"Lord Zhou!" Mao Ge, who rushed all the way from the study, looked at the imposing Steward Zhou and took a deep breath.

"Mao Ge Lao!" Steward Zhou glanced at Mao Ge Lao, and said disdainfully: "Her Majesty the Queen has a decree, if Mao Zhi poisons Her Royal Highness the princess of the Hong family, let the old slave come to check it, and please don't be surprised!"

"Lord Zhou, the old minister has not heard of which lady has been named Her Royal Highness the Princess, how can the little girl be poisoned?" Mao Ge Lao suppressed the panic in his heart and asked calmly.

"Your Majesty has just decreed that Miss Yuwei will be canonized as the princess of the Hong family, and an engagement ceremony will be held on an auspicious day!" Steward Zhou raised his eyebrows and looked at the pale Mao Ge Lao arrogantly.

"How so?" Mao Ge Lao was shocked, he was cautious all his life, left and right, but he didn't expect that he, who served the two kings and stood tall, finally folded on the body of that evil obstacle.

"How could it not be!" Steward Zhou waved his hand at the guards, and the guards pounced into the mansion like wolves, "The Yuwei girl brought back by His Royal Highness Hong Shizi, His Majesty respects her for three points, and the old slave does not dare to look at her directly, but your daughter is bold and reckless, poisoning and murder, just this is enough to ruin the reputation of the elder Ge I!" ”

"The matter of poisoning is not a foregone conclusion, how can it involve my evil obstacle?" Mao Ge Lao's heart moved, and he took off the lucky plate of mutton fat jade worn on his waist and put it into the hands of Steward Zhou, this piece of mutton fat jade is the heirloom of his subordinates, in order to save his son who committed a capital crime, he did not hesitate to cut his love!

"This, how can the old slave afford it?" Steward Zhou looked at the jade card in his hand with bright eyes, and an old face full of wrinkles suddenly smiled.

"A small plaything, it's not a tribute, and I ask Steward Zhou to tell the old minister a word about it!"

The day before yesterday, after His Royal Highness Hong Shizi took Mao Zhiruo away without warning, he was worried all day long, he was afraid that he would follow in the footsteps of Ronglian and be an official all his life, but he ended up with a bad death.

"Ge Lao is an understanding person, how can he use the old slave to point fingers, the last poisoning incident was just suppressed by His Majesty, how can Mao Jianfan, who has never entered the palace, poison His Royal Highness the princess of the Hong family, it's just that His Majesty has loved Ling Qianjin since he was a child, so he put the charge on Mao Jianfan's head, pitiful, a family of more than a dozen people became substitutes for death in such an unknown way!" Steward Zhou looked at Mao Ge Lao with a regretful expression.

Steward Zhou has always admired Mao Ge's forbearance, even if his brother is all over the house, he can do it quietly.

"Alas! That's also a helpless move! Elder Mao Ge also sighed, the tragic death of his brother's family is still vivid, and even his nephew, who had just completed the moon, died in Huangquan.

"Actually, who poisoned someone, Her Royal Highness Princess Hong knows in her heart that since Her Majesty has given an explanation, she doesn't dare to make a mistake! It's just that Steward Zhou looked around, and then whispered mysteriously: "The target of Rongyu's hijacking this time is not His Royal Highness the County Lord!"

"What?" Old Mao Ge pretended to be surprised, and then asked, "Could it be that her target is Her Royal Highness the Princess?"

"Hmm!" Steward Zhou hurriedly nodded, "This abduction not only caused His Majesty to suffer heavy losses, but also harmed Her Royal Highness the Princess, Concubine Hong, who lost Lin'er in her womb!" ”

"Huh?" Mao Ge couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, no wonder His Royal Highness Hong Shizi killed this time, it turned out to be for His Royal Highness who had not yet been born.

"Then how did the little girl implicate her?" Mao Ge Lao wiped the cold sweat on his forehead, since Mao Jianfan's accident, he imprisoned Mao Zhiruo in the mansion, although Rong Yu's trip is inseparable from Mao Zhiruo, but Rong Yu and Liu Yingfan are dead, Mao Zhiruo did not fall into the hands of His Royal Highness Hong Shizi.

"I guess I'm angry!" Steward Zhou replied thoughtfully: "The old slave was ordered to raid the old mansion of the pavilion, and I hope that no forbidden things will be copied!"

"Absolutely not!" Mao Ge Lao heard that it was like taking a reassuring pill, and his house had already asked him to search from the inside out several times, and all the forbidden things had been destroyed.

"That's good!" Steward Zhou looked at the glimmer of joy in Mao Ge Lao's eyes and replied casually, Ronglian and Mao Ge Lao are two evenly matched parties, one side falls, how can the other party survive alone?

"Report, no forbidden items have been found!"

"Report, no forbidden items have been found!"

……

The leaders of the guards in charge of the search came to Steward Zhou one after another, just as Mao Ge Lao promised, the guards did not find any forbidden things.

A strange smile immediately appeared on Steward Zhou's face, the old Mao Pavilion was powerful, and such a watertight operation could only increase His Majesty's suspicion of him.

"Your Majesty has a will!" Steward Zhou took out Her Majesty's holy decree and read to the crowd kneeling on the ground: "The old lady of Mao Pavilion committed murder, the crime is unforgivable, this king is grateful for his loyalty, and he is hereby revoked from his position as the elder of the pavilion, and he is limited to move out of the old mansion on the same day, and he has thought about it behind closed doors, and he is not allowed to participate in state affairs, so I appreciate this!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Mao Ge Lao sincerely kowtowed three times, and then took over the holy decree of Steward Zhou, this is already the best ending he has ever thought of, as long as he does not die, there will be a chance to make a comeback.

"Take care!" Steward Zhou looked at Elder Mao Ge who had returned to his usual expression, couldn't help but sneer a few times, and then took the guards away.

As soon as he walked out of the door of the old mansion, he saw His Royal Highness Hong Shizi with a frosty face.

"His Royal Highness Hong Shizi!" Steward Zhou hurriedly stepped forward and saluted with a smile on his face, His Royal Highness Hong Shizi was in a hurry, he didn't dare to touch this moldy head.

"What are you doing?" Xingli looked at the steward Zhou in front of him who was good at greeting.

"Back to His Royal Highness, the old slave was ordered by His Majesty to raid the old mansion!"

"Oh, why?" Xingli looked at Steward Zhou's respectful appearance and asked coldly.

"Back to His Royal Highness, His Majesty issued an order, saying that the old goddaughter of Mao Pavilion has no way to poison Her Royal Highness the Concubine Hongshi, and the crime is unforgivable, so she will be cut to the people from now on and move out of the old mansion!" Steward Zhou replied with a fifteen-ten.

"Her Royal Highness the Princess?" Xingli was stunned, Yuwei had broken off her relationship with herself, when did she become his concubine?

"Back to His Royal Highness, it is His Majesty's decree early in the morning, saying that Miss Yuwei is virtuous and virtuous, and she is specially married to Her Royal Highness the Princess!" Steward Zhou replied with a flattering face.

"What about Miss Yuwei?" Xingli's heart jumped up and down, and Yu Wei's resolute appearance was still in front of her, and she couldn't accept it according to her arrogant character!

"Of course, it's a thank you!" Steward Zhou replied with a smile, although he couldn't see the slightest joy in Miss Yuwei's expression, but Miss Yuwei has always been cold, and such an expression was also expected by him.

Xingli fell into deep thought when he heard this, Yu Wei hates being controlled by others the most, and leading the order to thank you is definitely not Yu Wei's style of doing things, is it......

"The old slave has to go back to reply to His Majesty, so he won't delay His Royal Highness Hong Shizi!" Steward Zhou looked at Xingli's changing expression, and got goosebumps all over his body, he didn't expect His Royal Highness Hong Shizi, who heard the marriage news, to have such an expression, which was even uglier than the dead Lao Tzu.

"You don't need to reply to the decree, Your Highness will go to see Mother in person!" ……

……

The main hall of the palace is particularly bright, a girl dressed in plain clothes, is sitting in the main hall plucking the strings, the beautiful sound of the guqin is sometimes like a mountain stream spring, sometimes like a ring bell, the queen is sitting on the throne listening attentively......

"Your Majesty!" Xingli walked straight in and bowed slightly to his mother, who had her eyes slightly closed.

The queen opened her eyes slowly, and looked at her in surprise as if she had frozen into an icicle, "Hong'er, what's wrong with you?" ”

"Erchen is fine!" Xingli looked at his mother with a look of concern and replied lightly.

"Are you alright?" The queen showed a strange expression, "Your hair is already frozen, and you still tell this king that it's okay!" ”

"Erchen just walked on the ice field, and happened to meet Steward Zhou, so come and see Your Majesty!" Xingli replied lightly.

"Look at the king?" A wry smile appeared at the corner of the queen's mouth, "Do you want to question this king again!" ”

"Erchen doesn't dare!" Xingli looked at the queen coldly, without the slightest respect for being a son.

"Tell me, are you here again for Miss Yuwei's business?" The queen leaned sideways and took a sip of the tea on the table.

"Your Majesty, why did you decree marriage?" Xingli asked bluntly.

"Isn't it good?" The queen asked rhetorically without raising her head.

"Yuwei's miscarriage has not healed, and His Royal Highness Hong Shizi is locked up in the dungeon again, and now he is married, of course it is inappropriate!" Xingli replied word by word.

"The king thinks it's the right time!" The queen raised her head and glanced at Xingli, her face showing undeniable majesty.

Xingli raised the corners of his lips and asked coldly, "Is this time to consolidate Your Majesty's royal power again?"

"Of course!" The queen replied without thinking.

"Your Majesty has to be so cruel?" Xingli couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart when he looked at his mother's domineering expression, and he suddenly realized that it was the biggest mistake he had made in his life to rob Yuwei to the north to ask for his mother's protection.

"Is it cruel?" The queen smiled, "This king's decree has fulfilled you, shouldn't you be grateful?" ”

"Thanksgiving?" Xingli sneered and said, "Thank you mother for playing with us?"

"The art of the emperor, how can you play with it? This king is just using the people around him to consolidate the imperial power! The queen replied nonchalantly.

"Yes, Erchen arrested Mao Zhiruo in a fit of anger, but His Majesty used my impulse to eradicate the barriers in the court!" Xingli's cold eyes were full of anger.

"Yes and not all!" The queen took another sip of tea and said slowly: "It should be more than one stone, you helped this king find a reason to depose the old man Mao Ge, and this king helped you improve the majesty of the crown prince!"

"Your Majesty doesn't have to, Erchen has no interest in those court discussions!" Xingli looked at his mother coldly.

"You are the prince of my Feilang clan, you don't care, but this king cares, this king will never let you bear the infamy of being only close to the red face and not close to the virtuous minister!" The queen snapped.

"Erchen has long since given up the throne, what are you doing with the position of the prince in name only?" Xingli replied disdainfully.

"Relinquishing the throne?" The queen slapped the table and stood up, "Miss Yuwei is already the princess of my Ferrand clan, you can give up the throne and fly away, but the princess of the Ferrand clan can't leave!" ”

"How can Your Majesty be like this?" Xingli looked at his mother angrily.

"Of course, it's for the great cause of my Ferrand clan!" The queen looked at Xingli's angry appearance and showed a hint of a smile, Hong'er and Yuwei both have the appearance of kings, they complement each other, and they will definitely make the Ferrand clan glorious for all generations!

"Hong'er will no longer be His Majesty's pawn!" Xingli couldn't help but be shocked when he looked at his mother's smug appearance, he finally realized the state of mind of his father and second brother.

"Chess is a game of those in power, and you only deserve to be a pawn of the king!" A thick smile appeared on the queen's face, but behind this smile there was an unpredictable murderous intention.

"Erchen would rather give it a try!" Xingli looked at his mother's dazzling smile and said coldly.

"Okay, this king is waiting!"