Rebirth of the Phoenix Princess novel Chapter 226

It was an ear with blood on it.

Wen Xi screamed.

The Empress glanced coldly at the ear and snorted, "Do you think that I will believe these are Hua Jing's ears when someone cut them off and send them to me? Yun Shang, I just thought that your skills have improved a lot, but I didn't expect you to be so unskilled. Such a clumsy way is of great use to you."

Yun Shang smiled, but her eyes were calm. "Mother, why don't you read it carefully? Are you scared? I heard that there is a birthmark on sister's ear..." She paused.

Frowning slightly, the Empress glanced at the thing on the ground again. There seemed to be a touch of rouge on the back of the ear, like a plum blossom. The Empress turned around quietly and clenched her hand in the sleeve. Her long nails pierced into her palm, causing pain.

"It's just a birthmark. But many old people of certain ages in the palace know about the characteristics of Hua Jing. It's not strange to make a fake one. Yun Shang, don't waste your time. If you can, just send Hua Jing to me. I believe you." Then the Empress went to a chair and sat down, without saying anything.

Yun Shang grinned, "servants, take it to feed dogs."

The secret guards put the things into the box and picked them up. Yun Shang smiled and walked to the Empress. "Oh, I forget that mother is used to deceiving herself. In that case, I don't have to say more. Somebody, lock her in the secret chamber."

The chamber was located in the Empress' palace. It was a small punishment room on the wall behind the bed, where the empress used to deal with some people in private. She accidentally broke into it in her previous life, so she got to know that. Now it seemed to be a wonderful place.

Yun Shang summoned Ning Qian, disguised as the Empress, and left after she told the things.

As soon as Yun Shang left, Li Fuyi ran to her, with anxiety in her eyes. "We lost all the ladies. Do you know who did it?"

The Empress was sitting in front of the mirror, dressed in disguises. She looked at her own face in the mirror. When she heard Li Fuyi ask such a question, she frowned and said, "what are you doing? Do you really think that you can get into Qiwu Palace as you like? "

After hearing this, Li Fuyi was a little stunned. She looked at the Empress and couldn't help but be angry, "sister, you have to grow up. How long can you be the Empress? Do you know how much time my father has spent in plotting the kidnapping? If you break father's plan, I'm afraid that you will die without knowing why."

Hearing this, the Empress laughed suddenly. "Yes, how long can I be the Empress? Do you think you will have a good end? Even if father ascended the throne, so what? You are just a late Emperor's consort who has been abandoned by everyone in the past. Where can your dignity be?"

"One more question, sister. Where have the ladies in the imperial household gone?" Li Fuyi glared at the Empress, with anger in her eyes.

The Empress smiled, picked up the comb on the dresser, and combed her slightly messy hair. "Where did they go? Didn't you tell me to arrest all the concubines and send them to Jinluan Hall?"

"There is no one at Jinluan Hall!" Li Fuyi banged her hand on the table.

"Really? Is it? There's no one in Jinluan Hall, which made me suspicious. There are people working for the Emperor. If you are not careful enough, it's likely to go wrong. Just as you said, I can't bear the consequences if father is in trouble. So, I will send them to my secret chamber." The Empress turned around and looked at Li Fuyi with unpredictable eyes. "I don't know. You are in charge of my affairs."

After saying that, she turned to the mirror. "No wonder you said you have been ill bred. Your mother taught you to be obedient to your sister? Do you really think that I don't know what's going on in the palace these years? I know clearly that you killed your mother in order to get father's favor?"

Li Fuyi's eyes flashed a murderous look. "You're right, sister. I crossed the line. Since you had already made a plan, then I won't blame you." Then she gave the Empress a meaningful look, turned around and left Qiwu Palace.

Ning Qian breathed a sigh of relief after watching Li Fuyi leave. It was lucky that her master had taught her how to behave, or else everyone would find out the truth. Ning Qian stood up, turned around, picked up the lamp on the table, and went into the dark room.

There was only one chair in the dark room, and the Empress was sitting on it, with a cloth tied to her mouth. Her eyes were fixed on Ning Qian, who had come in. When she was in the dark room just now, she felt strange that why there was someone outside who answered Li Fuyi, and her voice was the copy of her. Now she knew, without the help of others, that this was the reason.

She had heard about the skill of disguising oneself, but she didn't expect Yun Shang to have such a capable person by her side.

A question flashed through her mind. What on earth was Yun Shang going to do?

Standing in front of the Empress, Ning Qian looked at the Empress with a smile and said, "Your Majesty, please don't worry. I'm sorry that I didn't greet you before. I disguised as Princess Hua Jing and Princess Yun Shang, but I never disguised as the Empress. I felt a bit panicked, but now as I see it, it's not bad."

After saying those ambiguous words, Ning Qian left the secret chamber quickly.

Now the Empress was left alone in the dark room. All of a sudden, a crazy idea crossed the Empress' mind. She just said that she had disguised as Hua Jing? Why did she pretend to be Hua Jing?

A sense of uneasiness overwhelmed her. She didn't believe in Yun Shang's trick when she saw Hua Jing's ear. After all, the news that Hua Jing was kidnapped by Qingsu was reported to the Emperor.

But now, she was a little uncertain. The one that was kidnapped was actually someone with disguise, not Hua Jing herself. Was Hua Jing really kidnapped by Yun Shang?

The thought of the bloody ear sent a chill to the Empress.

Before Prince Jing's army reached the Imperial City, something happened in the Grand Councilor's mansion. Yu'er, who was prisoned by Grand Councilor Li Jingyan due to her disrespect to the seventh Prince of the State of Xia, ran out for no reason and deceived the guards at the door as if nothing had happened. She went into Grand Councilor Li Jingyan's bedroom and shouted, "give my child back!" Then she stabbed Grand Councilor Li Jingyan in the abdomen. It almost killed Grand Councilor Li Jingyan.

Just when she raised the dagger again, the guards quickly grabbed the dagger from her hand and sent her off.

But Li Jingyan passed out because of his serious injury.

Hearing the news from secret guards, Yun Shang looked at Prince Jing with burning eyes, "Your Highness, you believe me. Once this woman goes wild, there will be surprising effects. Yu'er lived her life in the State of Yelang like a princess. She married a bad old man to the State of Ning now, and she was still powerful. However, her family members didn't care about her fame. They dared not bully her because she had a child, so she managed her life. However, Grand Councilor Li killed her child personally. Yu'er is always shrewish. She can't bear it."

Prince Jing looked at Yun Shang as if thinking of something, "you must have also drugged her, right?"

Yun Shang raised her eyebrows, "sure. If it weren't for her weakest defense in the Grand Councilor's mansion, I wouldn't have tried to hurt her. Yu'er is too reckless."

Around noon, the secret guard Yun Shang sent to Laifeng City came back. "Lady Jin and his majesty are in good condition, and nothing special happened. But two days ago, a young lady came to Laifeng City to visit Lady Jin, and Lady Jin stayed with her. It seemed that she was Jing Wenxi. She said she knew your highness, and his majesty also recognized her as the daughter of Master Jing, so he let Lady Jin ask her to stay. According to Madam Zheng, the Empress and Jing Wenxi seem to like each other very much."

Yun Shang shuddered at the name of Jing Wenxi.

She remembered that she saw a pretty cute little girl in Prince Shun Qing's Mansion, but Ruyu was hostile to her, which left her an impression. But, wasn't she the daughter of the Head of the Court of Rites? How could she appear in Laifeng City at this time? Was it really a coincidence?

Yun Shang didn't believe that this was a coincidence. She only knew that this was unusual. Yun Shang turned around and asked, "The Head of the Court of Rites is on whose side?"