Use a substitute on your wedding night to scatter the ashes of your entire family

Empress Shu shook her head: "The person I sent to pick him up only brought the news five days ago. Chen Xueyun and the Chen family are not easy to deal with. General Chen controls the twenty-sixth battalion of the Forty-Nine City and has a large number of troops at his disposal."

As soon as the Emperor of Daliang got into trouble, the Crown Prince sent a letter by flying eagle, and Empress Shu immediately sent her confidant to take people to Tongzhou to pick up Xiao Jiuer.

However, she lived deep in the harem, and the Emperor of Daliang acted suddenly, so there were not many people who could be sent out immediately.

Aunt Ning Ru sighed softly, "Don't worry, madam. The Duke has also sent secret guards to pick him up, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has also sent his personal guards to pick him up. The Ninth Prince will be blessed by heaven and will return safely to you and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

"Well, my little Jiuer will be fine." He will come back safely, he will definitely come back.

Suddenly, they heard a thumping sound behind them. They were startled and turned around quickly, only to see that the man in the painting was kneeling on the ground.

Empress Shu almost forgot how to think and stared blankly at the man in front of her. He was even more handsome than in the painting, with a straight posture and strong features. He was a descendant of the Shu family.

"My queen, it's His Highness the Ninth Prince. His Highness the Ninth Prince is back. His Highness the Ninth Prince is back safely." Aunt Ning Ru said in a trembling voice, "His Highness the Ninth Prince, hurry up, get up, get up quickly..."

Aunt Ning Ru choked up and said, "For the past twenty-one years, the Queen has been looking forward to you day and night, and finally you are here."

"Mother, I am an unfilial son..." Gu Xingyan knelt before Empress Shu, thinking of his past life, his heart felt like it was pierced by thorns, and he kowtowed one after another.

Empress Shu's lips were trembling and she couldn't utter a word. She watched Xiao Jiuer kowtow to her.

Aunt Ning Ru was so distressed that she wanted to help him.

Gu Xingyan didn't give in. He kowtowed twenty-one times, his forehead already bruised. "Aunt Ning Ru, let me kowtow to my mother twenty-one times. I have made my mother worry for twenty-one years. I am unfilial, very unfilial."

In his past and present lives combined, he should have kowtowed thirty-three times.

Aunt Ning Ru supported Empress Shu and also burst into tears.

Empress Shu personally stepped forward to help Gu Xingyan up, wiped her tears with her sleeve, and asked, "Did you come in through the secret passage?"

"Yes, my brother gave me the secret passage map."

"Okay, okay. You two brothers have never met each other before, but you can trust each other so much. You are worthy of being my sons."

Time was running out, so Gu Xingyan got straight to the point: "Mother, Chen used Eunuch Hong to frame you, so it's impossible for her to do nothing. Have you thoroughly checked your Kunning Palace?"

Empress Shu nodded, then shook her head: "We have checked everything, and there is nothing. The Jinyiwei and the Dongchang people have also searched, but there is nothing. The eunuchs and palace maids who served us have also been questioned, and there is nothing wrong."

"There was also your brother's Eastern Palace, of course including Chen Xueyun's Yongchun Palace and Gu Xingyuan's Third Prince's Mansion. They were all searched thoroughly. Every corner of the entire palace was searched, but nothing was found. So, after so much time, the case has not been solved yet."

Gu Xingyan shook his head, because he knew that in his previous life, his father was not killed by Hong Mai, but died in the bed of a concubine in the harem.

Hong Mai lived well and saw his brother's enthronement ceremony two months later. He then asked his brother for permission to leave the palace to spend his remaining years in peace.

His brother also gave him a considerable sum of resettlement money, as he did not betray them in his previous life.

Every time my father went back to the harem, he would take that medicine first. That day, he took too much of the medicine and died on her body.

The concubine was naturally executed, but before her death she confessed that the medicine was given to her secretly by her mother.

She said that the Queen had promised to make her gain the favor of her father, and she helped the Queen to win over the concubines in the harem and their families.

Concubine Chen refused to give in and joined forces with General Chen and a number of Chen's factions in the court to put pressure on her brother and mother.

In the end, it was the head shop owner Xie Chang'an who took the lead and ordered the Jinyiwei to search the entire harem. However, they managed to dig a hole under the long-unused stove in the small kitchen of the queen mother's Kunning Palace, and found the medicine there.

Of course the Queen Mother refused to admit it, and she asked to be confined to Kunning Palace, asking the East Factory and the Embroidered Uniform Guard to thoroughly investigate the matter.

Of course he knew that their mother was dignified and upright, and would not resort to such despicable means. The relationship between her and their father had long been worn away by his increasing favoritism towards Concubine Chen and her son. How could she bear to let another woman repeat her mistakes?

The elder brother is the legitimate crown prince of Daliang. Once their father passes away, the throne will naturally belong to the elder brother. There is no need for them to do such a thing that harms others and does not benefit themselves.

He was well aware of Concubine Chen's methods, so he immediately took control of all the palace maids and eunuchs in his mother's palace.

In the end, of course, Concubine Chen shot herself in the foot. Only then did everyone realize that the so-called Jinyiwei who only obeyed the emperor were a joke.

Song Yafeng, commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard, is a member of the Chen family.

He bribed the eunuch who was in charge of cooking in the small kitchen of Kunning Palace, controlled his family, and forced him to secretly hide the medicine in that place.

It was also he who guided the Jinyiwei to search this place.

At that time, she had been giving this medicine to her father for nearly half a year.

As soon as his brother ascended the throne, he imprisoned Concubine Chen. Gu Xingyuan attempted to jailbreak her on a dark and windy night but was captured instead.

In the end, both mother and son were executed.

"Mother, are all the servants and eunuchs serving in Kunning Palace still here?"

Empress Shu was startled. "After your father died, the Imperial Guards and the Eastern Depot took away all the eunuchs and maids. Now, in my palace, besides Ning Ru, there are only two other eunuchs and two maids who serve me."

Gu Xingyan's heart skipped a beat. He was worried about this matter, so he had to go to the palace.

"Mother, has your small kitchen been searched?"

Empress Shu nodded: "Of course we have searched it. If there was anything, we would have found it long ago."

Aunt Ning Ru exclaimed, "No, Madam, I remember that although Lord Song sent people to search, they just went through the motions there and did not search as thoroughly as they did in other places."

Empress Shu also remembered and asked Gu Xingyan: "Xiao Jiuer, do you suspect that someone would put the evidence of frame-up in the small kitchen?"

"Mother, the Royal Guards have checked every place, and they have checked every detail, so why did they just go through the motions in the small kitchen?"

Miss Ning Ru asked in confusion, "A gentleman should stay away from the kitchen?"

Gu Xingyan sneered: "Aunt Ning Ru, the Jinyiwei is responsible for finding the murderer."

Empress Shu also felt something was wrong: "Xiao Jiu'er, you, are you saying that this is Chen Xueyun's final killer move?"

Aunt Ning Ru's face turned pale. "Empress, His Majesty the Ninth Prince's guess is very likely. Do you still remember that more than ten days ago, when the incident happened, Lord Xie and other important officials were invited to the palace overnight. Lord Xie proposed to search the entire palace, and hundreds of Jinyiwei rushed into Kunning Palace?"

Of course Empress Shu remembered.