Mo Xun walked out of the sedan chair, his chic temperament emanated from the inside out, and said respectfully: "The emperor is so friendly to the landlord, this son has thanked him in advance, please!" ”

During the banquet, the prince of Yan Guo didn't take his eyes off Gu Xiqian's body much, his eyes were scorching, and it was difficult to ignore it!

What's going on with this prince of Yan Kingdom?

Gu Xiqian was very depressed, she and Shizi only met for the first time today, and he looked at her so affectionately, giving enough imagination to the ministers in the court.

In front of the emperor, the ministers naturally didn't dare to say anything clearly, but they looked at her and the prince very ambiguously, and from time to time they exchanged words with their colleagues. I don't know how to arrange her innocence in my heart.

Because of Gu Miaoxuan, her reputation in the capital is not very good now, which is simply worse!

Gu Xiqian sat like a needle cushion, and only hated that the banquet would end early.

Time was tormented little by little, and the state banquet finally came to an end.

The emperor and the prince of Yan Guo exchanged pleasantries again, and asked the people of the Ministry of Rites to entertain the envoys of Yan State, and then announced their retirement from the court. Gu Xiqian was afraid of confronting people, so she asked about the relationship between herself and the prince of Yan Guo, and waited until the ministers were almost gone, and then got up.

However, before she could leave the main hall, she was stopped by the great eunuch beside the emperor.

"County lord, please stay, the emperor asked you to go to the imperial study for a while."

Gu Xiqian thought about it for a while, and then she knew why the emperor was looking for her, this prince of Yan Wang is really harmful, if the emperor really let her marry into Yan Kingdom, what should she do?

She doesn't want to marry, even if she does, she can't marry to Yan Kingdom.

In South Vietnam, she still has a lot of things to conclude!

Conniving with anxiety in his heart, Gu Xiqian still saluted respectfully and said, "Father-in-law is tired of leading the way!" ”

Along the way, she thought of many ways to refuse to kiss her, but none of them worked. In the blink of an eye, the imperial study was here.

"County Lord, please come in!"

Gu Xiqian bit her lip, and could only step into the main door of the imperial study.

In the imperial study, the emperor was the only one, and he buried himself in reading the recitals.

Gu Xiqian knelt down and bowed, and then shouted, "Your Majesty!" ”

"Coming?" The emperor interrupted her words, and he looked at Gu Xiqian, his eyes full of seriousness.

He said sharply: "What's the matter with you and the prince of Yan Kingdom?" Why did he name you to marry you? ”

Gu Xiqian didn't dare to lie, and said bluntly: "Your Majesty, the minister really doesn't know!"

The emperor squinted at her, and said, "When did you and the prince of the Yan Kingdom meet?" ”

Gu Xiqian's attitude was more sincere, "The minister has only seen the prince of Yan Guo today. ”

"Shut up!"

The emperor took the case and said angrily: "If you don't know, why did he ask his name to marry you, you give me an honest explanation, whether you and the prince of Yan Guo are privately conferred!" ”

Gu Xiqian's heart was shocked when she heard this, the emperor regarded her as a spy.

If this charge is confirmed, the Gu family will be beheaded all over the house, even though she has no good impression of the Gu family, she never wanted to kill her.

She hurriedly leaned down and kowtowed, shouting: "The emperor is angry, and the courtiers are wronged!" ”

"If you really feel wronged, give me the truth ......"

The emperor only said half of his words, and there was no sound.

Gu Xiqian was prostrate on the ground, thinking about how to persuade the emperor to believe it, when he suddenly heard a "bang" on the ground, and there was a sound similar to a heavy object falling to the ground.

She hurriedly looked up, her pupils dilated.

"Come on, something happened to the emperor!" She didn't care about etiquette, so she hurriedly got up from the ground and went to see the emperor's situation.

Before Gu Xiqian touched the corner of the emperor's clothes, a large group of guards and eunuchs rushed in.

The imperial study was suddenly in chaos, and as the only witness, Gu Xiqian was controlled by the Ouchi guards, with two shiny and sharp knives on her neck.

In less than a quarter of an hour, the queen hurried over, the emperor had been moved to the soft collapse of the inner room, she went straight to the bedside, crying: "Your Majesty, what is wrong with you, Your Majesty?" ”

She wailed and symbolically wiped her tears with her handkerchief, but she saw no sign of wetness.

After she cried for a while, she called the imperial doctor, who had already diagnosed and explained, to come over for questioning.

"How is the situation with the emperor?"

The imperial doctor replied tremblingly: "The emperor is poisoned." ”

He actually wanted to say something else, but was interrupted by the queen in a loud voice: "What, the emperor is poisoned!" What kind of poison is planted? Is it serious? ”

A series of questions smashed the imperial doctor in a daze, he quickly knelt down, and said: "The queen is angry, although the emperor is poisoned, but Weichen has already detoxified His Majesty, there is no major problem for the time being, and he will wake up soon!" ”

When the queen heard this, she immediately said: Buddha bless! ”

After reading the Dharma name, suddenly, the queen's eyes became extremely cold, she glanced at everyone in the imperial study, and finally fell on the emperor's personal eunuch.

"The palace is heavily guarded, why would anyone be able to harm the emperor in the imperial study!"

There was an uproar in the imperial study, and the big eunuch hurriedly said: "The slave should die, the slave did not protect the emperor, after the emperor's banquet, he only summoned the lord of Ronghui alone, and it was found that the emperor was abnormal, and it was also the lord of Ronghui." ”

Anyway, throw the pot out first.

"Where is the Lord Ronghui? Bring people up to the main palace! ”

Soon, Gu Xiqian was brought back to the imperial study by the Ouchi guards.

"Ahh Gu Xiqian screamed in pain, and the Ouchi guard kicked her calf hard, her face was pale in pain, her body was weak, and her knees hit the ground of white marble, which hurt her heart!

The queen said sharply, "Gu Xiqian, you are guilty!" ”

Her tone was as firm as if she had poisoned the emperor.

Just now in the side hall, Gu Xiqian also understood to some extent that as the first person at the scene of the crime, no matter whether she was innocent or not, she was the first suspect before she really wanted to be revealed.

Who poisoned the emperor?

How could it be such a coincidence?

It happened to be when she was there, and the emperor was poisoned?

There is also the son of Yan Guo, who has never seen her, so he has always been in love with her, and even begged for marriage

Vaguely, Gu Xiqian felt that there were inextricable relationships in this? It's just that she can't figure it out now, and the only thing she can be sure of is that

She's been calculated!

Now is not the time to think about this, Gu Xiqian tried not to fall into a panic, and calmly answered the queen's questions.

"Empress Qiyu, the courtiers don't know!"

"Humph!"

The queen sneered, "I don't know! Then this palace will tell you, Gu Xiqian, have you committed the crime of killing the king of the Nine Clans, why don't you honestly explain your criminal behavior, and you can suffer less! ”

Gu Xiqian couldn't care about the pain on her body, and hurriedly saluted, shouting: "The courtiers will never commit such a disobedient crime as killing the king, and ask the queen to investigate carefully, if you let the people with a heart continue to go unpunished, wouldn't it be resentful?" ”

The queen frowned, looking at her thoughtfully.

Gu Xiqian saw that she seemed to be shaken, and hurriedly said: "Queen Mother, the life of the courtier is not a pity, but if you kill by mistake and let go of the real murderer behind the scenes, there will be endless troubles." Chen Nu has a plan to lure the snake out of the hole. ”

But the queen was emotional at this time, and she was not moved by her words, but completely changed the queen's face.

"Someone!" She shouted.

Soon, there was a person in the imperial study.

Gu Xiqian recognized him, and he was the first to let his subordinates control her Da Nei Guard, Mu Zuo.

Mu Zuo knelt down on one knee, "Mu Zuo has seen the queen!" ”

"Mu Zuo, as a guard in the inner country, you are responsible for the emperor's safety, but you let people murder the emperor under your nose, what crime should you be guilty of?"

"Mu Zuo knows that he is guilty, and he only asks the queen to give his subordinates a chance, and when the real murderer is caught, his subordinates will personally go to the criminal department to receive the punishment and be punished!"

"Good!" The queen said: "The palace will give you three days, if you can't find the murderer within three days, you don't have to go to the criminal department, just come and see you!" ”

"Yes!" Mu Zuo's solemn face was a little more resolute.

"Okay, you all go down, I'm going to wait for the emperor to wake up!"

Gu Xiqian, who was ignored, opened her red lips, she wanted to say something, but Mu Zuo and his subordinates said, "Come on, take Lord Ronghui to the Criminal Department Building for me." ”

After finishing speaking, he said hypocritically: "The county lord has offended, it is a matter of royal safety, and Mu Zuo is also a business!" ”

What else could she say?

Do you want her to question her ability to choose people in front of the queen?

Half an hour later, the prison of the criminal department.

Because of the title of the county lord, Mu Zuo treated her politely, and asked her to move a chair of pear blossom wood for her to sit on, but the gloomy torture room was full of all kinds of torture instruments that made people hairy when they looked at it.

The air was clearly filled with a distinctly smelly fishy stench, and the shouts of other torture chamber inmates rang in my ears.

If you are a lady from a wealthy family in Beijing, she will also be frightened in this environment. But Gu Xiqian's face was just a few points pale, and she didn't panic.

"People say that the county lord is a heroine among women, and when I see it today, it can be seen." Mu Zuo said, and then took a long whip on the table.

Gu Xiqian bit her lower lip, suppressed the fear in her heart, and said calmly: "Shepherd guard, if you have anything to say, just say hello, I must know everything, I have been afraid of pain since I was a child, you don't have to worry about me lying!" ”

Mu Zuo was stunned for a moment, and smiled randomly, without any trust in his smile.

"The county lord is really a cheerful person, so Mu Mou is not welcome."

Mu Zuo immediately changed his face, looking like a poisonous snake ready to bite at any time.

"May I ask the county lord, when the emperor fainted after being poisoned, were there only you and the saint in the imperial study?"

Gu Xiqian nodded and said, "But at that time, the eunuchs beside the emperor were waiting outside the door, but whenever there was a little movement in the room, they would ......."

Mu Zuo raised his hand to interrupt her and said, "The county lord only needs to answer yes or no, and the other Mu Mou will have their own answers!" ”

Gu Xiqian frowned, feeling uneasy in her heart.

The glass-clear and transparent eyes carefully inspected Mu Zuo, what kind of inquiry did he ask, did it just rely on his unilateral speculation?

What's the difference between that and directly implementing her charge of killing the king?

Gu Xiqian's composure has been messed up,

Mu Zuo looked at her steadily, his eyes flashing, "What does the county lord mean by not answering?" Is this a weak heart? ”