allonlinenovel Chapter 271: Scheming
Chapter 271: Scheming
Yuan Qing bravely sneered, "You treat me well? Oh, if you mean, Concubine Qin, that I often have to eat your leftovers, wear your discarded clothes, or kneel on the ground every night to wash your feet, then Concubine Qin is indeed treating me well."
Qin Keqing gritted her teeth secretly: "You...you ungrateful beast."
This ungrateful slave girl, she is her master, she can give her leftover food and unwanted clothes to her, all of which are her appreciation and grace for her.
Yuan Qing had long been filled with resentment towards Qin Keqing. She was so humble that she knelt on the ground and always served Concubine Qin carefully.
But... Concubine Qin didn't treat her as a human being. In Concubine Qin's eyes, she was probably just a dog wagging its tail and begging for mercy.
Yuan Qing risked his life. He believed that while he was alive, he had to live for himself.
She didn't want to serve a master who didn't treat people as human beings anymore.
"Ungrateful? Has Lady Qin ever done me any favors? Haha... This is called abandoning darkness and joining the light... He who knows the current situation is a hero."
Yuan Qing said this with a mocking smile, then she crawled towards Qin Feiling, prostrating herself and kowtowed.
"Your Majesty, I want to expose Concubine Qin. In fact, Concubine Qin took me to the cold palace. Concubine Qin asked me to wear the clothes that Jin Xin usually wears, pretend to be Jin Xin, and deliberately walked in front of that little palace maid."
"Lady Qin deliberately created a false image to frame Concubine Yu. The bird's nest that Concubine Sun took was also brewed by Lady Qin. I saw Lady Qin mix the poison into the bird's nest with my own eyes..."
"Lady Qin brought the bird's nest to the cold palace. I saw it with my own eyes. She fed the poisoned bird's nest into Concubine Sun's mouth."
"When Concubine Sun was poisoned, this servant was watching at the palace gate."
As soon as Yuan Qing said this, there was an uproar all around.
Many concubines looked at this scene in disbelief.
"Oh my god, is it really Concubine Qin who is behind this?"
"This is Concubine Qin's trusted maidservant. She came out and confessed personally. How could it be false?"
"Lady Qin is truly scheming and daring. How dare she use such a vicious scheme to frame the Imperial Concubine?"
"Not only that, she even schemingly dragged the Empress Dowager into this. Clearly, she's trying to use her as a pawn to deal with Concubine Yu, isn't she?"
The whispers of the crowd were not too quiet.
The Queen Mother heard all of this clearly, and her angry face was full of anger.
She had admired Concubine Qin's intelligence before, but she didn't expect that this intelligence would be used on her?
Want to use her to deal with the imperial concubine?
Is this taking her for a fool?
The Queen Mother was so angry that she immediately picked up a teacup and smashed it hard at Qin Keqing.
"Bitch, I am also someone you can use."
Qin Keqing screamed in fright and quickly dodged.
Her body collapsed to the ground, her eyes red and her face filled with sobs of grievance: "Empress Dowager, please calm down. It's not me. I was wronged. Yuan Qing is lying. I have never been to the cold palace. Yuan Qing was bribed and colluded with them to deliberately frame me."
"Empress Dowager, Your Majesty... Please be discerning and don't believe the words of this lowly maid. I and Concubine Sun have a deep sisterly bond. How could I have the heart to harm her? This is all a frame-up. Someone is trying to harm me."
Zhou Lingge chuckled and stared at Qin Keqing with great mockery.
"Yuan Qing confessed and told the truth, but you said she was bribed and deliberately framed you... Lady Qin, you really won't cry until you see the coffin."
"In that case, continue with the witness."
"Eunuch Liu, you should have found other evidence, right?"
Eunuch Liu smiled at Zhou Lingge ingratiatingly.
"Your Majesty is intelligent, so I naturally discovered other evidence... I didn't quite understand it before, but now after hearing Yuan Qing's confession, I finally understand."
"Come on, bring in the witness."
He clapped his hands.
The next moment, guards brought in a eunuch and a maid.
Madam Zhao looked up, her eyes filled with fear. "Isn't this eunuch... our Little Dezi from the Cining Palace? And this Madam Lin, she's the housekeeper in charge of the Empress Dowager's kitchen."
The Queen Mother's face darkened as the truth gradually became clear.
She was really used by Concubine Qin!
She was very angry.
Unable to resist, she slammed the desk beside her. She pointed at that little Dezi and said, "Tell me... what exactly is going on? If you don't tell the truth, I will have you dragged away and beaten to death..."
Xiao Dezi is the eunuch in charge of the Cining Palace. He is responsible for both palace affairs and kitchen matters.
The bowl of bird's nest was also brought to the Queen Mother's hands by Xiao Dezi himself.
The Queen Mother almost drank the bird's nest.
It was Nanny Zhao who came back and found something unusual about the bird's nest...that's why she stopped it.
If Nanny Zhao had returned a moment later, the Empress Dowager would probably have died like Concubine Sun.
Xiao Dezi trembled and prostrated himself before the emperor.
He quickly begged for mercy and wailed, "Her Majesty, please calm down... I didn't know that bowl of bird's nest contained poison. It was Nanny Lin who told me that she added some nourishing powder. I didn't suspect anything, but I didn't expect that she would add poisonous powder right in front of me..."
The Queen Mother was furious.
She couldn't help but tremble: "Asshole, damn it, all of you deserve to die."
"Emperor, immediately have this dog slave dragged away from me and beaten to death immediately."
Xiao Dezi was so scared that he wet his pants on the spot.
He kept shouting for mercy from the Empress Dowager.
The Queen Mother was merciless and she was so angry that she almost cut everyone who wanted to harm her into pieces.
She was nearly poisoned to death.
The thought of her own death filled her with fear.
Qin Feiling waved his hand, and Eunuch Liu immediately had Xiao Dezi dragged away.
The sound of caning was soon heard outside.
Nanny Lin knelt there trembling, her face extremely pale.
The Queen Mother stared at Nanny Lin with a sinister look on her face: "Tell me... have you been bribed?"
"Do you know that the white powder is poison? If you continue to deceive me, I will kill you without a burial place..."
Nanny Lin kowtowed so much that her head was covered in blood.
She looked up at Qin Keqing and immediately pointed with a shaking arm: "It was...it was Concubine Qin who personally found this servant and asked this servant to mix the white powder into the Queen Mother's bird's nest."
Qin Keqing's eyes were full of confusion, and she shook her head in a daze.
She didn't expect that Nanny Lin would personally testify against her?
When she met Nanny Lin, she chose to disguise herself and change her appearance.
Nanny Lin doesn’t even know who she is!
Why was she so sure that she identified herself without any hesitation?