The concubine repeated proudly: "That King Jing of yours has died on the iceberg and will never come back!" Without him to be your support, see what else you have to say."

It's not that she doesn't know what happened to Concubine Shu.

But she believes that His Majesty just sees that King Jing is the prince of Da Zhou, so he will give Sheng Qingyuan face.

Now that King Jing is dead, His Majesty naturally can't shelter this so-called Princess Jing anymore.

Sheng Qingyuan stabilized his mind, grabbed her by the collar, and asked her in a cold voice, "You said that he died on the mountain, who told you?!"

The concubine didn't expect that looking at the soft and weak Sheng Qingyuan, her eyes could be so sharp, and when she met her eyes, she suddenly felt that the blood in her body seemed to be coagulated, and she couldn't say a word for a while.

The aura around Sheng Qingyuan's body became more and more cold, and the hand holding her collar became more and more forceful, "Speak!"

The simple two words shocked the concubine's ears and were about to explode.

"I, I just guessed." The concubine said tremblingly.

"Guess?" Sheng Qingyuan laughed angrily at her answer.

She was so worried just now that she almost jumped to a halt, but she told her that Shen Zhao died on the mountain, and she just guessed it herself?

Concubine Xi stubbornly said, "This, I'm just guessing based on the actual situation. The iceberg is inherently dangerous, and every time someone who goes to pick ice lotus is not careful, they will die on that mountain. And even more so now."

"What's going on now?" Sheng Qingyuan asked with a cold face.

Concubine Xi swallowed a mouthful of saliva, took a light breath and said, "Now, at this time, there is no ice lotus on that mountain, legend, only on that cliff, but no one has seen it, that cliff, it is impossible to go to it, once you go there, there is only a dead end."

Sheng Qingyuan listened to the words of the concubine, and the more he listened, the more ugly his face became.

Finally, I just let go of my heart a little, and once again mentioned it in my throat.

"You'd better not lie to me." Sheng Qingyuan said coldly to the concubine.

The cold eyes made Concubine Xi couldn't help but shudder again, and said tremblingly: "Everyone in the palace knows about this matter, you, if you don't believe it, you just find someone to ask."

Seeing Sheng Qingyuan's letter-believing appearance, the concubine continued: "You can't stay on the iceberg for a long time, in the past, you would go down the mountain every time you stayed on the mountain for a day at most, and it was two days at most, as long as you stayed on the mountain for two days, there were very few people who could come back alive. King Jing hasn't come back yet, so doesn't that prove that he's dead on it?"

Afraid that Sheng Qingyuan would not believe it, the concubine repeated again: "What I said is true, if you don't want to believe it, you can ask others yourself, your majesty."

I can't blame her for cowardice, but the eyes of the person in front of her are really terrifying.

When she went to greet His Majesty, she had never been so scared and nervous.

But the eyes of the person in front of him made people dare not face her.

"So, you don't have substantial evidence to prove that King Jing has ......" Sheng Qingyuan couldn't say the latter words, but he could understand it.

The concubine said stubbornly, "Yes, yes......

"Okay, good." Sheng Qingyuan took deep breaths again and again, trying to calm his emotions and not let his emotions get too excited.

As long as he didn't see Shen Zhao's body for a day, then he was still alive.

Shen Zhao could survive if he fell from such a high cliff back then, and presumably this time, he would definitely be able to.

Sheng Qingyuan let go of the hand that was holding the collar of the concubine and turned to leave.

It's just that when she left, her pace was a little staggering, and the palace people on the side hurriedly helped Sheng Qingyuan, but she pushed her away.

"I can do it myself." Sheng Qingyuan squeezed out a sentence from between his teeth.

She believed that Shen Zhao would definitely return safely, and she would definitely not fall.

I want to let

She fell, not so easily.

The palace people looked at Sheng Qingyuan's stumbling figure and were very worried.

After she returned to the side hall, she immediately asked people to go to King Heng.

Concubine Xi watched Sheng Qingyuan leave, and her heart was greatly relieved.

It was the Seventh Princess, who looked very reluctant and unhappy: "Mother, why don't you help me teach her a lesson?!" She bullied me!"

The heart of the concubine who mentioned her throat had just been put down, and when she heard the words of the seventh princess, her eyebrows immediately wrinkled, "Don't make noise."

"Mother! You don't like me anymore! You help me when I'm bullied, I'll ignore you!" The seventh princess said angrily.

The concubine was so irritable that she shook her hand casually and said, "You ignore it, I don't want such a disobedient child like you!"

As soon as the seventh princess heard this, she burst into tears, and then ran away quickly, crying as she ran.

The concubine's personal palace maid asked worriedly, "Niangniang, is it bad for the princess to cry like this?"

"It's because this palace is too indulgent to her on weekdays that makes her so rude and willful!" The concubine said angrily.

When she faced Sheng Qingyuan just now, Sheng Qingyuan's eyes, even if she thought about it now, she couldn't help but feel a chill in her back.

"But......" The palace maid wanted to say something, but when she saw the face of the concubine, she didn't dare to say anything more, so she could only hang her head silently.

After a while, the cry of the seventh princess suddenly disappeared, and the personal palace maid immediately looked at the concubine: "Niangniang, I didn't hear the princess's cry."

The concubine's heart also lifted, but she said, "Maybe she just saw something new, so she didn't care about crying."

The intimate palace maid frowned, which was not at all like the temperament of the seventh princess.

Then, the palace maid who followed the Seventh Princess walked quickly towards the concubine with the Seventh Princess in her arms, her face full of panic.

When the concubine saw the seventh princess fainting in the arms of the palace maid, she immediately asked worriedly, "What's wrong with the princess?!"

The palace maid hurriedly replied: "If you go back to the mother, the slave doesn't know what's wrong with the princess, the princess just ran and suddenly fainted, and she didn't bump into anything."

When the concubine heard this, her face suddenly turned pale, and she immediately took the seventh princess from the palace maid's hand and said, "Hurry up and ask the imperial doctor!"

"Yes!" The palace maid immediately said.

Because of the fainting of the seventh princess, about Sheng Qingyuan and Shen Zhao, the concubine had no time to pay attention to it.

Sheng Qingyuan didn't know how he got back to the side hall.

Looking at the empty dormitory, Sheng Qingyuan closed his eyes and kept comforting himself in his heart: Shen Zhao is different from others, what others can't do, he must be able to, he must be able to.

Sheng Qingyuan opened and closed his eyes countless times, looking forward to seeing Shen Zhao's familiar figure the next time he opened his eyes.

However, I opened my eyes again and again, and in exchange for disappointment again and again.

Sheng Qingyuan began to change from self-comforting silence to prayer.

Shen Zhao, I don't want Ice Lotus anymore, you come back quickly, okay?

I'm so powerful, even if I don't have an ice lotus, I can still live well, come back quickly.

When Sheng Qingyuan was praying, there was a sound at the door, and Sheng Qingyuan walked to the door quickly as soon as possible.

But then, a wave of disappointment clouded my heart.

It was not Shen Zhao who came in, but King Heng.

Looking at Sheng Qingyuan's visible disappointment, King Heng's heart seemed to be being pinched.

"I heard you just went out for a walk? If you feel bored staying here, I can accompany you out of the palace." King Heng said to Sheng Qingyuan with a faint smile on his face.

Sheng Qingyuan ignored what King Heng said, and asked him straight to the point, "Can you tell me the truth, there is still an ice lotus on that mountain, what is the situation?"

"Ice lotus is easy to pick, but it's hard to find, and it often happens to find it in the mountains for a few days.

King Heng tried his best to hide the panic in his heart, and pretended to be calm and said to Sheng Qingyuan.

Sheng Qingyuan's eyes were slightly cold, and he said, "But the concubine didn't tell me that just now."

King Heng said, "What can she understand? I have arranged the matter of picking ice lotus all these years, do you think her words are credible, or my words are credible?"

"She said that everyone in the palace knows about this, so as long as I ask a random palace person, they can tell me the answer?" Sheng Qingyuan asked rhetorically.

King Heng's heart couldn't help but chuckle.

This concubine, why is she so big-mouthed, and she talks to Sheng Qingyuan about everything?

When I go back, I must talk to the royal brother, how can such a brainless person be qualified to give birth to the blood of the royal family, and her children may have to make their brains stupid because of her influence!

Sheng Qingyuan didn't pick either, and asked directly to the palace people who were waiting in the palace, "The people who went to the iceberg to pick ice lotus in Su Rili usually come back in a few days at most?"

The palace man who was asked immediately lowered his head and said cautiously, "The slave doesn't know."

"Do you not know, or do you dare not say?" Sheng Qingyuan's voice was a little colder.

"The slave doesn't know." The palace man's head hung down a little lower.

"Okay, since you don't want to say it, it's okay." Sheng Qingyuan said.

When the palace people heard this, they suddenly breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts.

But Sheng Qingyuan then said, "I have a medicine here, as long as people take it, they can tell the truth immediately. Of course, this medicine also has certain side effects, but this side effect is only for people who lie before taking the medicine, if the answers are not consistent, after taking this medicine, it will be like thousands of ants gnawing on all parts of the body, which is very uncomfortable."

Listening to Sheng Qingyuan's words, the palace people couldn't help but tremble for a while.

Sheng Qingyuan looked at the palace people with cold eyes and asked, "I'll give you one last chance, do you say it yourself, or do you confess after taking the medicine?"

The palace people were so frightened that they couldn't help but shudder again, but the words on their lips did not change in the slightest: "Please forgive the princess, the slave really doesn't know."

King Heng also helped to play the round and said, "This kind of thing, if any palace person in the entire palace knows about it, then wouldn't the Yanbei royal family hand over a shocking secret to the enemy who wants to annex Yanbei?"

Sheng Qingyuan looked at King Heng and said, "Okay, then I won't embarrass her, since she doesn't know, then His Royal Highness King Heng, you just said that these things were arranged by you personally, so you must be very familiar with these things, so do you dare to take a pill too?" Rest assured, if you don't lie, not only will this medicine not cause any harm to your body, but it will even strengthen your body, which is a reward for honest people."

After speaking, Sheng Qingyuan took out a small box from his arms, opened the small box, and there was a medicine lying quietly inside.

King Heng looked at the medicine in the small box, and his eyebrows couldn't help frowning.

The corners of Sheng Qingyuan's lips curled slightly and looked at King Heng, "Would His Royal Highness King Heng want to give it a try?"