The Queen Mother stroked her sleeves and said, "She should not know too much about the affairs of the harem. It will not be of much benefit to Your Majesty and Prince An. She should just take a nap in the dark room if she is safe."

Upon hearing this, Emperor Deshun nodded in agreement.

When Lin Luoling woke up, it was already daybreak. She was lying on the couch in Jingtai Pavilion, and Prince An was sitting beside her, leisurely flipping through a book.

Seeing Lin Luoling open her eyes, he tilted his head and asked, "You slept for two full days before waking up. You must be extremely hungry, right?"

"I slept for two days?" Lin Luoling rubbed his dizzy and swollen forehead.

Prince An then explained to Lin Luoling what had happened in the past two days in a concise and concise manner.

He said, "Grandmother Suiyue's order was to prevent you from seeing too much blood and gore, and to prevent you from panicking when hearing the fighting outside in the dark room, so she asked the palace maid to mix a drug on your handkerchief to make you fall into a coma."

Afterwards, Prince An told Lin Luoling that Nan Qiuzhi had been pretending to be the Queen and plotting to occupy the Tianqi Kingdom, and she could do the work of an empress.

He also told Lin Luoling that Prince Rui had always been a pawn in Nan Qiuzhi's hands, and that during this palace coup, Nan Qiuzhi ordered people to kill Prince Rui.

During the past two days, we learned from the interrogation of the Criminal Training Prison that Princess Chang'an, the mother of County Lord July, did not die of illness on her way back to the capital after she had gone to the southern border to avenge her husband. Instead, she was secretly poisoned with a special poison made by the Nanxiang Kingdom by people from the Nanxiang Kingdom.

Shi Mi's husband died of illness while guarding the southern border, which was also caused by Nanxiang Kingdom.

After hearing this, Lin Luoling asked in shock, "Wouldn't Princess July be sad if she knew about this?"

Prince An held Lin Luoling's hand and said, "The Empress Dowager meant that Yu'er should not know about this. Since you are my wife, I don't want to hide it from you, but I also think it's better not to let Yu'er know about this."

Lin Luoling nodded in agreement and said, "Princess July has always been a lively and active person. If she didn't have hatred in her heart, she could live a carefree life. If she knew what happened, how could she not have hatred in her heart? In that case, her innocence would be wiped out."

There is no shortage of jealous, hateful and complaining people in the harem, but it is rare to find someone as straightforward and innocent as Princess July.

From Prince An, Lin Luoling learned that all the maids and spies from Nanxiang Kingdom lurking in Tianqi Kingdom were caught in one fell swoop.

Emperor Deshun was openly angry about Prince An and Lin Luoling's secret marriage, and ordered Yunxi to summon Prince An back to the capital to be punished.

In fact, Emperor Deshun had noticed the Empress' unusual behavior and deliberately sent Prince Jin to the northern border to praise him, so that the Empress and Prince Rui would lose their patience and prompt Prince Rui to rebel, thus capturing the Empress and Prince Rui in one fell swoop and catching all the spies from Nanxiang Kingdom lurking in Tianqi Kingdom.

"My father and grandmother had been planning this half a year ago. In fact, it's not just Prince Rui who wants to rebel, Prince Jin also has this plan, but they are checking each other, and no one dares to act rashly."

Lin Luoling then suddenly understood three things.

At that time, King Rui asked Marquis Yongning and his wife to discuss marriage with the Lin family, and also asked Zhu Xianzhi to murder her and the Lin family. His purpose was to accumulate private troops for rebellion.

The second thing was that she suddenly understood why Jiang Chi wanted to set fire to Tianxiang Pavilion and Qionglouyu Pavilion in order to cut off the financial resources of Prince Rui and Prince Jin and slow down the two princes' conspiracy to rebel.

The third thing was that the Three-Day Soul was discovered in the Lin Mansion, and Prince An wrote a letter to Emperor Deshun. Emperor Deshun should have asked Yun Xi to secretly search the palace, and the Three-Day Soul was also found in the palace. At that time, Emperor Deshun should have begun to suspect that the queen was not Jiang, or that there were spies from the Nanxiang Kingdom around the queen.

Therefore, Emperor Deshun planned how to catch all the spies of Nanxiang Kingdom in Tianqi Kingdom in one fell swoop. The only way was to let Prince Rui rebel and the Queen gain power.

Thinking of this, Lin Luoling felt that Emperor Deshun was so cunning that it was unfathomable.

After a moment's thought, he could not help but ask, "Last time when I interrogated the female director of the Siwu Department of Nanxiang Country in the secret prison of Prince An's Mansion, she mentioned the number of people from Nanxiang Country. This time, Nan Qiuzhi used His Royal Highness Prince Rui to rebel, so did all the people from Nanxiang Country come to the capital?"

Prince An put the book beside him and said, "How is that possible? But don't worry. Before Yun Xi left the capital for Xuzhou, my father had ordered the Silver Feather Guard to take nearly a hundred death warriors to the entrance and exit of Nanxiang State and blow up the entrance and exit of Nanxiang State with gunpowder.

Father was afraid that Nan Qiuzhi would know about this, so he had to move the plan forward a little bit."

"So that's it!" Lin Luoling said.

"I have always suspected that the sudden death of my mother was related to the Queen. I never thought that it was actually done by Concubine Chen." Prince An sighed and said.

He briefly described how Concubine Chen had Concubine Yan Zhaorong kill Concubine Li. He told Lin Luoling that Emperor Deshun had Concubine Chen banished to the cold palace, and the next day after Concubine Chen's relatives in Beijing were imprisoned, they were dragged to the wilderness at noon and punished by being torn apart by a chariot. No one survived.

"This time, my father used Prince Rui to eliminate some of Prince Jin's forces. The palace was fine, but outside the palace, there were heavy casualties. There were corpses everywhere."

Hearing this, Lin Luoling's pupils shrank suddenly, and she asked hurriedly, "My father and mother are both in my grandfather's mansion, how are they doing now?"

Prince An stroked Lin Luoling's hair and said in a clear voice, "Don't worry. Father is a king who loves talents. Young Master He has three generations of loyal people, so naturally we cannot let them be implicated. Privately let Ningyuan Hou invite Young Master He and your father and mother to Ningyuan Hou's mansion. With Ningyuan Hou protecting them, they are all safe."

Lin Luoling was relieved. She raised her head, looked at King An, and asked, "Where have you been these three days?"

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