SFS Chapter 155: No Honey Trap
Chapter 155: No Honey Trap
On the evening of the first day of the Lunar New Year, someone delivered a message to the Qiao family.
After hearing this, Qiao Xi looked at Su Heting in surprise, "Why is it Concubine Yu?"
The news was sent by Lord Zhan, saying that the emperor went to Xianfu Palace last night.
This was Su Heting's instructions to Lord Zhan, asking him to pay attention to the emperor's movements last night.
They made such a fuss on New Year's Eve just to make the emperor suspect that there were people like Yi Qing around him.
But it is not easy to influence the emperor's thinking.
Fortunately, after they learned about the embroiderer's incident from Marquis Changning, they sent people to keep an eye on the Lin family and learned a lot of inside information about the Lin family.
That concubine usually relies on the favor of Marquis Changning to do evil at will, and she deserves to be killed.
Su Heting instructed Lord Zhan to use the concubine to inform the emperor that Lin Yuanbai had secretly kept the embroiderer without the emperor's knowledge.
Then he gave him a heart-pounding poison, causing the concubine to die from the poison before the emperor could personally interrogate her.
In this way, there is no proof of death.
Lord Zhan had never participated in the murder of the late crown prince, so it was impossible for him to fabricate the story that Lin Yuanbo secretly kept the embroiderer, and the emperor would not suspect that all this was just nonsense.
I just thought it was really the concubine's instructions, and the concubine was indeed favored by Marquis Changning, so it was reasonable for her to know some secrets from him.
Cao Ying has already escaped, but there is still the heart palpitation poison in the palace, and he can quietly deal with the prisoners detained in the Ministry of Punishment.
The emperor will certainly take it seriously, and even for his own safety, he will be eager to find that person.
Everything went according to Su Heting's plan, but neither of them expected that the emperor would eventually target Concubine Yu.
“I heard that she and my mother were good friends, and after my mother entered the Buddhist temple, she took good care of me.
When I was young, I felt that this person had taken away everything from my mother, and I disliked her very much.
But she always treated me the same way, and my mother and the emperor never stopped her from being close to me.
In my impression, although she had her own little thoughts, she never did anything treacherous or evil during the years she was in charge of the harem.
Su Heting pondered, "However, the emperor is the party involved in many things. He would suspect Concubine Yu, which means that there is indeed something wrong with Concubine Yu."
After a pause, he said, "Besides, now that the Crown Prince is gone, the Third Brother is the most likely person to take that position."
Qiao Xi also found it hard to believe that Concubine Yu was the one who stirred up trouble about the Crown Prince's background.
In her impression, Concubine Yu raised the prince as her own son, and whatever the third prince had, the prince must have too.
If there was only one copy of the thing, it would be given to the prince first, and he would love the prince and his family as well, and would take great care of her as well.
“After you got into trouble, she even secretly paid tribute to you and scolded me for being ungrateful. That’s why she treated me very coldly in the following years.
Being able to do this, no matter how you look at it, it seems like someone who is sincere to you."
If they hadn't set up this trap, they really wouldn't have suspected Concubine Yu for a while.
Su Heting tapped his fingers on the table, "Perhaps all that was done before was for the emperor to see.
She was good to me, so my mother and the emperor tolerated her. She was offering sacrifices to my deceased self, not necessarily out of her sincerity towards me. Perhaps she just wanted the emperor to know that she was a person who valued love. There are always some people in this world who are good at disguising themselves.
After what happened last night and after the emperor sent the third prince away, it was definitely not the case that he was chatting with her.
But the emperor went there last night, and he had to alert the enemy, so some things are difficult to investigate.
However, we can investigate what happened before she entered the palace."
When he was young, he couldn't understand why Yu Yan, who was his mother's good friend, would compete with her for her husband.
But at that time, his mother knelt in front of the Buddha and told him that the emperor was a king and there could not be only one queen in the harem. If it was not Yu Yan, it would be someone else.
Let him concentrate on his studies and not focus on women and harem matters.
Seeing that his mother didn't care and Concubine Yu didn't show any fault, he didn't pay too much attention to this person.
Now that I think about it, if she really had a conspiracy with Yi Qing, they should have been in cahoots before entering the palace.
Qiao Xi agreed. Judging from Cao Ying's narration, the queen severed her relationship with Yi Qing after discovering she had recognized the wrong person upon her wedding. That must have been a sign of satisfaction for the emperor and their marriage.
In this case, it is unlikely that the empress would take a concubine for the emperor.
Even if the harem cannot be left empty, if the emperor really wants to add a woman, he probably won't choose his good friends.
Qiao Xi couldn't explain the specific reason, it was just her intuition as a woman.
At least if she couldn't have Su Heting all to herself, she would rather marry another woman than share a husband with her best friend.
Thinking of the future, she suddenly pinched Su Heting's face with both hands and said, "If one day you have to marry another woman, I will divorce you and marry another woman."
The man, who was thinking about his own things, was suddenly pinched on the face. Before he could react, he heard her say that she would divorce her husband and remarry. She directly held her in her arms and flicked her head.
"Don't say such unlucky words in the first month of the year. No one can force me to marry someone else. I only want you.
You should also stop thinking about those messy thoughts right now. Don't even think about marrying anyone else except me."
Qiao Xi smiled.
As long as he has her in his heart, she will not let him have another woman. Love has always been selfish.
The little episode ended with Su Heting's kiss. Qiao Xi pursed her slightly swollen lips and returned to the previous topic.
"Looking into Concubine Yu's past, perhaps I can start with her nephew Yu Tianbao."
Yu Tianbao is also a playboy who is uneducated, plays with cats and dogs all day long, and is lustful by nature.
The difference between him and Wang Junjie is that he will not force or oppress women.
After Qiao Xi was reborn, she plotted against Yu Tianbao in order to get the emperor to agree to let her leave the palace.
Su Heting also found out about this matter later. After hearing what she said, he directly covered her mouth.
She had no way to do it before when she was reborn, but now she needs to use her beauty to seduce other men.
It's impossible to treat him as dead.
After a long moment, Qiao Xi finally got free and couldn't help but fight for it, "Yu Tianbao is the treasure of the Yu family. Old Madam Yu and Concubine Yu both value him very much. It will be much easier to start with him... Hmm..."
Before he could finish his words, his mouth was blocked again.
After a long moment, Su Heting glared at Qiao Xi with a serious look in his eyes. "Give up your thoughts, or I don't mind taking you back to your room to sleep right now."
Qiao Xi understood the threat in his words and had to give up.
Before dinner time, Su Heting took Zhen to his room. After a lot of trouble, I'm afraid I won't be able to see anyone until tomorrow.
Qiao Xi didn't want to make a fool of herself during the New Year, "Then do you have a better idea?"
Su Heting straightened her clothes and said, "Yu Tianbao is the treasure of the Yu family, but the third child is not?"
Besides, he knows the third brother better.
“Judging from the Third Brother’s behavior after we arrived in Beijing, he must have been restrained by Yu Yan.
If Yu Yan is the traitor, she is definitely not as content with the status quo as she appears to be.
But she didn't let the third child show up. Obviously she had other plans. She wanted to keep the third child out of it, so we did the opposite."
The third brother is the person that Concubine Yu cares about the most and is also her future. Only by starting with the third brother can Concubine Yu be in chaos.
Seeing that he had an idea, Qiao Xi completely gave up thinking about Yu Tianbao.
However, neither of them expected that Yu Tianbao would come to them on his own.