"Your Majesty!" Concubine Xian and others knelt in the court. Seeing the Emperor rushing towards the Queen without any care, they immediately became anxious. Concubine Xian was the first to speak: "Your Majesty, please calm down. I am here to save the Queen."
Only then did he break into Chengming Palace privately."
Zhao Zongheng's soft eyes suddenly became colder. He held Si Ningchi's hand tightly without letting go, and turned his head to look at Concubine Xian who was kneeling in front of everyone.
Seeing that the emperor was willing to listen to her words, Concubine Xian suddenly felt determined and continued: "Your Majesty, the Queen Mother has woken up safely today. It is all because Master Mingwu performed a Dharma ceremony to get rid of the Queen Mother.
nightmare."
"The Queen has personally agreed to hold the Dharma Assembly. I and the others do not dare to take the initiative." Concubine Xian said as she raised her eyes at Si Ningchi and continued: "Something strange happened at the Dharma Assembly...
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"It's absolutely true, Your Majesty! There really is an evil spirit in the palace!" Qu Meiren quickly responded and said.
"It's true, it's so scary..." All the concubines kneeling on the ground echoed.
Zhao Zongheng's face also understood the whole story as everyone talked about it. Everything seemed so real and valid. The more he listened, the more ugly the expression on Zhao Zongheng's face became.
There is a feeling that I have been persuaded.
Concubine Xian was secretly happy. She pointed at Si Ningchi and said, "I don't dare to lie! It is recorded in the Queen's daily life records. The Queen's preferences are very different from before. It's as if she is a different person. This time
Should the emperor still sit idly by and ignore such weird things?"
"The Queen Mother was harmed by evil spirits, and she was almost separated from the emperor and heavenly beings forever. If we continue to allow evil spirits to cause chaos in the palace, I'm afraid... it will bring disaster to Chao Gang!"
"What Concubine Xian means is that I have indulged the Demon Queen and lost my virtue as a wise king?" Zhao Zongheng, who had been listening for a long time, finally raised his eyes and looked straight at Concubine Xian.
"The emperor has a sharp eye and will not be deceived by evil spirits. Today's trip is all for the sake of the emperor and the queen!" Concubine Xian leaned over and knelt down and said: "Please make sure that the emperor gets rid of the evil spirits so that the court can be revitalized!"
Concubine Xian took the lead, and immediately everyone behind her started to kowtow.
Zhao Zongheng's eyes darkened again and again, and the court fell into an eerie silence for a moment.
Si Ningchi rubbed his belly and looked at Zhao Zongheng. How would Zhao Zongheng react under such an offensive of public opinion?
I have to say that Concubine Xian was not unprepared. Those daily records and Si Qionglian's testimony were all mentioned and explained in detail. They all showed the various changes in Si Ningchi. p>
If this drastic change in temperament can be explained by the stimulation of the late mother, then these completely different changes in clothing preferences and food tastes cannot be explained in one or two sentences, let alone the recipes that Si Ningchi inexplicably developed.
Unheard of.
Not only Zhao Zongheng felt this way, how could Suyun, who had been serving Si Ningchi for so many years, not notice it?
Perhaps she could comfort herself in the past that her mother-in-law did not want to recall everything about the Hou Mansion and was working hard to change herself.
There are some things that once you think about them carefully, you can't control yourself. Even if it is the master and servant who get along day and night, Suyun has to think more about whether the empress in front of her is the legitimate lady of the Si family whom she has served since she was a child?
"It's for me." Zhao Zongheng squinted his eyes, stood up, looked down at the people kneeling on the ground and said, "Here comes someone."
"Put this group of criminals, those who confuse the public with their ulterior motives, into prison." Zhao Zongheng stood in front of Si Ningchi without wavering, raised his chin lightly and said, "Wang Chengxiang."
"Slave, I'm here." Wang Chengxiang ran into Chengming Palace without even breathing. Before he could figure out what was happening here, he heard the emperor's call and hurriedly stepped forward and leaned over to answer.
"Order the Division of Shen and Punishment to thoroughly investigate this matter. Why did the Queen Mother become ill? Why did the evil monk come to Beijing? Who in each palace and courtyard was involved in this matter? Let me investigate one by one!"
"The slave obeys the order."
Concubine Xian raised her head and looked at Zhao Zongheng in disbelief. She never thought that the emperor would still protect the queen in this way.
Obviously, the matter was not solved so smoothly. Perhaps the people who planned this situation from the beginning had thought that this would be the case, and when Zhao Zongheng returned to Beijing, everything that happened in Chengming Palace had already spread out of the palace.
, flowed into the market.
The story of the demon queen seducing the monarch then leaked out.
All the concubines in the harem were imprisoned, and the emperor's move seemed to confirm the image of being seduced by evil spirits.
The court fell into panic, and the statements that criticized the queen as being possessed by evil spirits fell like snowflakes on Zhao Zongheng's case. When Xiwuhou went to court, he was pulled by the censors to question the queen.
Things.
Some old events were brought up for repeated discussion, and the late concubine Si Muyu of Xiwuhou Mansion was mentioned again. Was her death the fault of the Queen?
Some even speculate that the queen was possessed by an evil spirit and then killed her concubine. She is a monster!
Zhao Zongheng couldn't control the situation for the first time. He didn't dare to order a detailed investigation, let alone listen to the ministers' words and ask a magician to exorcise evil spirits. The only thing he could do was to conceal the situation and secretly exert pressure in an attempt to divert attention from everything.
Dongyin.
"Evil, evil, evil, I don't know why the ministers in the court are so free to pay attention to these non-existent things!" Zhao Zongheng read several memorials in succession, and the more he read, the more furious he became, and he overturned all the memorials in his hand.
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"Your Majesty, calm down!" Wang Chengxiang led a group of eunuchs to kneel down in front of the palace in fear.
"Go, King Xuanjing enters the palace." Zhao Zongheng sat beside the dragon table for a long time with his eyebrows pinched, and then he raised his eyes and said.
Gao Hanqi naturally also learned about the various rumors that had spread in the palace recently, and some uneasy factors were swirling in his mind. To be honest, he himself felt that the Queen had really changed.
He did not dare to be careless when the emperor summoned him. When he entered the Xuanming Hall, he saw the emperor sitting on the high throne with a bored look on his face.
"My lord, please see your Majesty." Gao Hanqi leaned over to greet him.
"Sit down." Zhao Zongheng raised his hand and pondered for a long time before saying: "You must have heard about the Queen's affairs recently."
"I know that you and the Queen have known each other since childhood, and you must also know the origin of the Queen's temperament." Zhao Zongheng narrowed his eyes slightly and stared at Gao Hanqi and said: "I want you to do something for me."
Gao Hanqi's heart skipped a beat when he heard this. He lowered his head and said with some uncertainty, "The emperor wants to ask me about the Queen's past affairs?"
Zhao Zongheng glanced at him with disgust: "No."
"I want you to write a memorial for the Queen, and show that the Queen's preferences and habits are no different from ordinary ones." Zhao Zongheng said unhurriedly.