The queen was the first to react, and hurriedly said to Cheng Xiaoyao, "What's wrong with you, child, are you not feeling well? ”

Cheng Xiaoyao, who was already full of tears, raised her head and said loudly, "The queen doesn't need to call the imperial doctor, the courtiers knelt down to beg you and Your Majesty to avenge my poor mother, she was wronged!"

"What nonsense is the little slut, I want to make a blame before I become the princess, do you think that the family of the Prime Minister's Mansion can't rule you!" The eldest lady realized that something was wrong and immediately scolded her, staring at Cheng Xiaoyao with resentful eyes, eager to eat the other party alive.

Cheng Xiaoyao, who couldn't stand on her knees, looked directly at the eldest lady with a fearless face, her eyes pierced the eldest lady Liu Li like a sharp blade, and she gritted her teeth and said hatefully, "My mother-in-law wants to find someone like my mother ten years ago! Back then, I was lying next to my mother, and I saw with my own eyes that the three mothers you sent pinched my mother's neck! Among them was your most intimate mother, Hu!"

"It's nonsense, the fourth aunt was clearly killed in the middle of the night, how can you slander me, you girl should be really vicious!"

The prime minister finally came back to his senses at this time, and said in an unhappy tone, "How can Yao'er be foolish, you blame us in your heart for not visiting us for ten years, and you shouldn't slander your mother in front of the emperor and queen!"

He sighed and bowed his head to the emperor and queen, "Please ask Your Majesty to surrender the crime, it is because the ministers are not able to discipline their children, and this marriage with the third prince is still just." ”

The eldest lady Liu Li also bowed down and apologized, "Please forgive the emperor for the concubine's lack of discipline for her daughter, and this time I will punish her for thinking about it." ”

The emperor was displeased, but he didn't attack, and turned his head to Li Tiandao: "The emperor might as well choose the other daughters of the prime minister as princesses, after all, the person who is the princess can't be ignorant of the general situation." ”

The queen also sighed, "How can a well-behaved person who originally looked so bold and reckless, it really disappoints the mourning family." ”

Cheng Xiaoyao looked at the cold eyes of the eldest lady, the prime minister's father ignored himself indifferently, and wept silently in a very sad manner, and the courage that he had just mustered up was completely gone.

The eldest prince sneered and looked at the farce in front of him, and the second prince was even more happy that the third brother who should have disappeared long ago made a fool of himself, and even teased, "Third brother, this fierce little woman is not worthy of you, let's choose another prime minister's daughter." ”

Li Tian quietly looked at Cheng Xiaoyao, who was kneeling and crying bitterly, and when he heard the emperor's question, he suddenly remembered that he was rescued from the river by this kind girl, and he seemed to have promised to help her in order to repay his kindness.

Cheng Xiaoyao suddenly looked at Li Tian pitifully as if she thought of something, and her eyes were full of tears of help.

Li Tian thought that it would only take a few days for him to successfully pretend to be true, it was better to help the helpless girl, the killers were not all completely cold-blooded.

He stood up abruptly and said to the emperor, "Your Majesty, (seeing the strange eyes around him, he hurriedly changed his words) Father, Emperor." Why don't you listen to Miss Cheng, maybe her biological mother really has grievances and has nowhere to appeal. ”

The emperor was silent, but the queen said, "Your Majesty, let that child talk about it, if you just watch her face the wall and be punished, the mourning family is really uneasy." ”

The eldest lady Liu Li said hurriedly, "The queen must not let this little slut make trouble, let's take it back and deal with it with family law." ”

The queen said unhappily, "No, I just want to hear what this kid has to say, so as not to have any regrets." ”

The emperor said at this time, "Miss Cheng will say anything she wants, if it is really nonsense just now, I will punish you severely, and if there is a grievance, I will also make the decision for you." ”

Cheng Xiaoyao smiled at Li Tian gratefully, and didn't look at the prime minister's father with an ugly face, and bowed to the emperor and the queen, "Thank you for your sage, thank you for your fairness, and the courtiers will tell you what you saw that night ten years ago, and hope that the emperor and the queen will avenge my poor mother's grievances." ”

"Ten years ago, late one night, when I was six years old, I suddenly woke up and saw Hu's mother and the two of them pinching my mother's mother together. ”

"I was so frightened that I was about to scream, but my dying mother suddenly reached out a hand to cover my mouth, leaving only her nostrils to breathe, and I watched her being choked out of breath. ”

"I knew that my mother wanted to protect her own daughter, and if I screamed at that time, I was afraid that it would be bad for Hu's mother, so they took the candle flame to see if I was forced to pretend to sleep when I woke up. ”

"I'll never forget her eyes that didn't close her eyes and looked at me like that. ”

Cheng Xiaoyao was already crying silently at this time, the prime minister's face was slightly embarrassed, and the eldest lady Liu Li showed disdain in her eyes, what is the big deal about executing an aunt who is competing for favor.

Li Tian said again, "Why doesn't Miss Cheng tell the prime minister, you can ask him to avenge your mother?"

Cheng Xiaoyao reacted, and immediately held back her sadness and said, "I didn't understand anything back then, I closed my eyes tightly and pretended to sleep until the next day, and I didn't dare to get up until the next day. ”

"After a while, Yahuan's mother came to lock me in a small black house, and I didn't go until my mother was buried, and I was sent directly to a remote mountain villa without even seeing my father's face, and no one cared about me again. ”

After she finished speaking, she cried again and said, "I ask the emperor to be the master of the courtier's mother, it was the hand of the mother Hu who led the people back then." ”

"Shut up, do you little slut really want to slander your mother-in-law!" the prime minister couldn't listen anymore, and shouted angrily at Cheng Xiaoyao.

"Emperor Mingjian, Queen Mother Mingjian, this daughter is talking nonsense, because she is dissatisfied with being sent to the countryside to recuperate for ten years. Seeing that the emperor and empress's face showed anger, the eldest lady hurriedly knelt down and explained.

The queen asked the female official to help Cheng Xiaoyao up, and said to the emperor, "Your Majesty is still better to investigate thoroughly, this kind of fact is appalling." ”

The Emperor nodded, "I want to check it carefully, and I want to see if the mansion of the prime minister of a country is really so bloody and dark." Come on, go catch the mother of the Prime Minister's Mansion!"

Cheng Xiaoyao knelt down again and said, "Emperor Xie is willing to avenge the grievances of the courtiers." ”

The queen comforted Cheng Xiaoyao with kind words, and asked the female official to give her a seat, but she didn't care about the eldest lady Liu Li.

The eldest lady scolded angrily, saying that she should not have called a vicious daughter into the palace, and the prime minister sighed again and again without speaking, and kept asking the emperor to blame him and say that he was at a loss in his family.

After a while, a trembling old woman walked into the imperial garden, and before she could enter the pavilion, she knelt down in fright and said, "Long live the emperor and the queen will be thousands of years old." ”

The emperor asked her to take her into the pavilion and said coldly, "You said how the fourth aunt of the Prime Minister's Mansion died ten years ago, if there is any untruth, you will be punished for the crime of bullying the king!"

The eldest lady Liu Li regained her original calm, and said to Hu with a light smile, "Mother Hu, don't be afraid, tell me how the fourth aunt died of illness in a hurry." ”

Hu Shi glanced at the eldest lady, and only then did he settle down a little when he saw the other party's appearance of Chengzhu in his chest, just now the royal guards suddenly broke into the Prime Minister's Mansion and said that the emperor wanted to ask questions, which scared her to the sky.

Li Tian saw that Hu Shi might be thinking about making a confession, and said coldly, "You have to think clearly before you speak, not everyone can bear the consequences of daring to deceive the emperor!"

Hu Shi was shocked, and looked at everyone in the pavilion in surprise, she must still have a family of children and grandchildren at home, so she didn't dare to do what the eldest lady said immediately.

The emperor suddenly snorted coldly, "The Hu clan still dares to think of deception, don't say anything, beware of punishing your three clans!"

Hu Shi didn't dare to hesitate any longer, and immediately replied, "Back to the emperor, it was indeed the slave maid who took the other two mothers to strangle the fourth aunt, all of which was instructed by the eldest lady, and asked the emperor to forgive the slave and maid's family." ”

The eldest lady stayed on the spot, she couldn't imagine that the Hu family, who she trusted so much, would betray herself for the sake of her family, and quickly reacted and knelt on the ground crying and said, "The emperor forgives the sin, the emperor forgives the sin, and the fourth aunt and the guards at home were not clear back then, so they secretly dealt with the family law." ”

She saw the indifferent eyes of everyone, and in horror, she threw herself on Hu Shi and beat her and cried, "Why do you want to betray me, I have always treated you well......!"

Hu Shi lowered his head tremblingly, and the silent Mrs. Ren beat her, but when she was tired, she said, "Don't blame the slave maid for truthfully reporting the truth to the emperor, you have been letting us kill the favored aunts all these years, the second aunt, the third aunt and the fifth aunt have all died too unjustly." ”

"That's enough!" the prime minister suddenly scolded Hu Shidao, and then asked the emperor for guilt, "Your Majesty forgives your sin, Wei Chen didn't expect that there would be a group of poisonous women in the family to cause the family to be restless, now please let the minister take Hu home and deal with it according to family law." ”

Hu Shi hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, the old slave is true." ”

The emperor suddenly let out a long sigh, and there was a dead silence in the pavilion, only to see him say slowly with a solemn expression, "The calendar of this dynasty has stipulated that lynching is removed, even if the fourth aunt of the Prime Minister's Mansion has an affair with the guards, the Liu family has no right to send his subordinates to be executed without authorization, which is already considered a crime of murder." ”

A strange smile appeared on the corner of the prime minister's mouth, and he kowtowed heavily, "Emperor Xie disposed of the poisoned woman in the family for Weichen, she has bullied the concubines everywhere for so many years, and she is really a heinous crime. ”

When Liu heard the emperor and the prime minister say this, he immediately fainted, and Cheng Xiaoyao knelt down to the emperor with tears of joy and thanked him, "Emperor Xie avenged the mother of his courtiers, you are a good emperor." ”

Several other ladies from the prime minister's mansion showed surprise when they saw that the eldest lady really fell, no one was born a fool, and they all vaguely knew that the eldest lady of the Dao Dao was ruthless and poisoned many aunts who were competing for favor.

Several guards entered the pavilion and set up Liu Li and Hu Nu to go to the edict, but the prime minister rushed over and slapped his wife fiercely, angrily reprimanding, "Poisonous woman should die, I can't kill you a long time ago!"

He cried bitterly to Cheng Xiaoyao and said that he didn't take good care of the fourth aunt, sorry for these poor daughters, and moved the scheming Miss Shuchu to tears.

Li Tian looked at the scene in front of him and smiled faintly, but suddenly said in his heart, "My behavior and mentality during this period are completely wrong, and it matters to me whether others live or die." ”

He remembered that these changes had started from being inherited by Senna, and his heart was suddenly a little depressed, but he had to smile and promise to the emperor and others, but he decided that as soon as he left the palace, he would never see some people again.

The prime minister said goodbye to the emperor and wanted to go back to the house to rectify the eldest lady's subordinates, Cheng Xiaoyao thanked the emperor and empress for her kindness, and smiled gratefully at Li Tian when she left.

When the prime minister's family left, the emperor lowered his face and said, "The princess of the emperor can only be chosen from other ministers' families, and the prime minister would let this kind of thing happen to his family, which is really disappointing to me." ”

The empress smiled and said to Li Tiandao, "The third prince can rest assured, there are many young ladies in Kyoto who have excellent character and appearance, and you will definitely find a satisfactory third princess." ”

The eldest prince and the second prince just couldn't help sneering, but all this was none of Li Tian's business, he politely thanked the emperor and empress for their concern, and prepared to follow away immediately after leaving the palace.

The departure of the prime minister's family made the party meaningless, and the emperor asked Li Tian to prepare to go back to the Three Princes' Mansion to wait for the next concubine selection, and then left the imperial garden with the queen surrounded by a large group of palace people.

Li Tian breathed a sigh of relief, and scolded Tuopi really in his heart, it seems that he has escaped this inexplicable crisis today.