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Chapter 141 The Emperor's Personal Trial (1)
Liu Xinmei personally brought the fragrant and soft millet porridge to her aunt, "Auntie, why don't you have a bowl of porridge? Our Liu family is not vegetarian, so why is it so difficult to catch a prostitute? I don't know what my aunt is worried about?"

"What do you know?" Concubine Liu De suddenly yelled angrily, and then saw the face of this daughter-like niece froze, she calmed down and took a spoonful of the porridge in her hand and blew it into her mouth, "Heart Mei, Auntie loses her temper with you only when she is anxious for a while..."

Liu Xinmei's face softened, and she said with a smile, "Auntie, Xinmei understands, and I didn't misunderstand what Auntie meant."

"You are a good boy, more like my daughter than Anxing. This concubine is not easy to be. The emperor's women will always be more and more. If you want to take such a path in the future, you must be prepared..." Concubine Liu De was educating her niece earnestly, and suddenly saw her father who came in person under the leadership of Gong'e, and said in surprise: "Father, why are you here? The morning is over?"

Prime Minister Liu Jin'an handed the court hat to Gong'e, then sat down and looked at his daughter and said, "The crown prince personally submitted the zhezi this morning and asked for the eldest prince and the third prince to be crowned kings."

Concubine Liu De smiled when she heard the words, "What's the matter? The prince is still smart. Although the emperor didn't say anything, he still valued Concubine Shu's pregnancy. Now that the formed prince is gone, the emperor is feeling sad. The crown prince's move is timely, and it will surely make the emperor happy." He personally took the tea bowl from Gong'e's hand and presented it to his father, "Father, if the queen is involved in the case of concubine Shu's miscarriage, the emperor will definitely I am furious, but thinking of the prince's benevolence and love for brothers, I will not punish you, and I don't have a prince, so this is the right time to win over the prince."

She admired the prince more and more for his prudent handling and timely actions. Among all the princes, he is still the best. If he can be crowned empress in the future, the prince's step-son is quite satisfactory.

"Grandpa, don't you always praise the prince for his kindness? Now this behavior is not in line with your wishes?" Liu Xinmei acted coquettishly towards Liu Jin'an, saying good things for her sweetheart, and did not want her family to trip him up.

How could Liu Jin'an not be able to think of what my daughter could think of?But this is not like the prince's usual behavior, what is he planning?The light in Sanjiao's eyes was flickering, so he thought of something and said with a serious face: "Daughter, I'm afraid that things you planned will change?"

"Father, what do you mean?" Concubine Liu De's face was serious, and she stood up abruptly, hearing her father's words made her heart beat wildly.

"Calm down, there was a big fire in the red building last night. It is said that many clients and prostitutes were burnt to death inside. The small courtyard where Xun Lan lives happened to be the place where the fire was the biggest." Liu Jin'an said calmly to his daughter.

"Father is saying that Xun Lan was burned to death?"

"As for whether he died or escaped, even I am not sure now, but our Liu family has searched with all our strength, and I have issued an order to the governor of the imperial capital to severely interrogate the old bustard who leaned on the red building and the group of clients. , See if this fire is a natural disaster or man-made?"

Liu Jin'an's ability to be the prime minister for more than ten years is naturally closely related to his cautious and cautious behavior, and he has the most thorough guess of the emperor Yuwentai's thoughts, especially the handling of the Xun family matter, which made Yuwentai's trust in him even deeper. layer.

Concubine Liu De's heart turned cold, without Xun Lan in hand, how could she control Xun Zhen to give false testimony?Damn, I finally caught this opportunity, how could I have thought that this would be the case?
Liu Xinmei bit her lip and wrung the handkerchief. Although Xun Zhen was still going to die, she couldn't be used by her Liu family. Damn it, my aunt had planned everything, just waiting for Xun Zhen's words to make the emperor believe that the queen is the envoy Seeing her tense expression, she said obediently: "Auntie, our Liu family is looking for her. If Auntie is really impatient and has a plan, she can just pull a dead body and lie to Xun Zhen that it is her aunt. After all, it is her aunt." Dear aunt and nephew, does she want her aunt to be crushed by us?"

Concubine Liu De's eyes lit up, and she looked at her niece appreciatively, "Father, Xinmei is a good plan, who can tell the authenticity of a charred corpse? Xun Zhen hasn't seen Xun Lan for seven years, Is it even more impossible to distinguish?"

Liu Jin'an suddenly smiled strangely at his daughter, "Daughter, many of the Xun family's descendants died in battle, some were burnt, some with incomplete bones, but the Xun family never let their own corpses die in the wilderness. They will make a special jade pendant to wear around their necks, both men and women. Go and see if Xun Zhen has this jade pendant on his neck? The front is the last name and the back is the first name. A jade pendant, how can you believe that it is her aunt?"

Concubine Liu De and Liu Xinmei didn't know that the Xun family had such a weird family biography, they looked at each other, their brows were slightly frowned, no matter how unwilling, Concubine Liu De had no choice but to sit down on the carved round stool.

When the atmosphere was tense, a eunuch in green trotted in and said to Concubine Liu De: "Your Majesty, the Emperor suddenly personally interrogated the case of Concubine Shu's miscarriage, and now all the people involved in the case have been taken to the side hall of Hualong Palace .”

Everyone in the Liu family exclaimed.

Concubine Liu De bit her fingernails even more, the emperor personally interrogated, but her plan went wrong again, "Father?"

It was only a matter of a moment to ponder, and Liu Jin'an immediately made a decision, "After all, this is the emperor's family business. Even if I am the prime minister, I can't get involved. You should go to Hualong Palace to see how the situation is going, and then you can make plans."

Only then did Concubine Liu De's nervous expression relax, "Father, my daughter knows."

Guiqi Palace.

Concubine Feng Gui was praying in front of the Buddha statue in the secret room, thinking of the man who came to tell her with a slumped face last night that the assassination of Xun Zhen had failed, and she should not do more in the near future, otherwise it would bring disaster to her.

If it wasn't for the fact that Xu You had evidence that could reverse Xun Zhen's case, and in order to avoid long nights and dreams, the only way to end the case was to commit suicide in fear of crime, otherwise why would she take such a risky move?Now this move was disturbed by her son, and all the layouts were disrupted. Thinking of this, she glanced at the kind-hearted Buddha, and bowed deeply.

The moment he lowered his head, his son asked her to come forward to save Xun Zhen last night, rang in his ears again, "Mother, my son didn't expect that you would send someone to assassinate her? Why is she hindering you? According to my son, Concubine Shu's miscarriage is What did you do? Mother, you really chilled your son, do you want to give him a blood-stained throne? If there is Xun Zhen's blood on that throne, then my son would rather not have it?"

(End of this chapter)