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

Wu Mao knelt on the ground and kowtowed three times: "I recognize it, I recognize it. When I just entered the palace after being purified, Eunuch Hong came to lecture me. Since then, I have firmly remembered Eunuch Hong's words and his voice. I secretly swore that one day I would become a figure like Eunuch Hong."

Song Yafeng sneered.

"After I recognized his voice, I didn't dare to come forward. I hid in the corner, wanting to hear what the Queen was talking about when she met with Eunuch Hong in the middle of the night."

Song Yafeng raised his eyelids, glanced at the people present, and asked calmly: "Since you recognized his voice, what did he say?"

Wu Mao swallowed his saliva, not daring to look up at anyone in front of him. "Yes, it was quite far away, so I couldn't hear it clearly. I only vaguely heard Eunuch Hong begging for mercy, saying something like 'I have served the emperor for decades, and I really can't do it. If the queen wants to kill you, just kill me.'"

Empress Shu sat upright in the center of the hall and slowly picked up a cup of tea at just the right temperature and drank it.

Li Shuangwan couldn't help but admire her even more. In such a situation, anyone would be a little flustered, but Queen Shu remained dignified, without any unnecessary expression on her face.

No wonder she gave birth to a man like Gu Xingyan.

Seeing that she was still as steady as a rock, Song Yafeng sneered inwardly. Now he knew he was panicking, but he pretended to be calm on the surface and tried to cover up his inner panic by drinking tea.

Oh, it's too late. It's her fault for not being satisfied and going against the Imperial Concubine.

If she had come before His Majesty early and asked to give up the position of Queen, and then asked His Majesty to appoint the Third Prince as Crown Prince, wouldn't everything have been fine?

Who knows, when the Third Prince ascends the throne, she may be honored as the Imperial Concubine, and her two sons may become wealthy princes.

Now, three lives are to be sacrificed for her ambition.

Song Yafeng smiled and said, "Continue."

Wu Mao secretly glanced at the empress and the crown prince who were sitting at the top. Seeing that their expressions had not changed from beginning to end, he was so frightened that his whole body began to tremble again. He said anxiously, "The empress saw that Eunuch Hong did not agree, so she handed a booklet and a box wrapped in oil paper to Eunuch Hong."

"Oh? Did you see clearly what's inside?"

Wu Mao shook his head desperately, "It's too dark, too far away, I can't see clearly, I only saw that after Eunuch Hong opened the things and looked at them, he was so scared that he collapsed to the ground. After a long while, he knelt up and kowtowed several times. He said that the queen ordered me to kill people, and I had to obey. But after that, I would have no way to live. I only ask the queen to treat my family well in the future."

"I plucked up the courage to stick my head out and take a closer look, and I saw the Queen Mother take out a belt from Aunt Ning Ru and handed it to Eunuch Hong. She also said, "Don't worry, Hong Mai. I will treat your family well. Here is a thin blade. After the task is completed, you can use it to cut your neck. It will be done quickly and without any pain."

"Then what?" Song Yafeng asked with a hint of anger in his tone. What belt, what thin blade, he never told Wu Mao about these things. Wu Mao, you are looking for death!

"Then, then? No, there was no then. Eunuch Hong took the belt and left. A moment later, the Queen Mother took Aunt Ning Ru into the small kitchen and hid the two things. I was afraid that if it was something important, it would be found out about us servants, so I secretly hid under the window and peeked."

"After they left, I immediately went into the small kitchen and turned out the hidden things. It was exactly the two things that Lord Song had in his hand."

Everyone looked at the queen with a slightly different expression.

Xie Changan slapped the armrest of his chair and shouted, "Since you discovered it a month and a half ago, why didn't the Jinyiwei and the Dongchang report it after investigating the case for so long?"

Wu Mao shuddered with fear, his face turned pale, and the blood coagulating on his forehead looked even more hideous: "The Queen has arrested my parents and threatened me that if I dare to tell anyone about this, she will kill them."

"But the East Factory's interrogation methods are too harsh. They use all kinds of torture. I can't bear it any more. I have no choice but to ignore my parents' safety."

At this point, Wu Mao looked up to the sky and burst into tears, "Father, mother, I am an unfilial son. I can die, but I can't stand the torture of the East Factory. I have no choice but to confess. If the queen wants to kill you, I can only kowtow to you and apologize in my nine springs."

He cried and kowtowed desperately, and soon the ground was covered in blood.

The confession was forced under torture and seemed credible.

It's just a pity that his words don't make sense.

Gu Xingyan couldn't help but sneer in his heart. The mother and son of the Chen family thought they had a sure win and had lost their minds. They found a "witness" who couldn't even say a word.

Song Yafeng's eyebrows couldn't help but twitch a few times, and he shouted, "Didn't you say that you entered the small kitchen after the queen and the others left? How did the queen know that you knew about this? How could she threaten you with your family!"

Wu Mao's forehead was covered with cold sweat. He knew that he was too nervous and stuttered, making a big mistake and forgetting to say something important: "No, no. When I was rummaging through things, the Queen and Aunt Ning Ru suddenly came back again, and I was blocked by them."

Gu Xingyan chuckled, straightened his hair, and said slowly: "Since the Queen has discovered you, why did she still hide the things in the small kitchen? Isn't she waiting for you to tell on her?"

Wu Mao wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "Yes, it's because the queen threatened my parents. And, and the place where she hid at first was not under the abandoned stove. It was on the beam. Yes, she hid on the beam."

Gu Xingyan's lips curled slightly. You have to know that the beam of the small kitchen is a log as thick as an adult's arm. Not to mention that it can't even hold an oil paper bag, even if it can, you can see it as soon as you enter the small kitchen and look up.

Besides, how could the Queen and Aunt Ningru, two women, climb so high?

Gu Xingyan glanced at Song Yafeng indifferently and found that he seemed unaware of the loophole in Wu Mao's words, but his clenched fists still betrayed his inner panic.

Just as Gu Xingyan expected, Song Yafeng knew it very well. As the commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard, it was his instinct to observe every detail wherever he went. How could he not know that the beams of the small kitchen could not hold anything?

But it doesn’t matter, no one here can notice this.