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The emperor looked at the terrified queen mother with cold eyes, but asked softly, "Who are you talking about? Who are you afraid of?"

The Queen Mother completely lost her mind and shouted: "Shuxian, Empress Xian, do you want to avenge her? It's you, it's you who made the trouble."

"Are you talking about my biological mother, Empress Xian?" the emperor asked coldly

"It's that woman, that woman who blocked my way. I just wrote a letter and let her die silently. If you force me, you will die very quickly." After finishing speaking, the queen mother laughed crazily stand up.

Seeing that something was wrong, Xie Xiang hurriedly stepped forward to call the Empress Dowager: "Your Majesty, please be sober, Your Majesty, the Empress Dowager must be bewitched to talk nonsense, please don't take it seriously." Then he said to the servant next to him: "Call me quickly!" The doctor is here."

The officials below were all stunned. Did they hear a big secret of the harem just now?The Empress Dowager seems to have something to do with the death of the Emperor's biological mother.So is Xie Xiang also involved?They watched Xie Xiang in a desperate attempt to make amends with cold eyes.Only then did they understand that today they did not come to share prosperity with Xie Xiang, but to accompany Xie Xiang to share humiliation.They each thought about their relationship with Mr. Xie, and they all started to panic.Each eye looks at the nose, the nose looks at the mouth, and the mouth looks at the heart, waiting for the punishment to fall on him.

The emperor looked at the queen mother and Prime Minister Xie calmly, and Prime Minister Xie suddenly felt that the face became very strange. He has been controlling the court smoothly all this time. The emperor has always been just his puppet. Is it the one with the mask?

The empress dowager had fainted at this time, the emperor waved, and Wu Cai led people to carry the empress dowager down.The emperor said: "Let the imperial doctor take a good look at the queen mother."

Seeing the queen mother left, the emperor sat down slowly, Wu Cai came back with an extra scroll in his hand, the emperor nodded slightly, and Wu Cai opened the scroll.

The scroll is an ordinary scroll, the paper is also ordinary drawing paper, and the painting is also an ordinary picture of beauties. The beauties on the paintings are indeed beautiful, and the people are beautiful.For example, in normal times, when the emperor took out this painting, someone must have come out to praise it.At this moment, he didn't dare to breathe out.

The emperor was silent for a while, looking at Mr. Xie who was staying there, as if he was slowly savoring his expression, and said when he had enough fun, "This is a picture of a beauty in the Prime Minister's mansion, Mr. Xiang, do you know her?" who?"

Xie Xiangqiang supported his legs and said, "The old minister doesn't know the person in this painting."

"You don't know, then, I'll find someone I know."

Wu Cai beckoned, the hall door opened, and the guard brought a man into the hall, the man was brought to the side of Prime Minister Xie and knelt down on the ground, and said in a trembling voice, "Master of the Caomin Xiangfu, Mu Ping, sees the emperor."

The voice woke Xie Xiang up. He turned his head to look at the person who should have died, but he almost tripped over his clothes as he stepped back.

"Tell me, who is this beauty?"

"Your Majesty forgive me, this woman is the beauty who was given to Prime Minister Xie seven years ago."

"Oh? I didn't know Mr. Xie was such a beauty-loving person. Doesn't Mr. Xie have more beauties in his harem than me?"

Wu Cai stepped forward and said: "According to what this old slave knows, there are only one wife and four concubines in this Prime Minister Xie's mansion, one son and one daughter."

Na Mu Ping repeatedly bowed his head and said: "The emperor forgives the sin, the emperor forgives the sin."

"I'm just asking you for a question, why do you keep begging me for forgiveness?"

"Back to the emperor, every once in a while, the prime minister will let the grass-roots people look for beauties, but they are not married back, but for him to have fun. There are more than a dozen such scrolls in the prime minister's mansion, and the women on each of them are already beautiful. Fragrance disappears and jade is damaged."

As soon as this remark came out, the entire hall was in an uproar.

The Prime Minister was annoyed, "You are slandering, framing, and you are in vain for taking you. You pretended to be dead to plot against me. What evidence do you have for saying this?"

Mu Ping sneered and said, "Master Xiang really took me well. Seeing that I have become the only witness of your crimes, he even wanted to kill me. If I hadn't been by your side for many years to see through your methods, I would really Even if they are eliminated, they don’t know whose hands they died in.”

Xie Xiang knelt down on both knees, his eyes and tone were extremely sincere, "Your Majesty, I am a veteran of the two dynasties, and I am loyal to the Emperor. Everything I do is worthy of this official uniform. Today's changes are all caused by people with evil intentions deliberately provoking you. The relationship between my monarch and his ministers must be like this. The Di Yue Kingdom, all of this happened after they came, they must have used some means to make us restless. , he has coveted the throne for a long time, and joined forces with the Seventh Prince and Di Yue to seize your throne, don't be careless, Your Majesty."

The emperor smiled, glanced at Xie Xiang who was lying on the ground, and said to the Seventh Prince: "Uncle Seventh Prince, do you think Qi Feng has the idea of ​​becoming emperor?"

The Seventh Prince was startled and hurriedly pulled up his clothes and fell to his knees: "Qi Feng knows better than this king that he is an emperor. He has no interest in the throne and only wants to walk freely in the rivers and lakes. If it wasn't for my request, he might not even come back. "

The emperor nodded: "Indeed, if he has the heart, I'm afraid I won't even have the chance to take the throne."

The Seventh Prince hurriedly said: "Your majesty has great virtue and talent, he is the true son of heaven. How can Qi Feng's false name be as good as the emperor's case, please don't make this joke." But he was in a cold sweat.

The emperor laughed and said: "Since you know it's a joke, why do you take it seriously? Now people say that Qi Feng is making trouble, so you can use whatever magic weapon you have to make him give up."

"This king still has a personal certificate, which is waiting outside the palace. Please let the emperor allow her to come in."

"Announce her to come in."

Xie Xiang knelt there, his hands and feet were numb, but he still had to hold on and not be defeated.

The door of the hall opened, and it was Qi Zi and a girl in plain clothes who came in. The girl was holding on to Qi Zi's sleeves, walking close to Qi Zi, making Qi Zi's walking speed slow down.Qi Zi had a tense expression on his face, he didn't dare to look around and walked to the center of the hall with his head slightly lowered.Pulled the girl to kneel down.

Wu Cai asked: "Who is kneeling down, please report the name."

Qi Zi hurriedly kowtowed and said, "Qi Zi, the deputy director of the Caomin Qi Palace, see the emperor, long live the emperor, long live, long live, long live, long live." The girl kowtowed when she saw Qi Zi kowtow, and said long live, but she was a little stupid look.

The emperor couldn't help laughing: "Get up, Uncle Seventh Prince, who is this girl?"

The Seventh Prince said: "We don't know the girl's name either. I think Master Xie may know."

Master Xie shuddered, and looked back slowly, which scared him out of his wits.

The girl was originally looking around, but when she glanced over Xie Xiang's face, her eyes froze. Her eyes gradually filled from lax to focused, from empty to fearful.Suddenly she let go of Qi Zi's arm and screamed like crazy, turned around and ran towards the gate of the hall, Qi Zi didn't care about being in front of the hall, hurriedly chased up and grabbed the girl, the girl didn't know where the strength came from, and pulled Qi Zi He broke free and rushed to the door. The guard at the door heard the movement inside and had already opened the door and came in. Seeing the girl running towards him, he hurriedly held her arm together. The girl was still struggling, so Qi Zi ran over and hugged the girl in his arms. , Tightly, kept saying: "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, I am here, I am here."

The girl struggled in Qi Zi's arms for a while and gradually calmed down. Qi Zi was already sweating profusely, and he couldn't tell whether it was sweat or tears on his face. Although the girl stopped struggling, Qi Zi still kept comforting her.

This scene surprised everyone present. Everyone shifted their eyes from the girl to Xie Xiang with a pale face. Everyone had already guessed the girl's identity nine out of ten.

The emperor looked at Xie Xiang with a gloomy expression, and said softly: "Mu Ping, who is she?"

At this time, everyone turned their attention to Mu Ping, and Mu Ping's complexion was no better than that of Mr. Xie.When the emperor called his name, he jumped up.Busily put his head on the ground, his body was still shaking.

"The emperor, she, she, she was born half a year ago, she should have died, she should have died."

The Seventh Prince snorted coldly: "Heaven is clear. You didn't expect this girl to crawl out of the mass grave. She was covered in scars. She was rescued by the old man who watched the grave. He was going to report to the police because the girl was in a daze. He changed his mind and hid her instead. But the girl’s injuries were very serious, so the old man had to take her to see a doctor first, but was discovered by Feng’er’s friend. Although he was treated for half a year, the injuries on her body were healed. , but his sanity has not recovered."

"What did she say?"

The Seventh Prince said: "The girl said, 'Your Excellency, no.'"

Xie Xiang said angrily: "This is slander, this woman was found by them to frame me."

The Seventh Prince said: "Everyone present can tell whether this woman is really scared or just acting."

Master Xiang was a little out of control: "It couldn't be easier to find paintings and women. I don't know her, and I said I didn't know her."

The Seventh Prince immediately said: "She also said, please, my lord prime minister, please, my lord prime minister."

"This is slander, she doesn't even know I'm Cheng..."

Xie Xiang's voice suddenly stopped.

The emperor thumped the dragon chair resentfully, looked at Prime Minister Xie's dusty face and said, "Prime Minister Xie, Prime Minister Xie, what else do you have to say? You claim to be the elder of the two dynasties, relying on the late emperor's trust and reliance on you, you But he did such a thing that both people and gods were angry with. Here comes the prime minister, Xie Lishen, who knew the law and disregarded human life. He was immediately dismissed from the post of prime minister and handed over to the Ministry of Punishment for interrogation by the procuratorate. "

The guard outside the door came in and took off the prime minister's official uniform, and the official hat dragged him out.

Prime Minister Xie seemed to have a soul when he was dragged up: "The emperor is Qi Feng who framed the old minister, and the minister wants to participate in Qi Feng. The seventh prince has committed the crime of deceiving the emperor. Your majesty, Qi Feng has committed a serious crime of deceiving the emperor."

He was about to shout again, but the guards quickly gagged his mouth and led him out of the hall.

Looking at the glorious past, the high-ranking prime minister was dismissed from office, and the rest of the staff were silent, waiting to be punished.

After a while of calm, the emperor looked at Mu Ping who was kneeling below: "Mu Ping, you are a slave to a tiger. Although the court exposed and testified, it is not enough to cover your crimes. I order you to list all the crimes of Prime Minister Xie one by one, and you must not hide anything , if it is detailed, you may be spared the death penalty."

Mu Ping was taken down by the servant.The emperor looked at the officials below who were frightened to death: "You usually look forward to seeing me as the emperor, and you don't even pay attention to me, the emperor. Tell me, how can I punish you?"

All the officials except the Seventh Prince knelt down on the ground, kowtowed like garlic, and said repeatedly: "I am guilty, please punish me by the emperor."

The emperor looked at them with a twinkle in his eyes, and after a while he said: "You say you are guilty, what crimes you have, what punishment you should be punished, you all write it down. After you finish writing, hand it in for me to read, sincerely repent, and list your crimes clearly , I will deal with it lightly, and if I dare to conceal anything, I will never let you down."

After finishing speaking, the servants brought out pens, ink, paper and inkstones, and replaced the meals on their tables.An eunuch lit a stick of incense in the middle of the hall.

The emperor took the seventh prince and Qi Zi out of the hall, the seventh prince asked Qi Zi to take the girl back to the palace, and he followed the emperor to Chunyi Pavilion.

The ministers who stayed in the room were exhausted and wrote letters of guilt.