The fake daughter of a fallen ghost is reborn

The runner-up, third place and other Jinshi candidates, who were originally standing a little behind, now all came forward in unison.

"kneel!"

Following the order, everyone knelt down and bowed: "Thank you, Your Majesty! Thank you, Your Majesty!"

So, Xue Zhiyi and a group of palace maids came forward holding palace flowers and pinned them in the hair.

Xue Zhiyi sat in the first seat, holding in his hand the palace flower that belonged exclusively to the number one scholar.

I only heard Peng Hui shouting: "Put on the flower!"

Xue Zhiyi responded and opened the box containing the palace flowers.

Looking at Jiang Xu kneeling upright with his brows lowered, she lowered her voice so low that only they could hear each other, and whispered, "Congratulations, Mr. Jiang."

Hearing this familiar voice, Jiang Xu suddenly raised his eyes, but when he saw Xue Zhiyi looking at him with a smile, he was suddenly startled: "It's you?"

He seemed to have something else to ask, but it was not appropriate to talk anymore in this situation. Xue Zhiyi was just serious and prepared to put the flower pin on his official hat without saying anything else. Jiang Xu could only keep his head down and let her do whatever she wanted.

Xue Zhiyi didn't notice that Huo Wuyou at the table was staring at this direction sullenly, with his chin in his hand, feeling very irritable.

Beside him, Huo Wuhui was confused: "Brother, do you hate Sister Zhiyi or do you hate Jiang Zhuangyuan? What's that expression on your face?"

Huo Wuyou just clicked his tongue and said, "Don't interrupt, kid."

Huo Wuhui became more and more confused: Who interrupted?

When everyone's eyes were focused on these people who were being rewarded, no one noticed that the magpies on top of Concubine Song's canopy were now staring at one direction with eager eyes.

Suddenly, there was a rustling sound of flapping wings, and the magpies seemed to be strongly attracted by something and flew in one direction uncontrollably.

Beside the Queen Mother, Chai Yue was the first to notice something was wrong. She shouted, "Be careful!"

Xue Zhiyi looked up and saw flocks of magpies flying towards her.

"what!"

She screamed artificially, and was so frightened that she couldn't even hold Gong Hua, and threw her to the ground.

The magpie came with great force, and someone shouted, "Protect the king!"

So the guards rushed forward and stood in front of the emperor, the empress dowager and the concubines.

But the group of magpies that were regarded as auspicious birds just now seemed to have gone crazy. The scholars who had been standing upright were now in a panic and raised their hands to disperse them.

However, the magpies did not hurt them, but instead rushed to grab the palace flowers that Xue Zhiyi had thrown on the ground.

The scene was in chaos. Xue Zhiyi was tripped by someone and was about to fall to the ground, but someone grabbed her collar from behind and lifted her up before she hit the ground.

Although Huo Wuyou didn't know what bad intentions she had, after several times of collusion, they had developed a tacit understanding with each other. He was very sure that this matter was related to Xue Zhiyi.

When Xue Zhiyi looked up, she saw Huo Wuyou looking at her with an understanding look on his face.

As soon as she stood firm, she said timidly, "It's so scary. How could such a terrible thing happen?"

Huo Wuyou looked at her, gave her a knowing smile, and said nothing.

In the chaos, this scene fell into Gu Shichong's eyes. He couldn't see the expressions of the two people clearly, but he felt that Huo Wuyou was... quite caring towards the people in Jianzhang Palace.

Here, the guards tried to disperse the magpies that were pecking at the palace flowers frantically, but those magpies seemed to be crazy, as if there was some irresistible attraction on the palace flowers that made them try to peck at them even in the face of the ferocious guards.

Seeing this scene, Concubine Song clenched her hands and her face turned pale: How could this happen? How could this happen?

Finally, the magpies were driven away, but the emperor's face had turned ashen.

The queen still tried to comfort him: "Your Majesty, it's all right now."

But Concubine Ge said, "Your Majesty, I think it's really strange that the magpies suddenly lost control, as if they had received someone's order."

Upon hearing this, Concubine Song almost gasped.

The Queen Mother also looked hesitant: "This matter really needs to be investigated thoroughly."

At this time, Concubine Wu Lifei was surprised and asked, "Your Majesty, look at the edge of the palace lace, there seems to be something?"

Xue Zhiyi had already returned to the Queen Mother's side, but Huo Wuyou was still standing there. Upon hearing this, he squatted down to check the palace flowers, and then he frowned.

Huo Wuyou stood up and bowed: "Your Majesty, there seems to be some brown powder on the palace flowers, but I don't know what it is, and I don't know if it has anything to do with those crazy magpies."

The emperor's brows furrowed even more tightly, and then he called out, "Tu Yuxian."

The Dali Temple Minister stood up from his seat and bowed, saying, "I am here."

"Look." said the emperor.

Tu Yuxian just went forward to take a closer look. As the Chief Justice of Dali Temple, he had handled many cases. Although his character was not good enough, it did not mean that he was mediocre and incompetent.

After a moment, he said, "Your Majesty, these powders were caught in the gaps between the golden threads that bound the palace flowers. It seems that someone deliberately hid them there. As for whether it is related to the madness of the magpie, Your Majesty, please let me try it."

When the guards were driving away the magpies just now, they caught a few and put them in a cloth bag, which came in handy now.

Tu Yuxian sprinkled just a little bit of the powder outside the cloth bag, and the magpies inside became restless. Once the cloth bag was opened, they became even more crazy, scrambling to peck at the powder, and some even hurt their companions for that little bit of powder.

Everyone looked surprised and whispered to each other. Only Concubine Song felt extremely guilty at this moment. She stared at the magpies, her lips trembling uncontrollably. She didn't even dare to look into the emperor's eyes and was almost scared to death.

Concubine Ge just sneered: "I didn't expect that the magpie, a symbol of good fortune, could be driven by these external objects. It's really unexpected."

The emperor just had a gloomy face, making it impossible to tell what he was thinking at the moment.

Did the magpies that were originally regarded as auspicious signs and came towards Concubine Song really come on their own, or were they attracted by some external force?

Who was responsible for the powder in the palace flowers? Someone from the Shanggong Bureau? Or was it Ge Yuanhui who handled it?

Ge Yuanhui was also panicking at this moment: How could this happen? She had never touched this palace flower. Did Xue Zhiyi do something? Or... Or was all this done by Xue Zhiyi? Could it be... that she was being plotted against again? How could this be possible? How could Xue Zhiyi be so predictable?

Xue Zhiyi certainly didn't expect Lan Ying to suddenly resort to that shady trick, and she never expected Ge Yuanhui to be so shameless in grabbing the credit. The only person she really wanted to deal with was Concubine Song.

From the moment Concubine Song made things difficult for her in Jianzhang Palace, she discovered that Concubine Song was dependent on Concubine Ge.

But who would be willing to endure such a life of being controlled by others?

In the past, Concubine Song had no chance, but after she became pregnant, Xue Zhiyi personally created the "Koi Brings Blessings" to let her see the opportunity, the opportunity to get rid of Concubine Ge.

But Xue Zhiyi also knew that she couldn't really let Concubine Song be proud. Such a despicable person had been targeting her everywhere when she was not favored yet. If she really became a favored concubine in the future, she would probably get rid of her as soon as possible.

Xue Zhiyi would never forge a knife with the tip pointing at himself.

So today, she had prepared the bait early, intending to use it to cause chaos when the auspicious sign created by Concubine Song arrived, and then let the emperor become suspicious of Concubine Song based on the powder she left behind.

In this way, even if the emperor did not severely punish Concubine Song for the sake of the child, Concubine Song would lose the emperor's trust and favor.

Who would believe a disfavored concubine who dared to lie to the emperor and later tried to frame Xue Zhiyi with the royal heir in her womb?

Not only that, Concubine Song's presumptuous bid for favor was too lawless for Concubine Ge, who could not tolerate any grain of sand in her eyes. I was afraid that next, Xue Zhiyi would not have to do anything at all, and Concubine Ge would take action to deal with Concubine Song.

However, what was unexpected was that Ge Yuanhui and Lan Ying would actually seek their own death. I'm afraid they must be sweating profusely at this moment, right?