"Your Majesty, the maid Zijuan in my concubine's palace hanged herself. Before she died, she was holding the blood jade ring of the third elder brother in her hand. Please take a look at it!" The emperor just sat down, and the queen presented the jade ring, a little angry.

The endowment.【 】

"Third brother, did you kill your maid?" The emperor held the jade ring and asked in a deep voice after a moment.

"She committed suicide. The servants in my concubine's palace saw the third prince's frivolous Zijuan yesterday. I thought, she must have been so ashamed and angry that she hanged herself!" When the queen said this, she couldn't help but glance at Wei Ning'er, and then

Said: "Your Majesty, although Zicuckoo is just a palace maid, she is also a living person. However, she was forced to die. Why should the Emperor make the decision?"

"As a queen, it is your duty to manage the harem. You make up your mind!" The emperor had been annoyed due to repeated harassment by people from the Rakshasa Kingdom on the border in recent days. He had just announced that Fu Heng and other military aircraft

The ministers discussed it, but it turned out that the queen sent someone to Le'an to report the important matter, so he rushed over. When he learned that this was the situation, he couldn't help but feel a little angry.

Seeing the anger flashing on the emperor's face, the queen was frightened, and then winked at Mu Yun. Mu Yun stepped forward and knelt in front of the emperor and said loudly: "Your Majesty, just now the old lady gave Zijuan a test."

The body of Zicuckoo is no longer perfect."

When the emperor heard this, the anger on his face immediately turned into rage. It didn't matter if a palace maid died, but this palace maid was no longer perfect. Wouldn't it tell everyone that someone was messing with the harem?

It should be noted that the three thousand beauties in the harem, whether they are concubines or maids, are all the emperor's women. No one can touch them except the emperor. The maids serving beside the elder brothers are naturally a different matter. This is also the emperor's tacit approval, but this purple

Juan is not the kind of person who waits around the third elder brother.

The emperor looked at the blood jade ring in his hand, veins popped out on his forehead, and shouted to Wu Shulai beside him: "Brother Xuan San, come here!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Wu Shulai also knew that there was a big fuss at this time and immediately sent his servants.

Wei Ning'er's face gradually showed a touch of solemnity. When the third elder brother begged her this morning, he was very sincere. When he talked about Zijuan, his eyes were full of uncontrollable love. Since the third elder brother wanted to marry Zijuan,

Xi Fujin should not ruin her innocence. After all, this is a taboo in the palace.

At this time, the third elder brother had already learned the news of Zijuan's death from Xiao Yizi. Before he could recover, he was invited to Yimengxuan by people sent by the emperor.

"My son, I would like to send my regards to the emperor's mother, and to the emperor's mother, good luck to you all!" The third elder brother almost stiffened his body to pay his regards to everyone.

Wei Ning'er looked at his devastated look and was filled with worry, but she couldn't remind him in front of everyone.

The emperor threw the blood jade ring finger in front of the third elder brother and said in a deep voice: "I have been worried about state affairs these days. You are the eldest among all the elder brothers. You don't know how to share my worries, but instead do such ugly things."

The emperor's anger made Third Prince come to his senses. He raised his head and said with sorrow in his eyes: "Emperor Ama, Zijuan is really dead?"

When the emperor heard this, he was almost so angry that he turned his back. He took a few deep breaths before saying: "Damn son, you fell in love with a palace maid and told the queen that she wanted to go there. However, you actually caused death and messed up the harem. I

Today..." The emperor seemed to be angry and felt dizzy at this point.

"Your Majesty..." Everyone was shocked.

The third elder brother was stunned by the emperor's words. Not only did his Zicuckoo lose her life, but she was also ruined.

"Zicuckoo...Zicuckoo..." The third brother chanted Zicuckoo's name in despair, and scenes of them being together kept popping up in his mind. That delicate, lovely, kind and beautiful woman was just gone. The death was so miserable that for a moment, the third elder brother felt heartbroken and his whole body began to twitch.

"Yongzhang!" Wei Ning'er, who had been worried about Third Elder Brother, noticed something unusual about him.

"Why are you standing there in such a daze? Why don't you hurry up and call the imperial physician!" Looking at Yongzhang who was pale and twitching all over, Wei Ning'er ordered the servants around her.

The emperor seemed not to have expected this. Seeing his son in such pain, he was shocked. He calmed down and took a step forward. He saw the third elder brother coughing violently several times and blood overflowing from the corner of his mouth.

"Yongzhang, don't worry!" Wei Ning'er wanted to squat down to persuade him, but her body was too heavy and she could only stand.

"Hurry and help Third Brother up!" the emperor shouted to the servants around him.

"Yes!" Wu Shulai immediately helped the third elder brother, asked the guards to carry him on his back, and went outside Yimengxuan.

The queen just wanted the emperor to punish the third elder brother, but she never thought that such a thing would happen. She felt a little guilty in her heart. She looked at the emperor who was about to leave, and was about to say something, but the emperor

He turned back and stared at the queen, his eyes full of coldness: "Earlier, many maids died in the palace. Why didn't I see the queen making decisions for them? Today, because of a maid in your palace, there was a lot of trouble. Are you satisfied? ?”

"Your Majesty, I am just..."

"That's enough, I don't want to hear your sophistry!" The emperor yelled, then gave her a fierce look and walked away.

The queen looked at the emperor's back and was stunned. After a while, she came back to her senses and said to Mu Yun beside her: "There can be no surprises in this matter!"

"Yes, I know this!" Mu Yun's eyes were full of solemnity, and he immediately went down to make arrangements.

In the evening, when the emperor arrived at Zuixin Garden, Wei Ning'er was finishing her meal with Yongxuan and the others. Seeing the emperor's arrival, she asked the maids to wait on her while she and the emperor went to the inner hall.

"Your Majesty, Yongzhang has woken up. The imperial doctor said that he was mentally injured and needs to rest. He is afraid that he will leave the root of the disease in the future!" Wei Ning'er looked at the emperor and said with some sadness.

"I know, I just went to see him!" The emperor's eyes were full of disappointment and heartache.

"Your Majesty, I would like to say something disrespectful. Yongzhang has also suffered very hard these years. As a prince, he is not qualified to inherit the throne. His mother-in-law passed away last month. The repeated blows made him even more depressed. , but Zijuan comforted Yongzhang when he was unbearable. It is human nature for Yongzhang to like her. What's more, the emperor knows very well about Yongzhang's character. He has a good character and will never do such dirty things. Regarding the chaos in the harem, he begged his concubines to intercede with the Emperor early this morning to give him Zicuckoo as his side wife. How could he do such a thing to harm Zicuckoo if he valued and loved Zicuckoo so much? Her?" Wei Ning'er knew in her heart that the Queen must have been behind this matter.

Wei Ning'er saw the emperor's brows furrowed and said, "The emperor has been worried about state affairs recently. I shouldn't have said these things to disturb the emperor's mind, but... I promised sister Chun to take care of Yongzhang and the others for him. Sister Chun's body is not cold now, Yongzhang The illness is so serious, I can’t bear it.” When Wei Ning’er said this, she couldn’t help but feel sad.

"I don't believe that Yongzhang would do such a thing. This child has very good character. Otherwise, I would not have adopted Yongrong to the emperor's uncle as his descendant and kept Yongzhang in the palace. I really shouldn't have treated him like that in the first place.

When he and Yonghuang passed away,

They are just children, I was too harsh on them!" The emperor felt very regretful. At the funeral of Empress Xiaoxian, he reprimanded the eldest brother and the third brother because they were not sad enough, and deprived them of the qualification to inherit the throne.

From then on, the emperor noticed that the two children had gradually changed. The eldest brother was depressed and the emperor was deeply saddened. If the third brother had any good luck again, he would not be able to rest at ease.

"Your Majesty!" Wei Ning'er felt even worse when she saw the Emperor was so sad.

"We'll wait until Yongzhang gets better!" Seeing the children and the concubines who were waiting for him passing away one by one, the emperor couldn't help but feel sad.

"Yeah!" Seeing that the emperor had forgiven Yong Zhang, Wei Ning'er said no more.

Early the next morning, the Queen Mother came from Changchun Garden. She first visited the third elder brother, and then announced all the concubines in the harem to the Queen's Yimengxuan.

"You have caused such a big thing because of a palace maid. If anything happens to the grandson of the Ai family, the Ai family will never let you off lightly!" The queen mother looked at the queen, her eyes full of anger, and there was a hint of anger.

disappointment.

"Emperor's mother..." The queen did not expect that the queen mother would scold her, her eyes were full of disbelief.

"Empress Dowager, it was the third elder brother who made a mistake on his own and it has nothing to do with the Queen Mother. Please be more careful, Queen Mother!" Concubine Ying stepped forward and said respectfully.

"Reporting to the Queen Mother, the maid next to the Queen Mother met the third brother and Zicuckoo the day before yesterday. Early yesterday morning, Zicuckoo committed suicide. This is too strange. The third brother also told me yesterday morning that he wanted to

Marrying Zijuan as a sidekick, if that's the case, why did Zijuan hang herself?" Wei Ning'er said with a slight blessing.

"Zicuckoo's innocence was ruined by the third elder brother. It is inevitable to be embarrassed and angry for a while!" The queen glanced at Wei Ning'er, then looked at the Queen Mother and said respectfully.

"Your Majesty, what you said is wrong. Third Brother has never done anything like that. I suspect that someone did it on purpose!" Wei Ning'er said coldly.

"There is no proof, please be careful what you say!" the queen shouted.

Wei Ning'er saw that the Queen was a little out of control, and the coldness on her face became even deeper. People in this room knew that the Queen Mother belonged to the Queen's aunt. She and the green hair beside the Queen Mother were the only ones. Others could not see clearly, but they could clearly see that the Queen was relying on her

He was so arrogant because of the support of the Queen Mother.

"To report to the Queen Mother, I saw two deep strangulation marks on Zicuckoo's neck yesterday. I once read a miscellaneous book. If a person is strangled and then hanged on the beam, there will be wounds on the neck.

There were two marks of strangulation, and I suspected that Zicuckoo was killed and hung from the beam!" Lu Yunxi took a deep breath and said.

"That's nonsense. Cheating the Queen Mother is a capital crime!" the Queen said coldly.

"Yes or no, just ask someone from the Ministry of Punishment to enter the palace and ask!" Lu Yunxi met the queen's cold eyes, without a trace of fear in them.

"To report to the Queen Mother, I also saw it. There are indeed two deep strangulation marks. If she hanged herself, there should only be one. Is it possible that she hanged herself twice?" Concubine Shu said incredulously.

"My concubine also saw it!" Concubine Yu also echoed.

"Where are you? Who else has seen it?" the Queen Mother asked in a deep voice.
Chapter completed!