qiao Xi and Su Heting was.
When the emperor heard this, he became even more angry.
"How can a grown man be so unable to hide things?"
As soon as he instigated something, he went back and started making trouble with Qiao Xi, and in the end he even shamelessly followed her to Qiao's house.
Then what's the point of him bothering to sow discord?
What was so good about Qiao Xi that made him so confused that he didn't even care about her relationship with the late crown prince and was so eager to get after her.
Or is there something else hidden here?
"Where are the Zhou family members?"
"She was left in the Second Prince's residence."
Snapped!
The sound of a teacup falling to the ground was heard, and Eunuch Wu was so scared that he quickly knelt on the ground, feeling that his neck was very fragile tonight.
boom!
boom!
boom!
Several fireworks exploded in succession, causing the emperor to feel an unusual pain in his heart. He clutched his chest and said, "Waste, all waste."
Eunuch Wu trembled with fear, "Your Majesty, please calm down and don't let your anger harm your health."
The emperor took another long breath, and then he felt a little relieved.
He closed his eyes. It was indeed not the time to be angry. He had to find out the traitor in the palace as soon as possible.
But who is it?
Cao Ying used the heart palpitation poison to kill Wang Junjie and put the blame on Qiao Xi. Tonight, the concubine of the Lin family also had heart palpitations. The person who got this medicine must have had a secret connection with Cao Ying, or perhaps with Yi Qing...
The emperor slowly walked to the window, closed his eyes and thought for a long time, then suddenly opened them and said with a face full of anger, "Bring some people and follow me."