Chapter 108 Palace Secrets
She didn't know that Lu Wanning had gone to Yanzhou, and attributed Lu Wanning's weight loss in recent times to her depressed mood.
They thought that Lu Wanning must have been depressed because her marriage to Chen Wenjian was finalized, which caused her to lose a lot of weight.
How else to explain her weight loss?
Did Prince Qi treat her badly? Were the rumors about the harmonious relationship between the couple just rumors?
Or maybe Princess Qi treated her kindly on the surface, but actually started to torture her as soon as she returned to the palace?
No matter which one it was, Luo Li was very happy.
She actually hoped that Lu Wanning really had a special liking for Chen Wenjian as Chen Ruohan said. In this way, she would have won.
The more Luo Li thought about it, the more excited she became. The light in her eyes made Lu Wanning gasp in amazement.
What's going on in this person's mind? Why does he look so creepy?
She ignored it.
When it was over, Qi Muchao came to pick her up.
Yan Mingchang stood at the door to see the guest off. He watched her walk towards Qi Muchao beside the carriage, with his lips slightly pursed. When Qi Muchao raised his eyes to look at him, he nodded slightly as a greeting.
Qi Muchao raised his eyebrows, and asked with an impatient look, "Did you tell him?"
Lu Wanning glared at him and responded with the same look, "What else?"
Qi Muchao couldn't control the smile on his face, but there was a gaze from the other side that he couldn't ignore.
The two of them looked together and saw Chen Wenjian's serious gaze falling on them.
Luo Li felt that Lu Wanning had lost weight, but the one who was actually thin was Chen Wenjian.
It had only been a while since they last saw each other, and Lu Wanning almost didn't recognize him.
After retracting his gaze, he climbed onto the carriage and whispered to Qi Muchao, "How come he has become so thin? He looks scary."
Princess Qi took the carriage she came in. There were only two people in the carriage, so they could talk freely.
Qi Muchao pulled her over and sat her next to him, pinching her fingertips and playing with them from time to time.
He answered nonchalantly, "The Chen Mansion and the Tongping Marquis Mansion are both on the Second Prince's side. The incident in Yanzhou last time was somewhat related to the Second Prince. His Majesty has now placed the Second Prince under house arrest and will question him once there is solid evidence."
"Though these families supporting the Second Prince appear to have been unaffected, they are actually aware of each other's actions. Even if Your Majesty doesn't punish them now, he knows everything they've done. Who knows, they might bring up these old scores one day."
Nowadays, these people don’t dare to cause any trouble at all.
Among the second prince's supporters, the Tongping Marquisate and the Wu'an Marquisate were the first to be attacked.
The Chen family certainly dared not to make a splash at the moment, which was probably the main reason why Chen Wenjian agreed to marry Luo Li.
It is probably impossible to expect him to compromise just because he saved Luo Li after falling into the water.
Lu Wanning's eyebrows curved when she heard this, "Serves you right."
She felt that there was something wrong with Chen Wenjian. They had no connection in this life, but now he looked deeply in love with Qi Muchao, as if he was going against her specifically for her.
If he was reincarnated from the previous life like Lu Wanning, then he would be even more sick.
In his previous life, he had agreed to Madam Chen's plan to burn her to death for Luo Li's sake, so why was he pretending like that now?
It was as if he was innocent of everything that happened in his previous life.
Lu Wanning found him very annoying when she saw him like this.
Qi Muchao was very satisfied with her reaction. The corners of his lips rose slightly and he rubbed her fingertips.
"Has the person who drugged you made any progress?"
She saw that Qi Muchao's eyes seemed to be a little gloomy, and the upturned corners of his lips slowly retracted and pursed into a straight line.
"It's the Queen." He said softly.
Lu Wanning was a little surprised, "Did she poison His Majesty?"
"Um."
This was obviously beyond Lu Wanning's expectations. She guessed that the emperor might have been poisoned by the queen. After all, there seemed to be no one else except her who could do it silently and yet leave the emperor defenseless.
But he never imagined that the poison in Qi Muchao was also given by the Queen.
The bewildered look on her face actually made Qi Muchao's mood, which had fallen to the bottom, better.
Lu Wanning, "Why?"
"I don't know," Qi Muzhao shook his head. "I only found out that the poison in October and me was caused by her, but I don't know why."
He also couldn't understand what kind of hatred could make her poison the pregnant Princess Qi, and insist on poisoning Qi Muchao for decades.
Lu Wanning felt a little cold sweat on her forehead, "How did she feed the October period to His Majesty?"
When this was mentioned, Qi Muchao's expression turned much uglier. "Through Qingyao."
Lu Wanning took a breath of cold air.
The emperor doted on Qi Qingyao very much and would not be on guard at all. If Qi Qingyao brought something with her, no matter how bright the color of the October period was, as long as it was mixed in with him, he would not notice anything.
What's more, unless you are someone who knows the October period, you can't tell by just using the silver needle.
How would Qi Qingyao feel if she knew that her father, who loved her the most, was bedridden and almost died because of the things she brought with her.
Lu Wanning almost didn't dare to think about it.
Why did the Queen and the Emperor, who had been husband and wife for so many years, end up like this?
Those secrets in the palace are really enough to make one feel cold all over if one finds out a little bit.
Lu Wanning returned to Prince Qi's Mansion in such surprise that she was still in a daze. It was not until she returned to their courtyard, sat down, and drank some cold tea that she reacted.
"What about the Queen now?"
"He's under house arrest." Qi Muchao said, "The Crown Prince will arrive tomorrow. His Majesty means that he will eventually sit in this position. He should also take a look at these things. Even if they are a bit cruel, they will make him understand in the future that as an emperor, no one in this world, even the one who has been sleeping with him all the way, can be trusted."
Lu Wanning couldn't say anything. She just felt it was cruel, but also felt it was reasonable.
The next day, Qi Muchao went to the prefect early in the morning. Hu Er had been locked up for a night, and his rice and water were not yet finished. He was also secretly subjected to some seemingly inconspicuous but actually extremely torturous punishments, which made him look dazed, as if he had lost his soul.
Upon seeing Qi Muchao, the prefect immediately came forward in a very flattering manner, "My Lord, yesterday the old lady from the Hu residence came with food, but I stopped her and refused to let her in no matter what."
Qi Muchao glanced at him lazily, "Why, do you think I should praise you?"
"That's not the case, that's not the case," the prefect said sheepishly, "this is what I'm supposed to do."
This torture instrument had not been used up yet. Qi Muchao looked at the whip that seemed to have no killing power and was not very satisfied. He turned around and asked Changkong to take out the whip he had brought specially, which was covered with dense needles.
He nodded at Hu Er and said, "Use this."
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