"Your Majesty, you are awake. The Emperor ordered a thorough investigation into this matter. All the servants who served you at night were taken away except the slaves. Your Majesty, other slaves dare not say this, but the jade hairpin and jade paintings were trained by the slaves themselves. I have been serving you for ten years, and I dare not be unsatisfactory, the slaves cannot bear to see them being tortured!" Lu Mo couldn't help but shed tears when she said this, she was not worried that the two sisters would confess her, but I really can't bear their suffering. 【 】

"What?" The queen mother was furious when she heard the words: "Send someone to bring them back to Ai's family. They have been serving Ai's family for many years. If they want to poison, do they have to wait until today?"

"Yes, ma'am!" Lu Mo replied and asked Ma Renyi to go to the Department of Prudence to bring him back.

Early in the morning of the second day, the Queen Mother went to the Hall of Mental Cultivation early, and greeted the emperor after he came down.

"Emperor, the Ai family must personally intervene in this matter. The Ai family must not allow the person who killed Qiu Chan to live in this world. What's more, if the poisoned moon cake is eaten by the Ai family or the emperor, the consequences will be disastrous." , especially the emperor, you can't be surprised, since this matter came from Concubine Ling, the Ai family will investigate from her."

"Emperor Niang, I have sent someone to take the servants around her for interrogation!" The emperor's face was full of seriousness when he heard the words, the queen mother was right, if the poisonous moon cake was eaten by him or the queen mother, Then no one can bear the consequences.

If it was someone else, he wouldn't bother to defend it so much, but Wei Ning'er, he didn't believe she would do such a thing, not to mention, poisoning wouldn't do her any good, let alone poisoning a mooncake. I can't tell clearly about emotion and reason.

The Empress Dowager was hit hard by Nanny Qiu's death, so she would not be polite to Wei Ning'er. Thinking of this, the emperor's expression changed, and he said to Wu Shulai, "Wu Shulai, go and pass on my order to let nobleman Lu move out of Yanxi Palace. From now on, the concubine is forbidden to enter the Yanxi Palace, and no one is allowed to enter the Yanxi Palace without my will."

"Emperor, are you still protecting her at this time?" The Empress Dowager's complexion changed suddenly. The emperor's decree is that she is not allowed to touch the imperial concubine.

The emperor knew that the empress dowager was in a fit of anger, so he followed her and said softly: "Emperor mother, I am not protecting her. At this moment, her servants in the palace are still being tried. Is it really her fault? To be verified, I ordered her to be grounded, so I will first give the Queen Mother an explanation!"

How could the Empress Dowager not know that the Emperor was deliberately protecting Wei Ning'er, and she had some calculations in her heart. Although the Emperor is her son, he is the Emperor after all, and she can't influence the Emperor. She grounded her feet, but, as you said, the emperor, it cannot be concluded that she did it now. There is no servant around her, so it can't be done. Serve the imperial concubine!"

The Emperor knew that the Empress Dowager had arranged for people to monitor Wei Ning'er, but he was afraid that they would harm Wei Ning'er, so he immediately said to Wu Shu, "Let Nanny Li go too!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Wu Shulai responded immediately, finally heaving a sigh of relief.

First, all the slaves around her were arrested for interrogation, and now the emperor ordered Lu Yunxi to move out, leaving her alone, grounded in the Palace of Yanxi Palace, Wei Ning'er felt powerless, and watched Lu Yunxi take the The slave left.

"Ning'er..." Lu Yunxi was also reluctant to let go, she turned her head three times at every step, and kept turning her head to look at Wei Ning'er until Yeying pulled her onto her shoulders.

The entire Yanxi Palace was suddenly terribly quiet, she was the only one left in the huge palace, Wei Ning'er felt endless sadness welling up in her heart, and for the first time in her life, she felt powerless.

Normally, if she made a mistake, the emperor would protect her, and she would have the opportunity to fight for herself and defend herself, but now, she was directly grounded here, watching the guards close the palace gate, Wei Ninger's heart This moment also froze.

"He doesn't believe me..." Thinking of this, Wei Ning'er slumped on the ground, tears streaming down her face.

After an unknown amount of time, the small door opened, and Yuzan and Yuhua walked in. When they saw Wei Ning'er sitting on the ground, they were startled for a moment, and then ran over to help her up.

"Young lady, get up quickly, it's cold on the ground, be careful not to catch a cold!" The two said while helping her up.

After a while, Nanny Li also arrived. Following Wu Shulai's instructions, she naturally devoted herself to protecting Wei Ning'er, and sent the jade hairpin and jade painting to make tea for Wei Ning'er as soon as she came in.

"Your Majesty, you have to hold on, the servants are specially ordered by the emperor to protect you, Madam, you are fine!" Li Nanny looked at the distraught Wei Ning'er, and couldn't help persuading her.

"The emperor sent you here?" Wei Ning'er's eyes suddenly lit up.

"Yes! Your Majesty, Eunuch Wu asked your slaves to tell your Majesty that it was Mother Qiu who died. No matter how important she is, she is still a slave. As long as the Empress Dowager gets angry, she will not embarrass her. Madam, you must not be arrogant now! "Nurse Li whispered next to her ear.

Hearing this, Wei Ning'er finally regained her composure, and secretly made a plan in her heart.

That night, Lu Mo secretly went to the imperial concubine's Yikun Palace. Since she did not kill the imperial concubine, she could only continue to lurk by her side and wait for the most suitable opportunity.

"What's going on? Why did Mother Qiu die?" Just as Lu Mo was about to greet the imperial concubine, the imperial concubine waved her hand impatiently and asked anxiously.

"I want to report to you, this is all the negligence of the servant. The servant poisoned the trustworthy person. I never thought that she was too nervous, and it was too dangerous at the time, and she was afraid of being seen by others, so she let it go a little too much. After eating it, coupled with her martial arts skills, she forced her luck to force the poison, but she never thought that the poison would spread all over her body faster, so she lost her life!" Before coming, Lu Mo had already thought about what to do.

The imperial concubine breathed a sigh of relief when she heard the words: "So that's the case, but it's a good thing that the empress dowager is fine because of the death of Qiumao, otherwise, if the poison really poisoned the empress dowager, then the loss outweighs the gain, even though the concubine will die that way." Undoubtedly, but I am afraid that I will not be able to achieve the empress throne, without the support of the empress dowager, the emperor will not easily make me the empress!"

Lu Mo kept her head down, not daring to look at the imperial concubine, it seemed that she was afraid because things were not going well, but in fact she didn't want the imperial concubine to see the uncontrollable hatred in her eyes.

"Your Majesty, don't worry, it was Mother Qiu who died, and the Empress Dowager will not let it go this time!" Lu Mo said respectfully.

"Well...just, based on the current evidence, I'm afraid it will be difficult to put the concubine Ling to death. Hu Shijie, who is next to the emperor, is watching in person at the Department of Punishment. People in this palace can't put those dogs in Yanxi Palace to death. The slaves were beaten into tricks, and...those damn dogs, the slaves are extremely loyal, from last night until now, they have suffered a lot, but none of them confessed!" The imperial concubine clenched her fists tightly, her eyes full of anger.

"Slowly, there will be slaves who can't bear it!" Lu Mo had no choice but to comfort him.

"Lumo, I think about it, no matter what, you have to get rid of the concubine Ling, so do you still have the poison given to you by the Japanese palace?" The imperial concubine looked at her maliciously and smiled.

"I report to your empress, this servant is afraid that the matter will be exposed, so I will deal with it!" Although she has put the poison in a secret place now, she will not tell the imperial concubine, she does not want to help her harm others.

"Well, it's okay. I still have a small porcelain bottle here. You can take it and put it in Yanxi Palace. The rest of the things will be arranged by me!" A cruel smile.

"Yes, empress!" Up to now, she could only bite the bullet and agree first.

For the past three days, things have not changed at all, no one has confessed, even though the people from the Punishment Department have started to use severe punishment.

The Imperial Concubine has been going to the Empress Dowager every day for the past three days to say hello, but in fact she is encouraging the Empress Dowager to kill Wei Ning'er, but the Empress Dowager is in the way of the Emperor and there is no definite evidence to prove that Wei Ning'er poisoned her, so she did not do it.

Watching the imperial concubine leave, Lu Mo couldn't help but sneer, thinking, the empress dowager really has raised a white-eyed wolf, and has treated the imperial concubine as her own for so many years, but in the imperial concubine's heart, she is just the most precious It's just a useful chess piece.

At this moment, the Empress Dowager was also very contradictory. In the past few days, she gradually calmed down and realized that it was impossible for the concubine Ling to poison her, but someone else, but she didn't have the slightest clue.

But she couldn't let Wei Ning'er off lightly, and the imperial concubine came to pay her respects in the past few days, and she knew the purpose was to put Wei Ning'er to death.

For more than a year after the death of the empress, the imperial concubine dominated the harem, even the imperial concubine who was in charge of the sixth palace was overwhelmed by her.

But when she thought that the emperor still refused to make the imperial concubine the empress, the empress dowager became very worried. After all... the imperial concubine is her niece and relative, and she is the only one who is qualified to be the empress dowager She does not allow others to snatch it.

But if the emperor drags on year after year, the threat of Lingfei to the imperial concubine will become bigger and bigger.

"Lu Mo, come here, go to the Punishment Department to pass on the orders of the Ai family, and interrogate those slaves for the Ai family at all costs!" The queen mother suddenly turned her head and said to Lu Mo.

"Yes, empress!" Lu Mo nodded lightly.

"The Ai family has a secret thing for you to do!" The Queen Mother suddenly waved to Lu Mo and whispered something in her ear.

After Lu Mo heard the words, she was horrified, she didn't understand why the queen mother would lower herself and put her concubine to death.

From Lu Mo's point of view, the queen mother is very shrewd, it is impossible not to know that this matter was not done by the concubine Ling, but she chose to let the concubine Ling act as a scapegoat, possibly because of the imperial concubine.

Lu Mo couldn't help but think of what the Empress Dowager said back then that the imperial concubine was the daughter of an old man, but at this moment, it seemed that this old man was not simple.

Concubine in the palace, no matter how favored you are, how powerful you are, as long as the queen mother is determined to kill you, then you will never be able to escape, this point, Lu Mo firmly believes.

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