Chapter 566 Queen
Yan Ning immediately recounted what he had seen and heard truthfully.
The emperor's face changed again and again until he heard that the assassin was a death squad secretly raised by Prince Rui, and that the mastermind behind the incident was actually the queen. He immediately became restless.
"Nonsense! How could the Queen do such a thing? Did you believe the assassin's random accusation?"
The emperor slammed the table and stood up, coughing violently as the breath caught in his throat. Li Liangui hurried forward to pat his back to calm him down and persuaded the emperor to calm down.
Yan Ning's face paused, he lowered his head and said nothing.
In fact, under normal circumstances, if the assassin said with certainty that it was the Queen who ordered him to do so, he would not believe it.
But the person presiding over the trial at that time was the Princess Regent.
He didn't know what means the princess used, but he could see that she firmly believed what the assassin said was true, so Yan Ning did not doubt it at all.
Seeing that the emperor didn't believe it, Yun Qingqing spoke calmly:
"The assassin leader is outside the palace. If Your Majesty does not believe the assassin's testimony, I have a way to let Your Majesty see the truth with your own eyes."
The emperor looked at her suddenly:
"What method? Tell me!"
…
There is a Phoenix Terrace right in front of Fengqi Palace.
The top of Phoenix Terrace is the highest point in the entire harem. Standing on it, you can overlook the scenery of the imperial capital.
Queen Chen stood on the edge of the Phoenix Terrace wearing a fox fur coat, gazing at the prosperous New Year's night scene in the distance with a frown on her face.
It was already past midnight. On normal days the lights in the city would have been mostly turned off at this time, but as the New Year had just passed and the Lantern Festival had not yet arrived, big red lanterns were still hanging in every household. From a distance, they looked like a sea of bright red, which could be considered a brilliant display of lights.
However, everyone who should be asleep has already gone to bed by this time, and the fireworks that could occasionally be seen in the first half of the night are no longer there.
"My lady, it's windy at night. Why don't you go back to the palace first? I will keep an eye on this place for you."
Lan Rui, the Queen's personal maid, said.
As soon as she finished speaking, the queen suddenly grabbed Lan Rui's arm, pointed to the distance and said:
"Look what that is? Can you see it?"
Lan Rui was startled and looked quickly. She saw a green light in that direction, slowly falling from the sky.
While she was staring at the light spot, two balls of light exploded in the air, turning into two green spots of light that slowly fell downwards, forming a row diagonally with the light spot in front.
"It's a signal! Madam, that's great, the assassins succeeded!"
The queen also smiled, her grim expression showing satisfaction:
"Yun Qingqing is finally dead! Ever since she married the Regent, my Rui'er's fortune has been getting worse and worse!"
"Who cares what kind of Phoenix she is? Since she can't help my Rui'er, then let her die!"
"I want to see what kind of waves a dead Phoenix can make!"
The queen had a sinister smile on her face, wrapped herself tightly in the fox fur, turned around and was about to leave, but the smile on her face suddenly froze.
The emperor was seen standing at the entrance of the platform, supported by Li Liangui, looking over in disbelief!
Not only that, behind the emperor was Yun Qingqing, who should have died at the hands of the assassin!
Next to him was the commander-in-chief of the Imperial Guards, Yan Ning, and the leader of the death squad who was tied up and held by a team of Imperial Guards!
"Your Majesty...when will you..."
The queen panicked and spoke hastily, holding on to the last glimmer of hope.
"You vicious woman!" The emperor interrupted her angrily, "It was you who actually sent people to attack the Regent's Palace!"
"If I hadn't heard you say these words with my own ears, I would still be kept in the dark by you!"
At first the emperor didn't believe it at all, until Yun Qingqing said there was a way to let him see the truth.
The assassin leader was brought in and confessed personally that according to the Queen's instructions, after the mission was accomplished, three flares would be fired into the air from the Regent's Palace to notify the mastermind behind the scenes.
Then Yun Qingqing set up a concealment array on the spot, and the group was brought directly to the Phoenix Terrace, where they listened to the conversation between the Queen and Lan Rui word for word.
"What else do you have to say!" The emperor was so angry that he was shaking all over, and his last bit of hope was shattered.
The queen turned pale and knelt on the ground, trying to argue:
"Your Highness... Your Highness didn't... It must have been a misunderstanding just now..."
Yun Qingqing's face turned cold, and she raised her hand and threw a mantra over.
The Queen's half-sentence defense turned into:
"Who told Yun Qingqing to target Rui'er everywhere? Rui'er was deposed as the crown prince, and now he is imprisoned in the Heavenly Prison. It's all because of this scoundrel! Yun Qingqing must die!"
"Without her, Xiao Changheng's luck will be over! Only my Rui'er will have a chance to turn things around!"
"Shut up!" The emperor was so angry that he almost couldn't breathe. His hand was shaking as he pointed at her. "Xiao Zirui did something perverse and rebelled in public. He deserved this fate! Do you still want to turn things around for him?"
The Queen screamed with a distorted expression as if she was stimulated:
"So what! Now that the Regent is not in the capital, I just need to kill Tian Feng first, and then secretly poison you, a consumptive ghost, and my son can take advantage of the chaos to escape from prison and bring his men into the palace, and ascend to the supreme throne! He is the prince! This throne should have been his!"
The emperor was struck by lightning and looked at the queen in disbelief:
"You...you still plan to attack me!"
The queen's expression became more and more distorted, and she was terrified, but she spoke the truth without any ambiguity:
"Back then, I used all my family's strength to support you to become the crown prince, and eventually you ascended to the throne. What do you think it was all for?"
"Since you don't want my son to be emperor, don't blame me for being cruel!"
The emperor stumbled, gasped, and his face turned completely gloomy:
"Someone, take this vicious woman to the cold palace and wait for your punishment!"
When the queen was dragged away, she still looked at Yun Qingqing with hatred and cursed loudly, but her mouth was quickly blocked by the imperial guards.
The emperor took a long breath before he could catch his breath, gnashing his teeth:
"I will destroy her... and the entire Chen family..."
Yun Qingqing suddenly said:
"Your Majesty, this is inappropriate."
The emperor frowned and said in a rough voice:
"Not only did Chen send someone to kill you, she even wanted to attack me. Am I going to tolerate her and let her continue to be the queen?"
Yun Qingqing looked serious:
"On New Year's Eve, Xiao Zirui rebelled in public. Although he was subdued on the spot, the incident was too serious and the fate of the country has been affected."
"If at this critical moment, the Prince Regent's Palace is attacked, and the Queen's misconduct and treason are publicized, the Queen's position will be deposed, and the fate of the country will be shaken."
The emperor paused:
“…Is it really so?”
Yun Qingqing nodded:
"If Your Majesty does not believe it, you can summon the Imperial Master to ask him and you will know."
She had previously warned Yan Ning not to spread the news that the Queen had sent people to attack the Regent's Palace because Lingtong discovered that the fate of Daliang had changed.
Once the national destiny is shaken, natural disasters and man-made disasters will inevitably occur in the coming year, and the people will suffer the most.
Of course the queen must punish, but innocent people must not be implicated.
After hearing what Yun Qingqing said, the emperor immediately summoned the imperial teacher.
When the group returned to the emperor's bedroom, the imperial teacher Cang Qi also hurried over.
As a disciple of the Tianxuan Sect, Cang Qi always listened to Yun Qingqing's words, not to mention that what she said was absolutely right, so he immediately followed her words and advised the Emperor not to depose the Queen, and that the attack on the Regent's Palace should be suppressed.
As it concerns the fate of the country, the emperor finally calmed down and looked at Yun Qingqing with a complicated expression:
"But if the perpetrators of today's incident are not severely punished, how can we return justice to the Prince Regent's Palace?"
Yun Qingqing curled her lips coldly:
"The law of nature is cyclical, and retribution will come. Even if the traces of evil deeds are concealed for a while, they cannot escape the law of cause and effect in the end."
"The Queen has done far more than these things, and soon retribution will come upon her one by one."
"...More than that?" The emperor's expression changed.
Yun Qingqing knew that the emperor and the queen were a young couple and had always had a good relationship.
If the queen had not revealed her true face today, he would never have believed that the wife he had trusted for many years could be so vicious.
But it’s time to break the filter.
Yun Qingqing counted with her fingers and said calmly:
"The first life the queen took was when she was just coming of age. She killed her younger sister with her own hands in exchange for a marriage."
The emperor's pupils shrank severely, and his voice became a little trembling:
"What...was she the one who did it?"
Yun Qingqing nodded slightly:
"If your majesty doesn't believe it, you can ask the queen herself."
That's enough of that.
Because the mantra that Yun Qingqing cast on the queen was different, the ordinary mantra only lasted for one hour.
As for the curse on the queen, she couldn't tell a lie for three whole days.
When Yun Qingqing walked out of the palace, it was already dawn.
She slowly breathed a sigh of relief, her expression still grim.
The queen's good days are over, but she is not in a relaxed mood.
When seeing the Queen today, Yun Qingqing suddenly realized that she was entangled with so many karmas and retributions, which was clearly a manifestation of having done too many evil things.
But I had never been able to see it before.
It can only mean one thing...
The secret of the Queen was once concealed by human beings!
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