Although Su Sui couldn't really demote his official position immediately, it was still possible to take back his power in the army, and the demotion still had to go through the ministry.

After Su Sui reported the incident, the matter was quickly reported back to the capital, and the prince knew that Jiang Duyan's use value in his heart was gone, and he was tired of her appearance.

In order to find out the news for the eighth prince, Jingqiu was very attentive to the crown prince, coaxing him to come to her often, and ignored Jiang Duyan even more.

Although Jingqiu is a member of the Eighth Prince, she is not willing to be inferior to her status, so she intends to target Jiang Duyan.

Jiang Duyan cooked the dishes with her own hands, and brought wine to find the prince in the front yard, told him her heartfelt feelings, and tried to raise her value, so that the prince could remember his past love and pamper himself again.

But before she could go far, she saw Jingqiu coming over with the maid, she should have just gone to the kitchen.

"Sister Jiang is fine." Jingqiu saluted towards Jiang Duyan, but her movements were very perfunctory.

Jiang Duyan glanced at her and didn't want to deal with her.

With the help of Su Wanyan, the prince finally stopped going to Su Yuxian frequently, but now there is another female official next to the queen, who hooked the prince's heart, and recently her father lost his official position, she was anxious, annoyed Jingqiu, and couldn't suppress her anger when she saw her.

Seeing that she didn't speak and just wanted to leave, Jingqiu stopped her, "Sister, where are you going, and you still have delicious food." What is it, let my sister see. ”

Her hand was about to grab the lid of the food box, and Jiang Duyan let out a low sigh, "Stop." ”

Jingqiu raised her hand and said with a smile: "Sister is so stingy, you can't even look at it." Where are you going? Go to the front yard to find His Royal Highness the Prince, right? It must be, walk along this road for a quarter of an hour to reach the Qingning Hall where His Royal Highness lives, and I am very familiar with my sister. ”

"So what, Your Highness has eaten the dishes I made and said that he likes them very much." Jiang Duyan pretended to be proud and glanced at Jingqiu.

"It's a pity, my sister is too ill-informed, His Royal Highness came back to me at noon, not to mention that he was hungry, I went to the kitchen to see if there was anything to eat, the kitchen meal was not ready, I don't know what to do."

Hearing Jingqiu say this, Jiang Duyan changed the food box, but her heart was furious, she asked the palace maid to inquire about the prince's whereabouts, and the palace maid went back and said that the prince had not come out since he returned to Qingning Palace, so she brought wine and food to him, why was she there in Jingqiu?

It must be that the palace maid is lazy, she doesn't work hard, and she talks casually and perfunctory, she is now out of power, and there is no background in the family, and even the palace maid fools her.

Seeing that her face was innocent, Jingqiu deliberately smiled and came over, "Sister, if you give me the wine and food, I will give it to His Highness to eat, so that I can say good things about you in front of him." ”

Will she help say good things? Jiang Duyan didn't believe it at all, she took the food box away from Jingqiu, and said to her: "Don't think about it, if you want to please the prince, you can do it yourself, and sure enough, the slave is born without rules, and you have to rob everything." ”

"Slave born? My sister looks down on me, so what is my sister's background? Jingqiu looked at Jiang Duyan with a cold look in her eyes.

"My background is always better than yours, although my father is now out of power, he was also a serious military attache in the past, and he charged at the border for the imperial court."

Jiang Duyan boasted that her background was still Jingqiu, she was a serious aunt and grandmother in the family, although she was poor, her father was only a petty official, and the family did not have much background, but it was better than a slave under the identity.

"So what, your father has only been in the army for all these years, and he got up with a little cleverness, you see that the things he did for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince deserve to be removed from his official position now. And you, look at your bloated body, this unappetizing face, why do you look down on me. ”

Jiang Duyan belongs to a relatively plump figure, and the prince used to like it, but now she is said to be bloated, and her appearance is famous among the women in the capital, and now it is also said to be unappetizing.

Thinking about the prince's disgust with her, she was so angry that she pointed at Jingqiu and was speechless for a long time before she spoke, "You, you slut, one day you will be like me." ”

"Like you? Are you as stupid as you don't know it? You were thrown away like a footcloth by His Highness, and I ...... in my life"

Before she finished speaking, she heard a "snap", Jiang Duyan slapped Jingqiu in the face with ten percent of the force, Jingqiu's face was crooked, and five red finger prints immediately appeared on her cheeks.

At this time, someone walked over quickly, the two turned their heads, and seeing that it was the prince, Jingqiu covered her cheeks and threw herself into the prince's arms and cried, "Your Highness, Concubine Jiang, she beat me." ”

"Lone saw it." The crown prince put his arms around Jingqiu, and looked at Jiang Duyan opposite him like a knife. Maintenance of Jingqiu

"Yo, what's going on, what's going on today." When everyone heard the voice, they saw that Su Yuxian was also here, but no one cared about her, and she didn't care, so she stood aside and watched the play for a long time.

Jiang Duyan was stunned when the slap just now, and when she saw the prince coming, she knew that she was probably finished, and immediately knelt on the ground to plead, "Your Highness, the concubine didn't mean it, it was she who provoked me and said I ......"

"No, Your Highness, don't listen to her nonsense, the slave maid saw her carrying wine and food, so she said that Her Highness was hungry, and asked her to give the wine and food to the slave and maid, and the slave and maid took it back to His Highness to enjoy, and it was good to help her say a few good words in front of His Highness, but she lost her temper with the slave and maid, saying that the slave and maid were not from a good background, and no matter how bad the slave and maid were, she used to serve the queen."

Jingqiu cried and sobbed, as if she had really been greatly wronged, and shouted that she was slapped and didn't want to live anymore.

The prince kept comforting her: "Okay, Lone knows, I will definitely be angry for you." ”

"Your Royal Highness has to be angry for Sister Jingqiu, Sister Jingqiu said it well, how can she also be the person next to the queen's mother, she is a little more noble than the master of ordinary people's families, Concubine Jiang looks down on Sister Jingqiu, it is disrespectful to the queen's mother."

Su Yuxian, who had watched the play for a long time on the side, spoke slowly, she would never forget what Jiang Duyan did to her, and finally found an opportunity to bring her down, so she naturally spared no effort.

Jiang Duyan was so frightened that cold sweat came out, and she hurriedly cried: "Your Highness, it's not like that, the concubines don't mean to disrespect the queen's mother, absolutely not, they have ulterior motives, Your Highness don't listen to them." ”

The prince is still angry that Jiang Duyan's father can't do things, plus she is disrespectful and beats Jingqiu, the prince is even more disgusted when he sees her, and scolds her: "Have you disrespected the queen's mother, you know in your heart that you beat people is where your eyes are, from today onwards, abolish your position as a side concubine, and you go to be a slave." ”

Jiang Duyan heard that the prince had abolished her position as a side concubine and asked her to be a slave, she knelt on the ground in despair, her hand inadvertently swept the food box on the side, the vegetables and soup in the food box were scattered all over the ground, and the wine was also turned over, and the mellow aroma of wine overflowed, and soon flowed under her, wetting her skirt, but she didn't feel it, and she couldn't even shed tears.

The prince took Jingqiu away, Su Yuxian smiled proudly, leaned over and said to her: "Think about the time when we were the prince's side concubine together, you were so favored, I didn't even see the prince's face for many days in the mansion, how beautiful you were at that time, look at you today, I really didn't expect it, it seems that only I will have the last laugh." ”

Su Yuxian thought that Su Sui had great military exploits, and there were so many people in the court who supported her, it was too late for the prince to win him over, and he would definitely not abandon him, and Huo Qingqing, as long as there was something, she would try her best to help her, she had their support behind her, and she also had the eldest grandson of the emperor in her hand, she would never fall.

Jiang Duyan sneered, "My today is your tomorrow, don't take yourself too seriously." ”

She has seen through it now, knows what kind of person the prince is, no woman can really value him, he dotes on you either for your fresh color and body, or for you to become his power, when he is tired of you, and you have no use value, he will immediately kick you away, Jingqiu has a saying right, he will throw you away in disgust like throwing a footcloth.

Su Yuxian pinched her chin, lifted her face, gritted her back molars, and said viciously: "You'd better not die too early, I'll let you see me laugh to the end." ”

Jiang Duyan shook off her hand forcefully, sneered and didn't say anything, Su Yuxian felt that it was not interesting, so she left angrily.

The next day, I heard that the crown prince promoted Jingqiu to a side concubine, filling the vacated position vacated by Jiang Duyan.

Qin Qingfeng took the initiative to take on the task of finding out the real culprit who killed the prince, he inquired about what the princes had done recently, and knew that they wanted to unite to deal with the prince, so he locked the object of suspicion on the prince and the queen.

After investigation, it was quickly confirmed that this matter was done by the queen, Duanmu Rui took the initiative to help Qin Qingfeng and help him find those Jianghu killers, but after torture, the killers felt that they had carried the black cauldron, they said that the queen only asked them to stab the princes, and they also did it according to the order, and did not kill the prince at all.

Just when things got stuck and there was no way to break through, the killers revealed that there was one more person among them who had not been caught, and that this person had disappeared since the day the assassination was over.

Duanmu Rui felt that there must be something wrong with this person, so he sent his Jianghu organization to help Qin Qingfeng secretly search, and finally found this hidden killer, and the killer confessed that it was the eighth prince who instructed him to kill the prince born to Concubine Xian, and ordered him to hide.

In this way, the truth of the matter was revealed, Qin Qingfeng discussed with Duanmu Rui, how to report this matter to the emperor, Duanmu Rui suggested not to say anything about the involvement of the eighth prince first, the enemy of the enemy is a friend, and it is beneficial for them to keep the eighth prince to deal with the prince, Qin Qingfeng listened to him, and reported to the emperor that the queen was manipulating this matter.

After hearing this, the emperor was furious, "I didn't expect the queen I have always trusted to do such a rebellious thing as killing the prince, she is not worthy of being the mother of a country." ”

The ministers also heard about this, and they made statements one after another, hoping to depose the queen.

But the queen's mother's family is very powerful, her brother is in charge of the ministry, and many of the children of her family are officials in the court, and her ancestors are the founding heroes, and the emperor's ancestors gave her ancestors the marquis, and the family has been very prosperous until now.

The queen's father is a close minister who assists the first emperor, and is the head of the three princes.

The emperor thought about the power of the queen's mother's family, so he put the matter on hold first, and the queen's father dragged his sick body into the palace to ask to see the emperor.

He didn't put pressure on the emperor directly, only said that he missed his daughter and wanted to see her before he died, so the emperor had to call the queen.

Father is now at home, it is easy not to enter the palace, the queen has not seen her father for a long time, seeing that he is dying old and sick, she immediately knelt down and cried bitterly.

"Father, your daughter is useless, she has failed your teachings to your daughter, the princes privately united to bring down the crown prince, and the daughter did something wrong in a moment of confusion, and she didn't think about the consequences at all. The daughter made the emperor sad and disgraced the family, and the daughter no longer had the shame to stay in the palace, so it was better to go home and serve her father. “

The queen never knew that the eighth prince was involved in this matter, and thought that the killer had killed the prince by mistake.

The queen's father reprimanded her at the time: "Just accept the punishment for doing something wrong, you are the mother of a country, how can you leave the palace, you married into the palace at the age of fifteen, this is the home where you have lived for so many years, you have to guard your home." ”

The emperor was also a little embarrassed when he heard it, recalling many old things, he and the queen also came from the original young loving couple, if it was really abolished, he couldn't bear it.