"Your Majesty!" Concubine Shu's face was pale, her eyes were wide open, full of fear and terror. She suddenly grabbed Zhong Zhiheng's hand tightly, then gasped and cried, "Your Majesty, the death of Queen Zhenxian has nothing to do with the Cui family! Please understand! Don't listen to the slander! Your Majesty, understand!"
"Is it really unrelated to the Cui family?" Zhong Zhiheng looked down at her and said in a deep voice, "Shufei, don't think that everything will be fine after Lu Guinian's death. I can't find out anything. On the contrary, only the dead will not lie, and only the dead can't keep secrets. What is the real identity of Lu Guinian's mother? Why did she flee from the capital to Dezhou? Who was behind the scenes pushing Lu Guinian step by step into the Imperial Hospital and making him the head of the Imperial Hospital? Who instructed Lu Guinian to deliberately misreport the month of the queen in front of me, and who finally killed Lu Guinian to silence him? Shufei, do you really think I am blind?"
"Your Majesty, I, I didn't know anything!" Concubine Shu said in a trembling voice. She held Zhong Zhiheng's hands tightly with both hands and cried, "Your Majesty, I really didn't know anything. Maybe there is a misunderstanding! I really know nothing. I never knew that Lu Guinian was from the Cui family! Please understand, Your Majesty!"
"Oh, you didn't know that Lu Guinian was from the Cui family?" Zhong Zhiheng curled his lips sarcastically, looking at Concubine Shu's instantly petrified face. Zhong Zhiheng also suddenly suppressed the smile on his face. He pinched Concubine Shu's chin tightly, narrowed his eyes and said coldly, "When did I say that Lu Guinian was from the Cui family? You said it yourself. You keep saying that you know nothing, but I think you know everything."
"Your Majesty, I...I..." Concubine Shu was completely panicked and could not continue. Tears flowed down the lines at the corners of her eyes. She didn't know whether it was because of fear or guilt. She sobbed for a while, then made up her mind and gritted her teeth and said, "Your Majesty, I am guilty. I knew that Lu Guinian was born in the Cui family, and I always felt that the death of Queen Zhenxian was strange, but I was afraid of getting into trouble, so I didn't dare to report it to Your Majesty. It's all because of my cowardice and the fear of implicating my mother's family. That's why I was confused. Please punish me! I really regret it!"
"Shufei, it's time to stop acting in front of me," Zhong Zhiheng looked at Shufei, frowned impatiently, and said disgustedly, "If you still want to pretend to be innocent and pitiful like before, then don't blame me for venting my anger on Ming'e. What kind of good son can a mother like you raise? I will order this ominous body to be executed right now, is it not too much?"
"Your Majesty! I am guilty! I am guilty! I deliberately tried to sow discord between the Emperor and the Empress, just to make Empress Zhenxian despair of Your Majesty, and let her think that Your Majesty has never been sincere towards her, and has always suspected that she is not innocent." The next second, Concubine Shu suddenly kowtowed like crazy and said in panic, "Your Majesty, please understand! Ming'e didn't know about this from the beginning to the end! Please forgive Ming'e! Don't involve Ming'e! It's all my fault!"
Zhong Zhiheng stared at Concubine Shu's bleeding forehead and asked through gritted teeth, "That day, when Siyao gave birth, what did you say in her ear?"
"Your concubine... Your concubine told her that she gave birth to a bastard at such a premature age. How could a lowly woman with no moral integrity have the face to be the mother of the country? Your Majesty couldn't say this, so I will say it." Concubine Shu stopped and kowtowed. She knelt on the ground, lowered her head and spoke in a low voice. Once she said this, even the most difficult words came out smoothly.
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