Later, Empress Xiao Qi arrived.

Empress Xiao Qi had delicate makeup and a proud look. Although she was a little hasty because of the sudden incident, she still looked luxurious. After she entered the palace, she glanced at Chu Jinyao and Qin Yi fiercely.

Empress Xiao Qi had heard part of it on the way. She had planted many spies around the emperor, and she was very clear about any movement around the emperor. But when Empress Xiao Qi really stood in the hall, she was still shocked. She seemed to have underestimated the situation.

The Empress Dowager glanced over the clothes on the tray. Although she was shocked in her heart, she showed no emotion on her face. She saluted the emperor gracefully, then sat down beside him and asked in a sweet voice: "Your Majesty, I have been waiting in the palace for a long time today, but the Crown Princess did not come to pay her respects. I asked around and found out that the Crown Princess and the Crown Prince came to Your Majesty's place. Your

Majesty's place is very lively with so many people. What are they doing?" The emperor did not say anything. Seeing this, Concubine Lian stood up pitifully and said: "Your Majesty, Empress Dowager, I had a miscarriage a few days ago. I thought it was my fault. I am unlucky and unqualified to raise a prince. But who would have known that this matter would have another twist. Your Majesty also knows that I do not like incense, but a few days ago I smelt fragrance on my clothes. I thought it was the servants who made it up. After asking, I found out that it was not them. I couldn’t figure it out, so I went to ask the imperial physician. Who would have known that the fragrance on the clothes could actually cause miscarriage. Your Majesty, Your Majesty, I am the only one who suffers because of my unlucky fortune. But if this matter is not investigated thoroughly, there are so many ladies in the harem. If another royal heir is killed, how terrible will it be? "

Concubine Lian's words clearly stated her position. The Queen would not tolerate her, so she could only find another way out.

The nails under the sleeves of Empress Xiao Qi were clenched tighter and tighter. She was always careful in her actions. The drugs she used on the concubines were very light, which gradually destroyed the offspring of these villains. Concubine Lian was the most adventurous one for Empress Xiao Qi. Because there was also the witch case in the Eastern Palace, Empress Xiao Qi took a gamble and dropped some explosive information. She never expected that this time she would fail. The conspiracy of many years was exposed. It would be a lie for Empress Xiao Qi to say that she was not panicking. However, she had been the empress for many years. She was not an easy person to climb to this position.

"I am the Empress of the Central Palace. It is my duty to govern the harem for the Emperor and to expand the family. However, I never thought that there would be someone in the harem who would dare to do such a thing." Empress Xiao Qi said, glancing at Concubine Lian. "Concubine Lian, since you found someone trying to harm you, why didn't you report it to me? Instead, you bypassed me and came to cry to the Emperor. Isn't that pitiful?"

Concubine Lian's face turned pale. As soon as the sky turned pale, the Queen Mother turned her eyes and said loudly to the outside: "You dared to harm the royal heir. It is a heinous crime. Come, bring the embroiderer who made the clothes here."

The embroiderer who was in charge of making the clothes was pressed down in the hall. The Queen Mother shouted with a sullen face: "Tell me, was it you who tampered with Concubine Lian's clothes?"

Chu Jinyao frowned when she heard this. The Queen Mother's words were too pointed. Sure enough, under the questioning of Empress Xiao Qi, the maid could not bear it any longer. She kowtowed and said, "Your Majesty, please spare my life. Your Majesty, please spare my life. I was jealous that Concubine Lian was favored despite being a fellow maid, so I was bewildered and hid something in your clothes. I deserve to die. Your Majesty, please spare my life!"

Chu Jinyao admired the gecko for cutting off its tail. The empress reacted quickly. The matter had just started, but the empress had already prepared a scapegoat. Chu Jinyao took a step forward and asked, "You are just a little maid. How did you get the courage to harm Concubine Lian? Moreover, musk and other things are not something that can be easily accessed. How did you get these ingredients?"

The maid was speechless. Chu Jinyao retracted her gaze and saluted the emperor, "Your Majesty, this maid is indeed despicable, but she is just a chess piece. Without anyone's guidance, how dare she do this? How could she do this?"

The Queen took the question calmly and asked "I'm asking you, did anyone instruct you?"

The maid shook her teeth and knelt on the ground resolutely: "No one. It was all done by me alone to tamper with the line and embroider clothes for Concubine Liang."

Chu Jinyao asked half in a warning and half in a threatening way: "Do you know that if you commit such a thing and go to the Ministry of Punishment, you will be sentenced to death. Even if you are subjected to all the tortures in the Ministry of Punishment, it will not be enough to offset your sins. Do you really want to admit it?"

The maid fell to the ground, trembling all over, but still gritted her teeth and refused to change her mind. Empress Xiao Qi took over the conversation with great satisfaction: "Concubine Xian gave birth prematurely, and I felt sorry for her. Now the murderer has been found, which is a good thing. We should be happy for Concubine Xian and the deceased prince. But the Crown Princess doesn't look happy. On the contrary, she seems a little unwilling to accept it." The palace

maids accused the empress of the crime, and the empress was unaware of it. At most, she was not strict in governing the harem. Empress Xiao Qi did such a vicious thing, and she was not hurt at all. Now she is in the mood to sow discord between the Eastern Palace and the emperor. The power of Empress Xiao Qi should not be underestimated.

Unfortunately, Chu Jinyao did not underestimate Empress Xiao Qi, otherwise, Qin Yi would not be standing here.

Empress Dowager Qi also saw Qin Yi. She even said sarcastically with great complacency: "The Crown Prince is here too. Concubine Lian is a palace concubine. Her accidental miscarriage is the harem's business. The Crown Prince just worries about state affairs every day, so why does he interfere in the affairs of the harem?"

Concubine Lian was overwhelmed with grief when she heard this. Today, she knew that the Queen could not be hurt. The Queen was fine, but she, the bold palace maid, would be in trouble! Since they were going to die anyway, Concubine Lian simply made up her mind and pointed at the palace maid on the ground and cursed: "You murderous woman, you can kill an unborn baby. Aren't you afraid of being killed by the ghosts when you sleep at night? Babies who are not born smoothly have the heaviest resentment. You will definitely get retribution in the future, and your whole family will not die well!"

Concubine Lian's indirect criticism was too strong, and the Queen of Qi raised her eyebrows uncontrollably. The fact that the baby was full of resentment undoubtedly touched the Queen of Qi's sore spot, and the Queen of Qi felt palpitations for no reason. She covered her chest and just as she had evened her breath, she heard Qin Yi sneer, and finally ended: "The Queen is right. I didn't intend to interfere in the affairs of the harem. The right and wrong are all left to the Queen to judge. If it weren't for the miscarriage of Concubine Lian this time, which involved witches and was framed on the East Palace, I really didn't intend to investigate this matter."

The Queen's face changed slightly, and Chu Jinyao lowered her head and chuckled. The Queen was too proud too early. It would have been fine if she was proud in her heart, but she had to show off in front of Qin Yi. Now she is happy.

Qin Yi glanced from behind, and immediately an eunuch bowed and retreated. When he came up again, he brought a complete set of things.

The person who reported the case was an articulate eunuch. His voice was crisp and logical, and he showed the emperor the evidence one by one, such as who the maid had just met and what relatives she had at home. The maid's private storehouse in the Forbidden City was also brought in, and the eunuch took it up one by one to show everyone. It was luxurious and expensive, and obviously not something the maid could afford. In addition, where the musk and several other ingredients were bought from, where the abortion medicine was prepared, how it was delivered to the palace, and even the eunuchs who ran errands and delivered the message were not spared. Qin Yi almost uprooted their entire line.

The Queen was really panicking now. If the truth was revealed, she could push one person out to take the blame, but if the other party had already figured out the whole thing, then taking the blame would not be enough. Qin Yi was too lazy to care after he presented the evidence. He did not point out the person he suspected, but since things had come to this point, there was no need to say anything more. The Queen's

eyes rolled around, and she repeated her old tricks, saying, "The prince is really all-powerful. Although he is in the palace, no matter what happens in the Forbidden City, you can see it. These things are all from the capital, right? Who would have thought that the prince is not here, but he can investigate whatever he wants in the capital."

The Queen was instigating again, creating trouble for Qin Yi to get out of her own predicament. Even if Qin Yi was not in trouble, the emperor was.

The emperor had a gloomy face. These people were all so good! One acted so presumptuous under his nose, and the other treated him as a fool. At this time,

he still tried to divert his attention. Harming the royal heir, burying witches in the palace, causing concubines to have miscarriages, this was just the concubine, and there might have been many more before. The emperor closed his eyes angrily. He suddenly felt tired. He knew that his eldest son and his young wife were not in harmony, but he did not expect that the situation had developed to this point. The empress arbitrarily excluded dissidents, and the East Palace had unknowingly expanded into a huge monster.

Empress Xiao Qi did this for a living. She was the first to discover that the emperor was in a bad mood. Empress Xiao Qi was shocked. It was over. Did the emperor really believe what Qin Yi said? The Empress Dowager could hardly sit still. Her eyes immediately turned red. She wiped her tears with a handkerchief, aggrieved and pitiful: "Your Majesty, do you really doubt me? I have been in the palace for more than ten years, devoted to you, and gave birth to Prince Lu and Yan'er for you. Why do you doubt me like this? I am already the Empress Dowager, and I have sons and daughters. Why should I be jealous of other concubines, let alone secretly harm them?"

This is simply a rogue logic. Who said that the Empress Dowager would not be jealous? Qin Yi did not expect that the evidence was in front of her, but the Empress Dowager could still be so shameless to deny it, and the Emperor actually let her distort the facts!

This is the difference between the thinking of men and women. Qin Yi thinks that the emperor is blind. Why doesn't he admit it when there is irrefutable evidence? But Empress Xiao Qi knows the emperor's mind very well. What is true and what is false? Even if the Dali Temple has decided the case, if it does not meet the emperor's wishes, then it is a wrong case and needs to be re-examined. Empress Xiao Qi is now playing the emotional card, and it is really effective depending on the situation.

Qin Yi saw the subtle changes in the emperor and wanted to scold the emperor for being a tyrant. Chu Jinyao gently reached out her hand and shook her head to him, signaling him to be patient.

Tears are women's exclusive weapons, so only women can fight.

Chu Jinyao bowed to the emperor and said slowly, "The Empress has governed the six palaces and raised princesses and princes, so she has made great contributions. However, the Empress has been wronged, but does Concubine Lian not feel wronged? That unfortunate child should have been the fourth prince."

This remark awakened the dreamer, and Concubine Lian immediately understood and began to cry. The Empress cried on the top, and Concubine Lian knelt on the ground and cried. The Empress could cry for her own obsession and hard work, and Concubine Lian had just lost her child, so her crying was justified and pitiful.

The saying "treat the disease with the right medicine" is really good. Qin Yi's evidence and arguing about the righteousness of the country were useless, but the Emperor was obviously shaken when Concubine Lian, who was known for her frailty and pitifulness, knelt and cried.

Qin Yi turned his eyes away, too angry to watch anymore, and Chu Jinyao also had mixed feelings when he saw this scene. But now is not the time to dwell on these things, Chu Jinyao continued: "Your Majesty, there are so many concubines in the harem, and you are their god. Now such a horrifying thing has happened in the palace. If it weren't for Concubine Lian's miscarriage, who knows how many more people would have been harmed by this insidious thing. Moreover, who would have known before that if there were any concubines who were unable to have children because of this. Your Majesty, just for the sake of the peace of the harem, you have to get to the bottom of this matter."

Concubine Lian alone can't compete with Empress Xiao Qi, so what about the three thousand beauties in the harem? The emperor was wavering with his beauties on both sides. He couldn't bear to embarrass his little wife, but he also pitied other beauties. How could he not be angry when the empress harmed them? Empress

Xiao Qi was so angry that she vomited blood. She simply gave another drastic measure: "Your Majesty, you clearly said that you would take good care of me. I believed it to be true, and when I saw that you agreed, I kept it in my heart. I have been by your side all these years, doing my best to be your wife. It's all your fault that I care about you too much, and you favor other beauties. I resent that I am not smart enough, but I also think about you all the time. Even if my heart is like a blunt knife, I will not change my mind. I am stupid and not as resourceful as the prince. I don't know what happened. The prince then laid out all the evidence of my crimes in front of him. "I know that the prince despises me. In this case, the emperor might as well depose me from the position of empress. When Prince Lu is enfeoffed, I will follow Prince Lu and leave the capital far away. The prince and the princess should be able to rest assured!" Empress Xiao

Qi spoke beautifully. She first expressed her love and implicitly told the emperor that although she had harmed the offspring of other concubines, it was because she loved the emperor deeply. Then, she took advantage of the emperor's soft heart and accurately gave the East Palace a drop of eye drops. It was both showing weakness and selling misery, which was really wonderful.

Qin Yi didn't expect that Empress Xiao Qi had the nerve to mention what happened in the past. How did she enter the palace? Did she really think that everyone didn't know? She even dared to mention it in public. Qin Yi sneered and said, "The evidence is as strong as a mountain and the crimes are numerous, but the queen still thinks she is not wrong?"

"Your Majesty!" The little queen looked at the emperor with tears in her eyes, "The prince really looks down on me. I always thought that sincerity could melt the rift, but it seems that I was still delusional. If I had known this would happen, I should have died that year, so as not to ruin the reputation of our daughter of the Qi family. Your Majesty, please take care of yourself. I will go to the underworld to find my sister and ask for her forgiveness!"

The little queen Qi did not save any face for herself. It had been a long time since she got pregnant before marriage and angered her sister to death, but it did not mean that no one knew about it. The emperor felt guilty for possessing the little queen Qi without any status back then, so he had been tolerant of her for many years. The little queen Qi did not care about her face and mentioned the past, and the emperor was indeed softened.

The emperor was soft-hearted, but Qin Yi was surprisingly angry. The Queen of Qi had always been a taboo for Qin Yi, and no one in the Eastern Palace dared to mention it. Now the name of Empress Wenxiao came out of the mouth of the Little Queen of Qi, and the Little Queen of Qi even used it as a weapon. Qin Yi's face immediately turned cold, his eyes like knives: "You are shameless, you are not qualified to mention your mother."

"Qin Yi, how dare you!" The emperor was enraged, and even ignored the many people standing in the palace, and directly called Qin Yi's name in front of everyone. Qin Yi satirized the Little Queen of Qi, how could he not be satirizing the emperor?

"You are really becoming more and more lawless!" The emperor was furious. "You dared to contradict the queen in front of me today. Will you not even take me seriously in a few days?"

Chu Jinyao hurried forward, squatted and said, "Your Majesty, Your Highness is angry because of his filial piety to Queen Wenxiao. Moreover, this matter is of great importance and almost involves the entire harem. If it weren't for coincidence, Concubine Lin would have been in trouble. The crime of abortion will be pinned on the East Palace. The emperor must give everyone an explanation. "

The emperor looked at Chu Jinyao with an unfathomable expression: "You have always followed Qin Yi in calling the empress, and it seems that you have never called your mother. You always support Qin Yi, right? Do you look down on the empress in your heart? Otherwise, why don't you call the empress mother?"

Chu Jinyao's heart sank, and he lowered his head, but did not speak. The emperor still didn't understand what he didn't understand. He laughed in anger and sneered: "You are all so good, get out of here!"

Chu Jinyao wanted to say more, but was stopped by Qin Yi. Qin Yi held Chu Jinyao's wrist, didn't even return the greeting, and turned around and left. The

Queen of Great Qi is the bottom line. Once the Queen of Great Qi is mentioned, there is no possibility for Qin Yi and the emperor to have a good talk.

Xiao Qi Hou looked at Qin Yi's back as she left, lowered her head and smiled softly.

Sure enough, when the Queen of Qi was mentioned, Qin Yi herself would be confused. Her sister was really good to her, even in death, she was still helping her.