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Qiuli stumbled and ran into the hall, the pearl hairpins on her head were messed up, her face was white with fright, when everyone looked at her, she realized that her appearance was really unseemly, and she saw that she was sitting there Lu Jincheng who was beside the queen mother was even more anxious to cry.

But at this time, she couldn't control so much anymore, she walked quickly to the Empress Dowager, and knelt down with a plop.

"Empress Dowager, save my young lady."

The Empress Dowager's complexion changed when she heard this, Guan Qiu took a step forward and scolded: "What's wrong with being so noisy, come here, first please ladies go to the side hall for a seat."

Seeing this battle, everyone is curious about what happened, but Guan Qiu has already sent a message. The will of the Queen Mother is the will of the Queen Mother. Even if these daughters have a hundred courage, they dare not stay here to listen to others The corner, so he obediently listened to Guan Qiu's orders, and prepared to go to the side hall to wait.

In the absence of Wen Wanjun, Su Ruotang seemed to have become the leader of all the daughters, and followed the eunuch to the front. When passing by Lu Jincheng, he gave Lu Jincheng a shy look, and then followed.

Guan Qiuping retreated to the left and right, except for the Queen Mother and Lu Jincheng, there was no one else in the hall, so he walked up to Qiuli and asked, "Speak up, what's wrong with your lady?"

Hearing this, Lu Jincheng sat up straight, looked at Qiuli and asked with a smile on his face, "Don't worry, just tell me."

In fact, Qiuli couldn't figure it out herself. Seeing Lu Jincheng's gentle tone, she seemed to have found the backbone in an instant, and said cryingly: "Miss drank some fruit wine, maybe she got dizzy from drinking, somehow... Cui Xuan has gone."

Long Cui Xuan is the imperial concubine Xuan's palace, not far from Ming Cui Palace, but there are eunuchs and maids guarding outside the palace, how did Wen Wanjun break in?

The queen mother was relieved when she heard the words, as long as she didn't break into Guangyu Palace, Concubine Xuan's place would not be particularly troublesome.

Lu Jincheng raised his eyebrows when he heard the words: "She got dizzy from drinking, and you got dizzy from drinking too? I don't know where to go, and where not to go?"

Qiuli's face was terrified, and she repeatedly defended herself when she heard the words: "My lord, calm down, the lady and I were sitting in the corridor outside Mingcui Palace, a little eunuch came up and said a few words to the lady, and the lady said Let me wait where I am, and come as soon as I say I go by myself. Me, I didn't follow..."

The queen mother was furious when she heard the words, and scolded: "Your lady is alone in the harem, and you let her walk around alone! What! Do you think this palace is the back garden of your Wenfu?"

Qiu Li trembled in fright, grabbed the ground with her head again and again, kowtowed her head several times, and said: "The empress dowager, calm down, the empress dowager, calm down."

When Lu Jincheng heard the words, he asked with great interest: "I'm a little interested in this little eunuch who said a few words to your lady. Could it be that I've known your lady for a long time?"

Wen Wanjun, a boudoir lady, if she knows the eunuch in the palace, then this matter can be big or small, it depends on how she explains it.

After all, Qiuli is not very old, and she is by the side of a boudoir lady like Wen Wanjun. She is a little clever, but she is not reliable enough in her work. She wants to get someone to save her lady as soon as possible, and also wants to get rid of her relationship She didn't want to be punished, so she couldn't make up any lies, so she had to tell the truth, but she didn't even know how the little eunuch knew her lady, what she said to her lady, and why she let her lady follow her gone.

Seeing her trembling with fear, Lu Jincheng didn't keep asking this question, but the queen mother changed her face when she heard the words, she didn't know what she thought of, and said, "What are you doing here? Concubine Xuan just confessed her crime, is this worth your crying and screaming? It's simply inappropriate!"

Qiuli hesitated to speak, but Lu Jincheng smiled and said, "Queen, I think she still has something to say."

"Go on, what happened after your lady left with someone?"

Lu Jincheng's attitude was so different from before and after, the queen mother couldn't see the clues, her intuition was wrong, but it was too late to stop it.

Qiuli sobbed and said: "I waited for a while and felt that something was wrong, so I followed the direction the young lady was walking. Before I reached Longcuixuan, I heard a commotion inside, saying that the concubine Xuan was furious and had already placed the order. Miss my family."

The Empress Dowager's eyes darkened, and she already noticed something was wrong.

After all, Wen Wanjun is the daughter of the Wen family, even if she trespasses on Concubine Xuan's Long Cuixuan, she will never make Concubine Xuan angry, unless she did other things she shouldn't do after trespassing on Concubine Xuan's Long Cuixuan.

As soon as the Empress Dowager thought this idea came to her mind, Qiu Li went on to say: "I heard from the maid who came out of Long Cui Xuan that my young lady accidentally broke into Long Cui Xuan, and somehow she was still lying on the bed of Concubine Xuan. Concubine Xuan The empress didn't check, and today the emperor flipped the sign again, Miss, she... just stabbed him in front of the emperor."

The blood on the Empress Dowager's face faded away, she staggered a bit, and was quickly supported by Guan Qiu.

Qiu Li hadn't realized how difficult this matter was before, but now she was startled when she saw the Queen Mother's face after speaking, she kowtowed several times, and kept begging the Queen Mother to save her young lady's life.

Lu Jincheng's expression remained the same, but his tone became a lot more serious, and he said, "It might be too late for you to turn your head to beg Brother Huang now, your young lady's deeds can be big or small, if you put it in a small way, she is the charmer In fact, her heart is not pure. On a bigger scale, she rushed into Long Cuixuan rashly and intended to get close to Brother Huang, but she could be beaten to death as an assassin."

"Concubine Xuan put her in custody, maybe she saved her life."

Lu Jincheng's words made Qiu Li's legs go limp, and she couldn't kneel anymore. She threw herself forward and was about to fall in front of Lu Jincheng, and shouted loudly, "Help me, Lord Yan, help me, Lord Yan!" ah."

She went to the palace with her young lady to have a banquet, if something wrong happened to her young lady here, not only herself, her parents and brothers would be finished.

Lu Jincheng retracted his legs, and did not let Qiuli pounce on her like this, and said expressionlessly: "I said, now no one can save your lady except Brother Huang, you still have time to get up and rush over now." If the time is a little later, Brother Huang will probably come to Mingcui Palace in person."

As soon as he finished speaking, as if he had guessed what the emperor was thinking, there was a sudden commotion outside Mingcui Palace, and the eunuch sang loudly: "The emperor is here——"

Before the queen mother could react, the emperor in a bright yellow dragon robe had already stepped through the door of Mingcui Palace and walked in with an angry face.

The daughters of the side hall still don't know what happened. When they heard that the emperor was coming, they all came out of the side hall and knelt down in a crowd.

The emperor came out more and more, without looking at the delicate beauties on the ground, he walked up to Qiuli who was kneeling down and scolded: "Come on, take this maid out together!"

Qiuli's misfortune fell from the sky, and she was so frightened that she quickly crawled a few steps towards the Empress Dowager, her head was almost at the Empress Dowager's feet, and she shouted, "Help, Empress Dowager."

The emperor seemed to have just seen the queen mother, so he eased the expression on his face and said, "Mother queen."

The queen mother squeezed Guanqiu's hand hard, looked at the emperor and said, "What's wrong with the emperor? Why is he so aggressive in front of Ai's family?"

A beautiful voice came from behind the emperor, and the visitor came dressed in a water-red dress, embroidered with large peonies, elegant and luxurious, and his appearance was astonishing.

It is the owner of Long Cuixuan, Concubine Xuan.

Concubine Xuan first saluted the Empress Dowager, Lu Jincheng, and then said: "The Empress Dowager does not know that a female assassin entered the concubine's palace today, and I heard from the maid in the palace that this female assassin has accomplices. I beg the emperor to come and arrest her together."

Qiuli was in a catastrophe, and probably knew that if he didn't defend himself, his life would be lost, so the fear in his heart turned into a bit of courage, and he bowed his head at the emperor and said: "Your Majesty is bold, please be careful, my family Miss is the daughter of Wen Chuo, Minister of the Household Department, and she is here for a banquet in the palace, she is definitely not an assassin."

Concubine Xuan raised her eyebrows, and she slammed her eyes on Qiu Li's face like a knife, and said: "I know a thing or two about the banquet of the empress dowager's family. Today, many ladies in Hanyang City were invited to the banquet, but you said that the assassin was one of the ministers of the household department." What evidence does she have?"

After all, Qiuli is young, how can she fight against a concubine Xuan who has turned into a fox, who shakes everything that others want her to say in three or five strokes.

"My lady has a piece of emerald jade around her waist. The master specially begged the Bodhisattva to keep her safe after consecrating it. I beg the emperor to send someone to the Wenfu to find out. Besides, the queen mother must know my lady. I beg the queen mother Your Majesty will verify the identity of my young lady, my young lady is by no means an assassin."

The emperor's eyes turned from Qiuli to the queen mother, and finally looked at Lu Jincheng. After Lu Jincheng called the emperor's brother, he moved his eyes away again, and put his eyes on the queen mother again.

"Queen, so you know this assassin?"

The queen mother seemed to have aged several years in an instant, how could she not know what was going on, let go of Guanqiu's hand, stood in front of the emperor and said: "The emperor should stop joking, where is the palace?" An assassin. It’s just a child who has gone to the wrong place, and the emperor really wants to argue with her.”

Concubine Xuan had a very respectful smile on her face, but said in words: "Empress Dowager, if this assassin is really as you said, he is a daughter of the Minister's Mansion, why is he lying on the bed of my concubine in disheveled clothes? And when the emperor was selected to come to the palace, if the emperor didn't trust me, I'm afraid that even Long Cuixuan would have to be murdered by this assassin."

As soon as Concubine Xuan's words came out, there was an uproar in everyone's ears. For a while, even if the atmosphere was like this, it couldn't stop everyone from whispering.

Everyone didn't care how Wen Wanjun sneaked into Concubine Xuan's Palace under the eyes of everyone, they only heard what they wanted to hear, what could be more explosive than Shangshu's Qianjin Envoy trying to charm the emperor.

The queen mother's face turned pale, as if she was the one who was ridiculed by Concubine Xuan. After a while, she looked at the emperor and said, "In this case, it is even more impossible to be an assassin. Since the emperor is suspicious, he called Wen Chuo to ask. I know. That kid must have admired the emperor to do such an outrageous thing."

The emperor pursed his lips and smiled, and said thoughtfully: "What the queen mother said is quite reasonable. Someone is here to ask someone to invite Wen Shangshu. I want to know what he means by this precious daughter."