"Your Majesty, I am your concubine's concubine and I pay my respects to Your Majesty!" Concubine Li knelt down in front of Xiao Heng in a dignified and graceful manner, but she didn't even get a glance in return.

"Concubine Li, do you know why I called you here today?"

"I am stupid," Concubine Li lowered her eyes slightly to hide the panic that flashed across her eyes, "Please explain clearly, Your Majesty."

"Eh?" She exclaimed as if she had just noticed another person in the room, "Isn't this Su Zhaoyi? Is your health getting better recently?"

"Thank you for your care, sister. Thanks to your majesty's kindness, the imperial doctors have been taking care of me every day, and my body has improved a lot." Su Minglang showed a decent smile, walked forward and gently pulled Xiao Heng's sleeve: "Your majesty, please ask Concubine Li to get up first."

Xiao Heng didn't look at her, his sharp eyes shot straight at Concubine Li, "Concubine Li, do you really not know why I called you here?"

"This..." Concubine Li's smile was a little hard to hold, "I really don't understand."

"Let me ask you, is Jasmine someone from your palace?"

"This..." Concubine Li looked back at Mudan in confusion, "Your Majesty, please forgive me. There are too many maids in my palace. I am really incapable of remembering the names of every one of them."

"I wonder if you recognize Haitang?" Su Minglang took Nanxing's hand and walked to Concubine Li. "Haitang once worked for you and offended you."

Concubine Li looked at the person in front of her doubtfully, her expression confused as if she really didn't know what was going on. "Your Majesty, Su Zhaoyi, what on earth is this..."

"You are still pretending to be stupid!" Xiao Heng raised his palm and was about to hit Concubine Li, but Su Minglang hurriedly held him back.

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty, please calm down!" Su Minglang grabbed Xiao Heng's sleeve tightly and turned back anxiously, "Empress Li, His Majesty is anxious again. There is a calming incense given by the imperial physician on the table. Please help me light it!"

But there was no soothing incense on the table. Instead, there was a plate of poisonous incense presented as evidence of a crime.

Seeing that Xiao Heng was becoming increasingly irritable, Concubine Li stood up hastily and was about to light incense. Perhaps she really didn't recognize the incense plate, but how could Mudan, who was planning everything by her side, not recognize it?

Seeing that her master was about to light the poison incense, she knew very well that the soothing incense did not exist at all, and Su Minglang was designing a plan to expose her. However, she could not watch Concubine Li light the poison incense with her own eyes.

"No!" Mudan rushed forward and slapped the poison incense away from Concubine Li's hand, "Your Majesty, it's me! It's all me!"

"I was the one who poisoned Concubine Su. I used Concubine Li's hand, but can you blame me? You have three thousand beauties in your harem, but you just hang around Concubine Su all day long."

"You can ask everyone in the harem, who doesn't hate Su Minglang to the core!"

"How dare you!" Li Peidong stared at her with eyes wide open. He had never seen a palace maid as bold as her: "Slut! How dare you be so presumptuous in front of His Majesty? You are asking for your life!"

"Life?" Mudan laughed miserably, "It's just a worthless life. I will definitely not survive if I do something like this!"

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty!" Mudan knelt down in front of Concubine Li with a thud. "It is this servant who has caused you trouble, Your Majesty. I will serve you in my next life."

Concubine Li grabbed Mudan's sleeve tightly, shaking her head without saying a word. Mudan pushed her away with a determined look, looked at her one last time with a sad face, turned around and bumped her head against the pillar.

"Not good!" Li Peidong just exclaimed, Li Zhao rushed forward, but still failed to stop Mudan.

Li Zhao stretched out his hand and tested her breath, then shook his head: "Your Majesty, it's no longer possible."

As Concubine Li finished speaking, a black mist filled her eyes and her body went limp and she fell down.

"Empress!" The personal maid hurriedly supported her. Li Peidong reached out and pinched her philtrum, and Concubine Li woke up slowly.

"Empress, what's wrong with you?" The personal maid asked worriedly when she saw her pale face.

Concubine Li did not answer, but just stared blankly ahead. Mudan's body was still lying in a pool of blood, and tears seemed to flash in her empty eyes.

"Take her away." Xiao Heng spoke. His expression became even colder, and there was an unwilling look in his eyes as he looked at Concubine Li.

"Peony..." Concubine Li stared blankly at Peony being dragged away, as if dragging a soulless object.

"Your Majesty, Concubine Li is ill." Li Peidong signaled to the palace servants, and immediately several sturdy maids approached Concubine Li.

"Take her away and teach her to behave herself!" Xiao Heng's words seemed to be squeezed out from between his teeth. No matter how sadly the woman cried, he never gave her a single glance from beginning to end.

"Langlang, are you scared?" Xiao Heng forced himself to stay alert and reached out to hold Su Minglang. The woman in front of him looked even paler, as if she was frightened. "Can I go back with you?"

"It's alright, Your Majesty. I still have some underwear to pack. Your Majesty works hard every day, and still worries about my affairs." Su Minglang glanced at the remaining bloodstains on the ground with a gloomy expression, "Your Majesty should go back and have a good rest."

Xiao Heng nodded and said nothing more. He was exhausted both physically and mentally at this moment.

After the emperor left, Su Minglang and Li Zhao were the only ones left in the room.

"I need someone to come and collect the case. I wonder if Your Majesty would allow me to stay for a while?"

"Please do as you please, Lord Li." Su Minglang was a little tired. Her body was weak to begin with, and after seeing the tragic scene, she just wanted to stay there quietly for a while.

"Empress Zhaoyi." Li Zhao stopped Su Minglang in his tracks. "If I had known that Miss Nanxing was your woman, I would never have acted rashly."

"Why did Lord Li say that?" Su Minglang said without even turning his head, "Didn't Lord Li say that? This is just a common method of interrogation."

"Hahaha!" Li Zhao suddenly laughed. "Your Majesty, no matter what, I will give you a piece of advice. This matter ends here."

"Lord Li, is there anything else you want to find out?" Su Minglang turned back abruptly and looked directly into his eyes, but only saw mockery in them, as if everything he did was just for fun.

"My ability is limited, so naturally I can't find out anything." Li Zhao didn't care about her probing eyes at all, and said with a smile: "Since the queen agrees with my thoughts, I will stop here. As for Miss Nanxing, since she is a maid in Linglong Palace, she will naturally be handed over to you to deal with."

"Thank you very much, Lord Li." Su Minglang's face turned completely cold. She had no way to deal with this smiling tiger in front of her.

But fortunately, although it seems that he is not a friend, he is definitely not an enemy either.

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