The queen leaned back in her chair, her eyes red from crying.

"Why? Why does God do this to me?"

Not long after, Nanny Zhang came in from the outer courtyard.

"Empress, Eunuch Laifu has arrived from the palace."

The queen wiped away her tears and motioned for the grandmother to go ahead.

"Let him in."

After a while, Nanny Zhang brought Eunuch Lai Fu into the inner hall.

The prince asked, "Eunuch Laifu, does my father want to talk to my mother about something important?"

Eunuch Lai Fu raised his orchid finger and said, "Let this old servant tell the queen in person."

Eunuch Lai Fu walked up to the Queen and bowed politely.

"This old servant pays respect to Her Majesty the Queen."

The Queen pretended to be calm and asked, "But what's the matter with His Majesty?"

Eunuch Lai Fu said, "I came here to inform you that tomorrow His Majesty wants to go and pay respect to the late Queen's little prince who died more than ten years ago, and wants you to go with him."

The queen frowned and looked at Eunuch Lai Fu in disbelief.

"Worshiping a dead child?"

When she held the child in her arms, he was still breathing. He had strangled the child to death with his own hands.

Now that she was asked to offer sacrifices, she felt a little scared.

Coupled with Lan Ci’s death and the things that happened to her recently, one thing after another was so weird.

She pretended to be calm: "I understand, you can go back first."

Eunuch Lai Fu nodded, "Yes, Madam."

"Oh, right, His Majesty said that the Crown Prince has just recovered from a serious illness, and it might be bad for him to be infected with evil spirits. He asked the Crown Prince to recuperate in the mansion tomorrow."

"Since the message has been delivered, I will take my leave now."

After saying this, Eunuch Lai Fu turned and left.

"Your Majesty actually asked me to worship a dead baby boy? This is ridiculous."

"Too many things have happened to me now."

"I don't know why, but for such a long time, nothing I have done has gone smoothly."

"It seems that since the death of Marquis Pingyang, I have not accomplished anything."

The prince consoled her, "Mother, please don't get angry. Anger hurts your body."

"If you don't want to go, then don't go."

He looked at the nanny beside him and said, "Go and ask Doctor Yu to come and check my mother's pulse."

"Yes, Prince."

The nanny went downstairs immediately and brought Yu Zian back a moment later.

After Yu Zian paid his respects to the Crown Prince and the Queen, he began to take the Queen's pulse.

After deleting it, the Queen asked, "Doctor Yu, how is my health?"

Yu Zian took his hand back and said with a smile: "Your Majesty is weak and cannot work too hard."

"Have you been having nightmares recently?"

The queen was silent for a moment, and suddenly thought of the girl holding the dagger in her dream.

The girl held the dagger in her hand and swung it fiercely at the prince.

"I have been having nightmares a lot lately."

Yu Zian said: "Then Madam, you must have a good rest."

"This nightmare was caused by something in my heart."

"It's almost autumn now, and some places are dark and damp. Your Majesty is weak so please don't go there."

"To prevent evil spirits from entering the body, catching a cold, and having nightmares."

"Evil has entered the body?"

The Queen turned around and looked at Yu Zian, "What evil is Doctor Yu referring to?"

Yu Zian said: "Now that it is autumn, this evil naturally refers to the cold."

"Looking at the Madam's pulse, the Madam has a heart disease."

"Your Majesty is weak now, so it's best not to go to a cemetery or something like that, lest you become possessed by evil."

The queen froze in place, and suddenly she thought of the scene when she strangled the baby boy to death, and she couldn't help feeling a little scared.

Now that Lan Ci died so tragically, killed by her own son, she had to believe that all this was retribution.

If she went, maybe the evil spirit would really enter her body as Yu Zian said.

At that time, the prince's retribution, her retribution, finally came.

Yu Zian lowered his eyes, picked up the pen to write down the prescription and handed it to the queen.

"My lady, please prescribe this medicine. Drink it for a few days and see if it relieves the symptoms."

"Then I'll trouble you, Doctor Yu.

After Yu Zian left the private room, he went out of the Prince's Mansion, sent a letter to the Shen family and then returned to the Prince's Mansion.

In the private room, the queen was still sitting upright on the chair, looking at the prince.

"I won't go to the palace tomorrow."

She sighed, "Now that Prince Rui is marrying the Shen family, and Prince Jin is also marrying the Shen family, it's time for me to go to the underground prison in the East Palace."

She stood up from her chair and looked towards the prince.

"Jing'er, please go with me."

The prince said, "Mother, Jiang Xuan is on his way back to Yanjing now, why don't you wait for him?"

"What's more, over the years, no matter how much we tortured the little girl next to that woman, she was unwilling to talk about it, nor was she willing to write to Jiang Xuan."

"Over the years, I have felt that she might be a member of the Shen family."

"Could it be that you were deceived by that woman?"

The queen's eyes darkened slightly, "I have used so many methods on that child, but that woman remained indifferent."

"How could it be from the Shen family?"

"What's more, aren't Jiang's two daughters also in the Shen family?"

The prince said: "But Shen Mi's identity is not real."

"News has come from the Jiangnan area, saying that the real Shen Mi is now with the Second Princess of Liguo."

"It is impossible to guess who the real Shen Mi is."

The Queen said, "I will find out if I go there."

As the queen spoke, she left the private room and went straight to the prince's study.

The mechanism of the study was opened, and the Queen and the Crown Prince, led by two guards, went step by step to the underground prison in the East Palace.

The underground prison was gloomy and terrifying, and strange noises could be heard from afar.

The queen followed the guards, walking on the slightly damp ground.

"I haven't been here for a long time, and it looks like this."

The fire illuminated the entire East Palace prison. When the people in the prison heard the noise, they immediately panicked.

They were locked up in prison, and as they watched the guards, the queen and the prince approaching them with their last breaths, they immediately shrank back into the prison in fear.

When the prince and the queen arrived, the people in the prison began to whimper and hide inside in fear.

In the darkest corner of the prison, a woman curled up in the corner.

When the girl next to her saw the queen and the prince coming, she rushed into the woman's arms.

“Afraid…afraid.”

"Xi'er, Xi'er, don't be afraid."

The woman held the girl in her arms and comforted her gently.

The queen smiled coldly, "Pull out the two people in the innermost room for me."

"Yes, ma'am."

Two guards opened the cell door and roughly dragged the two people in the corner to the outer hall.

A piece of white paper was spread on the table in the outer hall.

The woman and the girl were dragged out by the guards and thrown roughly to the ground.

The queen leaned over, put her hand to her nose, and looked at her with disgust.

"For so many years, I asked you to write a single word, but you refused."

"Your daughter has been tortured like this, and you still don't care."

"Do you want me to chop off the child's hands and feet before you are willing to write?"

"Is she your daughter?"

The woman grinned and chuckled, her voice extremely hoarse.

"My lady, she's not. How many times do you want me to tell you that?"

"If you want to kill me and peel my skin off, just go ahead."

"Don't even think about using me to threaten others."

The Queen covered her nose and said disdainfully, "Whether it is true or not, I will know it after I try it."

"Somebody come!"

The queen's eyes fell on the girl, "Cut off her fingers for me!"

"Yes, ma'am."

Two guards walked over and roughly dragged the girl off the ground.

The girl struggled desperately to break free, letting out heart-wrenching cries.

"don't want……."

She turned to look at the woman beside her and gave her a pleading look.

But the woman bit her lips tightly, and after hearing a scream, she fainted.

One of the girl's fingers was cut off, and blood stained her entire hand red.

The queen angrily said, "It's always like this. Whenever I torture her, you pass out."

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