The Queen's attitude, as if she wanted to bite the Crown Princess to death, not only made the Crown Princess speechless, but also made the Emperor quite helpless.

He glanced at the Queen and suppressed his anger and said, "The person who hurt you was An Qing. You didn't blame An Qing, but instead you hastily accused the Crown Princess. Do you hate the Crown Princess so much that you don't care about your own life or death in order to let me punish her?"

As soon as he said this, the emperor immediately glanced at the wound on the queen's chest.

Seeing the blood flowing like a spring, the emperor who was almost stabbed was terrified.

He couldn't help but retract his gaze and said quickly: "I think you are really confused. That's why you can't distinguish the priorities of things."

The emperor shook his head slightly and quickly asked someone to call an imperial physician over.

He was really afraid that the Queen would even sacrifice her own life in order to deal with the Crown Princess.

"Your Majesty..." The queen wanted to say something, but the emperor didn't want to listen to her nonsense and asked her to go to the side hall next door.

Seeing that the emperor was looking impatient, the queen could only swallow her words, silently glanced at the crown princess, and then let the palace maids and eunuchs take her to the side hall.

The Crown Princess felt extremely complicated when she saw the cruel look in her eyes.

The Queen really hated her, but Princess An Qing's sudden action made her and Chen Changli's little plan go awry.

The Crown Princess felt very unwilling and couldn't help but look at the Emperor.

The Crown Princess was startled to see that his face was gloomy, as if covered by a layer of haze.

What was the reason for the emperor's change of expression? Was he dissatisfied with the queen? Then could she continue to make the queen completely disgusted by the emperor?

The Crown Princess was ready to make a move. Chen Changli seemed to have guessed her thoughts. In order to prevent her from angering the Emperor, he spoke first, "Your Majesty, regarding the matter of Princess An Qing, I am willing to cooperate with the Dali Temple to investigate the matter thoroughly so that Princess An Qing will never be able to quibble again."

The emperor was not happy at all when he heard this.

Princess An Qing should have had a tacit understanding with him, but when he met Princess An Qing this time, he found that Princess An Qing was driven by hatred and had no feelings for her brother or sister at all.

The emperor always felt that something was beyond his control, so he cared more about Princess An Qing's affairs than anyone else, and wanted to find out the root cause of Princess An Qing's change of mind.

"I will leave this matter to Duke Huiguo to handle." The emperor's tone was somewhat mysterious.

Chen Changli was quick-witted and soon understood the emperor's intention behind this arrangement.

He couldn't help but sigh that the emperor and Princess An Qing really had a tacit understanding, which was why he deliberately allowed Princess An Qing to contact his people in the Dali Temple.

Unfortunately, Princess An Qing hated the Queen so much that even if she remembered the kindness of the Emperor as her brother, she would probably hate him because of what the Queen said and did.

Otherwise, she would not have chosen to cooperate with Xu Qinglu. Now she is trying to frame the queen and assassinate the emperor. I just don't know what the emperor is thinking and why he doesn't punish Princess An Qing and the queen for treason.

Is he going to ignore the affairs of the Queen and Princess An Qing for the sake of Phoenix Gu?

Chen Changli's thoughts turned to this. He vaguely guessed some of the emperor's thoughts, and his heart sank.

If the emperor was to ignore Princess An Qing's poisoning of the Eighth Prince for the sake of the Phoenix Gu, wouldn't the fact that the three of them went to the Eighth Prince's mansion leave a mark in the emperor's mind? It would make him unable to trust them wholeheartedly.

The Crown Princess standing by also sensed something else in the conversation between Chen Changli and the Emperor, and her expression darkened.

Princess An Qing attempted to assassinate the emperor, and she is also charged with treason. The emperor should treat her as an assassin and a traitor.

But the Emperor only ordered Princess An Qing to be taken away, while the injured Queen was treated by the imperial physician. This made the Crown Princess feel a little bit unacceptable.

She wanted to remind the emperor and make him realize Princess An Qing's hatred for him.

Chen Changli seemed to have guessed her thoughts and suddenly asked her to go to the side hall to guard Wan Shufang.

"I don't know how the Eighth Prince is doing now, Crown Princess, why don't you go to the side hall to see him. Shufang is there too, so you can stay with her."

When the Crown Princess heard this, she looked at Chen Changli with a puzzled expression and saw him nodding slightly at her, as if telling her not to act rashly so as not to anger the Emperor.

No matter how unwilling the Crown Princess was, she had no choice but to do as Chen Changli said.

However, due to her dissatisfaction and unwillingness towards the emperor, the Crown Princess only hurriedly expressed her position to the emperor and then went to a side hall.

After she left, the emperor asked Chen Changli, "Why did the Crown Princess go to the Eighth Prince's Palace with you and your wife? What are you going to do there?"

Chen Changli didn't think that the emperor knew nothing and was trying to fool him. Besides, how could the emperor not know what was going on?

The reason why he pretended to be ignorant was most likely because he wanted to achieve his own goal.

Chen Changli was very wary of the emperor, but he knew that if the emperor really got angry, he would not have much power to resist except to obey while trapped in Luoyang City. Otherwise, his family would most likely end up like the Liu family.

Taking a deep breath in secret, Chen Changli quickly adjusted his mood, then lowered his eyes and said respectfully to the emperor: "Your Majesty, the three of us went to the Eighth Prince's Mansion at that time because we encountered an incident before, which was the case of the missing doctor mentioned by the Crown Princess."

"Recently, many highly respected doctors in Luoyang City have gone missing. Their families are very worried about them, and some have even gone to the prefect to report the case."

"However, the prefect investigated for a long time and only found that this matter was related to Princess An Qing. But Princess An Qing was imprisoned in the Dali Temple. How did she do this?"

"When I heard that the prefect had doubts in the end, I thought of the Eighth Prince. After all, the Eighth Prince was very close to Princess An Qing before, and was planning to leave Luoyang City with her to go to Hehe."

"I suspect this matter may be related to the Eighth Prince. Coincidentally, the Crown Princess also has such suspicions, so we decided to test the Eighth Prince and rescue those doctors who disappeared for no reason."

Having said this, Chen Changli did not intend to say any more, because he had already guessed some of the emperor's thoughts.

He knew that when the emperor had doubts about something, he would send people to investigate it himself, but if he made it too obvious, the emperor might suspect that there was something wrong with him.

Although Chen Changli had some ideas and was prepared to take action, after realizing the emperor's special thoughts, he decided not to act, so as not to anger the queen and put himself in a passive position from that moment on.

"I didn't expect such a thing to happen in Luoyang City." The emperor knew that the doctor was missing, but he did not expect that Chen Changli and others would think of testing the eighth prince because of this matter.

His expression turned cold, and he looked at Chen Changli with a more scrutinizing look: "But since the prefect has accepted the case, it means he will do his best to find out everything. If you have any doubts, you should cooperate with him. Why do you act on your own?"

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