Empress can't eat enough

Chapter 87
The next day in court, the prince was once again grounded in the East Palace, but the prince's party did not stop, but was extremely angry, and every word and every word was accusing King Huan of plotting to frame him.

Someone else suggested that the case should not be handed over to Wei Yuan, the Minister of Criminal Justice. Wei Yuan is King Huan's father-in-law, and now he is pointing the finger at the crown prince.

Above the court, there were endless arguments, and the quarrel broke out, but there was no reason for the quarrel, it just made everything more urgent.

The seven-day period that Pingning Xiaohou had promised finally arrived.

Li Mu's request to see Wei Yuan is also on this day.

He told Wei Yuan: "It's time to take someone to investigate that underground palace."

Wei Yuan told him: "A Ning also told me that the underground palace can be checked tonight so that King Huan can leave this dark prison."

"She has already made up her mind." Li Mu smiled, guessing that Wei Yingning had already made an appointment with Zhou Lingru.

She had arranged everything, but his determination didn't seem that important.

It was night, Wei Yuan led a team of troops and surrounded the abandoned Dragon King Temple in the south of the city.He also went with him from the Supervisory Department and two officials from Dali Temple who were in charge of Zhou Qingyao's regicide case.

They quickly found the entrance to the underground palace and led people to rush in.

Inside the underground palace, there are still men in black wearing masks, all of whom are highly skilled in martial arts.After some fighting, most of them ran away, a few died, and six were captured alive.

He had heard Wei Yingning talk about the situation of the underground palace earlier, so after entering the underground palace, Wei Yuan was not shocked, but was greatly shocked.

The situation in this underground palace is quite different from what he has heard!Many tunnels under the underground palace, like the "Three Caves of the Cunning Rabbit", have long since ceased to exist.

Xiaohou Pingning actually has such a great ability, but in just a few days, he actually blocked all those corridors?Even Wei Shilang, who is usually said to be perceptive, didn't see any trace of it for a while.

In addition to the passageway left for those masked men in black to escape, there is another passageway leading to a very deep direction.

Wei Yuan took the supervision department and the Dali Temple to search all the way.

Wei Yuan has a strong sense of direction, and he has a topographic map of the capital city in his heart. The further he walks along the corridor, the heavier his heart becomes - this is the road left for him by Ping Ning, and the road ahead is also Ping Ning. Ning Xiaohou asked him to find the "truth".

And this matter was never mentioned to him by his daughter.

Not surprising either!He should have thought earlier, Xiaohou Pingning wouldn't just bury the corridor leading to the Marquis of Pingning's mansion!He can't let this underground palace appear in vain...

After about an hour, a group of people came to the end of the corridor.

A stone gate blocked their way.

What will be outside the stone gate, Wei Yuan already has [-]% guesses in his mind.If he was alone at this moment, he would definitely turn around and leave!But right now, the Supervision Department and the Dali Temple are all there, so there is no turning back.

Knowing that someone is taking advantage of me, but having to move forward is really uncomfortable.

The Supervision Department and the two adults of Dali Temple were very excited, eager to let their subordinates find a way to open the stone gate, and they didn't realize that Wei Yuan was already full of thoughts and hiding himself under the shadow of the fire, and never thought of any idea.

"boom--"

A team leader in the Ministry of Criminal Justice, the man surnamed Fan is very clever.He quickly found the mechanism to open the stone gate, and the stone gate opened slowly.

There is a row of stone stairs connected to the dark outside, and the passage from the stone stairs becomes narrower and narrower, only enough for one person to pass, and at the end, it is blocked by a stone brick.

This time, Team Fan was still the one who took the lead. After all, everyone present thought he was smarter.

He lived up to everyone's expectations, and once again groped for the mechanism to open the stone brick. After turning it slightly, the stone brick slowly moved to the side, revealing a dark but wide space outside.

He hurriedly turned around and reported to the three adults.

Chen Shaoqing from Dali Temple went up first, followed by Qin Sizheng from the Supervisory Department, and finally Wei Yuan.

When they came to this wide space, with the help of the lights, they suddenly saw a beaded dragon robe hanging on the wall...

This spacious place is a room, like a dark room, which is full of beautiful things, except for the dragon robe, there are many rare things.

But without waiting for everyone to take a closer look, a shelf by the wall suddenly moved slowly to the side.Immediately, the wall was also moved away, revealing the glaring white light outside, and... the crown prince with a sword in his hand and the guards of the East Palace surrounded by bows and crossbows.

"Chen Shaoqing? Qin Sizheng, Wei Shilang?" Prince Li Ji was very surprised, "Why are you in the Treasure Pavilion of this hall?!"

He was confined to the Eastern Palace, and he was pretending to reflect on his crimes in the study, when he suddenly heard movement in the Treasure Pavilion behind the study, he thought he was a thief, so he called the guards of the Eastern Palace to draw their bows and crossbows, and prepared to catch the turtle in an urn.Unexpectedly, when the secret door of the Zangbao Pavilion opened, the three officials who came into view were the Dali Temple, the Supervision Department and the Ministry of Punishment!

"His Royal Highness..." Chen Shaoqing from Dali Temple called him with a complex expression, and then turned his gaze to the wall with the pearl-encrusted dragon robe.

Li Ji followed his gaze and saw the dragon robe, as if he had seen a ghost, and immediately slumped on the ground.

"Wronged! Wronged..." He shouted weakly, thinking of the seriousness of the matter, he felt that his life was about to die.

The news quickly spread to Zichen Hall.

Eunuch Cao looked panic-stricken and told the Son of Heaven: "Your Majesty, Chen Shaoqing of Dali Temple, Qin Sizheng, Supervisor, and Wei Shilang of the Ministry of Punishment are at...at..."

Seeing Eunuch Cao's gaffe, the emperor, who had stayed up all night reviewing the memorials and had no temper, was even more unhappy. He immediately threw the memorials in his hand on the case, and said coldly: "If you hesitate to vomit again, I will ask someone to cut your tongue out. Cut it too."

"Your Majesty!" Eunuch Cao hurriedly knelt on the ground and told the truth: "The three adults are currently in the Prince's Jinyang Hall..."

"It's so late, what are they doing in Jinyang Palace?" The emperor was a little puzzled.

"They went from an underground palace in the city, along a secret passage to the Prince's study... the Treasure Pavilion behind the study."

"Is there such a thing?" The emperor said that the matter was serious and no small matter.

"In the Prince's Treasure Pavilion... there is a beaded dragon robe..."

Hearing this, the Son of Heaven stood up abruptly, his brows furrowed.

"Your Majesty," Eunuch Cao hurriedly said, "I heard that King Huan suddenly confessed that he let Zhou Qingyao go that day, but he actually wanted to know who was behind him. He followed Zhou Qingyao and found an underground palace in the city... ...Your Majesty, it is very likely that King Huan is trying to frame the prince in this matter! You can't believe it..."

"Fart!" the Son of Heaven yelled angrily, "Don't I know what kind of temperament King Huan is? If he wants to use frame-up methods to deal with the Crown Prince, the Crown Prince will die a thousand times long ago! This is another person who wants to put the Crown Prince to death! "

"His Majesty……"

"Show the Zichen Palace!" The emperor wanted to go and see for himself.

Thinking about these things all the way, he began to feel some regrets.He regretted not listening to Wei Yuan's words, and stopped as soon as possible.

(End of this chapter)