The grass in the factory should be plucked

Chapter 9 Plot

Jiang Li returned to the cold palace as she wished. She touched the wound on her face and smiled victoriously.

Let her be disfigured, this way she won’t have to worry about anyone targeting her.

But if I offend Concubine Zhou, my life will probably be difficult in the future and I will have to cause some trouble for her.

Can I borrow some help from the East Factory? It's your fault for staring at me all the time!

"If you dare to plot against me, you will have to pay the price!" Jiang Li said angrily.

The next day.

"Someone come here!" Jiang Li knocked hard on the heavy door of the cold palace.

A small window on the door slowly opened, revealing the face of a middle-aged eunuch with a wary look in his eyes.

"Please tell Mr. Xie that I have something important to tell you and I must meet you in person."

She had always suspected that the new eunuch in charge of the cold palace was from the Eastern Depot, and decided to test it out.

The middle-aged eunuch frowned: "What's the matter?"

"This is a serious matter. I want to talk to Mr. Xie."

The eunuch nodded and turned away.

Seeing this, Jiang Li became even more certain of his guess.

If he wasn't from the Eastern Depot, it wouldn't be easy to meet Xie Changan, and he wouldn't agree to her so easily.

After a while, Xie Changan arrived as expected.

He looked at the bloodstains on Jiang Li's face and frowned slightly, "If your majesty needs to be healed, please find the imperial physician. Please forgive me for being unable to help."

"Healing? That's not important." Jiang Li waved his hand casually, "I want to report the Imperial Concubine for plotting to murder His Majesty!"

Hearing this, Xie Changan's pupils shrank slightly, and a sharp light flashed in his eyes: "Are you serious?"

Jiang Li continued, "Yesterday, I was brought to Yuhua Palace by the nanny beside Concubine Zhou."

"The Imperial Concubine claimed to help me regain my favor, but I overheard her conspiracy with Mammy."

"Mammy said that she has a kind of mother-child Gu that can make His Majesty obey the Imperial Concubine's orders. It needs to be a virgin in order to plant the Gu."

Xie Changan had his hands behind his back, expressionless, but his heart was filled with turmoil because of these few words.

Mother-child cup? Practicing witchcraft in the palace, and the target is the current emperor!

This is a crime punishable by the execution of nine generations of the clan!

The crown prince has not been appointed yet and the emperor's mind is unpredictable. It seems that Concubine Zhou is getting anxious and has started to use all means.

"What does the Imperial Concubine want you to do?"

"The Imperial Concubine said that His Majesty will come over tonight, and they probably want to go through me..."

Xie Changan had a strange look on his face: "And then you scratched your face on purpose?"

Jiang Li grinned, and the scars on her face made her smile look weird and funny.

"It wasn't me. I tried to tease the cat that the imperial concubine kept, and got scratched by it."

Xie Changan: ...

"It's so satisfying to see the Imperial Concubine so angry, yet unable to do anything to me, hahahaha..."

Jiang Li laughed so hard that she accidentally pulled the wound on her face, causing her to grimace in pain and tears welling up in her eyes.

Xie Changan glanced at her with a sharp gaze: "Do you have any evidence?"

"No." Jiang Li said confidently, "Searching for evidence, isn't that your Dongchang's job?"

Xie Changan's eyes were sharp: "Your Majesty, do you know what the crime of falsely accusing the imperial concubine of the current dynasty is?"

"It's just a death."

Jiang Li said quietly, "Anyway, people like me who are sent to the cold palace will either die of illness, starvation, or be sentenced to death. In the end, they can't escape death."

Xie Changan said calmly: "I will investigate this matter, Madam, please do not mention it to anyone else."

He turned and left, then suddenly came back.

"May I ask, Madam Queen, have you ever seen a boy of fifteen or sixteen years old wearing eunuch's clothes?"

"Xiao Hezi?" Jiang Li asked in confusion, "Are you talking about the eunuch?"

"He only comes here occasionally to take some time off and be lazy. How dare you bother the Lord Qianhu to ask about such a small matter?"

Xie Changan curled his lips slightly, revealing a somewhat sarcastic smile, "Don't you know, Your Majesty, that he is the Third Prince?"

"What?" Jiang Li was shocked.

Seeing that her surprised expression was not fake, Xie Changan said calmly, "I hope your Majesty will take care of yourself."

He tapped his toes lightly, and his figure swept over the wall like the wind, disappearing without a trace in the blink of an eye.

"Hey, what do you mean?" Jiang Li stomped her feet angrily. Was he suspecting that she had an affair with the third prince?

She returned to the room, sat cross-legged on the bed, closed her eyes and meditated.

Xiao Hezi is actually the third prince!

Although the third prince is a nobody and not taken seriously, he is still a prince after all.

There is a saying that goes, don't despise the poor young people, because they may have the opportunity to soar to success in the future.

Jiang Li was in deep thought, sorting out every detail revealed by the little white cat in his mind.

The secret conversation between Concubine Zhou and Nanny Gong involved words such as "Yong'an Palace" and "Fengyi Palace".

Yong'an Palace refers to Concubine Xiao Shufei, and Fengyi Palace refers to Empress Zhang.

Jiang Li remembered that Empress Zhang seemed to have been bedridden for a long time. When her predecessor, the young noble lady, first entered the palace, she was unable to meet the Empress because she was seriously ill.

Could it be that Empress Zhang’s illness was caused by Concubine Zhou?

In order to support the second prince to ascend to the throne, Concubine Zhou dared to take action against the emperor, let alone Empress Zhang and Concubine Xiao?

A bold plan quietly took shape in her mind.

When Nangong Qinghe learned that Jiang Li had been taken away by Concubine Zhou, his heart was suddenly in his throat.

In desperation, he sneaked into the cold palace again.

"Ari, are you okay?"

When he saw the conspicuous bloodstains on Jiang Li's face, he was shocked and angry.

"How could the Imperial Concubine do such a cruel thing to you! I will find some excellent scar-removing medicine later..."

"No need." Jiang Li looked at him with a serious expression, "Xiao Hezi, don't come here again."

Nangong Qinghe was anxious when he heard this, "Ali, I..."

"Shhh."

Jiang Li motioned him to be quiet, then quickly wrote on the paper: "Walls have ears."

Nangong Qinghe's face changed when he thought about how he was caught red-handed by Xie Changan that day.

Jiang Li took a deep breath and said in a deep voice: "Now that I have offended Concubine Zhou, if I continue to interact with you frequently, I am afraid that you will be implicated."

She paused, then wrote "Third Prince?" on the paper.

Nangong Qinghe's face turned pale instantly, and his voice trembled slightly, "Ari, you, you listen to me..."

Jiang Li signaled him not to speak again, and then continued writing, "I only want to ask you one thing, do you want to take that position?"

Nangong Qinghe's eyes suddenly widened. This sentence was like a blockbuster bomb, stirring up a storm in his heart.

“Only when you reach the highest point will you no longer be bullied.”

Jiang Li pursed her lips and wrote the words vigorously, as gracefully as a swimming dragon, with force that penetrated the back of the paper.

Nangong Qinghe couldn't help but burst into tears when he thought of the scene where his mother was framed by Concubine Zhou and died tragically in the cold palace, and the days when he was helpless and bullied in the palace since he was a child.

He looked at the scars on her face intently for a while, then nodded firmly.

Jiang Li patted his shoulder with relief and continued writing: "To make a long story short, what the Third Prince has to do is to try to get the Queen to keep you in her name!"

Nangong Qinghe was stunned and speechless for a long time.

Yes, this way he could become the legitimate son of the Empress, but how could this be possible? The Empress did not like him.

Jiang Li continued to write: "I suspect that the Queen's long-term illness is caused by Yuhua Palace!"

"How did you know?" He took the pen and wrote these words tremblingly.

"Of course I overheard it in Yuhua Palace." Jiang Li wrote.

Nangong Qinghe took a deep breath, calmed down the shock in his heart, and then wrote: "What should I do?"

Jiang Li listed her plans one by one.

Nangong Qinghe looked at her focused face and swore in his heart:

"Ari, if that day comes for me, I will definitely protect you well and will never let you end up like my mother!"