Chapter 164 Discovering Everything

Palace of Heavenly Purity.

"Your Majesty, the people I have arranged to be with Yan Zhaoyi and Xu Xiurong have brought back a lot of news. Your Majesty, do you have time to listen to it now?"

An Shun hunched his body and lowered his head, feeling a little uneasy.

Today's news is not very favorable to the Empress Dowager. He is very confused and doesn't know whether to say it or not.

Jun Zechen didn't even raise his head, still flipping through the memorials in his hands, and asked casually, "Does it have anything to do with the Empress?" His tone was flat.

If it had nothing to do with Yaoyao, he wouldn't really want to hear about the twists and turns between these women.

An Shun frowned, and the muscles on his face twitched unconsciously. It was related, but...

He hesitated and whispered, "About..."

Jun Zechen frowned and raised his head, looking at An Shun with a sharp gaze, which was full of majesty and questioning.

"Are you planning to plot against the Queen again?"

"No, they were just talking about the Queen behind her back."

An Shun explained quickly, beads of sweat already appearing on his forehead.

"What are you talking about the Queen?"

"Recently, Yan Zhaoyi, Xu Xiurong, and Bai Fei, Tang Guipin, and others have been very close. They even went to see An Jieyu together. When they were chatting, they talked about Tang Guipin's miscarriage in the East Palace."

An Shun's voice became quieter and quieter, and his head lowered a little.

"An Jieyu said that it was the Empress who told her that Tang Guipin was abandoned to save her son, so when Ling was disrespectful in front of the late emperor's spirit, it was An Jieyu and Tang Guipin who conspired to frame her."

"and......"

An Shun felt the lower and lower pressure from His Majesty, and felt as if the air around him had solidified. For a moment he didn't know how to continue speaking.

"What else?"

Jun Zechen suppressed his anger, and his voice seemed to be squeezed out from between his teeth.

An Shun continued, "Tang Guipin had not yet announced her pregnancy, but she almost had a miscarriage at your birthday party, which caused instability in the royal heir. An Jieyu said that she also listened to the queen's hint."

"Bold!"

Jun Zechen was so angry that he slammed the table.

"This Concubine An has been scheming since she came to the East Palace. She is vicious and treacherous, and now she dares to slander my queen."

An Shun was so frightened that he knelt on the ground with a thump. "Yes, Your Majesty, I don't believe it either. These are all reports from my spies next to Xu Xiurong. They are not to be trusted."

An Shun's words were flawless. The news brought back by the spies indicated that when these concubines were discussing how to plot against the empress, they discovered the bad things the empress had done in the past.

It's not that they are accusing you in front of Your Majesty. The more unintentional the accusation is, the more credible it is.

However...

An Shun looked up at His Majesty, but he still had to see whether His Majesty believed it.

In fact, An Shun believed that the Queen was capable of doing such a thing. After all, he knew the Queen's true face much earlier than His Majesty did.

Jun Zechen's face now looked so gloomy that water could drip out of it.

"Go and call Xu Xiurong over." His voice was as cold as ice.

These things happened too long ago, and even for Jun Zechen, it would be too difficult to find out what happened in the East Palace back then.

But Jun Zechen was afraid, as if there was a stone pressing on his heart, heavy.

No, these women are so sinister and vicious. They all want to alienate the relationship between him and Yaoyao. Yaoyao had just entered the Eastern Palace and was even very close to the Ling sisters. How could she do such things?

Moreover, Yaoyao said that she loved him, so she loved Ling as well. When he wanted Ling to be the empress, Yaoyao just wanted to make him happy.

These women are talking nonsense. How could Yaoyao plot against him and them in the East Palace!

Xu Xiurong came to the Qianqing Palace with an uncontrollable joy in her heart.

His Majesty actually summoned her to the Qianqing Palace today?

This is a rare honor.

"Your Majesty, I pay my respects to you." Xu Xiurong bowed gracefully.

After saying this, Xu Xiurong did not hear the Majesty's voice calling for a long time. Her heart could not help but skip a beat. She raised her eyes quietly, ready to look at the Majesty quietly.

But as soon as I raised my eyes, I was caught off guard by His Majesty's icy gaze.

Her eyes dodged instantly and she lowered her head again.

Xu Xiurong's brows wrinkled unconsciously, and she felt confused. She didn't seem to have done anything out of line recently, so why did His Majesty look at her with such a cold look?

"Have you been investigating the Queen's Eastern Palace recently?"

Jun Zechen spoke calmly, his voice was flat without a trace of emotion, but the chill in his words made Xu Xiurong shiver.

"I...I was just chatting with the old man from the East Palace."

A strange look flashed in Xu Xiurong's eyes, and she was secretly surprised. Sure enough, there were His Majesty's people around her. So His Majesty already knew that they were discussing the Queen's conspiracy to murder the crown prince and frame Ling in the East Palace?

If that's the case, shouldn't Your Majesty be angry with the Queen? Why is he looking for her instead?

Countless questions swirled in her mind, making her increasingly nervous and uneasy.

"The Queen has confessed everything she has done to me. Please stop making any meaningless calculations."

Jun Zechen's cold voice was like a biting cold wind in the winter, causing Xu Xiurong's heart to ache.

Xu Xiurong looked up in shock, her eyes full of disbelief.

"Your Majesty, the Empress is plotting to harm the heir to the throne. If you are so partial to her, won't I and the other concubines' princes be in fear every day in the future?"

Her voice trembled, with a hint of despair and unwillingness.

"If the queen had murdered your children, these heirs would not have been born."

Jun Zechen's eyes were calm, as if he was just stating a very ordinary fact, but they contained a majesty that made people dare not disobey.

When Xu Xiurong heard His Majesty's trust in the Queen, she felt that her expectations were shattered in an instant, and all her previous careful plans would come to nothing.

Her body was as limp as a pile of rotten mud as she knelt on the ground.

"We are also your concubines, why do you only want the Queen?"

Her voice was filled with tears, she was trembling, and tears were welling up in her eyes.

Jun Zechen did not answer her, but gave her another heavy blow.

"When Lady Chu was poisoned, the poison was brought into the palace by the Lord of Qingping County. Did you know that?"

Xu Xiurong was suddenly extremely panicked, her heart was in her throat, but she pretended to be calm and expressionless.

"Your Majesty, I don't know."

She avoided his gaze and did not dare to meet Jun Zechen's eyes.

"You don't need to know, I just need to know. I have the confessions of both the maid you bribed and the Lord of Qingping County. You murdered Lady Chu, framed Concubine An, and now you are secretly entangling concubines and plotting against the Empress. You are so audacious that you are not worthy of raising an heir to the throne."

Jun Zechen's voice was icy cold, and every word was like a sharp blade, stabbing straight at Xu Xiurong.

"No, no, no, Your Majesty, I know I was wrong. I will never go against the Empress again. Please, Your Majesty, please don't separate me and my son."

Xu Xiurong kowtowed desperately, his forehead bled, his face was covered with tears and blood, and he looked extremely vicious.

"An Shun, Xu Xiurong was demoted to a commoner and moved to the cold palace. The Sixth Prince was handed over to Concubine Ming to raise. An Jieyu was framed and reinstated as Concubine Xian. The Third Prince, who was temporarily raised by Concubine Ming, will still be raised by Concubine Xian."

When Xu Xiurong heard His Majesty's cold and heartless words, her mind went blank.

How could this happen? How could this happen?

She opened her eyes wide, her look empty and lifeless, as if she had lost her soul.

"Take the man away."

Jun Zechen waved his hand impatiently.

Xu Xiurong suddenly remembered something and shouted frantically: "Your Majesty, do you trust your queen so much? She has been scheming since she entered the East Palace. This is not a frame-up by me, this is the truth. I have done nothing wrong!"

"Your Majesty, there is one thing you may not know. Your queen is secretly having an affair with the imperial physician!"

Jun Zechen's sharp eyes instantly shot towards her. What was this crazy woman saying!

"Doctor Jin from the Imperial Hospital. I never knew that the Empress had such a gentle and kind young doctor by her side."

"Later, by coincidence, I found out that this imperial physician was by the Empress's side when she gave birth to her twins. He was even very intimate with her in the delivery room during the birth. This was told to me by a midwife!"

Jun Zechen's face was as gloomy as the sky before a storm.

"An Shun, why don't you cover her mouth? Take her away!"

"Your Majesty, your queen has betrayed you a long time ago. Perhaps the queen noticed that I was investigating this imperial physician Jin, and sent him out of the palace long ago. Isn't this a guilty conscience?"

"Hahaha, Your Majesty, go check on the Queen you trust yourself."

Xu Xiurong screamed at the top of her lungs, her face distorted and hideous.

An Shun was terrified when he heard this. He quickly covered Xu Xiurong's mouth and dragged her away.

Xu Xiurong looked at His Majesty, who was sitting on the couch with an expressionless face, with despair in his eyes filled with resentment.

Before she could find out whether the Empress had an affair with Imperial Physician Jin, Imperial Physician Jin was sent away by the Empress. The Empress must have had an unusual relationship with the young imperial physician for her to be so guilty.

Since Your Majesty doesn't care about the Queen's vicious plots, doesn't that mean you also don't care about the Queen's affair with other men?

Jun Zechen's mind was in a mess right now. Donggong's schemes, and the so-called Imperial Doctor Jin, how much had she hidden from him? !

Did this woman love him?