Chapter 114: The Deposed

Queen The Queen Mother heard the report from the palace maid and immediately raised her hand and stood up with the help of someone.

"I'll go and take a look."

The Queen looked a little surprised.

She also stood up from the ground and followed the Queen Mother.

Ling Changning's face was pale, and she whispered to the Queen: "Mother, what kind of child's body is this? Changning really doesn't know!"

Her eyes were full of anxiety and worry.

The Queen gently held her daughter's hand, and her eyes were a little more cruel.

"Don't be afraid, wait and see."

The Queen Mother walked to the front and saw that the body of a child of about three or four years old was placed on the ground.

The coroner had already come and squatted in front of the child's body to examine the body.

"He is more than three years old, a boy, with six toes on his right foot. The cause of death is a severe blow to the head, which caused a sunken skull."

The Queen Mother, who was standing by, turned pale when she heard the words of the coroner .

"You said he has six toes?"

The coroner stood up and saluted the Queen Mother.

"Yes, Queen Mother."

The Queen Mother's eyes flashed, and she couldn't help but fall into memories.

The prince is not the real eldest son.

Her sister also entered the palace with the queen.

And her sister gave birth to a boy in the first year of entering the palace.

The child was called Yier. When he was three years old, he was smart and clever, very likable, and a genius. He learned everything very quickly. The emperor and she loved him very much.

The emperor even wanted to directly appoint the child as the prince.

But because the child had six toes, the funeral was delayed again and again.

But no one knew what happened. The queen's sister suddenly went crazy and burned herself in the palace with her child one night.

The fire burned all night. When the palace servants put out the flames, they only found the charred bodies of two people.

She loved the little grandson especially, and she even took care of him most of the time. She had a deep affection for the little grandson. After learning about this, she fell seriously ill.

But shouldn't the little grandson with six toes be buried?

When she knew about this, she was too sad and left the funeral to the queen.

In the fire, the child's skin and flesh were all burnt, but the gold lock he carried with him was found on him to confirm his identity.

It has been so many years, why did this corpse appear in the garden?

Countless doubts arose in the Queen Mother's heart.

Even the Queen widened her eyes, her eyes full of disbelief.

Her heartbeat quickened, she clenched her teeth tightly, and grabbed Ling Changning's hand with an unknown force.

Ling Changning couldn't help but cry out in pain.

"Mother, it hurts!"

The Queen came to her senses after hearing her daughter's voice, and quickly let go of her hand.

Seeing that her daughter's hand had been pinched red, the Queen realized it belatedly.

"Mother didn't pay attention."

Ling Changning also knew that the atmosphere in the situation was not right, and she covered her hand and dared not speak.

The Queen Mother walked to the corpse, staring at the little grandson who had turned into white bones.

This was her first grandson

. "Can you confirm for me again? Is there any sign of fracture in the left arm of this child?"

"Replying to the Queen Mother, there is indeed a sign of fracture."

Hearing this, the Queen Mother's eyes were dazed for a moment.

More than three years old, with a broken left arm and six toes on the right foot.

She could almost determine that this was the body of her little grandson.

The corpse of a person who had been buried appeared here. He was buried in the garden and his skull was broken

. A truth gradually formed in the Queen Mother's mind.

The Queen's heart also skipped a beat.

She naturally heard what the coroner said.

She also guessed the identity of the corpse.

But why was his corpse hidden in this flowerbed? Why!

She had someone take the child's corpse out of the palace and dumped it far away in a mass grave. There were piles of corpses there, and it was absolutely impossible for anyone to find it.

The queen felt that this was so magical

. It was like a nightmare.

Her face was pale, and she was confused for a while, and she couldn't sort out her thoughts at all.

But at this moment, she heard the queen mother's voice.

"Queen, tell me, what is the crime of killing the prince?"

The queen hurriedly bowed her head.

"Queen Mother, killing the prince is a capital crime!"

The queen mother turned around, staring at the queen with cloudy eyes, and the anger in her voice could no longer be suppressed.

"Tell me why Yi'er's body is buried with these people?"

The corners of the queen's lips moved.

But she didn't say a word.

She has been in charge of the power of the six palaces for so many years, and as the queen, she can be said to have the power of the entire harem in her hands.

Even if the concubine competes with her, she is not afraid at all.

But now, she never dreamed that she would fall into such a strange thing.

The corpse of the little grandson appeared here inexplicably, which made her feel creepy, as if some of her actions were known to others and were secretly controlled by others.

She now felt like she had been stripped naked and paraded through the streets.

The Queen Mother closed her eyes for a long time before opening them. The scene was filled with silence and repression.

"Since the Queen knows, what do you think I should do with you?"

The Queen knelt down in front of the Queen Mother.

"Queen Mother, I don't know how the corpse got into the garden. I didn't kill this person!"

The Queen Mother laughed coldly, and her originally gentle eyes were full of anger.

"There are so many people here, and they all heard you say that the corpses under the garden were all killed by you. Now you want to refute it and say that the death of the little grandson has nothing to do with you? Then tell me how he died!" The Queen Mother

was furious as never before.

She had been fasting and chanting Buddha for so long, and she rarely got so angry.

The Queen lowered her head.

"This matter is very strange. Please allow me to find out the real murderer!"

"You are still quibbling at this point. Come, take the Queen down!" The Queen

Mother was too lazy to listen to the Queen's nonsense.

As soon as the order was given, people rushed up from both sides and held the empress down.

The empress was pale and was dragged away by two maids without mercy.

"Empress Dowager, I am innocent, I want to see the emperor!"

However, her voice was getting farther and farther away.

In this harem, the status of the empress dowager will eventually surpass hers.

Ling Changning watched her mother being dragged away, and tears could not stop flowing down her face. However, she, who was usually cruel, had no way to deal with such a scene.

"Mother, mother..."

She wanted to chase after her, but was held back.

When the imperial concubine saw this result, she was already laughing secretly, and there was a little more depth in her eyes.

Whenever I think about the girl from the An family who is behind all this, and even the empress is being played around by her, I feel my scalp tingling.

This young lady from the An family must not be offended!

The queen mother stood among the crowd, feeling the silence around her, and gently walked to the corpse of the little grandson of the emperor.

"No matter who killed you, I will make her pay the price!"

Everyone saw from the queen mother's eyes that she took this matter seriously.

The queen mother's face was not very good, and she suddenly turned her head to look at Ling Fengxun in the crowd.

"Fengxun, come here."