However, the purpose of Concubine Hua's visit this time was to kill Su Wan'er. Although the poisoning attempt failed, it didn't mean Su Wan'er would survive.
Since the poison hadn't killed Su Wan'er, Concubine Hua decided to kill her directly.
With this thought in mind, Concubine Hua turned to the jailers and said, "This woman must die tonight. I've already given you money. Shouldn't you help me get rid of this trouble?"
The two jailers glanced at each other, then looked around at the empty cells. Finally, a fierce look flashed in their eyes.
The jailer standing on Concubine Hua's right said to her, "Your Highness, rest assured. Since we've received your money, we'll surely handle your business cleanly."
Hearing the blatant conversation between the two jailers and Concubine Hua, a gloomy look flashed in Si Junlin's eyes. He never expected that the jailers in the imperial prison would be so bold as to try to harm the current empress before she was even convicted.
The reason he hadn't stood up for Su Wan'er was just to give her a little revenge. He didn't really want anything bad to happen to her. In fact, to protect her safety, he hadn't even announced the removal of her title as empress.
But he never imagined that someone would still try to harm her before her title was removed...
While he was thinking gloomily, the jailers had already unlocked the door and come in.
Since the poison couldn't kill Su Wan'er, they had to use another method.
Anyway, in the imperial prison, they were in charge. If someone died, they had plenty of ways to come up with an excuse.
In this situation, if they said the empress had committed suicide out of guilt, outsiders would probably not suspect anything.
Just as the jailers were about to deal with Si Junlin and Si Junlin was thinking about how to handle the situation, suddenly the sound of footsteps came from outside the prison.
The jailers didn't have time to put away the ropes in their hands before they were stopped by a stern shout: "Stop! What are you doing?"
Si Junlin's eyes widened instantly. He had thought Su Wan'er might come, but he never expected her to come so timely. Did she not want him to suffer?
Compared to her, his actions seemed rather petty.
The two jailers were extremely frightened when they saw the emperor come in person, but they quickly recovered.
Actually, they didn't have much to worry about. They hadn't done anything yet. Even if the emperor wanted to punish them, he had no just cause. Even if they were punished, it wouldn't be too severe.
So their expressions quickly returned to normal, and then they bowed with Concubine Hua and said, "Your subject pays respects to the emperor. Long live the emperor!"
Su Wan'er sat down on the chair that Fang Xi had someone bring over, then said calmly, "Concubine Hua, why are you here?"
After calming her flustered emotions, Concubine Hua replied respectfully, "Your Majesty, your servant just came to see Sister Empress and wanted to persuade her to change her mind. After all, Your Majesty is her lifelong reliance."
"Really?" A cold smile played on Su Wan'er's lips. Then she turned to the jailers beside her and said, "And what about you two?"
"Your subject, as a jailer, naturally has to do his duty faithfully." They could say this so calmly and righteously mainly because they didn't know that Su Wan'er and Si Junlin had swapped souls.
They thought the emperor had never been in the prison and didn't know much about the prison affairs. They just needed to come up with some excuses to get by.
Unfortunately, Su Wan'er had just been "well - entertained" by them and still remembered it vividly.
So their plan this time was doomed to fail.
After they finished speaking, Su Wan'er glanced at the ropes they had thrown in the corner and then asked calmly, "What's that?"
"Ah!" After a moment of silence, the jailer on the left said, "Your Majesty, this is used to tie up disobedient prisoners. Just now, the empress tried to commit suicide, so your subject was about to tie her up with the rope."
Hearing their words, an expression of extreme disgust and disbelief flashed in Si Junlin's eyes.
In the court, he had seen the skills of the ministers in scheming and distorting the truth. But he always thought this only happened in the court. He never expected that even a few jailers could use these tricks so skillfully.
He was a little worried about Su Wan'er. Not because he was worried that Su Wan'er would believe the words of the two jailers, but because he was worried that Su Wan'er would take revenge on him for ignoring her yesterday.
He turned to look at Su Wan'er and found that she looked indifferent, her eyes fixed on the two jailers and Concubine Hua. She didn't even give him a single glance.
This made him feel a bit depressed. At this moment, Si Junlin finally understood how Su Wan'er had felt at that time.
Su Wan'er didn't care what he was thinking now. She just wanted to punish these people who had tried to harm her.
After the two jailers finished speaking, Su Wan'er slowly stood up. In front of everyone, she walked to the cell where the "empress" was imprisoned. After giving Si Junlin a calm look, she turned to the warden and said, "Open the door."
The warden glanced at the two jailers kneeling on the ground, then without saying a word, he took out the key and opened the cell where the "empress" was imprisoned.
Si Junlin watched Su Wan'er walking towards him step by step. A look of panic flashed uncontrollably in his eyes.
This was not like him at all. Was it because they had swapped bodies?
While he was thinking, Su Wan'er had walked past him and went straight to his couch.
In front of everyone's puzzled looks, Su Wan'er dug out a cloth bag from under the straw. Judging from the material of the cloth bag, it was obviously a piece torn from Su Wan'er's dress.
"Doctor Zhang." Su Wan'er picked up the cloth bag and walked out of the cell.
Doctor Zhang quickly stepped forward a few steps and respectfully took the bag from Su Wan'er's hand.
When the bag was opened, a moldy meal appeared in front of everyone.
Doctor Zhang was one of the top doctors in the palace. When had he ever come into contact with such food? When he first opened the bag, he was almost fainted by the smell. It took him a long time to recover.
After recovering, Doctor Zhang turned to Su Wan'er hesitantly and said, "Your Majesty, do you want your subject to examine this meal?"
Su Wan'er nodded and said, "Doctor Zhang should have his own way, right?"