I married the crippled queen and became the most favored queen in the capital

At this moment, someone outside shouted,

"Dad, please stop doing evil. We don't want to die."

"Yes, Dad, we don't want to die, just tell the truth!"

"Husband, there are more than thirty people in our family..."

Hearing the voices of his wife and children, Zhuang Si's expression instantly became nervous. He turned around to look at the door, and saw his wife standing there holding the hands of their two children, looking at him with tearful eyes.

This scene instantly broke the taut string in Zhuang Si's heart.

He opened his mouth wide, his face livid, and angrily rebuked:

"I don't know them. Get out of here. Get out of here."

Veins on Leng Chen's forehead began to bulge. He pointed outside the hall door and shouted,

"How did these unknown people get in? What if they are assassins? Come quickly, take them out, take them out..."

He couldn't wait to make the mother and her two daughters disappear.

Leng Yiyan asked someone to bring them here, probably intending to use the three of them to threaten Zhuang Si. How come he hadn't thought that Leng Yiyan would use this trick?

Bai Lan and Hong Yan, who were following behind the four Zhuang family members, saw this and pulled up the mother and daughter without hesitation, saying angrily:

"The Seventh Prince said that you are people of unknown origin, and Zhuang Si did not recognize you. You trespassed into the palace, which is a capital crime. Now follow me to the Ministry of Justice for trial..."

Hearing this, the mother and daughter outside burst into tears, and the youngest child cried and shouted,

"Dad, I'm the youngest, don't you recognize me? Dad..."

Another child also cried loudly.

"Dad, I'm Daya, why don't you recognize us? I'm Daya!"

Seeing his wife and children crying and shouting at him, Zhuang Si gritted his teeth and endured for a while, then suddenly shouted,

"Let them go."

He originally thought that if he didn't recognize the three of them, everything would be fine.

Unexpectedly, he thought things were too simple. This was the imperial palace, not a place where they could come and go as they pleased.

What made him even angrier was that the Seventh Prince knew clearly that the three women were his family members, yet he was still adding fuel to the fire. Didn't he know that perhaps just a word from him could cause the death of these three women?

So at this moment, he just wanted to save the lives of his family, and it didn't matter what happened to himself.

Bai Lan and Hong Yan brought the three of them to the emperor. They knelt down and saluted the emperor. The emperor covered his mouth and coughed a few times, then asked:

"What are you three doing here? Who asked you to come?"

Zhuang Si's wife thought for a while and replied directly:

"Your Majesty, we begged for a long time outside the palace before these two girls brought us in. No one asked us to come. We heard that Zhuang Si was being interrogated by the emperor here, so we wanted to go into the palace to persuade him to tell the truth!"

This woman's words made Leng Chen a little flustered. He took two steps forward, pointed at her and shouted angrily:

"Zhuang Si has to bear the consequences for what he has done. Aren't you afraid of losing your head when you, a woman, come to the emperor and talk nonsense?"

Leng Yiyan responded at this time:

"Seventh Uncle, since they dared to come before the Emperor, they must have something to say. You are misleading her and scaring her. Are you afraid that she will say something she shouldn't say?"

Hearing this, Leng Chen's face darkened. He held back his anger and dared not speak.

The emperor waved his hands feebly.

"Yan'er, I'm tired and can't sit still. You should try this case!"

"Father..."

Leng Yiyan said hurriedly:

"Even if I am the judge, Father, you have to sit here. After this case is over, I have another thing to say."

The emperor frowned and pondered for a while, then nodded.

"Okay, you can do the trial. I'll take a break."

As he spoke, the emperor leaned back on the dragon throne, half closed his eyes and dozed off.

The emperor's look instantly knitted Leng Yiyan's brows into a knot, but he immediately came to the front of the crowd and asked Zhuang Si, who was kneeling on the ground:

"Zhuang Si, let me ask you one more question. Who ordered you to burn down Prince Yan's mansion?"

This……

Zhuang Si hesitated, glancing towards Leng Chen from time to time.

"Zhuang Si..."

Leng Yiyan suddenly shouted,

"I'll ask you again, if you are willing to take the blame for this crime alone, I can issue an order on behalf of the emperor to confiscate your entire family."

Hearing this, the woman next to Zhuang Si begged hurriedly:

"Sir, just tell the truth. If the whole family, including the old and the young, were to be executed, your family would be cut off..."

Zhuang Si hesitated for a moment again, then looked up at Leng Yiyan.

"If I tell you, you have to ensure my family's safety."

"Zhuang Si..."

Seeing that he was about to tell the truth, Leng Chen was frightened out of his wits.

He took two steps forward, raised his finger at him, and said angrily:

"Zhuang Si, think it over before you speak..."

Zhuang Si glanced at him and said coldly:

"Seventh Prince, I, Zhuang Si, have been with you for fifteen years. During these fifteen years, although you gave me a lot of money, I also did a lot of things for you. Any of these things would cost me my life. Now, I have committed a heinous crime. I have to protect my family. I am sorry."

After saying this, he turned around and kowtowed to Leng Chen. Leng Chen rushed up at this time, grabbed his neck tightly, and said angrily:

"You ate my food and drank my drinks, but now you want to betray me. Since you have made a mistake, I will clean up the mess today."

Seeing that he was about to kill to silence the witness, Zhuang Si's wife and two children rushed over like crazy, but Leng Chen didn't care and raised his hand to knock the two children to the ground. When he was about to raise his hand to hit the woman, Leng Yiyan stepped forward, grabbed his hand tightly, and asked sternly,

"Seventh Uncle, are you desperate?"

Leng Chen raised his head and stared back at him without any fear.

"Leng Yiyan, don't go too far."

Leng Yiyan clamped his hand tightly and asked angrily,

"I'm going too far? My entire Yanwang Mansion was almost wiped out, and now you're saying I'm going too far? Uncle Seven, you're really good at putting the blame on someone else."

After saying that, he swung his hand vigorously, causing Leng Chen to stagger. Zhuang Si, who had just recovered his breath, panted heavily and looked at Leng Chen angrily.

"I never thought that after all these years of serving you wholeheartedly, you would want to kill me. Prince Yan, I confess everything. The person who ordered me to hire assassins to set fire to Prince Yan's mansion was actually the Seventh Prince Leng Chen. He conspired with Prince Heng."

As soon as these words came out, not only Leng Chen's face turned pale, but Leng Yiheng was also frightened to the point of almost falling down.

Leng Yiyan raised an angry smile and then turned to look at the emperor.

"Father, you heard it, right? The people who wanted to kill me are you, your brother, the Seventh Prince Leng Jin, and your own son Leng Yiheng. Please make the decision for me."