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Facing Empress Dowager Liu, the emperor did not hide anything and nodded, as he said. “Dead.”
Empress Dowager Liu’s eyes widened slightly and her chest heaved violently.
In a matter of moments, she calmed down, and a burst of pleasure appeared on her face, her smile unimpeded, while her eyes were red, she gritted her teeth, as she said. “Serves her right!”
“To die in the hands of her own grandson, she can also be ‘satisfied’.” Saying that Empress Dowager Liu slowly twirled the string of Buddha beads in her hand as a touch of the sneer showed in her expression, her heart was still hateful.
Every time she thought of Yongle who died early and her poor granddaughter Fang Hanjun, she felt that letting Imperial Consort Fang die like this was really too easy for her! After all, the pair of mother and son, Imperial Consort Fang and Wang Yu, were cold hearted and heartless.
Empress Dowager Liu took a deep breath and asked again. “Where is Fang Qinlian’s body?”
On this day, the emperor and empress sat in Shou’an Palace for the entire afternoon before leaving hand in hand.
The following days, among the people captured by the royal guards from Wang Yu’s people, some could not stand the torture and finally confessed. They said that the kerosene was brought by Gu Xi, the third prince of Wang Yu, from Yuzhou and secretly sent them to Jiuqi Garden.
They said that Gu Xi ordered someone to set fire at Tai’an Palace and replaced Imperial Consort Fang with a substitute.
They also said that Gu Xi and County Princess Duan Rou were ordered by Wang Yu to bring the Imperial Consort back to Yuzhou.
The emperor did not issue a decree to keep this entire matter a secret, but even deliberately instructed the royal guards to spread it. Thus, within a few days, there was a lot of discussion and news spread among people in the capital.
Even Qin Jiu, who was preparing for her wedding ceremony at Marquis’s Mansion, could occasionally hear some servants talking about this matter.
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