Chapter 211 Investigation

In the end, Prince Qin and Pei Jingchuan still failed to persuade the Queen, so the Emperor asked them to continue to think of a solution.

After returning to the Duke's Mansion, Pei Jingchuan told Xu Qingyan about this matter.

"Your Majesty, you are a filial daughter. The Fang family is so evil-hearted and has brought disaster to the people of Yuzhou. It is rare that someone like the queen will come out of evil." After listening to this, Xu Qingyan couldn't help but sigh.

She has been in the book for so long, and combined with her memory of reading the book before, she has a pretty good impression of this queen. In the book, the queen has always been honest and dutiful, almost never making trouble, and is the only person who has given the King of Qin care and warmth. After the crimes of the governor Fang in the book were exposed by Pei Jingyuan, the queen and the prince knelt down every day to beg for mercy. Of course, the emperor would never agree to her request. Unexpectedly, the queen would take the risk and order people to break into the prison and kidnap the little grandson of the Fang family. In the end, she was discovered by Pei Jingyuan's people. When the Prince of Yu was in court, he exposed the queen's behavior, and for a while, the queen was cursed by the people all over the world. The Fang family was all beheaded, and the queen committed suicide in grief and anger.

Thinking of the Queen's ending, Xu Qingyan couldn't help but feel a little pity in her heart. The Queen was not a bad person, and she even spoke for them righteously many times. Xu Qingyan really couldn't bear to see her die like this. So, she used her ability to see the relationship between the Queen and the Fang family, and whether the Fang family had any secrets, to see if she could find anything to make the Queen give up the way to seek death.

Xu Qingyan didn't know until she saw it, and she was shocked. [Is the Fang family so powerful? Queen, it's so pitiful! If this is the case, will the Queen still plead for the Fang family? If you lose your life because of this, it's not worth it! ]

Pei Jingchuan was worrying about how to deal with the Queen's issue when he suddenly heard Xu Qingyan's inner exclamation. He immediately perked up and listened carefully to Xu Qingyan's complaints.

【Oh my God! The Queen is not a daughter of the Fang family at all. In fact, Fang Taifu is the murderer of her mother. At that time, Fang Taifu was just a poor scholar who had no money to take the exam. The Queen's mother was the daughter of the richest businessman in Yuzhou at that time. In order to win her heart, Fang Taifu asked his friend to pretend to be a bandit to save the beauty. But who knew that something went wrong, and Cheng Yaojin showed up halfway and was rescued by a handsome constable in Yuzhou at that time. The two fell in love at first sight and had a private relationship. Fang Taifu was so angry that in order to get close to them, he pretended to be friends with the constable and wanted to drug the Queen's mother and cook the rice. Unexpectedly, by mistake, he helped the constable and the Queen's mother. His mistake again made him cruel and lied to the two, saying that the Queen's mother was in danger and needed the constable to rescue her. He tricked the constable to come to the mountain and pushed the constable off the cliff to his death! Originally, the Queen's mother was going to negotiate a marriage with the policeman, and she was heartbroken when the policeman died. But she didn't expect that she was pregnant later. Her father wanted her to abort the child. She couldn't bear to part with her lover's flesh and blood. At this time, Fang Taifu came to her house and said that he wanted to marry her, and said a lot of good things. The Queen's mother agreed. Later, with her support, she passed the imperial examination and rose to prominence. For the queen's reputation, the Queen's mother never told her the truth. Later, Fang Taifu's ambition became even greater. In order to seize the property of the Queen's mother's family, he did not hesitate to design to kill the Queen's grandfather's family, and let his concubine poison the Queen's mother. Originally, Fang Taifu also wanted to kill the Queen, but the concubine at that time said that the Queen was beautiful and a girl. When she grew up, she could be used to pave the way for their son, so the Queen was spared. Alas... This Queen is so pitiful! Obviously, it was the enemy who killed her father, but she still had to plead for them! 】Xu Qingyan became more and more angry the more she thought about it.

Pei Jingchuan, who was standing by, felt angry but also a little relieved. If that was the case, he only needed to tell the queen the truth, and she would definitely not plead for the Fang family anymore. But how could he make the queen believe it? Empty words would not work, and everything required evidence.

So, Pei Jingchuan looked at Xu Qingyan and said, "Do you think there is any rift between the Fang family and the Queen? I think the Queen has a good heart and is really unlike the Fang family. It would be much easier if the Queen was not of the Fang family's bloodline, and the Emperor would not be embarrassed. After all, the Queen has done a lot for the Emperor over the years, and the Emperor will still be grateful for her kindness."

Xu Qingyan immediately agreed when she heard this: "My husband, why don't we have someone investigate and interrogate those people from the Fang family? Now that the Fang family is in trouble, those people must not be as loyal as before. For the sake of their own lives, they might reveal some long-standing secrets. I also feel that the Queen is not at all like the Fang family."

Pei Jingchuan hid the smile in his eyes and said, "Okay! You are right, I will go check it myself."

Therefore, Pei Jingchuan went to the prison in person and arrested the old servant who had stayed with Master Fang the longest, as well as his concubine, for interrogation.

After a night of torture and the temptation of exile in exchange for death penalty, they finally opened their mouths. The first one to tell the truth was the butler who had been with Master Fang the longest. His descendants were not of the Fang family. Pei Jingchuan said that as long as he could tell the truth, he could guarantee his grandson to be exiled, but he had to die. After all, as a lackey, he had done a lot of bad things.

However, the old housekeeper was satisfied that he could save his grandson's life. So, he honestly told Fang Taifu the truth about how he deceived and used the Queen's mother. At the same time, Fang Taifu had an unfavored concubine in the backyard, who also told the story of how she saw the Queen's mother being poisoned by the Queen's stepmother, who was still a concubine at the time.

After Pei Jingchuan came out of the interrogation, he immediately sent someone to inform the queen that there was a big event about her mother in the Fang family. When the queen heard that it was about her mother, she left the palace without stopping to meet Pei Jingchuan and others.

"Are what you said all true? Aren't they lies you made up to trick me into giving up the Fang family?" After hearing what the housekeeper and the concubine said, the queen still didn't quite believe what they said.

After all, all this was too much of a coincidence. She pleaded for the Fang family, and Pei Jingchuan and his men found out about this. It was hard not to suspect that they had staged this themselves.

At this moment, Xu Qingyan also came to watch the fun. Seeing the Queen's disbelief, she couldn't help but stepped forward and said, "Queen, don't you think that you don't look like Master Fang and the others at all? If it wasn't for the coincidence that you fell into the water and were saved by the Emperor, your father would have married you to an old man, right?"