Empress can't eat enough

Chapter 66
Zhou Qingyao was suddenly a little confused, and unconsciously began to use the remaining will to examine himself and the words that his loyal people told him.

"Zhou Zhongjun," Li Mu turned his head to stare at him, and said again: "You have already told Eunuch Cao that you are working for the crown prince, and now you refuse to admit it to death, which makes people even more suspicious that the crown prince is the mastermind behind it. "

"If I didn't say that, how could Eunuch Cao help me?" Zhou Qingyao still had some reason.

"You are still protecting the prince."

"You know, a dying person will not care about other people's grievances."

"You are so righteous, it just proves that what you wholeheartedly defend is not the perpetrator and you are inseparable from the perpetrator."

"Blow up my father, so that the prince can successfully inherit the throne, which is what you want."

"The plan fails, and I have to bear it all myself. But even so, the prince's suspicion can't be washed away! My father will not believe that you are the only one who did this."

Zhou Qingyao, who was hungry, thirsty, tired and sleepy, was already delirious, but after listening to Li Mu's words that led him to slander the prince, he made up his mind.

"Your Highness Prince Huan, I would like to confess that the person behind my back is indeed Prince Li Ji." After saying this, he looked at the food and water on the table, his eyes lit up. "Can you give me water and food now?"

"Yes." Li Mu walked to the desk, took a pot of tea, poured it into his mouth without interruption, and reminded him: "You have to think about what you should say in court."

"His Royal Highness Huan," Zhou Qingyao asked again, "I have confessed, and you promised to let me go tonight, right?"

Li Mu had his back turned to him, and when he heard his question, he raised the corners of his lips and smiled, without looking back at him, he only promised: "At midnight tonight, someone will come to pick you up from prison."

"Thank you, Your Highness Prince Huan." Zhou Qingyao felt a little complacent.

He wanted to die with all his heart, but he lived in the struggle for imperial power between King Huan and the crown prince!It must be that he should not die.

After the trial in the courtroom, the three judges got Zhou Qingyao's confession, and they all looked at King Huan who was listening to the trial.

They all felt that this confession was just what King Huan wanted, but it was not the truth.

After getting into court, Wei Yuan went to find Li Mu in private.

He suppressed the anger in his heart and tried to persuade him: "Submitting Zhou Qingyao's confession will definitely incur the wrath of the sage. Your Highness, for his own selfishness, killed one thousand enemies and lost eight hundred. Have you figured it out?"

"Thunder's fury must be there." Li Mu's heart was like a mirror, but he didn't care, and said with a smile: "But the East Palace supported Zhou Qingyao first, everything, plus his confession today, Many mouths make gold, no matter how much a sage believes in the crown prince, it is hard to beat many mouths."

"What's the point of His Highness doing this?" Seeing that he was so obsessed, Wei Yuan was even more anxious to get on top. "The sage won't believe this confession, and will definitely investigate to the end! The first person to investigate is you, Prince Huan."

Li Mu was unmoved, and only looked at Wei Yuan deeply, and told him, "This time, even my father-in-law may not be able to do anything."

Wei Yuan froze for a moment, he didn't understand what he meant.

"Father-in-law," Li Mu said again, "in order to be safe, hunters often have more than one trap. You just do what you should do."

There was something in his words, so he made a speech with Wei Yuan and left the office of the Ministry of Punishment.

But they don't know who is the hunter and who is the prey in this competition...

Wei Yuan looked at the blue sky and white sun outside, looked at his calm back, and scratched his words, seeming to understand a little bit, but not quite.

"Father-in-law," Li Mu turned back and reminded Wei Yuan, "I'm afraid Zhou Qingyao is not the only one in the court who is alone. You don't believe that a person living in this world will not be so clean that he is the only one." yourself?"

He paused, and then said: "The household department is no longer the household department of the imperial court."

Hearing this, Wei Yuan nodded at him, then bowed his hands and sent him off respectfully.

In Prince Huan's mansion, Li Chongjian told Wei Yingning as soon as he got the news of Fulu.

Li Mu spent nearly three days and three nights dealing with Zhou Qingyao, even when she returned to Ning, he only accompanied her back in a hurry and left without having lunch.In the end, what he tried so hard to get in the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice was actually Zhou Qingyao accusing the prince of being the mastermind behind the scenes! ?This was something Wei Yingning never expected.

Even with such a confession, would the emperor believe that it was Prince Li Ji who wanted to kill him?Li Mu couldn't think of this point?
She didn't believe he couldn't think of it.So, what is he going to do?

"Perhaps, he has his plans." Li Chongjian also said, "Isn't he still planning to let Zhou Qingyao escape from the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice tonight? Presumably, he must have a backup plan."

Yes!There must be an afterthought.

Wei Yingning didn't think much about it, and immediately called Madam Wei to come in, told her to let the dining room prepare dinner, and told her: "Two days ago, His Royal Highness said that he wanted to drink old duck soup, so you ask the dining room to cook it earlier. I haven’t eaten and slept well, so it’s better to put some codonopsis, wolfberry, and angelica in the soup.”

"Yes, I'll go to the dining room to make arrangements."

Li Chongjian was about to leave, but he couldn't help hesitating when he heard this.

After Nanny Wei went down, Wei Yingning noticed that he was still stuck in the room, and couldn't help asking him, "Do you have anything else to do?"

"I can't talk to you if I have nothing to do?" Li Chongjian was a little dissatisfied, and thought for a while: "Don't bother to feed that person, what about yourself? How long have you not eaten? Let's see how thin you have become." How is it?"

"I think I'm still very energetic... Is it really thin?" Wei Yingning couldn't help but walked to the mirror to take a picture, and asked Li Chongjian: "Is it really ugly like this?"

Where did Li Chongjian want to say that she is ugly?He never found her ugly.

"I'm afraid it won't work..." He opened his mouth to explain, but Wei Yingning muttered, "It's true that I haven't eaten for a long time."

After that, she walked out of the house.

Li Chongjian followed her, knowing that she was going to "eat", he was also happy in his heart.

Wei Yingning came to the Buddhist hall behind Qionghua Garden, and wanted to go straight to the west side hall.

At this time, Li Chongjian stopped her, gave her a look, and reminded her: "There are King Huan's eyes."

Wei Yingning didn't look at it.Even if she didn't look at it, she knew it was a good thing, Nanny Zhang.

However, what she should do, still do.

She came to the room where the ghosts were held in the west, and before entering the door, she felt the ghostly atmosphere inside, and shivered involuntarily.

There must be too many ghosts in it!Gathering together, it must be so sinister.

She asked Li Chongjian: "How many ghosts have you caught here?"

"Not many, more than twenty."

Good guy!Save some food, enough for her for three to five years.

She opened the door and went in, only to find that the ghosts locked inside were each terrifying in their own way.However, including Zhao Bai's mother and daughter, they were all tied up.

What bound them was a rope as thin as a golden thread with a halo, which must have been tied by Li Chongjian's magic.

"Didn't it mean that they all voluntarily ate for me? Why are they still tied?" Wei Yingning was a little puzzled, but also felt a little pity in his heart.

(End of this chapter)