C10 Inside the Wooden Box Was the Baby's Body

Noble Consort Hui sighed, "Empress, you might not know, but this Worthy Lady Lan is very bold!"

"Yesterday, I received a secret report that Worthy Lady Lan hid those dirty things in her room. I didn't dare to believe it at first, but I didn't expect to find such a thing after a search."

Noble Consort Hui waved her hand and someone immediately came forward with an item.

That thing was covered with a white cloth, so it was impossible to see what was underneath.

"Open it." Yun Zhiyu said.

"This..." Noble Consort Hui pretended to be in a difficult situation and sighed softly. Only then did she let someone lift the white cloth.

Under the white cloth was a rectangular wooden box. The wooden box was completely black and tightly shut.

The young eunuch holding the wooden box gently opened it again. When he saw what was inside, Yun Zhiyu could not help but suck in a breath of cold air.

Inside the wooden box was a baby!

The baby was curled up in a ball, its entire body purple and motionless.

Yun Zhiyu took a closer look and realized that the baby was not real. Instead, it was carved out of wood, but it was extremely lifelike.

"What is this?"

"This is what I found from Worthy Lady Lan."

Noble Consort Hui said, "I saw it with my own eyes. It was found in Worthy Lady Lan's room. This can't be faked."

"This thing is the worst kind of witchcraft curse. If you carve rotten wood into the shape of a baby, and then engrave on the back the person's date of birth, and hide it in a rotten wooden box for forty-nine days, you will be able to make the person with the date of birth die without descendants!"

As she spoke, Noble Consort Hui took out the wooden baby, turned over, and showed it to Yun Zhiyu, "Your Majesty, look, isn't this the Emperor's birthday?"

Hearing this, Worthy Lady Lan, who was lying in the rain, moved her body and stubbornly raised her head. Her breath was weak, but she still stubbornly pushed herself up, "I am wronged, Empress. That is not, is not my thing!"

"How dare you talk back!" Noble Consort Hui shouted, "This thing was found in your room. If it wasn't yours, who else could it be? ! You were just watching others being doted on and the emperor not getting close to you, so you felt resentment in your heart!"

"You still dare to be stubborn now? Men, continue to torture me!"

Yun Zhiyu frowned, "Wait!"

Her voice was not loud, but it had an imposing aura that made Noble Consort Hui's people stop.

Noble Consort Hui rolled her eyes, "What is it, Empress? Now that the evidence is conclusive, could it be that you still want to shield her?"

Her words had a deep meaning. Only accomplices would shield her. Now, with just a few words, she actually wanted to drag her, the Empress, into this as well!

Lianye nervously clenched her fists at the side. This was related to the royal bloodline, and once one was involved, one would definitely not have a good ending. It was fine if the Empress came to take a look, but why didn't she know how to protect herself?

Yun Zhiyu was calm and collected, and there was even a hint of a smile in her eyes.

"I am only questioning if the evidence is too little or not. How can it be considered as covering up?"

"If so, Empress, you don't have to doubt it." There was a fake smile in Imperial Concubine Hui's smile. "Besides the evidence, I have witnesses!"

Imperial Concubine Hui's gaze swept across the crowd and said coldly, "Where's Wang Gui?"

Just as she finished speaking, a eunuch stood out from the crowd, trembling with fear. "This servant is here!"

"Tell me everything you saw and tell the Empress word by word."

"Yes!"

The young eunuch called Wang Gui faced Yun Zhiyu and said word by word, "This servant is Wang Gui, who is working for Lord Lan. Others may not know, but this servant knows clearly."

"This matter was indeed done by Worthy Lady Lan. That wooden box and the wood that was carved into a baby's corpse were all found by servants under Worthy Lady Lan's orders."

As he spoke, Wang Gui also kneeled on the ground with a thump, "If I had known that Benefactor was going to place a curse, this servant would never have dared to help her! Empress, this matter was truly done by Benefactor alone. It has nothing to do with this servant, Empress!"