The enchanting beauty is pregnant, and the heirless male protagonist is overjoyed!

Xiao Ce'an looked at the Imperial Concubine with deep eyes, "Wei Yu, drag her away and interrogate her thoroughly."

"Take people to arrest Xiao Linyu."

After arranging all this, he hugged Gu Yunyan and comforted her softly, and they were very close.

Gu Yunyan had just had a miscarriage and was not feeling well. After a while, she fell asleep exhausted.

The imperial concubine just knelt straight on the ground.

Looking at the emperor and Gu Yunyan being so intimate like a couple, she felt jealous.

After Gu Yunyan fell asleep, Xiao Ce'an looked at the Imperial Concubine.

He deliberately lowered his voice and said, "Go and kneel at the entrance of the Yangxin Palace."

"I obey your order." The imperial concubine stood up, enduring the numbness and pain in her knees, gritted her teeth and walked out.

It is summer and high noon.

The sun is high in the sky.

As soon as she left the Palace of Tranquil Longevity, she was hit by the sunlight. The light was so bright and blinding that the Imperial Concubine couldn't help but shield herself with her hands and squinted her eyes.

She was looking for a shady place to kneel.

Banxia ran out, with hatred in her eyes:

"My Lady Imperial Concubine, the Emperor has ordered you to kneel in the middle."

A faint light appeared in the Imperial Concubine's lowered eyes, "I understand."

She faced the gate of the Hall of Mental Cultivation and slowly knelt down.

The stone slab was so hot and hard that the imperial concubine's knees ached terribly.

As the sunlight shone on my body, I gradually began to feel dizzy, sweat profusely, and my face flushed.

Banxia still felt unhappy.

She believed that it was the Imperial Concubine who caused her mother to have a miscarriage and lose her prince, and this punishment was not enough.

She hoped that Chief Steward Wei Yu could get the truth out of the matter.

To avenge her mother and the dead little prince.

Xiao Ce'an went to the prison to interrogate Xiao Linyu personally. If Xiao Linyu wanted to die quickly after harming his prince, he would never allow it.

Xiao Linyu's gorgeous clothes were replaced with prisoner clothes.

I saw that he was sitting originally, and when he saw him coming, he stood up and grabbed the wooden railing.

"Father, I really didn't harm Concubine Yuan."

It would be strange if Xiao Ce'an believed it.

"The servants around the Imperial Concubine said they love you and want to help you remove the obstacles to your ascension to the throne."

"None of this has anything to do with the Imperial Concubine."

Xiao Linyu's face changed and he quickly retorted:

"Father, I have been adopted by you and am the legitimate first heir to the throne."

"Even if Concubine Yuan gave birth to a younger brother, I would not be afraid."

"For the sake of the stability of the country, you will not hand over the country to a child like your younger brother."

"Why would I bother to harm Concubine Yuan?"

Xiao Ce'an tapped his index finger lightly, and said with a half-smile: "There are witnesses and evidence, you can't deny it."

Xiao Linyu was really panicked this time.

He now has no way out, as the Imperial Concubine has put all the blame on him.

Once he dies, you can adopt another child.

She is still the high and mighty imperial concubine and will lose nothing.

The Queen Mother wouldn't help him either.

Since he is going to die, let us all go to hell with him!

Xiao Linyu stopped calling him Father and said:

"Your Majesty, I did this, but the Imperial Concubine and I conspired together to do this."

"It's impossible for me to reach into the harem. Only the people inside cooperate with me."

"I can get the poison in."

Xiao Ce'an sneered. He knew that Xiao Linyu would go crazy because of the inevitable death and would give away all those people.

On the other side, Chief Steward Wei Yu finally got the truth out of Qiu Shui.

..........

The Imperial Concubine knelt outside the Hall of Mental Cultivation for an hour.

It was not until he fainted from heatstroke that he was carried back to Mingyue Palace.

Before the imperial physician she had asked to invite arrived, the emperor's oral order arrived: "The Imperial Noble Consort has attempted to murder the heir to the throne. From today on, she will be demoted to a commoner and banished to the cold palace."

Two young eunuchs came forward, lifted Zhao from the bed and dragged her away.

Zhao felt dizzy and had no strength to struggle. She was anxious and could only say in a weak voice, "General Manager Wei Yu, I am innocent."

"I have a heat stroke. Please get a doctor for me."

Chief Steward Wei Yu sneered and whispered in Zhao's ear, "It's just right in the middle of the summer. The Emperor wants you to die of illness."

Zhao was terrified.

"Anle...where's Anle? I want to see the princess."

Her daughter should be able to save her life, as she is Anle’s biological mother.

When Anle finds out that her father killed her biological mother, she will hate her father.

Now Gu Yunyan has no child.

She didn't believe that the emperor would do anything to make his only daughter hate him.

Chief Steward Wei Yu raised his eyebrows and smiled contemptuously:

"Princess Anle is still under house arrest in the Princess's Mansion. Did you suffer from heat stroke and damage your brain and lose your memory?"

Zhao was disheartened.

All the other people in Mingyue Palace were cleared out, except Hongtao.

Hong Tao had previously tipped off Gu Yunyan about the good news and had also testified for her services, so Gu Yunyan transferred her to serve him.

The Zhao family was demoted to commoners outside the palace.

Mr. Zhao saw a group of palace guards rushing into the mansion with knives.

His eyebrows twitched and his heart skipped a beat.

"What are you doing?!"

"Although my Zhao family is not an official family, we still have the Imperial Concubine and Princess Anle. How dare you!"

Mr. Zhao's legs were shaking, but he was still standing in the yard holding on.

The head guard said sarcastically:

"Royal Consort? There is no Royal Consort Zhao in the palace now. There is only the commoner Zhao from the cold palace who plotted to murder the heir to the throne!"

The head guard waved his hand and said, "Go ahead, take every one of them to prison and execute them in the autumn."

Mr. Zhao's face was pale and his throat was so sore that he couldn't speak.

What sin did his Zhao family commit!

The good situation has become what it is now.

The yard was in a mess. Mrs. Zhao and Zhang were crying and wiping their tears with their handkerchiefs.

I have used up all the ten handkerchiefs I have.

Mrs. Zhao cried and argued:

"That was a foolish thing done by Zhao alone. We in the Zhao family know nothing about it."

"We were not involved in this, please spare our lives, Your Majesty!"

No one paid any attention to her crying. The guards were annoyed by her voice and simply stuffed the used handkerchiefs into Mrs. Zhao's mouth.

Mrs. Zhao had no time to cry. She just rolled her eyes in disgust and wanted to faint.

All of the Zhao family’s property was confiscated and sent to the national treasury.

..........

Shou'an Palace.

The Buddhist beads bracelet in the Queen Mother's hand broke, and the eight round beads fell to the ground.

Roll in different directions.

"The Emperor raided the Duke Ling's mansion?"

Mammy said, "Yes, Queen Mother."

"The emperor is confused! If Xiao Linyu tried to murder the heir to the throne, he could just kill him. Why bother involving the Duke Ling's Mansion?"

"Then Concubine Yuan has had a miscarriage now. It is a question whether she can get pregnant in the future."

"It is highly likely that the emperor will adopt another son in the future."

"It would be right to adopt the child of the Duke of Lingguo who is closest to him by blood. I think he has been bewitched by Concubine Yuan."

The Queen Mother's chest rose and fell noticeably, and her eyes widened a little.

The nanny was silent for a while, then said, "Empress Dowager, that person is now the Imperial Consort."

The Queen Mother's breathing became heavier and she placed her hand on the back of the nanny's hand.

"Help my family go to the Yangxin Palace!"

..........

Xiao Ce'an was not surprised to see the Queen Mother, and simply called out, "Mother."

The Queen Mother did not beat around the bush with him: "Emperor, please release all the people in the Duke of Lingguo's Mansion immediately."

"Xiao Linyu plotted to murder the heir to the throne. I did not execute all nine clans of his family. I only executed the family of Duke Lingguo, which was already a pardon outside the law."

"Oh, let them go, impossible!"

Xiao Ce'an was determined.

The Queen Mother knew his temper very well, so she had to adopt a conciliatory strategy: "Emperor, I am doing this for your own good."

"The Imperial Concubine Yuan has had a miscarriage now. You must always consider the future of the country."

"You should make plans early, so as to avoid the throne changing and the country being in turmoil a hundred years later, and the common people suffering."

"If you pass the throne to a distant branch of the clan."

"How will you have the face to go and see your father then?"

A curve appeared at the corner of Xiao Ce'an's lips.

"Don't worry, mother. Even if it's a distant branch, it's still the bloodline of the Xiao family. I'm honest and have a clear conscience. There's nothing I can't do when I see my father."

The Queen Mother's breath was choked and her face turned a little pale.

I felt as if there was a stone blocking my chest and it was difficult to breathe.