The Queen has arrived: An Lingrong does not want to fight in the palace after her rebirth

The sound of jade breaking is crisp and pleasant.

The warm and delicate white Ruyi fell to the ground and broke into pieces.

Purple-black musk kernels were scattered all over the ground.

An Lingrong picked up a piece of musk that exuded a strong smell, and her tone was unable to hide her sadness:

"Your Majesty, the first thing I want to tell you is that the Queen used drugs to sterilize her concubines. This Ruyi was given to me by the Queen after I first received her favor. I treasure it and put it by my bed."

"I have received Your Majesty's grace for so many years, but I have never had a child. I feel guilty and have spent so much time praying to the gods and seeking medical advice, but to no avail. That is when I became suspicious and checked all the items in the palace one by one."

"After this investigation, I found out that the Empress had already taken action on me when I was in favor. I have been suffering from the harm of musk for many years, and my body has been ruined. I will not be blessed to give birth to a child for Your Majesty in this life. Please Your Majesty, please make a decision for me."

After saying this, she looked at the emperor with watery eyes.

The Emperor did not make eye contact with her, but instead turned his gaze to the Queen.

The Queen was disdainful of this little bit of evidence. She pretended to be wronged and said:

"Your Majesty, Yu Ruyi was made by the Imperial Household Department, and there are many people involved. It has been a long time since she was born. An Shi had plenty of opportunities to frame me. It is ridiculous to use this as evidence to accuse me of murdering a concubine."

"On the contrary, the matter between Zhen Huan and the Seventeenth Brother has all the evidence, and I think we can conduct a rigorous investigation to serve as a warning to others."

The Queen kept calling Yunli her seventeenth brother, and every time she called him that, she was actually reminding the Emperor that Yunli was not worthy of being a subject or a brother.

From the appearance of the little statue to the left-behind skirt, the emperor had already made a judgment in his mind.

He and Zhen Huan were truly doomed to fail. He first met her under the name of Old Seventeen, and from then on, there were constant troubles, which even caused Shi Lan to die in hatred. Many years later, she became involved with her own brother.

The emperor no longer wanted to ask about the statues, clothes, or other unknown things.

No man can accept his woman being entangled with other men, even if they don't go that step further.

But as long as the intention is there, it must be severely punished, especially since he is in the royal family and does not deserve forgiveness.

Otherwise, the emperor's majesty will be gone.

The emperor could be ruthless in dealing with Zhen Huan. Whether to imprison her or to send her with a white silk scarf was all up to him. However, he was troubled about what to do with Prince Guo.

As a royal noble and an important official in the court, he should have made a difference in politics, but he was willing to fall under the skirt of a woman.

If it was an ordinary woman, either granted marriage as a wife or appointed as a concubine, it would be a good thing, but she was the one he could not desire.

The Emperor felt sorry for Prince Guo because he did not fight for his loyalty. The Emperor's years of careful upbringing had resulted in him becoming such a fool.

There is no distinction between family and country, and between ruler and subject.

An Lingrong was very perceptive. When she saw that the Emperor did not respond after the Queen finished speaking, she immediately guessed that the Emperor did not want to punish Prince Guo in front of everyone, so she immediately continued:

"Your Majesty, I have evidence of the Queen's other crimes. Do you still remember the incident when Concubine Yi suffered from a difficult labor and hemorrhage?"

The Emperor did not accept the Empress's advice, which made her feel confused for a moment. All kinds of bad guesses came to her mind. When she saw An Lingrong bringing up the topic again, she immediately directed her anger at An Lingrong:

"An, why do you keep bringing up the past? Could it be that you have run out of tricks and can only make things up?"

An Lingrong was calm and composed:

"Because I have a good reason. At first glance, Concubine Yi died of hemorrhage. In fact, it was the Queen who colluded with the Eighth Master's party to plant a spy in the palace. They tampered with the charcoal fire and added blood-stirring earthworms into the charcoal, which caused Concubine Yi to die with two lives."

Seeing that this matter had also been revealed, the Queen became even more angry: "If it was really me who did it, why didn't you tell me at the beginning? How do you know that you are not making it up today?"

An Lingrong remained calm and said, "I discovered the clues that day, but the person who made the charcoal was silenced. It took me many years to find out that there were other people in the palace who were used by the Queen."

The queen felt even more guilty, and pointed at An Lingrong and shouted angrily: "You are lying and slandering me."

An Lingrong stepped forward and said, "I have witnesses and physical evidence."

At this moment, the emperor was furious. What a jerk! He was really a man who thought ten steps ahead before doing anything. What was his intention in laying hidden clues in the palace? Could it be that he was thinking of coming back one day so that he could attack from inside and outside?

In addition, the Queen made many stupid mistakes, but he was tolerant of them. Unexpectedly, this fed her ambition and made her dare to interfere in the succession and state affairs.

He gritted his teeth and said, "Pass it up."

This was the first time that Xiao Dongzi had seen the emperor up close. He knelt on the ground and trembled. But when he thought of the tragic death of the old eunuch and An Lingrong's secret promise to him to help take care of his family's lives, his fear was reduced a little.

When he was eight years old, his family suffered a flood. In order to survive, he sold himself into the palace. However, he was not smart and was not liked by the eunuchs in charge. He did the hardest and most tiring work, and he was not well fed or clothed every day. It was Old Chen who saved him.

It was also Old Chen who placed him in the Yiku Palace, thinking that he would have a good life following the favorite concubine. However, Zhou Ninghai made things difficult for him everywhere because he was not promoted by him. Only after Zhou Ninghai died did his life become better.

He had originally wanted to repay Old Chen by taking care of him in his old age and seeing him to the end of his life, but one day Old Chen came to him with a worried look on his face, gave him this deadly thing, and then committed suicide.

The fire in the cold palace that night frightened him to death. He dreamed that one day the fire would burn him and leave nothing behind. Fortunately, Honeysuckle found him.

Now, as long as he handed over this thing stained with human blood, he would no longer have to worry.

Xiao Dongzi held up a tattered book and told the whole story in a halting manner:

"Your Majesty, I am Xiao Dongzi from the Yikun Palace. I entered the palace at the age of eight and was rescued by Old Chen from the cold palace at the age of ten. Later, I worked in the Yikun Palace. Before Old Chen died, he came to me and told me that this book could save my life and asked me to give it to Your Majesty at the critical moment."

The emperor saw that he was shaking like a sieve and asked him:

"Have you ever read what's on it?"

Xiao Dongzi was frightened like a quail, and murmured:

"Your Majesty, I am stupid and illiterate. Every time the Ministry of Internal Affairs issues silver, I just circle it to claim it."

This answer was both practical and clever. The emperor was unwilling to waste his energy on such a small figure. He just turned slightly, and Xiao Xiazi presented the yellowed list, and then pressed Xiao Dongzi to go outside the palace to await his fate.

When Xiao Dongzi stood up, An Lingrong glanced at him out of the corner of her eye, signaling him to rest assured. Old Chen had protected him very well and did not let him participate in those messy things. This time he would at most face one round of interrogation. Once it was confirmed that he had no connection with the Eighth Master's party, given the emperor's temperament, there would be no problem with his life.

As long as he was alive, she would have the chance to keep him away from this turbulent court.

The queen was different. She looked at Xiao Dongzi fiercely. If looks could kill, she would have tortured Xiao Dongzi to death thousands of times.

After Xiao Dongzi left, the queen's anxious eyes seemed to penetrate those thin pieces of paper.

Because of nervousness, she involuntarily clutched the hem of her clothes tightly, and when she was too nervous, she even closed her eyes briefly, imagining that there was nothing harmful in it.

But things went against his wishes. After roughly flipping through two pages, the emperor crumpled the thin papers into a ball. A ball of anger was blocking his throat and burning his chest, causing it to rise and fall violently. Seeing this, Su Peisheng boldly stepped forward to calm him down, but he was pushed away. After a while, he asked in a hoarse voice:

"Empress, I want to ask you, have you ever heard of Zhang Asan, Zhao Ling, Lin Mao and others?"

The Queen was already sweating coldly under her armpits, and her heart was in a mess. These people were the ones she asked Jiang Fuhai to silence. They were the ones who participated in the death of Fu Cha and the murder of the Fourth Prince and Xia Dongchun. She originally thought that these people were all dead, but she never expected that the old eunuch had spared them.

But even if it was revealed, what would it matter? She had a universal trick, just deny it to the death. The queen calmed down and defended herself in a dry voice:

"Your Majesty, this list and the things recorded in it are just fabricated by someone with ulterior motives. There is no actual evidence to prove that I did these things. If you use this to judge me guilty, I will not accept it."

"Pah" the emperor threw the piece of paper directly at the queen's face:

"I wanted to save your dignity, but you are so stubborn. Look for yourself, have you ever been wronged? You remember exactly when and where you had someone do something to you. You said you colluded with Aqi's gang. What exactly do you want to do? Do you want to support him as the new king?"

This crime was too serious, so the Queen simply denied it to the end, and refused to admit that she had used the person left by the Eighth Master:

"Your Majesty, when a person dies, it is like a light going out. How can the dead be trusted? Your Majesty said that I colluded with Aqi's gang. I dare not admit this crime. If Your Majesty really charges me with this, I will have no choice but to complain to my ancestors about my grievances."

A few words of exchange made the onlookers break out in cold sweats. Aqina was a sore spot in the emperor's heart. Anyone who got involved with him at this time would be skinned alive if not killed.

An Lingrong was indeed ruthless and knew very well the principle of striking the snake at its weakest part. She dragged the Queen step by step into a situation where she could not prove her innocence.

Cao Qinmo huddled into a ball at this moment. She wished she had not appeared in the Qianqing Palace tonight and had not come forward to provide evidence.

If things continue like this, it will be difficult for the Queen to escape, and she will also be in trouble in front of the Emperor.

But she was really unwilling to accept it. Why did Zhen Huan always have such good luck? New thoughts arose in her lowered eyes.

An Lingrong watched the Queen's dying resistance and sneered in her heart. She would not cry until she saw the coffin. But there was no rush. She would use the heavy hammer immediately. She did not believe that the Queen would be able to deny it when the time came.

"Your Majesty, I have something else to report."

What else? The onlookers looked at each other in bewilderment. Killing concubines, colluding with criminals, and killing people to silence them had already shocked everyone. Could there be anything more horrifying?

The emperor also looked at An Lingrong with doubtful and angry eyes.

An Lingrong straightened her expression, making it look even sadder:

"What I want to report is the secret of Queen Chunyuan's death."

This sentence was like a drop of cold water dropped into a boiling oil pan, completely making everyone explode.

Everyone in the world knows that Empress Chunyuan died of complications during childbirth. Could there be some hidden story behind this?

Prince Guo, who had been kneeling on the ground and watching the development of the situation quietly, now pricked up his ears, not wanting to miss a single word of An Lingrong.

Zhen Huan even smelled a glimmer of hope from this. She was favored by Chun Yuan in the first place, and maybe she could only rely on her to escape from the predicament today.

Concubine Xi lowered her eyes and secretly sighed at An Lingrong's audacity. She really dared to expose the truth.

Concubine Jing became more and more worried about An Lingrong. The death of Chun Yuan was something that they and the other old friends in the palace had discussed secretly. But even if they had some doubts, who would dare to stand up and question them?

Even Prince Heng, who had been in a state of detachment, felt a huge wave in his heart. How big was his hatred for the Queen that he would fight to the death like this?

"Queen Chunyuan"

As soon as these four words came out, it was as if some taboo was touched. The emperor's eyes turned red, and the queen jumped up in anger:

"You are so ignorant and reckless. When Queen Chunyuan had a difficult birth, you were not even born yet. How could you know the symptoms of her difficult birth?"

The emperor said in a hoarse voice: "Tell me, what did you find?"

An Lingrong said, "The reason why Queen Chunyuan had a difficult birth was because someone had carefully planned it, and that person was her sister, the current Queen."

Such frightening words made everyone silent for a moment, and the only sound in the hall was the emperor's angry and heavy breathing.

After a long time, the queen reacted and was the first to jump into a rage:

"An, you are slandering me again. Everyone knows that when my sister was pregnant, I was overjoyed and even regarded the child in her belly as my own. I tasted everything my sister ate first. If it was poisonous, I would have died long ago. How could I stand here alive?"

At the last critical moment, An Lingrong looked at the Queen with a peaceful and compassionate gaze:

"Empress, can you really let go of the pain of losing your son and the revenge of having your husband taken away from you?"

When the bone-eroding past was brought up, the queen suppressed the pain in her heart and said with all her might:

"I adore the emperor, and I always put him first. As long as the emperor likes me, I will be happy, not to mention that she is my own sister."

An Lingrong sighed: "But it's not uncommon for love to turn into hate."

In one sentence, the redness in the emperor's eyes became more obvious, but the queen still tried to hold back her tears and argued:

"An, everything is just your wild speculation. Your Majesty, it doesn't matter how An slanders me, but she shouldn't have disturbed my sister's reputation. Please punish An severely."

An Lingrong looked at this woman who was still upholding the dignity of the queen. While her heart was filled with hatred, she also felt pity for her. She had trusted the wrong people her whole life, and was trapped in her family and the royal family. She had completely lost herself for the sake of power. But no matter how many reasons she had, they were not an excuse for her to hurt others again and again.

An Lingrong had to continue to say what she had to say:

"The child that Queen Chunyuan gave birth to is evidence. The fetus was covered in purple scars. One reason was that the fetus was oppressed for too long in the mother's body. The other reason was that someone used the food to slowly penetrate the mother's body. Over time, the fetus was poisoned and the mother's body weakened, so naturally there were two deaths in one body."

"Empress, you were able to use the ground beetle to cause Sister Fucha to die in childbirth, and you were able to use rhubarb soup to cause Concubine Wan to have a miscarriage, thus putting the blame on Imperial Noble Consort Dunsu. So you were even more adept at tampering with Empress Chunyuan's diet."

"Empress, you went through a lot of pain back then, and you cannot bear to see anyone else have children ever since. That's why you have been so reckless in the harem for so many years. One reason is that you want everyone to experience the pain you've felt, and the other is to avenge the emperor for falling in love with someone else."

"Empress, do you think this is true or not?"

"It's actually very simple to verify. Jianqiu and Jiang Fuhai have been with you for many years. If you go to the Ministry of Punishment, you will naturally get the answer."

"Your Majesty, I have finished speaking. I am willing to guarantee the above matters with my life and property. If I lie, I am willing to accept the punishment."

In the dead silence, An Lingrong knelt on the ground. It was a long time before she heard the emperor's extremely cold voice.