Several people were stunned because of the clues they got by accident.

They still remember that Mu Yuanjing mentioned it before, saying that Li Guifei's personal palace maid disappeared with Li Guifei after she hanged herself, and this person could not be found in the palace, and there was no record of leaving the palace outside the palace, but now people are entangled in the queen's body.

Pei Lin speculated: "Even if the queen is not her murderer, her death must be related to the queen." ”

Mu Yuanjing had no objection to his words, but the most important thing at the moment was to find out if the queen was related to the Heart Devouring Gu.

The time of the death of Concubine Li Guifei's personal palace maid is too strange, and if you assume that what she once said is a lie, then the matter is easy to explain.

At the beginning, the personal palace maid knew that Li Guifei had fallen into the Heart-devouring Gu, and after Li Guifei's death, she intended to help the Gu people cover up, maybe the murderer had promised her something, but after the matter was completed, she never expected that she would take her own life in the end.

Now that her ghost is haunted by the queen, it is enough to prove that Li Guifei's death was related to the queen, otherwise why would the queen take action.

After confirming that Concubine Li Guifei's death had nothing to do with the Queen Mother, Mu Yuanjing's heart gently fell back to its original place.

He asked Wei Xu lightly: "Does the palace maid who has been following the queen have a handle?" ”

Although the Yin Shi Ya is an organization for investigating and handling cases on the surface, in the final analysis, the main responsibility is still the personal guard of Emperor Wu An, and all officials who serve in Beijing will more or less have a handle in the hands of the Yin Shi Ya, but when they are not used, these handles are usually shelved and waiting for the right opportunity to come out.

Without some shady means, it would not have been possible for the Hidden World to help Emperor Wu An quickly grasp the military and political power soon after he ascended the throne.

Wei Xu didn't know about the queen's palace maid, and he didn't admit it indiscriminately at the moment, but only said: "Please wait for the prince to wait for the night, and tomorrow's subordinates will definitely find out the results." ”

It is not so easy to find out the details and weaknesses of a person, so Mu Yuanjing did not urge.

"After finding out, take the person to the secret room, and remember, don't be noticed by the queen."

Mu Yuanjing wants to start with the people around the queen, since the palace maid can follow the queen before entering the palace, then she naturally knows the secrets of the queen.

Everyone left the study and returned to their respective courtyards, the night shrouded the entire Linchuan Palace, and with the first morning light rising in the sky, the people on the street gradually increased.

In the palace, Wei Xu's face was tired, but his mental state was still good.

"Lord Wang, the queen's big palace maid is named Lan Pei, she is the son of the Jun family, her parents died ten years ago, in order to save the master of the Jun family, when she died, Lan Pei and her younger brother were entrusted to the Jun family, and then Lan Pei followed the queen, until after entering the palace, the queen promoted Lan Pei to be a palace maid for the first time."

Wei Xu said that the Jun family is the queen's mother's family, in the period of Emperor Chengde, the Jun family belonged to the important ministers in the court, and the power leaned towards the government and the opposition for a while, and as the only daughter of the Jun family, the queen was a female hundred families, just when everyone was curious to watch, Jun Yi, the daughter of the Jun family, that is, the current queen, took the initiative to marry Emperor Wu'an, and then things became natural, Jun Yi married Emperor Wu'an, and became the queen after Emperor Wu'an ascended the throne.

Mu Yuanjing asked, "Where is Lan Pei's younger brother now?" ”

"I've been brought into the secret room, and Lan Pei has also been brought over by his subordinates."

The people close to the queen have been away for a long time, and it will inevitably cause unnecessary trouble, so Mu Yuanjing did not delay, and took Su Qingmo and Wei Xu into the secret room of the study.

It was still the secret room from before, when Su Qingmo first came, she saw Chen Xuan, the beast who killed the son and refined the ghost baby, and this time, she looked at Lan Pei, who was curled up and sitting in the corner.

Lan Pei heard someone come in, her shoulders shrunk, and her blindfolded head turned around.

Mu Yuanjing glanced at Wei Xu, and Wei Xu stepped forward and took off the cloth that was blindfolded by Lan Pei.

The bright candlelight flickered so that Lan Pei couldn't open her eyes a little, and after getting used to it, she saw the few people standing in front of her clearly, and her eyes widened.

A moment of surprise made her forget her movements.

Wei Xu said: "I invite you here today because I want to ask you something. ”

Lan Pei put away her surprise, quickly changed her posture and knelt on the ground, her tied hands were clubbed on the ground, and she kowtowed: "The slave and maid meet the prince, meet the princess." ”

She raised her head, with a hint of inquiry in her eyes, "I don't know what the prince ordered to call the slave and maid over?" ”

Lan Pei's heart was resolute and did not become panicked by the sudden situation.

Mu Yuanjing looked at her and said, "Concubine Li died because of the Heart Devouring Gu, and Concubine Li's death is related to the queen. ”

The words mean yes.

Lan Pei paused for a moment, as if she didn't react, with obvious doubts on her face, "The slave and maid who said the prince don't understand. ”

Mu Yuanjing didn't say anything more, and Su Qingmo on the side said: "You don't know about Concubine Li's death, what about the death of the palace maid next to her?" ”

Lan Pei shook her head, "The person the princess said, the maid doesn't know. ”

Su Qingmo said faintly: "She was strangled to death, will you remember?" ”

Lan Pei really didn't expect Su Qingmo to know so clearly, she suspected that it was the people around the queen who leaked the secret, but she couldn't admit it at the moment.

Su Qingmo looked at Lan Pei, who no longer spoke, knowing that it would only be a waste of time to go on like this, so she glanced at Mu Yuanjing next to her.

Mu Yuanjing nodded at Wei Xu, Wei Xu walked into the small door on the east side of the secret room, and after a while, he walked out of it with a child in his arms, Lan Pei saw Wei Xu's arms when his face changed greatly, and his expression was panicked.

Mu Yuanjing said lightly: "Still not telling the truth? ”

Lan Pei pursed her lips tightly, her eyes staring at the eleven-year-old boy Wei Xu was holding.

"If you don't tell the truth, this king will not continue to be polite."

Lan Pei looked struggling, and finally spoke: "Why didn't An An react?" ”

An An is the child in Wei Xu's arms, and Lan Pei's only relative in this world.

"This king asked people to feed him some medicine, but he just fell asleep, and it was fine."

Mu Yuanjing paused and added, "If you still refuse to tell the truth, this king doesn't dare to guarantee that what will be fed to him next time will not be poison." ”

Lan Pei hurriedly raised his head and stopped him in a loud voice: "I said, I said"

Wei Xu glanced at her, and after making sure that there was no cheating, Fu took the child out again, and when he came back again, Lan Pei, who had regained his composure, had already opened his mouth gently.

"What the prince wants to know, and what he is investigating, the slaves and maids are all clear."

She looked at Mu Yuanjing with begging eyes, "If the slave and maid tell the matter and the plan, I hope that the prince can give the slave's younger brother a way out." ”

"The king promises you, provided that you tell the truth and come forward to identify the queen in his need."

Lan Pei's face turned pale, she had planned to kill herself by hitting the wall after telling everything.

Mu Yuanjing naturally guessed her intention to apologize with death, but she had already been involved in Concubine Li's affairs, so how could she be qualified to withdraw on her own.

He looked at her, "Say it." ”

Lan Pei's face was ashen, and he told the story of what he had done.

"Two years ago, the queen mother invited the abbot of Huiguang to enter the palace to preach Buddha, at that time the master was not married to the emperor, but the slave knew that the master had admired the emperor for a long time, and the master of the abbot of Huiguang entered the palace the day before he got the news, so the master entered the palace early on the second day, in order to leave a good impression in front of the queen mother."

As he spoke, Lan Pei's face inexplicably had a hint of a smile, but gradually, the smile was retracted.

"Later, on the day Abbot Huiguang left the palace, the master also left with him, and when he was separated from Abbot Huiguang, he gave the master something, and it wasn't until later that the slave didn't know that Abbot Huiguang gave the master was the Heart Devouring Gu."

Lan Pei was about to continue, but Mu Yuanjing said loudly: "There is no need to say it. ”

Lan Pei secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but before he could spit out this breath, he heard Mu Yuanjing continue: "Follow this king into the palace and tell the emperor these words." ”

Lan Pei kept shaking his head when he heard this, the look in his eyes was terrified to the extreme, and he trembled like the autumn wind and falling leaves.

"I can't say that if I say it, Queen She"

Mu Yuanjing didn't pay any attention to her, only ordered Wei Xu to bring people, and then left the secret room and rushed to the palace.

Lan Pei in the carriage was tied hand and foot, her lips were gagged, her face was pale, and there was no trace of gleam in her eyes.

When Mu Yuanjing's carriage entered the palace, Emperor Wu'an had already gone down to the early court, and Fu Lu reported that the king of Linchuan had entered the palace to ask for a meeting.

Emperor Wu An smiled and said, "Let him come in." ”

Fu Lu said respectfully: "Your Majesty, the prince is waiting for you in the queen's palace. ”

Emperor Wu An's eyebrows tightened, "Why did he run to the queen's palace?" ”

As he spoke, he got up and left the Imperial Yang Palace, and when Emperor Wu An arrived at the Empress's Fenglai Palace, the atmosphere in the palace was not relaxed.

Lan Pei, who was bound, knelt on the ground, did not move, and the queen's gaze at her almost burst into flames.

When she saw who the person walking in from outside the palace was, the queen's face became even more ugly, but she still encouraged herself to maintain the smile on her face, and asked Emperor Wu'an to say, "Why did the emperor come over?" ”

Emperor Wu An's words were sarcastic, "Why, I can't come?" ”

Because of the other party's words, the queen was sad in her heart and stopped speaking.

Emperor Wu An looked at Mu Yuanjing and asked, "Why do you want to invite me here?" ”

Mu Yuanjing stepped forward and saluted: "The matter is related to the cause of Concubine Li's death, so the younger brother invited the imperial brother to go this way." ”

Emperor Wu An remembered what happened in Liufang Hall a few days ago, but he didn't expect Mu Yuanjing to really investigate.

He sat down at the top, "Cleared up?" ”

Mu Yuanjing nodded and looked at the queen, "What is the truth of the matter, maybe the imperial sister-in-law knows better than the younger brother." ”

The queen's face turned pale, avoiding the gaze of several people in the hall.

Emperor Wu'an instructed Fu Lu to send back the palace maids and eunuchs who were waiting in the palace, and asked him to close the palace door.

After the door of the hall was closed, Fu Lu walked back to Emperor Wu'an and stood up, bowing his head and inspecting the Mu Yuanjing, Su Qingmo, Empress Jun and Lan Pei who were kneeling on the ground in the hall.

Emperor Wu'an's tone was a little cold, "Empress, do you have something to say to me." ”

The Empress stood stiffly in place, and after a while, she turned to face Emperor Wu'an, her voice was so weak that it was inaudible, "The concubine has nothing to say." ”

Emperor Wu An stopped looking at her, and turned his gaze to the side, "Yuan Jing, you say." ”

Mu Yuanjing said all the words that Lan Pei had said in the secret room, Emperor Wu An's expression became more and more gloomy, and he picked up the teacup in his hand and slammed hard. fell in front of the queen.

The teacup was torn apart, and the flying fragments rushed towards Su Qingmo, and Mu Yuanjing quickly blocked it for her.

"Say! Did you do the Heart Devouring Gu in Concubine Li's body? ”

The queen looked at the man above with a sad and weeping expression on her face.

"The emperor doesn't believe me?"

"Why should I believe you?"

Emperor Wu An's rhetorical question made the Empress become emotional, "Just because I killed your child, you don't believe in me anymore since then." But what's wrong with me! The son-in-law has not come out, do you want to let the concubine take up the longest? ”

Emperor Wu'an's face was as dark as water, "I ask you if Concubine Li's death has anything to do with you." ”

The queen laughed softly a few times, and gradually, the laughter grew louder and laughed maniacally, and finally she wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes and slowly exhaled a breath.

"I did it, I think, not only Concubine Li, but the palace maid next to her was also strangled to death by me."

She looked at Emperor Wu An with a happy face, and when she found that the other party did not react, her face showed a self-deprecating expression.

He's never been interested in her, hasn't he known about it for a long time, and what are he expecting now?

Emperor Wu An looked at her, and said in a voice unhurriedly: "How?" ”

The corner of the queen's mouth pulled into a smile, and she glanced at Mu Yuanjing, "Your good sixth brother has already been found out, so I'll tell you in detail."

Su Qingmo looked at the queen who seemed to be ignoring it not far away, and listened to her talk about the past.

"The emperor still remembers, when you did not ascend the throne, the status of the Jun family in the court is so important, all the princes who have an intention for the throne, all hope to get the help of the Jun family, and later the father of the concubine learned that the concubine was pleased with you, so he told the queen mother, the queen mother was naturally very happy, but at that time Li Guifei was favored and favored, and the eight princes she gave birth to were quite supported by the ministers of the court."

"Therefore, Li Guifei couldn't live, so I took advantage of her intention to win over the Jun family, went to her palace, pretended to inadvertently stab her, and applied a special medicinal powder to her wound, which would enter the bloodstream through the wound, and then hatch out the Heart Devouring Gu, and within two days, I controlled Li Guifei to hang herself in my dormitory."

"Afterwards, in order to be safe, I asked Concubine Li's personal palace maid to lie, originally I wanted to throw the body to the mass grave, but who knew that the Emperor Taishang finally gave an order, and I could only let people bury her hastily."

She looked straight at Emperor Wu An, "I did all this for your throne, do you still blame me?" ”

Emperor Wu An sighed slowly, "Emperor Taishang had a secret decree before the throne, and he had already intended me to inherit the throne, and your actions were just too much. ”

The sudden truth caught the queen off guard, and she stood in place in a daze, her face full of disbelief.

"If it's impossible to be what you say, then what have I become? What am I doing all this for? ”

Emperor Wu An looked at her coldly, "I don't care to deceive you. ”

His words made the queen cover her face and cry bitterly, her voice was hoarse and grief, and Su Qingmo couldn't bear to turn her face away.

The Empress Jun cried for a long time, her hands fell weakly from her face, and she looked at Emperor Wu'an, and her heart was suddenly full of resentment.

She has been in love with him since she first saw him when she was young, and after marrying him, even if she knew that he had no intention of her, she never complained, and only felt that it was good to spend her life with him as husband and wife, but now, she began to hate him, how much she loved before, and how much she hates now.

The empress's smiling gaze slid past Mu Yuanjing and Su Qingmo, and finally landed on Emperor Wu'an.

"Your Majesty, you must not have guessed who was the person who asked me to ask Abbot Huiguang for Heart-devouring Gu in the first place, everything was planned by her, and even her own son was kept secret."

She suddenly looked up to the sky and laughed, so long that her breath became a little panting, "What a big show." ”

With that, the man slammed headlong into the pillar.

The Queen's forehead was bleeding incessantly, and after a while, her breath disappeared.

The moment before closing her eyes, she seemed to see the palace of the monarch who had not been seized by Emperor Wu'an before, where there was her father and mother who loved her and her brother who doted on her, which was the place she wanted to go back to the most.

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