Peach Blossom.

"What did you say?" Si Rong's head was buzzing, as if she suddenly lost the ability to understand what she heard.

All the maids in the room started crying.

Wang Yu was so frightened that her soul left her body. She felt that a disaster was coming. It might be Si Rong's disaster, but it was more of a disaster for her.

Outside, Chen Ji, Si Xiu, and Tian Yuan were talking about Si Rong's condition. Suddenly they heard Xiao Ying's call and without caring about anything else, they all came into the room.

Chen Ji ran the fastest and went straight to the cradle. He stretched out his hand to feel the baby's breath and was horrified: "Doctor Tian, ​​come and have a look!"

Tian Yuan arrived immediately, first took a look at his face and lips, then looked again with his eyelids, shook his head helplessly, and bowed to Chen Ji: "Please forgive me, my lord, I can't do anything."

"What do you mean? What do you mean?" Chen Ji shouted loudly, almost furious.

Si Rong rolled off the bed and crawled forward desperately. The maids rushed over to help her.

Si Xiu was also extremely shocked, "How could it be? How could the child just disappear like that?"

Tian Yuan replied: "Go back to the official's house. It looks like he died of suffocation. We didn't find it in time and missed the chance to save him."

"Suffocation?" Si Xiu repeated it, but he couldn't figure it out for a moment.

Si Rong, supported by the maids, grabbed the cradle and stretched out her trembling hands to the child's face, but the child did not move at all. Then, Si Rong shook the child like crazy, but the child remained quiet.

"No...no!" Si Rong let out a hysterical scream.

"Suffocation... suffocation..." Chen Ji gritted his teeth and repeated it over and over again. He seemed to be thinking for a while, and suddenly aimed his sharp eyes at Wang Yu: "Is it you?"

"No! I didn't!" Wang Yu took a step back in horror.

Chen Ji stared at Wang Yu, as if the evidence was irrefutable, and angrily said, "Before everyone came in, you were the only one in the room, and you didn't do anything, so how did the child disappear?"

"Are you the only one in the room?" Si Rong turned back suddenly, her eyes were even more angry than Chen Ji's. She only heard one key point.

"I don't know... I don't know anything..." Wang Yu also started crying. She felt so helpless that she didn't know how to explain herself.

Wang Yu turned her gaze to Si Xiu, only to see that Si Xiu was also looking at her. Si Xiu looked like he was thinking about something or recalling something.

From what was just said in the yard, Wang Yu knew that Si Xiu must have remembered the revenge for her mother's murder that she had just accused him of.

“Official…Official…” Wang Yu ran over quickly, grabbed Si Xiu’s skirt and knelt on the ground: “You have to believe me, I can’t take my anger out on an innocent child just because I murdered my mother!”

"Revenge for the murder of your mother?" Chen Ji seemed to have suddenly realized something: "It was your father who told you that your mother was killed by me, right?"

Wang Yu was stunned and looked up at Chen Ji.

"I have explained this to your father countless times. On what right did he pin your mother's murder on me? You actually killed my son to vent your anger?" Chen Ji pointed at Wang Yu, his hair standing on end with rage.

Si Rong also suddenly realized and felt that she understood everything in an instant, including all the hostility Wang Yu had shown over the past few days.

Without saying anything, Si Rong rushed over and pushed the kneeling Wang Yu to the ground. She grabbed Wang Yu's neck with both hands and gritted her teeth.

When Si Xiu saw this, he was shocked and hurried to pull Si Rong, calling her "Sister". He didn't know where this patient Si Rong suddenly got so much strength, as he couldn't move her no matter how hard he tried.

Chen Ji just watched from the side without saying a word.

"Come and help me!" Si Xiu looked up and shouted to the maids in the room.

The maids looked at each other and rushed over together to pull Si Rong and Wang Yu apart.

"Let me go, I'm going to strangle her to death!" Si Rong screamed and was finally pulled up. However, she still wanted to move forward while shaking all over. The maids tried to hold her back, but were restrained by Si Rong's momentum and fell down together. The master and servants fell into a ball.

Wang Yu finally got up, curled up and trembling. Si Xiu looked at him but didn't dare to comfort him.

Tian Yuan felt his scalp tingling when he saw Si Rong going crazy. He hurriedly explained to Si Xiu and Si Rong, "Your Majesty, Princess, my speculation may not be accurate. The child was born weak, and the cause of death may be a sudden illness."

Chen Ji was furious when he heard what Tian Yuan said, and he immediately criticized Tian Yuan: "Just now you said it was 'death by suffocation', but now that you see the Queen is suspicious, you quickly change your words and say 'sudden illness'. You have a good relationship with the Wang family, so you are lying to them? What kind of doctor are you?"

Tian Yuan knelt down on the spot and said to Si Xiu, "Your Majesty, I did see that the young master did not show any obvious abnormalities, so I initially inferred that he was suffocating. However, it is common to make wrong inferences after only one glance. Please investigate clearly."

Chen Ji also faced Si Xiu, knelt down and kowtowed: "Your Majesty, I saw that the child was fine when you came just now. How could he die suddenly now? I beg you to make a fair judgment."

Over there, Si Rong was helped up by the maids again, but she covered her chest and suddenly started coughing, which became more and more severe, as if she was about to cough something out. The maids quickly brought a handkerchief, and Si Rong took it to cover her mouth. When she coughed out, she saw a large mouthful of sticky blood.

"Rong'er..." Chen Ji saw this and hurriedly left Si Xiu's presence, went over to hug Si Rong: "You...what's wrong with you?"

Si Rong stared at the mouthful of blood and didn't say anything for a long time.

Si Xiu also saw it and became even more panicked. Tian Yuan couldn't help but shake his head and sigh.

After a moment, Si Rong suddenly burst into laughter again, and everyone in the room was frightened.

As she laughed, Si Rong started coughing again, coughing up a large amount of blood.

“Rong’er, Rong’er…” Chen Ji hugged Si Rong and looked at Si Xiu with pleading eyes: “Please, the emperor, make the decision for me and my wife!”

Wang Yu grabbed Si Xiu's skirt again, crying and shouting: "I am innocent...I am really innocent..."

Si Xiu looked at the blood on Si Rong's handkerchief, and then at Wang Yu who was crying until her voice was a little hoarse. Suddenly, he felt like something was stuck in his throat, as if there had never been a more difficult thing in his life than this moment.

"Someone come here..." Si Xiu called out. Standing in this position, he had to make a decision.

The palace attendants arrived soon.

Si Xiu clasped his fingers tightly around his waist and gave an order with difficulty: "Take the queen back to the palace and place her under house arrest in Fenghua Palace. Take away the Phoenix Seal for the time being and make further arrangements after the matter is thoroughly investigated."

"My Lord..." Wang Yu's crying became weaker and weaker.

But in the eyes of Chen Ji and Si Rong, this is far from enough.

After Si Xiu brought Wang Yu back to the palace, Chen Ji invited several doctors to verify the cause of the child's death. Within two or three days, almost all the imperial doctors with some experience and famous doctors in the capital were invited, for fear that the matter would not be spread to everyone.

Sure enough, all the doctors agreed that the child must have been suffocated to death.

Si Rong finally lost interest in controlling Chen Ji's whereabouts, and Chen Ji soon instigated a group of civil and military officials who were affiliated with the Chen family, and they wrote letters to Si Xiu begging him to execute his wife impartially, as he had not yet been crowned queen.

Needless to say, Si Xiu, who has always been kind-hearted, found it difficult to make a decision when faced with such a memorial.

Unable to wait for Si Xiu to make a decision, one day, the eunuch Ge Sheng reported that Madam Han and others came to the outside of Yanming Palace and asked to see Si Xiu.

Si Xiu ordered everyone to come in, and a large group of people including Madam Han, Protector General Han Jing, Grand Marshal Shang Yun, Court Justice Shang Lei, Minister of the Interior Bai Shuo, Guard Commandant Bai Yang, and Minister of Works Xu Mu entered the hall and knelt down together.

"We implore the emperor to comply with the will of the people, execute the vicious woman Wang, and appoint a new queen." When Madam Han and the others saw Si Xiu, they immediately reported their purpose and kowtowed to the ground as a gesture of great respect.

"You guys..." Si Xiu was very angry when he saw that the people who came were considered his own people. "Why do you think Yu'er is the murderer?"

Madam Han said, "Dozens of doctors have concluded that the son of Duke Qiao died of suffocation. Now even the people outside the palace know that the child died when the emperor was present. The queen was the only one in the room before he was found."

Si Xiu argued, "What if the child was already dead before Yu'er went in? Maybe the maids were careless and covered the child's head with the quilt! Or... the child moved around and rolled around, accidentally covering his mouth and nose?"

Madam Han shook her head speechlessly and replied, "Your Majesty has never taken care of a child, so you may not understand it. A baby who is only a few days old cannot turn over, so it is impossible for him to cover his mouth and nose by himself. The maids take care of him all day long, so it is impossible for them to be careless. Even if the quilt covers the child's head, the child should cry or move. The servants are not far away, so it is impossible for them not to hear it. Only if someone maliciously covers the child's mouth and nose, the child will not have the opportunity to make a sound."

"Yu'er and I are husband and wife. I don't believe she is that kind of person! She wouldn't even hurt an ant..." Si Xiu shook his head repeatedly but couldn't find any more reasons.

Shang Yun bowed and said, "Your Majesty, I heard that the Wang family and the Chen family have had a feud for many years, especially recently there have been rumors that Anfeng Hou's first wife, Man, was murdered by Qiao Jungong. After all, the Queen is only fifteen years old, it is inevitable that she was impulsive, how can you say that there is no possibility of committing the crime?"

"Who says that young people are impulsive? I am only seventeen years old this year. Am I impulsive?" Si Xiu wanted to get angry, but he controlled himself and spoke a little louder to Shang Yun.

Xu Mu sneered and replied calmly: "The emperor is not impulsive, but he is too emotional. When he is overwhelmed by emotions, he forgets the etiquette in front of others. He calls himself "I" one moment and "I" this and "I" that the next. He is not afraid of being laughed at."

Si Xiu glanced at Xu Mu and said nothing.

Bai Shuo also bowed to Si Xiu and advised, "Your Majesty, please forgive me. We dare not openly judge the Queen's words and deeds. However, now everyone in and outside the court believes that the son of Duke Qiao was murdered by the Queen, which really affects your reputation. If you don't make a decision soon, the Chen family will surely use this as an excuse to rise up, and your position will be in danger."

Si Xiu's nose was a little sour, but he managed to suppress his sadness and asked sadly, "Why did even grandpa say that? Am I afraid of losing the throne, so I will kill the person next to me without asking any questions? If that's the case, I'm not even worthy of being a husband, so how can I be a competent ruler of a country?"

Xu Mu sneered again, mockingly: "You ignored the murder case in Qiao County Mansion for three days and just blindly protected the shortcomings. Do you think you are worthy of being the king of a country?"

Si Xiu glanced at Xu Mu again and endured it again.

Bai Shuo bowed again and said, "Your Majesty is kindhearted. Although Lord Xu's words are unreasonable, they do make sense. This matter cannot be delayed. Even if Your Majesty cannot bear to execute the Queen, he should..."

"Your Majesty... Your Majesty..." Before Bai Shuo could finish his words, Ge Sheng rushed into the palace in a panic and reported breathlessly: "Someone just saw Princess Si Rong holding a long sword and rushing to Fenghua Palace!"