After killing four concubines, the queen was sentenced to death and reborn

"I didn't know either. Please forgive me, Your Majesty." The young eunuch replied tremblingly.

"A living person, how could he disappear?" Xiao Xuanchen said angrily.

"Your Majesty, calm down."

"Someone! Go find her for me. If you can't find her, I'll ask you guys." Xiao Xuanchen was furious. He knew at a glance that someone must have harmed Concubine Xu. But now, even the eunuch who was on night watch was missing. How could he not be annoyed? How could he not be angry?

"Yes!"

Zheng Xiyan walked forward with a calm expression and said, "Your Majesty, Xi Zhaoyi, Shen Zhaorong, and Shen Chongyuan are pregnant. Let them get up first!"

Hearing this, Xiao Xuanchen looked at them and said in a deep voice, "Everyone, get up!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

After Zheng Xiyan stood up, she glanced at everyone and quickly thought, who was responsible for what happened tonight? Judging from Xi Muyao and Shen Aoning's reactions, it shouldn't have been them.

Shen Chongyuan? Even more impossible. She has been with Xiao Xuanchen for many years. She would never do such a thing?

For others, it is even more impossible.

If it’s not them, then only Murong Yue is left, but is she so stupid?

Murong Yue had a calm expression, as if she was not concerned about the matter.

When Zheng Xiyan looked at her, her eyes inadvertently caught a glimpse of her hands, which were tightly clenched with a handkerchief. Was she scared or nervous?

Xiao Xuanchen raised his eyes to look at everyone, and finally his gaze fell on Zheng Xiyan, "Queen, what do you think about this matter?"

"Your Majesty, please forgive me. It was my fault. I was not aware of this matter." Zheng Xiyan said calmly.

"Concubine Xu had a miscarriage. As the queen, you cannot escape the blame." Xiao Xuanchen's dark eyes were icy cold, and filled with uncontrollable anger.

"Your Majesty is right. I know I was wrong. Please punish me." Zheng Xiyan immediately knelt on the ground and apologized!

Xiao Xuanchen took a deep breath and suppressed his anger. "There are many pregnant concubines in the harem now. Concubine Xu has had a miscarriage. Concubine Xi, Concubine Shen, Concubine Shen, Concubine Shen, must not make any more mistakes."

"I understand." Zheng Xiyan still looked calm.

After a while, someone came to report, "Your Majesty, it has been found, but..."

"Speak." Xiao Xuanchen said sternly.

"Reporting back, he was knocked unconscious and thrown into the corner."

"Bring the person here." Zheng Xiyan ordered.

"Yes!"

Soon the young eunuch was brought here. He knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly, begging for mercy. "Your Majesty, please forgive me. Your Majesty, please forgive me. I really don't know what's going on."

"Didn't you notice anything at all?" Zheng Xiyan asked coldly.

"Your Majesty, please forgive me. I really didn't know." The young eunuch kowtowed and begged for mercy, and was so scared that he was about to cry.

"What are you all doing? Concubine Xu is pregnant, and you're so careless?" Zheng Xiyan said angrily. She had been on guard against everything, but she didn't expect that the people around Concubine Xu were all mediocre.

"Your Majesty, please forgive me. Your Majesty, please forgive me."

Xiao Xuanchen had lost all his patience. He just wanted to know the result. He angrily said, "Take all the eunuchs and palace maids in Minghua Palace away and torture them severely. I don't believe that nothing can be learned from them."

"Yes!"

"Your Majesty, please spare me! Your Majesty, please spare me!" After a moment, panic and cries for mercy were heard in the hall.

Zheng Xiyan has been paying attention to Murong Yue's expression. Her expression is still calm and not panicky, but the more it is like this, the more suspicious it makes people.

Not only Concubine Xu lived in Minghua Palace, but also Concubine Su and Concubine Li. Concubine Su couldn't bear to see her maids being tortured, so she stood up and pleaded, "Your Majesty, I can guarantee that Concubine Xu's miscarriage has nothing to do with the maids around me. Please forgive my maids."

"I...I can also guarantee it, Your Majesty, please calm down!" Li Cairen pleaded.

Xiao Xuanchen ignored them and said, "That's enough! Take them away quickly."

"His Majesty!"

The palace maids and eunuchs were all taken out of the main hall. The guards brought benches and immediately carried out the execution in the yard, torturing everyone severely.

"Your Majesty, please spare my life!"

"what--"

Hearing the miserable cries outside, Zheng Xiyan felt a little bit sorry and wanted to plead for them several times, but he was angry now and it was useless even if she tried to persuade him.

Xiao Xuanchen looked at Concubine Su and Concubine Li and started to blame them, "Concubine Xu had a miscarriage, and you two are also to blame for living with her in Minghua Palace."

The two of them knelt down quickly, "Your Majesty, please understand! This has nothing to do with me!"

"I heard that you two have always been dissatisfied with Concubine Xu, Queen, is that true or not?" Xiao Xuanchen looked at Zheng Xiyan with sharp eyes.

Zheng Xiyan naturally knew about this matter. The two of them had come to Weiyang Palace more than once to ask to see her, wanting to move out of Minghua Palace.

Ever since Concubine Xu became pregnant, the two of them have been suffering terribly.

Before Concubine Xu became pregnant, her rank was beauty, the same as Concubine Su. But after she became pregnant, she was promoted to Concubine. For a time, she became the mistress of Minghua Palace and often bullied the two of them by taking advantage of her pregnancy.

The two of them had suffered a lot in front of her and were indeed very dissatisfied with her, but they did not have the courage to harm the royal heir.

"Empress, it's really not me. I just couldn't stand her arrogant attitude. I went to beg you before, just to move out of Minghua Palace. But I really didn't harm her. How dare I harm the dragon fetus in Concubine Xu's belly!" Concubine Su knelt down and crawled in front of Zheng Xiyan, begging.

At this time, Murong Yue spoke up, "Your Majesty, I feel that Concubine Su's words cannot excuse her. Concubine Su wanted to harm others because she could not bear Concubine Xu's torture. Moreover, it should be easy for Concubine Su to attack Concubine Xu!"

"Your Highness, you...I have never offended you, why do you want to frame me like this?" Concubine Su asked.

"Your Majesty, I am just guessing." Murong Yue said innocently.

Zheng Xiyan's scrutinizing gaze fell on Murong Yue. Could it be that she was the one...

"Your Majesty, they did come to ask me to move out of Minghua Palace, but now all the palaces are full of people and there are no palaces available for the time being, so I did not agree to their request." Zheng Xiyan spoke slowly.

"Your Majesty, please understand! It really wasn't me. I don't have the guts to frame the dragon heir." Concubine Su kowtowed repeatedly to defend herself.

"Your Majesty, please look carefully. Concubine Xu's miscarriage has nothing to do with Sister Su, and even less to do with me!" Li Cairen pleaded.

Murong Yue continued, "Your Majesty! Even the deceased Concubine Feng dared to frame the Queen's child, not to mention a mere concubine. What would they not dare to do?"

When Xiao Xuanchen heard this, his expression was very complicated, but Murong Yue's words also reminded him. He looked up at Murong Yue with a look of scrutiny in his eyes, and said in a cold voice: "It seems that Concubine Rong has already determined that it was them who did it?"

Murong Yue's heart tightened, but she remained calm and said, "I just think they are suspicious."

"Suspicious?" Xiao Xuanchen's eyes darkened and he looked at her with a gloomy expression.

"Yes!" Murong Yue immediately lowered her eyes, not daring to look him in the eye.