Yun Xiao stared at Xia Rui with his eyes, and replied a little unhappily: "The concubine knows that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince likes to be like Concubine Hua, she is lively and active, cute and delicate, of course she is endearing, but the concubine can't learn it!" ”

When Xia Rui heard this, his eyebrows jumped: "When did Lone say this?!" Crown Princess, are you mistaken? ”

Didn't Hua Tianruo say this in person, how could Xia Rui deny it?

Yun Xiao looked at Xia Rui suspiciously, and asked, "You don't like Concubine Huafang?" ”

Xia Rui felt that Yun Xiao's question was very strange, just now he praised her for her intelligence, why did she ask a stupid question in just a short time, he stretched his tone and said:

"Concubine Hua is Lone's cousin, it was the mother who asked Lone to take care of her, Lone just treats her as a sister and takes care of her for her mother, she causes trouble all day long, if Lone doesn't look at her, where can the mother rest assured, wait a minute......"

Speaking of this, Xia Rui suddenly paused, and then, he also looked at Yun Xiao suspiciously, and asked rhetorically,

"Crown Princess, why are you suddenly asking this?"

Yun Xiao can't answer, he can't say that he asked because he wanted to compete for favor, right? However, Xia Rui was still staring at her, so the atmosphere became more and more awkward.

Seeing this, Yun Xiao hurriedly diverted the topic: "The queen has always been insidious and cunning, and now that she has joined forces with the Jade Concubine, she will definitely set a big trap, and please ask His Royal Highness the Crown Prince not to take it lightly and make careful arrangements to be foolproof." ”

Xia Rui glanced at Yun Xiao, looked like he knew it well, nodded, and said, "Oh, this lonely ...... know"

Yun Xiao knew at a glance that Xia Rui had misunderstood him, and he couldn't help but be very annoyed, but he didn't know how to explain it, so he could only give up for the time being.

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The queen's movements were very fast, but in just three days, an attendant came to the East Palace to summon Yun Xiao and Xia Rui to face the saint in the Chengqian Palace.

Yun Xiao and Xia Rui came to the Chengqian Palace, only to see that not only the emperor and queen were together, but this time, Concubine Yu and King De were also there.

Yun Xiao and Xia Rui glanced at each other, and then saluted with him:

"The concubine asks for peace for the emperor, for the queen's mother, and for the jade concubine!"

"Erchen please say hello to the emperor, please say hello to the queen's mother, and say hello to the jade concubine!"

Suddenly, the emperor who was sitting in the center of the top said: "No courtesy! Crown Prince, Crown Princess, I announced that the two of you are coming over today, because the queen has something to say. ”

As he spoke, he turned his head to look at the queen,

"Queen, now that everyone is here, what is the matter, you can say it."

The queen curled her lips and smiled slightly, raised her hand to the bottom, and soon a chamberlain came to the center of the hall with a palace maid and knelt.

The queen pointed to the kneeling maid and said:

"Your Majesty, when the concubines were checking the palace people recently, they found that a palace maid who used to serve by Chengzhou's side, that is, the palace maid who is now kneeling in the palace, relied on money to get through the relationship, secretly ran out of the strict punishment department, and was on duty in the Huanyi Bureau. So, the concubine ordered someone to take her to the middle palace, wanting to ask about this matter, and the concubine originally thought that there was something great about this palace maid behind her! ”

Speaking of this, the queen paused deliberately, her calculating gaze swept over Xia Rui and Yun Xiao intentionally or unintentionally, as if observing their reactions, and as if demonstrating, she continued,

"However, I didn't expect that under careful interrogation, she actually told the concubine that on the night of the Chengzhou celebration banquet, she had seen Tianrui go to Chengzhou's dormitory with her own eyes, and had a fierce quarrel with Chengzhou, the matter was very important, and the concubine did not dare to call the shots, so the concubine had to bring this palace maid to the emperor, and the emperor would make a holy judgment!"

When the emperor heard this, his face sank suddenly, he looked at the palace maid and asked, "I ask you, what is your name?" ”

The palace maid replied, "If you go back to the emperor, the slave maid's name is Xueliu." ”

The emperor asked, "Xueliu, were you on duty in the East Palace before?" ”

"Yes."

The emperor then asked: "Just now the queen said that after the celebration banquet of Prince Min was dispersed, you saw the prince and Prince Min quarreling, is it true?" ”

Xue Liu replied: "Back to the emperor, the slave maid did see His Royal Highness the Crown Prince quarreling with Prince Min that night. ”

"What were they arguing about?"

Xue Liu replied calmly: "The slave didn't dare to get too close, so I only listened to a rough idea." The general content is that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince asked Prince Min if Prince Min and the Queen Mother killed Concubine Rou together three years ago, and Prince Min repeatedly denied it, but His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said that he had found evidence, so the two of them had a fierce quarrel, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince also made a move against Prince Min......"

When Yun Xiao heard this, his eyebrows moved, what Xue Liu said now seemed to be different from what he heard in the rockery cave that day. If you guessed correctly, these words should have been made up by the queen and taught her.

She glanced at Xia Rui and was not in a hurry to speak.

The queen sitting on it saw that the emperor didn't speak for a long time, so she hurriedly added fire: "Xue Liu, when you reply in front of the emperor, you must know everything, you must say everything, if you dare to deceive, it is the crime of losing your head!" ”

When Xue Liu heard this, she hurriedly leaned over and said, "The slave doesn't dare to deceive, and those who know will say it." ”

The queen nodded, and then said very majestically: "Okay, this palace asks you, just now you said that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince made a move on Prince Min, what is the specific behavior?" The royal reply must not be vague, it must be clear! ”

Xue Liu's face was still calm: "That night, the slave maid saw that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince first pushed each other with Prince Min, and then pushed Prince Min onto the table, and while he was not paying attention, he found a belt and strangled Prince Min to death, and then ...... And then...... Then he disguised himself as a hanged himself and quietly left ......"

After saying this, she leaned over and kowtowed again, and said in a trembling voice,

"The slave and maid have already told everything they have seen, and the slave and maid are really scared, so they have been hiding it until now, begging the emperor and the queen to forgive their sins, spare the slave and maid's life, and the slave and maid will never dare to ...... again"

After hearing this, the queen immediately got up and knelt at the emperor's feet, and said with tears in her eyes:

"Your Majesty, Chengzhou really didn't hang himself, he was actually killed by his own brother, Chengzhou died unjustly, ask the emperor to be the master of Chengzhou, otherwise how can his spirit in the sky rest in peace?!"

Concubine Yu also knelt down and said: "Your Majesty, such a fratricidal thing is really shocking, this kind of atmosphere must not be promoted, otherwise, everyone will treat the palace rules as child's play, and ask the emperor to deal with it impartially, and give Prince Min justice!" ”

As soon as her voice fell, King De echoed him.

At this moment, the emperor's face was as black as the bottom of a pot, he raised his eyebrows to look at Xia Rui who was standing below, and asked in a deep voice: "Tianrui, is what this palace maid said the truth?" ”

Xia Rui replied: "Back to my father's words, none of what this palace maid said is true, on the night of Prince Min's celebration banquet, the son did not go to the prince's bedroom, and it is impossible to have a dispute with him, these are all slanders by this palace maid to the son, and please ask my father to know it!" ”

However, before the emperor could speak, the queen who was kneeling on the ground turned her head, looked at him and said first: "Xia Rui, the person is here, you still want to deny it?!" ”

Xia Rui met the queen's gaze directly: "This witness is really weird!" I haven't interrogated it carefully, how do I know if what she said is true or false? ”

The queen did not back down, and reprimanded angrily: "It's already this time, you still want to reverse right and wrong?!" You have always suspected that it was this palace that killed your mother's concubine, this palace thought that you were young and ignorant, and endured it many times, not caring about you, but I didn't expect that you would kill your own brother based on your own guesses, you are simply crazy, this palace is here today to make it clear, your mother was not killed by this palace! ”

"Queen Mother, Erchen didn't hurt Prince Min!"

His gaze turned, and he looked at the emperor again, and then said,

"Father, since this palace maid said that she saw her son enter Prince Min's bedroom that night, then her son asked to confront her face to face."

The emperor looked at the palace maid and said in a loud voice: "Accurate! The two of you will confront me today, and I want a real result! ”

With the emperor's reply, Xia Rui had confidence, he turned to look down at Xue Liu, and asked: "Xue Liu, you said that you saw Gu with your own eyes that night, so, what kind of clothes did Gu wear that night?" ”

"This ......" Xue Liu hesitated, unable to answer for a long time.

Xia Rui continued to ask, "When exactly did you see Lone enter Prince Min's bedroom?" ”

Xue Liu still couldn't answer, so she could only say perfunctorily: "Too much time has passed, and the slave doesn't remember!" ”

Xia Rui looked at Xue Liu carefully, stared at her deadly, and asked:

"Just now, you said that Gu Xun strangled Prince Min with a belt, since you can tell the events of that night so clearly, then you must have seen it clearly, where did Gu find the belt, please tell me!"

Xue Liu was stared at by Xia Rui in a panic, and her palms were full of sweat.

Seeing this, Xia Rui raised his voice slightly: "It's already the third question, you don't know it yet, right?" ”

The queen and the jade concubine watched from the sidelines, they were about to die, there were slaves and maids in the palace who were stupider than pigs, and they couldn't even make up blindly.

Just when the queen couldn't help but speak, Xue Liu suddenly said: "This slave knows that at that time, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince did not strangle Prince Min with a belt, but first poisoned Prince Min with poisonous wine, and then disguised him as a self-hanger to confuse the public's attention!" ”

The emperor was furious when he heard this: "Presumptuous! Who instructed you to do this? ”

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