Your Majesty has a white moonlight

On New Year's Eve, the most festive night of the year, the queen mother went and the prince was poisoned.Everyone lost their interest in celebrating the festival, and felt creepy, and even began to doubt the connection between these two things.

But the Queen Mother did die peacefully, without any sign of poisoning.The extra spirit in the first half of the night is more like a flashback.

However, these two incidents always seem to have a mysterious connection, so it is even more necessary to step up efforts to solve the case and take strict precautions.If the empress dowager is mourned, there will be confusion among the people and it will be difficult to check.So the emperor decreed that the news of the queen mother's death should not be announced for the time being, and additional manpower would be sent to search, and no one could move around unless ordered.

The palace was turned upside down, and many secrets and forbidden items were found, but there was no conclusive evidence of poisoning the prince.The palace servants who served the prince were all detained, repeating where the prince went from morning to night, what he ate;

Little has been achieved, but it must go on.The palace maid next to the prince thought for a while, and said, "I went to the Empress Dowager's palace at night and had a bite of pine nut cake..."

They have been questioned for a long time, but they still don't know the news of the Queen Mother's death.But the interrogator knew that when he heard the word "Queen Dowager", his drowsiness immediately dissipated, and he asked, "Can you say it again?"

The maid didn't know where she said something wrong, she just said: "The queen mother asked the prince to come over and treat the prince to have some snacks."

The interrogator hurriedly said, "Speak up, and explain in more detail."

The maid thought for a while and said: "About Haishi, the queen mother invited the prince to go, but chatted for a while. The queen mother invited the prince to have a snack, which was brought by Aunt Huanfang. The prince only picked a piece of pine nut cake, took a bite, and went out. lost."

The palace was thoroughly searched, except for the palace of the recently deceased queen mother.

This place is extraordinary, unlike other places, the people below did not dare to act rashly and hurriedly reported it to the emperor.So the emperor went in person and detained everyone in the small kitchen, but he couldn't see the maid serving the pastry.

This "Huanfang" is a confidant of the Empress Dowager, who has served the Empress Dowager for many years, and has never left the palace when she is old.The palace people outside said that Aunt Huanfang was going to sort out the remains of the Empress Dowager herself, but she was still in the inner room and hadn't come out.

The chief eunuch in charge of the search looked at the emperor, who only nodded, and the eunuch said, "Come in."

As soon as the door was opened, it was shocking to see the maid hanging on the beam, having committed suicide.The hearts of all the people present sank, as the truth was about to come out.

The queen mother lay quietly on the bed, her face was sallow and lifeless.I searched the room, but I couldn't find any leftover snacks.The eunuch asked the prince's personal maid: "Where did the prince leave that piece of cake?"

"It's roughly...here..." Following the direction the maid pointed, I found half a piece of pine nut cake in the haystack.

"Can you see clearly? Is it really this one?"

"Servant confirmed." The maid said, "The crown prince likes to eat this snack, it can't be wrong."

So the imperial doctor picked up some crumbs to taste, and asked someone to bring a dog, and fed it a small piece of snacks.

The poison was released so hard that the snacks changed their taste.The dog fell to the ground not long after eating, howling and foaming at the mouth.

The people in the small kitchen knelt on the ground, crying profusely, crying one by one: "She did it all by herself! None of us knew about it!"

"What did she do? What did she do, how do you know?" the eunuch asked.

"It must be Huanfang who poisoned the prince, and she committed suicide in fear of crime!"

"Oh?" the eunuch smiled, "You know it well. Xu Huanfang was grateful for the kindness of the Queen Mother, so she went with the Queen Mother. You have a good excuse to frame her."

The man was so frightened that he froze his ass and kowtowed desperately: "Elder-in-law, father-in-law, you are wronged! You are clearly aware!"

The big eunuch ignored him, and turned to the group of maids and eunuchs outside the door just now and said: "What about you? A group of big living people are here, why can't they ignore a Huanfang? Don't try to pretend to be stupid. If she is a real murderer, you It's all accomplices."

A group of people panicked, but the emperor was still there, and the scene was extremely depressing.A young eunuch hesitated to speak, but Eunuch Li, who was investigating the case, nodded to him and said, "If you have anything to say, say it."

The little eunuch crawled to his feet and stammered: "Mother, Empress Dowager, I heard that it was the Empress Dowager, and the Empress Dowager called Aunt Huanfang..."

The emperor's extremely gloomy face darkened again.The big eunuch hesitated and cast his eyes on the emperor.

Everyone held their breath and listened to the emperor's soft voice: "You are so brave, you dare to frame the Queen Mother."

The little eunuch cried and defended, but the emperor stopped looking at him and turned away.So the case was closed in this way. Aunt Huanfang, who was next to the queen mother, took the opportunity to poison the prince.She didn't say anything about the mastermind behind the scenes, nor did she say the reason, and no one said how she knew that the queen mother was going to invite the prince on this day.Some people said that Huanfang had a quarrel with Concubine Zhao in the past, but it was just a guesswork.

When Yan Qinghe woke up early in the morning, he heard that something happened in the palace.Although the matter has not been made public yet, they are well-informed after all, and have more or less heard about it.However, after all, it was only vague news, only hearing about the poisoning case, the imperial doctor running all night, and even preparing for the funeral, he was still a big shot.

Yan Qinghe was so frightened that his whole body turned cold, but he calmed down and thought about it, if something happened to the emperor, it would be impossible to be so calm; besides, such gossip always spread more and more exaggerated, and the more it spread, the more terrifying it became.However, he really couldn't calm down. Whenever he sat down, he would think wildly, and whenever he thought about it, he would think of the worst place.

People are not in the mood to seriously celebrate the New Year, and they are talking about it.Even if he can control his own heart, he can't control other people's mouths. People often feel that gossip is more credible than reason.

Those terrible thoughts just flashed vaguely, and he never dared to seriously think about "what if" or "if".He just kept thinking that he should see the emperor so that he could feel at ease.Of course, it wasn't because he was afraid of a big event and chaos in the world—he couldn't agree to the emperor, but if the emperor had any troubles, he would be the saddest person in the whole world.

At this moment, the palace is still under martial law, so he immediately tried to contact Liu Shan to enter the palace.If nothing happened, that would be the best, the emperor would not blame him for his recklessness, nor would he get bored with him; Just leave.

But what if neither?Yan Qinghe just thought of this, and just walked to the door of the emperor's bedroom.

He saw the emperor.The emperor had just negotiated the funeral with several officials from the Ministry of Rituals who came in urgently, and they were going to announce the death of the Queen Mother to the world.The emperor didn't sleep all night, so tired that he didn't even want to make any expression, just closed his eyes and rested his mind.He didn't open his eyes, but he knew it was Yan Qinghe who came.He didn't ask Yan Qinghe why he came, he just said, "Sit down."

Yan Qinghe saw that the emperor looked tired and his eyes were black and blue, but he was here well after all.It was such an ordinary scene, like many days before, but at this moment he felt a burst of great gratitude and joy, so that his nasal cavity was sore.

He didn't sit down, he reached out to touch the emperor's face, to touch the dark skin under his eyes.The emperor opened his eyes slightly, stared at him for a while, and said, "I'm fine."

"En." Yan Qinghe responded with a sound.

"Just tired..." said the emperor, "The Empress Dowager died last night."

This was expected by Yan Qinghe, after all, the queen mother has been just lingering for a few years, and it is not surprising that the oil is exhausted and the lamp is dying.

The emperor said: "She really knows how to choose the time, and it will make the whole world have a hard time..."

After the emperor finished speaking, he smiled: "But she is still not satisfied, she wants the prince to be buried with her. She is too crazy."

Yan Qinghe was shocked, and quickly pieced together the fragmentary rumors.He went to hold the emperor's hand and interlocked his fingers.

"She poisoned the prince... the prince is fateful. God has eyes and doesn't want to accept him."

Yan Qinghe said: "As long as there is nothing wrong, as long as the prince is fine."

The emperor said: "After so many years, she is still not reconciled. I was so confused that I actually believed her... She has been treating me well for decades, and I actually believed her. I was careless. I didn't expect it." Even today, she still wants to do something to the prince."

Yan Qinghe asked: "Is it because of what happened back then? She doesn't believe you?"

"Who knows." The emperor chuckled, "Even if she believed it, she still felt aggrieved. I thought she was being foolish. Even if the crown prince really...really disappeared, so what? There will be a new one. Prince's."

Yan Qinghe felt that these words were a bit cold, but he knew the emperor's sadness.The emperor went on to say: "But later I realized that she didn't want to do anything. She just wanted me to be unhappy. She was going to die, but I was still the emperor. She was unhappy, so she wanted to make things difficult for me.

"I treat her like my biological mother, but after all she is not my own, that's all."

Yan Qinghe held the emperor's hand tightly and said, "It's all over, it's all over."

"Yes, it's nothing." The emperor said, "No matter how difficult she is, she can't make any waves. She can't move me, and she can't move the country. After all, she is still in my hands..."