Chapter 152 Frame-up?
Seeing this, Xiao Yu quickly turned his head away, feeling overwhelmed, and then pulled Xu Chuchu's sleeve, suggesting that she continue watching.
But Xu Chuchu wasn't sure what the Queen was doing. Could she be a seventh-rank master of physiognomy who had hidden her cultivation and was coming here to practice in the pool?
That's impossible. If she was really so capable, how could she give birth to such a clueless son like the Second Prince?
Besides, isn't it the time for the Emperor's birthday banquet? As the Empress, why would she choose this time to practice? Is that reasonable?
Xu Chuchu looked at the queen and found her standing by the pool, removing the pearls and jade from her hair one by one, taking off layers of heavy clothes, shoes and socks, and placing them neatly aside, leaving only a thin undergarment.
Then he really stepped into the pool.
The water in the pool quickly covered her knees, waist, chest... and even her head.
In the blink of an eye, the queen was immersed in the water and disappeared completely!
"Xiao Yu!" Xu Chuchu shook Xiao Yu back from turning away, "The Queen has left!"
Xiao Yu was also incredulous: "Could it be that the Queen is also a cultivator? But I have never heard anyone mention this in all my years in the palace. Could it be that this pool of water was not created by the Grand Master, but by her?"
The two of them waited quietly there, wanting to see the Queen's next move.
However, after waiting for a long time, the surface of the pool remained calm and nothing happened.
The two began to sense something was amiss, and quietly circled around the pool, looking inside.
The underwater queen's body was seen rising and falling, face downwards, limbs spread out weakly... It didn't look like she was practicing at all, it was clear that something had happened!
"Oh no!" Xiao Yu jumped into the water without saying a word.
"Ayu, be careful, don't use your spiritual power!" Xu Chuchu quickly reminded.
She didn't know whether Xiao Yu heard it or not, but she saw him dive into the water, swim to the queen in a few seconds, grab the back of her collar, and swim back quickly.
Xu Chuchu stood on the shore to provide support. Together with Xiao Yu, they carried the queen ashore. Seeing that she was unconscious, they quickly turned her body over, pressed on her back and spit out water to save her.
However, perhaps it was because the queen had been soaking in the water for too long, Xu Chuchu tried to rescue her for a long time and even used artificial respiration, but it still had no effect.
The queen's heart and breathing stopped and she passed away.
A queen drowned in a pool in the corner of the palace for no apparent reason.
"Found it, here it is! The Queen is here!"
Suddenly, someone shouted in the distance, and a large group of people rushed over, obviously coming for the queen.
The one rushing in the front was the queen's biological son, the second prince.
"Mother, Mother?!" He rushed forward in astonishment and snatched the Queen's body from Xu Chuchu's arms. "Mother, what's wrong with you?"
"What happened?" He saw that the queen was unconscious. He sniffed her breath and shuddered. "What did you do to her? Did you kill her?!"
Xiao Yu and Xu Chuchu looked at each other and knew that trouble was coming.
However, they didn't have time to explain as more people came over.
Court officials, concubines, grand masters, even the crown prince and the emperor himself, all came over at the same time and surrounded the pool.
"What's going on?" The emperor came over first and examined the queen's body. He was stunned for a moment. "Did she fall into the water? Didn't the queen say she was going to change clothes? How did she end up in this pool after not being seen for so long?"
"Xiao Yu, you were here too?" He stared at Xiao Yu, who was also soaking wet. "Explain it to me!"
The Second Prince rushed forward like a madman and grabbed Xiao Yu's collar. "It's you! You killed my mother! If you have any grudges or grievances, come and attack me. You're nothing compared to me! You murderer, I'll fight you to the death!"
The Crown Prince stepped forward and pulled the Second Prince away from Xiao Yu. "Second brother, calm down first. Young Master Xiao has no grudge against you and will not harm our mother."
"That's you!" The Second Prince seemed unable to bear the blow of his mother's death. He was biting everyone he saw. "You have a grudge against me, right? You were afraid that I would take your position as Crown Prince, so you secretly put so many obstacles in my way. Now you are trying to harm my mother!"
"Second brother, don't..."
"Shut up, everyone!" The emperor's face turned pale. "Xiao Yu, you speak!"
Xu Chuchu took advantage of the chaos to quickly recall the entire incident.
First, she and Xiao Yu used the excuse of being drunk to go out and look for the center of the magic circle. They came all the way here, but before they could figure out the secret of the center of the magic circle, they happened to meet the queen and jumped into the pool to commit suicide.
He had just pulled the man out of the water when he was caught red-handed by the second prince who had arrived and was accused of being the murderer.
All the time points were too coincidental, as if there was a mastermind behind the scenes who knew that the queen was going to commit suicide and deliberately set up a whole trap to frame Xiao Yu for the queen's death.
But the question is...how could the mastermind behind this know that they would come to this wasteland to look for the magic circle?
Tracking? Impossible.
They were extremely cautious along the way, taking detours back and forth repeatedly, and even stayed in an abandoned palace for such a long time. If someone was following them nearby, it would be impossible for them to be unaware.
If someone is really framing him, he needs to—
Able to discern their trajectory without getting close to them;
He knew that the Queen would choose to commit suicide today and at this time, or that he had the ability to force the Queen to commit suicide.
I also need to know Xiao Yu very well, knowing that he would definitely not stand by and watch someone die...
Not to mention anything else, just to achieve the first point, Xu Chuchu can only think of one person.
That is the Grand Master with a cultivation level beyond the seventh level.
He was the only one who could detect their movements through physiognomy without being noticed.
But when she looked in the direction of the Grand Master, she found that the white-bearded old man had been looking at her since she didn't know when.
The two of them suddenly looked at each other. The Grand Master stood in the crowd, spreading his hands and shaking his head helplessly at her, indicating that he didn't know what was going on.
So... he knew Xu Chuchu would suspect him, so he watched her and waited. At the same time, he was also telling Xu Chuchu that he knew there was an energy pool here, but the Queen's death had nothing to do with him?
But if it wasn't him, who else could it be? !
Xiao Yu twisted his dripping cuffs and said calmly, "Your Majesty, I happened to be passing by here and saw women's clothing and jewelry piled by the pool. Suspicious, I approached and saw a woman drowning in the pool, so I rescued her. Upon reaching shore, I discovered it was the Empress, but it was too late. There was nothing I could do to save her."
There was some discrepancy between this explanation and what actually happened, but Xu Chuchu quickly understood the intention and secretly praised him for his meticulous thinking.
He couldn't honestly say that he saw the Queen go into the water with his own eyes, otherwise he would definitely be questioned "Why didn't you stop her earlier" or "Why didn't you rescue her in advance", which would cause a lot of trouble.
Xiao Yu did not rescue them directly because they discovered the problem with the pool water early on and thought that the queen went into the water to use the power of the pool water to do something, so they kept doing nothing.
But these statements were too absurd and obviously not enough to convince the court officials who had never practiced cultivation.
After hearing his explanation and seeing the neatly stacked clothes and jewelry by the pool, everyone began to trust him more.
After all, if it was really Xiao Yu who harmed the people, why would he spend time folding the clothes, and why would he go into the water himself, soaking his body and giving others a handle?
"But Master Xiao," Chen Zhaozhi squeezed forward from behind several court officials and asked suspiciously in front of everyone, "Didn't you go back to rest because you were drunk? Why did you run to such a remote place? From the Imperial Garden to here, and from the Imperial Garden to the resting palace, it seems like they are two completely opposite directions."
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