Lu Zhaoyi looked at him pretending to be stupid like this, and his heart was extremely disgusted, and he couldn't help but snort coldly, "It's okay if you don't say it, from the Jiqing Rebellion to the Huainan County Disease, and then to the case of hoarding grain and grass in Yongzhou, which one of these things is not a good thing done by your Zhou family?"

Zhou Yi was still silent, he just gritted his teeth and stared at Lu Zhaoyi without saying a word.

His silence, for Lu Zhaoyi, not only did not have any effect, but made her more and more disgusted.

"Why, you don't plan to confess yet?" She curled her lips sarcastically, "It's okay. I know that you are the murderer who instigated the murder of my father, but I don't want to rush into this edict all the time, and I will break your body into thousands of pieces, eat his flesh, drink his blood, and chop up his bones, but I can't eliminate the hatred in my heart......

Zhou Yi trembled when he said this, and he suddenly shouted, "No! It's not me!"

"Who else is it not you?" She did shout out at this point, and she endured the churning in her heart and continued to question.

"Then who do you say? Is it Tuoba Namuye, is it Lu Lin, Du Yan, or ...... Nanling Gong?"

"You ......" Zhou Yi glared, seeing endless fear and shock.

But Lu Zhaoyi read it, and instead showed a satisfied smile, "Am I right? Looking at your appearance, it must be Nanling Gong, right?"

Zhou Yi was speechless in fright.

At that time, the Nanling Kingdom had not yet died, so it had already hollowed out its mind to plan all this, in order to take advantage of the Northern Expedition of the Lingguo that year, colluded with the Yi people in Hanzhong, Guanzhong and outside the Zhouzhou, and then after the unification of the Central Plains, the fugitive Zhou family was pulled into the gang to achieve the goal of entering the Central Plains.

Xianbei led by the Tuoba Department overthrew the Kebineng Department, and Yongzhou used Wei and Wang to loot the grain and grass in Guanzhong, prompting the Northern Expedition of the Ling Kingdom.

These schemes can be described as extremely female deception. However, Nanling Gong would never have imagined that such a huge plan would have an eye-catching person in the middle.

In order to continue to implement the plan, Lu Yong, who inadvertently learned about one of the links of this plan, let people kill it.

What an exquisite plan, Lu Zhaoyi couldn't help but applaud, but soon, her eyes became cold again, and her eyes repeatedly looked back and forth on the person on the torture rack.

For many years, she pursued the truth about her father's murder, and it was only at this moment that it came to light.

And for so many years, she has been thinking about revenge, but she has ignored that this matter is so inextricably linked to the survival of the whole world.

In a trance, she suddenly understood that the clue left by her father before he knew that her life was not long was to tell her that the thousands of lives at dawn in the world and the survival of the country and the society were handed over to her to guard.

From time to time, her eyes gradually moistened, and a crystal tear slowly slipped from the corner of her eye, dripping on the ground, and finally disappeared into the dirt.

In any case, today, she is going to rush to Nanling Gong, and she wants to ambush him on the spot before she can get rid of her crime in the palace by virtue of the right of exoneration granted by the previous king.

But this needs conclusive proof, if she wants to rush to the main hall, it is not impossible to kill Nanling Gong immediately.

However, her move will arouse the anger of the scholars, the world has just been settled, if this series of planned things cannot be made public, and the affirmation of the scholars, with the power of the scholars in various places, it will still stir up the world again.

Thinking of this, she no longer hesitated, eased her mind, and walked towards Zhou Yi again, her eyes more determined.

She was still getting closer, trying to dig everything she wanted to know from Zhou Yi's mouth.

The torture instruments on the side were missing a few in that moment, and in the torture room, the fire, in a trance, the flames were burning, the charcoal and the iron were dissolved, and there was a creaking sound, and the man's desperate screams were screaming.

When the torture room was opened again, out of it was Lu Zhaoyi, who was covered in blood, her empty eyes and tired body undoubtedly shocked everyone present.

"How...... What's going on?" Li Qian hurriedly rushed forward to ask, and then looked at Zhou Yi in the torture room.

Lu Zhaoyi raised his head,

As if a little lost, he turned his head and looked at the guards.

"Tell Your Majesty! Zhou Yi is hard-mouthed and ruthless, he didn't dig up any useful news, he didn't carry the punishment, he was already dead."

「……」

There was a dead silence outside the torture chamber.

Li Qian was stunned in disbelief, while Lu Zhaoyi on the side was terrifyingly calm.

And Su Chang didn't expect that Zhou Yi, such an important prisoner, would ...... Is it so dead?

It's just shocking.

Suddenly, he came back to his senses, and hurriedly rushed into the torture room to check if Zhou Yi was still breathing.

At this time, Lu Zhaoyi also turned his head to look at Su Chang, and saw that he looked back from Zhou Yi's corpse, and the two made a brief eye contact.

The officials of the Imperial Court were called over to dispose of the corpses.

When passing through the stone gate of the torture chamber, one of the guards stretched out his hand to confirm that the breath was gone, and then asked the court officials to continue to carry the person away.

"Lu Niangzi!" Li Qian was shocked, and asked softly, "Do you want to go back and change your clothes?"

She nodded.

When he came out of the edict prison, it was almost dusk, and it looked like the time for Nanling Gong to enter the palace should have almost arrived.

Lu Zhaoyi thought about it, but decided to go into the palace to take a look.

However, before that, she still needs to go back to freshen up and change her clothes, and she doesn't seem to know how she got back to Yongpingli.

By the time Flower Branch and Shadow Snow freshened up and put on a brand new dress, it was getting dark.

"Qi Niang, do you want to prepare a hat to cover your face?" Shadow whispered in her ear.

But after thinking for a moment, she said, "Let Shadow Cloud enter the palace with the Dragon Slaying Sword."

As soon as these words came out, Ying Xue was stunned.

"Didn't you hear me?" Lu Zhaoyi raised his voice slightly.

The dragon slaying sword was specially given to her when Wu Gong was dying, the so-called dragon slashing has the effect of supervising hundreds of officials and correcting the society.

This sword, under the officials, can behead the Son of Heaven, and when the dragon sword comes out, it can ignore all laws, which is also the reason why countless people are afraid of Gou Chenzi.

During the previous court meeting, Shadow Cloud had carried this sword into the court, and at that time it was more used for deterrence.

And this time, it's for ...... Homicide!

Or sensing Lu Zhaoyi's determination, Ying Xue did not dare to slack off, but immediately prepared to leave and rushed back to Gouchen Courtyard.

Imperial Palace, Taiji Palace.

Even when the curfew was approaching, the lights were still bright, and the temple was as bright as day.

And those guards still stood outside the temple gate, surrounding the entire hall tightly.

In the hall, Xia Pei sat on the throne, with one hand on his head, and his eyebrows were twisted into hemp ropes, looking extremely anxious.

At this time, on both sides of the hall, the courtiers were still sitting in it, and they also looked extremely anxious.

In the middle of the main hall, there is an old man who seems to have the age of knowing the destiny of heaven, his beard is white, although his face is thin, but his posture is upright, and his aura is magnificent.

And that person was Nanling Gong.

This person knelt, still not panicked, and faced Xia Pei directly, "Your Majesty, the minister has been kneeling here for a long time, if Your Majesty has nothing to say, the minister will retire."

Xia Pei's face was gloomy, and looking at this person's appearance, he couldn't wait to tear it apart.

"You still have the face to say goodbye? Hum! You encircled the Shi clan and intended to rebel, I had already said that you were raising armoured soldiers, minting copper coins, and trying to raise troops to come straight to Luojing. Are you going to quit now, are you trying to rebel next?"

After saying this, Nanling Gong's face was calm and calm, and he didn't care about the emperor's questioning, but he was reasonable.

But seeing that his face did not change, "Your Majesty, the minister has said it many times. The minister heard that the prince of Zhenguo died violently, so he raised troops to defend Luojing, and did the duty of a courtier by the edict of the Son of Heaven. Your Majesty should not be so suspicious of the minister, this statement is really chilling the minister's heart, for the country and the society!"

His tone was sincere and respectful, but there was a kind of obscurity

Meaning, there seems to be a little displeasure.

Among the ministers in the palace, there were already those who could not bear it, and stood up to help them.

"Nanling Gong's move is indeed a righteous act. Your Majesty thinks about it, Nanling Gong is retired in Taiyuan County, and he should enjoy the blessings of Qi people, why can he enter Beijing so forcefully, isn't he worried about His Majesty's safety!"

These words made Xia Pei's heart surge with anger, but he was helpless. Z.br>

"Nanling Gong, don't think that if you have the will of the previous king, you can really avoid death...... I am the emperor of the Great Abyss, and the first king is just the king of the Yuan of the previous dynasty.

"Your Majesty is cautious!" Nanling Gong's eyes were dark, revealing a trace of domineering in his bones.

"This world is not just the Xia family's world. The world is the world of the people, and Your Majesty should obey the will of the people, not so, otherwise the people of the world will not be stable!"

"You're provoking me!" Xia Pei slammed the case, and a fierce light burst out from his eyes.

Nanling Gong also stood up and looked at Xia Pei with blazing eyes, "Your Majesty, the minister has not provoked, nor has he crossed the line, what the minister said is all from the bottom of his heart, please consider it."

"You ......" Xia Pei's chest tightened, but he didn't say anything to refute.

At this time, all the ministers in the palace were greatly admired by Nanling Gong.

The scholars enjoy the land and population, and ninety percent of the taxes in the world are paid by the scholars for the people, occupying a unique advantage.

This is also an iron law that has never changed for hundreds of years, no matter how the dynasty changes.

However, the scholars are also the most cunning people in the world, and they can sacrifice everything, even the lives of the people, for their own interests and territory!

The so-called obedience to the will of the people is nothing more than standing above the interests of the nobles and choosing for the people.

At this moment, the atmosphere above the court is strange, and it may be the first time since Xia Pei ascended the throne that the imperial power has suffered such a crisis.

Suddenly, there was a commotion outside the hall.

Immediately after, the voice of a eunuch came.

"Your Majesty, the Queen Mother is coming!"

Xia Pei's brows furrowed, and the rest of the civil and military officials also got up one after another and bowed outside the hall for a while.

"Meet the Queen Mother!"

At this time, the noise outside the hall was even louder, as if countless people were saluting outside the main hall.

The Queen Mother is here.

"Zhu Qing is flat!" Empress Dowager Pu's voice was loud and loud, echoing in the hall for a long time.

The crowd rose one after another.

Empress Dowager Pu walked in slowly, dressed in dark clothes, looking simple and dignified.

Behind her, a woman in a white dress with a hat covering her face on her head, holding a sword in her hand, made the ministers of the palace feel a little puzzled because they could not see her appearance clearly.

It was Lu Zhaoyi.

Similarly, behind her, Shadow Spirit and Shadow Snow followed, their expressions condensed, and they looked on alert at any time.

"How could the Queen Mother come here herself, but what happened?" Xia Pei saw the Queen Mother, hurriedly greeted her, and asked with concern.

Empress Dowager Pu smiled, turned around, and looked at Lu Zhaoyi wearing a hat, "Yu came today to bring the Seventh Lady here, although the Seventh Lady is still a courtier in the front hall, but the current relationship with the emperor is inconvenient to enter and leave the palace at will, so I begged to bring it."

Hearing this, all the courtiers in the hall were stunned.

"You see, what Lu Qiniang is holding in her hand is the dragon slaying sword given by the previous king to the prince of Zhenguo?"

Because this sword had already appeared in the court before, and some of the old ministers, when Wu Gong was still there, saw this sword with their own eyes, and it was no different from their impression.

Empress Dowager Pu looked at Xia Pei, her eyes seemed to be worried, but she also knew that the identity of the sword-wielding woman behind her slowly relaxed.

"Since the Seventh Lady has brought it, Yu will not disturb you and others to discuss political affairs......

The ministers immediately knelt down again, and shouted, "Congratulations to the Queen Mother!"

It was Lu Zhaoyi, after the Queen Mother left, who walked straight to the steps under the throne and turned to face everyone in the hall.

"Today, Qi Niang took this sword into the temple, do you have anything to ask, Qi Niang will know everything."

At this time, there was silence in the hall, and everyone was looking at her.

In the eyes of these people, there are surprises and doubts in their eyes, but more than that, there is fear.

After glancing around, Lu Zhaoyi said, "Since no one has any doubts, then...... I will tell you that Qi Niang was ordered by the town master Zhen Guogong to behead the Nanling Gong!"