Chapter 460 Lurking
Before Nan Jiao arrived at the East Palace, she saw Zhan Yeyuan holding Feng Qingqing and walking towards her, with many people following behind them.
Seeing that they were fine, I felt relieved.
"Why are you here?" Zhan Yeyuan frowned. She sent someone to ask him to leave the palace. Although he didn't know why, he still decided to listen to her.
Thinking that Feng Qingqing was in the East Palace, he had to go find her.
"Since you didn't come out, I was worried something might have happened." Nan Jiao said with a faint smile.
"Let's get out of here quickly." Zhan Yeyuan's face was tense. He didn't expect such an explosion to happen in the palace. The previous noise was not an ordinary explosion.
Nan Jiao looked towards the place where the explosion occurred. "It shouldn't explode again. Just like what I guessed the other day, it was Hua Zhaoyi."
Zhan Yeyuan's handsome face turned cold, "It's really her!"
When Nan Jiao wrote her name that day.
He couldn't believe it.
After all, Hua Zhaoyi had no presence in the harem at all.
Feng Qingqing's beautiful eyes widened.
The fire and explosion in the palace were caused by Hua Zhaoyi?
"I asked my royal grandfather and father to go to Prince Jin's Palace, and Hua Zhaoyi was also taken there. We will go there now, and the affairs of the palace will be handed over to Commander Mu." Nan Jiao said.
It has been a while since the previous explosion. There is no explosion now, and there should not be another explosion. After all, explosions require people to ignite them.
But to be on the safe side.
It’s better not to stay in the palace for now.
The fire and explosion caused great damage to the palace.
Zhan Yeyuan nodded.
He also wanted to find out how Hua Zhaoyi did all this.
…
Prince Jin's Palace.
Nan Jiao and her group went in immediately.
Zhan Yihang was awake because of the imperial physician's treatment. At this time, he stayed beside Hua Zhaoyi, "Father, mother would not do such a thing."
Emperor Jingming frowned and angrily said, "She pushed you into the lake, and you actually spoke for her. She even wanted to kill me!"
Zhan Yihang's pupils shrank and his face turned pale. "Mother wouldn't do that. She has always been gentle and never fought for anything. How could she do such a thing?"
"Your Majesty, I am innocent. I know nothing." Hua Zhaoyi's eyes were red from crying. Jiang Nanjiao knocked her unconscious.
When she woke up again, she was already in Prince Jin's mansion, tied up with ropes.
"I'll give you a chance to confess. You'd better tell the truth and don't let us put the evidence in front of you." Emperor Jingming's eyes were full of ruthless murderous intent.
Her crime is more serious than that of the queen.
At this time, he was extremely upset.
I didn't expect that there were two such scheming women around him.
And he had no idea!
If it weren't for Nan Jiao, would the Qin State have been destroyed by these two women?
"I really know nothing, Your Majesty. I am innocent." Hua Zhaoyi cried with tears in her eyes, looking pitiful and aggrieved.
The petite body curled up into a ball, looking harmless and innocent.
"You are not innocent!" Nan Jiao walked into the front hall, and as soon as she arrived, she heard her cry of injustice.
Hua Zhaoyi turned and looked at her, "Princess Jin, why are you targeting me? You said before that I pushed Yihang, he is my son."
"Princess Jin, my mother will never do anything to hurt me." Zhan Yihang looked at Nan Jiao firmly with clear eyes.
"Your mother is not what you imagined she was. She was the one who started the fire in the palace, she was the one who caused the explosion, and she was the one who killed the empress." Nan Jiao said firmly.
Her words fell.
All the concubines present gasped and looked at Hua Zhaoyi with moist eyes in disbelief.
She killed the queen?
She set the fire?
She blew up the palace?
They really couldn't imagine that she was the one who did it, because Hua Zhaoyi was petite and weak, usually looked innocent, and her family was not that good.
She has always been well-behaved, never jealous, and only caters to others.
"Why do you say that? I have no grudge against you." Hua Zhaoyi said with a wronged look.
"You are a descendant of the Xuanyuan tribe from five hundred years ago. You are a chess piece they placed in the Qin imperial palace. Those explosives were not originally meant for today."
"Because the prince and I went to dig up the royal tomb of the Xuanyuan tribe, you got anxious and set a big fire in the palace. You probably guessed that we were suspicious."
"You waited until we got together before you had someone ignite the explosives, intending to kill both Grandfather and Father. Am I right?"
Nan Jiao looked at her and spoke coldly word by word.
Hua Zhaoyi stared at her without saying anything.
How did she know?
"You killed the queen because she had connections with your leader, and you were afraid she would confess, so you first killed her in the cold palace and then set it on fire to make it look like she had burned herself to death." Nan Jiao continued.
"You, you vicious woman, you actually killed my mother." Zhan Yao couldn't bear it any longer and pounced on her, wishing to tear her into pieces.
"Don't hit my mother." Zhan Yihang hurriedly protected Hua Zhaoyi.
"Pull the twelfth prince aside!" Emperor Jingming said angrily.
Two guards immediately stepped forward and forcibly pulled Zhan Yihang away.
Zhan Yao waved his fist at Hua Zhaoyi.
But only twice.
She was knocked away by Hua Zhaoyi's palm, and she used her internal force to break the ropes on her body.
"ah……"
Zhan Yao screamed and fell to the ground.
Upon seeing this, the guards present lined up to protect the retired emperor and Emperor Jingming.
"Jiang Nanjiao, I worked so hard to hide for so many years, but you found me. We have never met before. Why did you doubt me?"
Hua Zhaoyi stopped pretending at this moment, after all, he couldn't pretend anymore.
Because Jiang Nanjiao was not wrong.
It was indeed she who killed the empress, and she was also the one who set the fire in the cold palace.
"Because of him." Nan Jiao pointed at Zhan Yihang.
Hua Zhaoyi was stunned. "He was not involved in anything."
Zhan Yihang was stunned and in a state of disbelief. How could his mother do so many things to hurt others?
She was so gentle and taught him to be low-key, never to seek attention, and not to have any conflicts with others.
She said that she had a low status in the harem and could not protect him well.
He also said that sometimes a small loss is a blessing.
He always listened to her teachings and lived carefully so as not to offend anyone.
"When Yoyo Baoer was kidnapped, I suspected the queen. It was the twelfth prince who provided the evidence. His dog picked up the wood carving on Baoer's body."
"If I'm not mistaken, it was you who let Xiaobai pick up the wood carving, and you deliberately let the twelfth prince bring the dog to appear in front of me to make me suspect the queen."
Nan Jiao spoke slowly and neither too fast nor too slow.
She wanted to use her to cause a major conflict between the royal family and the empress, causing civil unrest in Qin so that they could fish in troubled waters.
But she didn't expect it.
The Queen would fail so quickly.
She was anxious to keep silent because she was worried that the queen would talk nonsense.
Everyone: “…”
Is this Hua Zhaoyi so scheming?
She can even break the ropes on her body, which shows that her kung fu skills are quite good.
Hua Zhaoyi raised his chin slightly and said proudly, "You are really smart. No wonder he told me to be on guard against you."
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