The task of interrogating the assassins was handed over to the Du Yu Hou, who was still in the capital. Du Yu Hou might not have made much progress in other areas during his years in the army, but his interrogation skills had reached a pinnacle. There was no information he couldn't extract.
The next day, Yuwen Ran went to court and saw the confession presented by Du Yuhou. After reading it, Yuwen Ran handed it to Gu Yanyue, "Ayue, this assassin and the palace maid are both from Qin Ranran. You have been dealing with the palace maid all this time, and now I will hand over the assassin to you as well."
After reading the confession, Gu Yanyue's mind worked quickly. She handed it back to Yuwen Ran and said, "Take this to the court. Also, take this assassin and the palace maid with you. As for how to deal with them, I'll just listen to you."
Yu Wenran felt something was wrong when he heard this. It was completely unlike Gu Yanyue's previous style, so he hurriedly asked, "Why did you suddenly hand it over to me? Haven't you always wanted to put Qin Ranran in jail yourself?"
Gu Yanyue curled her lips and said a little aggrievedly, "Of course I want to, but Ah Ran, as the Queen, I don't have any real power. So I can only ask you to issue the decree on my behalf."
"I was negligent in this matter. I will give you my token so that you can use it to issue an edict." As he said that, Yuwen Ran was about to take off the token from his waist and hand it to Gu Yanyue.
Gu Yanyue shook her head and refused to take Yuwen Ran's token. She advised, "If you give this to me, be careful. The Imperial Censor will report you to the court later, saying that you were bewitched by me and gave me something as important as the token, allowing me to arbitrarily interfere in the affairs of the previous dynasty."
"Then tell me, Ayue, how you want to deal with Qin Ranran. I will convey your meaning word for word." Yu Wenran raised his eyebrows, obviously listening to Gu Yanyue's words, and no longer insisted on giving the token to Gu Yanyue.
Gu Yanyue sneered: "She will suffer the same fate as her mother did. They are indeed mother and daughter, and even committed the same crime." She had always disliked the ancient way of dealing with things by chopping or killing people, but when her life was really threatened, Gu Yanyue suddenly figured it out.
If no one offends me, I will not offend anyone. They threatened not only her life, but also Yu Wenran and Qin Ruoruo's life. They were even so cruel that they did not even let the child Xiao Yuntun go.
Gu Yanyue was not some saint. She had given Qin Ranran many chances to stop, but she had never cherished them. On the contrary, she had gone further and further. During this period, assassins came one after another. When they couldn't assassinate her in the palace, they reached out outside the palace.
Of course, Gu Yanyue had another thing she didn't say: they were both equally foolish. She hadn't expected Qin Ranran to be so foolish. Her mother had already been a living example before her, yet she had the nerve to hire someone to kill her, even giving the token to those assassins.
If Qin Ranran had not married Prince Xiang long ago, Duke Qin's Mansion would definitely not have been able to escape this time.
Yuwen Ran agreed: "Okay, I will issue an order when I go to court later to put her in prison and behead her soon."
When the court was about to end, Yuwen Ran suddenly made a gesture to Zheng Hai, and the bodies of the court officials in the hall began to tremble at the same time.
Yuwen Ran made this gesture too many times during this period. Every time it appeared, someone would be taken to the hall, and then someone would be reported. Now that Yuwen Ran made this gesture, they knew that some court official present was going to be in trouble again.
When the assassin and the palace maid were brought up together, the assassin may have wanted to save his professional ethics for the last time. Since he had already revealed who his master was, he would be beheaded together with his master.
On the contrary, the palace maid was much more sensible. She kowtowed to Yuwen Ran as soon as she came up and told him everything Qin Ranran asked her to do:
"Your Majesty, all of this was done by Qin Ranran, the concubine of Prince Xiang's mansion. She sent people to kidnap my family and forced me to kill the Queen. Only then did she release my family. I agreed to her request because I was desperate. Otherwise, I would never have come to assassinate the Queen!"
When the maid said this, all the court officials fell silent. It turned out that the unlucky person was Prince Xiang!
First, the mother of a concubine in his own mansion hired someone to assassinate the queen but failed, and was ordered to be beheaded by the emperor.
Secondly, his alliance with the Western Region Prince Tuoba Chen was revealed by Tuoba Chen, and he was kept in prison for several hours. If the Queen Mother had not used him to threaten the Emperor to release him once, the frightened Prince Xiang would now be lying in bed with the mother of his concubine.
In the end, it turned out that it was the concubine in his house who caused the trouble. Her crime was the same as her mother's. I wonder if her final outcome will be the same.
Yuwen Ran glanced at the court officials in the hall, all of whom had different expressions. From where he was, he could see clearly the expressions of every minister below.
Some faces showed worry, some fear, and most were gloating. "What do you think the King of Xiang should do to punish his concubine?"
When Prince Xiang heard that Qin Ranran was responsible for this, he had already begun to think about how to distance himself from her. Yuwen Ran's question about how to punish Qin Ranran hit the nail on the head, and it was a good opportunity for him to make his position clear. He stepped out and said sincerely: "I will obey your majesty in everything..."
Yuwen Ran knocked on the table. "In that case, the concubine Qin Ranran of the Prince of Xiang's mansion will be imprisoned and beheaded soon. As the Prince of Xiang failed to supervise properly and failed to discover Qin Ranran's abnormal behavior and stop her in time, she will be fined three months' salary."
After receiving the order, Du Yuhou took the imperial guards to the Prince of Xiang's mansion to arrest people.
Yuwen Ran waved his hand: "If you have nothing else to report, please leave the court."
The court officials withdrew from the court as instructed. On the other hand, Duke Qin, who was under house arrest, also received news that Qin Ranran was going to be imprisoned for attempting to murder the queen and would be executed soon.
He was so excited that his eyes rolled back and he fainted.
Seeing this, the housekeeper pounced on Duke Qin, pinching his philtrum while shouting at the servants who were still stunned: "Hurry up and call the doctor!"
After a while of tossing and turning, Duke Qin finally woke up and slowly opened his eyes.
"My Ran Ran...Ran Ran...the news I just heard isn't true, right? Ran Ran hasn't been ordered to be beheaded by the emperor, right?"
Duke Qin recalled the news he heard before he fainted, and his expression was terrified. He was reluctant to accept the news that Qin Ranran was ordered to be beheaded by Yuwen Ran.
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