I've been reborn, who would still raise a son from another family? Go away

The maid's old mother is still in the hands of the Queen. If she says something she shouldn't, the Queen will definitely not let her off easily.

The maid trembled as she covered her bleeding severed finger, bit her lip, and begged bitterly, "Eunuch, I really didn't know. It was all due to my momentary negligence that this happened."

"If you want to punish someone, just punish this servant."

Eunuch Li's face turned a little colder.

The young eunuch stepped forward, pulled over the maid's other finger, and slowly used the dagger to mark a suitable position on her finger to cut off the finger.

The fear in the maid's heart was completely magnified.

This time, the young eunuch did not cut off the opponent's finger directly, but cut it in half, not quite breaking it...

Although the concubines would punish their servants on weekdays, most of the time they just did it to scare them.

Bloody things like this are basically done by the servants.

Now, in front of her, she watched Eunuch Li having his servant tortured like this.

They all subconsciously hid their hands and clenched them tightly, fearing that the knife would accidentally cut their hands.

Eunuch Li looked at the maid in front of him with a very cold gaze, and then asked; "Let me ask you one last time, how did the Fourth Prince get into the Queen's bedroom?"

"This is your last chance. If you cannot tell the truth, all your relatives in the palace will be implicated and expelled from the palace. Serious deception of the emperor is a serious crime punishable by death."

Eunuch Li's words kept echoing in the maid's mind.

Just to protect her mother, the maid covered her severed hand in pain, her face full of agony.

He glanced at the Queen who was kneeling on the ground inside.

She gritted her teeth and told the truth. "Eunuch Li, I say it's all my fault. I was the one who put the Fourth Prince in there. It has nothing to do with my family. If you want to punish me, punish me."

The maid cried sadly.

Eunuch Li keenly noticed something and his expression suddenly changed.

"Take her down and interrogate her later."

The maid was taken away.

Eunuch Li cast his eyes on the concubines and asked, "When the ladies came to the Queen's palace to pay their respects today, did you see clearly whether Madam Liu was drunk or fainted?"

The concubines buried their heads lower than each other.

No one wants to be the first to stand out.

Eunuch Li did not tolerate them and threatened directly: "Since you are unwilling to tell the truth, you will all be interrogated by the Ministry of Justice. Come here..."

After hearing this, the concubines kowtowed and begged for mercy. "We say, we say, we don't want to go to the Ministry of Justice."

One of the concubines, Yang, carefully looked inside and lowered her voice, "We came to the Queen's palace today just to drink tea and eat some snacks. The Queen didn't prepare any wine. After Madam Liu came in, I took a look and she never drank the tea or ate anything. She was fine, but her face looked bad for no reason."

"After that, the Queen sent us all back to our own residences. We don't know what happened next."

The other concubines heard what Concubine Yang said, the truth, so they simply pushed the queen together.

They all nodded and said, "Yes, we just went there to pay our respects to the Empress. We didn't participate in any major events. Your Majesty, please understand."

Eunuch Li looked at the frightened faces of those people, asked other people some questions, and then turned around and went inside to tell the emperor the news he had obtained.

All the concubines outside were sent back and each was confined to their homes for half a month.

The servants in the Queen's Court were each beaten with thirty sticks and sold out.

After everyone left.

Eunuch Li whispered in the ear of Emperor Hexu, "Your Majesty, that maid just now must know something..."

Emperor Hexu looked at the queen kneeling on the ground with disappointment.

At this time, the fourth prince also woke up slowly.

When he saw the emperor, he rolled off the bed in panic.

Climbing to the emperor's side, he said, "Your Majesty, I pay my respects to you, father..."

Xie Xuanyu swept his eyes over everyone in the Queen's room.

Seeing the Queen's sad expression.

Before Emperor Hexu could say anything, he raised his finger and pointed at Liu Yueru and said, "Father, please make the decision for me. I don't know why Madam Liu is lying in my mother's bedroom. She must have known that you would come here, and she wanted to seduce you."

Liu Yueru looked at the Fourth Prince in surprise.

I wonder if there's something wrong with his brain.

She was the future princess consort of the Prince of Jin and the wife of a very successful man in Kyoto. Why would she risk being buried with the emperor to climb into the old emperor's bed?

When Liu Yueru looked at Emperor Hexu, there was a hint of grievance and shame in her eyes.

When Emperor Hexu heard what the Fourth Prince said, his face suddenly changed, turning dark and red.

"Cough, cough, cough!" The violent coughing almost made Emperor Hexu unable to breathe.

Eunuch Li stepped forward, patted Emperor Hexu on the back, and said to him, "Your Majesty, calm down."

The Fourth Prince didn't know why the Emperor was angry and thought that the Emperor was mad at Liu Yueru for not knowing what was good for her.

Then he said, "Father, she was the one who stabbed me just now."

Xie Xuanyu turned his gaze towards Lixia and continued, "And her. They were all here just now. She was the one who knocked me out and threw me onto the bed..."

As soon as these words came out.

Liu Yueru's tears suddenly flowed out.

Her voice was trembling. "Your Majesty, I was summoned by the Queen today. I never thought that the Queen and the Fourth Prince would slander my innocence. I have no face to face Your Majesty. Please, Your Majesty, give me a cup of poisoned wine to kill me! You must not let Your Majesty be humiliated."

The emperor secretly admired Liu Yueru's chaste words.

However, he saw an expression that shouldn’t be there on the faces of the Queen and Xie Xuanyu.

Emperor Hexu was somewhat reluctant to believe it.

But in order to find more evidence against the Queen.

Emperor Hexu still said to Eunuch Li, "Take the maids and old women around the Queen away for interrogation."

The Queen's heart instantly turned cold. She knelt in front of the Hexu Emperor and said with a pale face, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, what do you want to do?"

Emperor Hexu snorted coldly and kicked the queen away. "Don't let me know that you have done something you shouldn't have done. Otherwise, even if someone from your mother's family comes, I will not let you off easily."

The Queen Mother looked at the maids and old women around her who were taken away for interrogation.

The body swayed slightly.

There is no wall in the world that is completely airtight.

The Queen looked at Emperor Hexu's resolute expression and thought that Emperor Hexu was just taking advantage of this incident to find out the truth.

Presumably, the new emperor has already chosen his successor.