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Chapter 409 Poisonous Woman
Concubine Ye looked at the emperor in panic.
The emperor was so angry that his mouth tasted blood.
Over the years, Concubine Ye never mentioned that she saved him. The emperor thought that Concubine Ye did not dare to mention his past embarrassment in front of him. The emperor believed that Concubine Ye was not someone who would repay a favor. It turned out that he thought too much. Concubine Ye was not the real Ye Qingli at all, and did not know the details of how she saved him!
He pampered a vicious woman for twenty years!
The emperor even wanted to torture Concubine Ye to death.
In the bedroom, not only the emperor and Xie Guimo were there, but also Prince Yu.
After all, Concubine Ye was in the harem, so it was not easy for Xie Guimo to tamper with her food, but it would be much easier for Empress Xu to do so.
Concubine Ye has been unable to eat or sleep recently. This is Xie Guimo's doing. He wants to make Concubine Ye half asleep and half awake, thinking that she is dreaming. Only in a dream will she tell the truth without any scruples.
If the emperor felt that his bedroom was stuffy, he would move to another place and the palace servants would drag Concubine Ye to the emperor.
The emperor asked Concubine Ye, "Who are you?!"
Concubine Ye laughed bitterly, "Is it important to ask this now?"
She didn't expect that she would end up in the hands of Xie Guimo. She shouldn't have been so soft-hearted and spared the lives of Princess Jingyang and Xie Guimo. Otherwise, she wouldn't have been defeated today.
The emperor looked at Xie Guimo, and Xie Guimo said, "She is really Ye Qingli's cousin, Ye Qiangwei, the biological sister of Marquis Changping."
Prince Yu was shocked. "Were the Duke of Zhenguo and his son killed by Concubine Ye and the Marquis of Changping?"
Xie Guimo said, "When my grandfather died on the battlefield, it was my father who went to clean up after him. He saw insects crawling out of my uncle's wound. At that time, my father didn't suspect anything, but later he found out that they were not ordinary insects, but poisonous insects. He suspected that my grandfather was murdered on the battlefield and has been secretly investigating this matter. However, after so many years, he has found nothing.
It wasn't until Old Master An came to the capital that the Marquis of Changping was so frightened by Old Master An, who looked so much like my grandfather, that he fell off his horse. This was seen by the son of the Marquis of Xuanyi, who told me about it as an amusing story, which aroused the suspicions of my wife and me.
"Later, my mother fell ill and was found to have been poisoned by a Gu. She had been poisoned for ten years. I began to suspect that my mother and my grandfather were poisoned together. It was only because she wanted to benefit my mother that she fed her the antidote every few months to delay the onset of the Gu."
Xie Guimo said, looking at Concubine Ye on the ground, "Did I guess it right?"
There was no need for Concubine Ye to speak, the answer was already on her face.
If looks could kill, Xie Guimo would have died on the spot.
Back then, the Ye family was just a general's mansion. General Ye died saving the Duke of Zhenguo. The emperor appointed General Ye as the Earl of Changping and allowed his younger brother to inherit the throne after his elder brother's death. The Duke of Zhenguo wanted to bring his granddaughter to Beijing to raise her, but Concubine Ye was so envious and jealous that she pushed Ye Qingli into the water, causing her to drown.
General Ye and Madam Ye are both gone, and the second branch of the Ye family is in power. The second branch puts pressure on Ye Qingli's wet nurse, takes the wet nurse's daughter hostage, and forces the wet nurse to admit that Ye Qiangwei is the real Ye Qingli. The Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion would never have thought that the Ye family would be so bold, and since the wet nurse was Madam Ye's dowry, they believe it without a doubt.
After entering the palace, Concubine Ye was favored by the emperor, and because of the merits of the Earl of Changping, she was granted the title of Marquis.
Marquis Changping is Concubine Ye's biological brother, so Concubine Ye naturally trusts the Marquis Changping's mansion. However, Duke Zhenguo does not like Marquis Changping's behavior and has repeatedly advised Concubine Ye to restrain Marquis Changping to prevent him from causing a disaster and implicating her.
The Duke of Zhenguo really wanted to do good for Concubine Ye, but Concubine Ye was wary of the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion from the bottom of her heart. After all, everything she had was stolen. Once it was exposed, not only would her wealth and glory be gone, but even her life would be in danger.
Concubine Ye asked the Duke of Zhenguo to support Prince Qi. The Duke of Zhenguo felt that his grandson was not fit to be the emperor and that forcing him to be the emperor was not a good thing. He advised Concubine Ye not to think of robbing the throne.
Concubine Ye tolerated it once or twice, but after it happened too many times, she became murderous.
However, the Duke of Zhenguo was not someone that Concubine Ye could kill whenever she wanted. Marquis Changping suggested to Concubine Ye to use poison. However, the Duke of Zhenguo loved Concubine Ye very much except that he did not help Concubine Ye and Prince Qi fight for the throne. Concubine Ye took action without anyone knowing.
The poison was placed on the day when the Duke of Zhenguo and his son went to the battlefield. Concubine Ye specially asked for permission to leave the palace and go to the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion to see them off. It was also on that day that she placed the poison in the princess's body.
The plan of Concubine Ye and Marquis Changping was that after the death of Duke Zhenguo and his son, Marquis Changping would take over the military power in his hands.
It was a good idea, as the subordinates of the Duke of Zhenguo did not obey the Marquis of Changping at all. Apart from relying on the relationship between Concubine Ye and the Duke of Zhenguo, the Marquis of Changping could neither lead troops nor fight.
Do you want them to surrender to such a person?
After the death of the Duke of Zhenguo, part of his military power was taken over by Prince Jingyang, and the emperor took the opportunity to take back part of it.
This was completely different from what Concubine Ye and Marquis of Changping had planned, and it caught Concubine Ye off guard. Although the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion would not support her and Prince Qi, it would certainly not support Prince Yu and Empress Xu. But without the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion, those scattered military powers might become a help to Prince Yu.
At that time, the princess was about to be poisoned, and Concubine Ye quickly gave her an antidote to suppress the attack of the poison.
As long as the princess was alive, she could still hope that the princess could persuade Prince Jingyang to help her and Prince Qi. Otherwise, the princess would have died twelve years ago.
The emperor looked at Concubine Ye kneeling on the ground with no remorse on her face, and felt disgusted at the thought that he had doted on her for twenty years.
The emperor said, "Send her to the cold palace!"
"Immediately bring people to search the Changping Marquis's mansion!"
After saying these two words, the emperor left.
Concubine Ye rushed over and tried to hug the emperor's legs to beg for mercy, but the emperor ignored her and left.
The guards dragged Concubine Ye to the cold palace.
Prince Yu looked at Xie Guimo, and Xie Guimo said, "Why are you looking at me like that?"
Prince Yu said, "I feel a little dazed, just like in a dream."
Xie Guimo laughed and patted his shoulder, "I still have to go back to accompany my wife. You take people to raid the Changping Marquis Mansion."
Prince Yu, “…”
He spoke as if he didn't want to accompany his wife.
They haven't even conceived a child yet.
However, no matter how urgent it is, one night is not a big deal. Raiding the Changping Marquis Mansion is more important.
Xie Guimo had just used so much force that Prince Yu was sure he was not dreaming, but he still felt it was unreal.
Was Concubine Ye banished to the cold palace like this?
Concubine Ye lost her power, the Marquis of Changping's mansion was ransacked and he was imprisoned. Not only was the situation hopeless for the Prince of Qi, but he himself could hardly protect himself, and there was no possibility for him to compete with him anymore.
The position of crown prince was completely in his pocket that night.
Once the Prince of Qi falls, it shouldn't be long before my father issues an edict to make him the Crown Prince.
Prince Yu and Xie Guimo left the palace together, but they separated outside the palace gate.
One returned home, and the other took the emperor's personal guards to search the Marquis of Changping's Mansion.