As soon as Concubine Lian finished speaking, the guards behind her pressed out a man in black from the study. The man in black looked at the queen and shouted loudly, "Your Majesty, help me!"
"who are you?"
Feng Lingyu never expected that there was a person treasured in her bedroom. She didn't know when this person came in. She felt that she might have been trapped.
Could it be that the Queen Mother and them have always been in the same group, and the reason she spoke like that before was to let herself relax her vigilance, and then give these two people a chance to join forces to bring down her.
"Everyone has taken the stolen goods. If the Queen wants to say anything else, just go to the Emperor and tell them. Someone will come and take the Queen away!"
Concubine Lian gave the order and several guards ran over and surrounded the queen. When Xiangkui saw this, she was frightened and hurriedly defended her mistress, "Concubine Lian, you must be mistaken. Our concubine has always been
I have never had any dealings with assassins, and I don’t know who this person is? Please let my mother-in-law go!"
"Let your mother-in-law go, but you should keep telling the emperor about this! The two of us just followed the order of the Queen Mother, let's go!"
Concubine Lian curled her lips and kicked away the girl kneeling next to her.
"Sunflower, you don't have to beg her when you get up! This matter has nothing to do with us in the first place, there is nothing to be afraid of!"
The expression on Feng Lingyu's face didn't change much. Since the trap had been set and she had gotten in, she had no choice but to admit defeat.
I don't know if the emperor can believe her. If the emperor doesn't believe her, then he has really become a joke.
Baili Qingchen was reviewing the memorial all night, thinking that he could quickly deal with these matters so that he could go to her, but he heard the news of the Queen Mother's assassination and hurried to the Queen Mother's palace.
"Your Majesty, you are finally here!"
"How is the Queen Mother?"
"The Queen Mother is seriously injured, the assassin has escaped, and Concubine Lian has taken the guards to arrest him!"
The little servant next to the Queen Mother saw him coming and hurriedly knelt on the ground. Baili Qingchen ran in and checked the Queen Mother's injury first. When she saw the Queen Mother lying on the hospital bed almost dying, her heart trembled.
The old queen mother cannot die yet, but now that she is seriously injured, the Wang family will not let it go.
At this time, there were sounds of footsteps outside, and Concubine Lian and Concubine Shu brought Feng Lingyu in.
"Your Majesty, the assassin has been found!"
Baili Qingchen's eyes were fixed on that figure, and she suddenly understood everything. Feng Lingyu was now speechless and didn't know what to say.
"What's going on?" Baili Qingchen sat on a chair and looked at the three of them coldly, feeling very distressed in her heart. Feng Lingyu had been wronged for so many years, and he had never been able to protect her properly.
"Back to the emperor, I have already investigated. The assassin was the subordinate before the general was released. He has confessed. All this was ordered by the queen.
The Queen Mother sent him to assassinate the Queen Mother, and the next target is you, the Emperor!"
Concubine Lian knelt on one knee and raised her head slightly to look at the man in front of her. She saw that his cold face was covered with frost and his eyes were getting more and more terrifying. She lowered her head subconsciously, not daring to look directly at him.
Look into his eyes.
"Your Majesty, that assassin is the deputy general who escaped before, Xu Kui!"
Concubine Shu came over, leaned over slightly, and said calmly, "Xu Kui was the most capable lieutenant around General Feng back then. After General Feng passed away, this man disappeared from the world. Today he appeared in the palace again, and he was there again."
If you hurt the Queen Mother, someone must be helping you!"
"This matter has nothing to do with me. I don't know Xu Kui at all, and I don't know if he is my father's subordinate. Even if he is, why did they kill the Queen Mother?"
Feng Lingyu naturally wanted to defend herself. As the saying goes, there is no need to accuse someone, but what Feng Lingyu said at this moment seemed pale and weak.
"Xu Kui is the most powerful general around your father. Don't you know this? Does the Queen say this on purpose?"
Concubine Lian's tone was aggressive, and she had already concluded that this person must be Feng Lingyu who was coming to assassinate the Queen Mother.
"I think you must be overthinking it. If I knew that this person was my father's subordinate, I wouldn't have let him assassinate the Queen Mother. I can't afford this risk!"
Feng Lingyu's tone was still calm. As the saying goes, if you want to inflict a crime, there is nothing you can do. In this case, everything she said was in vain.
Concubine Lian sneered, "The Queen is really good at telling jokes. Xu Kui is a retainer of your Feng family and is very loyal to General Feng. He was able to sneak into the palace and find the Queen Mother's residence. Is it all a coincidence?"
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"This is not a difficult matter. Maybe someone brought him in. Why should I hurt the Queen Mother?"
"Just because you have always been worried about my father and the matter of reporting your father back then!
So if you want to kill the Queen Mother, your next target may be me or my father!
Your Majesty, you must make the decision for me on this matter!"
Concubine Lian's purpose this time was very simple, which was to remove the Queen Mother from her position, so she did not hesitate to injure the Queen Mother. All this was not worthy of being delicate and flawless.
"Your Majesty, it is really vicious to have so many empresses. Xu Kui has caused so much harm to the Queen Mother. Your Majesty must make the decision for the Queen Mother!"
Concubine Shu also knelt on the ground, and the two of them sang in harmony.
"Is there anything else you want to explain, Queen?"
Baili Qingchen looked at that figure, her eyes full of pity. At this time, all the evidence pointed to her, and she couldn't be partial to her.
"There is nothing to explain. This matter has nothing to do with me. I don't know Xu Kui at all, even if he was once a retainer of our Feng family and he really committed suicide.
The Queen Mother has nothing to do with me, and I have never supported him!
Please also ask Your Majesty to clearly understand that this matter is clearly framed by someone deliberately!"
Feng Lingyu was slightly blessed, and there was no wave in her eyes. If these people really wanted to kill her, no matter what reaction she made, it would be wrong.
She didn't want the emperor to be caught in the middle. In fact, Baili Qingchen was the most difficult person to deal with.
"Your Majesty... everyone will get the stolen goods. If your Majesty doesn't believe it, you can bring Xu Kui in to interrogate him personally!"
Concubine Shu seemed to be confident, and then she asked someone to bring the man in black in.
Xu Kui knelt on the ground under the suppression of the two guards and glared angrily at Baili Qingchen, "You, the dog emperor, killed our general indiscriminately. You all deserve to die!"
"Who sent you here?" Baili Qingchen asked in a cold tone without caring about his insult at all.
"No one asked me to do it. I have to do whatever I want. After 18 years, I am a good man again!"