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

Gu Jianchu's lips curled up in a cold smile. "You know what I want to ask you about, so you just say it wasn't you? If you didn't put the mulberry flowers in the rouge, why did you commit suicide? Wouldn't that just prove that the thief poisoned the rouge he gave me?"

The little maid was speechless after being asked by Gu Jianchu and didn't say a word.

"Look up and tell me your name." Gu Jianchu leaned on the soft pillow beside him, his tone lazy, which could easily relax people's tense nerves.

The little maid tentatively raised her head and glanced at Gu Jianchu secretly. An inexplicable sense of trust arose spontaneously, "My name is Bai Wei."

Gu Jianchu took the sachet from Zhuxi and stood up to hold it in front of Bai Wei. "These two sachets are yours, right? The people from the Imperial City Bureau found out that you secretly bought some mulberry flowers from a drug dealer at a high price. The day you bought the mulberry flowers was when my aunt was preparing a gift for me, so you secretly ground the mulberry flowers into powder and put it into the rouge you gave me. You then put the mulberry flowers in Xie Qingzhi's room to deliberately attract termites so that I would find them."

"You knew mulberry flowers could attract termites, so you secretly made a medicine to repel termites and put it on your body."

Bai Wei waited for Gu Jianchu in fear, but she hadn't expected him to find out everything so quickly. A dead silence emanated from Bai Wei as she knelt on the ground and said calmly, "Your Majesty's guess was correct. I put mulberry flowers in the rouge that the Empress gave you, and then placed them in an inconspicuous place in the Empress's room. The drug dealer told me that mulberry flowers attract termites, so I secretly made a termite-repellent sachet and hung it on my body to avoid retaining any scent and attracting termites."

"I have found out that you have never had any dealings with ***, and I have never had any involvement with you. So, are you trying to harm *** or me with this poison, or is it killing two birds with one stone? What I can't figure out is what you want?" Gu Jianchu deliberately led Bai Wei to tell him about her sister.

Bai Wei did all these things for her sister. She couldn't let the sisters die in vain.

Instead, the real murderer is allowed to go unpunished.

[Bai Wei's sister is also a decent woman.]

I was wondering why Bai Wei's sister would seduce Li Shicheng out of the blue. It turns out Bai Wei's sister accidentally found out about Li Shicheng's extramarital affair and wanted to use this to blackmail Li Shicheng into giving her money to pay for her sister's medical treatment.

Li Shicheng didn't want to give the money, but was afraid the matter would be exposed, so he deliberately devised a plan. He told Sister Bai Wei that he had no money and needed to raise some first, and asked her to come to get it the next day. Bai Qiang believed him and came to get the money the next day. However, Li Shicheng had already ordered his servant to provoke the palace maids around Bai Qiang to come over, deliberately watching him seducing Bai Qiang.

Bai Qiang was after the money, but she didn't expect Li Shicheng to actually tease her. She was so scared that she ran away without even taking the money.

[The palace maid, unaware of the true situation, reported the matter to Xie Qingzhi, who, infuriated, banished Bai Qiang to the stables, leading to the subsequent tragedy.]

Xie Qingzhi was a little confused, but she understood that Li Shicheng actually used her to murder a maid, which was really infuriating.

Why did she fall for such a thing in the first place?

Xie Qingzhi slammed the table in anger, causing everyone to look at him sideways.

Xie Qingzhi suddenly realized that she had not seen the Queen open her mouth, but she heard the Queen's voice. Could this be the Queen's inner voice?

Why could she hear the Queen's thoughts? Could it be that God thought she was beautiful and kind and rewarded her on purpose?

She tried to hear a little more, but there was no sound.

Xie Qingzhi didn't dare to tell anyone that she could hear Gu Jianchu's thoughts, for fear that they would call her mentally ill.

She even thought that she might have not slept well and was experiencing auditory hallucinations.

Noticing everyone's strange looks, Xie Qingzhi pointed at Bai Wei and said, "I have no grudge against you, why are you trying to harm me?"

Bai Wei knelt on the ground with a guilty look on her face, and because of her guilt she didn't dare to look at the queen.

The Queen was such a good person, but she was almost harmed by her.

Bai Wei's eyes were red, and big tears fell. She kept shaking her head at Gu Jianchu, "This servant had no intention of murdering the Empress. I wanted to use the Empress to deal with the Empress, so I thought of poisoning the rouge that the Empress gave to the Empress. This poison can only cause temporary disfigurement, and there is no other serious harm."

Hearing this, Xie Qingzhi's eyes widened immediately, and she slammed her hands on the table. "I have no grudge against you, and I don't even know you. Why are you using the Queen's hand to deal with me?"

Bai Wei sneered, "How dare you say you have no grudge against me? Don't you remember Bai Qiang?"

Xie Qingzhi looked confused.

She had just overheard this name through the Queen's thoughts, but she was not familiar with it at all.

Without waiting for Xie Qingzhi to speak, Bai Wei continued to mutter to herself, "That's right. My sister Bai Qiang is just a lowly slave. How could she have entered ***'s memory? For ***, executing someone casually is just a piece of cake."

"When did I ever execute a maidservant so casually?" Xie Qingzhi retorted.

Bai Qiang didn't die because of Xie Qingzhi, so Xie Qingzhi naturally had no memory of it.

Bai Wei became anxious when she heard Xie Qingzhi's words. "At that time, a palace maid and the Empress Dowager reported that the maidservant Bai Qiang seduced the Prince Consort Li Shicheng. The Empress Dowager immediately ordered Bai Qiang to be imprisoned in the stable. I've inquired about it, and my sister Bai Qiang disappeared after only two days of being imprisoned by the Empress Dowager. Who else but the Empress Dowager could have such power to make my sister disappear without a clear reason?"

Xie Qingzhi did not refute. Combined with Gu Jianchu's thoughts, she did remember some things. At that time, Xia Zhi ran back in a hurry and said that another maid seduced Li Shicheng. She and Li Shicheng had a good relationship at that time. How could she have seen these things? In anger, she directly locked the person in the stable.

She didn't know the maid's name.

Xie Qingzhi didn't lose her temper any more and said calmly, "I did banish a palace maid to the stable. I don't know what happened after that, and no one has come to report her missing."

Xie Qingzhi once again recalled Gu Jianchu's thoughts and asked tentatively, "Your sister was banished to the cold palace because she seduced the Prince Consort. Otherwise, why would I casually target a maid?"

Hearing that her sister was still being slandered like this after her death, Bai Wei shook her head firmly. "No, absolutely not. Even if we were poor, my sister would never do such a thing as seducing the Prince Consort. This is a letter my sister wrote home a while ago. My sister said that she saw the Prince Consort keeping a mistress outside, and she thought of earning money to buy medicine for the servants. I thought my sister might do something dangerous, so I wrote to her to stop her from doing anything dangerous, but there was no reply. That's why I came to the capital alone to look for her, and all I heard was that she was missing."