After her fate was taken away, she was favored by her five brothers.

Chapter 937: Cleansing the Court

Chu Yan's words really shocked all the ministers.

The monarch wants to establish a female crown princess?

This this……

All the ministers knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, this is not allowed."

Chu Yan's eyes swept across the crowd like sharp arrows, "Shut up, all of you. She is my biological daughter. She risked her life to go to Southern Jin to rescue me. If she can't be the crown prince, should that kid be the crown prince?"

Chu Yan sneered, "I actually forgot. That boy is indeed the Queen Mother's grandson. No wonder he was able to replace me and seize my Chu family's kingdom."

The court officials were surprised. If he was the empress dowager's grandson, then he must be the king's son. If so, it would be legitimate for him to be the crown prince.

But why did the king kill him?

But Chu Yan's next words brought some court officials, especially the old minister who stood out and the Xiao family, to the bottom of their hearts.

Chu Yan looked at the Queen Mother and sneered, "Mother, no, Queen Mother, the son of the Xiao family was born to you and him, right? It was inconvenient for you to raise him, so you gave him to the Xiao family."

Xiao Yan pointed at the old minister who came out to speak for the Queen Mother.

"You have cheated on your father, are you worthy of being the Queen Mother of Dongling?"

The Queen Mother was shocked and wondered how Yan'er knew that.

She killed everyone who knew the truth about this matter.

She sighed: "Yan'er, for the throne, I didn't expect you to dare to slander even the Queen Mother."

The tone of an old mother is very helpless, as if she is disappointed with her children who are not obedient.

Chu Yan ignored her and looked at Yan Beichuan, "Bring it up."

Yan Beichuan clapped his hands, and the golden armor guards brought up a person, who was the empress dowager's personal maid.

Although several decades had passed and the maid had grown old, the empress dowager recognized her at the first sight.

The Queen Mother was shocked. How could this be possible? How could this be possible? She had silenced this man back then.

The maid came forward and knelt down: "Empress Dowager, in order to conceal this heinous secret, you committed murder and killed so many people. I was left with only one breath. Fortunately, the king was kind-hearted. He was just a little prince at that time. He saved me and sent me away."

The maid kowtowed three times to Chu Yan, "Thank you, Your Majesty, for saving my life. I can guarantee that the son of the Xiao family is the son of the Queen Mother and this minister.

I was the Queen Mother’s personal maid. When they were having a secret meeting, it was I who was on guard. It was also I who sent the Queen Mother out of the palace after she gave birth to her child. That child had a birthmark on his body.…”

The more the maidservant spoke, the more frightened the empress dowager became. "You are slandering me!"

"Whether it is slander or not, we will know it after checking. Come! Take Xiao Jiazi down and check the birthmark on his body."

Chu Yan ordered.

It just so happened that the person they were talking about was in the court.

How could the Xiao family be willing to let someone take someone away so easily? They wanted to resist but were powerless because the Queen Mother's people had already been controlled by the Golden Armor Guards.

After a while, the results came out and the birthmark matched.

Chu Yan looked at the Queen Mother, "Do you have anything else to say?"

The Queen Mother smiled, "He is my son, so what? Your father has so many concubines, and I only found one. What's wrong with me?"

Chu Yan closed his eyes.

This is the real reason why he doesn't want to take a concubine.

He had been accustomed to the struggles in the palace since he was a child. The women of his father were really terrible. I'm afraid he didn't know how much blood was on his mother's hands alone.

He was surviving in that kind of gap and was barely able to stay alive.

Chu Yan looked at the palace maid and said, "Tell me about the Queen Mother's crimes."

"Yes. The Queen Mother..."

The palace maids narrated how the Queen Mother had murdered the descendants of the previous monarch, how many of the monarch's women had died at her hands, and how many servants had been killed by her. Altogether, there were hundreds of lives lost.

Prince Guang has killed three people.

The Queen Mother was panicked. It was over, it was over, all over.

Then she calmed down again. No, Yan'er was her biological son and he would not do anything to her as his mother.

"Someone! Take them all down!"

At Chu Yan's command, the golden-armored guards entered and surrounded the entire court.

The Queen Mother, the Xiao family, and the court officials who supported her were all arrested.

The court was purged and suddenly became quiet.

Yun Fu had nothing to understand after seeing this. Chu Yan's illness had been cured a long time ago, and he was just pretending just to bring her back to the court of Dongling and introduce her as his daughter in front of all the civil and military officials of Dongling.

Seeing Chu Yan running over, he returned to his silly look, "Fu'er, I'm very good. I've done everything you asked me to do. Can you recognize me now?"

Yun Fu was angry. What did he think of her? Was he going to play tricks on her like this?

She turned and left!

Chu Yan panicked and grabbed Yun Fu's sleeve, "Don't go."

Yun Fu frowned: "Still pretending? Let go!"

Chu Yan felt very aggrieved, and he didn't want to pretend, but only in this way would she be willing to pay attention to him.

He let go and regained his clarity of voice, "Fuer, if you are willing to acknowledge me as your father, I am willing to be a madman for the rest of my life."

Yun Fu paused and stopped, "Lord Dongling, there is no need to say that. I will always be the princess of the Great Zhou, and my family is all there."

"Fuer, don't go! Don't you want to avenge your mother?"

Yun Fu then turned around and asked, "Are you willing to hand over Queen Mother Dongling to me?"

Chu Yan hesitated for a moment, then nodded.

She was his biological mother after all.

"Come here, hand the Queen Mother over to the Crown Prince for disposal."

Yun Fu stayed in the Dongling Palace. She did not live in Princess Yue'an's palace, but chose another ordinary palace.

Chu Yan waved his hand and ordered the Ministry of Works to demolish the palace to avoid bad luck, and to rebuild it, as he had plenty of money in Dongling.

Yun Fu advised him not to worry about these trivial matters, but to think about how to deal with Nan Jin.

Yan Beichuan patted his chest and said, "Don't worry, Prince. Just leave this to me."

With food and grass, the soldiers on the border have strength. With Yan Beichuan here, this time it is their turn in Dongling to chase after Southern Jin and avenge their previous defeat.

Yun Fu was helpless, she couldn't be the crown prince.

But she knew that it was useless to refute at this time, so she avenged her biological mother and returned to Da Zhou with Qi Junye as soon as possible.

Speaking of which, Chu Yan is also a good monarch. As long as he is in this position, he can bring peace to the Great Zhou.

The next day, Yun Fu went to the cold palace, where the empress dowager was imprisoned.

She was in a very miserable state now. The spider silk hanging from the beam had entangled half of her kingfisher hairpin. The precious treasure that had taken thirty-six craftsmen a hundred days to make during the Wanshou Festival had now become a breeding ground for spider eggs.

The empress dowager sat on a crimson gauze robe spread on the ground. The pattern of birds paying homage to the phoenix embroidered with gold thread was eroded by moss, and in front of her was a bowl filled with rotten food.

When she saw Yun Fu come in, her eyes looked at Yun Fu like fire, as if she wanted to eat her alive.

Yun Fu smiled, "Hate me? Shouldn't you thank me? I was the one who saved your son."