Emperor Jin

Chapter 76 The Empress
The door of the palace was half-opened, and a gust of cold wind blew in. The emperor's brows were cold, and suppressed anger could be seen faintly. His eyes were piercing, and the strange light frightened the queen. She tightened her robe tightly, and her heart sank.

She has a deep relationship with the emperor and his wife, not to mention quarreling, but she has never even blushed a few times in these years, now he is looking at each other coldly, but for what?
"What happened?!"

The queen is also a person of resolute temperament. She raised her eyes to the emperor and asked solemnly again.

The translucent paper was thrown onto the couch, and when the wind blew, it flew up to the palace wall engraved with gold and phoenix patterns, and finally fell powerlessly.

The queen took the secret report and glanced at it for a while, with a look of shock, fury and disbelief on her snow-white face.

"It's really... extremely ridiculous!!"

She laughed angrily, the collarbone on her chest was rising and falling slightly, her hands were clutching the paper tightly, almost tearing it apart——

"Your majesty, you actually believe such a lie?"

She said sadly, her voice lowered.

"Huo Ming was loyal to me. Before he died, he dipped in blood and left clues about the murderer—this is clearly a word for 'back'! Tell me, what grudge does he have against you?"

The emperor's face was as deep as water, and his voice was dignified and painful. He stared at his beloved wife and said angrily, "Why did you do this?"

"This matter has nothing to do with me."

The queen's phoenix eyes were dark, and her voice became deeper and deeper, "He is your beloved general, your partner and brother when you first raised the army, why did I attack him?!"

"Because of Nantang."

The emperor said quietly, his voice seemed to come from beyond the sky, "From the very beginning, you were eager to crusade against the Southern Tang Dynasty, and the ministers in the court were also divided into two factions, those who were aggressive and those who were slow to fight.

"However, if you want to crusade against the Southern Tang Dynasty, you must first pass the hurdle of the Deferred War faction, and those who support the Deferred War are all generals in the army."

"They are proficient in military affairs. They think that I am a new ruler and my vitality has not yet recovered. It is not appropriate to go to war. It is difficult to persuade them. Therefore, you have other thoughts, hoping to arouse public anger with the blood of soldiers."

The emperor sighed heavily, and said angrily: "A while ago you secretly sent He Yuan out of the palace. I have heard of their sneaky behavior, but I just don't want to go into it... I never thought that you would attack Huo Ming!!"

He suddenly turned around, stared at the queen and said, "Then the deaths of Lei Shi and Jing Qianyuan were also caused by you?"

Hearing this questioning, the queen felt shocked and angry, but also had nowhere to refute. The assassin on the day of the palace banquet was indeed related to her. The serial assassinations have nothing to do with her!

She held back her anger, smiled sadly at the emperor, and said, "Husband, in your mind, am I such a poisonous woman?"

The emperor looked at her scissored water eyes, his heart softened, but he still said firmly: "Huo Ming is known as 'Iron Stone' in the army, if he is not completely sure, he will not write that last word. "

He sighed, tried his best to slow down his tone, and said, "Perhaps, your subordinates did something without authorization. You should check it out carefully!"

He immediately got up and put on his clothes, and the palace servants on the side panicked and wanted to come forward to serve, but he coldly waved them back.

He said directly: "I'm tired, what's the matter, let's talk about it tomorrow!"

The queen stood aside blankly, watching the dragon-patterned dragon robe go away from the vermilion threshold, she was furious in her heart, she gritted her teeth, and with a wave of her hand, she dropped the jade bottle on the small table to the ground and shattered it.

The crackling sound in the sleeping hall made the palace people in the hallway fall silent, the remaining snow on the eaves melted and fell into their collars coldly, but they did not dare to move a little.

"Go ask He Yuan to come over here."

The queen's voice, indifferent and cold, made everyone shiver.

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"My humble minister is wronged! This matter really has nothing to do with us, empress!"

He Yuan trembled and knelt on the ground, not even daring to lift his head, but shouted for grievances, "We secretly helped the southerners to assassinate at the palace banquet, which made the emperor decide to attack the south. It is only right to accept it when you see it. How can you provoke those generals in the army?"

"I forgive you for not daring to make up your own mind."

The queen sat upright in the hall, her voice had returned to calm, but the gleam in her eyes made people feel terrified out of thin air.

She was tolerant and gracious to these old ministers in the army - in the future, she would point at them to fight with Yun Shi, so how could she do anything to them?
But now, she was caught in this vortex inexplicably.

Thinking of this, she couldn't help gritting her teeth, and after a while, said: "What is the meaning of that last word written by Huo Ming? Why does he think that I killed him?"

This is a question that she has been thinking about for half the night but can't figure it out. Now that she asks it, He Yuan is in a cloud of mist and can't say anything.

"Who is framing me?! What is he trying to achieve?"

The Queen murmured to herself.

(End of this chapter)