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Shen Yan didn't know how many people the book would pass through before it could reach Emperor Xuande's hands.

Therefore, she did not directly name the real culprit behind the scenes in the booklet, but only said that she had found out the truth.

At this time, there were only the two of them in the Imperial Study Room. Shen Yan no longer had any scruples and reported everything to Emperor Xuande.

Emperor Xuande's face turned extremely cold when he heard this, "Come here, please invite the Queen Mother to come over!"

Cining Palace.

"The Queen Mother, Princess Anping has returned to Beijing and is now in the Imperial Study Room." Congxue reported.

The Queen Mother is kneeling in front of the Buddha statue, with her eyes closed tightly, her hands quickly twisting the beads, and she is mumbling something.

When she heard this, she suddenly opened her eyes. The thread threading the beads was broken, and the beads scattered on the floor.

The beads fell to the ground, bounced up again, and bounced repeatedly, making a crisp snapping sound.

Originally this was an extremely pleasant sound, but now it sounded like a death knell to the Queen Mother.

"How come she came back alive!"

The Queen Mother said to herself, her old eyes full of fierceness.

"Congxue, help Ai's family get up."

The Queen Mother had knelt for too long and her legs were numb. When Cong Xue helped her up, she suddenly staggered.

Just at this time, a palace maid came in and reported, "The Queen Mother, Eunuch Chen is here."

The Queen Mother looked calm and said, "What is supposed to come will come, let's go."

After a while, the Queen Mother came to the imperial study and saw Shen Yan there.

"Your Majesty, the Ai family is old and it is inconvenient to move back and forth. Next time if you have anything, please send someone to tell the Ai family directly."

The Queen Mother stepped in and began to blame Emperor Xuande for making her run back and forth.

"I think your ambition, Queen Mother, is older than your age!" Emperor Xuande sarcastically said.

The Queen Mother said with a straight face, "Emperor, you humiliate the Ai family so much, where will you put the Ai family?"

"It's the Queen Mother who doesn't care for herself, it's you who put yourself to death because of your own fun!"

Emperor Xuande did not mince words with the Empress Dowager and directly asked, "Empress Dowager, you ordered Magistrate Chen and Zhang Hongfang to make false accounts, withhold grain taxes, and damage the rice seedlings in Changyang County. What crime should you be guilty of?"

The Queen Mother smiled coldly, "That's nonsense! Emperor, if you want to target the Ai family, there is no need to accuse the Ai family of these unfounded charges!"

Her eyes fell on Shen Yan beside her, and she pointed at Sang and scolded Huai, "Emperor, don't listen to the traitor and ruin the relationship between our mother and son!"

"The Queen Mother!" Emperor Xuande shouted, "Since you refuse to admit it, I will show you what unjust things you have done!"

He looked at Shen Yan, "Anping, call the witness!"

"Yes, Your Majesty."

After a while, Shen Yan came in with witnesses.

"Young Zhang Hongfang has met the emperor." Zhang Hongfang knelt on the ground and saluted.

He has been stripped of his hat by Shen Yan, and he is not even considered a minister.

The other person was the man in black who had assassinated Shen Yan before. She knelt there without speaking.

"Zhang Hongfang, tell me everything you know." Emperor Xuande said.

"Your Majesty, I am wronged. Magistrate Chen ordered me to do everything."

Zhang Hongfang explained everything one by one.

Shen Yan presented the confession he wrote to Emperor Xuande.

"Many years ago, Magistrate Chen found Xiao Xiao and told him that he had married a noble man in the capital. That noble man could keep us safe for the rest of our lives, but the noble man was short of money. We need to give him money every year."

"But my salary is only a small amount every year, which is not enough for the family to eat and drink. In order to honor the nobles and keep them safe, I can only plunder them from the common people."

"Only [-]% of the things collected from the common people are kept, and the rest are given to Magistrate Chen, who will then give them to the noble man."

"The younger one made two sets of account books. The real account book was for the nobleman to see, proving that the younger one did not cheat and that most of the things he got were handed over. The fake account book was for the court to see, making the court think that the younger one didn't have a penny. greedy."

"A small crime deserves death, please forgive me!" Zhang Hong knocked his head on the ground, making a loud banging sound.

After Emperor Xuande listened to Zhang Hongfang's words, they were almost the same as those in the confession.

He asked coldly, "Do you know who this noble man is?"

Zhang Hongfang raised his head with a confused look on his face, "I don't know. I asked, but Magistrate Chen didn't tell me. He said that if you want to survive, you can't know too much."

The Queen Mother sneered, "Emperor, is this your witness? You asked someone who knows nothing to testify against the Ai family?"

Only then did Zhang Hongfang realize that his master behind the scenes was actually the Queen Mother, and his body immediately became limp.

Emperor Xuande turned livid with anger, "Queen Mother, don't be so arrogant!"

Shen Yan helped, "Empress Dowager, you are indeed smart in your methods and extremely cautious in your actions, but everything has just begun. The sky net is vast and there is no leakage. Every evil thing you do cannot escape!"

"The Ai family is talking to the emperor, who do you think you are? Get out of here!" the Queen Mother scolded.

"I am a citizen of the Qin Dynasty. Everyone is responsible for the rise and fall of the country. Everyone sees the evil deeds of the Queen Mother and punishes them, and so do I."

Shen Yan was neither humble nor arrogant, and her eyes were cold and stern, "The Queen Mother, the Red Sky Sword is in my hand. As long as the Emperor orders it, I can kill anyone in the world who harms the interests of the people and the court, including you."

The Queen Mother's face changed and she was filled with anger, but she had no words to refute.

Shen Yan looked at the leading man in black and said, "Tell the emperor everything you know."

The leading man in black did not hide anything, "Your Majesty, the common people were ordered by the Queen Mother to intercept Princess Anping on her way back to Beijing. She has evidence of the Queen Mother's crime."

"Nonsense!" the Queen Mother shouted, "Who are you? The Ai family doesn't know you, so why do you want to frame the Ai family?"

She was going to refuse to admit it.

The leader in black said, "The Queen Mother, I have your letter plate here."

They were raised by the Queen Mother, so of course they had things belonging to the Queen Mother.

The letter card was now in Shen Yan's hand, and Shen Yan presented it to Emperor Xuande.

Emperor Xuande took it and took a look. The letter plate had the word "Li" engraved on it.

Li is the surname of the Queen Mother. Judging from the sharp strokes of the character, it was inscribed by the Queen Mother herself and then engraved.

The Queen Mother narrowed her eyes. She didn't expect that her most trusted subordinate would betray her.

"The letter plate can be forged, but these are just your words and cannot convict the Ai family."

The Queen Mother was calm and calm, and her cloudy eyes showed shrewdness.

She had already thought about this day when she was doing these things, so she had already prepared countermeasures.

Unless, they bring Magistrate Chen to testify.

However, she had already sent people to deal with Magistrate Chen as early as when the matter was revealed.

Now Magistrate Chen should have gone to the underworld to report, so how could he come to testify against her?

At this time, Eunuch Chen came in and reported, "Your Majesty, Young Master Yan is here."

"What is he here for?" Emperor Xuande asked.

"They said they brought a witness, it's Ningnan Magistrate Chen." Chen Gongzheng said.

"You came at the right time, Xuan!" Emperor Xuande was overjoyed.

The Queen Mother's face turned pale and her face was full of shock. She watched Magistrate Chen, who thought he had gone to the underworld to report, slowly walking towards her.