The Delicate Beauty In the Hegemony Essay - Chapter 102

    And the news of the death of the third princess was like a bucket of ice water poured on her head, freezing all the laziness that Xie Dan left on her last night.

    “Dead, dead?” Shu Ning asked with a pale face, and even she found out that her hand hidden in the quilt was shaking.

    Cai Ling was equally shocked, but the person who reported the mourning of the Guo family did not explain why the third princess died.

    The three princesses are gorgeous and compelling, not yet thirty years old, the cause of death is absolutely abnormal.

    It may be that Shu Ning is most wary of Xie Dan. When this happened, Shu Ning first thought of Xie Dan.

    Xie Dan has motives. The one he most wants to kill is the little emperor, and the second is Guo Rong.

      Xie Dancai is the most justifiable.

    For Guo Rong, Xie Dan tried and failed, then he killed the third princess, and once the third princess died, and there was no child, Guo Rong’s concubine was in vain, may I ask which brother will take the family property For a non-brother-in-law who will marry another wife sooner or later?

    This guess that first poured into my mind made Shu Ning chill.

    She had long known that Xie Dan was ruthless, but after she passed the book, Xie Dan failed to poison the little emperor, and also failed to poison Guo Rong. Although Shu Ning was wary of Xie Dan, he did not I’m so afraid of him, not to mention that Xie Dan still has to rely on her marriage to seek the throne. Before this happens, Xie Dan will not kill her anyway.

    Now, the three princesses are dead.

    A princess, a princess like her.

    If it is really what Xie Dan did, how much weight does Shu Ning, the ninth princess, have in Xie Dan’s heart? If one day her calculations are revealed and Xie Dan becomes angry, will he kill her impulsively? Before they got married, there were layers of palaces between them, but now, Shu Ning was in Xie Dan’s territory.

    “Princess, are you alright? Are you scared?” Seeing the princess sitting on the bed as if she had lost her soul, Cai Ling hurriedly came to support her master and called anxiously.

    Shu Ning lowered her eyes, but fortunately Cailing was still simple.

    “Help me change.”

    It snowed heavily all night, and the capital was covered in silver, only a road was swept out of the street.

    Shu Ning rushed to Guo’s house facing the sky. The fifth and sixth princesses who were closer had already arrived, and the carriage was parked outside.

      Entering the inner room, Shu Ning’s eyes swept across the weeping Fifth and Sixth Princesses, and fell on Guo Rong, who was sitting beside the bed. Guo Rong, who was as strong as an iron tower, looked sad at the moment, and the third princess’s cold and white hand was tightly held in his hand.

     “Third brother-in-law, the third sister was fine the last time we met, how could it be?”

    Shu Ning asked with red eyes.

    Guo Rong closed his eyes when he heard the words, and seemed to fall into deep self-blame.

    More and more people rushed over to hear the news, Xie Dan and several other concubines came, and Shu Ning also knew the cause of death of the third princess from others.

    The three princesses drank the flavored water.

    The third princess and Guo Rong have been married for more than ten years, not counting the years when Guo Rong was seriously ill, the couple’s loving days lasted for five years, but the third princess was unable to conceive a child. The three princesses tried all kinds of methods, but none of them worked. During the Dragon Boat Festival, I heard that a female Taoist nun developed the talisman water.

    Before drinking it for the first time, the third princess naturally asked her husband to check the talisman water, which is similar to other talisman waters, but only mixed with the ashes of the burnt talismans. It depends on the female Taoist nun. The ability to make talismans is definitely not harmful to the human body.

    The three princesses have been drinking this water for half a year, and it has been fine. I didn’t expect to drink the water again last night, and it was fine when I slept, but everyone was cold in the morning.

    The Guo family sent someone to arrest the female Taoist nun, but she disappeared without a trace.

    The third princess was killed, but if it wasn’t for her eagerness to seek a child, the other party would not be able to take advantage of this loophole.

    The government has already sent the portrait of the female Taoist nun to various townships and counties, and vowed to arrest the female Taoist priest who poisoned the third princess.

    At the same time, a rumor gradually spread in the capital, saying that the third princess died in a private scheme between the women in the back house, and the reputation of the three concubines Guo Rong has long been known to everyone. Now, it is not impossible that so many women have been provoked inside and outside the house, and there are a few who dare to murder the princess.

    For this rumor, Guo Rong tried all his women one by one, and naturally no one would admit it.

    While the third princess was still alive, Shu Ning took the opportunity to meet the second princess who was leaving the palace while she was laying the foundation for the third princess.

    Cai Ling was well spent, Shu Ning pretended to cry, the second princess helped her to comfort her in the room, Cai Ling and other palace servants were left behind.

    Deepening her voice, Shu Ning raced against time to ask the second princess: “Sister, the murderer who killed the third sister, do you have someone in your heart?”

    The second princess said solemnly: “Yes, your face is so bad, we should suspect it is a person, but there is no evidence, it is really what he did, and we have nothing to do.”

    Shu Ning felt chills all over and forced himself to remain calm: “The third sister died and the third brother-in-law’s reputation is also bad, that person is my concubine, if something happens to the emperor at this time, he will take out a Zhang pseudo-edict, another group of officials supported him, and the big thing was done, so I worry that his next step is to deal with the emperor.”

    Xie Dan was intent on planning for the throne. Before marrying her, many of Xie Dan’s plans were disrupted by Shu Ning, and he had to be aggrieved. Now that the two are married, Xie Dan, who has been dormant for five years, finally takes action. Looking at his method of dealing with Guo Rong, he must have planned it half a year ago. At the same time, he took advantage of the character flaws of Guo Rong and the third princess. Fanning the flames, the people suspected that the women were jealous, and Guo Rong couldn’t lift his head.

    Shu Ning was really careless, because the destruction of Guo Rong’s private relationship with several princesses went smoothly, and Xie Dan had been enduring her, he thought there was still a lot of time to thank Xie Dan, Who knows, Xie Dan is deeply in the mansion, and while playing affectionate scenes with her, he calculates this and that, and even on the night when the third princess died, Xie Dan and Yaxing accompanied her to enjoy the snow, which was absurd overnight.

    Shu Ning has been reflecting on these days. What makes her most helpless is that she and the second princess do not have the huge strength of Xie Dan, and they cannot monitor the every move of Xie Dan and his henchmen. They were all on guard against Xie Dan poisoning the little emperor, but who would have expected him to attack the third princess?

    The second princess pondered: “He cherishes his reputation. If he really wants to harm the emperor, he will do the same as he did with the third princess. Find a scapegoat first, otherwise he will have to carry it on his back.”

    scapegoat?

    Shu Ning thought of Xie Dan’s way of harming the little emperor in the original book, poisoning the food.

    But Xie Dan had been coaxed by her to arrange for two little eunuchs to test poison, and any food brought to the little emperor had to be checked with silver needles. Xie Dan can also signal the two little eunuchs to be lazy and deliberately neglect their duties before starting, but he chose the little eunuchs, and Xie Dan’s reputation is still damaged when something goes wrong.

    Unless someone can let the little emperor take poisonous food without passing through the two little eunuchs.

    This person is the scapegoat Xie Dan is looking for.

    Shu Ning was suddenly startled, grabbed the second princess’ hand and said, “Second sister, will the excuse we made up about the extinction soup be used by him?”

    The face of the second princess changed greatly: “You mean, he will bribe the people around me and add poison to the food I gave the emperor?”

      Expose the fact that you gave me the Jue Si soup, the two things combined, you can’t argue.”

    No matter how calm the second princess is normally, her heartbeat also quickened at this time: “I, I have to kill the emperor, there must be a motive, the emperor is my younger brother, I am a widow princess, killing the emperor is right What’s the benefit of me? Helping my husband’s Pingxihou mansion to rebel? Impossible, this kind of reason is untenable, Xie Dan is not that stupid, if he really wants to frame me, he will definitely arrange his motives.”

      On his head. Second sister, what’s wrong with Hou’s mansion recently? He likes layout so much, and if he really wants to slander you for revolting with Hou’s mansion, he will also put eyeliner in Hou’s mansion.”

    The second princess frowned, recalled for a moment, shook her head and said, “I spend a lot of time in the palace, there should be nothing unusual in the Hou Mansion, the only new thing in the past six months is the third master came back.”

    Third Master?

    Is that the third master, Li Zhong, who had already taken refuge with Xie Dan and coveted the beauty of the second princess?

     Soon after Shu Ning passed through the book, he was afraid that Li Zhong would bring the second princess and Guo Rong together again, and invited the second princess to the palace to serve her as a military adviser. When Guo Rong came back from the victory, Xie Dan sent Li Zhong to deal with Guo Rong. After the second princess learned that, she did not want Guo and Li to become enemies, and persuaded Ping Xihou to transfer Li Zhong to the frontier.

    Four or five years have passed, and it seems normal for Li Zhong to return to Beijing.

    Ke Shuning knew that Li Zhong was from Xie Dan.

    Guo Rong has been dealt with by Xie Dan himself, and he has been completely removed from the list of heirs to the throne. What use can Li Zhong do to Xie Dan?

    In the original novel, Li Zhong’s greatest use is to plan the second princess’s lust, and as a result, Guo Rong and the second princess’ boat…

    Shu Ning suddenly shuddered!

    Yes, Xie Dan is an old fox who pursues perfection in all conspiracies and tricks. If the second princess really gets together with Guo Rong, then the second princess will have the most reasonable motive to frame the little emperor—support Guo Rong rebels!

    Even, Xie Dan could put the charge of murdering the third princess on the second princess, only after the third princess died and the second princess helped Guo Rong, could she become the wife and queen !

    Shu Ning can’t count how many things are done with one stone.

    Shu Ning had a white face and told the second princess what she had guessed.

    Although the second princess was surprised how Sister Ninth knew about Li Zhong’s feelings for her, and also linked her to Guo Rong, it was simply whimsical, but this speculation was too much like the game set up by Xie Danhui, the second princess I can’t believe it, I can’t believe it!

    “Don’t be afraid of ten thousand, just in case, Sister Jiu, we have to think of a countermeasure.”