Queen Chu looked at Aunt Bao in surprise, "What did you hear wrong? I asked you to return Nanzhu. How did you report it?"
"Your Majesty..." Bao Gugu's lips turned white and she kept trembling, "You are so smart that you thought Princess Chu sent Nanzhu for the King of Chu, so she added another sentence, saying that Princess Chu asked your Majesty to say a kind word for the King of Chu.
sentence."
Queen Chu was furious, "You actually made random guesses? You are so brave!"
Empress Chu suddenly calmed down. Yubao had been with her for many years and had always had a calm temper. It was impossible for her to say her random guesses in front of the emperor.
She immediately thought of Chu Mingcui.
Chu Mingcui had proposed to find Concubine Xian before, but she thought there was no need to confront Concubine Xian for the time being. Concubine Xian was the niece of the Queen Mother, and if she offended Concubine Xian, things would not be easy to do.
Emperor Ming Yuan's face suddenly turned ugly. How could Yu Bao dare to do this? Fearing that it was the queen's order, his eyes passed over Queen Chu's face coldly.
Empress Chu had to stand up and express her position. She slapped Aunt Bao on the face and said angrily: "How dare you tell the emperor if you make random guesses? How many heads do you have?"
Aunt Bao knelt on the ground and did not dare to cover her face. She just kept saying: "Your Majesty, forgive me, Your Majesty, forgive me!"
Emperor Ming Yuan ordered without expression: "Come here, drag Yu Bao down and take responsibility for the thirty big boards."
Empress Chu felt distressed, but she couldn't speak for her. She just said angrily: "I've given you an advantage, why don't you thank me?"
Aunt Bao kowtows, her body is already mostly limp, her face is as pale as earth and she says: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for the punishment."
Aunt Bao was dragged out, and after a while, the sound of crackling sticks and muffled sounds could be heard outside.
Queen Chu looked calm, but was extremely anxious inside, scolding Chu Mingcui for being reckless.
Concubine Xian was just watching the fun at this moment. She originally thought that the daughter-in-law was going to curry favor with the queen and humiliated her, but she didn't expect that there were so many twists and turns in the process. She had to carefully look at it carefully.
Emperor Ming Yuan looked at Yuan Qing Ling with complicated expressions in his eyes.
This matter cannot be pursued any further. Even if Yuan Qingling ordered Grandma Xi to send Nanzhu away, she could only stop talking about it first.
I'm just afraid of finding out something.
After all, Aunt Xi is an old man from the Supreme Emperor's side. She can't make any mistakes, lest she offends the Supreme Emperor and harms her body.
After considering it for a moment, he said calmly: "Now that the matter is clear and the punishment is due, you all can go back."
The queen knew that the emperor had misunderstood her and thought that she had deliberately framed the King of Chu. However, it was useless to defend herself at the moment and she had to ask Chu Mingcui carefully, so she hurriedly left.
Concubine Xian glanced at Yuan Qingling and resigned. She knew it well, but the emperor was obviously unwilling to expose the ugliness under the whitewash. The royal family wanted to save face.
Grandma Xi also wanted to leave, but Yuan Qingling said: "Mammy, there is something I want to ask you."
Emperor Ming Yuan warned: "Princess Chu, the matter ends here."
Yuan Qingling changed his calm tone and suddenly said: "Father, this matter is of great importance. I must ask this question clearly."
Aunt Xi looked at Yuan Qingling and said calmly: "What does the princess want to say? Didn't you ask the old slave to send this Nanzhu to Zhongshen Palace? Since the princess does not admit it, then it is the old slave who makes his own decisions.
, the old slave takes the blame.”
Yuan Qingling looked at her and said: "We all know whether you are good at making decisions, but what I want to ask is why you changed the Supreme Emperor's Nine Turns Pill and put the blame on Xiao Luozi."
As soon as these words came out, Emperor Ming Yuan's eyes suddenly turned cold, "Princess Chu, what are you talking about?"
Yuan Qing Ling looked directly at Emperor Ming Yuan and said, "No matter how courageous my father and daughter-in-law are, they would not dare to make random arrangements and frame the old people around the Supreme Emperor."
Emperor Ming Yuan was stunned for a moment, as he expected that she would not dare to take the target lightly.
She turned to stare at Aunt Xi, "The Emperor must have treated you well, why did you want to kill him?"
"Shut up!" Aunt Xi stared at her coldly, "I have never had the slightest intention of murdering the Supreme Emperor."
"Do you dare to say that it wasn't you who changed the medicine?" Yuan Qingling asked.
Grandma Xi fell silent.
Emperor Ming Yuan's hand that was about to slap the table slowly put it down. He looked at Aunt Xi quietly, and his heart slowly sank.
Aunt Xi could have retorted, but she didn't.
She is acquiescing.
Emperor Ming Yuan was shocked and angry, how could it be Aunt Xi?
"Princess Chu, do you have any evidence?" Eunuch Mu Ru was frightened and couldn't help asking.
Yuan Qingling said calmly: "The evidence is in the Qiankun Palace, in front of the Supreme Emperor. Aunt Xi, do you have to go in front of the Supreme Emperor before you are willing to admit it? You have harmed him once anyway, so you probably don't care if he will do it because of you.
If he gets angry and gets sick, let's go to the Qiankun Palace to confront him."
Aunt Xi raised her head almost quickly, the light in her eyes dimmed inch by inch, the tight skin on her face slowly relaxed, the corners of her eyes drooped, and her whole person suddenly seemed to have aged a few years.
"There is no need to go to Qiankun Hall, I admit it!" She slowly knelt down.
The palace was deathly silent, except for the angry breathing of Emperor Ming Yuan, there was no other sound.
After a while, Emperor Ming Yuan's voice sounded slowly, hollow and pale, "Why?"
A smile uglier than crying appeared on Auntie Xi's face, "I never had any intention of murdering the Supreme Emperor. The medicine was exchanged by me. However, I didn't know it was poison. After I found out, it was already too late.
."
"So you killed Xiao Luozi and asked him to take the blame for you!" Yuan Qingling said coldly.
"I didn't kill him," said Aunt Xi.
"Who ordered you to change the dressing?" Emperor Ming Yuan felt a chill in his back. There were not many people in the palace who could instruct Aunt Xi.
Aunt Xi kowtows, "Your Majesty, please execute the old slave. The old slave won't say anything."
"You..." Emperor Ming Yuan was extremely disappointed, "Now that the matter has come to this, you are not even willing to tell the person who was behind it? It can be seen that the Supreme Emperor has trusted you in vain."
Aunt Xi trembled her lips, regretful and sad, "Your Majesty, please grant this old slave a death. For the sake of the old slave who helped the emperor in the past, don't torture this old slave to extract a confession. Once this mouth of this old slave bites you to death,
If you do, I won’t let go, and I won’t let the old slave suffer any physical pain before he dies.”
Emperor Ming Yuan was really ruthless. He was by no means a soft-hearted person, but he treated Aunt Xi and Eunuch Chang no longer as ordinary slaves. When he was still the prince, they helped him a lot.
Yuan Qingling knew she wouldn't say it.
In Grandma Xi's heart, the Supreme Emperor holds a very important place.
She was even willing to give her life to the Supreme Emperor.
She would do this for someone more important than the Emperor, and she would rather die to protect this person.
Yuan Qingling then asked about Nanzhu, "So, who asked you to send Nanzhu to the Queen?"
Aunt Xi was silent for a moment, but she still wanted to speak but stopped.
Emperor Ming Yuan was shocked and angry, "Can't you even say this?"
Two tears fell from Aunt Xi's eyes, she fell to the ground and took a breath, and then swallowed: "It was Princess Qi's intention to give Nanzhu to the Queen. She hated Princess Chu for having used a trick to take away King Chu, so she wanted to
Take revenge on her."
"Is it Princess Qi's intention to change the dressing?" Emperor Ming Yuan's eyes were filled with rage.
Aunt Xi shook her head, "It's not her. She doesn't have the ability to instruct this slave to deal with the Supreme Emperor."
"She has the ability to instruct you to harm Princess Chu?" Emperor Ming Yuan said coldly.