Eunuch Huang stood to one side and did not stop it, it would be the last time Princess Rong would be dressed up, so he did it as a good deed.
The Steward Aunt had also served Consort Rong for many years, and had seen this kind of scene countless times, but never thought it would fall on her own master, and her hands trembled as she applied the makeup to Consort Rong.
“What are you panicking about, the Emperor is letting this palace in, it’s not like it’s going to take my life.”
The steward aunt tried to calm herself down, put on Consort Rong’s make-up, helped her change her clothes again and helped her walk outside.
……
Outside the main hall, the palace people fell to their knees.
As if she didn’t see it, Consort Rong calmly walked into the hall and slowly bowed, “Greetings, Your Majesty.”
The emperor’s gaze sank, full of anger pouring over, “Concubine Rong, how dare you!”
“I don’t know what Your Majesty is talking about.”
“Huang De, take it to her.”
Eunuch Huang picked up the bracelet on the table and handed it to Consort Rong.
Consort Rong recognised it at once as one given to her by the Emperor when she was in favour, and then she had it put away when the eldest prince was relegated to a commoner.
“This is indeed my concubine’s possession, I haven’t worn it for a long time, I don’t know why it is here.”
The Emperor sneered.
“Concubine Rong, you have also been with me for many years, I took pity on you, even if I relegated Chu Yuan to a commoner, I didn’t even drag you down, yet you were so vicious as to have someone Chu An’s wine drugged, making him babble at the palace banquet, what should you be guilty of?”
“I have been wronged.”
“You were wronged? Then explain to me how this bracelet got into the hands of the palace maid?”
Consort Rong could not explain, and she knew that she had to admit her guilt today, or not. With a miserable smile, she raised her head and looked straight at the Emperor, “If I were to say I don’t know, would Your Majesty believe me?”
“I am not old and confused!”
Consort Rong looked at Consort Xiao Xian, who was kneeling on the side, “Does Consort Xian believe it?”
Concubine Xiao Xianfei pursed her lips, “Concubine Rong sister think hard, when was this bracelet lost ……”
Consort Rong suddenly got up and crashed into the pillar on one side.
Xiao Xianfei subconsciously went to pull, but only touched the corner of her coat, and watched as Consort Rong ruthlessly crashed into the pillar, splashing blood everywhere.
“Ah!”
A timid lady let out a shriek, and then covered her mouth in death.
Consort Rong’s body slowly slid down the pillar, her two eyes wide open as she looked at Consort Xiao Xian.
Consort Xiao Xianfei closed her eyes.
The Marquess of An Guo wanted to lunge forward, but was held down by the Marquis of An Guo to death.
There was dead silence in the main hall.
“Well …… it hurts.”
The second prince covered his neck and slowly sat up, right into Consort Rong’s wide-open eyes and took several steps back with his hands propped on the ground in shock, “She, she, she ……”
The words left his mouth, then he realized that the hall was terribly quiet, swallowed, “Father, Father, what happened?”
He only remembered that he had drunk a lot of wine, as if he was drunk, and said a lot of things.
The Emperor beckoned towards him.
The second prince crawled over to him with trepidation and had just crawled close when the emperor kicked him to the ground.
Bang!
The Second Prince hit the back of his head hard on the ground, knocking his eyes out.
“Make Chu An the King of Lingnan, leave for Lingnan with immediate effect, and forbid him to return to the capital for life without my decree!”
The second prince was dumbfounded.
Concubine Zuo fell to the ground.
……
A crowd of officials and ladies exited the palace with limp hands and feet.
Each got into their own carriage, still in shock.
In particular, the Marquis and the Duke of An and the Duke of Qin were soaked to the skin and were chilled to the bone by the cold wind, just as they were feeling right now.
The Duke of Ding and his wife also got into the carriage, and after walking through two streets, the Lady of Ding finally couldn’t help herself, “Master, what did Consort Rong mean by those words before she died, she wouldn’t think that Consort Xian had set her up, would she?”
The Duke of Ding’s face was heavy as the scene of Consort Rong’s wide open eyes looking at her daughter flashed through his mind, “She did mean that, she was so determined to bang herself against a pillar, just to make Consort Xian feel guilty and would not lay a hand on Chu Yuan in the future.”
“She can be really ……”
The Duke of Ding’s wife wanted to scold, but thought of the fact that the person was already dead, it was useless to scold, so she swallowed back the words afterwards with hatred.
The Duke of Ding had a troubled heart.
He always felt that the medicine in the wine tonight was not sent by the emperor, and that the emperor would not let the second prince accuse him of what happened back then in front of all the officials.
Inside the palace.
After all the people in the main hall had left, Sun Qi ordered two men to go into the hall and drag out Consort Rong’s body, throw it on a cart and drag it to a mass grave.
“Make sure you watch the wild dogs gnaw the body clean before you return.”
The emperor was really angry and gave this order.
The two guards responded, one pulling and the other pushing behind, towards the palace entrance.
Sun Qi turned his head and was about to order the rest of the forbidden guards when he saw something out of the corner of his eye and quickly turned back, “Stop!”
The two Praetorian Guards stopped in their tracks.
The one pushing at the back tensed his body.
Sun Qi walked up to him and placed his hand on the sabre at his waist, “Raise your head.”
The forbidden guards slowly raised their heads.
When he saw his face, Sun Qi’s pupils shrank sharply.
No, today is the palace banquet, the palace entrance is very strict, Liu Ying can not sneak in, then he ……
“Commander.”
Liu Ying bowed, shielding himself from the eyes of the others, and had an extra waist tag in his right hand.
Sun Qi could see it clearly, it was from the Emperor’s palace.
Thinking of the second prince’s madness just now, Sun Qi had a guess in his heart and let his body go, “Let’s go.”
Liu Ying let out a sigh of relief and quickly put the waist tag away, following the boarder out of the palace.
……
South City.
Song Si, Xiao Yao, Song Wan Yue and Song Yin and Song San are gathered around the fire pit keeping vigil, laughing and joking while getting high on melon seeds and eating peanuts.
Song Wangyue took out two decks of leaf cards.
Song San and the others had seen them when they followed them to Jiangnan and their eyes glowed.
It was only the eleventh hour, and the ion hour was still far away, so with the leaf cards to amuse them, time would pass faster.
“As agreed, a handful of ten coppers, no one is allowed to renege, so hurry up and get the coppers ready!”
Song Wangyue had just given them all ten taels of red envelopes in the morning, and each of them was so wealthy that they naturally wouldn’t mind ten copper plates, so they all dashed back to their houses and brought over the broken silver.
Xiao Yao asked Qingzhu to bring over the box containing the coins from the shop and exchange them for the coins.
She and Song Si also joined in.
The game of leaf tiles was not as good as the mahjong of later times, but it was still very fun.
Song Wan Yue won ten hands in a row and Song San joked, “Dongjia, did you do a trick?”
Before Song Wan Yue could say anything, Song Yin was reluctant, “Willing to gamble and accept defeat, who can blame you if you are not good at mahjong?”
Song San touched his nose and didn’t dare to take this comment.
If he dared to say anything else, Song Yin would definitely drag him to the courtyard to practise, and even if Song Yin’s left arm was broken, he was no match for him.
“Dang!”
A sound seemed to come from the courtyard.
Song San was subconsciously about to get up, but was held down by Song Yin, “You guys keep playing, I’ll go out and take a look.”