Palace of Heavenly Purity.
"Your Majesty, the people I have placed with Consort Yan and Xu Xiurong have brought back quite a bit of news. Is Your Majesty free to listen?"
An Shun hunched his body and lowered his head, feeling a little uneasy.
Today's news is not very favorable to the Queen. He is very conflicted and doesn't know whether to tell her or not.
Jun Zechen didn't even raise his head, still flipping through the memorials in his hand, and asked casually, "Is it related to the Queen?" 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.
Anshun frowned, his facial muscles twitching unconsciously. It was related, but...
He hesitated again and again, and whispered, "About..."
Jun Zechen frowned and raised his head, looking at Anshun with a sharp gaze, his eyes 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."
Anshun hurriedly explained, beads of sweat already appearing on his forehead.
"What are you talking about the Queen?"
"Recently, Consort Yan and Xu Xiurong have been very close to Consort Bai, Consort Tang Guipin, and others. They even went to see Consort An together. During their conversation, they brought up Consort Tang Guipin's miscarriage in the Eastern Palace."
Anshun's voice became softer and softer, and his head lowered a little.
"An Jieyu said that it was the Empress who revealed to her that Concubine Tang Guipin had been abandoned to protect her son, so Ling's disrespectful behavior before the late emperor's spirit was a conspiracy between An Jieyu and Concubine Tang Guipin."
"besides......"
Anshun felt the Majesty's increasingly low air pressure, and felt as if the air around him had solidified. He didn't know how to continue speaking for a moment.
"what else?"
Jun Zechen suppressed his anger, and his voice seemed to be squeezed out from between his teeth.
An Shun continued, "Tang Guipin hadn't announced her pregnancy yet, but she nearly miscarried at your birthday banquet, which put the royal heir in jeopardy. Concubine An said she followed the Queen's lead."
“Bold!”
Jun Zechen was furious and slammed the table.
"This Concubine An has been scheming and ruthless since she arrived at the Eastern Palace. Now she dares to slander my queen."
Anshun was so frightened that he fell to his knees with a plop. "Yes, Your Majesty, I don't believe it either. These are all reports from the spies I placed next to Xu Xiurong. They are not to be trusted."
Anshun's words were flawless. The news brought back by the spies indicated that when these concubines were discussing how to plot against the queen, they discovered the bad things the queen had done in the past.
It's not that they are accusing His Majesty in front of him. The more unintentional the accusation is, the more credible it is.
but.....
Anshun looked up at His Majesty, but he still had to see whether His Majesty believed it.
In fact, Anshun 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.
Jun Zechen's face was now so gloomy that water could drip out of it.
"Go and get Xu Xiurong." His voice was as cold as ice.
These things happened too long ago, and even if Jun Zechen wanted to find out what happened in the Eastern Palace, it would be too difficult.
But Jun Zechen was afraid, as if there was a stone pressing on his heart, heavy and heavy.
No, these women were really sinister and vicious. They all wanted 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 a thing?
Moreover, Yaoyao said that she loved him, so she loved Ling as well as her family. When he wanted Ling to be the queen, Yaoyao just wanted to make him happy.
These women are talking nonsense. How could Yaoyao be plotting against him and them in the East Palace?
Xu Xiurong came to the Palace of Heavenly Purity with an uncontrollable excitement in her heart.
His Majesty actually summoned her to the Palace of Purity today?
This is a rare honor.
"Your Majesty, I pay my respects to you." Xu Xiurong bowed gracefully.
After saying this, Xu Xiurong didn't hear the emperor's voice calling for a long time. Her heart couldn't help but skip a beat. She raised her eyes quietly and prepared to look at the emperor calmly.
But as soon as she raised her eyes, she was caught off guard by His Majesty's icy gaze.
Her eyes instantly avoided him and she lowered her head again.
Xu Xiurong frowned unconsciously, feeling confused. She didn't seem to have done anything out of the ordinary recently, so why did His Majesty look at her with such a cold gaze?
"Have you been investigating the Queen's Eastern Palace recently?"
Jun Zechen spoke lightly, his voice was flat and without a trace of emotion, but the chill in his words made Xu Xiurong shiver.
"I...I just had a casual chat with the old man from the East Palace."
A strange look flashed in Xu Xiurong's eyes, and she was secretly shocked. 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 in the Eastern Palace and frame the Ling family?
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 wind in winter, causing Xu Xiurong's heart to ache.
Xu Xiurong looked up in shock, his eyes full of disbelief.
"Your Majesty, the Empress is plotting to murder the heir to the throne. If you continue to favor her like this, won't I, the other concubines, and the princes be in constant fear?"
Her voice trembled, with a hint of despair and unwillingness.
"If the Queen had murdered your children, these heirs would not have been born."
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