bookrebus Chapter 265: Death of Concubine Ji
Chapter 265: Death of Concubine Ji
As for Li Shuren's ambitions and little thoughts in the cold palace, they naturally did not escape Bao Yuan's eyes.
Bao Yuan pretended to be dull and simple, pretending to be bewitched by Li Shuren's beauty, and successfully made Li Shuren let down her guard against him.
During the days that Li Shuren was trapped in the cold palace, Bao Yuan was the one who delivered packages for her and Rou Guiren.
But what Li Shuren didn't know was that the package given by her sister, whom she trusted so much, had already been filled with a lot of "good things" by the "honest" Bao Yuan.
Logically speaking, Li Shu Ren is a woman with ambition and aspirations, and she has someone to take care of her. She shouldn't have lost her appearance or even become mentally ill just by staying in the cold palace for such a long time.
All the changes in her were because Bao Yuan drugged her.
Li Shuren was not without doubts about her unusual changes.
However, due to Bao Yuan's pretending to be stupid and deliberate instigation, Li Shu Ren never doubted Bao Yuan at all, but gradually became suspicious of her good sister Rou Gui Ren.
She felt that Concubine Rou thought she was a burden and that was why she had never rescued her from the cold palace.
This resulted in her, who was once as beautiful as a delicate flower, gradually withering away in the desolate and cold place of the cold palace.
It's not like Li Shuren hadn't asked Bao Yuan for help before, but Bao Yuan just played the victim and said that he was powerless to help her.
Under Bao Yuan's deliberate guidance, Li Shuren finally remembered the Queen Mother.
It was the Queen Mother who presented her to the Emperor. Now that she is in the cold palace, the Queen Mother should be held responsible.
Li Shuren's life was already hard and cold, and her psychology became increasingly distorted and extreme. The more she thought about it, the more she found the Empress Dowager and Concubine Rou to be hateful.
Why should she suffer in the cold palace while the Queen Mother and Concubine Rou can enjoy the luxury outside?
Bao Yuan saw the right opportunity and deliberately loosened the door lock, leaving a gap when Concubine Wan was distributing mooncakes to the palaces and the guards everywhere were lax.
Li Shuren was so thin that she could just fit through the gap.
How could Li Shuren miss such a great opportunity? Then she ran to the corridor and threatened the Queen Mother loudly.
The Queen Mother could no longer sit still, so she sent Concubine Rou to kill Li Shuren in person.
In a place like the cold palace, the death of a deposed concubine or a crazy woman is common, and no one would pay special attention to it.
Therefore, the Queen Mother did not take the matter to heart, and even ordered people to wear badges, just to make it easier for Concubine Rou to kill Concubine Li as soon as possible.
Unexpectedly, Li Shu Ren had long been very wary and dissatisfied with Rou Gui Ren.
She learned from Concubine Ji that Aconitum was poisonous, so she took the opportunity to give Concubine Rou a lot of Aconitum while drinking with her.
Concubine Rou felt something was wrong the moment she took the first sip of the wine, but it was already too late.
Li Shuren looked at Concubine Rou who died tragically on the ground with a hideous face. She wanted to laugh out loud, but suddenly found that her throat could no longer make a single sound.
It turned out that Concubine Rou was reluctant to poison her own sister, so she put a mute drug in Concubine Li's wine, just to poison her voice and save her life.
Unfortunately, Lady Li will never understand Lady Rou’s painstaking efforts.
A concubine died in the cold palace, and this matter could not be concealed. Bao Yuan specially found a young palace maid who was unfamiliar to him and made a big fuss about it at the Queen Mother's Mid-Autumn Festival Banquet.
The Queen Mother really fell into the trap and came to the cold palace in person.
Ji Taipin took this opportunity to expose Li Shuren's crimes, escaped from the guards' custody, and went into the dark room alone.
Then he took advantage of the shadow in the corner and stabbed the Queen Mother several times.
It was not until he saw blood oozing from the empress dowager's chest and was sure that she had been poisoned that Bao Yuan pretended to step forward and knocked Concubine Ji unconscious with a knife.
None of these things were coincidences; they were all planned by Ruyi.
No matter how smart the Queen Mother was, she couldn't escape this disaster.
After drinking a bowl of pregnancy-preserving medicine, Rong Pei took the empty bowl from Ruyi and handed her a cup of tea.
I had just helped Ruyi rinse her mouth when I heard her ask about the treatment of the others.
Sanbao had already found out all the information, and Rong Pei now reported it to Ruyi in detail.
Because of poor guarding, the guards and palace maids in the cold palace were fined and beaten with boards.
Only the guard named Bao Yuan was rewarded with silver and promoted to serve in Anhua Palace for his meritorious service in saving the emperor.
Although he was still a low-ranking guard with little benefits, his job was much more leisurely and respectable. It was also a sign of his courage and knowledge that wealth and honor can only be achieved through risk.
Shufei and Wanpin, who were in charge of assisting the six palaces, inevitably received a reprimand from the emperor.
Ruyi did not tell the two of them about her plan. After all, plotting against the empress dowager was no trivial matter. The fewer people who knew about it, the fewer people would be involved.
They were both innocent, so Ruyi naturally had a way out for them.
As soon as the empress dowager was assassinated, Ruyi rushed to the Cining Palace and stayed by her side. She then sent Shufei and Wanpin to the Anhua Palace to pray for the empress dowager.
Sure enough, considering that they had led the other concubines in chanting scriptures and praying for the empress dowager all night long and were filial and sincere, the emperor finally gave up his anger and just told them to return to the palace.
Because the other concubines who accompanied Mulan to the hunting ground had not yet returned, the power of the six palaces was returned to Ruyi.
Concubine Rou was already dead, and Fujia also followed the Queen Mother's order to strangle Concubine Li. As for Concubine Ji, she was imprisoned in the Ministry of Punishment.
The emperor ordered that Concubine Ji be severely punished to appease the empress dowager's hatred.
However, Ji Taibin had already hidden a packet of aconite venom at the root of her teeth.
After hearing that the Queen Mother had been poisoned and unconscious, Concubine Ji laughed crazily, "Noble Concubine Xi, you witch have finally met your end!
It’s worth it that I have endured humiliation and lived until today! Even if I die, I will drag you to be buried with me! Hahahahahahaha…"
After saying this, before the maids from the Ministry of Punishment could torture her, Concubine Ji committed suicide by taking poison.
Ruyi wiped her hands with a handkerchief, and her face became slightly sad when she heard this.
Concubine Ji, when she was in the cold palace in her previous life, had some connection with Ruyi.
Although Ruyi had never met her in this life, she could still vaguely remember her pale face, her gray hair and her terrifyingly thick and curved black eyebrows.
Ruyi always remembered how deep Concubine Ji’s hatred for the Empress Dowager was.
In her previous life, Ruyi had gained a reputation as a powerful protector of the emperor by stepping on the life of Concubine Ji. This allowed her to leave the cold palace without the hindrance of the empress dowager.
This time, Ruyi designed a plan to have Concubine Ji kill the Empress Dowager personally, which could be regarded as fulfilling her wish and repaying the kindness from her previous life.
But Rong Pei was still a little puzzled, "Madam, since you have such a heart, why don't you just let the Queen Mother... let her keep her breath?"