Chapter 559: Chapter 560

“It’s hard to say!” Mentioning the Changxing Princess, Song Yixiao brow showed a touch of caution, pondered for a while, before sighing, “This matter is eight out of ten . Nine is the Wei family’s side after all, not to mention the Empress Dowager is not the kind of person willing to sacrifice her own daughter for her own son, just say the Su family has the upper hand at the moment, they do not need to take the Eldest Princess Changxing as a discarded child right now!”

“But from the news that has come out of the palace so far, He Xiuyi has been implicated!”

“And He Wenqiong’s attitude before had been rather wavering he didn’t want to completely betray His Majesty, yet he was also afraid that in the end it would be the Su Family that won, and if he rejected the Su Family now, it would bring disaster to the family in the future! That’s why he took a compromise approach.”

“Now that the eldest princess Changxing person is no more, that is Empress Dowager Su’s only real daughter, King Su’s only sibling sister.”

“With He Wenqiong’s own daughter caught up in this matter, it’s hard for He Wenqiong not to worry in the future, after King Su ascended to the throne, he’ll revisit the old story and avenge his sister’s death!”

“After all, that’s what the late emperor did back in the day the extra horse harnessed by the side of a team that treated the late emperor’s sibling sisters poorly in the first place didn’t end well!”

The husband’s family of the Grand Princess of Chen was the most miserable, because the Grand Princess of Chen’s self . The family of the Grand Princess of Chen was the most miserable because of the Grand Princess of Chen’s self ;

Like the mother of Xu Qi swear Lu Guo Da Chang Princess such depressed and died, extra horse harnessed by the side of a team of horse harnessed by the side of a team is not much of a good end Yi Ping Bo is considered a good life, because Lu Guo Da Chang Princess at least stayed a son down, look at the son’s part, the royal family just let him idle at home, no how he.

Including the husband of the Grand Princess of Jin’s husband, old Shouchun Bo, there were not too many extra horse harnessed by the side of a team or extra horse harnessed by the side of a team in the early years of the Xianjia Dynasty!

You should know that Emperor Xianjia had five sisters from the same mother, but King Su had only one sister from the same mother!

With the death of Princess Changxing, how could He Wenqiong not worry that the He family would be settled in the future?

Bell was a bit surprised, “But the slave girl thinks that that He Xiuyi should not be stupid enough to get involved in the matter of plotting against the Eldest Princess, right?”

“This is also impossible to say.” Song Yi smiled and shook her head, “Must one have the intention of plotting against the Eldest Princess in order to harm the Eldest Princess? To put it bluntly, how many days has He Xiuyi been in the palace? In terms of scheming, tactics, and connections in the palace, how can she compare to the Empress? Maybe she helped the Empress harm the Eldest Princess without even knowing it herself!”

Suzu was worried, “If that’s the case, wouldn’t that be bad for King Su?”

“It’s just my guess, what’s going on, we haven’t seen it with our own eyes, we’re just imagining things here, it’s not accurate!” Song Yi smiled and waved his hand, but the gravity in his eyes did not dissipate much since Empress Wei wants to use the death of the eldest princess of Changxing to stop He Wenqiong from supporting the Su family, or rather, Empress Wei wants to use the death of the eldest princess of Changxing to force He Wenqiong to stand up to the opposite side of the Su family, it is not possible to give He Xiuyi the opportunity to get out of this matter!

Because only by nailing He Xiuyi for plotting, or at least participating in the plot to kill the eldest princess Changxing, could Empress Wei’s goal be achieved!

Otherwise, now that the Empress Dowager has asked He Wenqiong to personally investigate this matter, how can He Wenqiong not make every effort to clear the suspicion for his granddaughter?

If he can prove that his granddaughter is innocent, why would he turn against the Su family? It would be better to turn to the Su family and pursue Empress Wei for avenging her death by dragging his granddaughter into the water!

Thinking of Empress Wei’s tactics, Song Yixiao’s brow tips knitted a few more points tighter, “But I hope He Xiuyi is a smart person and doesn’t give Empress Wei too many handles to hold on to, lest He Wenqiong won’t be able to save her either!”

She and He Xiuyi had only met once or twice, and that was when Jian Xubai was still serving in the Ministry of War, during the New Year’s festivals, as a subordinate, she had to go to He Wenqiong’s mansion, and took photos on the scene apart from the words of pleasantries, they hadn’t talked much.

So Song Yixiao didn’t know too much about He Xiuyi’s heart, and could only pray that she wasn’t too stupid and could have a few chances to get out of Empress Wei’s net.

However, He Xiuyi did not have such a skill.

When He Wenqiong was ordered by the Dowager Empress to enter the palace and personally conduct a thorough investigation into the death of her daughterinlawtobe, Elder Princess Changxing, a lot of evidence against her sprang up instead

Especially the words of the concubine Xue’s former maid, “Before she suddenly went to the Xuanming Palace to seek an audience, she had spoken alone with Empress Xiuyi. The slave girls weren’t there at the time, so they don’t know what Auntie Xiu Yi said to Concubine Master Xue. We only know that the master has been in a trance since she returned to the side hall, and privately said things such as ‘Impossible, how could the Empress Dowager treat me like this’, ‘My family has never had any relationship with the Cui family, so how could I be like the … family? ‘ words. Slave girls do not know what these words mean, boldly asked the master once, the master got angry, not allowed to mention it again!”

“After that, Concubine Xue’s master went to Xuanming Palace, and after she came back, she gave the slave maids a share of her body, and at that time, the slave maids felt that the situation was not right, so they waited for the master to fall asleep, and then they went to the main hall to ask for help from Empress Xiuyi!”

“And Xiu Yi Niangiang alone into the master’s bedchamber to speak, slave girls are worried, so with a special ambush in the temple window to eavesdrop slave girls know that this is not the rules, but at that time the master’s situation, slave girls really a bit assured!”

“Because of the heavy wind and snow that night, the slave girl didn’t hear very clearly, she only knew that the master cried, and told Auntie Xiu Yi, ‘What Auntie told me last time was right, His Majesty really hated me, it was so windy and snowy and I waited outside for so long, but His Majesty didn’t care, in the end it was the chamberlain who came out to send me back, I guess it was the chamberlain himself who saw me as poor and pathetic, and moved his heart. It was the chamberlain himself who saw that I was pitiful and pathetic, and was moved to compassion; His Majesty didn’t care how long I stood outside!”

“And ‘even though I was born like that person, I’m not that person, and it really hurts my heart when Your Majesty treats me like this’!”

When the palace maid said here, her face turned white, as if she was scared by something, shivering, “Later on, Auntie Xiu Yi persuaded my master, saying … saying … saying ‘This matter can’t be blamed on His Majesty. His Majesty, since that person is gone, even the Queen Mother is not in front of His Majesty’s followers, the people who have been in the palace for a few years, who does not know that His Majesty’s heart is in this matter? Instead, the empress dowager specifically chose you to enter the palace, even the empress dowager was surprised to see you, saying that the empress dowager was not unaware of the past, why would she still want to choose a similar to give his majesty more trouble’.”

He Xiuyi’s entire body froze when she heard this!

She shouted like mad, “There is no such thing! I never told concubine Xue about her looking like concubine Cui Miren!!!! Why would I tell her such a thing? She’s already having a hard time in this palace, I …”

“Shut up!!!” Behind the screen, came He Wenqiong’s angerfilled scolding.

Although the order for him to preside over a thorough investigation was issued by the Empress Dowager herself, the Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager have all acquiesced, but because this time the matter occurred in the palace palace, involving either concubines or courtesans, He Wenqiong, even though he is older, it is impossible for him to say that he is rashly in direct contact with these people, including his granddaughter, He Xiuyi, who are the people of the Emperor of Duanhua so at the moment the side hall used for questioning is separated by a folding floor carved mica screen. So at the moment used to ask the case of the side hall, there is an eightfold floor carving inlaid mica screen separation.

He Xiuyi and the others outside the screen couldn’t see He Wenqiong’s expression, but by listening to his voice, they could also imagine how irritated this Minister of War was at the moment, “Let that courtesan from the party continue!”

He Wenqiong of course want to help his granddaughter to get away with it, not to mention that whether or not He Xiuyi is innocent will determine his next major choice in the selection of the new king, alone the grandparents and grandchildren, he does not want his own granddaughter to take the blame for murdering the Princess for no reason at all!

But this time around, the matter can be said to be in the limelight right now he is also He Xiuyi’s direct grandfather, so throughout the entire trial process, he has to demonstrate enough fairness and impartiality so that the conclusions reached will not be questioned!

At this moment, he certainly wouldn’t let He Xiuyi interrupt that courtesan.

However, that palace maid has already said almost everything, now timidly wiping tears, “Slave girl also dare not say that the death of His Highness the Princess has something to do with the Xiu Yi Niangniang! However, everyone in the Qibao Palace knows that the slave girl’s master died in great pain, and was stabbed in the heart with one hairpin after another the slave girls are still thinking about how desperate the master was to hear the news before she died, and that’s why she would be so desperate to die!”

The palace maid cried, “The slave girl’s master has only been in the palace for three or two months! Master she is only fifteen years old, only fifteen years old!!!”

He Xiuyi was so infuriated that her whole body shivered!

But heard behind the screen He Wenqiong faintly said, “This official was ordered to enter the palace to investigate the case, mainly to find out the death of Her Highness the Princess, exactly who did it? You this palace girl but repeatedly mention Xue concubine, this is simply the answer is not the question, intentionally mislead this official …”

“Why do you need to excuse Auntie Xiu Yi because of her grandchildren’s love?” The courtesan sniffed and stopped crying, wiped her face and shouted fiercely, “The slave girl’s master was alive and well, if it wasn’t for the fact that Auntie Xiuyi told the slave girl’s master about concubine Cui Jianren’s nonsense, why would the slave girl’s master be gone at such a young age?”

“As for His Excellency’s comment that this matter has nothing to do with the death of Her Highness the Princess, the slave girl thinks that His Excellency is too biased in favor of Empress Xiuyi the slave girl’s master has no grudges against Empress Xiuyi, so why would Empress Xiuyi want to force her master to die by any means possible? As I think about it, it must be because the one that Empress Xioyi really wants to deal with is actually the Empress Dowager!”

“It’s just a pity that the slave girl’s master would rather die than be used by Lady Xiu Yi, so Lady Xiu Yi had to take matters into her own hands and plot against Her Highness the Eldest Princess in order to take revenge on the Empress Dowager!”

He Xiuyi couldn’t wait to pounce on this palace maid who was full of nonsense and bite her alive!

Not caring that she had only just been rebuked by He Wenqiong, she shouted, “Bastard servant girl! You said that this palace has no grudge against concubine Xue, so what grudge does this palace have against the Empress Dowager that it needs to murder Her Highness the Eldest Princess as revenge?!”

The courtesan, however, calmly said, “The reason why you persuade the slave girl master did not say? Because at the time is the Empress Dowager will you choose to enter the palace exams at that time the Empress Dowager due to illness retired to live in Changle Hall do not ask the world, you have been able to enter the palace on the power to monopolize! Unexpectedly soon after the Empress recovered, you can only return the phoenix seal to the Palace! At this time you are already not too willing, the other day, His Majesty decided to abdicate for some reason, this only came out, you were so disappointed that you fell ill in the couch, the Empress Mother licensed your mother to come to the palace after the visit, you only get well!”

“But even so, your grudge against the Empress Dowager should not have been removed, should it?”

She turned to He Xiuyi, revealing a strange expression, “Otherwise, why would you have stood in the snow on your way back to the main hall after visiting your slave master that night, saying something like ‘I really don’t know what kind of intentions the Empress Dowager had when she specially picked her to enter the palace’, as well as ‘Does the high and mighty Empress Dowager need to torture a mere concubine for fun’?”

Looking at He Xiu Yi instantly pale face, the palace maid slightly curved the corner of her mouth, softly said, “At that time, the slave girl thought that you went to see the slave girl’s master in the middle of the night, only one accompanying maid to accompany you back, even if the side hall to the main hall is not a few steps, in the end, do not rest assured! So raised a lamp, want to catch up with you to help guide the way … who knows but heard some such words, scared slave girl did not dare to lean forward!”

He Xiuyi subconsciously grabbed the pad and pressed it against her chest!