After hearing these words, Ji Lingzhou's face became colder and colder, but he didn't say a word yet.

Wang Zhaoyuan looked up at the two people: "Madam Shufei..."

Cheng Mingran's eyes fell on the palace maid: "You said that I arranged for you to go to the palace? What was your purpose? What did I ask you to do?"

"Your Majesty, I am forced to do this. The Cheng family was imprisoned for some reason, and Your Majesty and the Cheng family have been brooding over this matter. General Cheng is even more unwilling to accept this, and he said that if it weren't for the Cheng family, there would be no dynasty today, so..."

"My queen, you told General Cheng that this spring hunting trip is a great opportunity. As long as it succeeds, the entire imperial city will be under the control of the Cheng family."

"Wasn't the assassination yesterday arranged by the Queen and the General? General Cheng is in charge of the safety of this spring hunting trip. If he didn't deliberately let someone do this, how could the disaster yesterday have happened?"

"Your Highness and General Cheng colluded with each other and arranged for me to assassinate His Majesty. She also ordered me to frame Prince Jin'an if the conspiracy was exposed. But why is Your Highness unwilling to admit it now? Are you afraid that His Majesty will punish you? But Your Highness clearly said that His Majesty dotes on you and would not be willing to touch you."

"Your Majesty, I am of low status and cannot compare to your status and favor. Please give me a way out." The palace maid burst into tears and kowtowed several times.

"How do you prove that what you said is true? Where is the evidence? Can you just open your mouth and say whatever you want?" Cheng Mingran continued to ask.

Her expression became increasingly ugly, not because of anything else, but because the person behind this actually wanted to drag the Cheng family into the water...

"I have letters here between the queen and General Cheng." As she said this, the palace maid actually took out a large stack of letters from her body.

Wang Zhaoyuan reached out and took it. After reading the contents clearly, she looked at Cheng Mingran in disbelief: "Empress Shufei, these... are all true? How could you do such a stupid thing?" She looked incredulous.

Cheng Mingran didn't react much: "Today, Wang Zhaoyuan said that she was found with the token of the Prince of Jin'an's Palace last night, and then she was arrested?"

Wang Zhaoyuan didn't know what Cheng Mingran meant by asking her this question suddenly, but she still answered truthfully: "Indeed."

"If that's the case, why didn't Wang Zhaoyuan search out the letter yesterday? It would be difficult to hide so many things, right?" Cheng Mingran continued.

"This... is not impossible to have been missed." Wang Zhaoyuan frowned.

"Okay, let's put aside the truth of this matter and talk about these letters. If they are really letters between me and my father, how did they get into your hands? But you have all the letters written by my father and me, and there are quite a few. Could it be that this lady and my father gave them to you for safekeeping after reading them? Such important things, do you think this lady and my father are fools? Not only did they not destroy them, but they gave them to an outsider for safekeeping?" Cheng Mingran continued to question.

This... The palace maid was really stumped for a moment, because it was indeed a little unreasonable.

"Your Majesty cannot keep these things, but in order to save my life, I had no choice but to leave them behind secretly just in case." The palace maid continued to quibble.

Cheng Mingran smiled: "You left it secretly? Then where did you get it from? Among the people serving me and the Cheng family, does anyone know you? Maybe you want to say that he was just a messenger, then who was the person who was telling you the news? Why don't you tell me what he looks like so that the people in my palace and the servants of the Cheng family can identify him?"

The maid was silent. She didn't expect Cheng Mingran to react so quickly. Even Ji Lingzhou was a little surprised. His slightly raised heart was slightly relieved at this moment. Sure enough, she was never someone who could be fooled.

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