"Empress Mother, if you are angry with me, I will also protect my father. It's obvious that this Wen Cejun has taken the poison from the petals of the acacia flower, and his mouth is a rainbow of colors."
"My father is allergic to the beautiful acacia flower. How could he possibly use it to harm others?"
When the empress heard her words, she let go of Xu Jinyi's hand, and with a look of great joy on her face, she asked for the imperial physician to come over.
Xu Jinyi took the opportunity to step forward and kicked Li Cejun hard again. He felt relieved when he saw him bleeding.
The empress opened her mouth, but in the end she didn't teach Xu Jinyi a lesson. She even felt a little happy in her heart.
Recently, she also felt that Li Cejun was really too annoying.
She and Feng Jun finally got their relationship back to its sweet beginnings, but many times their sweet moments were interrupted by the appearance of Li Cejun.
Feng Jun was confused. How come he didn't know that he was allergic to acacia flowers?
"Father, please stand up. If the Queen Mother doesn't support you, I will."
"Ouch……"
The back of his head was hit again, and Xu Jinyi covered his head and cried out in pain.
"You're talking nonsense. When did the Queen Mother ever say she didn't trust your father? Everything requires evidence."
Xu Jinyi pouted and snorted, "If I don't come back, you, the Queen Mother, will punish my father."
The Empress touched her nose and said awkwardly, "How could that be? Queen Mother knows your father's character. He would never do such a thing. Even if she couldn't find evidence, she wouldn't punish him arbitrarily."
The empress originally wanted to confine Feng Jun first, and then find evidence to prove his innocence.
Li Cejun covered his chest and stared at the empress in a daze. He couldn't believe that he had no weight in the empress's eyes.
It was him who had been by her side all these years.
He was the one who stayed with Feng Jun even after he got angry with him.
All these years of pampering and tenderness seemed to have disappeared in just one month.
How is that possible?
Li Cejun almost shed tears. Looking at Feng Jun who was still as charming and stunning as ever after so many years, a bitter smile was not enough to describe the pain in his heart.
It would be fine if he had never received it, but he had clearly been favored by the empress for more than ten years. Could it be that all was fake?
Li Cejun understood the feeling of gaining and then losing, and also understood the pain Fengjun suffered after his appearance.
But he couldn’t accept it!!!
The imperial physician arrived at this time, took the acacia flowers and diluted them, preparing to let Feng Jun do a skin test.
"Let me try. My father is in poor health and wants to make sure he doesn't develop any underlying illness. My father, my brother, and I are allergic to this flower. We have the same constitution, so I'll be the one to try."
Feng Jun was anxious: "How can this be possible? Father is so old, and you are still unmarried and don't have children. What if he gets hurt?"
"I am the rich and powerful person that Master Wuchen mentioned. I will definitely be fine." Xu Jinyi stretched out his hand without allowing it to be refused.
The empress nodded warmly at Xu Jinyi's filial behavior.
In the scene just now, she didn't really blame Xu Jinyi for being unruly.
As a child, if you see your father being slandered and wronged but remain indifferent, that is truly chilling.
This daughter is a little silly and does things boldly and recklessly, but she is not arrogant or domineering. At most, she is a little spoiled.
Besides, her daughter is beautiful and looks cute when she is spoiled, which is good.
Good.
Looking at the dense red spots on Xu Jinyi's arm, Feng Jun's suspicion was completely cleared.
The Empress's gaze towards Li Cejun grew even colder. "What else do you have to say now?"
Li Cejun was completely stunned. He never expected that his perfect plan would be broken like this.
He still failed because of his allergic constitution.
"Your Majesty, perhaps it was Lord Feng who ordered it..."
"How dare you! You're just a palace maid, and you should be grateful for the position you hold. But now you're so jealous you can't even contain your rage."
"Just because you were pampered for a few days, you dared to slander Feng Jun. Now that there is no evidence, you are still quibbling and pestering!"
"What are your intentions?!"
After so many years in the harem, Li Cejun had never been so embarrassed as today. In front of her biggest rival in love, she was scolded by the empress.
I just felt like all the reputation I had built up over the past decade was trampled upon the ground.
Li Cejun really couldn't understand why the empress's attitude towards him had changed like this. Was it just because Feng Jun had changed his personality?
Li Cejun knew that he had lost today's game, and if he continued to fight like this, he would be the only one who would be embarrassed.
He knelt before Feng Jun and kowtowed: "I'm sorry, Feng Jun. I didn't understand clearly and caused you to be wronged. I am guilty, and I hope Feng Jun will forgive me."
"Forgive what? I'm going to put the crime of murder on your head, and see if you will forgive me?" Xu Jinyi said in a loud voice.
The empress nodded with feeling. "You have committed insubordination. From today on, you will be demoted to a page boy, moved out of Huayang Palace, and relocated to Xingyun Pavilion."
Li Cejun looked at her in disbelief with tears in his eyes, and it would not be an exaggeration to say that his heart was scarred.
A choked voice said: "Your Majesty, why? Why do you treat me like this?"
"I've been serving you for the past ten years. What has Feng Jun done except to make you angry?"
"How could you do this to me? How could you?"
Li Cejun said this in order to make the empress take back her decision out of consideration for their old friendship.
Unexpectedly, this caused dissatisfaction from the empress.
"Is it your good fortune that a mere palace maid like you has the opportunity to serve me? You should be grateful instead of asking me for credit."
Li Cejun fell to the ground. The empress's words were like a basin of cold water poured over him.
Shaking his head, he said, "That's not the case. Is your Majesty's love for me all these years fake?"
"How dare you! That little bit of favor made you forget your own identity. Have you forgotten who I am?"
"Hahaha……"
When Li Cejun mentioned his identity, he burst into tears with a mocking look in his eyes: "Identity? Identity again?"
"After all, Your Majesty, you still look down on my status? You despise me because I was born into the palace."
"That's why you're so protective of Feng Jun. Has Feng Jun ever been by your side except for giving you the cold shoulder over all these years?"
"When you were sick, I was by your side."
Feng Jun said nothing and watched the scene coldly.
What Li Cejun said was the truth. Over the years, almost all the big and small matters in the empress's life were taken care of by Li Cejun.
As for why, it's because he doesn't bother to argue, but he won't explain.
Xu Jinyi saw the emotion on the empress's face and walked forward.
"Mother Queen, Li Cejun is my second sister's biological father after all. If you punish him like this, my second sister will be unhappy."
"For the sake of Li Concubine's many years of service and for the sake of my second sister, please give Li Concubine a chance."
The Empress's expression grew even colder. "Since he knows that he is the second child's biological father, he should be more careful with his words and actions."
There was not a trace of love in the empress's words. Those days of companionship and the favors he received seemed like a dream to him.
Chilling!
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