He conspired against her in his previous life, and he flirted with her on their wedding night again

There was a lot of porcelain as tribute this time, part of which was a return gift to Xi Liang and Dong Lie.

Xi Liang and Dong Lie traveled thousands of miles to come to Da Chu to celebrate their birthdays. The emperor would not let them go back empty-handed. Da Chu’s porcelain was excellent. Usually the court would give a few pairs of porcelain vases as gifts. Of course, Da Chu’s envoys went to Xi Liang or Dong Lie. Lie congratulates birthday and will not come back empty-handed.

Two carriages of porcelain were loaded with porcelain. The horses were frightened and one carriage of porcelain was almost completely destroyed.

The horse that got into trouble was caught, but the horse was not claimed.

Who dares to claim it?

Are you going to come to your door and use your head to wipe the horse's butt?

Unless you are short-sighted, you won't do such stupid things.

Because it was an accident, the emperor did not investigate the dereliction of duty of the team that escorted the tributes to Beijing, and only asked the Ministry of Rites to prepare separate return gifts for Xi Liang and Dong Lie.

Everyone treated the destruction of the tributes as an accident. Shen Wan and Xie Jingyan also thought that the matter was over. However, after a day of silence, a storm suddenly arose.

On this day, Li Yuchu developed a new pastry, and Shen Wan gave it to Xie Jingyan to taste. As soon as he handed the pastry to Xie Jingyan's mouth, a secret guard jumped in through the window.

Shen Wan should continue to feed her, or not.

All of a sudden, the three people were embarrassed.

Xie Jingyan coughed lightly and said, "What's the matter?"

The secret guard came to his senses and said hurriedly, "I don't know what happened. Duke Mao Guo and the Minister of Punishment led people to surround the Prime Minister Zuo's Mansion."

Shen Wan, "...???"

Xie Jingyan, "...???"

Surrounding Zuoxiang's Mansion?

It was Duke Mao and the Minister of Punishment who went there together.

What's going on?

Shen Wan subconsciously looked at Xie Jingyan, "What did Prime Minister Zuo do?"

Xie Jingyan shook his head. It was strange that he didn't hear anything about this matter beforehand.

He looked at the secret guard and said, "Go and inquire."

The secret guard took the order and jumped out of the window as he entered the house.

Shen Wan thought that the secret guard would ask for a long time, but in less than half an hour, the secret guard came back.

At that time, Shen Wan and Xie Jingyan were having lunch. The secret guard knocked on the window and entered the house, reporting, "On the order of the Queen Mother, Duke Mao Guo asked the Ministry of Punishments to search Zuo Xiang's Mansion, and found the batch of items that were broken in the street. porcelain……"

Shen Wan was shocked, "Isn't it an accident that the horse knocked over the carriage carrying the tribute porcelain?"

The secret guard shook his head, "It's not an accident. That batch of porcelain was defective. The real tribute was sent to the Prime Minister Zuo's Mansion."

Shen Wan took a breath. She knew that few ministers in the court were not greedy for ink, but if they even dared to be greedy for tribute, the left prime minister was too bold.

Xie Jingyan asked, "How did the Queen Mother know?"

Shen Wan also wanted to know, so she looked at the secret guard.

The secret guard said, "At the beginning of next month, the eldest princess of Huyang will celebrate her birthday. The queen mother privately ordered someone to bake a pair of tribute porcelains to give to the eldest princess of Huyang as a birthday gift. These tributes were sent to Beijing along with them. The tributes were on the street. After the accident, the Queen Mother sent people to get the porcelain vase, saying that the porcelain vase had been smashed, and the broken one was brought back. As a result, the Queen Mother's people went and were told that the porcelain vase was broken, but no matter how the Queen Mother's people wanted it, they could not get it. The people who refused to take the broken porcelain away to the Queen Mother.”

"The Queen Mother's people directly arrested the person in front of the Queen Mother in order to make a deal. The Queen Mother pressed him, but the man hesitated and even said where the porcelain was thrown. The Queen Mother was so angry that she tortured the person. Only then did she find out that she had prepared it for Princess Huyang. The birthday gift was sent to the Prime Minister Zuo’s Mansion. Not only the couple, but also many tributes were brought to honor the Prime Minister Zuo..."

"The Queen Mother got angry and asked Duke Mao to search Zuo Xiang's Mansion. However, Mao Guo Gong did not have the right to search Zuo Xiang's Mansion, so the Queen Mother asked the Ministry of Punishment to lead people to search Zuo Xiang's Mansion on the charge of embezzling ink tribute."

The secret guard finished his report in one breath, and Shen Wan felt happy all over.

Zuo Xiang's Mansion is the natal family of Empress Song, and is Xie Jingyin's biggest helper in seizing the throne. Now tribute porcelain has been found from Zuo Xiang's Mansion, and the evidence is conclusive, enough for Zuo Xiang to drink a big pot.

The emperor will definitely punish him severely. If the emperor tolerates the left prime minister, he is afraid that he himself will be reprimanded by the queen mother.

Shen Wan was in a good mood, but when she glanced over, she saw Xie Jingyan's brows were furrowed and there was no sign of joy. Shen Wan asked curiously, "What are you thinking about?"

Xie Jingyan said, "The left prime minister's case of embezzling tributes was caught too smoothly."

Xie Jingyan didn't say anything, but Shen Wan didn't think much about it. It was really going too smoothly. She said, "When people are unlucky, drinking water is stuck between their teeth. Maybe the left prime minister is too unlucky."

The only one who thought of seizing the legitimate heir so easily was his princess.

Xie Jingyan said, "Not only did this matter go smoothly, there were too many coincidences."

Forget it as a coincidence. It all happened in one go. How can it make people suspicious?

Shen Wan looked at Xie Jingyan and reacted, "Do you suspect that this is a trap deliberately dug by the Queen Mother for Prime Minister Zuo?"

"Not too stupid," Xie Jingyan said.

"..."

Xie Jingyan said she was stupid, but she couldn't refute it. She could only compare herself to Xie Jingyan. There were few people in the world who were not stupid to comfort herself.

Thinking about it, there are indeed many suspicious things. The first one is that the harem is not allowed to interfere in politics. Even the Queen Mother cannot directly give orders to the Ministry of Punishment to search the residence of the left prime minister based on one person's confession.

If the search fails, how will the Queen Mother explain it to the Prime Minister Zuo and Empress Song?

The Queen Mother cares most about the royal family's appearance. Given her temperament, the Queen Mother will not do such a reckless thing unless...there are no accidents in this matter.

That is to say, the Queen Mother is sure to find the tribute porcelain from the left prime minister's palace, and no one can impeach the Queen Mother for interfering in politics in the harem.

Shen Wan said, "Even if the Queen Mother dug a hole for Prime Minister Zuo, no one forced him to accept those tribute porcelain vases."

Flies don't bite seamless eggs. If the left prime minister wants to respect the imperial power, he will not only not let tribute porcelain enter his left prime minister's house, but will also bring to justice those who send him tributes.

Xie Jingyan agrees with this point, "It is not unjust for the left prime minister to be arrested."

However, Xie Jingyan did not expect that the Prime Minister would fall into the Empress Dowager's trap so easily.

To be able to kill the left prime minister so easily, the Queen Mother had been very docile in supporting the eldest prince before, and she quite wanted to let the eldest prince and the King of Jin fight among themselves.

As soon as he participated in the fight for the throne, the Queen Mother was eager to kick King Jin out.

Is the Queen Mother so afraid that her father will make him the crown prince?

It seemed that his opponent was not the eldest prince, but the queen mother when he wanted to seize the throne.

Fengyi Palace.

Empress Song was leaning on the phoenix chair, feeling a little uneasy.

Aunt Du brought tea to her and said, "Mom, stop thinking about things and drink some tea to moisten your throat."

Empress Song picked up the tea cup, and a palace maid came in quickly and said, "Empress, it's not good. Duke Mao Guo took the Queen Mother's handwriting and asked the Minister of Punishment to lead people to search the Prime Minister Zuo's Mansion!"

Queen Song was already flustered and worried that something big would happen. The palace maid's words made her so shocked that she forgot she was holding tea in her hand and fell to the ground.

Clang.

The tea cup fell to pieces.

Queen Song's expression changed drastically, "Why did the Queen Mother search Zuo Xiang's Mansion?!"

The palace maid said, "It seems to be related to what happened to the tribute this time."

But the palace maid didn’t know the specifics.

The secret guard knew so clearly after directly asking the Minister of Justice.

Queen Song was so flustered that she got up and went to find the Queen Mother, but the Queen Mother did not see her. The palace guards blocked her from the door. Queen Song was not a good-tempered person. The Queen Mother even bullied her to the head of the Zuo Xiangfu. She was not even given the chance to ask him face to face.

Empress Song brushed aside the maid blocking the way and stepped into the palace.

Seeing her walking in with an angry look on her face, the Queen Mother's face turned cold, "Does the Queen know what the crime is for breaking into the Ai family's palace without permission?!"