Empress Duan was placed under house arrest in the palace and was not allowed to go out, and the eleven steps of facing the wall had not yet ended.

Xiao Ruyu was unable to leave the palace by herself. She was so anxious and restless that she didn't even eat a few bites of dinner.

If that villain has spiritual power, this matter must be related to Dan Wandong.

Xiao Ruyu gritted her teeth. If she wanted to clear Queen Duan's name, she had to catch that villain.

It was quiet late at night and everyone in the palace had gone to bed.

Xiao Ruyu tossed and turned, listening attentively to the noise outside.

"Click." A slight sound of the door closing was heard, and then the rustling sound disappeared.

Xiao Ruyu knew that the palace maid who was on night guard had gone to take over her shift.

A hint of spice popped out from between his fingers, and the guard at the door inhaled it and began to fall into a drowsy sleep.

The moonlight outside the door was extremely bright, shining clearly on the ground.

Xiao Ruyu clapped his hands, feeling lucky that he had kept a trick up his sleeve, when he suddenly felt a hand on his shoulder.

She resisted the urge to scream and didn't dare turn around.

[Who is it? What is it? Is it a human or a ghost? Ahhhhh, so scary! ]

She screamed inwardly, covering her eyes with her fingers and not daring to look back.

A clear and somewhat soft voice sounded softly.

"Don't be afraid, Princess. It's me."

Xiao Ruyu's eyes suddenly lit up, and she turned around and threw herself into Eleven's arms.

"Do you want to scare me to death in the middle of the night?"

She complained quietly and quietly pulled Eleven to a deserted place.

"How did you sneak out? I hope no one found you."

Looking at Eleven who had become thinner in the past few days, she felt even more guilty.

Eleven made a gesture to keep quiet, "I have heard about what happened today."

He picked up Xiao Ruyu. "Eleven guessed that the princess would sneak out at night, so he came to pick her up."

[Eleven, I now officially declare that you are the roundworm in my stomach! ]

Xiao Ruyu rubbed her little face against his sleeve and liked him even more.

"There is no time to lose, let's go find the villain quickly."

The two mischievous children began to move stealthily towards the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

Along the way, because the two people were short, they were not discovered.

After finally arriving at the study, Xiao Ruyu wanted to go directly through the front door, but was stopped by Eleven.

Eleven pointed to the window and motioned for them to enter from that side.

"Who is it?! Who's over there?!"

The two men had just hidden in the bushes when they were discovered by patrolling guards.

In a hurry, Eleven lowered his voice and spoke sharply.

“Meow—meow—”

“It turned out to be a wild cat.”

The guard muttered something and turned to patrol somewhere else.

Xiao Ruyu hung on him, with a slight gleam in her eyes and a hint of smile.

[I didn't expect you to be so smart, Eleven. I was planning to knock them out.]

[But you are so cute when you imitate the kitten! ]

After climbing in through the window, Xiao Ruyu pointed to a small box on the desk.

[During the day, I saw Dad put the little man in.]

Eleven opened the box, and Xiao Ruyu immediately felt the presence of spiritual power.

She took the little man and tried to use her own spiritual power to explore the little man's origins, but she could not find out anything.

[Strange, it looks like something has been smeared on it.]

Xiao Ruyu muttered to himself and looked at the little man over and over again.

"Princess, let's go out first."

Eleven reminded them that they could not stay here for too long. If they were discovered, both he and the princess would be punished.

Only after returning to the bedroom did Xiao Ruyu have time to carefully examine this villain.

With the dim candlelight, she indeed discovered something was wrong.

There were some bloodstains on the bottom of the little man, which had obviously been there for some time, and the color was a dark red.

Xiao Ruyu immediately closed his eyes and used his spiritual power to explore and feel the source of the blood.

really!

After a moment she opened her eyes and saw that the bloodstains were from the Empress Dowager!

If this is the case, it makes sense. The person who cast the curse must have taken the Empress Dowager's blood, infused spiritual power into it, and written the Empress Dowager's birth date on the figurine, so that the curse would be effective.

Eleven saw her open her eyes, and the worry in her eyes could not be concealed.

"Princess, do you have any clues?"

Xiao Ruyu showed a determined smile.

"Tomorrow, you will accompany me to Shou'an Palace, and together we will find out who is behind this."

The next day, Eleven took people to investigate and finally found a clue.

In the side hall, a maidservant beside the Empress Dowager knelt on the ground with a look of extreme panic on her face.

In front of him was a small bottle filled with blood, with a few strange-looking insects crawling around in it.

Xiao Ruyu jumped off Eleven and picked up the bottle, but in fact he was using his spiritual power to quietly explore it.

[Go and call Daddy, the blood in here belongs to the Imperial Grandmother.]

Xiao Ruyu conveyed a message to Eleven from the bottom of her heart.

Not long after, Emperor Shangwen came to the side hall.

[Dad, look, this is the man who took the blood of the Royal Grandmother and wanted to frame her.]

As soon as Emperor Shangwen appeared at the door, Xiao Ruyu's anxious voice appeared in his mind.

He sat down calmly and asked about the situation.

The maid was not very old and even looked a little childish.

She was looking down, so I couldn't see the expression on her face.

"This person is the maidservant beside the Queen Mother. She came last month. I don't know who instructed her to do this. All the evidence is here."

The guards around him answered everything honestly.

Emperor Shangwen glanced at the jar, on which the Empress Dowager's birthday and surname were clearly written.

"check."

"Let me get to the bottom of this matter."

He slammed his fist on the chair, and his emperor's aura was so intimidating that everyone in the hall knelt down in fear.

[Daddy is so scary, but he has the bearing of an emperor.]

Xiao Ruyu hid aside and watched all this quietly.

The maid was taken to the dungeon, and Emperor Shangwen ordered severe torture to extract a confession from her.

A few hours later, people from the Ministry of Justice came hurriedly to report.

"Your Majesty, she has confessed everything."

"Bring it here."

Emperor Shangwen spoke calmly.

After a while, the maid was thrown into the hall. As soon as she saw Emperor Shangwen, she kowtowed continuously.

"I deserve to die, I will tell you everything..."

Looking at her body covered with bruises and almost bloody, Xiao Ruyu smacked his lips in amazement.

[The Eighteen Departments of the Ministry of Justice are not working in vain. She must be instructed by someone. Daddy, please find out who is behind her. ]

"It wasn't the Queen who did this, it was..."

"Someone gave me a box of silver and told me to get some of the queen's blood and give it to him. I don't know anything else!"

The maid explained everything, but she said nothing about the "man behind the scenes".

"Who asked you to murder the Queen Mother and frame the Queen?"

"Tell me, and I can leave your body intact."

Emperor Shangwen's eyes were cold and he continued to ask.

“Yes…Yes…”

The maid hesitated and was about to utter the first word when her face suddenly changed.

[She was poisoned. The person behind the scenes was so cruel that he didn't even think of leaving her alive! ]