The young eunuch started talking non-stop, "The queen embroiders whenever she has time! That's the queen's hard work!"

"I don't know who ruined the picture while the embroiderers and masters were having lunch!"

The young eunuch felt so aggrieved that he kept crying.

The emperor looked gloomy, and when he looked at the sleeping Concubine Ru, he felt even more guilty.

Concubine Ru actually prepared a gift for him! But he didn't know!

Now seeing her sleeping face, the emperor's heart ached.

It reminded him of Hua Wanru.

Thinking back to his previous life, Hua Wanru personally prepared medicinal food for him in order to nourish his body.

He ate it for more than a year, and his health improved a lot. But the last time, when it was sent to his imperial study, someone deliberately put something poisonous in the medicine.

Although he didn't believe that she wanted to harm him, he still deprived her of her title as queen and banished her to the cold palace.

Don't even listen to her explanation!

Hua Wanru died and it was too late for him to regret.

Now, his imperial concubine, his Ru'er, also prepared gifts for him, but they were tampered with by someone else!

He will definitely not tolerate it this time.

The emperor said coldly, "Go, bring it to me."

The young eunuch nodded, ran out quickly, and waved to the two palace servants outside.

Two palace maids came over with a large tray covered with a red cloth.

The emperor let go of Concubine Ru's hand, walked forward, and pulled aside the red cloth. He saw a folded embroidered map underneath.

The emperor pursed his lips and ordered, "You, open it and let me take a look."

Several palace servants came over immediately and carefully unfolded the map. It turned out to be a map that was ten feet wide and taller than an adult man.

The embroidery is not very fine, but it has a sense of grandeur. The map shows the mountains and rivers, cities, fiefdoms, roads and rivers of the entire Great Sheng Dynasty, all of which are embroidered very accurately.

The current maps are all of a city or a town! There is no such complete map that can be put together.

But it is such a good and accurate map.

But it was in the middle, as if it was cut three times at an angle with a big knife, and two times at another angle.

The map was torn into tatters, the threads were scattered, and the whole map was torn into pieces. It had become waste and could not be repaired.

The more the emperor looked, the gloomier his expression became!

Just an embroidery is nothing to him. However, this is a map of the country of the Great Sheng Dynasty. It is also Ru'er's heartfelt gift!

I think Ruer must have spent a lot of effort to piece together all those fragmented maps.

The emperor would be very uncomfortable if his kingdom was deliberately destroyed like this, as if it would be torn apart.

There was a raging rage in the emperor's eyes.

"Check it, check it carefully for me!"

"Who on earth is so bold as to tear up the map of the country?"

Wang De, the eunuch in charge of the emperor, quickly took the order and retreated.

The emperor's face was gloomy and terrible. He sat back on the bed and took Concubine Ru's hand. He also put her hand on his face.

"Ru'er, this time, I will definitely stand by your side!"

"I will definitely not let you down."

After a night, the imperial doctors finally decided on a plan. The emperor was invited to the outer room.

A group of imperial doctors, military doctors, and female doctors all went into battle, vowing to protect the prince and the imperial concubine.

The emperor was pacing back and forth in the outer room, feeling anxious and uneasy.

Not long after, Wang De, who had been investigating all night, came back.

He bowed and said, "Your Majesty, I have some clues about the person who tore up the map! But..."

The emperor was already upset. He said coldly, "Speak!"

Wang De shuddered and lowered his head quickly, "It was Lian Qiao who was beside Concubine Ying who did it!"

The emperor was stunned, thinking he had heard it wrong. Although he thought that this was most likely the women in the harem were jealous of each other.

But I never expected that it would be Concubine Ying!

Concubine Ying was also special to him! There was a secret between them, but no one knew about it.

He was very suspicious. Why did Concubine Ying do this?

Being jealous is impossible!

The emperor looked gloomy, stared at Wang De, frowned and asked.

"Are you sure?"

"Framing the imperial concubine is a serious crime!"

Wang De knelt down immediately after hearing what the emperor said, his back wet with cold sweat.

He lowered his head even lower, his voice trembling, "In reply to the emperor's words, this servant dare not hide anything!"

"Two other embroiderers saw it. It was indeed Lian Qiao who cut it to pieces with the scissors!"

"I don't know whether it was Lian Qiao's personal behavior or Concubine Ying's instruction!"

"I arrested Lian Qiao, but she said nothing and I didn't torture her!"

The emperor pursed his lips, his face showing the calm after the storm.

After a long while, he asked calmly.

"Did Concubine Ying come to see Concubine Ru yesterday afternoon?"

The eunuch at the side quickly replied, "Concubine Ying didn't come yesterday!"

The emperor's expression became even uglier!

He thought again of what Ru'er had said when she was assassinated yesterday, that she only told Concubine Ying when she went to burn incense.

Could it be that Concubine Ying was really behind this?

The emperor then thought that Concubine Ying's father was General Hou, who commanded an army of 300,000.

Originally, Concubine Ying was the wife of his eldest grandson. After he became emperor, she should have been made empress.

But the place in his heart had already been occupied by Hua Wanru, so he only made Concubine Ying a concubine. However, he had told Concubine Ying about all this in advance. Concubine Ying also said that she didn't care.

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