Early the next morning, the sky was bright, and in the silent deep palace, the woman's grief was heard in the distance.

Kunning Palace.

The emperor looked at the basins of blood and water, which were brought out of the side hall, and his face was gloomy.

"How? Can the tire be saved? ”

The imperial doctor knelt on the ground, "Weichen is incompetent, the fetus in Shen Niangzi's womb is no longer there." ”

Behind the screen, Shen Yuyao whimpered and cried bitterly.

The emperor looked at the empress and asked angrily, "What's going on, wasn't it fine yesterday, how did it become like this today?" ”

The queen was full of sorrow, "It's good, yesterday's matter of Xuanping Hou in the cold palace was known by Yao Niang, and she couldn't be angry, so she ran to find the princess to theorize, and the two had a dispute...... I didn't expect to get the tire gas as soon as I came back. ”

Hearing the empress mention Shen Lingxi, the emperor's face became more and more ugly.

"What about Shen Ji?" He shouted outside, "Get out of here!" ”

As soon as the words fell, Shen Ji was carried into the hall with a spring stool.

When the emperor saw him like this, the anger in his heart was even worse, "You really gave birth to a good daughter!" ”

Shen Ji looked dish-faced.

He quickly glanced at the queen next to him, and said to the emperor, "Back to the emperor, the minister has already written a letter of severance with Shen Lingxi, and she is not the minister's biological daughter." After the minister's daughter was born, she died, Shen Lingxi pretended to be the courtier's daughter, deceived the minister's mother, and when the minister's mother left, she also gave her most of the family business......"

It was the first time the Emperor had heard of such a thing, and he only thought it was ridiculous.

"You are a dignified Xuanping Hou, how can you be played around by a little girl who has no identity and no background? Don't you think it's ridiculous? ”

Shen Ji hesitated for a few breaths, as if he had the courage to report: "Back to the emperor, that girl was adopted by Shen Shiyao and Cheng Ying, Shen Shiyao has a comradeship with his father, and he saved his father on the battlefield, and his mother is very grateful to him, and often says to the minister, without Shen Shiyao, there would be no Xuanping Marquis Mansion." ”

Later, after his mother passed away, he learned of Shen Lingxi's identity, and thought of what his mother said before her death, so he decided not to pursue it...... What's more, at that time, she and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince were already in love with each other and promised each other for life, so ......"

"Cheng Ying?" The emperor said in shock: "Is it the female general of the previous dynasty, Cheng Ying?" ”

"Exactly." Shen Ji lowered his eyes and replied: "I heard that Shen Shiyao resigned on the grounds of suffering from a hidden illness in order to marry Cheng Ying, and Shen Lingxi was the one who hugged Cheng Ying back to Wangxian Village when he was alive. Chen has always doubted that her ability ...... Maybe it has something to do with the former national division. ”

The emperor looked surprised, "Didn't Shen Lingxi learn the puppet technique?" ”

Chu Yan said so in front of him at the beginning.

"The minister originally thought it was ......," Shen Ji paused, "but later the minister overheard that those corpses that had been deceived did not have any traces of organ mosaics on their bodies...... The minister estimated that it was the same evil law as the former national teacher. Yesterday on the ruins of the cold palace, the same is true of the charred corpses of the deceitful corpses. ”

The Emperor's pupils shook.

Seeing this, Shen Ji added another fire: "She is not only good at evil arts, but also proficient in the art of Qihuang, if it weren't for this, His Royal Highness the King of Wei would ...... How could she easily see through it? Wei Chen is now only worried about whether the pill she gave to the emperor at the beginning is harmful, if it ......"

Shen Ji's words have not yet been finished-

Suddenly, Aunt Liu hurriedly walked in from outside with someone, "Your Majesty, Niangniang, something is wrong, Cheng Meiren, Qi Meiren, Hui Concubine, Zhou Zhaoyi, they all have unbearable abdominal pain, and they are red, and the doctor said that the fetus can't be saved!" ”

*

On the ruins of the cold palace, after Su Xian and several Taoist chiefs, the formation arrangement of the whole night, the incense case, the road flag, the yellow paper, the cinnabar and the formation of various magic weapons are very complete.

Shen Lingxi sat in the cloth shed on the edge of the ruins, and pretended to sleep with his hands.

Liu Meiren took the two concubines and sat next to her, knocking on the melon seeds offered by Shen Lingxi, and looking at Mu Huaijie in the distance, "He is really interesting, he is floating around on this magic circle in the middle of the night, he is not afraid that Su Xian will lock him up and take him away." Other Taoist priests don't have that ability, Su Xian is not an ordinary person. ”

"Eighty percent is to explore the formation for his master, for fear that Lingxi will try to trap him again...... Didn't he get hit last time, if it weren't for that piece of dark yang jade, he would have been scattered a long time ago. A concubine covered her lips and whispered.

The other concubine chuckled, "This is called, being a thief with a weak heart." ”

Mu Huaijie saw them laughing from a distance, so he floated over from the magic circle and quietly pricked up his ears.

Liu Meiren and the two concubines glanced at each other, and they all fell silent.

At this moment, there was a sudden commotion in the distance.

"Spirit, Spirit." Liu Meiren sat up straight and hurriedly shouted to Shen Lingxi, "Your father is here again." ”

Shen Lingxi opened his eyes and stood up when he looked at Shen Ji, who was being carried by someone on a spring stool.

Mu Huaijie was shocked.

"It's Sheng Kun, it must be Sheng Kun." He instructed Shen Lingxi: "Sheng Kun really can't hold it back, and he wants to do something to you." If you see the emperor later, you can do what I told you before, just force Sheng Kun out of the emperor, and everything will be over. ”

Liu Meiren and the two concubines, when they heard Sheng Kun's name, were so frightened that they hid back.

And Shen Lingxi whispered thanks to Mu Huaijie with a solemn expression, and his tone was full of trust in him.

Mu Huaijie took in their expressions, and a hint of pride flashed in his eyes.

As he spoke, the internal guard had already carried Shen Ji and walked in front of Shen Lingxi.

Shen Lingxi looked at him with a smile, "Marquis Xuanping is really the most trusted by the emperor, and he can't rest when he is sick like this." ”

"Shen Lingxi, your good days are over."

Shen Ji sneered, and directly raised his hand to order the internal guard behind him: "Tie up this demon girl of the country and the demon Dao Su Xian, take them to the Qinzheng Palace, and the emperor will personally judge them in front of the civil and military officials!" ”

*

Half an hour later, Shen Lingxi and Su Xian were tied by the internal guards and taken to the Qinzheng Palace.

coincided with the time of the last dynasty, and all the civil and military officials stood respectfully on both sides.

Chu Yan was wearing court clothes and stood at the head of the hundred officials.

Seeing Shen Lingxi being tied in, his face sank, and he walked towards her with a step-

"Prince." The emperor said majestically, "She is not the daughter of Marquis Xuanping, she is a demon girl of the former dynasty, you were deceived by her." ”

When Shen Lingxi heard this, he turned his head in surprise and looked at Shen Ji.

Shen Ji silently raised his chin at her, with a sneer on the corner of his lips.

Chu Yan's eyes were slightly dark, his footsteps did not stop, he walked in front of Shen Lingxi, untied the rope tied to her wrist, and then turned to the emperor and said: "No matter who she is, she is the crown princess who is married to the minister, although the minister does not know who slandered the minister's wife in front of the emperor, the minister can use the head of Xiang Shang's head to vouch for her, she is by no means a demon girl of the previous dynasty, and she has never deceived the minister." ”

The emperor stood up and asked angrily, "I said that she is a demon girl, so naturally there is evidence of me." Do you want to rebel against me when you defend her like this? ”

This is the first time that the emperor has reprimanded the prince so mightily in front of the ministers in the court.

Although the officials didn't know what was going on, they all felt the tense atmosphere.

Now the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty do not know that this princess is the person on the tip of the prince's heart.

If the emperor wants to kill the crown princess, then the prince ......

Everyone didn't dare to think deeply, and couldn't help but hold their breath and look at Chu Yan.

"I don't dare." Chu Yan saluted: "The minister knows that the emperor has always been strict in the law, although the minister is defending the minister's wife, he is also safeguarding the emperor's reputation, and please don't listen to the words of others, so as not to wronged good people." ”

"Good guys?" The emperor sneered and stretched out his hand to point at Shen Ji, "You ask her father Xuanping Hou, is she a good person!" ”

When Shen Ji heard this, he immediately said what Fang had just said to the emperor in Kunning Palace in front of the courtiers.

At the end, he said: "This woman was adopted by Cheng Ying, a female general who disappeared in the previous dynasty, and everyone knows that Cheng Ying has a very personal relationship with the former dynasty's national teacher, and this woman is also proficient in witchcraft and can control the corpse, and she must have obtained the true inheritance of Sheng Kun." ”

No one in the capital knows that Shen Lingxi is the daughter of the Marquis of Xuanping.

Now Xuanping Hou has come out in person to identify her as a remnant of the previous dynasty or a demon girl.

This news is not unpleasant.

Shen Lingxi frowned slightly invisibly.

When her soul returned to this body, Cheng Ying, Shen Laoweng's wife, had already died of illness for many years.

She didn't know anything about the past of Mr. and Mrs. Shen.

If Cheng Ying really has a relationship with Sheng Kun, it makes sense, why would her body be adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Shen Laoweng.

It's just that Ah Weng will never deceive her, and he will always be good to her wholeheartedly.

Shen Lingxi believed that Ah Weng did not know about this matter.

As for Cheng Ying...... She had also heard about her grandmother's sporadic past from the villagers of Wangxian Village.

I only know that she is a woman with a very hot temper, with infinite strength, but she is very enthusiastic and kind, and treats her stupid granddaughter as her own, and loves her very much.

It was hard for Shen Lingxi to believe that such a person would be involved with Sheng Kun.

Presumably, there must be some reasons why it is not humane.

However, no matter why Cheng Ying adopted her in the first place, Sheng Kun now uses Shen Ji's mouth to tell the identity of Shen Laoweng and his wife.

It can be seen that Sheng Kun handed her over to Cheng Ying, and made Ah Weng believe that she was the concubine of the Xuanping Marquis Mansion.

Presumably, one day, he can use Shen Ji to act.

After all, when she was Yunxi, Sheng Kun played Emperor Huan around, let Emperor Lu raise her as a canary, never let her have too much contact with the outside world, and arched her to the altar, becoming a caged bird who does not know the world and does not eat fireworks.

In the end, Emperor Lu could easily believe that killing her as a human sacrifice would curse the Chu royal family, and Sheng Kun also contributed to this.

And at this moment, Sheng Kun is just replacing Emperor Lu with Shen Ji.

He is afraid that he has already decided that "being backstabbed by a scumbag father" is her fate Shen Lingxi.

Chu Yan looked at Shen Ji coldly, if his gaze could kill, Shen Ji was afraid that he would have been cut by his gaze at this time.

"How did I hear that before the old lady Xuanping Hou died, she beat Xuanping Hou with her own hands in front of her clansmen. On the letter of severance, Xuanpinghou also admitted that he was sorry for the original wife, and he was ashamed of the princess, so he would break off his relationship with the princess, and the content written on it in black and white, did Xuanpinghou forget? He said coldly.

Shen Ji was under Chu Yan's gaze, and cold sweat rippled on his back.

But now, he can only advance, never retreat.

"That was all done by Shen Lingxi manipulating the body of his mother and forcing the ministers."

Shen Ji said, for fear that Chu Yan would say it again, so he hurriedly said to the emperor: "Your Majesty, the internal guard saw with his own eyes last night, Shen Lingxi was wearing a black robe, walking through the palaces, Cheng Meiren, Qi Meiren, Hui Concubine, and Zhou Zhaoyi's four mothers slipped one after another early this morning, it must have been her deliberate." ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone present was shocked.

Originally, after the accident of King Wei, the concubines in the harem were happy one after another, which made the whole dynasty feel like seeing the sun.

But overnight, all of these tires were gone.

It is difficult to accept that it is put in the homes of ordinary people.

Not to mention the Heavenly Family......

Shen Lingxi heard the word "slippery tire", and his eyes moved slightly.

She remembered the pill that Shen Yuyao stuffed into her hand yesterday......

Chu Yan: "Your Majesty, yesterday's wife and Su Xian entered the palace, whether they were ordered by the queen's mother, or did Gonggong Cao personally come to the East Palace to invite them." How could it be so coincidental that this happened last night. The minister suspected that someone was doing a game and wanted to harm the minister's wife. ”

As soon as his words fell, he heard a voice coming from the side of the main hall, "What does the prince mean, is this palace setting up a situation to harm the crown princess?" ”

Everyone turned their heads to look, and saw the queen, wearing a crown of nine dragons and nine phoenixes, wearing Zhai clothes, and wearing makeup in front of the screen next to the side of the Qinzheng Palace.

The harem of the Great Zhou Dynasty is not allowed to interfere in politics.

Since the founding of the dynasty, there has never been a precedent for an empress to go to court.

The civil and military officials in the court looked at the queen with a little doubt.

The queen walked to the bottom of the steps, bowed to the emperor, and then turned around and explained to the ministers: "The palace is here today because the harem concubines are involved in this case, and the emperor specially ordered the palace to listen, also to give an explanation to several victims of the harem." ”

As she spoke, she raised her eyes to look at Shen Lingxi, "Crown Princess, last night's ritual was indeed the palace's invitation to you and Su Xian to enter the palace to overtake the souls of the dead." ”

"But since you entered the palace, first those burnt corpses have been deceived one after another, and then there was the incident of the concubine's slippery tire. Even your sister Shen Yuyao's womb, the widow of the nephew in the palace, slipped in the dispute between you and her. How do you explain this? ”

Speaking of this, the queen's tone was extremely sad, "Bengong really doesn't want to believe it, you are the kind of person that Xuanping Hou said in his mouth, but these evidences make it difficult for Bengong to believe your innocence." ”

Chu Yan's eyes suddenly turned cold, and he was about to speak-

Shen Lingxi tugged at his sleeve and stopped his movements.

She took a step forward and looked directly at the queen, "As far as I know, these four Niangniang, and Shen Niangzi, are all more than three months pregnant, and Niangniang said that they all slipped because of what I did, so it is better to ask Niangniang and order someone to bring those slippery fetuses to me to see." ”

"I'm a person, I don't have any other skills, but I have some autopsy skills. The fetus, which is more than three months old, has begun to take on a human form, and it can also be tested. ”

"As long as those slippery tires can be detected, they all died suddenly, then my life will be at your disposal, how about it?"

The queen's face froze.

"Slippery tires are filthy things, how can you get to this court, you are just fooling around." She scolded in a deep voice.

Shen Lingxi looked at her with a smile, "If the queen can't get a slippery tire, it means that these concubines, including Shen Niangzi's belly, don't have a fetus at all." Queen Mother, do you think they have a baby in their womb? ”

(End of chapter)