Li Yu brought a lot of people with him. After searching the main hall of the Yanx Palace for a short time, they found a small box containing cinnabar from the secret compartment under Qingying's bed.

There were even letters exchanged with the palace maids in Yonghe Palace in the box.

Before returning to Changchun Palace, Li Yu also went to Yonghe Palace. It turned out that the young palace maid had committed suicide by taking poison. The young eunuch also found another set of letters in the young palace maid's room.

Hongli looked at the letters between Zhusha and himself that Li Yu brought back.

He knew Qingying's handwriting clearly, and when he saw that the letter was indeed in Qingying's handwriting.

Hongli could no longer hold back his anger, so he threw the letter at Qingying and asked, "Do you have anything else to say?"

Qingying knelt down in disbelief as she read the letters that seemed to be written by her own hand. She said with lifeless eyes, "Empress Dowager, Your Majesty, Your Majesty, I have no right to defend myself."

The Queen Mother frowned and glanced at Qingying. She had always known that Qingying was not as good as her aunt, the Queen of Jingren Palace, but she had never thought that Qingying was so incompetent.

Even though it was such a serious matter as murdering the royal heir, he took the blame without any excuse.

It is also unknown how Ulanara Yixiu learned in her later life that her niece was the person she saw the most.

She was regarded as the last hope of the Ulanara family and was even willing to take poison for her niece. Would she be so angry that she came back to life?

"Good, there is no way to defend yourself." Hongli pointed at Qingying tremblingly.

Seeing that she still had that expressionless face and still had her mouth pouting, he got angry: "You have no excuse, and I am also puzzled. Since you feel that you have no excuse, then don't argue."

"Li Yu, pass on the decree. Concubine Xian Ulanara has committed an unforgivable crime by plotting to murder the heir to the throne. She will be stripped of her title, demoted to a commoner, and confined to the cold palace."

Qingying instantly lost her strength and knelt on the ground, but soon stood up again and looked at Hongli and said word by word: "Commoner Ulanara obeys your order."

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, you and Sister Xianfei have been childhood sweethearts, so you should know Sister Xianfei best."

"Sister Xianfei has always been kind and non-competitive, so how could she do something like murdering the heir to the throne? Sister Xianfei, as the eldest prince's adoptive mother, you must conduct a thorough investigation for the sake of the eldest prince."

Hongli ignored Hailan's plea and thought that Hailan's words that she was kind-hearted and did not fight or compete were ridiculous.

"She is not competitive and has always been kind. If she was really kind, would she let the eunuchs and palace maids force someone to kneel in the snow and pour cold water on him? As a result, a person who is only fourteen years old will have his lifespan affected if he doesn't pay attention?"

"Is this what you mean by being kind-hearted?"

Hongli no longer thought Hailan was weak and harmless. He took another look at A Ruo who was kneeling on the ground and said, "A Ruo has made great contributions in exposing the Ulanara family. She is promoted to a concubine and given the title of Shen."

"Your servant...I thank the emperor for his grace."

Empress Fucha asked, "Your Majesty, where does this newly-appointed Sister Shen live?"

"Just live in the east side hall of the Yanx Palace." With just one sentence, Hongli drove Hai Lan to the west side hall of the Yanx Palace.

The Queen Mother also heard about what happened yesterday, but she had no one of her own in Yongshou Palace, and she had no idea that Qingying's actions would have such serious consequences.

Originally, I thought that my adopted son was so fond of the one who lived in Yongshou Palace, and I was afraid that I would be hard to control him in the future.

Now I think that even if I take good care of that girl, she may not be able to have children in the future and won't have much of a future.

He gave up his plan to send personnel to Yongshou Palace even though he would offend the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

He still has a daughter who is not married yet, and the Imperial Household Department will have to prepare her dowry. It would be more troublesome to offend the Imperial Household Department's aristocratic families.

"As for the eldest prince, let Concubine Chun take care of him for the time being. Queen, you should also take care of the child more."

"The minister and concubine follow the order."

"I will definitely take good care of the eldest prince." Concubine Chun never expected that she would have an adopted son for no apparent reason.

"Li Yu, watch over Ulanara and send her to the cold palace yourself."

"嗻"

After Hongli finished speaking, he said respectfully to the Empress Dowager, "Today's incident was an unfilial act on my part, and I also caused the Empress Dowager to come out in the cold weather to worry about her son's affairs."

"Your Majesty, what are you talking about? Your heir is my grandson. How can I not care about him?"

"Okay, now that everything has been resolved, I will return to the Cining Palace."

"My son, I respectfully send you to the emperor's mother."

"Your Highness the Queen Mother is seeing you off."

After the Empress Dowager left, Hongli said something to Empress Fucha and went out.

Empress Fucha did not react much to this, but Jin Yuyan sensed the crisis and her eyes rolled around, and no one knew what she was thinking.

Li Yu walked up to Qingying and said, "Commoner of the Ulanara clan, let's go."

Qingying was also helped up by Hailan and惢心, and followed Li Yu's men back to the Yanxi Palace.

——————Yanxi Palace——————

"elder sister……"

"Hai Lan, don't cry. Those who are innocent will be innocent. If something has not been done, it has not been done. I believe that one day the truth will come out."

Hailan looked at Qingying who was forcing a smile and wiped away her tears and asked, "It's obviously not you, why don't you explain?"

"Haila, didn't you see that? The handwriting on those letters is exactly the same as mine. If I hadn't really done those things, I would have believed that I was the murderer who murdered the heir to the throne."

"But how can my sister, with her noble status, survive in a place like the cold palace?"

Qingying smiled at Hailan and shook her head: "People should look forward while they are alive. Living people will never be overwhelmed by difficulties."

At this time, Bai Ruiji rushed into the Yanxi Palace with a whip and waved it at Qingying.

Thinking about how I had to suppress my heartache and miss my child alone every night, I moved my hands even harder.

Now that the dust has settled, Bai Ruiji feels that if she could endure it any longer, she would be unworthy of being a mother. She had carried that poor child for ten months in vain, and in the end she didn't even get to see him once.

"Princess Mei, you..."

Bai Ruiji didn't give Qingying a chance to speak, and lashed at Qingying again and again with the whip in her hand. Hailan and Suoxin on the side retreated while protecting Qingying, and took advantage of the chaos to get whipped a few times as well.

The cute round face and eyes were now filled with tears: "Today I will avenge my poor child."

"Not me, I really didn't do it."

"If it wasn't you, how could the emperor have deposed you? If it wasn't you, why would the emperor have imprisoned you in the cold palace?"

After venting her anger, Bai Ruiji threw the whip in her hand to the ground: "I wish I could eat your flesh and drink your blood. I really thought you were a kind person before."

"It's really not me."

Bai Ruiji was too lazy to watch her turn around and leave. Before she left, she said, "People like you should spend your whole life in the cold palace to atone for your sins."

After Bai Ruiji left, Suo Xin looked at Li Yu in surprise. If it were in the past, even if his master was about to be sent to the cold palace, Li Yu would never let Meipin do this.

Not only was Suoxin surprised, but Qingying was also surprised. She always felt that some people and things were out of her control.

This feeling is extremely uncomfortable.

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