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As expected, the queen couldn't sit still, and the Qin family also complained in the court. Under the commotion, Emperor Zhong seemed to be in a dilemma. In the end, Su Shenzhi and other cabinet ministers suggested to give in and investigate again...

Three days later, your Majesty celebrated the great victory on the frontier and held a banquet for the meritorious ministers. Hundreds of civil and military officials gathered together, as well as aristocratic families and noble houses, including the Xie family and the thirty-five clans.

When Ming Jin and Xiao Rong entered the palace, the atmosphere in the court was completely different from the past. Enthusiastic people followed the crowd, and the female relatives looked at Ming Jin as if they were their own ancestors, with a mixture of awe and envy.

Mostly because they understand that they and others are wealthy flowers living under the power of the family. Life and death are determined by others, but the opponent is the power itself.

Thinking about the fact that the Thirty-Fifth Clan sent a coffin to threaten the capital makes my spine shiver.

In such a lively atmosphere, they were all blocked by Xiao Rong.

Ming Jin sat alone at the front of the audience. This position was occupied by her father back then. Now she is the eldest son and will be able to ascend to the throne in a few days.

She did what the clan children could not do yet.

Chu Lanai, who was sitting in the clan group opposite, had a complex expression.

The king was surrounded by the queen and his favorite concubine. Li Bai was dressed in white clothes and stood by the lower pillar with a sword in hand. She was protected by the commanders of the imperial army. She looked at the banquet of officials with cold eyes. Occasionally, her eyes fell on Xie Mingjin, with a slightly complicated expression on her face.

This person doesn't seem to have anything wrong at all, but it seems that she has been worrying about gains and losses recently because she has been thinking too much.

But... Li Baiyi went outside to breathe for a while, and not long after, Chu Lanai came out.

Li Baiyi smelled of alcohol on her body.

"Do you want to drink some wine?" Li Baiyi asked her.

"Absolutely, it's a bit stuffy inside."

She had seen so many people singing and dancing since she was little, and she was a little tired of it.

Chu Lanai pressed her hands on the white stone railing, smelling the wind blowing from the open space in the palace city at night, and seemed to wake up a little. She looked at Li Baiyi, "You saw that you looked at Xie Mingjin several times at the table. She

I didn’t even talk to you, you two are having a conflict.”

She had long since noticed that these two beauties, who were extremely talented in martial arts, seemed to have become friends from the first meeting, which was a friendship that she longed for.

But after Wu Ling came back from the Guangling Valley, the two of them became estranged.

To be precise, it was Xie Mingjin who took the initiative to alienate Li Baiyi.

"I don't know, I don't quite understand." Li Baiyi leaned against the pillar, "I asked her before when she would go to the building. She promised. The master also missed her very much, but she didn't go back for so many days. She didn't want to go back.

There have been too many turmoils recently..."

It was the first time that Chu Lanai saw her junior sister so confused. It was probably because she made friends for the first time but was left out. She didn't understand or understand.

Unable to bear her sadness, Chu Lanai tactfully comforted her: "Maybe it's because she's afraid of affecting Baiyi Jianxuelou. You know, her identity is very sensitive now."

"It will be fine after a while."

"She has always been a person who considers others very much."

Li Baiyi thought about it and felt that it was right, "I thought it was because...because I didn't help Xie Mingrong that day."

When she said this, Chu Lanai was helpless.

Martial arts progress faster, but somehow it still feels very simple.

"Go in, it's hard to stay away for too long."

When they entered, they found that some people were not there. Among them, the queen had left early. After all, she was pregnant and it was not advisable to stay in a noisy place for too long.

After a while, Emperor Zhong mentioned that he wanted to go to Yanyue Platform to watch the fireworks.

Everyone just changed their route and passed by.

Passing by many attics on the road, I looked at the lanterns that had been hung in the palace. They were so dazzling that some of the clan members and officials' children were very excited, and many even brought up small lanterns to play with.

Ming Jin walked on the road, and Xiao Rong followed him. As he walked, Xiao Rong asked.

"Shaozong doesn't want a rabbit lantern?"

Ming Jin turned around and saw Xiao Rong getting a lantern from an unknown eunuch or maid.

Under the light and fire, the man walked towards her with a smile.

Emperor Zhong glanced back and narrowed his eyes slightly.

"I am no longer a child, Uncle Xiao Qi, please don't coax me." Ming Jin smiled faintly, but also took the rabbit lantern and tapped it lightly with her fingers. The candlelight inside was dim, and she tilted her eyes slightly.

, but saw a young man half his height in front of him.

Prince of Zhao Kingdom.

Four years ago, he was still a young man in Quanshan. Four years later, he is still a young man, but his youthfulness has almost faded away, and he has gained a bit more dignity and indifference brought about by his status as a prince.

But the look in his eyes... still looks like he wanted to play in the snow in Quanshan but restrained himself.

"Does your Highness want it?"

The prince glanced at her and said, "I am not a child either." He said coldly and left, and the old eunuch followed closely.

Many people looked over, and Concubine Ling even looked at Ming Jin, because this powerful female young master would be angry, but in the end she didn't. Instead, the latter smiled and gave the lantern to a little palace maid.

Then he fluttered his sleeves and walked away.

But before I could catch up with the people in front, I heard the screams in front of me.

Ming Jin and Xiao Rong looked at each other, walked up, and soon learned what was happening in front of them.

It was Li Baiyi and the Forbidden Army commander who first noticed the pursuit in the garden of the front courtyard.

Two eunuchs with martial arts skills were chasing a palace maid.

The palace maid was dying, but after being rescued by Li Baiyi, she revealed the shocking secret in one breath in front of everyone.

She bumped into the queen and had a secret meeting with someone.

Almost everyone present at the time felt that this was a conspiracy, a conspiracy to kill the queen. As a result, the palace maid died.

The two eunuchs captured by the commander of the imperial army were recognized as indeed the people around the queen.

So, it was indeed the queen who sent the assassination of this little palace maid?

At least this is certain.

Emperor Zhong looked extremely ugly, but he seemed not to want the matter to escalate, so he ordered the two eunuchs to be taken away to find out who was slandering the queen.

As a result, the two eunuchs probably knew that they were bound to die. One of them bit his tongue and committed suicide, while the other was restrained by the commander of the imperial army. In despair, the eunuch proposed that he would be guilty and meritorious, so he told another secret.

The child the queen is carrying is not the king's.

Most of the eunuchs had shrill voices, and everyone heard their howl. At that time, I don’t know how many people wished they could disappear.

Ming Jin stood in the darkness where there was no light and fire. He glanced over and saw Emperor Zhong's shocked face. He pressed his heart in a very real way and asked in disbelief: "Say it again!"

So the little eunuch really shouted again.

Then Zhongdi lost all hope and almost fainted, but Concubine Ling beside him couldn't wait to support him with overwhelming joy. While worried about the king's safety, a group of people around him comforted the king.

The king reluctantly held on and once again expressed his trust in the queen, but he wanted to go to the queen to ask for help.

Of course, the others did not refuse, but they all asked to step down, but the king refused, insisting that the queen and future children must be cleared in public.

Others can only bite the bullet and go together.

Ming Jin: "..."

She suddenly understood why this king could hide for so many years.
Chapter completed!