Chapter 20 - If the king said she was innocent, she was innocent
Empress Du was repelled by her words, and her face was slightly embarrassed. A large part of what she said just now was for Xiao Jue.
From her point of view, Tsing Yi had probably taken refuge with Xiao Jue, and there was another engagement between the two of them. Xiao Jue’s eyes are so high that he doesn’t look down on things like Chu Qingyi, but men are serious about their face, and let him know that there is such an unclear relationship between Chu Qingyi and Du Mingyue, and he will definitely be upset. Gap.
It’s just that Queen Du never thought that Chu Qingyi had become so sharp and sharp. She remembered that her subordinates had come back to Qianqiu Palace several times, and she was inevitably suspicious. How did this Chu Qingyi seem to have changed?
Did she have the courage to straighten her back and talk to herself in the past?
Just now, she ordered Mammy Chu and others to be cleaned up outside. After all, Empress Du didn’t see it with her own eyes, so she had the same idea, thinking that it was Xiao Jue’s backing and ordering people to do it.
Now it seems that the order really came from her!
When the queen mother heard Fang Cai’s words, she couldn’t help but look at Tsing Yi more, and nodded her head: “It is true that the queen has lost her words, but she has just experienced the pain of losing her nephew, and she can understand her words without a word.”
“Thank your mother for your pity.” Queen Du bowed to the queen mother Yingying.
Tsing Yi looked at the two of her expressionlessly, and suddenly covered her lips and tilted her head.
Yawned.
Xiao Jue glanced at her small movements from the corner of his eye, the corners of his lips were slightly upturned, and he almost laughed.
The queen mother looked up just to see Xiao Jue looking at Tsing Yi, and her voice suddenly sank: “Princess Chang, Empress Fang Cai said that you were also in the Spring and Autumn Pavilion that night. You didn’t stay in the hall at midnight, what are you doing there?”
“I missed my dead mother, so I went there for a walk, why not?”
“Presumptuous! Is this how you talk to Aijia?”
Hearing Tsing Yi mention the word ‘dead mother’, the empress dowager’s face turned gloomy again, her eyes filled with disgust, and even looking at Tsing Yi, there was a bit of hatred in her eyes.
“Your Majesty has already issued a strict order, you are not allowed to mention the Empress, there is only one Queen Mother!” The Queen Mother angrily rebuked: “Is it true that she was not raised in the palace since she was a child, and her words and deeds are extremely rude. She has been back in the palace for a year. Who taught her? Her rules!”
“Mom, calm down.” Empress Du spoke quickly, begging for mercy on the surface, but there was no lack of schadenfreude in her eyes. This Chu Qingyi is really a pot that can’t be opened and lifted. Does she not know how much the Queen Mother hates her dead ghost mother? How dare you mention it face to face?
But she didn’t show it on her face, and still pretended to be concerned: “Princess, you should admit your mistake to the queen mother, this palace knows that in your heart, I will never be as good as your biological mother, but for so many years, this palace has really regarded you as her own daughter. Looking at it.”
After hearing this, Tsing Yi gave her a look lazily.
“You do have self-knowledge, your wife is not dead and you will be a concubine after all, and your successor will always be a successor.”
Empress Du’s face instantly became extremely ugly.
“You bastard!” The Queen Mother was furious, “A wicked girl! She is simply a wicked girl! When His Majesty ordered you to be recalled to the palace, Aijia should try to stop it!”
“With your virtue, how can you be worthy of the Prince Regent? You might as well just give up your marriage contract!”
Tsing Yi’s eyes lit up when he heard this.
Hey, this old woman has been beeping for a long time, and this is the best thing to hear.
“OK!”
“No.”
The two spoke at the same time, but what they said was diametrically opposite.
The Queen Mother and Queen Du were both startled.
This “no” was actually said by Xiao Jue? !
“Prince Regent?!” The Empress Dowager looked at Xiao Jue in surprise, didn’t she say that he returned to the capital to refuse marriage? Why don’t you agree now.
“Excuse the queen mother.” Xiao Jue’s expression was calm, but his eyes were deep and unpredictable, making it impossible to guess what his true thoughts were, “This marriage contract is given by your majesty, even if you want to give up, you have to wait for your majesty to wake up and let him take it back. Talent. Although Xiao is not talented, marriage matters can’t help but play like this!”
He was clearly speaking lightly, but when the sound fell on the ears of people, it was like a drum beat, and layers of pressure went towards people’s hearts.
The empress dowager’s expression was slightly stern, her eyes dimmed, and she pondered for a while before she said: “This is because the Ai family has not considered this carefully, and the marriage contract will be discussed later. But the eldest princess is immoral, and there is something involved in the murder case, she must… “
“That night, the eldest princess was with the minister.”
Xiao Jueyu was not astonished and died endlessly.
The atmosphere in the hall became more and more strange, Tsing Yi glanced at him lazily, and the corners of his lips curved slightly.
Empress Du’s breathing was disturbed for a moment, and she stared at Xiao Jue intently: “Prince Regent, you were clearly with the Crown Prince that night, no one can prove that you have seen the eldest princess!”
“The queen also said that there was His Royal Highness near the Spring and Autumn Pavilion that night. He can prove that the minister has seen the eldest princess, but something happened at the Chunqiu Pavilion, and the eldest princess left early, so she did not accompany the minister and the prince with him. Show up.”
When Empress Du heard the words, she felt very unwilling, she pretended to be puzzled and asked, “That’s weird, last night, the regent ordered Wang Shun to be taken to the punishment department, saying that he was suspected of silence, and the words directly pointed at the eldest princess and Mingyue. It’s related to death, why are you trying to get her out of the way now?”
“The queen is afraid that the news is wrong and misunderstood the minister’s meaning. What the minister said last night was that the eldest princess also witnessed the process at the scene of the crime, but she never said that she had anything to do with Du Mingyue’s death.” Xiao Jue casually road.
“Ridiculous!” Empress Du raised her voice, and in a blink of an eye, she returned to her previous dignified appearance, but her voice was much more gloomy: “If you and the Crown Prince had been with her all the time as the Regent said, wouldn’t you have witnessed it? The process? Now that I have seen the incident, what else needs to be investigated? A suicide will put the matter in the past, doesn’t the Prince Regent realize that his words are inconsistent?”
As soon as Empress Du finished speaking, Tsing Yi made a “poof”, covered her lips and laughed, her eyes full of ridicule.
“What is the eldest princess laughing at?” Queen Du turned her head to look at her with an unpleasant expression.
Seeing her face changing over and over, Tsing Yi thought that this woman was not too tired to pretend. He stretched out his hand and pointed beside him, “The brain is not good enough, and the ears are not very good. When did this man mention the word ‘suicide’, he only said that it was not a murder, so it is very likely to be a poisoning, or a Accidentally too forgetful, it is possible to drown and drown.”
Speaking of this time, Queen Du’s face was obviously a little unbearable.
“Enough is enough.” After listening for a long time, the queen mother was also impatient, and looked at Xiao Jue: “Prince Regent, this matter is related to the previous dynasty and the harem. How can you be so selfish and convince the public, according to Ai’s family, since long If the princess is related to this matter, then hand her over to the Ai family for trial, you just need to take care of the previous dynasty.”
As soon as these words came out, Queen Du’s eyes suddenly lit up.
Tsing Yi’s eyes moved slightly, but he still looked unmoved, but there was a little more sarcasm in his eyebrows.
“Prince Regent, what do you think?” Seeing that Xiao Jue didn’t reply for a while, the queen mother looked at him a little impatiently.
“Nothing.” Xiao Jue put his hands behind his back, “Since this king said that she is not guilty, she is innocent.”