The next day.
When Wei Yaer woke up, Emperor Wen Yuan was no longer by her side. This had never happened before. Every time Emperor Wen Yuan made love with her, he would become more dependent on her and would want to stick to her unless he fell asleep.
But when she woke up this morning, she found that Emperor Wen Yuan was nowhere to be seen.
Wei Yaer glanced around and saw that she was still in the Palace of Heavenly Purity. She finally felt a little relieved and called out, "Someone come."
"My Lady."
Cui Hong quickly entered the room.
"Where's the Emperor?"
Wei Yaer slowly stood up from the bed, the quilt slipped off her body, revealing her skin as delicate as snow...
Cui Hong stepped forward to serve.
But soon she exclaimed: "My Lady, you, your skin..."
Wei Yaer frowned, somewhat displeased with Cui Hong's shouting. "If you have anything to say, just say it nicely. Don't be so loud. You're giving me a headache."
Cui Hong pointed at her exposed body, her eyes showing surprise.
"My lady, your skin has grown scales."
"What fish scales?"
Wei Yaer lowered her head where Cui Hong pointed, and was shocked to see that her skin, which had been nourished by the Gu and was as tender as white tofu, had suddenly grown fish-scale-like patterns.
She quickly reached out to touch it.
It didn't feel like fish scales when touched, but the markings looked like they were carved into it, looking weird and ugly against her white skin.
And the pattern was not just a single spot, but a large area.
"How could this happen?" Cui Hong was also anxious, and subconsciously asked, "Madam, could she really be poisoned?"
Wei Yaer rubbed it for a long time but couldn't rub it off, and it didn't hurt when she pressed it.
Soon she thought of something.
"It's him!"
Wei Yaer suddenly thought of something, and her face suddenly became ugly. She couldn't help but clenched her hands: "I actually forgot about him!"
Cui Hong didn't know who she was talking about, but she still asked worriedly, "Madam, do you want to call the imperial physician?"
"No."
It's no use asking.
Wei Yaer's mind, which had been blinded by power before, has finally returned to normal.
How could she forget about Chen Li!
He still has the mother Gu in his body, which means she is being controlled! !
Damn it!
Wei Yaer punched the bed, wondering why she had forgotten to consider this before! But now that she had torn her face with Princess Yuchang, she was afraid she would not let her go so easily.
But Wei Yaer soon calmed down.
"Help me see if there is anything else." Wei Yaer stood up and asked Cui Hong to see if there was anything else on her body.
After confirming that there was only a patch around her waist, Wei Yaer asked Cui Hong to help her change her clothes.
"Where's the Emperor?"
Wei Yaer asked again.
Cui Hong then replied, "Your Majesty has gone to court."
"So early?"
Ever since Emperor Wenyuan got together with her, the time for the morning court session has been postponed to the hour of Chen, so it should be the hour of Mao now.
"I heard that someone struck the drum to report the incident." Cui Hong said.
Dengwengu?
Wei Yaer naturally knew about the Dengwen Drum. After all, when Yang Zhao sued the Shen family, he went to beat the Dengwen Drum.
"Do you know who it is?" Wei Yaer asked.
Cui Hong shook her head. "I was afraid Your Majesty wouldn't be able to find me when she woke up, so I didn't dare go out and ask. I just heard Eunuch Li, who is beside Your Majesty, mention it when he was accompanying Your Majesty on his way to court."
"Go and find out."
"yes."
In less than half an hour, Cui Hong came back.
"Your Majesty, I've found out everything." Cui Hong hurried to Wei Yaer's side and said, "It was Princess Yu who struck the drum to report the incident."
"Princess Yuchang?"
Wei Yaer was startled: "Why is she going to beat the Dengwen drum?"
"I heard that he was suing the Marquis of Zhenbei."
Wei Yaer was stunned: "Sue the Marquis of Zhenbei?"
In the court.
The Dengwengu case was supposed to be tried in the Dengwen Tower.
But today it was pouring rain outside, so Emperor Wenyuan moved the case directly to the court.
"...So, Imperial Sister, are you saying that the person who poisoned you and your beloved concubine was the Marquis of Zhenbei? And the person who has been spreading rumors about my incompetence and my evil concubine causing trouble for the past few months is also the Marquis of Zhenbei?"
All the civil and military officials in the court were stunned at this time.
They all looked at Yang Tiejiang, who was always showing his big white teeth. This guy was always flattering people.
He behaves completely like a sycophant.
But now Princess Yu Chang is accusing him of so many 'evil deeds' behind her back?
Many people don't quite believe it.
Because Yang Tiejiang's performance in recent times has been too deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. After all, Old Lu was beaten to death, and Tutor Liu was crippled by his kick, not to mention others. The Marquis of Zhenbei watched them being punished or even beaten to death every time, and never showed up to help.
Now tell them that Yang Tiejiang has been secretly planning to kill the demon concubine and is even manipulating public opinion.
This is unlikely anyway.
"Your Majesty, this is only secondary. The Marquis of Zhenbei... ostensibly handed over military power, but in reality, more than half of the Yang family's army, far away at the border of Yongcheng, disappeared months ago. Those who disappeared were all Yang family soldiers."
"And I just learned about this."
Princess Yuchang sat aside with a sickly look on her face. As soon as she finished speaking, Nanny Hua immediately handed a memorial to Eunuch Li with both hands.
Eunuch Li delivered it to Emperor Wenyuan.
After seeing this, Emperor Wenyuan's face suddenly darkened.
"Marquis Zhenbei, take a look at what the higher-ups said to see if it's true!" Emperor Wenyuan threw the memorial in his hand down.
Yang Tiejiang knelt down to pick it up and took a look at it, then immediately shook his head: "Your Majesty, this cannot be true. I handed in my military token long ago, so how could I possibly mobilize the troops at the border? The princess must have been poisoned, her mind is confused, and she has been deceived."
Princess Yuchang smiled coldly: "The Marquis of Zhenbei is really good at making excuses."
"Everyone knows that your Yang Family Army always recognizes people instead of military tokens. Besides, there is your Yang Family's eldest son in Yongcheng. It's clearly written on it that the Yang Family's eldest son also disappeared two months ago."
"The disappearance of Prince Yang, and the disappearance of tens of thousands of Yang family soldiers, has been concealed. If I hadn't accidentally received this urgent report, I'm afraid Your Majesty and the people of the world would still be deceived by you."
"Your Majesty, the Marquis of Zhenbei first spread the news that Your Majesty doted on the enchanting concubine and was incompetent, then used Your Majesty's hands to kill so many loyal ministers, disrupting the government. He has been secretly mobilizing troops. I'm afraid he has long harbored evil ambitions. Now, who knows if the Yang family soldiers who have disappeared for several months have already secretly attacked the capital..."
"Have the Yang family soldiers reached the capital?"
"That's impossible. Even if the Marquis of Zhenbei is confused, he wouldn't commit a rebellion..."
"Yeah, could this be a misunderstanding?"
Lord Xu then stood up and said, "If it weren't true, would Princess Yu have sounded the alarm so early? Furthermore, there's now an urgent report from the border. I'm afraid this Zhenbei Marquis truly has wicked ambitions. If Princess Yu hadn't come here today to expose the conspiracy, I'm afraid we wouldn't even know what was going on until the Yang family army arrived in the capital..."
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