After entering, Concubine Xian looked around the entire hall and asked with a smile, "My Queen, do you like the furnishings of this Jinxiu Palace?"

What kind of furnishings could there be in Jinxiu Palace? They were just the remains of broken tables and chairs, none of which were usable.

The queen smiled faintly: "It's already this time, does it matter whether you like it or not?"

"Even at this time, Her Majesty the Queen is still so calm and composed. I really admire her."

"What else? Should I act panic-stricken so that you can be proud of me?"

While speaking, the queen still sat very upright, as if she was not sitting in this dilapidated Jinxiu Palace, but in the main hall of her own palace.

At this time, Concubine Xian came closer and said, "Now that things have come to this, does it matter whether you are panicking in your heart or just on the surface?"

"Why should I panic?" the queen asked.

Concubine Xian stood in front of the Queen and reached out to pinch her chin.

Qingyu immediately stepped forward to stop them, but was suddenly tackled and pinned to the ground by the people behind Concubine Xian.

Qingyu's chin hit the ground hard and blood came out immediately.

The queen stood up and shouted angrily: "Let her go!"

"The Queen is really good-tempered. She can't even protect herself, but she still wants to protect the people around her."

"I don't know, how can I, the Queen, be unable to protect myself?"

"You have placed His Majesty under house arrest and are confusing the public. When the new emperor takes the throne, how will you survive?"

The queen asked back, "Why? When a new king ascends the throne, does he have to kill his mother first?"

Consort Xian reached out and plucked the phoenix hairpin from the queen's hair, and played with it casually in her hand: "Why does the queen pretend to be ignorant when she knows the truth? Now that things have come to this, I can no longer tolerate you."

"Why? I have never had any grudges against you in the past. Even today, I have never done anything wrong to you. Why are you so aggressive?"

"Is this aggressive? Then, how about this?" As she spoke, Concubine Xian suddenly threw her hand away and slapped the queen in the face. "I've wanted to give you this slap for a long time."

The Queen's mouth was bloody as she sneered, "I don't know what I did in the past to make the virtuous Consort Xian hold such a grudge against me?"

"When I first entered the palace, His Majesty only had me in his heart and was only willing to stay in my palace. But you, you insisted on choosing a new person to enter the palace, so as to show how generous you are as a queen. As a result, the new person stole my favor, and I was too worried and lost my first child. Do you know how painful it was for me at that time!"

"It is my duty to select concubines for His Majesty and fill the harem. You were too worried and the child miscarried because of your narrow-mindedness. What does it have to do with me?"

"It's none of your business? You sound very reasonable. How come this matter has nothing to do with you?" As she spoke, Concubine Xian took the dagger handed to her by the maid and put it against the queen's face. Her voice was even colder than before, "If it weren't for you, how could I lose my favor and my child? It's you who destroyed everything for me."

After saying this, Concubine Xian gently drew a line on the Queen's face with a bloodthirsty smile on her lips.

In an instant, a blood mark appeared on the queen's fair cheek, and the mark was gradually deepening as the blood flowed.

But even so, the queen did not show the slightest fear, and did not even scream out.

She looked at the crazy Concubine Xian, her expression as calm as ever.

"You scream, shout, or kneel down and beg me. Perhaps, I will consider making your life easier in the future."

"Absolutely impossible!"

"It seems that you are determined to go all the way. Oh, I see. You are not pinning your hopes on Princess Heshuo and Xie Xingyuan and others, right? Oh, now they are all in trouble, how can they care about you? I have sent out three groups of people in total. As for the other two, one is to the library, and the other is to Prince Xie's Mansion. None of them can escape."

The queen was very surprised: "How dare you attack Prince Xie's mansion?"

"Why not? You are placing His Majesty under house arrest, and Xie Xingyuan is an accomplice. It's not difficult to deal with an accomplice."

"Stupid thing! Xie Xingyuan is the pillar of the country. It is precisely because of him that Daliang dares not act rashly. If something happens to him, Daliang will march south and no one will be able to stop him!"

Concubine Xian sneered: "Only a vulgar woman in the harem like you would think that Xie Xingyuan is irreplaceable. As long as the army of Da Qi is there, it doesn't matter who leads the army. Besides, Xie Xingyuan is not the only general of Da Qi. Without him, Da Qi is still Da Qi!"

"You are really crazy! You are destroying your own Great Wall!"

"Look, no matter how I humiliated you, you didn't say a word. Now that I talk about Xie Xingyuan, you panic. Don't worry, wait until Xie Xingyuan's body is brought to you, and then you will know what despair is."

After saying this, Concubine Xian moved the dagger in her hand to the Queen's neck and smiled triumphantly.

After a moment, she put the dagger away again and said proudly, "Don't worry, I don't want to kill you now. But my patience is running out. After I kill Xie Xingyuan and Princess Heshuo, you will be the next one."

She wanted the queen to live in fear, be tortured by fear all day long, and then die miserably!

At the same time, at Prince Xie’s Mansion.

A team of imperial guards smashed the gate of Prince Xie's mansion, but after they had been making a fuss for a long time, there was no movement inside the mansion.

When they broke into the house, they found that the entire Prince Xie's Mansion was empty!

Coincidentally, the imperial guards who went to the library to arrest people also came up empty-handed.

They searched the entire library but only found a maid dressed in the eldest princess's clothes.

When the news reached Consort Xian, she gave a stern order: "Search! Even if you have to dig three feet into the ground, you must find the person!"

Just at this moment, a eunuch came forward and reported something in a low voice.

After hearing this, a smug smile appeared on Concubine Xian's furious face: "You are so good, Cui Shuyan, you don't take the road to heaven, and you break into hell. I was just worried about not being able to find you, and then you came into the palace. It seems that you are destined to die in the palace."

After saying that, Consort Xian ordered sternly: "Come here, pass on my order. Princess Heshuo and Princess Xie are planning to harm your majesty. Find them quickly and bring them before me!"

After explaining all this, Concubine Xian asked about Emperor Zhaowu's movements and was relieved to learn that he had been sleeping, which was consistent with her expectations.

She had a hunch that Cui Shuyan must have entered the palace at night to look for Princess Heshuo.

So, now the two of them are together.

In this case, if you find one, you can find the other.

After thinking it over, Concubine Xian changed her mind and went to Jinxiu Palace again.

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