Seeing that she remained silent, Yan Chou glanced at Yan Xiuran's face and asked, "Queen, is it the Regent?"
Xie Shizhu was stunned and replied subconsciously: "Not the Regent."
Suddenly, she realized that she had fallen into Yan Chou's trap, and belatedly said, "It has nothing to do with others."
Inside Chengming Palace, no one dared to speak except for the voices of Yan Chou and Xie Shizhu. After all, Yan Chou was too terrifying at this moment, and no one wanted to bring trouble upon themselves.
Yan Chou raised his eyebrows slightly, bent down slightly, and stroked Xie Shizhu's face with his long fingers. His palms with light calluses rubbed against her skin. Xie Shizhu shuddered with fear. "Queen, when did you learn to lie?"
The ministers wanted to leave, because if they stayed any longer, they might be implicated by the capricious tyrant.
Yan Chou leaned close to Xie Shizhu's ear and whispered in a low voice, "If you don't tell the truth, the Regent will die because of you."
These words made Xie Shizhu's pupils shrink, and he reflexively looked at the woman in red who was already kneeling on the ground.
Yan Chou noticed her gaze, and with a bloodthirsty sneer on his lips, he looked straight in Fang Yiran's direction.
Fang Yiran sensed a cold gaze and quickly raised her head, only to meet Yan Chou's deep black eyes.
She was startled and her heart skipped a beat.
Yan Chou slowly straightened up, his tall figure casting a shadow in the sunlight outside. He said in a tone that brooked no argument, "Minister of Personnel, starting tomorrow, you will be heading to the water area. You will have to work hard for me for several months."
The Minister of Personnel shuddered and looked up in disbelief.
There was a famine there, with corpses everywhere. It was hard to say whether you would be dead or alive if you went there.
"emperor……"
Yan Chou returned to the desk, took a brush and wrote the imperial edict on the imperial silk, then Fu Yun took it with both hands.
The imperial edict that Fu Yun read out was like a judge sending the Minister of Personnel to the underworld.
"The Emperor, by the Mandate of Heaven, decrees that the Minister of Personnel shall proceed tomorrow..."
The Minister of Personnel was trembling all over, not understanding why he would end up in a place where life was worse than death.
Fang Yiran stood there in a daze, tears in her eyes, but she didn't dare to refute the imperial edict, so she could only lower her head.
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"What?" The Empress Dowager's hand trembled as she held the teacup. After hearing the eunuch's words, she threw the cup to the ground and asked in a trembling voice, "The Emperor sent the Minister of Personnel to the waters?"
The eunuch said, "It is absolutely true, Your Majesty, that the imperial edict has been delivered to the Minister of Personnel."
The Empress Dowager held her breath in her chest and slammed her right hand on the table, "You don't take me seriously!"
Everyone knows that the Minister of Personnel has a good relationship with her, and what Yan Chou is doing now is nothing more than a warning to her.
The eunuch told the empress dowager everything that had happened in Chengming Palace. When she heard that it was because of Xie Shizhu, the empress dowager's face became increasingly gloomy. She clenched her hands tightly together, her nails digging into her flesh.
The Queen Mother said angrily: "Disaster!"
Lin Xuan stood beside the Empress Dowager and breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, she did not follow her just now, otherwise her life would have been in danger.
However, she thought Yan Chou was too naive. A man who could sit on the throne must have a meticulous mind.
Lin Xuan pondered for a while, then leaned close to the Empress Dowager's ear and whispered, "Empress Dowager, there will be a flower viewing party tomorrow, and many ministers will be there. I will then find a way to reveal the toad blood on Xie Shizhu's arm. By then, the Emperor will lose face, and if you get angry, he will naturally listen to you."
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