It was as if a wolf that had been mixed in with the sheep had been stripped of its camouflage in public. Qi Yunxi's hair stood up at this moment. He opened his eyes wide and denied it flatly: "What is the Queen Mother talking about? I don't understand!"
No way!
She was frantically comforting herself in her heart.
How could it be!? She pretended so well that no one had ever doubted her background for so many years!
Even Queen Hu thought that she was blinded by wealth and glory and wanted to be the emperor's woman, so she had bad intentions and was disappointed in her.
She played these so-called winners in the palm of her hand, became Queen Hu's savior, stayed by Queen Hu's side, and was treated like a daughter by the emperor and empress. Even a real princess was probably no different from her.
Queen Hu didn't know until her death that she was a relative of Queen Li, and she never imagined that her beloved son and daughter-in-law would die at her hands.
She has always been proud of these military achievements, and also felt that these were retribution for the actions of Queen Hu and Emperor Yuanfeng.
If it weren't for them, how could they have gone from being noble ladies to being imperial prisoners, and how could their entire family have been brutally tortured? !
Even that is not enough.
In her eyes, even Mrs. He and Xiao Heng, those who were only related to Queen Hu, should not live in this world - if it weren't for the Hu family leading troops to attack the Li family, her father would not have died at all!
Her mind was in such a mess that it seemed like it was about to explode, and she tried hard to make herself appear more innocent.
But Empress Dowager Tian sneered and stepped forward, grabbed her chin, and forced her to look up: "Bitch, you dare to lie! You said you don't know?! Who is Xuanyuan?!"
She looked at the person in front of her coldly, her heart aching as if being stabbed by a needle. This person in front of her had been raised in the palace for many years, and was finally married off from the palace in a grand manner. How could she have imagined at that time that this person, who killed her daughter, could still live in the palace as if nothing had happened? !
Thinking of her four-year-old daughter, Empress Dowager Tian wished she could grind Qi Yunxi to dust with her own hands.
She looked at Emperor Yuanfeng in sorrow: "Emperor! You must give me an explanation for this matter! I only have Jingming as my daughter. When she was just born, you held her in your arms. Do you remember?"
Empress Dowager Tian's eyes were blurred from crying. She kept repeating one sentence: "Emperor, you must avenge my Jingming..."
Qi Yunxi finally felt scared at this point, and grabbed the hem of Emperor Yuanfeng's clothes in panic and begged for mercy: "Your Majesty, I don't know what the Empress Dowager said. Someone must have deliberately framed me, Your Majesty! Have you forgotten that the Empress Dowager once sent people to check my background, you know that, how could I lie? My last name is Qi, you know that, Your Majesty!"
Emperor Yuanfeng looked at her calmly, his eyes scrutinizing her: "The Queen treats you like her own daughter. When you did these things, did you ever think about her kindness to you?"
As if his throat was suddenly caught, Qi Yunxi's face turned purple, his breathing became heavy, and he shook his head tremblingly: "No! Your Majesty, you can't listen to their nonsense, I didn't, I didn't! No, Your Majesty, I didn't do it, I..."
It was as if countless fireworks exploded in her mind, making her dizzy for a moment.
Emperor Yuanfeng leaned over and grabbed her neck, tightening it little by little: "You said at the beginning that the Queen hated me for committing too many murders and had complaints against me in her heart. Was it you who said that, or was it really the Queen who said that?"
When you realize that someone around you is lying to you, then everything this person does will easily be magnified and doubted by you.
What's more, Qi Yunxi can't stand the investigation at all.
Emperor Yuanfeng had a cold expression, and when he looked at Qi Yunxi, his eyes were no different from looking at a dead object.
Qi Yunxi had difficulty even thinking. He tightly grasped the hands of Emperor Yuanfeng that were pinching his throat with both hands, and said in horror: "Your Majesty! I didn't! I didn't!"
"No?" Emperor Yuanfeng sneered, "Where has Aunt Liu from the Queen's Palace gone? How much information did Eunuch Wang from the Imperial Horse Administration pass on to you? Do you want me to personally bring this evidence to you?!"
Queen Mother Tian's patience has reached its limit. "She has sneaked into the palace for many years, and her life experience is different. Qi said that the one who died was Li, but I don't think it makes sense! If it was really Li who died, then Qi's aunt and nephew are crazy and want to kill my Jingming?! Why did they instigate trouble in the palace and frame the queen?! It's obvious that they had bad intentions from the beginning. I think we should torture them and make them tell the truth!"
The secret that had been hidden for so many years was revealed in one day, and it happened so suddenly. Qi Yunxi was frightened. She had lived in lies all her life, relying on lies to exploit, deceive or calculate others. She had never been in such an embarrassing situation before. The look in Emperor Yuanfeng's eyes made her understand that she might really die here today.
But it was clearly still morning when she went to the palace to ask for an audience with Emperor Yuanfeng, crying and complaining about the grievances she had suffered regarding her niece's incident, and she distanced herself from any relationship with Mrs. He's falling into the water.
Why?!
Emperor Yuanfeng's hands tightened little by little. There was silence all around. Qi Yunxi could even clearly hear the crisp sound of his bones under Emperor Yuanfeng's hands.
She was so frightened that she kept slapping Emperor Yuanfeng's hands, and finally collapsed.
The air around her was sucked away, and she felt a burning pain from her throat to her nasal cavity, and her consciousness gradually began to become blurred.
This time I might really die here.
She thought with some despair in her heart, but she was very unwilling.
It shouldn't be like this.
She hasn't killed Xiao Heng and Su Yao yet.
If she had known earlier, she shouldn't have teased them like a cat playing with a mouse, but should have killed them cleanly and swiftly, and perhaps today's incident wouldn't have happened.
I don't know how long I was daydreaming, the originally thin air suddenly became clear, Qi Yunxi was thrown to the ground, and immediately he began to breathe in big gulps as if he had been pardoned, and he hunched his body and coughed violently.
Emperor Yuanfeng looked at her coldly, and suddenly shouted, "Ah Heng!"
Xiao Heng, who had been so quiet that he seemed to be non-existent, responded softly. Meeting Qi Yunxi's shocked gaze, he slowly raised his eyebrows.
"You come to try this case. I want to know who she is and how many ulterior motives she has done over the years!" Emperor Yuanfeng wiped his hands. Without the protection of Queen Hu, in his eyes, Qi Yunxi's status was no different from that of a dog on the street.
Empress Dowager Tian took over the conversation coldly: "No matter what means are used."