When Li Hai searched the side halls back and forth, he found nothing unusual. When he returned to the Buddhist hall, Zi Yan still didn't know why Rong Changan called Li Hai here.
"My lord, what are you looking for?"
His cold eyes swept across Zi Yan's pink face: "You ask me what I'm looking for? I ask you, what are you doing here?"
In Li Hai's scarlet eyes, Zi Yan could not see any tenderness.
"Yes... the queen called me here. She said she wanted to tell me something." Zi Yan understood Rong Chang'an's intentions more and more, and she was afraid and angry in her heart.
In the fragrant cigarette, mixed with the pungent smell of alcohol, Li Hai's hawk-like gaze suddenly became more serious, "Zi Yan, have you been drinking?"
Zi Yan nodded: "I just drank some wine in the palace, it's all your fault, always taking sides..."
"Shut up!" Li Hai's stern reprimand seemed like a thunderclap on the ground.
Zi Yan was taken aback, she looked at Li Hai with her frightened eyes in surprise, she still didn't understand why Li Hai was so angry at her.
"For no reason, why drink alone? On weekdays, I have never seen you drink alone." The stern questioning gaze made Zi Yan feel uncomfortable. She didn't do anything, why did she act like a prisoner? He was interrogated by Li Hai.
"Your Majesty, is Rong Chang'an playing something in your ears again?"
"Don't worry about the queen, you answer me first, why do you drink alone?"
Under Li Hai's stern questioning, Zi Yan seemed a little at a loss: "I... I drink because of it, didn't I just say it, I am because of you, the emperor, you favor Queen Rong, I feel depressed..."
Li Hai sneered sarcastically, which made Ziyan feel the chills: "I thought, drinking alone is not just to relieve boredom, right?"
Ziyan widened her star eyes in horror, grabbed Li Hai's dragon robe, and shouted: "I don't understand what the emperor means? You don't think that I..."
A thought flashed through Zi Yan's mind, making her feel like she had fallen into a deep abyss, from which she could never get up again. And the person who threw her into this abyss was Rong Chang'an who was standing beside him and smiling triumphantly.
"If it wasn't for a tryst with another man, why did you come here alone? And why did you drink?" Li Hai suddenly grabbed Zi Yan's wrist, pinching her softly, "Your letter is coming again Who did you hand it over to? Who did you give the jade token to?" Li Hai roared, "Quickly tell me, who is that person and where is he?"
Now she finally understands that the letter, the jade plaque, and today's conversation in the back mountain hall were all set by Rong Changan. Why is she so naive, thinking that Rong Changan asked her to come and talk just for the sake of talking? Is Rong Changan that simple
The only thing she can play now is the sympathy card.
"Your Majesty!" Ziyan's heart-piercing voice could be heard by the entire back mountain, "Don't you know what kind of person Ziyan is? I will be loyal to you until death Unyielding, why would you engage in such sneaky things behind your back? Rong Changan must be jealous of the emperor favoring me, and designed to frame me, the emperor, you can't wrong me!"
Li Hai only talked about the evidence: "Now the letter is here, the jade plaque is here, and the female officer of the Punishment Department is here to testify, and now you are drinking alone in the side hall, all these things point to a fact..."
Zi Yan knew what the so-called facts were without listening. But what's wrong with her!
"Your Majesty, it was indeed Rong Chang'an who asked me to come to the side hall. If you don't believe me, ask her!"
Li Hai also looked at Rong Changan with questioning eyes: "Queen, did you call Ziyan?"
Zi Yan said loudly: "Rong Chang'an, don't say that you didn't call me over this time, you can't open your eyes and talk nonsense to frame me."
Rong Chang'an will no longer be seduced by Zi Yan's pitiful appearance, she will no longer feel sorry for Zi Yan.
"Zi Yan, did you drink too much and talk in your sleep? What did I ask you to come to the side hall? I just had a fight with you in the Department of Punishment, isn't it enough? Why should I come to fight with you? You should hurry up and explain clearly to the emperor who you have met with and where they have gone. There are thousands of concubines around the emperor, and you have seen many things. As long as you explain honestly, the emperor will surely punish you lightly."
Rong Changan looked at Li Hai meaningfully, "Your Majesty, am I right? For something like this, the Emperor will definitely forgive Zi Yan."
Li Hai was taken aback for a moment, with embarrassment on his face. Rong Changan is talking ironically, how can a man forgive a woman who betrayed him!
Seeing the flickering light in Li Hai's eyes, Zi Yan panicked, she hurriedly grabbed Rong Chang'an's skirt and begged: "Queen, please intercede with me, it is indeed you who asked me to come and talk, not I came here alone…”
Rong Changan glanced at Ziyan coldly: "How can there be such a coincidence in the world, you just drank wine, and then I just called you to the side hall? Ziyan, I usually treat you as a younger sister, but for this sake , I can’t help you. The facts are right in front of you, and how to deal with it can only depend on the emperor’s will.”
Rong Chang'an couldn't ask for it, Zi Yan threw herself on Li Hai's feet again, crying bitterly: "Your Majesty, you can't listen to Rong Chang'an's words..."
"I asked Eunuch Liu to invite you, but you not only refused to agree, but instead uttered disrespectful words, and I can sentence you to death for just saying those words! But I want to give you a chance to correct your mistakes, but I didn't expect... "
Pushing hard on the cloud shoes, Ziyan's frail body and white clothes fell on the cold water-milled bricks. What made Ziyan even colder was Li Hai's icy gaze: Ziyan's clothes were disheveled, and he couldn't think of any other reason to explain it clearly except for doing something casual.
He fell to the ground with a groan, his white and tender hands scratched the skin, and the cherry red blood was smeared on the ground, but at this moment, Zi Yan didn't care about the wound on his hand, but looked at it with trembling eyes. With his hands behind his back, he stands high above Li Hai, as if he is in the clouds.
When he acted like this, Zi Yan knew that there was no room for redemption.
Woo...
The sad cry resounded through the entire side hall and the entire back mountain.
"The noble concubine Ziyan lives in the harem, and she doesn't repair herself. She has failed me. Now I will remove the title of noble concubine Ziyan, and put her in the cold palace to reflect. Only when the chickens peck at the rice and the fire burns the iron can she come out!"
After Eunuch Liu finished reading Li Hai's imperial edict, he waved his hands and asked the two eunuchs around him to mix up Ziyan and take him to the cold palace.
"No, I don't want to go to the cold palace! Eunuch Liu, help me talk to the emperor!"
Eunuch Liu shook his head, waved the fly whisk, and sighed: I have begged for mercy for you, but you don't know what is good and what is wrong, and you are self-righteous, and you will end up where you are today! How pathetic!
Since ancient times, there has been a saying that the Hou Men are as deep as the sea, let alone the Leng Gong.