The Chu family members are all imprisoned in the same place, and the Dali Temple has been collecting evidence of their crimes.

Knowing she wouldn't survive, when Yin Jin'an sent someone to fetch her, Chu Hanhua said to her second son, Xiao Hongyu, "Mother will try her best to keep you alive."

Xiao Hongyu and several of Chu's nephews cried and said, "As long as we get out, we will definitely tear that fool to pieces."

Chu Hanhua shook her head: "Don't talk nonsense, we'll spare as many as we can."

The Chu family is likely to be wiped out. If His Majesty can spare his two sons out of consideration for brotherhood, that would be the best outcome.

Upon arriving at the Golden Palace, Chu Hanhua refused to kneel, saying disdainfully, "Even if dynasties change, I am still your mother. It is against all reason for a mother to kneel before her son."

Without wasting words, Yin Jin'an said to Xiahou Yan, "Tell her to kneel down."

Xiahou Yan went over and pressed down with both hands. Chu Hanhua couldn't withstand it and knelt down. With a "thud" and a barely perceptible cracking sound, Chu Hanhua's kneecap shattered.

"Tell me, how did you poison the First Prince?"

“You really aren’t the Crown Prince! It’s simple, the food and the medicine prescribed by the imperial physician were poisoned.” Knowing she couldn’t escape death, Chu Hanhua wasn’t afraid. “He ate the poison, so naturally he became an idiot.”

"The poison took effect on the night of the full moon. What kind of poison was it?"

"No, it's not me... Hahaha, why would I tell you?"

"If you tell me, I'll spare your life."

"I also want Prince Liang, Xiao Hongyu, and Xiao Hongcheng to live, and the Chu family must be released as well."

"Tell me what happened on the night of the full moon and how to cure the poison before we continue talking about releasing the people. I'll see if what you're saying is worth the price."

"Release them first!"

“…” Yin Jin’an waved his hand, “Go, release them!”

Wang Can and the Dali Temple officials hurriedly reminded him, "Your Majesty, you cannot release them."

How can we let a tiger return to the mountains?

Yin Jin'an said nonchalantly, "Let it go."

The Minister of the Court of Judicial Review sighed and said to his subordinates, "Go and release the people."

Chu Hanhua said, "I want to see them leave the city with my own eyes."

"Chu Hanhua, let me make this clear: I can let them leave the city, but your method won't cure my poison, so I will still have to bring them back."

Chu Hanhua gritted her teeth. As long as Chu Buyan left the city, she and her brothers would go to Huainan to find their sister Chu Hanyu and get the clay pot thunder...

She never intended to live; the worst that could happen was death.

Yin Jin'an kept his word and had someone take Chu Hanhua to watch Xiao Hongyu, Xiao Hongcheng, and the Chu family's nephews and nieces leave the capital.

Yin Jin'an did not send anyone to follow them.

Chu Hanhua returned to the palace, and Yin Jin'an said, "They're gone, you can speak now."

"I didn't administer the poison on your night of the full moon," Chu Hanhua said in a very good mood. "Your madness on the night of the full moon was a congenital condition that started when you were a year and a half old. However, your mother was alive at that time, and her medical skills were superb, so she was able to suppress it."

Chu Hanhua meant that Xiao Jin'an was born a little madman. Before she was even two years old, her eyes turned red, she lost her mind, and howled like a wolf on the night of the full moon.

Wei Mu had a way to suppress his symptoms, but after Wei Mu died, his madness was exposed.

The month after Wei Mu died, on the night of the full moon, Xiao Jin'an went mad and killed all the eunuchs, maids, and concubines in the entire Cold Palace.

"It's terrible. Not only people, but even cats, dogs, and passing mice have been torn to shreds by you."

"At that time, I did want to kill you completely, after all, you killed so many people."

"However, His Majesty loves his child dearly and cannot bear to kill you. Hahaha..."

She only learned many years later that Emperor Yangsheng and her brother Chu Jiang both wanted Xiao Jin'an's Tiger and Leopard Cavalry.

Yin Jin'an asked, "Where is the imperial physician? Is there no medicine available?"

"The imperial physicians can't find anything wrong with you, they all say you're not sick! His Majesty takes a liking to your destructive power and uses you as a tool. You really are a good weapon to intimidate others."

I wonder what the common people would say of the Qi emperor if they knew that the man who routed 100,000 Liao soldiers was none other than the current Emperor Aotian!

Chu Hanhua felt a surge of joy and chuckled again.

The poison Chu Hanhua used only caused him to completely lose his mind, rendering him powerless to seize the throne.

“Since you know nothing, there’s no point in keeping you alive,” Yin Jin’an said to Xiahou Yan. “Prepare for your execution by slow slicing.”

"I am the Empress, your mother. How could you kill me?"

"I have already posthumously honored Empress Wei as the only Empress Dowager. If you hadn't mentioned it, I would have forgotten that you were Emperor Yangsheng's second empress. Guards, please have the Emperor Emeritus write a decree to depose this second empress."

After Yin Jin'an finished speaking, Chu Hanhua shouted, "You cannot depose me! I cannot be deposed!"

"Yes! Don't worry, if I say it can be abolished, it can be abolished."

Xiahou Yan went to Emperor Yangsheng's place, and soon, he brought back the edict of deposing the empress in Emperor Yangsheng's own handwriting.

Gu Bahuang also led his men to chase after them out of the imperial city.

Since they can't come up with a cure, the Chu family, Xiao Hongyu, and Xiao Hongcheng must be captured again.

So, not long after Chu Hanhua returned to prison, she saw that her son and her nephews and nieces had been arrested again, and she was so angry that she rolled her eyes.

Xiao Hongyu's leg had already been broken on the way, and he shouted angrily, "Mother, what's wrong with you? They said you lied to him? That you could cure the poison, but you were just playing him?"

When Chu Hanhua saw that her son had broken his leg, her heart was breaking and she was terrified. If she didn't provide any useful information this time, she was afraid she would die.

Xiao Jin'an was more ruthless than she had imagined.

"I have something to say..." She had barely uttered a word when the old man at the door lashed out with his whip, cursing, "What kind of 'I' am I? You've been deposed by the Emperor Emeritus, what are you putting on airs for?"

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