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The ministers quickly got up, and they didn't bother to tidy up and describe, and surrounded the emperor back to Wangyou Hall.

Not long after, the servant came to report that the group of crows flew into the palace and stayed in the garden of Concubine Fuling's Hall of Mental Cultivation.When Concubine Fu Ling and the Crown Prince heard this, their eyes widened and their expressions were flustered.

There was a little gloating look on the queen's dull face.At the same time, Master Lingshan Jushi in Tongtian Pavilion heard the news and hurried to the palace.

As soon as he entered the hall, another servant came to report. He dug up a small paulownia puppet in the back garden of Yangxin Hall, and then handed over the paulownia puppet to the emperor.

The emperor glanced at the paulownia puppet, his hands trembling in anger, he threw the puppet on the ground fiercely, glared at Fuling, and shouted: "Catch it!!!"

Fu Ling hurriedly knelt on the ground, her eyes filled with tears instantly, she bowed her head in panic and said, "Your Majesty, my concubine has been wronged!!!"

"Injustice?" The emperor's nostrils were almost full of smoke, he patted the case, pointed at the paulownia puppet, and asked: "Then what's going on!"

Fu Ling wiped the corners of her eyes, and Qi Qiran said: "Your Majesty knows clearly, someone must have harmed my concubine! Your Majesty knows that my concubine has been practicing Huang Lao on weekdays, and knows how to follow the way of heaven, so how could she do such harmful things?"

Seeing his mother crying with pear blossoms raining down on her face, the prince quickly knelt down and cried, "Father! Someone must have harmed my concubine, and my concubine would never do such a thing!"

Fu Ling frowned slightly, with a pitiful look on her face, and said: "My concubine wished to go to visit Laozhuang with His Majesty, how could she be contaminated with these crooked ways."

The emperor calmed down, he seemed to believe Fu Ling's words, but he didn't know how to deal with it, so he looked at Duan Shiyu.

Duan Shiyu was patting the feathers on his body, when he raised his head and saw the emperor looking at him again, he cupped his hands and said: "I see that this crow's eyes are red, I'm afraid he was bewitched."

"Yes, yes, yes!!" The prince nodded repeatedly.

King Wu sneered, and said in his heart: "It's really God helping me." Putting his hands together, he expected Fuling to be overwhelmed by this matter, walked into the hall, and said, "The crows don't go anywhere, why did they go to you?" That Hall of Mental Cultivation."

The emperor's face sank, and he asked the master: "Didn't the palace already practice the method, why are there so many crows?"

The master knew that there must be someone behind this, but he didn't know who it was at this time, so he could only continue to deceive the emperor, bowing and saying: "That monster is really powerful..."

"Isn't it amazing!"

Before the master finished explaining, Lord Qi helped the Empress Dowager into the Palace of Wangyou.

"Mother? Why are you here?" The emperor walked over, and Prince Qi was on his side, helping the Empress Dowager to sit down.

The empress dowager knocked on the table, her hands were cold with anger, and asked: "What's all this? Huh?? I forgot how the Taichang princess died back then?? Huh??" The crutch in the empress dowager's hand He knocked on the ground heavily, and complained: "Why are you still making so many witchcraft objects!!"

Back then, Princess Taichang wanted to seize the throne, so she asked warlocks outside the palace to make paulownia dolls to curse the current emperor, and was killed by the former emperor.When the Empress Dowager mentioned this, tears could not help but overflow her eyes.

"Mother, calm down first." The emperor patted the Empress Dowager on the back, wiped away her tears, and looked back at Prince Qi with a reproach on his face.

Prince Qi smiled and said: "Brother Huang, please be safe and don't be impatient, the crow just now was just a trick performed by my younger brother for Brother Huang."

"You!!" The emperor shouted angrily, "What do you mean!"

Prince Qi walked over, patted the emperor's chest flatteringly, and couldn't wait to shout to the guards: "Bring it up, bring it up!"

As soon as the words were finished, the bird-raising Dafu trembled and rolled in.

The emperor frowned and asked, "What do you mean by this?"

Prince Qi said: "This man is called Dafu, he has a natural ability, he can talk to birds and animals."

King Wu and Fuling looked at the young man named Dafu with terrified expressions.

The emperor was puzzled and asked, "Is that true?"

"Quick." Prince Qi said, "Perform one."

Dafu didn't dare to look up at the emperor. He pointed to the ground and whistled, and saw two crows fly in and land on his shoulders.

The emperor raised his eyebrows and clenched his fists restlessly.

Prince Qi said: "Quickly, let the crow give me a grape."

Dafu raised his head and cooed twice at the crow.The crow really took a grape from the fruit plate and landed on Prince Qi's shoulder.

Prince Qi chuckled, took the grapes and put them in his mouth to chew.

The expression on the emperor's face seemed a little moved, but he didn't fully trust Lord Qi, he asked, "What do you mean?"

"What does this mean?" It was the most common sentence the emperor said in this hour.

Prince Qi said: "I have no other intentions, I just want to show the emperor that this crow is not evil."

King Wu was relieved to see that the great blessing was not here to expose him. He quickly grasped the topic and said, "Uncle Huang is right. The crow is not evil, but someone can control it."

The master lifted his downcast eyes, glanced at King Wu, and then at Fu Ling.

Fu Ling's lips trembled a little, and she looked at her master as if asking for help.

The villain master complained first, grabbed Dafu immediately, and said: "Your Majesty, this man is an evil spirit. He works with these crows, attracts evil spirits into the palace, and tries to harm the real dragon!"

Dafu shouted: "No, Your Majesty, I can not only attract crows!! I can also befriend pigs..."

The master didn't give Dafu a chance to speak, so he shook off the floating dust and said, "Monster, how dare you argue!"

The King of Wu shouted: "Father, I would like to guarantee my son's life. This is not evil. Those crows were man-made when King Yue was born!"

emperor:"!!!"

Poria: "!!!"

Master: "!!!"

Duan Shiyu: "!!!"

Everyone in the Hall of Mental Cultivation seemed to be stunned by King Wu's words, and their faces were full of fear.After a while, they looked different again.

Duan Shiyu didn't expect that he would be involved in this matter, so he raised his head with an innocent face.Everyone in the hall looked at him, he tilted his head, continued to play dumb, and asked, "What do you mean?"

King Wu sighed, looking at Duan Shiyu like Zhuge Liang looking at a muddy man who can't support the wall, he said anxiously: "Back then, someone deliberately framed the king of Yue, so there was such an ominous scene of the birth of a crow. Royal Father!"

The queen, who had been silent all this time, said: "I have neglected this matter. I am in charge of the harem, so I failed to investigate this matter clearly."

When they spoke to you and to me, the more the emperor listened, the more impatient he became.

Prince Qi made another stab, and said, "Brother, how can there be so many evil spirits in this world? If there were to be, those executioners would have been chopped into fish soup by ghosts long ago, oh no, it's human slice soup." .”

You can say anything, but Prince Qi's words completely negate the emperor's belief.The emperor's face sank, and he was about to explode.The empress dowager sighed, and said, "Son, mother has lived for such a long time, and she has seen through it all. How can there be any gods or ghosts in this world? Aren't those ghosts all created by people's hearts?"

The empress dowager's words punctuated the emperor's most feared thing.The emperor is afraid of death, afraid that after death, he will no longer be an emperor or a real dragon in that world.He wiped his face, his whole body collapsed, the dog put his arms around his back.

At this time, another imperial guard entered the hall and said: "Report to Your Majesty, a bone was dug up in the Hall of Mental Cultivation."

As soon as these words came out, the atmosphere in Wangyou Hall became extremely quiet.

Fu Ling's face was tense, like a statue.The Empress and King Wu were secretly happy, and they wanted to laugh, but they were afraid of being seen, and their expressions were very strange.Only the high-ranking emperor had a dark face, glared at Fu Ling, and asked, "What have you done!!!"

Fu Ling's lips trembled, even if it was so, she still argued: "Your Majesty has learned a lesson!! Someone must be trying to frame my concubine!!"

The prince nodded: "Yes, yes!"

King Wu snorted coldly and shouted: "20 years ago, when King Yue was born, a maid happened to be lost in Zhaoyi Palace of Concubine Jin. The maid had a gold bracelet given to her by Concubine Jin. Is there a gold bracelet on the bone? !!"

"Yes." The Imperial Guard nodded, and handed the gold bracelet to the permanent attendant Kutuo.Ku Tuo walked to the emperor with the gold bracelet in his hand, and put the gold bracelet on the imperial case.

Seeing that the time had come, King Wu cupped his fists and shouted: "Father, why don't you call Concubine Jin and let her recognize you!!"

"You are enough!" The emperor slapped the imperial case again, and cursed: "You dare to investigate your father's affairs! What do you want to do!"

The king of Wu didn't change his face, and said: "I just want to give brother Yue a justice!"

Duan Shiyu still had a puzzled look on his face, revealing his gratitude to King Wu in his doubts.

The king of Wu was aggressive, and the empress dowager was backing Lord Qi here. The emperor could no longer favor Fu Ling, so he waved his hand feebly and asked the permanent attendant Ku Tuo to call Man Jin.

After a while, Man Jin arrived at the Palace of Wangyou.

The emperor pushed the gold bracelet forward, gave Man Jin a stern look, and said, "Come here and have a look, do you recognize this bracelet?"

Manjin Shi suddenly approached, and Kutuo walked over holding the gold bracelet.Man Jin glanced at the gold bracelet, her breath became stagnant, and her eyes immediately filled with tears.

The emperor frowned and looked at Fu Ling.Fu Ling licked her lips, and said to Man Jin: "Sister, I will enter the palace with you, we are like brothers..."

Man Jin quickly wiped away her tears and said, "The bracelet is so delicate."

The emperor snorted, knocked on the table, and said, "It's not for you to see if it looks good, but for you to see if you recognize it."

Man Jin shook her head and said, "I have never seen such an exquisite bracelet before."

"Ah??" King Wu was momentarily stunned.

The crown prince was overjoyed, and quickly bit Wu Wang back, shouting: "Wu Wang, what do you mean!! You clearly want to frame me and my concubine mother!"

King Wu replied: "The man was called by Uncle Qi. The corpse was dug out in your Hall of Mental Cultivation. What has it to do with me? I'm just discussing the matter!!"

The prince said: "You just look at me as a prince and are not convinced, you want to frame me and my concubine!! That's it, father~~~~"

"Shut up!" The emperor glanced at the women and children in the Hall of Mental Cultivation, and cursed: "Shut up all of them!! Shut up!!!"

The prince puffed his mouth angrily, and stared at each other with King Wu.

The emperor looked at Man Jin who was in a daze, and knew that she was protecting Fu Ling again.The more this was the case, the more depressed the emperor felt, he kicked over the imperial case and cursed: "Get out!!"

The Empress Dowager tapped the ground with her cane, and said, "Son, you are so violent, be careful not to hurt yourself."

"Take her!" The emperor seemed not to have heard what the empress dowager said, pointing at Fu Ling, and reprimanded: "Put her under house arrest!"

Fuling stopped entanglement, looked at Manjin, lowered her head, tears fell on the ground.

"Hurry up and get out!" The emperor roared, and everyone ran out in a hurry.

The emperor slowed down, sat down, and supported his forehead.The belief supporting the supreme emperor was crumbling. At this moment, he seemed to have been drained of all the strength in his body, and he was as decadent as an ordinary old man.

The empress dowager groped, grabbed the emperor's hand, sighed, and said distressedly: "Mother knows, being an emperor is not easy."

"Mother~" The emperor, who was over half a hundred years old, actually choked up: "I don't want to be scolded by future generations, scolded for being a stupid king, but I don't want to...don't want to die."

Prince Qi said: "Brother Huang, life and death are fate..."

The emperor heard that Prince Qi was still there, turned his head, gritted his teeth and asked, "Why don't you leave?"

"I……"

"Go!" roared the emperor.

Prince Qi sighed, and walked out of the Palace of Wangyou with a disheveled face.

The empress dowager put her arms around the emperor, patted him on the shoulder, and said: "Your brother is right, life and death are fate, but good or bad depends on people's hearts. I want to be an immortal immortal who is scolded by future generations. Do you just point at your back and scold, or do you want to be a good emperor that future generations will praise when they mention it?"

"Son..." The emperor touched his tears, sighed deeply, and didn't say what was in his heart.