Chapter 62: Unconditional Favoritism
"Back to Your Majesty, after the empress made peach cakes for the Crown Princess, she asked Xiao Yuan to send them to the East Palace. However, the Crown Princess confiscated them and returned them as they were." Xiao Rui knelt on the ground respectfully and replied.
Emperor Yan thought for a moment and decided to ask what was going on first, "Send this person to come in and give a reply."
Xiao Yuan was quickly brought in and began to talk in detail about her encounter with the prince and princess in the imperial garden.
"The servant was ordered by the empress to go to the East Palace to deliver peach cakes to the Crown Princess. Before arriving at the East Palace, she met His Highness the Crown Prince and the Crown Princess in the Imperial Garden. The servant explained the purpose of her visit and handed the food box to the aunt in Qingyi beside the Crown Princess.
The concubine took one look at the peach cake and confiscated it, and Aunt Qingyi returned it to the servant. After that, the servant took the food box back to Ronghe Hall and explained the situation to the empress. I don't know what happened next."
After hearing the whole encounter, Emperor Yan basically ruled out the suspicion of Yan Huai and Yuan Yuan. As for Qing Yi's contact with the food box, Emperor Yan didn't think there was any problem. Qing Yi was a confidant trained by Queen Wen for Yuan Yuan, and he absolutely did not think so.
He might do something that betrays the Lord.
"Huan, send the food box and Tao Su to the Imperial Hospital for examination."
"Yes, I'll go and do it now." After receiving the order, Huan ordered people to take the things away.
Concubine An didn't expect that Emperor Yan didn't suspect the most suspicious maid next to the princess. She was a little excited for a moment and whimpered and wanted to say something, but she couldn't form any words.
Emperor Yan could only appease her emotions first and analyze the matter with her in detail. It could not be the reason why Dong Palace harmed her. "I know what you want to say, but Qing Yi has been working as an errand in Wan'er Palace since she was a child. She
I know her temperament very well, there is no way she would harm you, nor could she be instigated from her heart."
An Bin thought she could get a few words of comfort from Emperor Yan, but she didn't expect that Emperor Yan actually asked her not to pour dirty water into the East Palace? She was obviously the one whose throat was poisoned!
Why are you so partial to Dong Gong! Just because he is the eldest son of Queen Xiaoyi? But she is also the eldest daughter of the family who has been pampered and raised since childhood! She has never suffered such injustice! An Bin was so angry that she burst into tears. At this moment,
She resented Emperor Yan's injustice and favoritism.
After receiving the emperor's order, the Taiyuan Hospital carefully inspected the food box and the remaining pieces of peach cakes overnight, confirming that they were not contaminated with any poison, that is, the death of Concubine An's throat had nothing to do with peach cakes.
It was the fifth day of the tossing, and it was time for Emperor Yan to go to court. After a few words of casual explanation, he left from Ronghe Hall. Concubine An didn't know what Emperor Yan meant, or maybe her throat was hurt by just scribbling like this.
Did you just brush it off?
"Mother, what should we do? Have you suffered this loss in vain?" Xiaorui is worthy of having served An Bin since she was a child. She is simply her mouth substitute, expressing all the unhappiness in An Bin's heart.
"Your Majesty obviously won't stand up for me anymore. He doesn't even want to check with the East Palace. Send a message to my father, and he will find a way to help me." An Bin didn't plan to just let it go.
He wrote these words on the paper angrily, and Xiaorui was immediately ordered to do it.
Originally she wanted to sleep until dawn, but when Qingyi went to the Huanyi Bureau early in the morning to deliver clothes, she heard the maids from various palaces who came to deliver clothes talking about how the concubine Ronghe and Dian An had a bad throat last night and could not say anything for the time being.
Talked.
Qing Yi returned to the East Palace after listening to the whole incident in silence, and then mentioned it while dressing Yuan Yuan. Yuan Yuan was a little surprised, "Really? Didn't she give me peach cakes yesterday?"
"Your Highness, Concubine An's maid has insisted that Concubine An's throat broke after eating the peach cake she gave you."
I wanted to understand every word Qing Yi said, but I didn't understand what she meant when it was put into a sentence.
"Are you saying that Concubine An broke her throat after eating the peach cake she was going to give me? Oh my God, if I ate it, my throat would be broken too!" Yuan Yuan immediately thought of herself,
Very crisis aware.
"..." Qing Yi obviously didn't expect that His Highness would be so aware of the crisis, but the topic obviously went astray.
"Your Highness, the maid in Concubine An's palace said that she had a bad throat after eating the peach cakes in the peach cake box that was handed over by the slave, implying that Concubine An was poisoned by the slave."
"Ah? What does it have to do with you? And didn't she take the initiative to give the peach cakes to me? I didn't even ask for hers, so she had to rely on you for her own gluttony and bad throat? What kind of mangy dog is she!" Yuan Yuan
He frowned and said angrily.
"Your Highness, don't be angry. No one can blame these dirty things on slaves." Qing Yi naturally had the confidence to say this. The reason why the palace people in the East Palace protect their master is naturally because Yan Huai and Yuan Yuan both
He is the protector of shortcomings.
Although Yuan Yuan did not say that she was not angry, she still complained to Yan Huai during breakfast.
"Yan Shenzhi, that concubine An has a bad throat. The person who delivered the peach cakes yesterday said it was Qing Yi who caused it! I'm so angry!"
"I didn't even touch the peach cakes she gave me! They were all sent by An Bin, so Qing Yi can be blamed for this! Yan Shenzhi, please don't let Qing Yi be bullied!" Yuan Yuan was furious after taking a bite of the meat buns.
Gu Di told Yan Huai.
"Let's talk after eating." Yan Huai looked at her bulging face with a cold face.
After being treated so harshly by him, Yuan Wan could only speed up and chew the buns in her mouth. Seeing that Aunt Tang, who had already returned from the imperial mausoleum, was worried that she would hurt herself, she quickly said, "Your Highness, please take your time.
Eat, be careful not to choke."
After finishing breakfast quickly, Yuan Yuan kept talking through Yanhuai's little mouth, "Yan Shenzhi, you don't even know how disgusting the people in An Bin's palace are! An Bin ate the peach cake she made.
My throat is broken and I can’t speak! Just because Qing Yi opened her food box, I said Qing Yi wanted to harm An Bin!”
"I'm so angry! If I eat that peach cake, my throat will be damaged too! It's too much! This concubine An An didn't mean to harm me but she ended up harming herself! She deserves it!"
Yuan Yuan talked about what happened in An Bin Palace in a clear and logical manner. Yan Huai also heard Zhui Yun talk about it this morning. It was just the restless women in Emperor Yan's harem who caused it. He didn't want to blame the people in the East Palace.
Take stock of your own weight.
"From now on, all the things sent by the concubines in the harem will be thrown away, and anyone who dares to bite them will be beaten to death with sticks." Yan Huai said coldly to Xiao Dezi and Qing Yi, who immediately agreed respectfully.
"Your Highness, Your Highness, I have something to report."
"Aunt Ziteng, who is with Concubine De, asked Aunt Qingyi to go to Ronghe Palace. She said there are some things that need to be confirmed with Aunt Qingyi." Caisang, who was guarding the door, followed the guard's announcement.
Chapter completed!