The queen seemed to have grasped hope. She held Shi Shuang's hand, staggered to the front, pointed at herself, and proved it.

"I am the queen, so the child I give birth to is naturally the legitimate son!"

"But..." Shi Shuang shook her head helplessly, "This child is not the emperor's. It's you and the maid's."

One sentence stirred up waves.

Everyone's eyes were focused on the queen. Some were shocked, some were contemptuous, and some suddenly realized that this matter was not groundless. Some ministers who had been in office for a long time had heard of this incident a long time ago.

The queen stood there in a daze, her face flushed.

She was already living an unhappy life, but now the last fig leaf had been torn off. "You are talking nonsense! Drag this bitch away and slap her in the face! Quick! I command you!"

A monk walked in.

The Queen was stunned. Her voice was trembling as she asked subconsciously, "An Lin, are you, are you still alive?"

Anlin bent down.

"Amitabha, how is the Queen these days?"

"An Lin! Where have you been all these years? When you were not around, they all bullied me!" The queen pounced over and grabbed An Lin tightly, but the man remained unmoved. She could only stare at him blankly.

Zhou Kang came back to his senses and quickly ordered, "Hurry up and take this evil monk out! He actually deceived the Queen. There has never been a guard named An Lin in the palace! The Emperor passed away suddenly. The Queen was so sad that she actually talked nonsense."

Shi Shuang asked back.

"Prime Minister, isn't this a monk? How did he become a guard? Or, we didn't mention what kind of guard An Lin was, how did you know?"

"You!" Zhou Kang was shaking with anger. He would be pissed off to death by her sooner or later. "Why don't you pull him out!"

An Lin yelled, "Wait!"

He helped the queen up and watched her sitting on the wooden chair, her eyes fixed on him. He felt complicated and bitter. He tore off the Buddhist beads in his hand, slowly moved forward, and knelt in front of the emperor.

Eunuch Song recognized An Lin and angrily asked, "You were once the most trusted person by the emperor's side! Why did you betray the emperor?"

An Lin couldn't help but shed tears.

"Your Majesty, I am sorry for you!"

He kowtowed continuously until blood flowed from his forehead. The queen knelt beside him and felt a little distressed.

"This is not your fault, it's my fault!"

Zhou Kang shouted, "Queen! Are you crazy? You think about yourself, but not Chong'er?"

An Lin took a deep breath and said calmly.

"What prince? He is the child of the queen and I! Don't even think about ruining the emperor's kingdom!"

The officials behind him had already started talking about it.

An Lin looked at the queen, with strange emotions in his eyes. How could he not love the queen who was once lonely and arrogant? The queen used him as a tool to relieve her loneliness, but he treated the queen as a lover. This was a relationship that was difficult to survive.

He left home and became a monk.

But in the past few years, his heart has been uneasy. When he heard that the emperor had passed away, he rushed here immediately. He loved the queen, but he felt even more sorry for the emperor.

"Shu'er, I'm sorry, but this is the Qi family's kingdom. I used to be the emperor's most loyal guard. In the next life, we must be good people."

He stood up and rushed towards the pillar.

"Your Majesty, I am here to apologize to you!"

boom!

"Do not!!!"

An Lin's breathing stopped at this moment as the Queen cried heartbreakingly.

Zhou Kang tested his breath and said expressionlessly, "Dead, Queen, I am just a servant. Please consider the overall situation."

The Grand Tutor asked, "May I ask, Queen, is what this person just said true?"

The queen looked around, her eyes full of despair.

She sneered, "Does truth or falsehood matter so much? Chong'er is the prince, the emperor!"

She pulled out the hairpin on her head and thrust it into her chest. She glanced at An Lin and fell into the emperor's arms.

Shi Shuang sighed incessantly, saying that it was said that women in the harem had a sad life, and it was indeed true.

Qi Xuan'en made the final decision: "The emperor's grandfather and grandmother will be buried in the imperial mausoleum. The emperor's grandfather and the former imperial concubine are in love and will be buried together. The emperor's uncle will still be the Prince Chong and will be moved to his fiefdom in two days."

All the officials knelt down and said, "Your Majesty is wise."

Qi Xuanen clenched his fist.

"Zhou Kang framed the late emperor. Anyone who knew about it will be executed! Anyone who didn't know about it will be pardoned!"

"Your Majesty! I did not frame the late emperor. Please understand!" Zhou Kang knelt on the ground, not panicking. He turned around and said, "Why don't you go and get the imperial physician!"

The imperial physician said, "The late emperor loved to have fun, and his body had long been depleted. Last night, he suddenly fell ill and there was no medicine to cure him. He was not killed by anyone."

Shi Shuang raised an eyebrow at her husband.

Xie Wei gently lifted the emperor's arm and said, "This is clearly a sign of being tied up with ropes. Prime Minister, are you abusing the late emperor?"

Zhou Kang's eyelids jumped and he blamed all the faults on the dead queen.

"The late emperor was insane and beat himself up. The late queen had no choice but to tie him up to prevent him from moving. This was all for the good of the emperor. Mr. Xie, please don't exaggerate. Our Zhou family has been loyal for generations, and we have three queens. How could we possibly frame the emperor?"

Pang Chang nodded.

"Yes, I believe in you, Prime Minister, and I am absolutely loyal to you! Your Majesty, please do not believe the slander of this villain."

Although Qi Xuan'en is young, he is sensible.

"Mrs. Xie is my savior. I listen to her."

Shi Shuang's eyes flashed with surprise. She had never thought that the emperor would miss her. She thought for a moment and said, "I know a divine doctor from Mobei. Let him take a look and the truth will be revealed!"

Mobei Miracle Doctor? Qi Xuanen agreed.

Ai Wu entered the palace, put his hand on his shoulder, and said respectfully: "I am sorry to be late. I am honored to meet the new emperor."

Qi Xuan'en said: "Please ask the doctor to find out the cause of Grandpa Huang's death."

Ai Wu stepped forward and after a careful inspection, he sighed deeply and said to the emperor and the officials.

"When the emperor was alive, he took a lot of drugs, which exhausted his body. The person who took the drugs was vicious. In addition, the emperor was tortured inhumanely. He didn't eat enough and didn't sleep well. He was probably suffocated to death yesterday."

Qi Xuanen was already in tears.

He asked heartbreakingly: "Zhou Kang! What else do you have to say! It was your Zhou family who killed Grandpa Huang!"

Zhou Kang shook his head, "I have nothing to say."

Qi Xuanen gritted his teeth and choked.

"Pull him away! Behead him!"

Qi Xuanen wiped away his tears, calmed down for a while, turned his back, and said calmly: "Except for the Xie family, the rest of you can leave."

All the officials looked at each other in bewilderment. It seemed that the Xie family was in its heyday and the new emperor would have to rely on the Xie family.

Xie Guzong comforted him, "Your Majesty, don't be too sad. There are internal and external troubles now, and there are many things that need you to deal with."

"I know." Qi Xuan'en clasped his hands together and bowed deeply, "Sister Shi Shuang, can I call you that? You saved me, what do you want? I will agree to it!"

Shi Shuang thought about it, and then she said, "Can I be exempted from kneeling?"

"Ah?" Qi Xuan'en was stunned, then smiled and said, "Of course! What else does Sister Shuang want? Just tell me."

"Then I hope the emperor will be a wise ruler."

"it is good!"

"..."

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