: Stealing the chicken but losing the rice

Concubine Lu leaned in Ling Tianyin's arms and cried.

Her hot tears touched the back of his hand, and she felt helpless.

"Your Majesty, if I had known this, I would not have followed you into the palace. If this place was like a dragon's pond and a tiger's den, Shen'er would have been killed at any time. How come I and you didn't know each other before!"

This sentence brought with it the sadness of Concubine Lu for so many years, and when it was said repeatedly, Ling Tianyin also felt uncomfortable and frowned.

Ling Tianyin hugged her shoulders tightly: "Xianfu, I don't allow you to talk nonsense. It's been me who hasn't done well enough and neglected you and Shen'er. But I will never do this in the future, and I won't let others do it again.

I’ll hurt you mother and son even half a cent!”

He raised his handsome eyes, filled with determination and firmness.

"Publishing my decree, the Zhong family deceives the emperor and ignores the superiors. She is a snake-hearted person and is no longer worthy of being the mother of the world. Today, she is deprived of the queen position, ordered to hand over the phoenix seal, demoted to a commoner and thrown into the cold palace!"

Queen Zhong's figure was shaken.

She looked at Ling Tianyin blankly: "Your Majesty! How dare you do this to me? I am the queen you originally named! I am the daughter of the Zhong family!"

Ling Tianyin's eyes were very strange.

He protected the sobbing and weak Concubine Lu, and said in a cold tone: "Ms. Zhong, I have given you many opportunities, but you have overstepped your bounds again and again, relying on the Zhong family to do whatever you want. Now, you have even done things like poisoning the prince.

come out!"

Empress Zhong made her final struggle: "That is slander and frame-up! I have never done it!"

Ling Tianyin was furious: "As long as I want to investigate, do you think you can escape?! It is a fact that you have banned your own daughter from eating and drinking, and it is also a fact that you ordered the palace people to poison you. Your evil has already been inscribed!"

He stared at Queen Zhong, with veins showing on his forehead: "I am showing mercy by keeping you alive."

Concubine Lu leaned in Ling Tianyin's arms, looking at Empress Zhong with tears in her eyes.

The queen brought it upon herself, and she showed no mercy at all.

At this moment, the Imperial Guards who had just gone to thoroughly investigate the official errands also rushed back.

Not only did they come back, they brought someone with them.

Ling Tianyin frowned: "Who is this?"

Gu Nuoer blinked her long eyelashes: "It's the old gardener from Zhong Mansion!"

The gardener greeted tremblingly: "The grass people are the craftsmen in Zhong Mansion who are responsible for cultivating flowers and plants."

Ling Tianyin narrowed his eyes: "What are you doing here?"

"Come and confess everything that the common people know and see about the Zhong Mansion accepting bribes."

The imperial guard stepped forward and whispered beside Ling Tianyin: "Your Majesty, this is just an insider. In his humble position, he followed the people he came into contact with and conducted thorough investigations. It was found that he would collect the silver coins almost every month.

Take out half of it and send it to Zhong Mansion."

"Moreover, the gardener at Zhong Mansion said that just the day before yesterday, he saw this official entering Zhong Mansion but did not give money. He did not know why."

When Ling Tianyin heard this, he sneered.

Is there anything unclear about this?

"What can he do? He naturally thinks that Nuo'er has usurped power and went to inform the Zhong family!"

That's why the Queen came to arrest people just now and wanted to throw dirty water on Gu Nuoer!

But she never expected that things would turn around, and today, it would be her, Queen Zhong, who would be unlucky!

Shooting yourself in the foot is like stealing a chicken but losing a lot of rice.

The imperial guard added: "Lord Zhong is also waiting outside the door and wants to explain to the emperor in person."
Chapter completed!