"Lord Shen, what is the situation in the DPRK now?" Shu Mei asked eagerly.

"Don't worry, and go to Funing Hall with the ministers to discuss together." Shen Zhu led Shu Mei to the Funing Palace, and reported as he walked: "The incident happened suddenly, fortunately, Your Majesty has made arrangements before going to Yuanqiu, and now the court situation is still stable, and the ministers and General Song and others are ......."

Shu Mei suddenly stopped, "You said, Your Majesty has made arrangements before going to Yuanqiu?" ”

"Your Majesty's implementation of the new policy of ruling officials and reforming the imperial examination has offended many people, and these people have been hiding in the shadows and waiting for an opportunity to fight back. This year, when the spring cold suddenly occurred, these people took advantage of this to exert their strength, intending to change the sky. Before going to the mound, His Majesty had already sensed the seriousness of the situation, and had already deployed some countermeasures......"

Shen Zhi told Shu Mei all the things that Ling Li had ordered to explain before, and then said: "Now, there are ministers and several generals in the former court, Niangniang can rest assured, as long as the real murderer of His Majesty is caught, we can support the little prince to succeed to the throne smoothly." What Niangniang has to do now is to straighten out all the things in the harem and protect His Royal Highness the little prince. ”

In the small study, Shu Mei listened to Shen Zhu, Song You, Zhang Yi and others analyze the current situation and discuss the arrest of the real murderer, and his heart was tormented.

No wonder Jue'er was made the crown prince as soon as he was born, it turned out that he had a premonition and had already made arrangements. And she didn't know anything about it. In the past, I was only addicted to the hatred of bereavement and the hatred of destroying the family, and I wanted to kill the king for revenge for my own selfishness! If he had drunk that cup of poisoned wine that day, she couldn't imagine what kind of chaos the world of South Vietnam would have fallen into now!!

No wonder Grandma reprimanded herself for being willful, no wonder the official said that she was a demon concubine who brought disaster to the country and the people. At this moment, Shu Mei realized that compared to the stability of the world and the livelihood of the people, how pretentious and selfish he was when he was blinded by hatred in the past!

Her husband is the emperor of South Vietnam!

She is the queen of South Vietnam!

Her son will be the future monarch of South Vietnam!

She must protect this South Vietnam for their father and son!

Thinking about this, Shu Mei straightened his shoulders and back.

Out of the Funing Palace, Shu Mei went to Yanqing Palace to arrange the funeral of Concubine Xian. Now, the real murderer of Ling Li has not been caught, and the news of Concubine Xian's death cannot be spread out of the palace.

Shu Mei lived in Yanxi Hall calmly, and handled government affairs with Song You and others in the small study every day, creating the illusion that Ling Li was still recuperating from his injuries in the Funing Palace.

Liu Yin took the people of the Inner Servant Province and turned the Yongnian Palace upside down, but he also failed to find Ling Juan and the silkworm. Shu Mei looked through the records of the entry and exit of the palace gate bureau with a pen, and finally found the clue that at noon on the second day of the Nongsang Festival, there was a carriage responsible for transporting fruits and vegetables after leaving the palace, and there was no record of returning to the palace.

Shu Mei immediately ordered the Imperial City Division to investigate the whereabouts of the carriage and make sure to find out where the carriage went. With clues, the Imperial City Division acted quickly, and on the afternoon of the third day, the carriage that had run out of Yongding City for more than 200 miles was intercepted, and the carriage was indeed hidden by Ling Juan, the eldest princess of Xingguo, and Xiao Silkworm, the lord of Jiaqi.

"You are so bold that you dare to abduct the princess and the county lord!"

Shu Mei was in the interrogation room of the Imperial City Division, and when he saw the coachman with a meaty face, he stepped forward to slap him. She was really annoyed, if she hadn't noticed this carriage, she didn't dare to imagine where Ling Juan and the little silkworm would be abducted. If she loses the princess, how can she be worthy of Ling Li under the spring.

After being slapped in the face, the coachman suddenly cried bitterly, "Niangniang, wronged, it's not the grass people who want to kidnap the princess, it's the grass people who are held hostage by the princess......"

"What did you say?" Shu Mei laughed angrily at him, "You are a person with five big and three thick, and you are beaten by two eight. Nine-year-old kidnapping? You can make up this kind of lie?! ”

"The grass people don't dare to lie, the grass people are indeed held hostage by the princess. The grass people went to the imperial dining room that day to unload the fruits and vegetables and then left the palace, and when they got home, they found that there were two more little girls in the basket of the carriage...... Oh, little princess, the princess threatened the minions, saying that if the grass people did not send them to Lucheng, she would tell Your Majesty that the grass people had abducted the princess, and that Your Majesty would cut off the heads of the grass people......"

"They're going to Lucheng?" Hearing that the coachman mentioned Lucheng, Shu Mei turned his head and asked Cui Zhongjie.

"Back to Niangniang, the carriage was intercepted near Yongsi City, and it seems that it is going in the direction of Lucheng." Cui Zhongjie replied.

After returning from the Imperial City Division, Shu Mei asked Ling Juan to be brought to Ciyuan Hall for questioning.

Unlike in the past, when she saw Shu Mei, she rushed forward and called her "Queen Mother", Ling Juan saw Shu Mei at this time, and she actually looked dodgy and afraid.

"Come here, the queen mother will comb your hair for you, look at this bun, it is unkempt, and the turtledoves can build a nest in it." Shu Mei pulled Ling Juan and encircled her into his arms.

Ling Juan stared at Shu Mei with wide eyes, but Shu Mei didn't ask, just broke up her hair bun for her, and took a wisp of grate to comb it for her, "When I was a child, Ah Niang liked to comb my double bun the most, every time I went out, others always liked to touch my bun, this incident annoyed me a lot......"

"And then?" Seeing that Shu Mei suddenly stopped talking, Ling Juan asked.

"Later? When I wanted A-Niang to comb my double-ring bun again, she was gone......"

Ling Juan looked up at Shu Mei, and suddenly stretched out her arms and hugged her, "Queen Mother, I will always accompany you and let you comb my double ring bun." ”

"Then why did you go back to Lucheng? Don't you want a queen mother? ”

"Concubine Xian is dead, I'm afraid that my father will punish the silkworm, so I took her away." Ling Juan bit her lip and said.

"What does the death of Concubine Xian have to do with the silkworm?" Shu Mei asked as she pulled her hair in a bun.

"The woman who assassinated my father was placed in the honor guard of the memorial ceremony by Concubine Xian, and the silkworm knows."

Shu Mei's hand wrapped around his head rope paused, "You say, Shen Qingyuan is the person of the virtuous concubine?" ”

"Well, Xiao Silkworm said, last time in Xixi Palace, it was also Concubine Xian Niangniang who brought the girl in, she couldn't please her father, so she wanted to find a woman to please her father, and said that then her father would not only like the queen mother......"

In Ling Juan's narration, Shu Mei knew that Shen Qingyuan was the person Dong Yuejiao had come to compete for favor. After Xixi Xinggong was blocked by Shen Zhu that time, she inserted Shen Qingyuan into the honor guard of the Heaven Sacrifice Ceremony. She originally wanted to use Shen Qingyuan to curry favor with Ling Li, but she didn't know that Shen Qingyuan was originally using her. After the murder of Yuanqiu, Xiao Silkworm threatened to report the matter, so that the emperor ordered the nine clans of the Dong family to be punished, and Dong Yuejiao chose to hang herself in fear and fear.

Shu Mei summoned the little silkworm again and inquired in detail about the incident. Sure enough, it was not much different from what Ling Juan said.

"Where did she find Shen Qingyuan?"

"She once went home and cried that her mother had bullied her in the palace, so Mrs. Dong found Shen Qingyuan for her, saying that Your Majesty will definitely like a woman like her, and this woman will help her please Your Majesty."

"How does Madam Dong know that His Majesty will like Shen Qingyuan's appearance?"

"Mrs. Dong believes in the Taoist way of health preservation, and met a Taoist named Yu Tian, who gave her the idea."

Yu Tiandao is long?! This is the person Shen Zhu mentioned before. I didn't expect to be connected with the clue of the Dong family.