"The Dali Temple has already found out the results. Take a look." Chu Yan handed her a document.

Su Bei took it and looked at it carefully. The more she looked, the sharper her eyes became. After reading it, she knelt down in front of Chu Yan.

"Father! Please make a decision for Prince Su!" Su Bei said earnestly, "He can harm his brothers today. Even if he ascends the throne in the future, I'm afraid he will become a tyrant!"

Chu Yan frowned for a long time, then he looked up to the sky and sighed, and said to Wang Zhuo: "Pass on my decree, King Mu has killed his brothers and sisters, and he has been demoted to a commoner and imprisoned in the palace, and he is not allowed to leave for life!"

Although all the maids sent by Chu Youchen were killed in the explosion, the Dali Temple still learned from other maids and servants that these people did have unusual behavior. In addition, they investigated the merchants selling fireworks in the city, and all the evidence pointed to the servants around Chu Youchen.

Chu Yan was very heartbroken. He had indeed been optimistic about Chu Younan during this period, but Chu Youchen was the eldest son after all, and high hopes were placed on him since he was born.

There was chaos in Prince Mu’s palace.

All the maids and servants were sold out, leaving only Chu Youchen's concubines and wives. He kept shouting that he was wronged, but people only regarded him as crazy.

How could he not be crazy? He was demoted to a commoner, but only his concubine and wife were left, and Yaruo actually ran away with his child...

And no one knows how she escaped...

A few days later, when Su Bei entered the palace again to report to Chu Yan about Chu Younan's current situation, there was chaos in the palace again.

The queen ran out of Kunning Palace with her hair disheveled, and knelt at the door of the imperial study, shouting, "Your Majesty! Chen'er is innocent! He has been a good and obedient child since he was young, and it is impossible for him to do such a thing!"

She was still under house arrest, and her running out like this already made Chu Yan unhappy. When Chu Yan saw her in person, he became even more annoyed.

Not only was her hair disheveled, she was also wearing a white dress, and looked like she was attending a funeral.

"You don't even take me seriously? Are you cursing me by dressing like this?" Chu Yan was furious.

The queen was startled for a moment, then she looked down at her clothes, then she came to her senses and hurriedly explained: "Your Majesty! It's not like that. I heard that Chen'er was demoted to a commoner, and I was so anxious that I didn't pay attention to his appearance..."

Su Bei looked at her silently, his eyes slightly narrowed.

Chu Yan shouted in a deep voice: "Go back!"

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty! Please order someone to investigate again! Investigate again!" The Queen cried and refused to leave.

Su Bei turned around and looked at the new maid he brought in today. The girl's eyes were filled with rage. She clenched her fists and looked like she wanted to rush up and tear the queen to pieces.

But Su Bei patted her arm and nodded at her.

The girl swallowed her anger, turned around, and knelt down in front of Chu Yan. "I am Liu Lian, Your Majesty, please make a decision for my brother! Your Majesty, please return my brother to me!"

Chu Yan was startled, and then frowned tightly, "Abei! Did you bring this person in?!"

"Yes." Su Bei nodded.

"What's going on?!"

"Your Majesty, please listen to what she has to say." Su Bei looked at the queen calmly.

When the queen saw someone suddenly pop up to accuse her, she quickly shouted, "Your Majesty! This is a frame-up! This is revenge! I didn't do anything at all, and Chen'er didn't do anything either!"

But Chu Yan's eyes fell on Su Bei's face for a moment, and seeing that she was so calm, he said in a deep voice: "Liu Lian! Tell me now!"

Liu Lian prostrated herself on the ground and said respectfully, "I was not originally a slave, but one day, my brother was suddenly kidnapped and didn't return for several days. A few days later, my parents and I were also kidnapped."

"When I was tied up, I heard someone say that my brother Liu Xiu had been taken into the palace to be a eunuch, and that he had been placed in the cold palace, so that Sang Yu would definitely not be able to find him..."

When the queen heard the name Sang Yu, her expression changed drastically, and Chu Yan seemed to remember something.

Su Bei stepped forward and reminded him, "Father, do you remember? Sang Yu, who was beside Concubine Yao, was caught having an affair with a eunuch and then committed suicide. This Liu Xiu is the cousin who has been waiting for her to leave the palace."

As he was speaking, Imperial Concubine Yao also came running over after hearing the news. As soon as she arrived, she shouted angrily, "Your Majesty! Yesterday, I went to Prince Su's Mansion to visit Nan'er, and by chance I saw a pillowcase with particularly exquisite embroidery. Ah Bei said it was embroidered by a girl named Liu Lian in the store. Then I remembered that Sang Yu said that she had a cousin named Liu Lian who was proficient in needlework and her double-sided embroidery was unparalleled!"

As she spoke, she turned and glared at the queen, "If it weren't for this, I wouldn't have known that the queen had actually tied Liu Xiu to the palace and made him a eunuch!"

"That's not true!" The Queen argued in a trembling voice, "Your Majesty, they are the ones who wronged me! This is a case of everyone pushing the wall down when it falls! They saw that Chen'er was deposed, so they wanted to kill me!"

Chu Yan frowned and sighed heavily, "Where is Liu Xiu?"

Su Bei bowed his head and said, "After learning about this yesterday, the Imperial Concubine has already protected Liu Xiu. I will invite him here so that Your Majesty can see him."

Chu Yan said nothing and nodded silently.

Not long after, a man dressed as a eunuch was brought over. At first, he looked no different from other eunuchs, but when he saw Liu Lian, his expression changed immediately.

"Xiao Lian, why are you..."

"Brother!" Liu Lian didn't care about being in front of the emperor and ran towards Liu Xiu.

The brother and sister cried facing each other.

After a while, when both of them calmed down, Su Bei let Liu Xiu tell him what he knew.

"I had no intention of entering the palace to be a eunuch. Originally, Sang Yu would be able to leave the palace next year, and I planned to marry her. But I was suddenly arrested that day and forced to undergo a castration. Then someone told me that I had to work honestly and not to secretly see Sang Yu, otherwise my life would be in danger. But... later, news came out that she had committed suicide..."

Liu Xiu's expression changed from numbness to sadness. At the end, he couldn't help shedding two lines of tears, "I don't believe Sang Yu would do such a thing. She must have been coerced."

The queen was already shaking like a leaf in the wind.

Chu Yan calmed down instead. He looked at the queen with disgust and contempt in his eyes. "You are already the queen, yet you framed the concubines. No wonder you raised a son who murdered his brothers!"

"Your Majesty! I didn't... didn't..." The queen still tried to defend herself.

Chu Yan looked up to the sky, closed his eyes, and sighed heavily, "Forget it, the queen is not worthy of the position, she will be demoted to a commoner and sent to the cold palace, and she will never be allowed to leave."

Su Bei breathed a sigh of relief. If she didn't do it, she wouldn't die. No wonder she was so cruel. Liu Lian's sudden appearance was probably her retribution! The Queen suddenly cried out, "Your Majesty! How long have you not been to Kunning Palace? If I want to see you, I can only wait until the palace banquet. But do you think Ruan Tianyao is really that good? She saw that you favored this and that, and she pushed people to you, all because she didn't love you!"