Instead, he was unusually calm.
Before Su Lijin finished speaking, the Queen Mother set her eyes on Xiao Shengxing.
"Your Majesty, how do you think we should handle this matter? Do you really trust a suspect?"
"Or is it that now, even my words are useless? Your Majesty!"
This is a naked threat.
The hands hanging by her side clenched unconsciously, and Su Lijin frowned and spoke to the empress dowager.
"Empress Dowager, I am still the Empress after all. Before the Kunning Palace changes its owner, I still have the final say in the harem. So, please step aside from this matter, Empress Dowager. I will definitely investigate thoroughly!"
"Are you going to use your status as queen to threaten me?"
The Queen Mother angrily threw the teacup beside her to show her majesty.
Su Lijin was not afraid at all.
"Good, good, this is your good queen. She is so unfilial to me. How wonderful!"
The Queen Mother's momentum weakened and she changed the subject.
Xiao Shengxing knew that it would be useless for the Queen Mother to continue pestering him like this.
The most important thing now is to clear Su Lijin's name.
"Forget it, mother, don't worry about this matter. I think it's okay to let her handle Concubine Xi's affairs."
His few words have already made his position clear.
"Your Majesty!" The Queen Mother frowned and spoke in dissatisfaction.
No matter how reluctant the Queen Mother was, the matter was ultimately handed over to Su Lijin.
When Su Lijin returned to Kunning Palace, she frowned and after much thought, she decided to start with the palace maids around Concubine Xi.
But this matter shouldn't be handled by me...
Thinking of this, Su Lijin finally decided to go and meet someone in person.
In the secret passage of the palace, Su Lijin, dressed in low-key night clothes, met the person she had not seen for a long time.
"Uncle Zhao." She spoke, calling the name of the man standing with his back to her.
Zhao Heng quickly turned around after hearing Su Lijin's voice, bowed and saluted, saying, "Empress!"
"Uncle Zhao, I'm looking for you this time because I still need your help with something."
Su Lijin was about to explain, but Zhao Heng agreed without hesitation.
"Your Majesty, even if you ask me to die, I won't hesitate at all. If you have any instructions, please tell me."
Su Lijin was touched, but she didn't say anything hypocritical. She spoke to Zhao Heng and told him her plan.
At night, the moonlight was not very good, but the door of Concubine Xi's palace was suddenly pushed open.
Because the aphrodisiac incense had been prepared in advance, Concubine Xi had already fallen asleep by now.
However, the palace maid lying in the side hall did not inhale much of the aphrodisiac because of the distance.
After hearing the voice, she opened her eyes and looked, only to find that there was a person in front of her without her noticing.
He subconsciously wanted to scream, but the person in front of him covered his mouth and dragged him out of the hall by his shoulders.
She knelt on the ground trembling, begging for mercy desperately.
"Don't kill me, please, don't kill me..."
The palace maid was very timid and had never encountered such a situation before. Now she was so scared that she even trembled when she spoke.
Zhao Heng looked coldly at the palace maid in front of him, then drew his sword and put it against the maid's neck.
"I have some questions for you. If you tell the truth, I'll let you go. But if you lie to me, you'll never come back."
The palace maid nodded repeatedly, not daring to resist at all.
Zhao Heng asked about Concubine Xi's recent affairs. The palace maid was Concubine Xi's personal maid and knew a lot.
But when it came to Concubine Xi's miscarriage, she didn't know what to say.
Seeing the palace maid hesitating, Zhao Heng pretended to stab her heart with his sword. The palace maid trembled all over and hurriedly said that she knew nothing.
Seeing that the palace maid was about to kneel down and beg for mercy again, Zhao Heng retracted his sword, thinking that this palace maid knew nothing.
But since even the personal maid doesn't know, then this matter will be really difficult to investigate.
While still thinking, Zhao Heng suddenly noticed a figure secretly running towards Concubine Xi's bedroom.
His eyes suddenly became sharper, he flew over, kicked the man to the ground, then knocked him unconscious and took him away.
In Kunning Palace, Su Lijin and Xiao Shengxing sat in the upper seats, and lying below was a man with his hands and feet tied and in a coma.
Xiao Shengxing said slowly: "Splash it on him to wake him up."
The eunuch splashed water on the guard to wake him up, and the guard subconsciously wanted to resist after he came to his senses.
But when he looked up and saw Su Lijin and Xiao Shengxing, he trembled all over and dared not speak.
"Your Majesty?"
"Tell me, how much do you know about Lady Xi's affairs?"
Xiao Shengxing spoke slowly, his tone cold.
The guard pursed his lips, clearly struggling with some internal struggle.
Seeing the guards didn't answer, Xiao Shengxing winked at the eunuch beside him. The eunuch understood and said, "You should know that the Emperor and the Empress can punish you with the death of your entire clan for the crime of harming a concubine. If you confess now, I beg the Emperor and the Empress to spare your family's lives."
The guard thought about it, but in the end he still couldn't hold the line, and said: "I didn't harm Concubine Xi's child. I just wanted to see Concubine Xi's child. The child in Concubine Xi's belly is actually mine."
Su Lijin was slightly shocked when she heard this. She remembered that in her previous life, there was a rumor that a nobleman had an affair with a guard, and in the end, the matter was strictly prohibited from any discussion and ended in nothing.
Now that things have developed to a point where he can no longer control them, he might as well leave it to Xiao Shengxing.
"Let the emperor handle this matter."
Xiao Shengxing looked at the man in front of him with deep eyes and said with a slight smile: "Execute him."
After saying that, he gave the guards beside him a look and left.
The guard understood what Xiao Shengxing meant and dragged the man, who was kneeling on the ground and begging for mercy, out by his shoulders.
In Concubine Xi's bedroom, the Emperor and the Empress suddenly came to visit. Although she didn't know what had happened, Concubine Xi still felt a little guilty.
"Greetings to the Emperor and the Empress." Concubine Xi stood up and saluted.
Xiao Shengxing glanced at Su Lijin and motioned for her to go ahead and speak.
Su Lijin understood what he meant and said directly, "Noble Xi, your affair has been discovered, and the guard who had an affair with you has now been executed."
"Since you just had a miscarriage and your body still needs to recover, I am asking you to recuperate in the palace and wait for your decision."
Concubine Xi fell to the ground in a daze, looking at Xiao Shengxing with red eyes.
She wanted to explain, but when she opened her mouth, nothing came out.
The facts are already before us. No matter what you say, it is just quibbling.
"Take care of yourself."
After leaving these words, Xiao Shengxing took Su Lijin away.
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