Queen Chu looked at Aunt Bao in surprise, "What did you hear wrong? The palace asked you to return Nanzhu. How did you report it?"
"Your Majesty..." Aunt Bao's lips turned white and she kept trembling, "I am so smart. I thought that Princess Chu sent Nanzhu for the King of Chu, so I added a sentence, Princess Chu asked your Majesty to say a kind word for the King of Chu.
"
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 make random guesses in front of the emperor.
She immediately thought of Chu Mingcui.
Chu Mingcui had previously proposed to find Concubine Xian. 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 offending Concubine Xian would make things difficult.
Emperor Ming Yuan's face turned ugly all of a sudden. How dare Yu Bao do this? Fearing that it was the Queen's order, his eyes passed over Queen Chu's face coldly.
Empress Chu had no choice but to express her position. She slapped Aunt Bao on the face and said angrily, "How dare you make random guesses on your own? How dare you follow the emperor? How many heads do you have?"
Aunt Bao knelt on the ground. She didn't dare to cover her face. She just kept saying, "Your Majesty, forgive me. Your Majesty, forgive me!"
Emperor Ming Yuan gave the order without expression, "Come here, drag Yubao down. Thirty big boards will be responsible for it."
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 kowtowed, her body was already mostly limp, and her face turned earth-colored as she said, "Thank you, Your Majesty, for the punishment."
Aunt Bao was dragged out. 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 excitement at this moment, thinking that the daughter-in-law was trying to curry favor with the queen and humiliating her. She didn't expect that there were so many twists and turns in the process, and she had to pay close attention to it.
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 thinking for a moment, he said calmly, "Now that the matter is clear, you should be punished. You can all 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 are you thinking, princess? Didn't you ask me to send this Nanzhu to Zhongshen Palace? Since the princess doesn't admit it, then it's the old slave who makes his own decisions."
Take 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 replaced the Supreme Emperor's Nine Turns Pill and blamed Luo Zi."
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."
"You dare not change 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 suffer because of you."
If you get angry and get sick, let’s go to the Qiankun Palace to confront you.”
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 several years.
"There is no need to go to Qiankun Hall, I admit it!" She knelt down slowly.
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 the intention to murder 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.
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"So you killed Luo Zi and asked him to take the blame for you!" Yuan Qing Ling said coldly.
"I didn't kill him." Aunt Xi said.
"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 this old slave. I won't do it."
"You..." Emperor Ming Yuan was extremely disappointed, "Now that the matter has come to this, you don't even want to be the one who instigated it? It can be seen that the Supreme Emperor trusted you in vain."
Aunt Xi trembled her lips, regretful and sad, "Your Majesty, please give 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 don't, I won't let go, and I won't let the old slave suffer the pain of flesh and blood 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.
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 still stopped talking.
Emperor Ming Yuan was shocked and angry, "Can't you even do this?"
Two drops of tears fell from Aunt Xi's eyes. She fell to the ground and took a breath. She choked and said, "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 him."
she."
"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 didn't instruct this slave to deal with the Supreme Emperor."