Chapter 75 The Queen is Deposed

The housekeeper beside the queen could not stand the palace punishment and finally revealed the truth.

Just as Nanny Song and Liu He instructed.

However, the leader of the Queen's secret guards committed suicide by biting the poison sac in his mouth before Feng Ruobao had a chance to interrogate him, so it was impossible to interrogate the Queen on whether the Huangshaling incident was the Queen's doing.

The Queen always only gave instructions to the head of the secret guards regarding her affairs outside, and the head nanny and the others were unaware of them.

Feng Ruobao knelt down and apologized, "I was incompetent and failed to prevent him from committing suicide. Please punish me, Your Majesty."

The emperor had a gloomy expression, as if he was extremely angry, and looked at the queen coldly.

The Queen bit her lip and stiffened her neck. "I am innocent. I did not do it. Your Majesty cannot punish me based on the words of a few servants."

The Crown Prince also knelt hurriedly and said, "Father, perhaps we servants cannot withstand the punishment and are forced to admit this. I believe that the Queen Mother would not do such a thing."

The emperor suddenly raised his hand and threw a memorial to the prince on the head. "Are you saying that I was forced to confess?"

"I dare not. I just trust my mother."

The emperor suddenly sneered and looked at Chief Minister Xie and his son, "Do you think so too?"

The Xie family father and son hurriedly said, "I dare not, but the Queen is the mother of a country after all, representing the face of the royal family. Your Majesty, please think twice."

"Don't dare?" The emperor's voice faded, his expression gradually calming. "Then, according to Minister Xie, with Nanny Song, Liu He, and the Queen's closest confidants jointly testifying, can they deny the Queen's guilt in plotting to murder the heir?"

able!

But Xie Shen knelt on the ground and said nothing.

You can convict someone, but you can't convict the queen.

The emperor's calm voice rang out again, "Lord Xie, you have served as Minister of Justice for many years. Are you so unfamiliar with the laws of our Great Wei? Why would you take so long to think about such a simple case?"

Or is it that Xie Aiqing is not qualified for the position of Minister of Justice?"

These words made the faces of Xie's father and son change.

The emperor was planning to punish the queen, and knowing that they were going to stop him, he asked the Xie family to make a choice: to protect the queen or to keep the position of Minister of Justice.

"Your Majesty, you can't do this. I am really wronged." The queen was also panicked. She knew that her father and brother would protect her, but that was under the premise that the interests of the Xie family were not threatened.

But if it involves family interests, she has to step back, and her waist slumps.

Sure enough, as long as Lan Shu was involved, the emperor would be partial, disregarding his relationship with the Xie family and not taking his wife seriously.

She suddenly smiled

Fortunately, fortunately, fortunately, she had the heart to kill those two evil beasts and drive Lan Shu crazy. Otherwise, she might not be able to keep her position as queen until now, and her son might not be able to become the crown prince.

The only one who will always be in his heart is that bitch Lan Shu.

She suddenly glared at Lan Shu fiercely, her gaze falling on Lan Shu's unchanged face, and her anger grew even stronger. Why? Why could such a rough woman from the martial arts world make the king remember her for decades?

However, she, a lady from a prominent family, was not in his eyes, even though she had done so much for him.

Her eyes shifted back to the emperor's face, "Your Majesty, all I have thought and done over the years has been for the royal family, for you and the crown prince. You cannot treat me like this."

The emperor still glared at Xie Shen with his eyes half closed. After hearing what the queen said, he gritted his teeth and squeezed out a sentence, "Minister Xie, are you really not familiar with the laws of our Great Wei?"

"His Majesty!"

The Queen suddenly screamed, unable to bear the Emperor's disregard, "Your Majesty, are you really going to force me like this?"

"Empress, if a prince breaks the law, he will be punished just like any commoner. This applies to the Empress, the Crown Prince, and the Xie family. Do you understand, Empress?" The Emperor finally looked at the Empress and spoke word by word.

"No, no, no..." The queen's face suddenly turned pale and tears welled up in her eyes.

Her expression finally changed.

Pleading eyes.

But the emperor's gaze moved from Lan Shu to Xie Shen.

Xie Shen's scalp was numb from being stared at, and his back gradually became wet. He looked at his father and saw that he had closed his eyes. Xie Shen bowed his head and said in a sad voice, "You can be convicted."

"Brother?" Even though she was mentally prepared, the queen still looked incredulous after hearing her brother's words.

Xie Shen lowered his head and didn't look at her. There were too many witnesses and countless people gathered outside. As the Minister of Justice, if he didn't know the laws of the Wei Dynasty, the emperor could justifiably take off his hat.

He was the designated future head of the Xie family, so how could he lose his official position?

The queen looked at Prime Minister Xie again and saw that he had his eyes closed. She then looked at her son. The prince's face was full of anxiety and worry, and even a little resentment.

Men are unreliable, fathers and brothers are unreliable, but at least the son is sincere.

She slumped on the ground, looked at the emperor, a bitter smile on her lips, and shook her head slowly at him, tears streaming down her face as she shook her head.

The emperor and her remained silent for a moment before he solemnly ordered, "Empress Xie has plotted to murder the heir to the throne and is unfit to be the mother of a nation. From today on, she will be deposed and moved to the cold palace. Take her away."

Just thinking about the plot to murder the heir to the throne, without mentioning the matter of Huangshaling, Wei Qingyan's eyes darkened a little.

Lan Shu opened her lips slightly, and before she could utter the words "killing someone means paying with your life", Wei Qingyan pinched her arm and shook his head slightly at her.

Although she didn't know why Wei Qingyan wanted to stop her, she swallowed the words that were on the tip of her tongue.

"Father..." the prince pleaded.

"You should also go down and reflect on your thoughts and words today. I am not yet senile and confused." The emperor looked at him with a sullen look in his eyes. "I can still make the decisions for this dynasty."

These words were spoken to the Crown Prince, and also to the Xie family father and son.

The prince wanted to say something, but the queen stopped him with a look.

She slowly got up and walked in front of Lan Shu, her eyes full of hatred, "Do you think you won? No, you didn't, and no one will win."

After saying this, he turned and walked out of the hall without waiting for the eunuch to come forward.

Perhaps because she had been kneeling for too long, she walked very slowly, as if she was reluctant to take a step and finish the journey. Seeing this, the prince stepped forward to support her.

Feng Ruobao hurriedly followed with his men.

The Xie family father and son and other ministers wanted to leave, but they couldn't because they were still involved in the Huangshaling incident and nothing came of it.

The emperor looked at Xie Shen and said, "Regarding the Huangshaling incident, I hope that you, my dear Lord, will continue to investigate and give justice to the Protector General as soon as possible."

"I obey your order." Xie Shen responded quickly.

The emperor stopped talking, and the hall was so quiet that one could hear a pin drop.

The commander of the imperial guards gritted his teeth and spoke, saying that he had already brought Luo Congyun here.

The emperor also knew about Luo Congyun's affairs. Feng Ruobao told him about it as gossip. He never expected that the thing he treated as a joke was actually done by his and Lan Shu's daughter.

Looking at the person who walked into the hall timidly, the emperor frowned slightly.

He couldn't see any trace of Lan Shu in her.

Lan Shu looked at Luo Congyun, thinking that this was her child, her eyes instantly turned red. She took a few steps and walked up to Luo Congyun.

Luo Congyun was very scared when she entered the palace for the first time, but she was more happy. She was finally going to get her identity back. From then on, she would be a high and mighty princess.

She only glanced at Lan Shu who suddenly walked in front of her. Seeing that she was dressed in ordinary clothes, she quickly looked away, walked to the steps, and knelt down in front of the emperor, "Daughter...daughter pays homage to father...father."

"Your name is Luo Congyun?" asked the emperor.

"Yes, it's mother. My adoptive mother gave me this name." Luo Congyun replied. Seeing that there was no movement above, she noticed out of the corner of her eye that the woman in black was walking towards her again.

The man squatted down beside her and reached out to grab her hand. She shrank back in fear, "What are you doing?"