By the time the two of them rushed inside, they were already in chaos, and the queen was lying at the door with her hair scattered, and only a few palace maids and eunuchs were fighting the fire. But to no avail, the fire was already so strong that it almost engulfed the entire dormitory.

"Tengling, you hurry up and find someone to put out the fire, anyone can do it, as long as there is no urgency now, pull someone over to help." Yifang gave an order, and then stepped forward to help the queen up.

The queen didn't look very good, not only did she not have makeup, but her expression was also in a trance, and she didn't react at all in the face of the fire in front of her. Yifang didn't know what happened to her, but at this time, time was urgent, so she pulled a palace maid to take care of the queen, and she threw herself into directing them to fight the fire.

By the time someone invited Liu Heng over, Yifang had already instructed them to extinguish most of the fire, leaving only a few small fires flickering and flickering.

"Ziluo, Ziluo." The queen was handed over to Liu Heng by the palace maid, and as soon as she touched him, she tilted her head and fell asleep in a drowsy manner.

Liu Heng asked her to take her to the side to rest, and turned around and walked towards the still busy Yifang: "Yifang, what's going on?" How did you end up here? ”

"Your Majesty, the concubine was summoned by the queen mother, but after waiting outside the palace for a short time, she saw fire and smoke coming from the queen's palace, and the concubine rushed in to check. I saw that the fire was already burning, but there were only a few people fighting the fire, so the concubine asked Tengling to go outside to find someone to help, and the fire was completely extinguished. ”

"You're not hurt, are you?" Liu Heng glanced at her from head to toe, except for the black ash on her face and body, there was nothing wrong with it, and Liu Heng was relieved.

"Your Majesty, the concubine is fine."

"Oh no, Your Majesty, it's not good." While they were talking, a eunuch rushed to Liu Heng with a roll, "Your Majesty, when the fire was lit, the eldest prince, the third prince and the fourth prince were all resting in the dormitory, and now they are all ......."

Liu Heng was a little untenable when he heard his words: "You, what did you say?" What's wrong with everything? Say! ”

"All, all...... Nope. ”

"What?!" Liu Heng's mind was dizzy, he clenched his fists, and waved his hand at the eunuch strongly, "Impossible, this king doesn't believe it, this king wants to see it in person." ”

The eunuch wanted to stop it, after all, if such a tragic scene fell in the eyes of Liu Heng, his father, I am afraid that it would collapse even more. But Liu Heng was in too much of a hurry, and he couldn't stop him at all.

Yifang also followed, she had never seen the third and fourth princes, but the eldest prince had seen them. It was in the shooting range, and he was a very cute child, riding a tall horse with high spirits, and he had gradually grown up. But seeing this burned face beyond recognition, tears welled up in Yifang's eyes.

Even Yifang is like this, let alone Liu Heng. Although he didn't have any feelings for the queen, a few children won his heart, and the scene in front of him was too tragic, and Liu Heng barely stood firm with Wu Ping's support. It was as if someone had stabbed him in the heart, and he could almost hear the sound of dripping blood.

After a long period of relief, Liu Heng ordered someone to investigate the cause of the fire, although he felt uncomfortable in his heart, but he was also the master of the palace and the master of the country. If something like this happens in the palace, he has to find out the whole thing, both public and private.

"Call the housekeepers and eunuchs in the queen's palace, and the king will inquire carefully."

Liu Heng was already very tired, Wu Ping gave the eunuchs next to him a look, and someone brought him a seat. This matter is not trivial, any palace people are nervous, and no one dares to slack off, that is, the housekeeper and the eunuch in charge quickly rushed over.

"It's not the dry season now, how can there be a fire in the palace of good people?" Liu Heng tried his best to suppress the anger and sorrow in his heart, and asked in a normal way, so as not to be frightened by the palace people, but they couldn't ask anything.

"Your Majesty, the slaves and maids don't know!" The housekeeper explained again and again, "The slave and maid watched the three princes fall asleep, all the candles in the palace were extinguished, and the slave and maid checked it several times, and there would be no mistake." ”

"But now it's an accident, what do you say?" Liu Heng's voice was cold and tired.

The housekeeper's grandmother was cold behind her back, and she said indiscriminately: "Your Majesty, the slaves and maids have indeed been checked, this maybe, maybe someone deliberately set fire, someone wants to harm the queen and several princes!" ”

After she said this, her eyes wandered to the Yifang side. Yifang's heart tightened, sure enough, this matter must have been designed by someone, she immediately thought of a person, but her eyes scanned the crowd, but she didn't see the figure of that person.

"Yes, Your Majesty, someone must be trying to harm the queen and several princes." The eunuch in charge also chimed in.

"Then tell me who set this fire!" Liu Heng saw that they were all busy shirking their responsibilities, and his heart was even more angry, but he didn't expect them to really pull out a person.

"Your Majesty, it's ......" the eunuch's gaze slid through the crowd one by one, and finally landed on Yi Fang, "...... It was a plain beauty, and the slave saw her wandering outside for a long time before the dormitory caught fire. ”

"Yes, we have seen it too. No wonder the plain beauty rushes in so quickly after the fire burns! There was a chorus of voices from below.

"Your Majesty, the concubine is waiting outside on the orders of the queen." Yifang has been sure that this matter is a set for her by others, and if she explains it herself, no one will believe it.

But as soon as she raised her head, what she saw was Liu Heng's firm gaze, not doubt or disappointment, but trust in her. Yifang's heart suddenly warmed up at this moment, as if the light in front of her hall had finally penetrated into her heart, giving her the warmth she had been longing for.

"Really? But the queen has never sent to summon you to-day. Wen Jiayi's voice suddenly came from outside, and Yifang knew that the main event was only now starting to appear.

When everyone heard the voice, they all looked out, and saw Wen Jiayi walking in with the dizzy queen. She seemed to have learned of the death of the three princes, her face covered with tears, and both eyes were swollen from crying.

"The concubine is the king." Wen Jiayi saluted, but the queen was blank. At this time, Liu Heng naturally didn't care about these things, and he ordered someone to bring a chair for the queen to come over.

"What did you just say?" Liu Heng asked at Wen Jiayi.

"Back to the king, the concubine has already asked the queen, and today she has never sent someone to summon Su Meiren." Wen Jiayi said very surely, and he must have come prepared to come.

"Is that so?" Liu Heng turned to the queen and asked softly.

The queen looked weak, and did not answer, but nodded silently. Liu Heng's brows furrowed, and he said to Yifang: "Do you still remember who invited you?" ”

"The eunuch is not here, but the concubine remembers his appearance, and he has seen it in the queen's palace before, but he has not seen it now." As soon as Yifang finished speaking, the housekeeper denied it again and again, saying that all the palace people in the queen's palace were now gathered here, and no one was missed.

Yi Fang naturally knew that this well-designed game would not change the final result because of a few rebuttals of her own, she had no intention of explaining more, only thinking about where to find the evidence.

"Your Majesty, it wasn't a concubine who did it." Yi Fang only looked at Liu Heng with firm eyes.

"Then why didn't Su Mei explain why the three princes were resting in the dormitory, and only the second prince escaped this catastrophe?" Wen Jiayi revealed a confident look all over her body, and it took her a lot of thought to design this matter, and she would definitely not miss any aspect.

Yifang didn't answer, and Wen Jiayi continued: "It's because the second prince and Su Meiren are very close, if the other princes are gone, naturally only the second prince is worthy of the big responsibility." ”

"Presumptuous!" Liu Heng reprimanded Wen Jiayi, "Talking about the prince in public, you are not small!" ”

"Your Majesty, the concubine was speechless for a while, but it was just that Su Meiren's move was really hateful, and the concubine was anxious for a while."

"The matter hasn't been clarified yet, it's a big crime to climb high-ranking concubines indiscriminately, you can think about it later!" Liu Heng clenched his fists, and another person arrived outside.

"Why are there so many people? What happened? "The one who was brought over by the grandmothers turned out to be Zhiyao, who had been going since Fang Cai.

When Liu Heng saw the intact Zhiyao, his heart was suddenly mixed with joy and sorrow, and he quickly hugged him into his arms.

"Father, what's wrong with you?" Zhiyao was hugged too tightly, and he was a little out of breath.

"Zhiyao, where have you been?" The queen was originally dizzy, but she only sobered up a little when she saw Zhiyao come back, and quickly grabbed his hand and asked.

Zhiyao didn't know why, but he felt that everyone's behavior was very strange today, but he still replied truthfully: "It was someone from Su Ji Niangniang's palace who came to pick me up and go to Guangyang Hall to play, but I went and didn't see Su Ji Niangniang, I felt that it was not fun to be alone, so I planned to come back to sleep." ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone present gasped, but they didn't expect it to be true. Only Yifang and Wen Jiayi did not have a look of surprise on their faces, this matter had long been expected, and the evidence was laid out one after another, which was Wen Jiayi's style of doing things.

"You hurt my son!" Yifang was thinking about how to deal with it next, when he was caught off guard and slapped by the queen who suddenly jumped up.

She reflexively covered her cheeks, but her mind was stunned, but when she gradually reacted, she felt that there was something strange in it. The queen had been sitting here for some time, and everyone was only suspicious of Yifang, but they were not sure that she had done it. The queen didn't react at first, as if she was immersed in the grief of losing her son, and it wasn't until Zhiyao came over that she seemed to have suddenly regained her senses. Although no one noticed this detail, it felt a little wrong when I thought about it.

"Su Ji Niangniang, are you okay?" Yifang thought silently, Zhiyao suddenly left Liu Heng's arms and rushed over, standing in front of her to block the queen, "Queen Mother, why are you beating Su Ji Niangniang?" ”

At this time, Yifang suddenly smelled a very peculiar fragrance, which was not found in the spices in the palace, but it could give people a refreshing feeling. Yifang always felt that the queen's sudden soberness was related to this fragrance, and she saved it and found that the source of this fragrance was actually on Zhiyao.

She took advantage of Zhiyao's protection of her to carefully discern where the fragrance was. But the fragrance smelled a little strong at first, and then gradually dissipated, and Zhiyao was also brutally pulled by the queen.

"Your Majesty, there are so many witnesses now, you can't let Su Meiren escape anymore!" Wen Jiayi was anxious to urge Liu Heng to punish Yifang, and the other palace people also echoed on the side. Only the queen frowned, and pressed her temples hard, keeping the pain suppressed.

Things have developed to the present, and Yifang has calmed down. Since Wen Jiayi is already strongly advocating that Liu Heng punish her, it proves that she has no more evidence in her hands. In this way, Yifang can look at the overall situation and carefully find a way to resolve this crisis.

"Now there is indeed a lot of evidence pointing to Su Meiren, but there are still some doubts in the matter, before this matter is investigated, Su Mei will stay in Guangyang Palace!" Liu Heng couldn't resist the unanimous request of so many people, so he had to take a step back.

But Wen Jiayi was obviously not very satisfied with this, she carefully set up a situation and killed the lives of the three princes, and she only temporarily grounded Yifang. She glanced at the maid next to her, who gestured to the men behind her, who began to express their displeasure with the punishment.

If it was in normal times, they would definitely not dare to do this in front of Liu Heng, but the law does not blame the public, so many people below can't lose their heads one by one. Besides, he has been a slave for so many years, and one day he can fight against the king once, and he doesn't have to lose his life, so naturally more people will agree.

Liu Heng was rarely silent, he couldn't bear to glance at Yifang, and was about to open his mouth to reject their request, but Yifang knelt down first.

"Your Majesty, the concubine has never done this. In order to prove her innocence, the concubine invited herself to stay in the prison until the king found out the truth and found the real person behind the scenes. After Yifang said this, she glanced at Wen Jiayi, there was a smug look in her eyes after victory, but it was too early to be proud at this time. In Yifang's heart, this design has just begun.

"It was dark and damp in that prison, you ......" Liu Heng naturally couldn't bear to let her stay there.

"Compared with the innocence of the concubine, the hardships in the prison are not worth mentioning at all, I just hope that the king can find out the truth as soon as possible, and the concubine can get out of the prison as soon as possible." Yifang glanced at Liu Heng deeply, full of trust in him.

Liu Heng nodded: "Then I will wronged you to stay in the prison during this time." ”

"Your Majesty, the slave maid wants to accompany my beauty to the heavenly prison and ask the king to answer." Teng Ling was in a hurry, and rushed out and shouted.

Liu Heng was going to agree, with Tengling by his side, at least he could have a response. But Yi Fang shook his head: "Since you are going to enter the cell, you naturally can't take your maidservant with you." ”

"Beauty ......"

Yi Fang pretended to step forward to help Teng Ling, but whispered in her ear: "You stay outside, I still need your and Zili help with something." Don't worry, your business is done, and I will naturally be able to come out. ”