Queen is the top

Su Jin nodded approvingly, and said worriedly: "The maidservant is just worried that if that woman really did it, the next step may be bad for His Highness."

Shi Qiaohuang was startled when he heard this, the queen and Su Jin expected that this was done by Concubine Hui, but they couldn't guess her next move for the time being.

"At this moment, you go to interrogate the palace people who have been locked up first to see if you can find anything. This method of using poison is too delicate and without evidence. I can't explain it to Your Majesty. If Concubine Hui really wants to Let’s use this to make some demon wind, we have the evidence in our hands, so we can deal with it.”

Su Jin and Shi Qiao Huang nodded, and each took orders without mentioning it.

Just when the queen was worried that she couldn't find any evidence and couldn't explain to the emperor, and the body of the pure beauty was also difficult to dispose of, a rumor spread throughout the entire harem with lightning speed.

Su Jin walked into the bedroom of Changle Palace with an angry expression on her face. The queen saw that her expression was wrong, and hurriedly asked, "What's the matter?"

Su Jin took a deep breath, slightly suppressed the anger in his heart, and said in a low hoarse voice: "Rumors are spreading in the palace, and it is spread in the whole palace. Because His Highness is jealous of Chunmei's youth and beauty, she is favored by her, so she privately executed Chunmei in Changle. In the palace."

The queen narrowed her eyes slightly, her eyes were full of sternness, and she snorted coldly, "It turns out that the trick is to wait and see."

Su Jin only felt outraged, took a few deep breaths to stop his lips from trembling, and said in a low voice: "Concubine Hui is stupid, your majesty and your highness tried their best to cover up the sins committed by her son, but for her son and her With the remaining face, she uses it to slander His Highness, it is really vicious."

On the contrary, the queen was not as angry as Su Jin, she was much calmer, and shook her head contemptuously, "She has always been this kind of virtue, she will only use these lowly tricks, she said a few days ago that she was praying for His Majesty and her father, and because of this She suffered from a cold and fell ill, and finally His Majesty went to her palace a few more times, and she settled down for a while. I thought she had learned a lesson and changed her sex for the sake of her father and son. It's waiting for me here."

The queen lowered her eyebrows and saw that her hands hidden in her sleeves were trembling slightly, her heart softened, she stretched out her hand to call her over, held her hands in her hands, shook her head, and sighed, "Don't be angry!" It's not worth it."

Su Jin's eyes were flushed, and he said with a trembling voice: "I only hate, I only wish that I can't take revenge."

Hearing this, the Queen raised her eyelids slightly, and there was steam in her eyes, and she said in a voice of hatred, "There will always be a chance, there will always be a day."

Su Jin sat beside the queen silently and looked at her, with distressed eyes, and said softly, "Miss."

The queen's eyes were completely red when she heard her say this. Su Jin is her natal maidservant. She grew up with her since she was a child. For her sake, she voluntarily entered the palace and gave up marrying and having children. It is not an exaggeration to say that she is closer than her own sisters. .

Su Jin hasn't called her "Miss" for a long time, the queen nodded, all her pains can only be felt by Su Jin.

The sadness of the two was aroused, and they held each other's hand, relatively silent.

At this time, a sharp shout from the inner eunuch came from outside the hall, "The emperor is here!"

The queen stood up quickly, and Su Jin helped her straighten her clothes. Seeing Cheng Yingzong walking in, the two stepped forward to salute respectfully.

Cheng Yingzong quickly helped the queen up, and said to Su Jin, "Get up."

Su Jin blesses his body, withdraws from the palace and orders someone to serve tea for the two of them.

Cheng Yingzong and the empress went to sit on the phoenix couch hand in hand. Cheng Yingzong looked at the reddened eyes of the empress who wanted to hide, sighed, patted her hand, and said softly: "I have wronged you."

The queen lowered her eyebrows, smiled slightly, and shook her head, "Where is your majesty?"

Cheng Yingzong was angry and narrowed his eyes slightly, "A pure beauty deserves death, and you executed her according to the law. How could there be such absurd rumors? I have ordered Xu Tinglu to investigate the matter, and I will definitely return it." You are fair."

The queen wiped her eyes with a veil, and hurriedly said: "Your Highness, this must not be the case."

Cheng Yingzong was puzzled and said, "Why?"

The queen said softly: "Your Majesty, I did not execute the pure beauty."

Cheng Yingzong said unexpectedly: "Oh?"

The queen said quietly: "It's not a pity to die for the sin of a pure beauty, but I saw that she was still young and beautiful, so it's a pity to die at such a young age, so I wanted to imprison her in the cold palace, but I didn't expect it."

The Queen paused at this point, and Cheng Yingzong's twin peaks frowned, "Unexpectedly?"

"Unexpectedly, she was poisoned to death in Changle Palace the night before, and Su Jin found her body in the early morning of the second day."

After hearing this, Cheng Yingzong stroked his beard and died of poison the night before. This morning the rumor spread to everyone in the palace.

He squinted his eyes slightly, and heard the Queen say again: "The purpose of dealing with Chunmei in private is to keep the matter of the eldest prince safe. Now if you wantonly investigate the cause of the rumors and be investigated and dealt with about Chunmei and the eldest prince, Your Majesty and I have tried our best before." The concealment will be in vain."

Cheng Yingzong nodded slightly, it was indeed as the queen said that it was related to the face of the royal family.

He thought that the queen put him first in everything, and endured it alone every time she was wronged. He couldn't help blaming himself for indebting her too much. He sighed, looked at the queen and said, "I'm sorry for you."

The queen smiled slightly, and gently put the other hand on the back of Cheng Yingzong's hand, "Where is your majesty?"

Cheng Yingzong looked at her silently, sighed helplessly in his heart, then turned around in his mind, and had some doubts, did the poisoned death of the pure beauty have anything to do with the rumors?Is spreading rumors just to slander the Queen's reputation, or is there another purpose?

Cheng Yingzong thought of Concubine Hui, but Concubine Hui has been very quiet recently and has not made any moves. He still knows about the Queen's Changle Palace. After that incident, he ordered people to check carefully all the people in Changle Palace. of.

"What poison did the pure beauty suffer? Have you checked?"

The queen shook her head, "Qiao Huang has searched all the medical skills but can't find out what the poison is. He only knows that it is a chronic poison. There is nothing wrong with it on weekdays. If it is mixed with a certain food, it will kill people."

The emperor wondered: "There is such a strange poison in the world?"

The queen nodded, "I heard from Qiao Huang that this poison is quite similar to the Miao people's Gu, but I have never heard of this poison produced by Miao Jiang, so I can't be sure whether it is related to the Miao people."

The emperor was surprised and said: "Miao people? We have carefully investigated the wealth of the people in the palace, and there is no alien."

The queen sighed, "I think so too, Qiao Huang only said that it is similar to Miao Gu, maybe it wasn't made by Miao people, or maybe it was produced by other races."

Cheng Yingzong nodded, "We need to investigate the source of this poison carefully. Pure beauty enters the palace all the time. I don't know if this poison is outside the palace or inside the palace. I'm afraid that someone will regard her as a pawn early in the morning, but they don't know. Who has such a vicious mind."

The queen drooped her eyelids, and snorted coldly in her heart: Who else could there be except her.

But she just knew, even if she was sure in her heart, she couldn't utter a single word to Cheng Yingzong. If she had no evidence, Cheng Yingzong had just regained favor with Concubine Hui.

If Concubine Hui's name was mentioned at this time, Cheng Yingzong would definitely feel that she was slandering Concubine Hui because of personal grievances, and Cheng Yingzong would lose Cheng Yingzong's heart.

The hatred in the queen's heart was hard to dispel, but her face was still gentle and virtuous.

She has been married to Cheng Yingzong for more than 20 years, and she knows him best. If it weren't for the Hussar General, Cheng Yingzong might not only not be able to win the three kings, but also lose his life. Even Concubine Hui's elder brother died to protect Cheng Yingzong. Cheng Yingzong was a man who valued love and righteousness the most, and knew how to repay kindness. For these things, Concubine Hui has done so many ugly things for so many years. Cheng Yingzong He wanted to get rid of her several times, but he didn't stop thinking of the dead brother of the general and Concubine Hui, and He Mingcheng who was born to him.

The queen knew in her heart that for the sake of Cheng Yingzong and the royal family, she could only endure and endure all the ugliness that Concubine Hui had done.

One day, she will take care of her herself, and all the grievances between her and Concubine Hui will be resolved by her. Before that, she doesn't want to dirty Cheng Yingzong's hands.

Cheng Yingzong didn't know that the queen sitting opposite him was going through a lot of twists and turns. He lowered his brows, sighed to himself, and said slowly: "The pure beauty is pitiful, let her be buried alive."

When the queen heard Cheng Yingzong calling her, she hurriedly withdrew her thoughts, froze for a moment, and said, "Yes, Your Majesty."

Cheng Yingzong held her hand, "Why are your hands so cold, what were you thinking just now, so engrossed?"

The queen's expression was gentle, but her eyes were extremely melancholy, and she smiled slightly, "Thank you for your concern, I didn't think about anything."

Cheng Yingzong looked into her eyes, nodded, but didn't say anything after all.

Like a girl, the queen held Cheng Yingzong's broad palm with both hands, looked into his eyes, and easily understood the sentence in his eyes: I'm sorry.