with words in mind

Chapter 309 The Case of the Abandoned Queen of Nanjiao Kingdom 24
Qi Ming had been waiting well in Wenshu Hall, but seeing that the night was getting darker, not to mention Yan Mo, even Mr. Qi and Young Master Xiaoyu didn't return, so he searched around suspiciously.Then, when he saw the commotion around Yang'an Hall, he wondered if it was Yan Mo... Unexpectedly, it was his words!
"!" Yan Mo saw Qi Ming exuding a noble aura, only supporting himself, a warm current rose silently in his heart, and even his eyes couldn't suppress the shimmering light.

"The Empress Dowager Min Yang." Qi Ming stepped forward heavily, forcing the guards to leave, without arrogance, "What my concubine wants to do is all ordered by the king. Does the queen mother want to fight against the king?"

"King Yi'an!" The Empress Dowager Min Yang scolded suddenly when she heard this, "Although the Nanjiao Kingdom is small, it will not let anyone bully you!! You instigated the princess to visit Ai's bedroom at night, where is the diplomatic relationship between the two countries? !"

"Diplomatic relations between the two countries?" Qi Ming smiled slightly, "Nanjiao Kingdom is located at a crucial point. Without the backing of the Central Plains, neighboring countries, large and small, would have been ready to move. How can there be peace today? If the king intends to destroy the diplomatic relations The covenant, you can bring the sixth princess back to the court directly, why bother Aifei to go out."

Empress Dowager Min Yang sneered: "I knew that King Yi'an was scheming, but I didn't expect him to be so eloquent! Tonight, it is an indisputable fact that Princess Yi'an broke into my Yang'an Palace at night! The Ai family didn't believe it. , His Majesty Zhongyuan can sit idly by!"

"Empress Min Yang, this matter has nothing to do with King Yi'an!" Seeing the tense situation, Yan Mo interrupted, "I want to see the king!"

When the Queen Mother Min Yang heard this, her expression froze. She didn't expect her son's acquiescence behind all this!
But Qi Ming was slightly displeased when he heard this. Yan'er didn't discuss such a matter with him, but acted arbitrarily!

"You broke into the sleeping palace of the Ai family, so it is up to the Ai family to decide!" Empress Dowager Min Yang knew very well that there are some things that the king should not know. "Even if you are Princess Yi'an, with the support of King Yi'an behind you, the Ai family will not let it go!"

Seeing that Qi Ming still wanted to argue with him, Yan Mo stretched out his hand to stop him, without changing his face, he said: "In Nanjiao Kingdom, who is the biggest?"

"." As soon as this question came out, the empress dowager's aura was obviously reduced by more than half. But she had to bypass the king and resolve this matter as soon as possible, so as to avoid complications!

"The lord has arrived—"

But at this moment, the lord, who had been awake all this time, heard the commotion and rushed here with the queen.

"Go back!"

At the order of the lord, all the guards and palace people left one after another
"Without Gu's order, no one is allowed to enter Yang'an Hall!"

"Yes!" All the guards answered in unison, and after exiting in an orderly manner, the entire Yang'an Hall was tightly surrounded.

In the front hall, after everyone was seated safely, the king said: "At this moment, everyone in the hall is related to each other. You don't have to be restrained, just speak up. Princess Yi'an, how about the inspection that I entrusted you with?"

Yan Mo untied the long strip of ciphertext on his body and presented it, as well as the box containing the golden hairpin and Mammy Ou's suicide note.

It's a pity that because of the rain, those ciphertext strips were spent, and the information on them could only be dictated by Yan Mo.

"In mid-October, Wu successfully robbed King Lu Xia's eleventh young son, and chopped off one of his hands to give to his father." The king repeated what Yan Mo said, with red eyes, "This happened three years ago. At that time, King Lu Xia's eleventh son is only five years old... Queen Mother, how can you be so cruel?!"

"." The Empress Dowager Min Yang remained silent, she could not admit these things, the cipher text had already been spent, and there was no evidence that these things were ordered by her.

"I found these ciphertexts and gold hairpins in the secret room on the top of the building. Originally, I thought that the ciphertexts were recorded eight years ago. I didn't notice until I touched the mechanism of the secret room and attracted female soldiers. Perhaps these records also belong to recent years.

These cipher texts did not write the year, just to confuse the public, and those who did not know the information would not think that after reading it, in fact, the Queen Mother has never abolished the Women's Corps.Just now, I have played against four of them.And the other four people, for some reason, kept ambush in Madam Ou's room, and besieged Mr. Qi and Young Master Xiaoyu. "

The more the king listened, the darker his face became. He restrained his emotions, turned to the queen mother and asked, "Queen mother, should I tell my son what's going on?"

"Everything is just one-sided words of Princess Yi'an, the king must not believe it!" The Queen Mother said righteously, "Just now, King Yi'an admitted it himself, and it was he who instructed the princess to break into Ai's bedroom at night! I really don't know, the prince and the king What kind of heart is this princess An?! Such a majestic place wants to steal the secrets of my Nanjiao Kingdom!!!”

"Secrets of the Nanjiao Kingdom" the head of the country looked ugly and said in a cold tone, "It should be in the lonely palace, not in the mother's place!"

"Master! You." The queen mother did not expect that her son would directly refute herself in front of outsiders, "The Ai family is your mother's queen!"

"Which mother in the world would hide such a thing from her son?!"

"." The queen mother fell silent again, unwilling to admit the facts.

"What's the matter with this golden hairpin?" The king put aside the matter of the female soldiers for the time being, took out the golden hairpin, and asked with tears in his eyes.

"There was turmoil back then, and the property in the palace was lost to the people." The queen mother glanced at the golden hairpin coldly, and said nonchalantly, "This is what the Ai family recovered from the black market."

"Okay." The king was already disheartened, he knew that the queen mother would not speak easily, "Since the queen mother doesn't want to say it, let Princess Yi'an talk about it. Princess, please continue."

What was the task of strangling flowers back then?Who is the cloud performing this task?

What Yan Mo wanted to clarify most were these two questions.

"My lord, if you want to unlock everything, please read Madam Ou's suicide note first."

The lord looked down, and then unfolded the folded letter paper, and began to look at it carefully.
The letter reads as follows:
Recently, as soon as I go to bed at night, I will dream of the first queen.

She stood quietly in front of Qiushi Hall, looking at Nu with a smile.

It has been ten years since the first queen left, and this secret has been hidden in the slave's heart for ten years.
Today, Nu took the opportunity of releasing the monkeys to go to the black market, but accidentally saw the golden hairpin that he had seen back then!

Only then did I understand why, recently, the queen and queen entrusted their dreams to slaves.

I left this letter to tell my secrets. If I am no longer around someday, I hope this letter will always be hidden on the beam and never seen.

Ten years ago, I was lucky enough to choose a pet for the queen, and fulfilled my mission. I chose a wombat, which was deeply loved by the king and queen.But because of this, it caused trouble to the upper body. The queen first drove the slave away for fear of hurting the slave.

She said that anyone who served her would be unlucky. I still have a house full of small animals to raise, and they would have nothing to rely on without Nu.The first queen is so kind-hearted, why did she encounter such misfortune!God, you are blind! !
Ten years ago, when King Heicheng rebelled and the army was in chaos, the slave happened to pass by the former queen's bedroom.

When the palace was in chaos, many palace people and maids stole the sheep, but no one dared to steal from the Qiushi Palace, because the palace of the first queen was guarded by heavy soldiers.

In order to avoid the pursuers, the slave secretly hid in the Qiushi Hall and hid in the rockery ravine. There were shouts of killing and wailing everywhere.
At that time, there was a mess, two little monkeys came to look for the slave, but the slave didn't dare to make a sound, fearing being discovered by the enemy, so he had to hide in the depths.There is a small hole under the rockery, and I can only look out through that small hole. I am afraid that monkeys will find it, and I am even more afraid that the black king will find it, so I have to hide there and stare outside.

Then, I saw a figure flashing into the queen's bedroom, that person was not wearing the shoes of a palace official, but the boots of an officer!
At that time, there were screams everywhere, officers and soldiers guarded in and out, and it was impossible to tell who was the enemy and who was not.

I don't know how long it has passed, maybe it's just a short while, maybe it's been a long time, I can't tell the difference.
Later, when I saw King Heicheng leading troops into the palace, they killed everyone they saw!The slave is more and more afraid to move, so he can only continue to hide and hope that this turmoil can pass sooner.
It didn't take long for King Heicheng to rush into the bedroom when he roared. He was disrespectful to the queen mother, and after two sentences, he suddenly fell silent.
After a while, I saw the officer in boots running out with a package, still fastening his belt in a panic.

The little monkey who came to look for slaves happened to bump into him!As soon as the package was scattered, gold and silver jewelry fell out on the ground, I recognized it, among them were the three hairpins that the queen loved most!
When the slave saw the little monkeys, he ordered them to snatch the golden hairpin and get back what belonged to the first queen!
It's a pity that the monkey was weak, so the man took away the three gold hairpins and other belongings, and ran away!
Afraid of being discovered, I climbed out from the bottom of the rockery, not wanting to see the first queen rushing out of the bedroom, and running up the high platform is just a leap!
What was even more unexpected was that just a moment before, King Hei Cheng had died, and the queen mother carried the body out to show the public, and asked someone to collect the body for the first queen and then the queen.

Although Hei Chengwang is hateful, but I know that it is not true that the queen first colluded with him.It was not he who insulted the first queen, but the officer and soldier with boots.

This secret has been hidden in the slave's heart for so many years, and the queen has suffered so many years of grievances. I feel sorry for the queen.

Today, I saw that golden hairpin in the hand of a black market woman. Looking closely, it is very similar to the golden hairpin of the previous queen.

I must ask clearly, where did the golden hairpin come from?

"What does this mean?" The king couldn't help trembling after reading the suicide note, and asked the queen mother hysterically, "Mother mother! Were you there at the time? Who were the officers and soldiers mentioned in the letter?! Who killed Xiaoqiu?" ?!!"

"!" The queen mother didn't know what was said in the letter, but she still couldn't stand the trembling all over. She tried to breathe steadily and fast, "How can the king take the words of a servant girl seriously?!"

"Ah—" The king couldn't bear it anymore!With a loud shout, all the things on the table in front of him were knocked to the ground, making a sharp shattering sound!
"You can't take the words of the servants seriously! You can't take the words of Princess Yi'an seriously!" He pressed on every step of the way, and asked heart-piercingly, "Should I just take the words of the queen mother seriously?! These cipher papers came from your secret room. Found it! This golden hairpin is too! King Lu Xia's youngest son is indeed missing an arm! What does the mother want the child to believe?!"

"No, no." Seeing such a crazy son, the Queen Mother was so frightened that she could hardly speak, "The Queen Mother, everything I do is for you."

"I don't need you!" The lord shouted again, "For Guhao, you can treat Xiaoqiu with death! For Guhao, you can cut off the arm of the youngest son! As long as it is for Guhao, you can do it without knowing it. Conscience, do horrible things! Then tell Gu that everything is for Gu's good!! Gu is the sinner!!!" He breathed a sigh of relief and said coldly, "The queen mother will always There is a reason, the queen mother has never been the ultimate bad person, she is lonely, incompetent, cowardly, and unworthy to be the lord of the country, so she wants her queen to do everything for the lonely, so she can do all kinds of evil."

"My lord." Queen Platinum has never seen such a crazy husband, "My lord, there must be a misunderstanding about her mother."

"Bo'er, the queen mother only looks like a person when she faces you." The lord shook his head and said, "Because you are the princess of the Central Plains, but other people, and the lonely Xiaoqiu, in her opinion, are even worse than ants."

"My lord, how can you say that about your mother?!" The queen mother wanted to take control of the initiative, "Without these thunderous methods of Aijia, would we be able to live in peace and stability to this day?! Those who make big things don't care about small things, those are all necessary sacrifice."

"Necessary sacrifice?!" The king couldn't believe it, feeling that his mother was really hopeless, "You could have saved Xiaoqiu, you could have saved the youngest son's arm, and the overall situation would still not change!!"

"No" the queen mother wanted to refute, but swallowed the words back
Yan Mo looked at everything and was a little hesitant. In fact, she felt that the truth was a little deeper. However, the ruler and the queen mother are already irreconcilable and the truth may make the ruler more painful.
What exactly is the flower choking task?
Different from the detailed records of other female soldiers after their deaths, Yun in the mission of strangling flowers only had the simple word "death" and no other records. Yan Mo doubted the completeness and authenticity of this record.

"My lord..." The queen mother wanted to change her pleasant face but smiled a little stiffly. She took her son's hands and begged, "You are right. These things can indeed be avoided. In the future, the queen mother must pay attention to these things. It’s a thing of the past. Let’s not mention it, shall we? Now that you and Bo’er are reconciled with Meimei, that is the fate bestowed by God. Let the past be the past.”

Yan Mo watched silently, feeling that the queen mother is really a pitiful person, relying on her own power, she can do all kinds of bad things, but she can't get the care of her own son
For this son, there is nothing the Queen Mother can't do.

"Queen Mother, what exactly is the task of strangling flowers?"

"!!!" Jing Yan Mo asked, the empress dowager's original begging posture instantly collapsed, turning into a kind of horror!She looked at Yan Mo as if she was looking at ghosts and gods in hell, "...What kind of mission is it? It's nothing!"

Facing the horrified questioning eyes of the king, Yan Mo took a deep breath, closed his eyes and struggled for a while before continuing: "On the day King Heicheng forced the palace, the female soldier Yun completed the task of strangling the flowers and died."

"Princess Yi'an, what exactly do you want to say?" The king had a bad feeling
"The letter said that Mammy Ou was hiding at the bottom of the rockery and looked outside through a small hole." Yan Mo explained, "Often times like this, you can only see a part of the outside, and the higher you go, the less you can see.
That's why Mammy Ou uses boots to judge who is coming and going.In fact, what she can see may not be the whole picture of the person, maybe only the outline of the figure.And King Hei Cheng broke into the palace, he was supported by troops, even if he only heard the voice, he could be judged to be the one who came
At that time, the Empress Dowager wanted to use the former queen to lure the enemy to go deeper, so she should have arranged a lot of troops in the bedroom of Qiushi Palace.With such an arrangement, if the enemy army did not rush in, who could enter and leave the bedroom at will?But Mammy Ou saw the officers and soldiers in boots enter first, and then saw King Heicheng leading the troops."

The more the king heard it, the more he couldn't stand up: "You mean that the officer and soldier in boots is the queen's mother." After that, he couldn't continue, "No way."

"My lord! Don't listen to her nonsense!" The queen mother suddenly reacted from the confusion and panic, and shouted, "Of course it is Hei Chengwang's man! Military boots and wolf skin belt are the clothes of Hei Chengwang's troops! !"

The hall suddenly fell into dead silence as the sound disappeared. Everyone looked at the Empress Dowager Min Yang with a puzzled face.
Yan Mo: "In the face of so many enemy troops, this officer and soldier of King Heicheng is so courageous, he dared to break into the former queen's bedroom by himself."

"!!!" Only then did the queen mother realize the flaw in her words!

(End of this chapter)