After being forced to marry as a substitute, I became famous in the limbo

Chapter 36
Lin Zheng didn't respond, he lowered his head slightly, a faint blush instantly appeared on his cheeks.

When he lowered his head, he happened to be able to see some mud marks on the edge of his shoes.

Seeing Lin Zheng's reaction, Mu Jingzhao instantly laughed like a wolf with a big tail.

He took two steps to the side, and casually sat down on the soft stool beside him, "Ah Zheng, Ah Zheng, I don't know what to say about you!"

Lin Zheng's heart skipped a beat, vaguely, he felt that Mu Jingzhao seemed to know something.

"Today, I received news from Lenggong that—" Mu Jingzhao casually picked up a sesame ball from the table, and brought it to his mouth.

The sesame balls are only a little bigger than the hawthorn, and the whole body is round. On the surface, you can still see the distinct grains of sesame seeds with a strong aroma.

This is the only dessert that has been approved by the imperial physician and can be eaten at will.

In fact, it is not considered a dessert, because there is no sugar added in it, and what you eat is just the burnt aroma of sesame seeds.

The imperial physician once said that eating these sesame pills is good for hair, and advised Mu Jingzhao to eat more.

Inexplicably, Jiang Ning's slightly yellow hair appeared in his mind again.

It was as if a floodgate had been instantly opened to my thoughts.

Mu Jingzhao looked at the bits of dirt left by Lin Zheng's feet, and unconsciously recalled the scene he saw in the cold palace not long ago in his mind.

Jiang Ning sat under the eaves of the cold palace with a gentle smile, looking at Lin Zheng who was working with relief.

That picture was too beautiful to be true.

He suddenly lost the ability to eat, so he casually put the sesame balls aside.

"Ah Zheng, how can you explain this to Lu Feng?" Mu Jingzhao turned his head slightly and looked at Lin Zheng.

The expected cross-examination did not come, Lin Zheng exhaled a sigh of relief, but soon deeper confusion surfaced in his heart.

"Lu Feng?"

Mu Jingzhao shook his head with a look of resentment, "Although the palace has always turned a blind eye to this matter between men and women, you can't even covet the woman of your good brother!"

Hearing these words, Lin Zhengyun was in a fog. He thought about it carefully for a long time, but he really couldn't remember when he did such a thing.

He bent down, "I never had any special behavior with Miss Zheliu."

"Oh?" Mu Jingzhao suddenly laughed, holding his head in confusion.

"The person who came to inform me told me that he saw that you had been in close contact with a woman in the cold palace. There are only two women in this cold palace, if it wasn't for Zheliu."

Mu Jingzhao clapped his hands suddenly, "That is, Concubine Ning?"

Lin Zheng was startled, and immediately fell to his knees with a "plop".

"I don't dare, but Concubine Ning told me that these physical tasks are quite troublesome, so I proposed to help the empress to irrigate."

It's not that Mu Jingzhao doesn't believe Lin Zheng.

The two of them grew up together, and he understood Lin Zheng's character better than anyone else, so he knew in his heart that Lin Zheng would never do anything to betray the emperor no matter what.

Concubine Ning is indeed quite good at getting people to work for her for free.

However, he didn't know what was wrong with him, and he kept recalling the scene he saw in the cold palace over and over again in his mind.

And every time the picture was presented, there was a wave of nameless anger raging from Mu Jingzhao's heart.

This feeling made him quite uncomfortable, and he just wanted to grab an excuse and vent it out.

"Okay." Suppressing the discomfort in his heart, Mu Jingzhao raised his chin, "Please get up quickly."

He unconsciously glanced at the plate of sesame balls beside him, and stretched out his hand to push it away.

"These days, is there any change in the cold palace?"

Lin Zheng breathed a sigh of relief, and finally stood up slowly from the ground.

"Going back to the emperor, there is nothing. The life of the empress is no different from the daily life, and she seldom has intimate contacts with people."

"Never see Concubine Liu Gui again?"

"No."

Mu Jingzhao nodded, "Where is the queen?"

"No."

Mu Jingzhao touched his chin with a puzzled expression, "It shouldn't be."

Lin Zheng couldn't understand what Mu Jingzhao was talking about, he just raised his head slightly and asked, "Actually, I don't understand something."

"But it doesn't matter."

"Why did your empress choose to invite the emperor to have a meal on the [-]th?" Lin Zheng thought for a while, and then added, "It can be said that doing so will do all kinds of harm but not any benefit, unlike Concubine Ning s arrangement."

"This is my arrangement."

"The emperor's arrangement?" The confusion on Lin Zheng's face deepened.

"I'm waiting for a good show." Mu Jingzhao nodded slightly, his face full of anticipation, "A good show like never before."

Unable to understand what Mu Jingzhao said, Lin Zheng simply stopped talking, and the two looked at each other relatively silently.

Just after half a cup of tea, Li Zinian trotted to the entrance of the Hall of Mental Cultivation with a face full of horror, "Your Majesty! Your Majesty is not well!"

Mu Jingzhao's smile deepened, but his expression remained calm. He raised his voice and shouted out the window, "Come in."

Li Zinian hurriedly ran into the store, rushed to Mu Jingzhao in an instant, knelt down, "The thief who poisoned him has been found!"

Lin Zheng showed surprise on his face, but Mu Jingzhao's expression didn't fluctuate at all.

"As for the people, let's go up."

Li Zinian's cheeks were slightly red, and his whole body was trembling uncontrollably.

"People are dead."

Mu Jingzhao frowned and sat up straight in an instant.

"Dead? You tell me the whole thing."

"Yes Yes!"

Li Zinian trembled all over, obviously, he was also frightened by this sudden change.

In the past three years since Mu Jingzhao ascended the throne, he has always treated his servants with courtesy, and the empresses in this palace don't like fighting, and they are safe with each other.

There is only Concubine Liu Gui, although she has a bit of a hot temper, she has always acted in a proper manner and never caused any fatalities.

It can be said that this is the first time in many years that this matter of human life is at stake in the harem.

Li Zinian began to talk in a rambling manner, "The slave has been investigating the Fifteenth Night Banquet in private according to your instructions, but with little success. Until today, the slave plans to abandon the imperial dining room and follow the list you gave me to investigate in various palaces."

"Just as the servant was about to leave, a few acacia seeds suddenly fell from the clothes of a court lady who was cleaning the courtyard."

"The slave thought that if the man was really the murderer, he wouldn't be so sloppy, so he was going to ask a few questions. Unexpectedly, when the maid saw the slave, she ran away like a frightened rabbit."

"The servant hurriedly caught up. Your majesty, you also know that the servant's legs and feet are not very agile. This incident happened too suddenly, so I chased after the maid for a long time."

"In the end, with the help of the imperial guards, the servant finally took down the maid. But, but."

The trembling on Li Zinian's body deepened.

"However, the court lady yelled in an instant that this was all done by her alone and had nothing to do with anyone else, so she bit her tongue and committed suicide."

(End of this chapter)