This queen is not too curly

In front of the Buddha Bone Pagoda, there was silence.

Everyone watched helplessly as the father-in-law next to the emperor ran away with trembling legs. After a while, some figures appeared in their field of vision in the distance.

It was a young man wearing a blue imperial doctor's robe, leading three women slowly, and came straight to them.

The young man made a simple salute to the officials, then led the three women to the front of the people, and said: "My lords, Concubine Mei, who has been missing for a long time, is here. If you have any questions, you can ask."

"This is……"

Civil and military officials looked at each other in blank dismay.

The woman in front of them was extremely thin, and the clothes on her body were like covering a skeleton frame.Although they were wearing veils, they could still see their deeply sunken eye sockets and their pale skin. It would be more appropriate to say that they looked like mandrill ghosts rather than human beings.

Is this the "Concubine Mei" in the plum garden?
The same tremor flashed through everyone's minds.

There was still blood on Yuchi Shangshu's forehead, and he staggered towards the woman: "Bold woman, do you know what will happen if you play tricks on the wind and pretend to be a ghost?"

The shortest woman among them fell to her knees on the ground with a plop: "The name of the civilian girl is He Yuan."

Yuchi Shangshu was stunned: "Minister girl?"

He Yuan's hands tightly grabbed the corner of her clothes, her whole body was stiff, her eyes searched the crowd, and finally saw the empress who lived and died with her.

Her heart finally settled down a little bit, and she plucked up her courage and said: "Yes, Minnv is not from the palace. Minnv entered the palace last year. She originally wanted to find a job in the palace, but she was drugged. Dizzy, with the intention of abducting and selling...the civilian girl escaped on the way of escort, and then... fled into the plum garden... Since then, she has been hiding in the plum garden, living on fish and shrimp in the lake... The empress accidentally learned that she often came Send food."

He Yuan finished speaking in one breath, knelt on the ground and panted lightly.

She was illiterate, her speech was not good, and she was afraid that she would say the wrong thing in panic, so she had repeated it to Luo Ziqiu countless times on the way here, and now she just recited the content by heart.

After she finished speaking, she looked up at Yan Yuan again.

Yuchi Shangshu had a panoramic view of her small movements, and immediately sneered: "Does the Empress think that finding a few women with unknown origins can clear up the matter of worshiping ghosts in Meiyuan?"

He Yuan immediately became anxious: "What I said is true!"

Yuchi Shangshu sneered: "Absurd! You said that you were selected to enter the palace because of the maids. Since you were detained, could it be that no relatives are looking for you? What does the imperial court need to detain you women?!"

"Because, because..."

Yuchi Shangshu said coldly: "Demon girl, if you tell the empress what kind of deal you have made, you can still keep the whole body, otherwise it will be broken into pieces!"

He Yuan's eyes were red with anger.

Seeing that He Yuan was about to be overwhelmed, Yan Yuan sighed and wanted to step forward to make a rescue.Anyway, He Yuan's task has been completed today, sophistication, how can she argue against these old men who have experienced many battles?
Yan Yuan was about to step forward, but her sleeves suddenly felt a pulling force.

She was stunned for a moment.

Turning her head, she met Chen Ling's deep and deep eyes.

Yan Yuan:?
……

Outside the Shating Pavilion, He Yuan's chest heaved violently.

She is no longer afraid.

Because she was going to die of anger.

She also grew up among men since she was a child. Which one of her elder brother and his brothers didn't have vicious green faces and fangs?She had never been wronged like this before!
"Shut up, you old bastard! You're the only one with a mouth?!"

"You still have the guts to ask, if it weren't for you gang of high-ranking officials who are paid thousands of knives, thinking about dirty things in your heart, and playing some routines that would be beaten by a turtle in a brothel, how would there be such a business?! "

"You don't dare to play tricks on Mrs. Zhengtou's side, and you are afraid that the concubine's room will talk too much, so you just find a way to buy a girl whose name has been sold, and you think you can cheat the world, don't you? Why are you talking hard when you can't do it below? Who are you scolding?" Fairy??"

"Fuck your mother's old thing! Dare to do things that you don't recognize!
Yan Yuan: "..."

Yan Yuan: "..."

She almost forgot that He Yuan's ancestral family was a gangster.

It really is……

Disrespectful.

At this time, there was silence in front of the Buddha Bone Pagoda.

Everyone has not recovered from the hearty scolding from the little girl.Most of them are scholars, and most of them are from a scholarly family. They have never been treated like this since they were born, and they all froze on the spot.

He Yuan's chest was still rising and falling.

She has some regrets.

Fortunately, the empress walked to her side in time, patted her arm lightly, and led her behind her.

"Thank you."

Yan Yuan smiled at He Yuan.

After all, the story of Meiyuan is too incredible.When she asked He Yuan to come, she just wanted to take the opportunity to reveal the secrets of Meiyuan. She didn't hope that many people would believe it, but it was just a formality to delay the time.

Now that He Yuan has output a meal, the effect is really gratifying.

Before Sha Ting, many people's faces were already shocked. After all, her behavior was not something that a court lady who had strictly selected her character and character could do.

They froze on the spot, and after a long time, the courtiers in the second row came out of the queue and bowed to Yan Yuan: "It's really like what this...girl said, if your lady visits the plum garden every day to give food, your ladyship And how did you know that there are people in the plum garden? If you just rely on the words of these girls, it cannot prove that they have been living in the plum garden, nor can it be said that they are... the purpose of the queen's visit to the plum garden."

As we all know, the plum garden has been confiscated, and a fire burned all the dead grass in the garden.

Who can prove that they have survived in it?

That's a good question.

Yan Yuan saw that the courtier who asked the question was young, with clear eyes, and guessed that he should be a Qingliu party, so she licked the corners of her mouth towards him.

"I never said that Concubine Mei has only three people."

"Your Majesty's words..."

Yan Yuan summoned the forbidden army in front of people, and asked He Yuan to lead them to the plum garden again.Not long after, the imperial guards left and returned, knelt on the ground and reported to Yan Yuan:

"Back to Empress, four women were found in the abandoned well in Meiyuan."

"They...dug a well to live in. There is a hole in the well, and it looks like it has been there for some time."

"There are a lot of remains of pastries, melons and fruits in the well, which should be brought by the empress to the plum garden."

The guard's voice became more and more hesitant, and at last he felt a little vain.

"The search of the garden is not good for my subordinates, and I am willing to bear the crime of dereliction of duty."

Last night they searched the plum garden extensively, and finally even set fire to the plum garden, but they didn't even find half a ghost.Who would have thought that under a dry well in the garden, someone dug open the side of the well and dug out a place of heaven and earth?

The imperial guard told everyone what he had seen and heard, and then retreated.

Yan Yuan looked at the leaders of the three rows and asked softly, "Do you have anything else to say?"

The crowd was silent.

After a while, a sigh sounded from the crowd.

It was the young man who asked the question just now, he sighed, bent down and knelt down to Yan Yuan, his voice was low: "I...don't investigate, listen to rumors, and would like to confess to the empress and His Majesty. "

The young official kowtowed deeply on the ground. When he got up, his face had returned to tranquility. He backed away slowly in front of all the civil and military officials, left the bloody front three rows, and knelt down to the side of the Shating Pavilion.

Old man Yuchi clenched his fists in anger: "Master Xu, you..."

After a brief stalemate, a few sporadic people in the second and third rows followed suit, knelt down to Yan Yuan and confessed their crimes, and then knelt down to the side of Sha Ting consciously.

Old man Yuchi: "You, you... don't you..."

His words were not finished.

Because the next moment, a loud whistle sounded in the distance.

It was a bone whistle used to communicate with each other in the barren land beyond the Great Wall.The whistle sounded first, and then the hooves of the horses approached. A group of men in blue-gray armor and silver iron armor rushed towards the stupa.

The leader among them was a burly military general with a green face, and a black wooden barrel hung from his waist.As soon as he got off his horse, he flew past the crowd and approached Chen Lingchen directly!
"Who? How dare you trespass into the palace!"

The imperial guards had never seen people dressed like this in the palace, and they immediately surrounded the Shating, with their swords out of their sheaths aimed at those men in blue-gray armor.

But the man didn't resist, he knelt in front of the pavilion and said: "Your subordinate is late, please punish me, Your Majesty."

Chen Ling said calmly, "Where is the fire seed?"

The man untied the wooden bucket at his waist and lifted the lid, only then did everyone discover that there was a piece of charcoal inside.As soon as the wood touched the air, it gradually ignited into a flame in the barrel.

This is... the fire seed of Yuting Mountain!
Civil and military officials were all horrified.

Didn't it mean that the person who started the fire has been intercepted?

Why are people still sending tinder?

Almost at the same time, a distant bell rang from the Buddha Bone Pagoda, and the deep sound of chanting came out slowly.Holding a half-arm-sized stone lotus lantern in his hand, the old monk slowly stepped out from the pagoda, chanted "Amitabha", and then raised the lotus lantern above his head.

Is that... the ever-burning lamp in the Buddha's hand?

While everyone was in a daze, the general wearing a silver visor had already inserted a candle into the barrel, took out the flame, and knelt down in front of Yan Yuan.

"Your Majesty, please light the lamp again."

Yan Yuan stared at the flames in front of her eyes.

She turned her head to look at Chen Lingchen, and found that Chen Lingchen was looking at her quietly, as if everything was within his expectations.

The man raised the flame above his head: "Respectfully, Empress, please light the lotus lamp again!"

The high-pitched voice broke through the silence and resounded through the sky.

Yan Yuan stretched out her hand slowly, before her fingertips touched the candle, she was suddenly interrupted by an agitated voice.

"My lord—!"

That was old man Yuchi.

He rushed in front of Huozhu, stopped Yan Yuan and Huozhu's fingertips, and shouted hoarsely: "My lord! The ever-burning lamp has been extinguished, and it is a fact that the demon queen is in danger! The old minister implores the sage to make a decision early! Depose the demon queen!"

Blood was streaming from his forehead.

Bright red blood flowed into the eyes, and the whole face was as ferocious as a Rakshasa.

Yan Yuan stared at him blankly, she was indeed a little puzzled.

The old man Yuchi's blood was spattered on the spot, was it really just because of a rumor?
"My lord—!"

Trembling old man Yuchi took out the dagger bestowed by the late emperor, unsheathed it, and put the dagger on his neck.

"Your Majesty, I'm admonishing you, please do so!"

The blade cut halfway into the neck, and blood beads flowed down the spine of the blade.

Chen Lingchen finally came out from behind the gauze curtain. He walked slowly to Yan Yuan's side, looked at the blood on the knife, and said calmly, "But Gu, I don't believe in ghosts and gods."

Old man Yuchi was crying blood and tears, and his cloudy old eyes fixed on Chen Ling:

"Thousands of bones in Lancheng have already appeared in the world, and the crimes committed by Yan Zhou are too numerous to write down. His Yan family is full of generations, and he will be stigmatized forever!"

"Thousands of skeletons can't be washed if hands are dirty. Rather than being bloodied countless times by the empress's mother clan, it's better, it's better to use the plum garden to worship ghosts and depose the empress. Please learn from me!"

"The ever-burning lamp must never be lit by your empress!"

The old man Yuchi babbled, tossed and turned, his eyes flashed with crazy light.

Yan Yuan finally understood why the old man would use such absurd reasons as ghosts and gods to remonstrate with the empress.

From the very beginning, what he was targeting was not the Everlasting Lantern, but the old case of Lancheng.

From the beginning to the end, all they cared about was that the killings in the past were revealed.What he wants to depose is the daughter of Yan Zhou who has been massacred, the daughter of a general who is destined to bring shame to the imperial court.It doesn't make any difference whether she worships Concubine Mei or Buddha.

At this moment, he was standing in front of the fire, with an angry light burning in his eyes.

He wears a wide-sleeved Confucian robe, and he dislikes the bloody slaughter of the Yan family who opened up borders and defended the land. He thinks that she also has the blood of crimes on her body, and she cannot touch the ever-burning lamp that symbolizes the destiny of the country.

What a clean and dust-free Shang Shu Ling.

Yan Yuan struggled to hold her breath.

For the first time in such a long time, she needed to suppress the killing intent in her chest.

"Yan Yuan."

Chen Ling called her name in a low voice.

Yan Yuan turned a deaf ear, her red dress glowing dazzlingly under the scorching sun.

Chen Ling blinked deeply, his eyelashes drooped slightly, and said softly, "Yan Yuan, light up the lamp."