The queen is spoiling the king and madly criticizing him for spoiling her

Xie Qingzhi let Li Shicheng hold him, with a hesitant look on his face.

Li Shicheng whispered anxiously, "Azhi, you know that ever since the emperor ascended the throne, he has always wanted to eradicate our Li family. This time it must be the emperor's way of eradicating our Li family. They can frame me, but Azhi, you can't not believe me."

They spoke in a low voice. Gu Jianchu tried to move forward several times, but he didn't hear anything. Fortunately, the system conveyed the message on his behalf.

[Ugh, the truth has been revealed, and you're still trying to spin black into white. You're even trying to use the princess to help him out. I hope the princess won't fall in love again. If he's exiled to the mountains, she'll dig up all the wild vegetables.]

Gu Jianchu withdrew his body and casually said, "I remember that the Prince Consort seems to go to Jiangnan for a few days every month."

Gu Jianchu stopped there and said no more.

After Gu Jianchu's reminder, Xie Qingzhi immediately grasped the key point, "What do you do in Jiangnan every month?"

Li Shicheng hurriedly explained, "This is absolutely a false accusation. I go to Jiangnan every month to settle accounts and manage the Li family's businesses in Jiangnan."

Xie Qingzhi clearly believed Li Shicheng's excuses. "The Prince Consort does go to Jiangnan every month to sort out the accounts. If the Emperor doesn't believe me, I can send someone to the palace to deliver the accounts."

[Only the princess, with her love-brained mind, would believe that those accounts are fake.]

"There's no need to rush to look at those accounts. Sister, why don't you take a look at this?" Xie Ci'an handed a list to Xie Qingzhi.

[Damn it, when did Xie Ci'an get the list of people Li Shicheng used to recruit from the Jiulin and Rouchi? I completely overlooked this clue.]

Ever since hearing Gu Jianchu's thoughts, Xie Ci'an asked Wen Zhu to place secret sentries in various places to start investigating, and this roster was only delivered to the palace this morning.

Xie Qingzhi's face darkened instantly after seeing the roster. He slammed the roster hard on Li Shicheng's face, "You actually kept a winery and a meat pool behind my back?"

Li Shicheng felt guilty for a moment, "Azhi, I assure you, although I have a wine forest and a meat pool, I have never been there myself. Those people were given to local wealthy businessmen to attract business from Jiangnan. Moreover, those girls were sold. As for the kidnapping of young children, it was all done by the housekeeper on his own initiative. I knew nothing about it."

"Azhi, you can't just watch me die. Azhi, you must help me."

Xie Qingzhi stared at Li Shicheng in anger, his fingers curled into fists under his sleeves. "I'll teach you a lesson when we get home."

Ahhh, no way, no way, Li Shicheng's relationship has collapsed, but the princess still believes him. This is no longer just a simple love affair.

"Sister, we can't just believe everything he says. Can't you use your brain a little bit?"

Because he was close, Gu Jianchu's sharp explosion irritated his eardrums, and he couldn't help rubbing his ears.

"Maintaining a wine forest and a meat pond doesn't seem to violate that law. As for kidnapping and selling young children, it was done by the housekeeper, and the Prince Consort was not aware of it."

[That seems to be true, but sending it to a minister's residence to win over the minister is quite taboo for the emperor.]

Gu Jianchu secretly glanced at Xie Ci'an, and saw a flash of anger in his deep eyes, which quickly returned to its unfathomable coldness.

"It's true that maintaining a wine forest and a meat pond is not against the law, but plotting to murder the royal family is a capital crime." Xie Ci'an threw a packet of medicine powder at Xie Qingzhi's feet.

Xie Qingzhi frowned and did not bend down to pick it up.

Xie Ci'an's voice rang out again in the hall. "This thing was accidentally found in the Prince Consort's study by Wen Zhu while searching the Princess's residence. After examination by the Imperial Hospital, it was found to be a chronic poison. Long-term use will cause mental fatigue and gradually lead to hallucinations. Fortunately, the Princess has only been taking it for a short time, so she hasn't experienced any hallucinations yet, but she's just been lethargic."

Xie Qingzhi bent down and picked up the medicine bag. "What are you talking about?"

"The warm tonic soup that the princess takes every day has appropriate amounts of something added to it. The palace maids around you could not withstand the torture and have confessed." Xie Ci'an clapped his hands, and immediately someone from the Imperial City Bureau brought in a second-class palace maid.

[Damn, when did the Emperor investigate? I didn't even know.]

Since he wants to deal with Li Shicheng, Xie Ci'an must ensure that everything goes smoothly, especially not letting Xie Qingzhi continue to protect her.

The palace maid was Xie Qingzhi's dowry to the princess's mansion, and now her body is covered with whip marks.

Xie Qingzhi stepped forward, pinched the little maid's chin with his slender fingers, and asked, "Who ordered you to poison me?"

The little maid was covered in wounds from being whipped, and her voice was trembling as she spoke, "It was the Prince Consort. He told me to add this medicine to the princess's medicine every day. If I give it to her for six months, he will make me his concubine."

Hearing this, Xie Qingzhi slapped the little palace maid in the face and said, "You seductive thing! Drag her out and let me behead her."

[What's the point of killing a little palace maid for something like this? Shouldn't the prince consort be beheaded?]

"You can kill one today, but there are still other maids to kill tomorrow. The fundamental solution to the problem is to castrate the Prince Consort directly."

Li Shicheng panicked instantly. He cautiously stepped forward and grabbed Xie Qingzhi's arm. "Azhi, don't listen to this little palace maid's nonsense. She was the one who seduced me. I absolutely didn't agree to anything from her. She must have wanted to get promoted, so she poisoned you."

"Azhi, my loyalty to you is evident, as clear as the sun and the moon."

Li Shicheng knelt before Xie Qingzhi and swore, "If I deceive Ah Zhi in the slightest, let me be struck by lightning."

If swearing was useful, wouldn't God be so busy that he would die?

[Li Shicheng's poisoning has been exposed. Is Xie Qingzhi still prepared to forgive him?]

Xie Qingzhi was clearly hesitant about what Li Shicheng said.

Seeing that Xie Qingzhi was unmoved, Li Shicheng couldn't help but hurriedly said, "Azhi, I know it's all my fault. It's all my fault. Just help me this time because we once loved each other. When we get home, I'll let you do whatever you want."

"The little palace maid's words cannot be used as complete evidence." After saying this, Xie Qingzhi pulled her sleeve out of Li Shicheng's hand.

[Oh my god! I shouldn't have stayed to eat this melon. It's so disgusting, it's disgusting. I'm going to throw up everything I ate this morning.]

The princess might have some leverage over Li Shicheng, so she keeps defending him.

[Otherwise, I really can't understand. What kind of love-brained person must be to remain indifferent even when the other party is trying to poison her.]

[Surprisingly, Li Shicheng has no leverage over the Li family. Instead, the eldest princess holds many leverages over the Li family. This shows that the eldest princess is truly a die-hard love-brained person.]