Jiang Huaizhong finally spoke.
After getting the method to break the formation from him, Jiang Xiancao and Tinglan left the torture room.
"The guard who pretended to be Mr. Xuan did a great job. Remember to reward him with silver." Jiang Xiancao ordered.
Mr. Xuan who appeared in the torture room before was disguised as one of her people, just to make Jiang Huaizhong speak.
What black handprint is poisonous? It’s just stained with a little coal powder.
Jiang Huaizhong had spent his entire life deceiving and exploiting others, and now it was his turn to be deceived. Jiang Xiancao was eager to see what his expression would be when he learned the truth after everything was settled.
She personally brought the news of breaking the formation into the palace and told Shen Yubai in person.
Shen Yubai took Taoist nun Meng and several masters of metaphysics to Kunning Palace, and quickly broke through the formation and found the entrance to the hidden secret passage.
Three hours later, Shen Yubai's confidants found the queen and the prince.
The prince entered through the secret passage in the Cining Palace.
It turns out that not only Kunning Palace has the entrance to this secret passage, but Cining Palace and East Palace also have entrances, and the same formation is set up at the entrance to conceal it from the public.
The effect of this formation on people is like a blind spot. The masters of metaphysics whose eyes are covered cannot find anything unusual for a period of time.
The Queen and the Crown Prince had originally planned to wait for the Right Prime Minister to launch a coup and then take advantage of the chaos to escape through the secret passage, but now they have fallen into the hands of Shen Yubai. They wish they could torture the informer to death.
Shen Yubai saw through their thoughts and said with a raised corner of his mouth:
"What a pity, the Empress and the Crown Prince are only guilty now. You no longer have the right to execute anyone."
The queen stared at him intently, but she was still fighting like a trapped beast:
"What makes you say that this palace and the prince are sinners?"
Chen Yubai raised his eyebrows and said, "The emperor has been poisoned, and the right prime minister is already disobeying the imperial decree and planning to rebel outside the palace. You two even hid in the secret passage without caring about the emperor's life or death. If you are not criminals, what are you?"
The Queen sneered:
"Father didn't intend to rebel at all. It was you who really wanted to rebel! Father simply saw through your true colors and didn't want to be controlled by you, so he had to resort to this desperate measure to maintain the imperial power. As for me and the Crown Prince, we know that the first thing you did after poisoning the Emperor was to find us, so we hid! Only the Queen Mother, with her dim eyesight, would be deceived by you, a traitor who pretends to be loyal and intends to kill his brother and the Emperor, and let you sit in charge of the palace—"
Shen Yubai was not surprised that the Queen would say that. He just smiled lightly and was too lazy to prove anything in front of the Queen. He just ordered the guards around him to take the Queen and the Prince to the Buddhist temple in Kunning Palace.
The broken Buddha statues on the ground had not yet been taken away. Shen Yubai turned around and looked at the queen and said:
"I deliberately didn't ask anyone to clean up because I was waiting for you to come."
The Queen looked at the debris on the ground, her eyes flickering for a moment. "What do you want to do? Are you going to make me and the Crown Prince do the work of servants and humiliate us?"
"Of course not."
Chen Yubai chuckled and said, "Sister-in-law, you know I've never been so naive. I invited you and the Crown Prince down here because I thought this broken Buddha statue must be very special. As its previous owner, don't you have anything to say?"
The queen's eyes were a little evasive.
She tried her best to calm herself, but ever since she entered this place, she had been feeling inexplicably restless and could hardly control her emotions.
She knew that this was the backlash of evil magic.
Shen Yubai asked softly:
"Why is this Buddha statue red? What dyed it with this blood-like color?"
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