Chapter 307 Explanation
Chapter 307 Explanation
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Last year, in March of the ninth year of Jingzheng, the sixth prince Qin Mingjun finally reached the age to go to school. Concubine Zhen Lu Xinyin, who had been imprisoned in Chongde Palace, was pardoned by Qin Zhi and released from confinement because of her son's rise to power.
However, the Hanzhang Palace where Lu Xinyin originally lived had been occupied by Yu Sheyue, the granddaughter of the Grand Princess of Jin, who was given the title of Concubine Yu by His Majesty.
So after paying a visit to Queen Shen Ningyue and replenishing the necessary palace maids and eunuchs for a concubine, Lu Xinyin and the sixth prince Qin Mingjun continued to live in Chongde Hall.
Outside the Suzaku Palace, the pear blossoms are white on the branches and the bamboo leaves are rustling.
Concubine Zhen, Lü Xinyin, wore a pink Liuxian dress with a silver crabapple pattern. Her pink tourmaline hairpins tinkled clearly because of her excited emotions and movements.
"Greetings to Sister Huifei, may you be blessed with good health and happiness."
A pair of round almond eyes drooped, with disheveled hair and haggard makeup, like a sleeping crabapple flower in spring.
"Get out of the way. I feel sick when I see your pitiful and innocent look."
Concubine Hui Meng Xinghe angrily cursed Concubine Zhen Lu Xinyin when she saw her lovingly blocking her way ever since she came out of the cold palace.
"Sister, you have refused to see me since I came out of Chongde Hall. I know there is a misunderstanding between us, and I know I owe you an explanation."
"Misunderstanding? Explanation?" Meng Xinghe almost laughed out loud.
Lu Xinyin knelt down, tears falling down, "Sister, can you please dismiss the palace servants and eunuchs who are waiting on me first? Only you can hear what I want to say. It concerns..."
The Queen Mother.
After a while, Hui Fei Meng Xinghe tilted her head, smiled and said, "I want to see what you can say. Everyone, go down and stay away. I will listen to Concubine Zhen's arguments."
"Yes, ma'am."
"Sister Xinghe must have thought that I was locked up in the cold palace by His Majesty when he was investigating the truth of the poisoning of sister and the Fourth Prince. It must be because I am the real murderer who harmed sister and the Fourth Prince."
"Is not it?"
"I thought that my sister didn't do anything to us who had lost our power when the Sixth Prince and I were in the cold palace and the Queen Mother passed away. It's because my sister didn't have evidence and wasn't sure that I was the one who killed my sister and the Fourth Prince.
Was it because of her sister's kindness and goodness? Did she not want to be like the other women in the harem, using despicable means to hurt others? Even if she suspected, or was almost certain that it was she who had hurt herself?
Or, can I be so self-indulgent as to think that my sister is reluctant to attack me and the Sixth Prince because of our deep friendship since we first entered the palace together?"
"You are quite self-indulgent. If Ming Yun had really encountered any accident, I would have turned you into a human pig. Do you know what a human pig is?"
Meng Xinghe smiled faintly, his eyes as bright as stars were full of indifference and impatience.
"I know that my sister is trying to scare me. If anything happens to my sister and the Fourth Prince, I will not live in disgrace."
"I'm wasting my time listening to your nonsense. What do you want to say?"
"It's not me, sister. It's really not me. It wasn't me who poisoned my sister and the Fourth Prince." Lu Xinyin said while crying, her pretty face looking like pear blossoms in the rain.
Seeing Meng Xinghe's indifferent eyes, Lu Xinyin looked a little depressed.
"Although it wasn't me, in fact, it was because of me that my sister and the Fourth Prince were affected."
There seemed to be pure innocence in Lu Xinyin's crying almond-shaped eyes as she looked up at Meng Xinghe sincerely.
Meng Xinghe frowned and looked down at Lu Xinyin with a cold gaze. She was wearing a lavender floor-length skirt with a cloud pattern and silver thread edges, which made her look noble and arrogant.
The wind in late spring and early summer blew up the pear blossoms from the branches and fell on the two concubines, Huifei and Zhenfei, one standing and one kneeling, one purple and one pink.
Meng Xinghe picked up the white pear blossoms that had fallen on him, twisted them casually, and threw them aside, saying casually, "Very exciting, keep on making it up, I'm listening."
"My aunt was once the Crown Princess, Empress, and Empress Dowager. She always felt that a girl from the Lu family should sit on the throne of Empress when she entered the palace, rule the country, continue the glory of the Lu family, and make the Lu family a true royal family.
But His Majesty chose the girl from the Shen family. Apart from the gagged imperial physician, the first people to know that I was pregnant with the Sixth Prince were my aunt. She asked me to keep it a secret and said that she would definitely send me to the throne of Queen.
I was confused at the time and thought she was going to attack the Queen."
"Then, my sister and the Fourth Prince were poisoned. My aunt took advantage of the conflict between my sister and Imperial Concubine Yi to get rid of Imperial Concubine Yi, whose position and seniority were higher than mine."
Lu Xiyin hesitated for a moment, then said, "Auntie should also get rid of the fourth prince."
"At that time, Concubine Li was punished by His Majesty for causing a disturbance in Chuxiu Palace, and the Third Prince was still being raised in his aunt's palace.
If Your Majesty had not been able to find out the truth at that time, Concubine Li who sent the painting would have been gone, and the Third Prince would have fallen directly into the hands of his aunt, at her mercy.
So there was no need for the aunt to target the third prince, and at that time my sister loved to carry the fourth prince to see His Majesty, and His Majesty loved the fourth prince the most.
My aunt... is indeed a bit cruel." Lu Xinyin pursed her pink lips.
"Sister, if it was just a concubine who dared to frame the prince's life, how could she just be banished to the cold palace? Sister.
In the past, Concubine Lin Gui had attempted to murder my aunt. Because of this previous incident, Your Majesty pinned the crime committed by my aunt on the late Concubine Lin Gui.
I was also implicated because of my aunt's evil deeds and was sent to the cold palace for six years. I was only released by His Majesty today."
"Sister, think about it, how could His Majesty protect and let go a concubine who intended to kill the prince?
Unless the real murderer is His Majesty's mother, a concubine who is not truly loved, how can she be qualified to be compared with his beloved son?
Unless it is a choice between mother and son, Your Majesty will choose to turn over the matter and not mention it, and use the evidence to say that it was the old man of Concubine Lin Gui who was killed. "
When arguing, Lu Xinyin deliberately ignored the fact that she was pregnant with the royal heir at the time.
“Whether my sister believes me or not, I will accept it, but I don’t want to keep silent and acquiesce in something I didn’t do. I don’t want to be seen as a vicious and despicable person in my sister’s eyes.
And it is because of me that my sister and the Fourth Prince suffered this. I was born in the Lu family, so my sister can beat me, scold me, humiliate me, or even break up with me."
As she was speaking, Lu Xinyin knelt down and cried inconsolably.
I was too young at the time and was caught off guard by His Majesty, so I admitted the incident directly in front of His Majesty.
If she could do it again, she would definitely handle it better. With the addition of her aunt, it would have been perfect. What a pity.
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