The charming empress is too good at fishing, and the ruthless emperor has fallen

When we returned to the palace, it was already late at night.

"Your Majesty, is there blood on your body?" Wang Zhong couldn't help but ask when he saw that Lu Zan was not heading back to Yangxin Palace.

"It's okay." Lu Zan lowered his eyes and glanced at the blood stained on his robe, and said calmly.

On the way back to the palace, he encountered an assassin ambushing him.

This blood belongs to the assassin.

Thinking that yesterday he proposed to King Xian to take back the Supervision Department and was assassinated by an assassin today, Lu Zanjun couldn't help but have a sarcastic sneer on his face.

Things that are not on the table!

After arriving at the place, Lu Zan dismounted and glanced at the assassins behind him who were caught by the secret guards.

"Detain a few of them and interrogate them strictly. If they can't be found out, they will be killed." He ordered Wang Zhong.

"Yes, I obey the order." Wang Zhong quickly agreed.

Lu Zan stepped into the dungeon and went straight to the interrogation room.

Not long after, a person was brought over, and it turned out to be the wife of the Taifu, Li Shi, who was supposed to be executed a few days ago.

"The sinful woman meets the emperor, long live the emperor." Ms. Li was wearing thin clothes and with a withered face, as if she had aged more than ten years. The usual timidity and cowardice in her expression was gone, and she knelt down to salute quite calmly.

However, Lu Zan ignored her.

He sat there, supporting his forehead with one hand, closing his eyes slightly as if to rest his mind. He only had a calm and indifferent aura around him. The black robe on his body was stained with very obvious dark red blood, and the smell of blood filled the small and cramped interrogation room. spread out slowly.

Seeing him like this, Mrs. Li already had some speculation about the matter in her mind, and her eyes flashed slightly at this time.

Everyone thought that she had been executed along with Taifu Jing.

However, in fact, she was secretly taken into the dungeon of the palace by Lu Zan's orders.

At this time, when Li saw that Lu Zan was silent, her thoughts drifted back to two days ago...

Not long after she was taken into the dungeon, Lu Zan appeared in front of her and told her two important things very straightforwardly:

First, Jing Wei is dead.

Second, Jing Wei is a fake, and Jing Shu is the daughter of her old friend whom she planned to adopt.

It was Jing Wei who pushed Jing Shu off the carriage and then took over Jing Shu's identity.

"So, whose daughter is Jingshu? Who is your old friend far away in the north of the Great Wall?" Lu Zan then asked her directly.

Li was extremely shocked at the time.

She never thought that the daughter she had raised for more than ten years would be fake, and Jingshu was the real one.

And she had insulted Jingshu many times before and was just a substitute for Jingwei, and even planned to kill Jingshu so that Jingshu would give way to Jingwei.

But the question is, isn’t Jing Shu already dead?

Li was very confused and confused, and her mood was very complicated.

Because she discovered that even though she knew that Jing Shu was the one she should really adopt, in more than ten years of getting along with her, what she cared about more in her heart was Jing Wei, who was raised by her own hands.

Li felt a little guilty about her old friend for this discovery.

"Just an old friend of the guilty woman."

She did not intend to tell the truth and reveal the identity of her old friend, as a kind of compensation for not fulfilling her old friend's entrustment.

But Lu Zan seemed to have expected it.

He sneered: "In addition to Jingshu, you also have an eldest daughter who was born in ten months of pregnancy, and she is Princess Xian.

"Two days ago, your good grandson and the virtuous prince committed a murder on the street, trampling two children playing to death. He was taken into the Jingzhao Mansion prison. According to the Daxia law, he should be beheaded in public. severe punishment.

"Princess Xian came to the palace to plead with me. Unfortunately, I still have a secret report on private loan sharking in my hand. The Daxia law stipulates that all relatives of the emperor are prohibited from private loan sharking. But not only did her loan sharking exceed the interest stipulated in the law, but the amount of money she used was also , she got it by disregarding human lives, amassing money and plundering people's wealth when she was in the fiefdom.

"Once these two crimes are proven, Princess Xian will be sentenced to exile for three thousand miles at the least, and beheaded at the worst."

When Li heard what Lu Zan said, she was horrified but also deeply confused.

She didn't understand what Lu Zan meant.

Why tell her this?

Until Lu Zan asked her again: "I am a little curious. In your heart, which is more important, an adopted daughter or a biological daughter?"

This time, Mrs. Li understood everything.

Lu Zan wanted to risk the lives of her own daughter and grandson to force her to tell the truth.

As for whether it is more important to have a biological child or an adopted daughter...

Both Jingshu and Jingwei are dead.

However, the one with his own hands is still alive and can be saved.

"The guilty woman can tell the emperor, but what can the emperor give the guilty woman?" Li quickly made her choice and asked him very calmly.

"Prince Xian and Princess Xian, you choose one, and I can spare your life." Lu Zan's tone was sinister and ruthless, "Or, if you dare to play tricks on me to deceive and conceal something, it will not only be yours" I will kill my daughter, your good grandson, your Li clan, your father and brother, and leave no one behind."

Mrs. Li was so horrified by his words that she immediately shivered.

"The sinful woman chooses... the virtuous princess." She didn't hesitate for long, and quickly continued, "Jingshu's biological mother is the daughter of the late eldest princess, Luo Luo, who was once the most famous beauty in the world. Princess Fu."