If the queen's eyes were full of hatred when she saw Xiao Langyan, then when she saw Shen Dingzhu, her eyes burst out with great anger.
He wanted to eat Shen Dingzhu alive, full of hatred.
"Shen Dingzhu, you are such a charming and harmful person, but you still have the nerve to face the saint!" The queen went over and raised her hand to slap Shen Dingzhu.
Xiao Langyan moved slightly, and before he could pass by, Shen Dingzhu raised his fair face.
"Queen, you can hit me, but you can beat me. A concubine's fate is low, and a person's words are light. The deposed prince beats or pinches his concubine. You are his mother, so naturally you are just like him, so I will not resist."
Before the queen's hand fell, the emperor shouted angrily: "That's enough! Queen, I am still sitting here despite my illness. What hatred do you have that you can't bear!"
The queen's face turned pale after being scolded, and she looked at Shen Dingzhu with a resentful look before returning to the emperor in tears.
"Your Majesty, Xiao Langyan and Shen Dingzhu, the adulterers and adulterers, deliberately set up a trap to seduce Xuan Ke and lead him into a trap. Poor Xuan Ke is a pure and innocent child. He did not expect Xiao Langyan's understanding at all. So ruthless and deceived by this femme fatale Shen Dingzhu."
Shen Dingzhu looked weak, with an extremely mocking smile on his lips.
"Empress, what you said really frightens me and I dare not agree with it."
She gently pulled down her collar, exposing all the bruises on her neck: "Your Majesty, Queen, please see clearly, this is when the deposed prince forced his concubine, and she didn't obey, he was so angry that he could only stay. Mark of."
Such a shocking purple color made the emperor squint his eyes, showing a trace of displeasure.
The queen glanced at the emperor out of the corner of her eye and said with a sneer: "My son is dead now. What you say is dead and unproven. What if you, a despicable person like you, deliberately slandered Xuan Ke?"
Shen Dingzhu stared at the queen and said in a delicate and hoarse voice: "Does the empress mean that I led the deposed prince to pinch himself?"
The queen's tone was choked.
Shen Dingzhu was not afraid and met the emperor's probing gaze head on.
"Your Majesty, it is true that the deposed prince wanted to defile and seize the concubine. It is also true that he drugged the concubine and bribed the palace people. Moreover, the deposed prince did it so skillfully. It must not be the first time he has done this. He even got someone from outside the palace. Banned drugs..."
"Lies! Nonsense!" the queen angrily rebuked, then cried to the emperor with tears in her eyes, "Your Majesty, you must make the decision for our Xuan Ke! Shen Dingzhu bullied him to death and can no longer speak. What? I dare to pin charges on him."
The emperor's eyes were even more sinister and unpredictable: "You said that the abandoned prince drugged you? What evidence do you have?"
Those palace officials who took action for Xiao Xuanke would definitely not confess on their own initiative.
However, Shen Dingzhu said: "Your Majesty, the deposed prince gave me the forbidden drug Miaodu. I just learned from the imperial doctor that this obscene and forbidden drug is only available outside the palace."
"You haven't been in good health for a long time recently. There is a medicine that has similar ingredients to Miaodu. Miaodu is expensive and not available to ordinary people. It is usually used in brothels."
"And you only need to send people to the shops to thoroughly investigate who has obtained Miao poison recently, and these people, the emperor happens to know, among them are the deposed prince Xiao Xuanke, and his assistant outside the palace, Miss Fu family, Fu Yunqiu!"
The emperor's eyes widened in surprise, and the queen panicked for a moment, and immediately said: "Come here, drag this bastard who talks nonsense down and beat her hard! Not only did she slander the prince, but she also dared to slander His Majesty."
"Wait a minute." This time, the emperor finally spoke.
He squinted his eyes and stared at Shen Dingzhu: "What else do you know?"
Shen Dingzhu kowtowed: "I also know that the Fu family is good at using some forbidden drugs. Previously, the eldest lady Fu Yunqiu suffered from a strange disease due to misuse of drugs. The emperor will know these things after sending someone to investigate."
"With the Fu family behind it, it will be easy for the deposed prince Xiao Xuanke to get whatever medicine he wants. As long as the emperor is willing to investigate, he will find out that I was drugged by them and jointly humiliated her!"
As Shen Dingzhu spoke, tears rolled down his red and swollen cheeks.
The round tears splashed on the blue brick floor, scrubbing the smooth ground, reflecting the delicate figure of the beauty.
"It's not a pity for me to die, but even if I die, I can't let the traitor succeed. Your Majesty, please investigate thoroughly!" She kowtowed heavily.
The emperor fell into silence for a long time, and the eyes on his old face were gloomy and uncertain.
The queen glanced at the emperor and said hesitantly: "Your Majesty..."
However, the emperor quickly interrupted her and only said to Xiao Langyan and Shen Dingzhu: "Whether you were given banned drugs remains to be investigated thoroughly, but who are you and Prince Ning who killed the deposed prince?"
"Me." Xiao Langyan and Shen Dingzhu confessed in unison.
After the two spoke, they turned to look at each other. Xiao Langyan frowned coldly and looked at her with complicated eyes.
Shen Dingzhu withdrew his gaze, lowered his head first and said: "Your Majesty, I wish I could die to prove my ambition, so when I was struggling, I pricked the lifeline of the deposed prince with a needle."
"When the prince came to save him, the deposed prince had already run out of energy. I didn't really want to kill the deposed prince, but I was too scared when I attacked..."
Xiao Langyan saw the murderous intent bursting out of the emperor's eyes. He cupped his hands and said coldly: "Father, when I left, Shen Dingzhu was completely paralyzed due to the effect of the medicine and could not move."
He opened his clothes, revealing his injured arm, with strong eyebrows, very calm and composed: "Er Chen was fighting with the third brother, and he pressed him with a dagger. Er Chen wanted to protect himself, so he fought back, but he accidentally killed him. .”
The emperor was furious and shouted: "How outrageous!"
He was so excited that he coughed violently, and the eunuch quickly sent him some decoction to strengthen his body.
The emperor drank a little and felt better. He was breathing heavily, his eyes were extremely sinister.
He glanced at Xiao Langyan and Shen Dingzhu: "You two have to plead guilty, but you want to act like a pair of fateful mandarin ducks in front of me?"
"I will thoroughly investigate the matter of banned drugs, and I won't spare Prince Ning's life for the time being! But if what I investigate is different from what you said, Shen Dingzhu, then you can just wait and go to hell together!"
After that, the emperor ordered: "Come here! Take them to the side courtyard of the palace, hold them separately, and keep them under strict supervision. No one is allowed to report!"
Shen Dingzhu was dragged up by the emperor's guards. She turned around in panic and saw Xiao Langyan about to turn to look at her. However, the figure of the guards blocked her view.
After all, he couldn't take a good look at Xiao Langyan again.
The two were taken away separately.
Not long after they left, the queen was unwilling to give in. She stepped forward and cried: "Your Majesty, you took advantage of them so much? The person Xiao Langyan killed was Xuan Ke..."
As soon as she finished speaking, the emperor slapped the queen hard on the face.
"Ah!" The queen screamed and fell to the side, knocking over the thin-necked bronze phoenix incense burner and leaving a bloody mark on her forehead.
The queen was panic-stricken and looked pale. The maids hurriedly gathered around her. The queen looked at the emperor with gloomy eyes tremblingly.
"Your Majesty? Why do you want to beat my concubine?"
The emperor roared and accused: "If you hadn't always protected Xuan Ke, shielded him many times, and allowed him to form cliques for personal gain, would he have made mistakes and even lost his life?!"
"You think I'm sick, but you don't know that you instigated his dictatorship and wanted to take advantage of my serious illness to directly supervise the country. Queen, Queen, I am not in good health, and you have a share of the credit!"
"But don't forget, if I die, my first will is to ask you to be buried with me! You'd better pray that my illness has nothing to do with you, otherwise, once I find out about banned drugs, Really, you and your nine tribes are all waiting for me!"
The queen looked at the emperor in surprise. This man with whom she had been a young couple for more than twenty years was so strange.
She was a majestic queen of a country, but she actually wanted to be buried with the emperor?
