The prince's personal bodyguard

At this moment, someone at the door reported: "Prince Rong wants to see you."

"Please come in!" The emperor stood up quickly.

"How is it? Have you found Ayin?" The emperor asked as soon as he saw Mu Yunxiao come in.

"I have this note!"

"My dear minister, please speak." The emperor was very anxious.

"I caught the Xiongnu military advisor Dongfang Gu on the way. According to Dongfang Gu's confession, the queen colluded with the Xiongnu king Dugu Feng and kidnapped the ninth princess." Mu Yunxiao didn't even write a draft, and directly made the conjecture a fact. He made up his mind today. If anyone dared to ignore his warning and hurt his beloved, the queen must die today!

"Has Ayin been rescued?" The emperor was concerned about Bai Xinyin first. He glared at the queen, and his hatred for her deepened.

"No, I captured the Eastern Military Advisor in the secret passage. The secret passage leads to the official road outside the city. Dugu Feng must have taken the Ninth Princess back to the Xiongnu. I have sent people to chase him. I will also meet up with him later." Let's deal with the Queen first.

The emperor felt relieved when he heard that Bai Xinyin was not in danger of life.

"What? Leading to outside the city! Do you mean that the secret passage in the imperial garden of the palace can lead to the official road?" The emperor came to his senses and was shocked beyond words.

The prince stood aside, looking uneasy, with fear and worry in his eyes.

Shangguan Qingze's face was serious: "The secret passage of the palace leads to outside the city. The queen is so bold. If she doesn't die today, she will be skinned alive."

For a moment, the atmosphere in the imperial study was tense. The emperor sat behind the desk with a gloomy face and a look of majesty and anger in his eyes. He pointed at the queen and asked sternly: "Queen, look at yourself, what have you done? Do you know your guilt?"

The queen raised her head and said nothing.

At this time, Mu Yunxiao took out an account book from his sleeve and handed it to Eunuch Gao: "This is the amount of silver that the Empress, the Crown Prince, and the Emperor's uncle embezzled for disaster relief in Jiangnan in the fifteenth year of Tianbao. This account book shows where every penny went. The court allocated one million taels for disaster relief that year, but less than 100,000 taels were left in the disaster-stricken areas in Jiangnan. Your Majesty, please understand."

The emperor was very sad when he heard this, and he kept silent with his head down. Suddenly he stood up, picked up the teacup and threw it at the prince.

The prince was always timid and didn't dare to hide, so he was splashed with water on his head and face.

"Asshole! What can you do and what can't you do? You are the crown prince, the future king of a country, and you are competing for food with the victims of the disaster. Is your Prince's Mansion so short of money?" The emperor was so angry that he gasped.

After saying that, he sat down to think again. Deposing the crown prince was no trivial matter. He was very hesitant and had to think about it carefully.

"These are the letters between the Crown Prince and Dugu Feng that I intercepted when I was fighting the Huns." Seeing that the emperor was silent, Mu Yunxiao immediately presented two more letters.

Since you are hesitant, I will give you one more blow and help you decide!

The emperor hurriedly opened the letter and read it word by word.

The letter described how the prince had planted his confidants in the military camp, how to contact them when necessary, and how to delay the transportation of food and grass to ensure that Mu Yunxiao would be defeated. Dugu Feng promised that after the matter was accomplished, he would help the prince ascend the throne as soon as possible.

"They colluded with each other, causing me to miss many opportunities to fight. I was poisoned and the poison entered my legs. I almost lost my life. It was Ayin who cured me after she came to Kyoto." Mu Yunxiao spoke slowly in a voice that seemed very sad.

"How foolish! How badly do you want to ascend the throne? Just wait patiently, and sooner or later, won't the throne be yours? Are you so impatient?" The emperor shouted at the prince. He hadn't finished talking about corruption, and now he was treasoning again. The emperor was furious, so he grabbed an inkstone on the table and threw it at the prince. The prince couldn't dodge in time, and his forehead was injured, with blood flowing down his forehead.

When the queen saw this, she hurriedly hugged the prince, covered his forehead with her sleeve, and said to the emperor: "If you want to attack, come at me. This has nothing to do with the prince. This is all my idea!"

"Your idea? You vicious woman. Why? Why did you do this? Haven't I treated you and your son well enough?" The emperor's eyes widened and his face turned purple with anger.

"Okay? Hahaha... Have you ever cared about us mother and son over the years? You were either favoring Concubine Hua outside or Concubine Lan in the palace. When the prince was six years old, he fell ill and had a fever for seven days and seven nights. He was in a coma for half a month and his life was in danger, but you lingered with that bitch in Jiangnan and refused to come back! How many years has it been since you last visited my concubine's bedroom?" The queen confessed loudly, shedding tears of sadness.

The emperor was stunned and his heart seemed to soften a little.

Mu Yunxiao looked at the emperor, then looked around, and finally unfolded a few pieces of paper and placed them on the emperor's desk.

Shangguan Qingxin thought: "Prince, how many unexpected revelations have you prepared? It seems that you have prepared them long ago and are just waiting for this blow? This is terrible! I really can't offend you in the future."

So I approached the table and took a peek at the paper. After just one glance, I was shocked! This news was explosive!

The Queen is having an affair with Master Shi Wuchen. Huh? Huh? This is such a ridiculous thing...

Shangguan Qing instantly felt that the grass on the plain was growing on the emperor's head, and the spring scenery was spreading all over the world. He was so scared that he quickly left the table. It was better not to know about this matter.

The Queen really has no way to escape this time.

So he immediately said to the emperor: "I still have some people to interrogate, please allow me to leave first!"

The emperor waved his hands weakly, and Shangguan Qing's feet seemed to be greased and he hurried out of the imperial study.

The emperor picked up the paper, took a look at it, his mouth trembled, his hands trembled with anger, and then he grabbed the table to grab something. At this time, there was nothing on the table to throw, so he turned around and picked up an antique behind him and threw it at the queen.

With a "clang", the queen dodged and the antique hit the wall and broke into pieces, also knocking the queen's hair bun apart.

Xia Yang took a look at the antique. It was old and valuable. He felt it was a pity: "Why don't you throw it to me?" This one is very valuable.

The queen's hair suddenly became disheveled, and she looked at the emperor, confused.

The emperor threw the paper at the queen: "Look for yourself!"

The Queen hurriedly picked up the paper and took a quick look at it: "I don't have any? Is it Prince Rong who is making up stories to harm me?"

As he said this, he glared at Mu Yunxiao fiercely.

"Why are you doing this?" the queen said to Mu Yunxiao gritting her teeth.

"Why? Am I making it up? Hahaha, the Queen thinks too highly of herself. As for you, I don't even bother to look down on you!" Mu Yunxiao was furious the whole night, regretting that he was soft-hearted and had too many concerns. He didn't deal with the Queen earlier, causing Ayin to suffer.

At this time, someone at the door reported that Deputy Commander Guo Qing had something to report.

The emperor felt like his brain was exploding at this moment: "What's the matter?"

Guo Qing entered the study, bowed and saluted, and said: "Your Majesty, I followed the secret passage and found that the other end of the secret passage is the Huangjue Temple in the east of the city, and the entrance of the secret passage is the bedroom of the abbot, Master Shi Wuchen!"

The entire imperial study suddenly fell silent.

Guo Qing secretly looked around: "I knew this news would explode, right? I didn't expect everyone to react so violently. Are you shocked? Are you shocked?"

"Xia Yang, send someone to capture the abbot of Huangjue Temple, Shi Wuchen, and kill him on the spot!"

"Yes!" Xia Yang took the order and left.

"No, Your Majesty!" This time the Queen did not insist, but begged bitterly.

"Don't want to? Humph! I didn't expect you to be such a person."

"I was also forced by the emperor. For the sake of your own throne, you pretended to be nice to me before marriage and deceived my father's trust. I thought you treated me sincerely, but after marrying me into the palace, you never saw me all day. What is the difference between such a huge palace and the cold palace..."

"As the mother of a country, you actually did something so immoral. How can I face the people of the world?" The emperor interrupted the queen, his voice even more stern.

"Tell me! Why do you want to harm Concubine Hua and Ayin? How did they offend you?" the emperor roared.

"Because you stayed in Jiangnan that year and didn't care about Wen'er's life or death. I hate her! I hate her! You have never treated any woman like this. I am afraid that if I give birth to a child in the future, it will affect the status of my mother and me..."

"But Ayin is a girl, why do you want to harm her?"

"I had someone draw a portrait of that bitch. This little bitch looks so much like her. I hate her when I see her! I must make her disappear!"

"Did you also send people to do the work in Medicine King Valley?"

"Yes! But they are lucky and have escaped time and time again. God doesn't help me! Ah!"

"Stupid, jealous woman! With a heart of a vicious snake!" The emperor thought it was ridiculous and pathetic. Just based on these things, she repeatedly harmed the mother and daughter. This woman was a lunatic from the beginning.

"Mother!" The prince shook his head at the queen, hoping that she would stop talking, as this would only anger the emperor further.

When the queen saw the prince, she burst into tears, tears streaming from the corners of her eyes. She suddenly seemed to change her mind, crawled two steps to the emperor, and said in a trembling voice: "Your Majesty, I know my crime, I shouldn't... I was confused for a moment!" At this moment, she knew she was scared.

The emperor looked at the queen coldly, "Humph! Are you confused for a moment? As the queen, you should be the mother of the country and a role model for the harem, but you don't know how to behave and do such a shameful thing. I am really disappointed. Come on, first banish the queen to the cold palace and never let her out for the rest of her life. Didn't they say that your palace is like a cold palace? I will let you have a taste of what a real cold palace is like."

When the queen heard this, her face turned pale. She looked at the emperor in horror, her eyes full of despair. Two guards came forward and dragged the queen out of the imperial study. The queen's screams echoed over the imperial study, making people shudder.