Use a substitute on your wedding night to scatter the ashes of your entire family

Changchun Palace was not far from Kunning Palace. In just an incense stick of time, everyone was already standing at the gate of the square palace of Changchun Palace.

The people from the Eastern Depot surrounded the entire Changchun Palace, and all the palace servants serving inside were under surveillance and knelt on one side.

When Concubine Chen saw this situation, her legs went weak. When she just left, she didn't see anyone from the East Depot coming over.

Shi Rong held her tightly and whispered in her ear, "Madam, please stay calm. I am here."

Concubine Chen then relaxed her expression a little. When she looked at Song Laifeng, her eyes were filled with disgust. It was all because of this man's incompetence. He had messed up such a simple task!

Xie Changan glanced at the eunuchs in Changchun Palace, frowned almost imperceptibly, and asked Cai Junting: "What did Governor Cai find?"

Cai Junting waved his hand, and immediately two eunuchs came over one after another, holding something. The things were almost identical to those just found in Kunning Palace, a dark brown oil paper bag and a rosewood box.

The ministers whispered, "Why do they look exactly like what they found in the Queen's small kitchen?"

"Yes, it couldn't be a moldy cake and a shrunken radish, right?"

"We are here to bear witness today, so don't say anything more. Just wait and see."

Several people looked at each other and nodded silently.

Xie Changan frowned and said, "General Cai, please stop keeping us in suspense and open the things for everyone to see."

Cai Junting nodded, stepped forward, picked up the oil paper bag, showed it to everyone, and then opened it layer by layer.

The four words "Hong Family Genealogy" suddenly come into view. Turning to the last page, the two words "Hong Mai" are clearly visible. In addition, there are 37 people of the Hong family still alive.

After Cai Junting showed the family tree to everyone present, he took the box from the Dongchang guard and opened it. A half-rotten little finger lay quietly inside. It looked like it belonged to a child of about ten years old.

According to the family tree, there is only one boy named Hong Ansheng who is about ten years old, and he is also the youngest grandson of Hong Mai’s younger brother.

Concubine Chen's face changed drastically. How could these things be in her Changchun Palace?

She looked at Song Yafeng suddenly, only to see that his face was ashen and his eyes were wide open.

Song Yafeng's eyes were stunned. If it weren't for his strong will, he would have asked loudly, shouldn't these things be in the small kitchen of Kunning Palace? Why are they in Changchun Palace?

Xie Changan asked: "Where did Commander Cai find these things?"

"To reply to your Excellency, I found it in the secret compartment of the Imperial Concubine's bedroom."

The Hong family genealogy, plus a piece of what was obviously a child's finger, what else could it be if not a threat to Hong Mai to kill Emperor Daliang, and yet these things appeared in Concubine Chen's Changchun Palace.

Everyone understood that the empress Hong Mai was talking about before his death was Concubine Chen.

Wasn’t there a thief crying “stop thief” a while ago?

That’s right. After all, even if the Crown Prince cannot wait for His Majesty for a hundred years, there is still the Ninth Prince who has just been found and is the legitimate son.

"Impossible! I just put the banknotes my father sent me into the secret compartment yesterday. There is no such thing! Someone framed me. Shu Nanyu, it was you who put the things in my bedroom!"

Why is it that people tend to make stupid mistakes when they are at a critical moment concerning their life or death?

It would be easy to find out whether General Chen came to the palace to see her yesterday.

Coincidentally, the only person who came to Changchun Palace yesterday was Song Yafeng.

It couldn't be that Song Yafeng was here to deliver silver on behalf of General Chen, right?

Empress Shu was too lazy to pay attention, and asked Cai Junting: "Who was there when these things were found?"

"To answer the Queen, the Imperial Concubine's personal nanny Zhang Chengfen was watching nearby. In addition, Cuiping, the maid in charge of cleaning the Changchun Palace, was also present. Both of them can attest that I did find these two things in the secret compartment."

Shi Rong was good at flattering and acting cute, and Nanny Zhang Chengfen had made Concubine Chen unhappy because of the hairpin issue, so she did not take her with her when she went to Kunning Palace.

This time, she happened to become Cai Junting's witness.

Zhang Chengfen was Concubine Chen's personal nanny and had served her for decades. It can be said that there is no way to deny this.

Sure enough, when Xie Changan and others looked at Zhang Chengfen, her face was as pale as paper, and she was kneeling on the ground without a word of defense.

Concubine Chen stepped forward angrily and slapped Zhang Chengfen in the face: "Zhang Chengfen, you vicious bitch, I just scolded you this morning, and you actually teamed up with outsiders to harm me! What is your intention? Over the past few decades, I thought I was kind to you and your family, why would you harm me like this today!"

Zhang Chengfen looked ashen, her forehead on the ground, kneeling there without saying a word. "Your Majesty is confused. Governor Cai has just said that when the things were found, there was not only her but also Cuiping in the bedroom. Why did Your Majesty use her family to force her to take the blame?"

If she really did it, she could have left the bedroom before the Eastern Depot men came in.

As expected, Cai Junting said, "My Lady, the witness is the maid Cuiping. Aunt Zhang Chengfen has served you for so many years, she is not stupid."

"You! You all have the guts to frame me. You are so brave!"

At this moment, Concubine Chen was like a mad woman. She no longer had the arrogant spirit she had half an hour ago when she was demanding Empress Shu's recognition.

The trusted eunuch Shi Rong rolled his eyes, knelt on the ground with a thud, and cried loudly, "Madam, you have misunderstood Aunt Zhang. She is loyal to you and will never betray you."

He suddenly knelt straight up, pointing his finger at Song Yafeng who was standing there in shock: "It's him, it's Song Yafeng, I saw with my own eyes that he took advantage of the Jinyiwei to search your bedroom yesterday, and he opened the secret compartment! These things must have been put in by Lord Song!"

"Have you forgotten, Madam? Yesterday, in order to avoid suspicion, you deliberately stood outside the bedroom and let Song Yafeng go in alone to search."

Song Yafeng's eyes suddenly widened. After all, he was the commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard. He immediately realized that he had been abandoned by Chen Xueyun, just like she had abandoned Ye Zhishao some time ago, and treated him like a worn-out shoe.

This woman is selfish and will do anything to achieve her goals.

She was making love with him yesterday, but today she allowed a eunuch to frame him and put him to death.

But they have had a relationship that lasted for decades.

He laughed coldly, and the laugh became louder and louder until it became a wild laugh: "Your Majesty, yesterday you and I..."

With a "puff" sound, the Xiuchun knife that had just killed Wu Mao half an hour ago stabbed into Song Yafeng's heart without hesitation.