bayedsolid Chapter 303 Xie Family Past
Chapter 303 Xie Family Past
Shen Wei finished her speech with a sigh, "Mrs. Wu is really pitiful. She was poisoned when she was pregnant in her early years, which led to repeated miscarriages and severe damage to her body. Now she is poisoned again and will not live for more than three months... If Concubine Lan knew the truth, she would be heartbroken."
Li Yuanjing didn't care whether Wu was pitiful or not.
He has been planning to suppress the Xie family and strip away their power bit by bit. The evidence of the Xie family selling official positions and bullying the people over the years has long been found out by the Tiger Guards, and the evidence is piled up.
But there is a lack of a fuse to ignite the Xie family.
After listening to the gossip Shen Wei told him, Li Yuanjing immediately found a breakthrough.
He held Shen Wei's slender waist, his thin lips curled slightly: "Poisoning the mistress, the crime should be punished. I will send the Ministry of Justice to investigate tomorrow, and I must give justice to Wu."
Shen Wei complimented him promptly: "Your Majesty is wise."
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Huayang Palace late at night.
bang-
The vase was smashed to pieces on the ground. Lanpin sat on the ground with her mother's letter in her hand, crying her heart out.
"Mother..."
"Why...why is the truth like this..."
In the letter, Wu wrote with tears in her eyes as she recounted how she was deceived by her husband.
[More than 20 years ago, the daughter of the Xie family was crowned as the queen. The Xie family enjoyed great success and was on the verge of rising to a higher level. However, no one expected that the queen, Xie, would suddenly distance herself from the Xie family and even join forces with the late emperor to suppress the Xie family.
Xie Ji, the young head of the Xie family, fell in love with Zhao, a bartender in a restaurant, and the two secretly decided to spend their lives together. However, under pressure from his family, Xie Ji was forced to marry Wu, a noblewoman from a prominent family.
On the day of Xie Ji and Wu's wedding, Zhao was drunk in the restaurant. After Zhao was drunk, she was taken to bed by a lustful drunkard and had dirty sex with him.
Zhao was devastated and wanted to commit suicide. When Xie Ji learned about this, he was distressed and angry, and blamed all the blame on Wu.
Xie Ji pretended to be very caring towards Wu, but in fact he hated her so much that he was unwilling to consummate the marriage with her. Every night, Xie Ji would drug Wu and let the servants take his place in Wu's bed.
After Wu became pregnant, Xie Ji secretly gave her abortion drugs, causing Wu's children to be lost one by one. Concubine Lan, Xie Fanglan, was the child that Wu had with a servant without her knowledge.
Wu was in poor health and could not give birth to a son, so with Xie Ji's secret manipulation, she took Zhao, a wine seller, as her concubine.
For many years, Xie Ji pretended to be indifferent to Zhao, but in fact the two of them often met in secret and made vows to each other.
When Wu learned the truth, he was already terminally ill. 】
In the room, Lanpin broke down and cried, her fingers were cut by sharp fragments, and the floor was covered with glaring blood.
The palace maid Tong'er's eyes were also red. She knelt on the ground and said, "Master, please don't be sad... God has eyes, and evildoers will eventually be punished."
Lanpin shook her head painfully: "Tong'er... I, I am actually the daughter of a family slave. My mother was born of noble birth, but she suffered such humiliation... My father has such a cruel heart, he has such a cruel heart, how can there be such a disgusting man in this world..."
Lanpin closed her eyes.
She thought of her father's kind and gentle smile and Aunt Zhao's gentle embrace when she was young. Her father Xie Ji treated her very well and wanted to give her the best things in the world.
My father always said: "Fanglan, you are my favorite daughter, and you are the hope of the Xie family. When you grow up, you will definitely become a noble queen."
He pretends so well.
Who would have thought that kindness was just a hypocritical mask. Over the long years, Xie Ji instilled the concept of "family first" into Xie Fanglan, and finally threw her into the palace as a springboard for Xie Fanghua to enter the palace.
"Tong'er, what should I do?" Lanpin collapsed on the ground, wailing in despair.
She saw no hope; despair and pain filled her internal organs, causing her to cry in agony.
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The next day, at Xie Mansion in Yanjing City.
In the early morning, the most beautiful autumn chrysanthemums blooming in the yard were carefully picked by the maids, put into a tray, and sent to the boudoir of Xie Fanghua, the second daughter of the Xie family.
In front of the silver mirror, Aunt Zhao had a gentle smile on her face. She picked up a pink and purple chrysanthemum and pinned it in Xie Fanghua's black hair.
"My daughter is so beautiful." Aunt Zhao showed a satisfied look. She told Xie Fanghua, "When your father returns to Beijing the day after tomorrow, I will discuss with him and find a time to send you to the palace."
Xie Fanghua raised her red lips: "Don't worry, mother, your daughter will definitely win your heart."
She looks similar to Concubine Chen, and has similar interests and hobbies. The emperor will definitely fall in love with her because he loves her.
Xie Fanghua added: "Mother, I heard that Concubine Chen sent a royal doctor to check Wu's pulse yesterday. I am worried that the royal doctor will find some clues."
Aunt Zhao said, "Of the two doctors sent by Concubine Chen, one was old, confused and greedy, and was bribed with one thousand taels of silver. The other doctor was very young, and I watched from the side, and he even took Mrs. Wu's pulse in the wrong place. It's obvious that the young doctor is a person who seeks fame and reputation, and has no real talent or knowledge."
Two useless doctors couldn't find anything.
Only then did Xie Fanghua feel relieved.
Aunt Zhao continued to dress her daughter, as if she was dressing a piece of art that she was proud of. At this time, the little maid ran in hurriedly: "Madam! It's not good, it's not good!"
Aunt Zhao's hand slipped, and the hand that was drawing her daughter's eyebrows tilted, and Xie Fanghua's eyebrows were drawn crooked.
"Why are you making such a fuss? It's against the rules." Aunt Zhao asked dissatisfiedly.
The maid said, "The Queen Mother's decree has arrived!"
Aunt Zhao was slightly stunned. Empress Dowager?
As we all know, although the current Queen Mother was born in the Xie family, she has always been at odds with the Xie family. Over the years, the Queen Mother has never helped the Xie family in the slightest.
Aunt Zhao had a bad feeling in her heart, so she hurried out of the house and went to greet Xie at the gate of his house.
The one who came to deliver the decree was Madam Qian, the most senior madam around the empress dowager. Behind Madam Qian was a sedan chair from the palace, and four eunuchs were waiting beside the sedan chair.
"Madam Qian, I'm sorry for not coming to meet you in person. I wonder what the Empress Dowager's order is?" Aunt Zhao said respectfully.
Nanny Qian said coldly, "The Queen Mother was very worried when she learned that Wu was seriously ill. She ordered this old servant to bring the imperial decree to Xie Mansion to take Wu to the palace to recuperate."
Aunt Zhao's breathing paused.
Bring Wu into the palace?
Aunt Zhao hurriedly stopped her: "Madame Qian, my sister is too ill to get up and can't come to the palace--"
"What? You, a mere concubine, want to disobey the emperor's order?" Nanny Qian's eyes were as sharp as knives, and she did not take a concubine seriously at all.
Nanny Qian strode into the Xie family and took the palace maids to Wu's room to pick someone up.
Aunt Zhao secretly clenched her handkerchief.
She hated the look in Nanny Qian's eyes - a look that was condescending and superior.
Back then, Aunt Zhao was selling wine in the restaurant. All the dignitaries who were drinking and having fun looked at her with contemptuous and mocking eyes.
Like looking at an ant.
Aunt Zhao was unwilling to be inferior to others.
She had worked hard to plan and rack her brains to become a distinguished concubine of the Xie family, and was about to rise to the top. But today, the cold look from the nanny shattered the self-esteem that Aunt Zhao had accumulated over the years into pieces.
Nanny Qian acted decisively and quickly put the seriously ill and unconscious Wu into a sedan chair and carried her into the palace.
"Madam, what should we do?" the little maid asked anxiously.
Aunt Zhao took a deep breath, looked at the yellowing sycamore tree at the gate of Xie's house, and said calmly, "Write to the master immediately. Something is going to happen at home."