Xiao Ling'er ignored 009. She looked at the male lover still lying on the bed and frowned. Even with such a weak appearance, he could make two women fascinated by him.
"Tell me, the former empress was so good to you, why did you poison her?" Xiao Ling'er asked her male favorite.
The male concubine replied: "She seems to be kind to me, but she is unwilling to make me her husband, not even her concubine."
"So you conspired with the current empress to poison her?" Xiao Ling'er continued to ask.
The male concubine replied: "The current empress promised that as long as the previous empress died, she would make me her husband when she ascended to the throne."
That's not right. The information Xiao Ling'er got was that the previous empress died after the current empress ascended the throne.
"Did the current empress succeed to the throne after the death of the previous empress?" Xiao Ling'er continued to ask.
The male concubine replied: "No, the previous empress was already poisoned, her internal organs were corroded, and she already knew that it was me who poisoned her.
She wanted to use hypnosis on me to find out who was behind it, but because I was too deeply poisoned, the power of her hypnosis was greatly reduced.
The Empress didn't know that I had secretly copied her hypnosis manuscript and let the eldest princess study it.
The eldest princess hypnotized me first. When the empress hypnotized me to ask about the person behind the scenes, I said according to the eldest princess' hypnosis that the person behind the scenes was the second princess.
As a result, the heir to the throne became the eldest princess, and before her death, the empress left all her treasures to the eldest princess.
Xiao Ling'er cursed inwardly:...What a pair of wicked bitches who are in cahoots with each other.
Continuing to look at the male favorite, he asked, "Where is the second princess? Is she still alive?"
"The second princess was ordered by the former empress before her death to guard the imperial mausoleum for the rest of her life to atone for her sins. She cannot leave the mausoleum even for a moment." The male favorite replied.
Xiao Linger narrowed her eyes, "Didn't the eldest princess send anyone to hunt down the second princess?"
Male favorite: "We sent them out, several waves, but none of them ever came back."
After Xiao Ling'er asked some questions and felt that she would not get anything out of him, she also ended his life and let her go to accompany the empress.
Xiao Ling'er walked out of the hall, glanced at the eunuchs and maids guarding outside the door, and left the palace quietly.
After finding an inn to stay in, Xiao Ling'er sat on the edge of the bed, recalling all the answers given by her male favorite.
If I understand correctly, the former empress should have known before her death that the real person behind the scenes was the eldest princess.
Maybe she already knew it when she hypnotized the male lover. A good hypnotist could not fail to detect that the male lover's mind was frightened and hypnotized.
She didn't expose it, most likely to protect the second princess.
In order to save her life, he ordered her to guard the imperial mausoleum, and he might have secretly left her with a means to save her life.
Otherwise, why did the eldest princess send people to hunt him down time and time again, but failed every time?
Now that the eldest princess has been killed by her, the second princess should be returning next. I hope she can inherit her mother's kindness.
Xiao Ling'er stayed in the inn. The next day, the news of the empress's death spread throughout the streets and alleys.
On the third day, the second princess returned with great force.
On the fifth day, the second princess officially ascended the throne.
On the sixth day, the new empress issued her first decree, exempting the entire country from taxes for three years, adding three academies to each city, fully charging tuition fees, and exempting all textbook fees.
The top three winners will be awarded 300 taels of silver for first place, 120 taels of silver for second place, and 50 taels of silver for third place.
On the seventh day, the empress issued a second decree, ordering an attack on Cangbian State one month later.
On the eighth day, the empress issued the third decree, subduing the Cangbian Kingdom and then asking it to surrender to the Yuntian Kingdom.
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