Harem Daily Life

Nanny Li is an old woman who followed Concubine Hui out of the palace. She is adept at using the torture methods used in interrogation.

After all, Lin Yuanyuan was favored, so Nanny Li couldn't torture her too much. But Xiao Cui was not so lucky. She was beaten so badly that she was half dead. She couldn't bear it anymore, so she admitted the blame.

Nanny Li asked her to put her fingerprints on the charge, and then she went to find Lin Yuanyuan next door and told her everything Xiao Cui had confessed.

"Mrs. Lin, if you want to be the mistress, you should consider your own worth. You don't need me to remind you how you came to be favored. You have such a good opportunity, so you should keep your head down and behave yourself. Why do you want to do something that harms Prince Yong's Mansion?"

Lin Yuanyuan swallowed hard, looked at Xiao Cui's confession in Li Ma's hand, and said in panic, "I know nothing. I was not involved. I didn't do anything!"

Nanny Li snorted coldly, "There's evidence. You can't deny it even if you want to. Humph, I didn't expect you to kill someone just because of a simple imitation. You're truly stupid."

Nanny Li ignored Lin Yuanyuan's argument and went to report to the imperial concubine with Xiao Cui's confession.

"Oh, take a good look at what kind of fool you have pampered!" Concubine Hui threw Xiao Cui's confession to Prince Yong, who was furious after reading it.

However, when he thought of Lin Yuanyuan's face, which somewhat resembled that person's, he hesitated and said, "Mother, if the truth gets out, Prince Yong's Mansion will inevitably be criticized. I think it would be better to make a big deal out of it and say that Princess Qinghe died of illness. How about that? After all, she did seek medical treatment everywhere these past few months, and she even invited the imperial physician many times. She was indeed ill."

Concubine Hui looked at her son and sighed, "Son, you really need to keep a low profile externally and say that she passed away due to illness. But internally, those who deserve punishment should be punished. Otherwise, everyone will follow her example and commit crimes, killing people whenever they want. How can we have peace in this mansion?"

Prince Yong was speechless for a moment, and after a long moment of thought, he said, "Then I will demote Aunt Lin to a concubine, reduce her monthly salary, and cut down on expenses. What do you think, Mother?"

Concubine Hui: “…”

Somehow, I suddenly remembered how the late emperor doted on Concubine Li and was reluctant to punish her.

Concubine Hui's eyes darkened: "Too light, isn't it? No, it's not enough to deter people."

"But...but my mother poisoned Qinghe in the past. After a long time, she will definitely die." Prince Yong's words made Concubine Hui exhausted with anger.

"At least I've taken care of everything. No one will find out she was poisoned. A long illness and death is more plausible than being drugged and suffocated, which is so blatant!"

Seeing that her son still couldn't let go of Lin Yuanyuan, Concubine Hui said earnestly, "Don't forget Princess Qinghe's identity, and don't forget that His Majesty immediately sent the imperial physician to examine her. Do you think the imperial physicians in the palace are all incompetent and can't determine the true cause of Princess Qinghe's death? Perhaps His Majesty has already been secretly investigating."

Prince Yong's heart sank. How could he not know what Concubine Hui said?

But he really couldn't bear to let go of Lin Yuanyuan.

"Then according to mother's opinion, what should we do?" asked Prince Yong.

Concubine Hui had already made a plan in her mind. She wanted to kill this person who only had good looks but was a useless person and who caused trouble from time to time and endangered the status of Prince Yong's Mansion, so as to avoid any more trouble.

But when he saw his son's unhappy look, and thought about the throne and the person he had never gotten since he was a child, he finally softened his heart a little.

"Never mind, twenty lashes of the cane, demoted to a concubine, and a halving of the monthly allowance. That's it."

Thinking of the painful twenty strokes of the cane, Prince Yong's face never looked better.

"Why, are you still feeling heartbroken? You should think about what to do next. His Majesty must be discussing matters with the Ministry of War right now. Originally, the two countries were at war, and the other side provoked us first. We are the army of justice. Now that the princess is dead, if Yan State uses this as an excuse to boost morale and launch a counterattack, causing our Great Zhou to suffer heavy casualties and delaying the war, I wonder how you will explain this to His Majesty!"

King Yong was overwhelmed.

"Also, since Princess Qinghe's original poison has been almost cured, and she died of illness, the person who cured her must have known that we were lying. Have you ever thought about who that person is?" Concubine Hui said slowly.

She had privately informed all the medical clinics in the capital that Princess Qinghe had visited. No one dared to meddle in her affairs, so naturally there was no doctor who could detoxify Princess Qinghe, and they might not even tell her the truth about her condition.

This can be seen from the medicine that Princess Qinghe took at the beginning, which were all useless tonics prescribed for her.

The palace physician did not dare to tell the truth. Even the imperial physician invited by the palace was cunning and did not dare to reveal a word. Naturally, they only prescribed tonic medicine.

Who else could get in touch with Princess Qinghe and prescribe an antidote for her?

Concubine Hui had a vague idea of a candidate in mind, but she couldn't figure out why she took action.

Concubine Hui looked at Prince Yong and saw that his expression was sometimes solemn, sometimes helpless, and sometimes a little worried? Anyway, it was a very complicated expression.

"Tell me, who did you think of?" When Concubine Hui saw her son's expression, she knew that he probably had the answer in his mind.

Prince Yong coughed lightly and said, "I… I didn't expect anyone… Mainly, I can't figure out why… why it was her. Perhaps… I guessed wrong."

Concubine Hui narrowed her eyes and said, "Who is it? Just tell me directly. I have someone in my heart too. Tell me and I will discuss it with you."

Prince Yong gritted his teeth, but finally couldn't stand Concubine Hui's gaze and said, "Queen Tao."

Concubine Hui slapped her thigh and said, "Yes, it's her!" She stood up and paced back and forth in the room. "Why do you think she did that? Is she trying to find something to hold against Prince Yong's Mansion?"

Someone in Prince Yong's mansion plotted to murder the princess and poisoned her. The queen intervened and detoxified her. From then on, the princess was grateful to the queen and obeyed her orders...

Concubine Hui imagined a whole drama in her mind, and the more she thought about it, the more she felt that the Queen might be playing a big game.

Prince Yong frowned and said, "Queen Tao is not the type to play tricks, nor is she the type to use as leverage to threaten others. I suspect Princess Qinghe knew she had no one else to turn to, so she turned to the Queen. The Queen was kind-hearted and found a trusted imperial physician to treat her and prescribe medicine. Mother, please don't be too anxious, and don't think that Queen Tao is scheming."

In Prince Yong's heart, Queen Tao was the best person in the world, beautiful and kind-hearted, and he would never allow others to make malicious assumptions about her.

Concubine Hui rolled her eyes at him. This son was good in every way except lust. He inherited this from the late emperor.

Even a hero cannot resist the temptation of a beautiful woman. This beauty is not his yet, but he protects her. It's speechless.