Ping An paused and thought for a few seconds.

"At that time, Concubine Liu was summoned by the Queen Mother, and the minister saw it with his own eyes."

"Maybe the Queen Mother...... You'll know something. ”

Nalan Zhi's fists clenched and slowly released, and the words of peace blew a whirlwind in his chest. He closed his eyes and suppressed the rushing emotions surging through his body. After a long time, he spoke.

"Someone! Drive Cining Palace! ”

There was a crisp chirp from the window, and the maid in charge of the sweeping turned her head to meet the dark eyes of the bird, and she couldn't help but be stunned.

The sun is just right, like a thin veil gently holding the time.

The Queen Mother sat on the chair and took a sip of tea.

The fog was thick and misty, and everything was plausible and blurred.

Suddenly, there was a sharp sound in the distance, accompanied by footsteps like mountains.

The birds flapped their wings and flew away.

The maid closed the window and stood respectfully with her head bowed.

Nalan Zhi walked through the flowery garden and walked across the trickle under the bridge

。 He barely stopped at all, and even refused the eunuch's suggestion to take a sedan chair, and only came with a few people from Ping'an.

He needed an explanation, a key that could open the treasure chest of doubts hidden in his heart.

Nalan stopped coming to the Queen Mother and didn't say a word. The palace maid beside her was displeased when she saw this, but she quickly adjusted her expression and leaned over to ask the Queen Mother for instructions.

"The Queen Mother, the emperor is here."

The Queen Mother squinted slightly.

"The mourning family is not blind or deaf, so naturally they know."

There was a little reproach in these words, but a discerning person knew at a glance that the main anger of the Queen Mother was Nalan Zhi.

The angry palace maid knelt on the ground and begged for forgiveness, and the queen mother touched her forehead, seeming a little irritable. Nalan Zhi directly waved everyone back.

Seeing that the subordinates retreated one by one with bated breath, Nalan Zhi shifted his gaze to the Queen Mother with a cold expression on the high platform.

"The son has something to ask the queen mother, and I hope the queen mother will forgive me."

The Queen Mother tried to pull out a smile, but to no avail. She ended up just picking up the teacup, didn't drink it, slowly put it down, and exhaled.

"The emperor is so anxious, there must be something important, and of course the mourning family will not mind."

Some fragments passed through her mind, but the Queen Mother remained silent, just secretly clenched her fists.

"But if it is, for the sake of some children's private affairs......"

The words came to an abrupt end, but the unfinished meaning was already hovering in Nalan Zhi's heart. Along the way, all kinds of speculation and questions erupted at this moment.

Nalan took a step forward, almost in a questioning tone.

"I don't know what the so-called private affairs of the queen mother are?"

The Queen Mother frowned, she had never seen the emperor speak to her with such an aggressive attitude, and her heart was irritable, and her tone did not need to be mean.

"Naturally, it is the scourge that causes you to be injured as a result of your thoughts!"

The teacup slammed down on the purple lacquer table with a crisp sound. Nalan was stunned for a moment, and then he realized who the other party was talking about.

The anger hovered like an eagle in his heart, and the condensed flames burned in his heart, making a piercing sound.

"The Queen Mother."

Nalan Zhi gritted his teeth, and in just two words, it seemed to be squeezed out of his chest.

"What was it like that day?"

Nalan Zhi's eyes were like torches, staring closely at the solemn and graceful woman on the high platform.

"The son needs a truth."

The Queen Mother lowered her eyes, gently lifted her heavy sleeves, pretended to cough, and covered her face lightly.

"The mourning family has been dealt with, you are speechless."

The last flame in my heart was extinguished, and the droplets of water condensed into ice and hung in my heart.

The Queen Mother's voice was sonorous and powerful, like hitting the hammer of the ancient bell, again and again, shattering the last bit of faint friendship in his heart.

After a long silence, Nalan stopped speaking.

"I am the Emperor."

Nalan Zhi raised his head, and his voice exuded unquestionable majesty and solemnity.

"I," the Queen Mother's body trembled slightly, and Nalan Zhi did not hesitate and continued, "I have the right to know what happened. ”

The sunlight crept up the knees of the aging woman through the gaps between the windows. A little silver filament seemed to be stained with dust, dull, and this woman who was always tough finally took a step back.

"Mourning the family...... Summoned Concubine Liu and asked about your murder. ”

The voice was faint, revealing infinite exhaustion, and the Queen Mother couldn't help but hear that Liu Ruoxin knelt on the ground that day, bowing her head and lowering her eyes, but the back that had never bent down all showed her inner tenacity.

The emperor dotes on him, and if he knew that the other party had been kneeling on the ground for so long, wouldn't he be even more pity.

The Queen Mother's lips trembled a few times, and in a trance, Ling Tiange's face appeared in front of her, she breathed a long sigh of relief and closed her mouth.

"Gone?" Nalan Zhi couldn't believe it, it was as simple as that, if it was really as her mother said, then what happened to those rumors in the palace?

The Queen Mother concealed Liu Ruoxin's punishment for kneeling, and it was inevitable that she was a little weak-hearted, but the Queen Mother's solemnity made her face fearless, she looked at Nalan Zhi, and her fingers hidden under her robe were tightly clenched together.

"So, the queen mother is completely unaware of Concubine Liu's poisoning?"

The questioning tone was filled with disbelief that could not be ignored, and the prickly tone pierced the Queen Mother's heart, making her stunned for a few seconds before she began to answer Nalan Zhi's question.

However, it was those few seconds that made Nalan Zhi almost convinced that the Queen Mother was fully aware.

"Since the emperor doesn't believe in the mourning family, why bother to ask the mourning family?"

The Queen Mother was almost stabbed to the ground by Nalan Zhi's distrustful gaze, and the open guns and hidden arrows in the palace in the past could not withstand the suspicion of her loved ones.

"The mourning family really doesn't know about Concubine Liu's poisoning!"

Nalan Zhi turned around and sighed almost inaudibly.

"That being the case, my son withdrew."

"Wait ......"

"The queen mother has a good rest and takes care of her body."

Obviously said warm words, but the tone was like an ice pick.

After all, the Queen Mother couldn't speak.

As soon as Nalan Zhi came out, everyone waiting on the side immediately greeted him, and he wanted to ask about Concubine Liu's poisoning, but he glanced at the emperor's expression and sighed in his heart.

Everyone shrank back, Ping An was not moved in the slightest, and although he already had a rough idea of the next destination, he still asked Nalan Zhi's opinion.

"Your Majesty, ...... next"

"Go to the Green Shade Temple."

When Nalan Zhi entered the Green Shade Hall again, it was as if he was in a different world. The railings at the entrance of the palace are covered with a thick layer of dust and fallen leaves. Nalan Zhi walked on it, a little in a trance. Has this been despised by others? Nalan Zhi thought so. But soon, this illusion was shattered.

The sleepy-eyed little eunuch walked over in a panic, and what caught his eye was a bright yellow coat, the little eunuch's pupils shrank, he knelt on the ground with a puff, and kowtowed fiercely:

"Long live Your Majesty, long live, long live!"

Nalan Zhi held back his anger in his heart, waved his hand to the guards who hurriedly dared to come behind him, dragged the person down, and then called out the palace maid and eunuch in charge of this place, and a large part of the hula fell to his knees. It was another punishment to kill chickens and set an example for monkeys, and then he walked towards the palace.