The emperor just doesn't treat everyone equally, and it's none of my business!

Concubine Song took a deep breath and followed the eunuch to Chenhua Palace.

"Your concubine pays respects to the emperor and to Concubine Jin." Concubine Song saluted.

At this moment, Concubine Song felt a strong sense of unwillingness. She had been with the emperor earlier and gave birth to the prince earlier, so why had the emperor never seen her?

Concubine Song couldn't help but look at Gu Shijin. This woman was not the most beautiful nor the smartest in the harem, but she was the most favored. What did the emperor like about her?

Gu Shijin felt Concubine Song's gaze and looked back at her without any hesitation.

When he first met Concubine Song, she had just returned from the temple. Maybe she had stayed in the temple for a long time and was infected, and there was still a softness in her. But that meeting made Gu Shijin realize that Concubine Song was not a simple person.

"Jieyu Song, where is your personal maid?" Lu Junze asked directly.

"Your Majesty, I don't know either. Today I asked her to go to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to get something, and then I haven't seen her since." Concubine Song said calmly, without any of the panic she had in Yong'an Palace.

Gu Shijin's eyes flashed. She had just been thinking that it was abnormal that Cuihua was not silenced. It turned out that someone else was silenced.

Gu Shijin asked: "Why doesn't Concubine Song seem to be worried at all when her personal maid is missing?"

"Empress Jin, this palace is so big, maybe she has other things to do?"

"What kind of thing is more important than serving Concubine Song?"

Concubine Song smiled and said, "She is just my maid. I can't control her thoughts."

Knowing that Concubine Song's personal maid had gone missing, the people below started looking for her and finally found her in the pond in the Imperial Garden.

He was drowned.

"Your Majesty, it looks like he fell." Gu Chengfeng said.

This person was the first one he found. Of course, he didn't believe that this person was drowned. How could it be such a coincidence?

Lu Junze raised his hand and said, “Bring the person in.”

"Yes."

Soon, two guards came in carrying a maid. Lu Junze looked at Concubine Song and asked, "Is this your personal maid?"

Concubine Song took a glance, then covered her mouth and took two steps back, a look of disbelief on her face.

"Your Majesty." Concubine Song's voice was a little hoarse, "This is my personal maid."

"Your Majesty, you have to make the decision for me!"

very smart.

Sometimes tears and weakness are women's best weapons. Unfortunately, Lu Junze doesn't fall for Concubine Song's tricks.

"Some people say that the poison that poisoned the third prince was given to him by your personal maid. Now your personal maid is dead. Concubine Song, what do you have to say?" Lu Junze asked, staring into Concubine Song's eyes.

Concubine Song was stunned at first, then she shouted in panic: "Your Majesty, I am innocent. I have children myself, how could I harm the Third Prince?"

Her words did not impress Lu Junze, who said, “It’s because you also have a child.”

Concubine Song heard the hidden meaning in Lu Junze's words. She looked at Lu Junze as if she was meeting this man for the first time. She smiled sadly and said, "Your Majesty, I have many thoughts, but I will not hurt such a young child."

"Every time my son gets sick due to his weakness, I feel worse than death. Seeing him cry in pain, I wish I could help him bear the pain."

"I really don't like the Third and Fourth Princes, but they have already been born. Whether the Emperor believes it or not, I will not harm them."

When saying these words, Concubine Song's eyes were full of seriousness, and there was a hint of barely perceptible sadness.

If possible, she hoped that her child would be healthy, not because health would make it easier for him to inherit the throne, but simply because health would allow her to suffer less pain.

After Concubine Song said this, Lu Junze was silent for a while. Concubine Song’s words might not be entirely true, but they should not be entirely false either.

Lu Junze: "But the fact now is that your personal maid is dead."

"Your Majesty, if I really wanted to harm the Third Prince, why would I let my personal maid do it, and then kill her so blatantly afterwards?" Concubine Song said.

"Your Majesty, I have something to report." Gu Chengfeng came in and saluted.

Lu Junze: “Speak.”

"Your Majesty, this is what the guards found when they searched Concubine Song's maid's quarters. I have already had it examined by the imperial physician, and it is Hui Ming."

Lu Junze looked at Concubine Song, indicating that she had something to say.

Concubine Song took a deep breath and said, "Your Majesty, this matter has nothing to do with me. She must be trying to frame me. Your Majesty, you have to believe me."

After a long while, Lu Junze looked at her and said, "Killing someone to silence them, there is no evidence, and the most important thing is that the person is really dead."

As soon as these words fell, the palace maid who was lying on the ground knelt up.

Concubine Song was shocked, but then she realized that she had fallen into someone else's trap.

"Your Majesty, it was Concubine Song who asked me to give the poison to Cuihua."

The testimony from her personal maid left Concubine Song with no way out.

As soon as he heard that something had happened to the Third Prince, Lu Junze immediately sent people to monitor all the palaces, especially the palace maids and eunuchs who were personal to each master. They always knew the most and were usually the ones the masters trusted the most.

As soon as Song Jieyu's personal maid was pushed into the pond, she was rescued by Lu Junze's men. Lu Junze was just testing this woman.

But Concubine Song was really smart. She just used the child to show weakness and almost tricked Gu Shijin.

Lu Junze looked at Concubine Song and asked, “Concubine Song, you have children yourself, how can you have the heart to do such a vicious thing to a child?”

Concubine Song smiled and stopped pretending. She said, "Your Majesty, if I don't kill him today, my child may be killed tomorrow."

"For my son, I can do anything."

Lu Junze was too lazy to listen to her and asked, "Is Xiao Shunzi also your man? Did you kill Feng Yu too?"

These two things have to be combined to be effective.

Concubine Song looked at Gu Shijin and Lu Junze and smiled meaningfully, saying, "Yes, Xiao Shunzi is also my man, and I also killed Feng Yu."

Gu Shijin frowned. Concubine Song's change was too fast. Such a change was abnormal. But she didn't understand why Concubine Song suddenly admitted it.

"Pass on my decree. Concubine Song's crime of killing the heir to the throne is unforgivable. She will be demoted to a commoner and sent to the cold palace, never to be allowed out again."

"As for the Second Prince, send him to Xiefang Palace for the time being."

Lu Junze had wanted to send the Second Prince away before, and he even had a chat with the Second Prince. The Second Prince did not refuse, but Lu Junze himself had never found a good opportunity.

Concubine Song was not moved when she heard the decree. She stared at Lu Junze and Gu Shijin for a long time, and suddenly said, "I wish the emperor and Concubine Jin to grow old together and never doubt each other."