The Prime Minister's Wife

Chapter 258 The Final Goal (1)
"That's right, we must thoroughly investigate this matter." As soon as the flinty voice fell, Emperor Yan's voice came from outside, and the usual harmony had been restored, but there was a little more tenderness in the harmony.

"See the emperor!"

"Meet the empress!"

The emperor came together, except for the queen mother, everyone knelt down one after another.

The emperor took the empress, sat down beside the empress dowager, looked at everyone and said: "Empress mother, I have ordered people to summon the people who were on duty in the cold palace back then. Today, I will use the empress mother's land to clean up the harem."

I'm afraid it's not that simple, when Bo Qing heard what the emperor said, she immediately thought to herself.

The emperor wants to thoroughly investigate the events of the year, but he already knows it well. Although murdering the emperor's heir and falsely preaching the imperial decree are serious crimes, they will not affect the situation.

What can really affect the situation is that because of this matter, Old General Shen had to surrender his military power.

In this move, who is the biggest beneficiary is the object of investigation by the emperor.

Boqing sneered in her heart, but these are the emperor's affairs, and her immediate target is Aunt Ying.

Once Aunt Ying died, Concubine Yi was like a toothless tiger, and she let her be rubbed round and flattened.

His eyes shifted coldly, and fell on Concubine Yi.

At this time, Concubine Yi's face was already pale, she felt the fickle gaze, and her body was resting constantly, relying on Aunt Ying to stand firm.

The emperor's people were not slow in their work. After a while, they brought in a few elderly eunuchs and court ladies, and then another person was dragged into the palace with his mouth gagged and bound hands and feet. Looking at the situation in the palace, he was already frightened. Dazed.

At the same time, Concubine Yi Guigui, who had a drastic change in complexion and lost her soul, even Aunt Ying, who had always been calm as water, had something strange in her eyes.

From time to time, Aunt Ying's eyes fell on the queen intentionally or unintentionally. The moment her eyelids drooped and lifted, her expression had returned to her usual calm, even calmer than calm, as if she had already decided on something.

Boqing has been paying attention to the expressions of everyone in secret, just glanced at the person kneeling on the ground. He is about forty years old, with only a few wrinkles on his face, fair skin, and a eunuch's unique femininity between his eyebrows and eyes. If you guessed right , this person should be Eunuch Liu who delivered the decree to the cold palace back then.

This person is actually still alive, and he glanced at the queen with a flirtatious smile, which is really perfect.

Since he was able to protect this person secretly without letting the other person notice at all, I'm afraid that even Eunuch Liu didn't understand how he survived all these years.

Boqing admires the queen from the bottom of her heart, this smart woman who is very good at forbearance, if she hadn't been attached to the emperor in her heart back then, ten aunts Ying would not be her match.

"Eunuch Liu, I never expected to see you again in this life."

The queen's voice sounded faintly, still as calm as ever, but there was a bone-biting hatred in this calm.

When Eunuch Liu saw the situation, he knew it was the Dong Chuang incident. Back then, he cheated to die and escaped from the pursuit of those people. He managed to live a peaceful life. Unexpectedly, after many years, someone found him a few days ago. He, using his family as a threat, asked him to testify against someone.

When the emperor saw Eunuch Liu, he couldn't help being furious, and shouted sharply: "Liu Xi, I will give you a chance to explain to me everything that happened back then, and I will give you a good time." Liu Xi's complexion instantly gray.

The emperor didn't allow him to think too much, he stared at him without a trace of emotion and said: "If there is even half of the concealment, I will not only execute you Ling Chi, but also your nine clans."

Liu Xi was so frightened that he forgot to react, and at this moment of ecstasy, a figure suddenly jumped out, and before everyone could react, they heard Liu Xi scream.

After screaming, Liu Xi fell to the ground with a thud, with a hairpin stuck in his chest, the blood oozing from the wound was black, the hairpin was obviously poisonous, and gradually black blood flowed out from his mouth and nose , kicked a few times on the ground, did not struggle a few times, there was no sound.

Looking at the person kneeling next to Liu Xi, everyone couldn't help but shudder, the emperor said coldly: "Shun Ying, what are you doing?"

Aunt Ying smiled disapprovingly: "As the emperor has seen, the servants are killing people to silence them."

Glancing at the crowd, he finally stopped on the queen: "You don't need to investigate further, the empress, everything is the servant's idea."

The queen couldn't help trembling and said: "I ask myself, why do you treat me like this, if there is nothing I can do to you."

Haha... Aunt Ying smiled sadly, and stared at the queen coldly: "Because this servant can't understand you, she took away something that should belong to the master. It doesn't count that you took away her position, and you also took away the emperor's respect for her." Your love, even your son was taken away, the crown prince who should belong to the eldest prince."

The emperor glanced at Concubine Yi, and was about to speak, but the Empress Dowager spoke first: "This matter has nothing to do with the emperor or the empress. It is the idea of ​​the Ai family to insist on making Shen Yue the empress. The Ai family believes that the empress is more suitable for the mother than Concubine Yi. Yi Tianxia. Furthermore, the Ai family said a harsh word, how dangerous it was for the emperor to seize the throne, and your Du family obviously had military power but watched from the other side. You gave up everything on your own initiative, and who can blame you, if not..."

Concubine Yi couldn't help being startled, she looked at the Queen Mother in shock, every word she said pierced her heart like a needle, and the tears fell instantly.

Seeing this scene, Aunt Ying immediately interrupted the Empress Dowager: "So what, isn't it that the emperor has betrayed his master? What the emperor said at the beginning was a loan, but the repayment period of this loan is far away. Do we have to wait until the master is repaid?" After a hundred years, will it be sealed again?"

His eyes were cold on the emperor, and the emperor was speechless at first. After hearing this, the queen said lightly: "Don't forget, whose idea and purpose is it that Concubine Yi took the initiative to abdicate? Don't treat everyone else as dead and let the people of the Du family manipulate you." At this time, you still want to take advantage of the emperor's guilt, damn it!

The emperor frowned, but Aunt Ying didn't seem to want to argue anymore, she looked at Concubine Yi, and said slowly: "Everything is done by slaves. The master treats slaves like sisters, how can slaves do this?" Seeing her sad day by day, she shed tears every night until dawn. Therefore, as soon as the empress entered the cold palace, the servants bought Xiao Luzi next to her. arranged it all."

Hearing these evocative words, Concubine Yi could only cry non-stop, calling Shunying in her heart one after another.

Chong really wanted to tell the emperor that the truth was not what she said, and she did not do it alone, but she couldn't, for the sake of the eldest prince, she had to be selfish, and she had to bear it alone.

Aunt Ying nodded at Concubine Yi, signaling her not to be impulsive. Instead of everyone dying together, it is better for her to bear it alone. At least in this way, the Du family and the First Prince will not be implicated.

(End of this chapter)