Emperor Chengde looked at Empress Zhao, and suddenly remembered Zhao Bangyue's fraud in the imperial examination and disrupted the court, and then thought of the prince Ling Chong's mistakes again and again in his feud with Ling Li, and the look of surprise in his eyes gradually turned into resentment. He has always been kind to the Zhao family, and in a big case like fraud in the imperial examination, he was only sentenced for raiding his family and did not implicate the nine clans, but after all, he still paid with the wrong intentions and could not be cultivated.

After pondering for a while, Emperor Chengde said coldly: "The Empress Zhao is arrogant, stubborn and resentful, immoral and disorderly, humiliated the minister in the past, and now murdered the concubine, immediately confiscated the seal, deposed the cold palace, and handed it over to the two governments for judgment and conviction." ”

"Father-" On the first day of Jin Yao's return to Beijing, he witnessed the scene of his mother being abolished, and he was shocked, and he didn't know how to face it. As the eldest daughter of the emperor, she has been taught in the palace since she was a child that she knows things and follows the rules, and what the queen mother does is not only moral, but also violates the laws of the family and country, she can't open her mouth to plead, but she just burst into tears.

"Jin Yao, don't cry, the queen mother has done something wrong, and the queen mother should ......be punished" Queen Zhao just wanted the matter to come to an end at the moment, and didn't want to have another incident, so she took the initiative to comfort Jin Yao, who was crying.

Soon, a law enforcement attendant came, took off Empress Zhao's crown and Zhai clothes, and escorted her to the cold palace.

Cheng Zhaoyi's witch injustice case was cleared, and Emperor Chengde ordered the coffin to be sealed.

"Mother, my father has cleared your grievances, and may my mother rest in peace in the spirit of heaven." Ling Li lit incense and candles and knelt in front of the coffin to comfort the dead.

After the coffin sealing ceremony was completed, the crown prince Ling Chong was summoned.

As soon as Ling Chong entered the hall, Jin Yao, who was in tears, stepped forward and called, "Brother Chong, are you here......?"

Ling Chong looked at Jin Yao indifferently, not knowing who she was, but feeling that this title was somewhat familiar.

"I'm my sister." Jin Yao lifted his sleeves, revealing a specially shaped gold bracelet on his wrist. This is one of the wedding gifts given by Ling Chong when she got married.

"You, you're not dead?!" Ling Chong was surprised.

"Evil obstacles, are you unwilling that your imperial sister is not dead?!" Hearing Ling Chong's question, Emperor Chengde on the side was immediately furious.

After being corrected on the spot by the killers of the Night Rain Pavilion outside the West Gate that day, Ling Chong was grounded in the East Palace to wait for the investigation, these days have been like a lost dog, panic all day long, at this moment listening to Emperor Chengde's reprimand, he was suddenly frightened and incoherent: "Father, the imperial sister came back from the dead, son, son, son, just a little surprised......"

His own sister didn't die, he was not surprised, but surprised! Emperor Chengde was really angry. Looking at Ling Chong's panicked appearance as he knelt on the ground, he felt more and more that his demeanor was obscene and embarrassed, and he did not have the appearance of a prince of a country.

"Do you know Zhao Dong? Do you answer truthfully? Emperor Chengde asked.

"Erchen, Erchen doesn't know."

"Then do you know the Night Rain Pavilion Master?"

"I don't know my son." Seeing that Emperor Chengde's face was becoming more and more ugly, Ling Chong immediately argued: "Father, the son is wronged, this Night Rain Pavilion is the killer organization in the Western Regions, and the son has been doing things in front of his father, how can he have the opportunity to get acquainted?" ”

"It's so good, you don't know any of them. Come on, pass on Zhou Yi of Dali Temple! ”

A moment later, Zhou Yi came with a thick case file.

"Zhou Qing, can the assassination case of Night Rain Pavilion be investigated?"

"Back to Your Majesty, I have basically checked out, this is the case file." Zhou Yi bowed down and handed the file in his hand to the eunuch who passed it on to the emperor.

Emperor Chengde waved his hand tiredly: "I won't read this file first, you can tell me what the situation is." ”

Zhou Yi glanced at Ling Chong, who was kneeling in the hall, and buried his head and said: "After these few days of investigation, we found that on July 20, Zhao Hongfeng, the head of the East Palace, personally transferred a sum of up to 50,000 silver coupons to Yonghui Qianzhuang in the east of the city, and Yonghui Qianzhuang deposited this silver coupon into the Yeyu Pavilion's account in Yongding in three installments, and the ministers determined that the East Palace and Yeyu Pavilion were indeed connected......

Ling Chong was stunned for an instant, he didn't expect that Zhou Yi's case handling did not start with the witnesses, but from the money and property ledger of the East Palace. These days, in order to solve the problem of witnesses, he has spent a lot of money, but the result is all in vain.

"July 20th?" Ling Li suddenly interrupted: "My mother concubine died on the 21st of July, and the East Palace has already booked the killer of the Night Rain Pavilion on the 20th of July!" Your mother and son are really calculating, one plotted to kill my mother and concubine in the harem, and the other arranged a killer on my way to the funeral. I'm curious, if I die, what good can Ling Chong do you? Is it the Vulture that can support you to ascend to the throne? Or can your brother-in-law Wu Dashan Yu share half of your country?! ”

As soon as Ling Li said this, everyone in the hall was shocked. This is not only a capital crime of murdering the concubine's brother, but a great crime of treason against the enemy!

Ling Chong panicked and retorted eagerly: "Ling Li, you don't want to talk nonsense, you teamed up with Shen Zhenghong to murder my mother's uncle back then, and the queen mother and I just want you to repay your blood debt......"

"Presumptuous! Murdering the concubine and assassinating the general, as the prince, can you do such a rebellious thing!! Emperor Chengde couldn't listen to it anymore, and said bitterly after opening his mouth to reprimand angrily: "The prince is narrow-minded, has no virtue and no deeds, and is unbearable to bear the weight of the seven temples. ”

"Haha, when my maternal uncle was convicted, I knew that I would have today, and sure enough......" Ling Chong heard this, and laughed, but then he cried bitterly, "Queen Mother, it was the child who was unfilial to you, and the child was not filial......"

Seeing Ling Chong crying and laughing uncontrollably in the hall, Emperor Chengde was annoyed and said: "Come on, pull the sinner Ling Chong out and put him in prison and take strict care of him!" ”

Soon, a guard in front of the palace entered and took Ling Chong out. Jin Yao, who was stunned on the side, reacted at this moment, and immediately knelt on the ground: "Father, Brother Chong is just confused for a while, beg Father and Emperor to forgive me......"

"Confused?!" Emperor Chengde said with a sad face: "It has been eleven years since Zhao Bangyue was convicted, and he has been against Ling Li everywhere over the years...... How forgiving does this make me?! You are the sister of his mother, and he can still ......"

Angry and angry, before Emperor Chengde's words were finished, the person suddenly fainted.

"Father—"

"Your Majesty—"

The hall suddenly panicked, and everyone gathered around and surrounded the dragon chairs temporarily placed in the hall.

When everyone was in a hurry, Ling Zhao, the king of Tongshu, walked in from outside the hall with Guo Gan, the judge of the Tai Hospital.

"Second brother, you came just in time!" Ling Li lined everyone up and led Ling Zhao to the dragon chair.

"My father has been in poor health recently, and today Cheng Niangniang is buried, and I am worried that he will not be able to survive, so I brought Guo Yuan from the Tai Hospital to wait outside the palace early in the morning." Ling Zhao explained, then took out a sachet from his sleeve and handed it to Emperor Chengde's nose, and after Guo Gan opened the medicine box and took out the silver needle, he helped Emperor Chengde's head to assist Guo Qian in administering the needle.

"Is Zhao'er here?" After a while, Emperor Chengde slowly opened his eyes, and after seeing that the person in front of him was Ling Zhao, he closed his eyes again.

"My father is overworked today and is a little tired, so my son will send my father back to Funing Hall to rest."

Emperor Chengde closed his eyes and nodded.

Ling Zhao arranged for the attendants to lift the dragon chair and set up the Funing Palace.

"Congratulations to Your Majesty, may Your Majesty be in good health!" All the people in the temple bowed to the ground to send the holy car.

Within one day, Emperor Chengde successively deposed the empress and abolished the crown prince, and the officials of the Nanyue court were all shocked and inexplicable, and the people in the streets and alleys were all discussing. Ling Li's redress of his mother's grievances in the mourning hall has also become a household name, in addition to his courage and patriotism, his filial piety and kindness have also spread.