The forest was extremely quiet for a while, and after a while, the crows on the branches flapped their wings and left.
Empress Lu stiffened her face and hissed: "Xiao Yan, cross the river! Demolish the bridge!"
Xiao Yan raised his eyes and said, "When did I cross the bridge with you?"
"you!"
Queen Lu didn't expect him to turn against her so quickly, and her burned face couldn't help but look ferocious.
"You dare not admit it?!"
"You clearly said that as long as I help you take over the Lu family and take over the He family, you will help my son ascend to power. You said you would cooperate with me, and you even used the dead people of the He family to fight against me. I swore an oath!"
"Now that you have gone back on your word, you are not afraid that their wronged souls will be troubled and will fall into hell forever after death, unable to escape..."
He family!
The eyes of the three members of the Song family twitched, and Song Jinxiu, who was locked in the coffin, also suddenly widened his eyes.
Who else could make Empress Lu say this, and exchange the throne for justice, except the He family that was annihilated more than ten years ago.
Xiao Yan is actually from the He family? !
Song Hong was the first to react, and his face instantly turned pale. He just wished he could cover his ears and tear Empress Lu's mouth out.
How could they survive today after hearing such secrets?
Xiao Yan didn't seem to see the expressions of the Song family members, and just muttered lazily: "I promised you, but I didn't promise to let him live to take office. Don't worry, I am a reasonable person. If you, mother and son, do it tonight?" If you die, I will send your son's body to the throne in the future, so that you can get what you want."
"Xiao Yan, you are shameless!" Empress Lu's face twisted: "Aren't you afraid that I will tell His Majesty that you are a member of the He family..."
Xiao Yan smiled: "Then your Majesty must know that the Queen is still alive."
Queen Lu was horrified: "What do you mean?!"
Cang Lang stood aside and said with extra kindness: "The Queen doesn't know yet, because you resented His Majesty for throwing you into the cold palace and giving the death of the fourth prince, and you knew that your affair with Prince Cheng would be exposed and you would not escape death, so tonight He set fire to himself and died in the cold palace."
"There was a wind in the capital at night, and the continuous fire might be able to burn down half of the palace. I think by now all the bones in the cold palace would have been reduced to charcoal..."
After Empress Lu heard this, the half of her intact face was extremely pale, and she stared at Xiao Yan with her eyes wide open and trembling.
"You... you..."
Xiao Yan was too lazy to tell her more, so he only said: "Why did Song Xi and his wife die in the second year of Yonghe?"
Queen Lu's breath suddenly suffocated.
The color of Song Hong's mother and son also disappeared.
Xiao Yan said indifferently: "I don't want to ask you what I said a second time."
Empress Lu trembled: "What do Governor Xiao mean by these words? What does the Song family's affairs have to do with this palace? Moreover, everyone in the capital knows that the Song family's second master and his wife died unexpectedly..."
"Is it an accident? Wasn't it because you were looking for Taizu's relics that my mother found out and killed you?"
Tang Ning's words sent chills all over Queen Lu's body.
The mountains in August are not as hot as before, and the chill in front of the tomb is even more eerie.
Empress Lu didn't even care about the pain on her body and raised her head in shock.
"I don't know what you are talking about. Your mother and I have known each other for a long time, and we have a very close relationship with the Rong family. Your mother and I were also good friends when we were in the boudoir. Later, when Taifu Rong died of illness, he entrusted you to me. Palace, there is a marriage with the Lu family..."
Empress Lu did not dare to show any strange expression, and tried her best to calmly say:
"I don't know who told you what, but I have never heard of any Taizu relics, let alone harmed your parents..."
Halfway through her words, she saw Tang Ning throwing a box towards her.
Empress Lu retreated reflexively, and the box fell on the ground in front of her with a "bang", and then flipped over completely. When a severed hand with a white jade and red rope inside rolled out, it happened to fall on the ground. At her feet.
"Zheng'er!!"
Queen Lu recognized the severed hand instantly.
The white jade Guanyin on the red rope was begged by her personally for the fourth prince. The red rope was also a safety buckle she knitted for him on his seventeenth birthday. The knot was broken once, and the fourth prince even pestered her to re-tie it. Edited.
Empress Lu knelt on the ground holding her severed hand, raised her head and shouted hoarsely: "Song Tangning, you are crazy, how dare you hurt my prince, you lunatic!"
"Whether I'm crazy or not depends entirely on the Queen."
Tang Ning lowered his eyes and said indifferently: "I don't like to listen to your nonsense. Answer my question. If there is half a lie, I don't mind sending your son to you piece by piece."
Empress Lu wanted to curse angrily, saying that she dared, but when she raised her head and met Tang Ning's dark eyes, looking at the tall figure standing next to her, she knew that what she said was true.
They had known about Song Xi and his wife for a long time, and they didn't want to let her and the Song family go when they came to see them tonight.
If she didn't tell the truth, Song Tangning would really torture her son and even make him unable to wish for death.
Empress Lu was trembling all over, and the courage in her heart faded away like a tide. She secretly regretted why she hadn't killed her in the first place. She lay on the ground dejectedly holding the severed hand in her hand.
"I'm telling you, if you spare Zheng'er, he won't know anything..."
"Canglang, go chop off the fourth prince's leg!"
After Tangning finished speaking, Canglang turned around and left.
Empress Lu no longer cared about the terms, she even knelt down and took a few steps forward and hissed: "Don't go, don't go, don't make a move, I say, I will say anything!!"
Cang Lang stopped, and Tang Ning only looked at her condescendingly.
Empress Lu swallowed her saliva as she looked at the gazes of several people: "Where did you learn about Taizu's relics?"
Tang Ning's eyes turned cold.
Empress Lu quickly did not dare to ask any more questions and only whispered:
"Even the late emperor was kept in the dark about what Taizu left to Prince Ru. The late emperor later found out it was too late. After Prince Ru died, he searched the East Palace but couldn't find it."
"Rong Qian'an was the closest to Prince Ru, but for some reason the late emperor was extremely wary of the Rong family. He didn't dare to search the Rong family until his death."
"I unexpectedly learned that the thing was most likely in the Rong family, so I went to look up old things. I unexpectedly learned that after Prince Ru's rebellion, Mrs. Rong once visited the palace, and then left the capital for a while without being traced. I wanted to I asked Mrs. Rong for information, but who would have thought she would notice it."
As she spoke, she looked up at Tang Ning.
"I really didn't want their lives, I just wanted to send someone to take them back to the capital secretly, but they tried their best to escape and happened to encounter a landslide. By the time I found them, Song Xi had already died. "
"Mrs. Rong was still alive at that time. I was afraid that they would cause trouble after being brought back to the house by the Rong family, so I had no choice but to find the Song family. I just asked them to pretend that they were dead and bring the coffin 'bones' back to the Song family, but I have no intention of killing Mrs. Rong."
"Madam Rong was still alive when she was sent back to the Song family. I just asked the Song family to help me find out the whereabouts of Taizu's relics..."
"It was them, the Song family, who killed Mrs. Rong!"
