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Shen Qinglan's words directly hit the Queen's true thoughts.

After all, the situation of Prince Zhan's Mansion was not particularly good at the time. Emperor Jingren was wary and would most likely find an excuse to deal with Prince Zhan's Mansion.

If this is the case, then if the Queen gets too close to Prince Zhan's Mansion, she will definitely be implicated.

This is also the reason why the Queen silently had someone put a curse on Huo Junyan.

She knew how much importance the Zhan Palace attached to these children. As long as she controlled this child, she would not be afraid that Huo Zhanting would be disobedient.

In this way, she doesn't have to be too close to Prince Zhan's Mansion and arouse Emperor Jingren's suspicion. She can also take the opportunity to let Huo Zhanting help her when necessary.

In fact, the Queen had thought of using this incident to make Huo Zhanting voluntarily withdraw from the position of commander of the Jingji Guard.

But the queen was too confident at the time, thinking that she could easily take control of the Jingji Guard with just a random trick, and there was no need to use this trump card.

However, what he didn't expect was that the trump card was not used, and Wang Heng and the entire Wang family suffered.

Therefore, when the queen heard what Shen Qinglan said, she understood what Shen Qinglan meant.

What sincerity or insincerity? Shen Qinglan was just testing her!

Of course, in addition to this, Shen Qinglan was more trying to intimidate the Queen so that she would put Shen Qinglan on an equal footing to discuss this so-called cooperation.

The queen thought about it for a long time, then she sighed and asked, "What do you want to cooperate with me on?"

Seeing that the Queen had relaxed, Shen Qinglan knew that her words were not in vain, and she pointed directly to the chair next to her.

The queen took a look and immediately sat down, face to face with Shen Qinglan.

Shen Qinglan asked someone to bring out an account book and handed it to the queen, smiling brightly:

"It's called cooperation, but in reality it's a great gift that Jiashun specially sent to the Queen. This gift will definitely solve the problems that the Queen and the Eighth Prince have been facing these days."

Shen Qinglan's words sounded quite arrogant. The Queen did not comment but took the account book from Shen Qinglan's hand and opened it.

Unexpectedly, the queen almost stood up after taking a look.

She suppressed the shock in her heart, looked at Shen Qinglan in doubt and said:

"Prince Li lost something a few days ago. Was it you who did it?"

Shen Qinglan shook her head and said with a half-smile: "Now that this thing is in the hands of the queen, it has nothing to do with Jiashun."

Shen Qinglan's meaning was very clear. She had no intention of interfering in what happened next. Everything was decided by the Queen.

The queen looked at the account book in her hand, frowned slightly, and couldn't help asking:

"what do you want?"

Is Shen Qinglan doing charity by simply giving himself the account book of the Fourth Prince's private soldiers?

Based on the Queen's current understanding of Shen Qinglan, she doesn't believe that Shen Qinglan is so kind.

I'm afraid there are other plans hidden in this.

Seeing the queen looking at him suspiciously, Shen Qinglan sighed and explained helplessly:

"Empress, you should have known that Jiashun has already thoroughly offended Prince Li, and the situation between us has long been a life-and-death struggle. As the saying goes, it is better to die than to die with a friend, so there is nothing wrong with me doing this, right?"

After Shen Qinglan said this, she felt that the Queen was looking at her with a scrutinizing look.

With the Queen's ability, she must know that she had cheated Prince Li badly earlier, so it was reasonable for her to take action against Prince Li.

Sure enough, the Queen thought about it and seemed to agree with Shen Qinglan's explanation, but then asked:

"It's true that you offended Prince Li, but have you forgotten that the Wang family was also severely damaged because of you? Wang Heng even died because of you?"

Shen Qinglan shook his head and said firmly:

"The Queen is different from Prince Li. Although she is a woman, her mind and vision are not comparable to Prince Li or other princes. Jiashun seeks cooperation from the Queen because he knows that the Queen will put the overall situation first."

Shen Qinglan's beautiful eyes fell on the queen at this moment, full of seriousness.

She didn't say this to flatter the queen.

Just from the few times she had fought with the Queen, she could tell that she completely recognized the Queen.

If the queen was really like an ordinary person, she would have destroyed the Wang family long ago. When Wang Heng died, she had already fought Shen Qinglan and the Wang Mansion to the death.

But the queen didn't.

The fact that she was able to hold back her anger proved the queen's broad-mindedness and vision, and that she would not act impulsively.

Planning before making decisions is the reason why the Queen has been able to hold on to the throne for so many years, even though Concubine Yan was extremely favored and even though Emperor Jingren regarded the late Queen as his true love and first wife.

This is why Shen Qinglan chose to cooperate with the Queen.

After a pause, Shen Qinglan continued: "Of course, Jiashun also has some selfish motives."

"You said."

"Jiashun hopes that the Queen will protect Marquis Jing'an when she takes action. The Queen also knows that Marquis Jing'an is Jiashun's biological father, but he accidentally got involved with Prince Li and the gold mine. If he is exposed, he will surely die."

Shen Qinglan's words made the queen determined to come.

Although Shen Qinglan said before that he chose to cooperate with the Queen because of the grudge with Prince Li, Shen Qinglan went to so much trouble to get the account book, but gave it to the Queen without asking for anything. This made the Queen a little worried whether Shen Qinglan had any other tricks up his sleeve.

But Shen Qinglan's words now are enough to prove that Shen Qinglan's real purpose is to protect Marquis Jing'an, her biological father.

These days, Marquis Jing'an told the Eighth Prince and the Ninth Prince about the gold mine owned by Prince Li. It can be seen that he wanted to save himself.

Perhaps Marquis Jing'an discovered that the Eighth and Ninth Princes were indifferent, so Shen Qinglan set up this game for the sake of his biological father.

From this perspective, privately mining gold is a capital crime, but if Shen Qinglan did this just to save his father, then it would be natural.

"Okay, I promise you."

After the queen figured it out, she stood up and handed the account book to Yun Lanxin beside her.

After hearing the Queen's words, Shen Qinglan happily stood up, bowed to the Queen, and thanked her solemnly.

After the queen left, Shu Yu couldn't help but stepped forward and asked indignantly, "Miss, why did you help Marquis Jing'an?"

Shen Qinglan patted Shuyu's shoulder, narrowed his eyes slightly, as if smiling, and said in a faint voice:

"He is my biological father, so I will naturally do my best to help him..."

Upon hearing this, Shu Yu looked at Shen Qinglan with understanding and didn't ask any more questions.

The queen left Qiluo Palace and returned to her own palace.

Yun Lanxin stepped forward and handed the account book back to the queen.

After the queen carefully read it, she confirmed that it was a real account book and could not help but exclaimed:

"I really didn't expect that the biting dog really doesn't bark. If this fourth brother hadn't offended Shen Qinglan, I'm afraid I really wouldn't know that he actually raised private soldiers. If it comes to the critical moment, the outcome is really hard to say."

Yun Lanxin nodded after hearing the Queen's sigh, and then, as if she had thought of something, she asked curiously:

"But I always feel that Princess Jiashun doesn't look like such a kind person. She has the account book in her hand, why doesn't she hand it over herself? Why does she have to use you, the Queen, to do it?"