It's almost time to wear it. The soft beauty relies on the child-bearing system to favor her

"Your concubine...your concubine has nothing to say." Qiu Cairen knelt down.

Only until now, after hearing what those farmers said, did she feel relieved.

A heart that is completely dead.

She knew that she was just a knife of the Queen, and her father and brother still had to rely on the Queen's family for care.

So she was prepared to take the responsibility on her own and would never betray the queen.

Su Wanti didn't want the queen to escape.

She walked to Qiu Cairen and said calmly:

"Just now, Qiu Cairen, you said that you found that there was something wrong with my identity, so you asked your family to protect the Su family. I wonder who the family you are talking about is?"

"Because as far as I know, your father and brother are not in the capital. They are far away in the south. Moreover, three months ago, because your father and brother accepted bribes, they were all executed. Your family has been sentenced to exile... Does Qiu Cairen have other family members in the capital?"

"What?" Qiu Cairen's pupils shrank. She was stunned for a moment, then shook her head frantically.

"You lied to me! My father and brother send me letters every month. I even received a letter from them a few days ago. How could they be executed? Obviously... obviously..."

The queen clearly said that she would save her father and brother’s lives!

Qiu Cairen looked at the queen, with questioning and hope in her eyes...

The Queen didn't dare look her in the eyes.

Only then did Qiu Cai realize that he had been the Queen's knife for nothing.

She fulfilled her promise and worked like a slave for the queen, but the queen bullied and cheated her and treated her like a knife and a fool!

Now, she understood everything. The so-called family letter was not written by her father or brother at all. Instead, the queen found someone who was good at imitating handwriting and imitated her father's writing...

"Queen! You have such a cruel heart!" Qiu Cairen shouted madly.

The Queen said sternly, "Qiu Cairen has gone crazy. She has framed the Imperial Concubine and now wants to frame me? Someone, bring her back to the palace and keep her under strict watch!"

Yuping was the Queen's confidant, so she naturally understood what the Queen meant. She immediately brought people over and tried to cover Qiu Cairen's mouth and pull her away.

But before she could reach Qiu Cairen, she was stopped by the imperial guards.

Leng Hong stood up, his face solemn, "Let's end the banquet here today. It's getting late, so you should leave the palace and go home early."

The emperor has spoken, who dares not to listen?

The guests also knew that since this matter involved the Queen, the Emperor would only handle it secretly in the harem and would not let them know.

Even if they were members of the royal family, they had to suppress their curiosity, pay their respects to the emperor and the empress dowager, and then leave the palace.

Leng Hong brought the Queen and Qiu Cairen back to the Qinzheng Palace for personal interrogation.

Su Wanti wanted to go, but was rejected by Leng Hong. Leng Hong said that the issue of her identity had been resolved and the rest had nothing to do with her.

Su Wanti had no choice but to give up.

The Queen Mother was also rejected by Leng Hong. She could only look at the Queen's back and sigh in disappointment, saying that she had made a mistake in choosing someone with such deep scheming as the Queen.

However, the empress dowager was a kind person. Before leaving, she asked Kang Yu to take a message to Leng Hong, saying that if the empress and Qiu Cairen had not done anything evil that was intolerable to heaven, she asked the emperor to think twice and spare their lives.

Upon hearing this, Su Wanti lowered her eyes and thought for a moment. After returning to Weiyang Palace, she asked Qingzhi to send the suspicious female doctor and midwife who were caught on the day of delivery to the Qinzheng Palace.

She asked Qingzhi to interrogate them, and found out that the two men were arranged by the queen. The queen gave them a large sum of money and asked them to murder her when she was giving birth.

However, the two men were timid and did not dare to take action. Their behavior was also suspicious, so they were caught by Ai Ye on the spot.

Afterwards, Su Wanti locked the two of them up and prevented any news from leaking out.

The queen thought that the two had failed to accomplish their goal and was afraid of being held accountable, so she secretly took the money and ran away, and ignored them.

At that time, Su Wanti gave birth smoothly without any accidents and without any injuries. If she reported the matter to Leng Hong and complained to the Queen in front of Leng Hong, the Queen would at most be confined to her house for a few days. For the Queen, this was not too severe a punishment.

Moreover, the queen can find someone to take the blame and pass the matter on to someone else, then she won't even be punished by house arrest.

Su Wanti kept the two men, thinking that it would be better to send them over together when Leng Hong decided to deal with the queen, so as to add new evidence to the queen's guilt.

Now, the time has come.

Leng Hong stayed in the Qinzheng Palace for two hours, and then an imperial decree was issued from the Qinzheng Palace, deposing the empress and demoted to a commoner. Qiu Cairen was also demoted to a commoner and sent to the cold palace.

The emperor is still filial and listened to the empress dowager and saved the queen's life, Su Wanti thought to herself.

Later, Su Wanti learned indirectly from Kang Yu that there were not only the Queen and Qiu Cairen in the Qinzheng Hall that night, but also the Imperial Concubine and Bai Lan.

The emperor found something fishy about the concubine's use of the acacia incense, and later found out that the acacia incense matter might be related to the queen.

He sent people to look for Bai Lan, and asked the imperial guards to save the imperial concubine's life, waiting to deal with them together.

It is said that the imperial concubine learned the truth that night. She knew that she had been deceived by the empress and fell into the empress's trap. She was so angry that she jumped up in front of the emperor and rushed to the empress frantically to hit her. Fortunately, she was pulled down by the palace servants.

However, in the end, the queen was deposed and imprisoned in the cold palace along with the imperial concubine and Concubine Qiu.

The imperial guards in the cold palace have also been withdrawn, and the queen's life will probably be very difficult.

After the empress was deposed, the former dynasty and the harem all believed that the emperor would make the imperial concubine the empress, but Leng Hong delayed issuing the decree.

Some ministers also felt that the Imperial Noble Consort was of humble origin and that a new Queen should be chosen from an aristocratic family, but Leng Hong did not allow this.

The throne of queen just remained vacant.

Once, Leng Hong asked Su Wanti if she wanted to be the queen.

Su Wanti shook her head and said, "The title of Queen is very restrictive. I don't want to be one. I just want to be favored by Your Majesty. I am happy to be a concubine who enjoys daily pleasures."

Leng Hong smiled with satisfaction and never mentioned the matter again.

One day, Qingzhi took advantage of the emperor's absence and secretly told Su Wanti that the deposed queen wanted to see her.

Su Wanti thought about it and agreed. Although she didn't know what the queen's intention was in meeting her, she still decided to go and meet her.

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The cold palace was desolate and bleak, without even a single servant. The ground was covered with dead grass, and the walls were covered with mottled marks.

The queen had a bruised face and nose, probably because she was beaten by the imperial concubine and Concubine Qiu.

She was wearing a coarse cloth dress, not as luxurious and elegant as before, but her expression was much calmer than before.

When the queen saw that it was Su Wanti coming over, she just raised her eyes and said calmly, "You win."

Su Wanti chuckled, "I won't be the queen. I have no intention of becoming one."

"Haha!" The queen laughed out loud as if she had heard some joke.

"No woman in the harem would not want to be the queen. Moreover, you are favored and have given birth to the emperor's eldest son. It is useless for you to be unwilling. Naturally, someone will lift you to this position."

Su Wanti shrugged. It was not up to her to decide what she did. Leng Hong didn't want her to be the queen, so what could she do?

Fortunately, Leng Hong had no intention of establishing a queen. He felt that she was enough of the only imperial concubine in the harem.

Su Wanti didn't want to explain Leng Hong's thoughts to the Queen, nor did she want to argue with her about the position of Queen, so she changed the subject.

"After the palace banquet, your family distanced themselves from you and said that you had been removed from the family."

When talking about her family, there was no fluctuation in the queen's eyes. She remained indifferent, as if she was listening to someone else's story.

"I thought about it. My family is like this. They don't treat me as a daughter at all. They just treat me as an outsider. It's as if they raised me and I should fight for them."

"I was the queen before. Although I knew they didn't treat me well, I thought they had raised me, so I always wanted to repay them and do something good for them. At that time, I felt conflicted and uneasy."

"Now that I have become a commoner, I have truly become a useless person in their eyes. I can no longer do anything. But I feel at peace. I no longer need to think of ways to repay them."

"If they don't treat you as their family, do you still treat them as your family?" Su Wanti asked.

The queen smiled softly, calmly, "Of course not. If I don't live well, they won't live well either."

"This is also the reason why I want to meet you this time."

After the queen finished speaking, she took out a small notebook from her sleeve and handed it to Su Wanti, saying:

"Help me hand it over to the emperor. This is evidence of my family's crimes over the years. Tell the emperor that I am truly repentant and have decided to kill my relatives for the sake of justice."