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At this moment, Yuan quietly withdrew. Lanting knocked on the door, and Song Xian helped Yu Ya who was kneeling in front of him looking miserable and flustered, "Come in."

Lan Ting bowed in, glanced at Yu Ya and Wenyue who turned their backs to him and wiped their tears, and then at Song Xian's expression. Under the signal of his wink, he said: "I just got the news, Zhaoyang Palace Aunt Sui'er is gone."

Song Xian's eyes flashed, and then he returned to his usual appearance.Yu Ya was completely defeated by this news, and she suddenly went limp.

"Ya'er, haven't you told me the truth yet?" Song Xian's tone was justly distressed, "What's the use of you hiding it from me? The subordinates support it? Just now, the Zhaoyang Palace was all focused on Sui'er's life and death, now that everyone is gone, can't he spare a hand to conduct a thorough investigation?"

Song Xian's words fell on Yu Ya's heart word by word like a heavy hammer. She looked at Song Xian in a daze, and suddenly threw herself into his arms, "My lord... My lord, I was confused for a while, I ...My lord, my lord won't ignore Ya'er, right!"

"And...and Ya'er did it cleanly, the emperor, the imperial concubine will not have evidence... Let Hongzhen die, let her die... No matter how Sui'er is, she is just a slave... Let... let Hong Zhen dies, a prince and side concubine...can't equalize the life and death of a servant?"

Song Xian stroked Yu Ya's tear-soaked temples, and whispered softly, "...how can I ignore Ya'er. Go, clean up, don't move around. I'll go to see Father and Mother " And specifically asked, "This matter is very serious, people around you should pay attention to it, don't leak half a word, especially your father, if he is involved, it is not a matter of the harem gone."

……

"Guan Xing couldn't bear it anymore... What about Qi Zhen?" Xiao Lingming sat beside Song Yu, lowering his eyes and asking softly.The rouge and modai that were dazzled by tears on his face were all washed away, and now he had a naturally gorgeous face, coupled with his excessively pale complexion, it only made people careless to look at his absolute beauty. With a beautiful face, she only felt terrible at first glance.

Song Yu turned the lid of the cup in his hand, "What did Guan Xing say?"

"I only said that I was wronged by the empress, and I didn't know about the fact that Sui'er was... Sui'er outside the palace. As for the side concubine Qi, she is still the side concubine of the prince, so she cannot be punished according to the rules. When asked, she just said nothing." Li Fu paused, "It seems that she really doesn't know..."

Xiao Lingming twitched the corners of his lips without a smile, "Do you think I'm a fool? If the empress is really so temperamental, she would still use it to kill Yu Ya? She shouldn't have killed me ten years ago in Concubine Hui's palace." Yet?!"

"Ming'er!" Song Yu warned as he closed the lid of the cup with a "snap" in his palm.

Xiao Lingming took a deep breath, and suppressed the tears that were about to come out of his eyes, "Sui'er does not wear inner palace clothes outside the palace, but only dresses up as officials and family members. Who has such courage at the feet of the emperor in Pingjing City. Sui'er said those things People call her overstepping... What did she overstep, did she love Song Yun and bring her to Zhaoyang Palace to raise her? I opened the mouth, and she, Yu Ya, pushed her daughter into the water and used the child as a raft!"

"What's the point of her venting her anger?!" Xiao Lingming raised his voice and asked with tears all over his face, almost weeping blood every word, every time he said a word, he felt that his heart was cramping, and he was almost out of breath.

Song Yu was silent, just turning the tea bowl in his hand blindly, he seemed to be preoccupied, his face was deep and unfathomable, suddenly the emperor said coldly, "Since you guess like this, Li Fu, take someone to get Wenyue and let them Take it down for questioning."

Li Fu glanced at the emperor's eyes, and took the order to go to Yu Ya knowingly.

This Yu Yafang saw Song Xian off and went back to her own room. As soon as she sat down, she met Li Fu's bland and lifeless face that seemed terrifying to her at the moment.

She forced a smile on her face, and before she could greet her, Li Fu bowed and said, "By order of the imperial concubine, I'm asking Miss Yue for a question."

Yu Ya's face changed suddenly, but Wenyue gritted her teeth and shook her head with a stiff face, and followed Li Fu calmly.

Wen Yue followed behind Li Fu, she was unavoidably panicked, after all, Li Diaosi's tricks were well-known.She wrung her hands tightly, and when she was in a state of confusion, she heard Li Fu order the little servant next to her, "Remember to do things carefully." Then she withdrew and walked towards the Guanyan Pavilion.

Seeing Wenyue's thin nails digging into her flesh, her heart sank and she made up her mind.

……

When Song Xian stepped into the Guanyan Pavilion, he was met with Xiao Lingming's fury, and he threw the white porcelain half-cut teacup at the head of the little eunuch who was in charge.

Song Yu asked nonchalantly, "Is Wenyue dead? How did you do it? Can't anyone watch?" After he finished speaking, he saw Song Xian who had been summoned into the house, and said without audible emotion. He said, "The third child is here."

Song Xian pursed his lips, lifted his robe and knelt down, kowtowed and confessed: "It's my son's incompetence in governing the government that caused my wife to commit such a horrific act."

"You are really useless." The emperor scoffed.

Xiao Lingming stood beside Emperor Wu, looking at Song Xian who was kowtowing from above, "My wife..." He slowly uttered two words, and then asked, "Which wife?"

Song Xian was silent for a moment, "...the concubine has already confessed to my minister... She felt that she would have no more children, and she hated Sui'er for pushing you to take Awan away to raise him, so she made this foolish plan in a moment of confusion."

"Then how does the prince plan to deal with it?" Xiao Lingming raised his eyebrows, his tone harsh.

When Song Xian heard him call himself prince, he couldn't help angering Yu Ya in his heart, but he didn't show his face, he still straightened his back with unbearable and apologetic, looked up at Xiao Lingming with teary eyes and a cold face, and said apologetically: "My son Minister, son-in-law knows that Sui'er is the close friend of the mother and concubine, but...Yu Ya was born in Dingyuan Hou's mansion after all, and is the son-in-law's official concubine. Please mother and concubine allow her to commit suicide, just call it a sudden illness."

Song Yu watched the relationship between Xiao Lingming and Song Xian like watching a drama, and felt for the first time that he had given birth to a good son just like himself.

— but still raw.

Sure enough, Xiao Lingming snorted, "The lord thinks it's enough to vent the hatred in the palace's heart by making the princess guilty and dying for a servant in such a way?"

Even so, Xiao Lingming still couldn't understand his hatred. For a while, he was so eloquent that he couldn't speak. However, when he quickly calculated the gains and losses in his mind, he had a success and then opened his mouth. The emperor was lazy. Lan Lan raised his hand to block his words, "Li Fu, you go back with Prince Rui, and bring Princess Rui to Chunshuang Residence to quiet her heart."

After hearing this, Xiao Lingming couldn't care less about being mean to Song Xian, and raised his hand to stop him, but was pinned in place by Song Yu's sharp eyes.

After Song Xian retreated, Song Yu turned to Xiao Lingming unhurriedly, meeting the undisguised resentment and grievance in his eyes.

"Ming'er, Yu Ya is Prince Rui's main concubine, the daughter of Marquis Dingyuan, the youngest is confused by your face, and has the evil idea of ​​a clean future, and is willing to kill her to make you smile."

"What about me... I can't see you being so sad, and I am willing to indulge you. Originally, I thought that this matter would end with Concubine Qi. But you have to go down and check with me. Now I want to force the princess to commit suicide because of a slave. I also raised my hand to agree, this is already extraordinarily generous to you."

The tears in Xiao Lingming's eyes fell uncontrollably when the word "servant" came out of Song Yu's mouth in an understatement. He bent down, leaned on Song Yu's lap, looked at Song Yu with his most touching and heartbreaking expression, "...Song Yu... Sui'er is not a slave..."

Song Yu's face seemed to be moved for a moment, but soon, he returned to his usual indifferent appearance, and said coldly: "To Princess Rui, to the courtiers, and to the people of the world, she is a slave. Even if it's your slave on the tip of your heart, it's still a slave." You seemed to find it funny and asked him: "What else do you want? Do you want to kill Yuanhou's family? Why are they troubled?"

"Are they innocent?"

After Xiao Lingming asked back, he suddenly tore off the gentle skin on his face, and those beautiful eyes seemed to be soaked in resentment at the moment, he stood up abruptly, pointed at the door, and said sharply: "No one is here!" Innocent! Only my Sui'er is the most innocent! It was Yu Ya's parents and brothers who raised her up like this, letting her do things like this, there is absolutely no reason for her to live alone to save the family's wealth, not to mention the reason why she has to mourn after death."

The gaze of his eyes was floating in the blank space between him and Song Yu, and he repeated in a murmur, "...No one is innocent."