The next day, the sky was gloomy and the wind blew.

In the Ganlu Hall, the atmosphere is particularly depressing.

Empress Zhou leaned on the red sandalwood openwork curly grass-patterned chair, with a blue face, and no matter how thick the powder was between her eyebrows and eyes, she could not cover her haggardness.

Pei Changzhou paced back and forth like an ant on a hot pan, his eyebrows frowned tightly.

"Okay, stop, stop, stop, I'm already confused, my head hurts even more when you turn!" Queen Zhou said coldly, pressing her slender fingers on her forehead that was vaguely painful.

"My mother, what should we do now? Why did it become like this?"

Pei Changzhou stopped, looked puzzled, and lowered his voice, "There is a secret room in my uncle's house. This son knows, but... what's going on with that dragon robe? Could it be that my uncle really..."

Before he could finish his words, Queen Zhou raised her hand and threw a teacup hard at his feet.

With a crisp "slam" sound, the teacup suddenly fell to pieces, scaring Pei Changzhou to death.

Queen Zhou stared at him and said sternly, "What do you want to say? It's at this critical moment, you actually doubt your uncle?! Over the years, your uncle has been busy for whom, and you don't know what he is doing."

Pei Changzhou's eyes flashed and he said angrily, "Just just talk casually, how could he doubt his uncle? It's just that the dragon robe is really strange, and the assassins of yesterday..."

Queen Zhou closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and tried to calm herself down.

When she opened her eyes again, she said in a deep voice, "Last night, the prince took your uncle to the Ministry of Justice?"

When Pei Changzhou mentioned this, he felt a little angry and clenched his hands tightly, "He is so proud now."

Queen Zhou sneered, "What a prince and Gu Qu. I can't wait to take action shortly after I came back."

Pei Changzhou was shocked and said anxiously, "Mother, do you mean that the incident happened last night was arranged by the prince and the Gu family?"

Queen Zhou raised her eyelids lightly and glanced at the stupid son, "Who else has such courage except them!"

The choice of taking action when the emperor is married to his daughter and the Prime Minister's Mansion is not only dealing with the Zhou family, but in a sense it is also a provocation to the royal majesty.

There are many people who want to deal with the Zhou family, but who dares to go against the emperor, except for the Gu family in the court?

The prince was even more fearless. He knew very well that Emperor Zhaokang's preference for him-

Gu Qu stabbed Emperor Zhaokang with a sword back then, and Emperor Zhaokang could tolerate the Gu family, let alone Pei Yan, the only bone and blood he and Gu Yuan were.

Gu Yuan, a dead man, has made him read for so many years, remember for so many years, and love for so many years!

Queen Zhou's red and beautiful lips curled up a cold sarcasm. Even if Pei Yan wants to sit on the dragon throne now, Emperor Zhao Kang would probably give way, right?

Pei Changzhou was furious, "I just said, how could it be such a coincidence! The secret room was hidden very secretly, how could the officers and soldiers find it? And those assassins, each of whom was very skilled, were all first-class masters... Damn, the trick of the prince and the Gu family was so sinister!"

Queen Zhou sat down without saying a word.

Pei Changzhou cursed Datong angrily, and after he calmed down, he sat in front of Queen Zhou and asked, "Mother, how do you think the father will deal with his uncle? Will this matter involve us?"

"The misfortune is not as good as a married daughter, let alone I am the queen, you are the prince." Empress Zhou glanced at him coldly, and her voice suppressed, "And there are many doubts about this matter. Didn't your father send the Minister of Justice and the Minister of the Dali Temple to investigate? Don't you be impatient and get rid of your own."

Pei Changzhou said in a stern manner, "When my son was working in the Ministry of Justice, he had some friendship with the Minister of Justice. But this Dali Temple Minister Zhao Pingyue was just a stinky and hard stone... Oh, by the way, Zhao Pingyue and Dingbei Hou Mansion were still in-laws, and Zhao Pingyue's youngest daughter married Liulang of the Xu family..."

Dingbei Hou has remained neutral for the past two years, but now he has gradually moved closer to the East Palace.

Pei Changzhou felt that a large part of the reason was because of Tao Ti's personal relationship with the Xu family's legitimate daughter. Now, Princess Jingyang's family has also moved to the East Palace, and Qinghe has also become in-laws with the Xu family.

In this way, the Dingbei Hou faction became a force in the East Palace.

Thinking of this, Pei Changzhou was so depressed that he wanted to vomit blood.

If he had known that Tao Ti was such a skill to win people's hearts, he should have thought of a way to turn her into his own woman and break her body, and he would not be afraid that she would not marry.

Even if the father attaches great importance to the engagement set by Gu, he will not let a woman who loses her virginity marry to the East Palace... As for me, at most I will be taught a lesson or beaten.

Pei Changzhou gritted his teeth and now Pei Yan has made him get a bargain for nothing. It’s really hateful!

Queen Zhou could see Pei Changzhou's colorful intestines at a glance, and her tone was a little tired, "Okay, you have been delaying me for a long time, it's time to leave the palace."

Pei Changzhou was stunned, "Mother, where is the uncle?"

Queen Zhou said, "Let's wait and see for two days first, see what the court and the Ministry of Justice are in the situation, and then make plans."

After a pause, she stared straight at Pei Changzhou, "You stay in your mansion honestly these two days and don't do anything. Just wait and see what happens before acting."

Pei Changzhou was anxious, but he couldn't think of a solution. He had to suppress his emotions and lower his head and said, "Son understand."

Queen Zhou waved her hand and signaled him to retreat.

The great palace maid walked in and bowed and said, "Empress, you didn't close your eyes all night last night. Why not lie on the bed for a while."

Queen Zhou responded softly, stood up slowly, and walked towards the bedroom.

When she took off the hairpin ring in front of the dressing mirror, she stared at the face that was no longer young in the bronze mirror, and couldn't help but raise her hand to touch her temples, "In the past two years, I seem to have grown much older."

The great palace maid was busy saying good things to comfort her.

Queen Zhou bent her lips and stroked her eyes.

She narrowed her eyes and murmured softly, "Once upon a time, Your Majesty liked my eyes the most."

He said her eyes were beautiful.

When she heard this for the first time, her heart beat pounding and her face turned red.

Later, when she saw Gu Yuan, she realized that her eyes were very similar to hers.

However, Gu Yuan's eyes when he looked at the emperor were always alienated and cold, while his eyes when he looked at the emperor were full of obsession, worship and love.

During that time, for Gu Yuan, he stopped touching other women in the harem and guarded Gu Yuan with all his heart and eyes.

Later, somehow, he had another quarrel with Gu Yuan, and she took this opportunity to climb onto his bed.

That night, he was so drunk that he kissed her eyes and pressed her, and kept shouting "Yuanyuan".

She was both hated and jealous, but she was grateful for that time, which made her pregnant.

While she hated that her eyes were similar to Gu Yuan, she also used this similarity to approach the emperor and please him.

The memories came to an abrupt end, and Queen Zhou's eyes were filled with a cold and cold light, and her fingers were clenched tightly.

Gu Yuan, I will never give in until the last moment.

Never.

****

The Ministry of Justice Prison.

It was dark and damp, with snakes, insects, rats and ants growing everywhere, and the air was filled with an indelible smell of musty smell. The prisoners' wailings, cryings, begging for mercy were heard, and they were so heartbroken that they could hear it.

In the interrogation room, the left prime minister Zhou Pinglin was tied to a shelf, his hair was messy, he looked haggard, and he had no scars on his body.

Although it was a rebellion, it had not been convicted yet, and the prison guards dared not torture him easily. After all, there was an empress and a third prince in the palace. Who knows if there would be a turnaround in the future?

However, the jailer did not dare to take action, but someone dared to take action.

Pei Yan held the sword and gestured gracefully twice, and Zhou Pinglin's white upper body was exposed to November's prison.

The cold and fear made him get goose bumps all over his body. Zhou Pinglin forced himself to panic and stared at Pei Yan tightly, "Your Highness, what are you doing?"

Pei Yan was wearing an ivory-white brocade robe, and his elegant and profound posture was incompatible with this lush environment.

Hearing Zhou Pinglin's question, he did not answer immediately, but slowly placed the sword aside, walked slowly to the burning charcoal furnace, and picked up a long braised tool.

When Zhou Pinglin saw him walking towards him with a burnt red pot, the muscles on his face couldn't help but twitch.

Pei Yan stood in front of him, and a smile appeared on his handsome and innocent face, warm and harmless, "What do you want to do, Zhou Xiang can't guess?"

Zhou Pinglin's tone changed, "You are abusing lynching. If Your Majesty knew...ah!!!"

He was only halfway through his words, and the rest became a tragic cry.

The fiery red iron was imprinted on his chest, and the severe pain made people crazy, and the air emitted a scent of flesh and blood.

Zhou Pinglin's face was ferocious, and beads of sweat were rolling down. In this boundless pain, he saw Pei Yan's smile becoming more and more gentle.

Bodhisattva’s face, Shura’s heart.

He bent his eyebrows and said in a low voice, "So what if I abuse lynching, so what? Does Zhou Xiang still want to go out from here?"

Zhou Pinglin's lips trembled, "It was you, you did it. You and the Gu family were accusing me!"

Pei Yan's thin lips were even more wide, and his black eyes were cold.

His arm increased its strength, and Zhou Pinglin screamed again with heart-wrenching screams.

"I was so sad that my uncle was also treated like this, and now I will teach you how to taste it."

Pei Yan was a little tired after holding his hands up, so he threw the utensil aside with a relaxed mood, took out a clean veil and wiped his fingers carefully, and said with a cold voice, "You said you were accusing you of being accused of yourselves, you had to come up with evidence."

Zhou Pinglin looked down at his chest and saw a big piece of meat that was so red and rotten, and his flesh was blurred. He almost vomited it out when he saw it.

He raised his head and stared at Pei Yan with a strong hatred, "Even if His Majesty prefers you, he will not listen to you in one's own words!"

Pei Yan snorted and laughed, "One-side words? Everyone pushes them down, and the tree falls down and the money scatters. Are your Zhou family doing few bad things over the years? You can't show the reason for Gu to frame you, but Gu has a lot of handles to you in his hands."

Zhou Pinglin also understood at this time that Pei Yan and the Gu family probably started to plan secretly a long time ago.

Yesterday's incident is fast, accurate and cruel.

Those extraordinary assassins, those soldiers who rushed in quickly to search, and the set of dragon robes that emerged out of thin air...all the pieces are linked together and cannot be arranged in a short time.
To be continued...