"This..." Eunuch Zhou didn't expect that he would be handling a hot potato when accompanying the imperial concubine out of the palace this time.

"Hurry up and go." Wen Yuan ordered coldly.

Eunuch Zhou glanced at the motionless King Ruiping and replied helplessly, "Yes, we will go right away."

Just as Eunuch Zhou left, a slender and delicate woman came over.

She was dressed in pink, made of fine silk embroidered with golden peonies. The gold and jade hairpin in her hair swayed slightly, and her manners were very well-mannered.

Before the person came close, a scream was heard.

"Ah...Princess...Princess."

Su Jinyun, the concubine of Prince Ruiping who had just entered the house yesterday, looked terrified and was staggering with fear. She was about to fall when she was supported by a maid.

"Prince...the princess?" In just a few words, Su Jinyun's face was covered with tears and she was heartbroken.

In the modern entertainment industry, this kind of acting skills would beat all the young actresses and would be at a high level that could win awards.

Su Jinyun, supported by her maid, staggered towards the coffin, but suddenly stopped halfway.

It turned out that she was so focused on running that she accidentally brushed against the imperial concubine's shoulder.

Su Jinyun looked up and met a pair of extremely cold phoenix eyes.

"Snapped."

Before Su Jinyun could react, she was slapped on the head and knocked unconscious.

She turned back angrily, and "slap", another slap.

The sound of the bow swinging left and right made Su Jinyun's ears buzz and blood seep from the corners of his mouth.

She was stunned and for a moment, she didn't know how to react.

"Your Highness, please calm down. My wife was heartbroken over the death of the princess and accidentally offended you. Please have mercy on her."

The person who spoke was Su Jinyun's wet nurse. She entered the Ruiping Palace as Su Jinyun's dowry.

She was anxious that her master was being beaten, so she knelt on the ground and kowtowed for mercy.

It seemed as if the imperial concubine was deliberately making things difficult for her and wrongly beating up a good person.

Su Jinyun covered her face and knelt down, tears streaming down her face, her face full of grievance and unwillingness.

Xiaoying stood beside Wen Yuan and said loudly:

"Prince Ruiping's palace is in mourning, yet the concubine is wearing pink. This is extremely disrespectful to the deceased princess. I wonder who taught the concubine etiquette. According to the laws of our dynasty, she should be beaten to death."

The wet nurse was trembling visibly all over. She stammered and couldn't speak, and beads of sweat the size of beans rolled down her forehead.

"Your Highness, Your Highness..." the wet nurse called Li Heng in a low voice.

At this time, Li Heng, who seemed to have lost his soul, finally came back to his senses.

"Sister-in-law, I am the one who wronged Xingyao. If you are angry, you can vent it on me. It has nothing to do with Jinyun."

Hearing this, Su Jinyun's tears poured down like a rainstorm, wetting the golden peony on her chest, and she sobbed and almost fainted.

Wen Yuan used all his strength in those two slaps, and by this time, Su Jinyun's cheeks were swollen.

She had put powder on her face today, and five red fingerprints were very clear on the left and right of her fair face.

Li Heng helped Su Jinyun up. Su Jinyun's body was as soft as a vine. She took the opportunity to hide in Li Heng's arms, but was gently pushed away by him.

"Go back and change into mourning clothes."

Su Jinyun opened her eyes wide, but Li Heng didn't even have a word of comfort.

"Your Majesty, I..."

As soon as Su Jinyun spoke, Li Heng seemed to be awakened.

"You have been wronged."

Under normal circumstances, if Su Jinyun lost a hair, she would still act coquettishly with Li Heng.

But today was the princess's funeral, and the imperial concubine was here, so she didn't dare to act rashly.

After hearing Li Heng's complaint, he left Yaohua Garden in disgrace.

After watching this romantic scene, Wen Yuan cursed Li Heng hundreds of times in his heart.

"Li Heng, I remember when Princess Ruiping was in charge of the palace, there was never such a joke."

There are many royal rules, and there are also many people who find fault with them.

As a modern person, Ji Xingyao has to learn the rules from scratch and support the entire Rui Palace. What she pays is far more than she imagined.

She is lively, smiling all day long and carefree.

I gave my heart to Li Heng, but he poked it into a hornet's nest.

There is no one in the world who is more stupid than her.

After hearing Wen Yuan's words, Li Heng's face turned pale: "Xingyao, of course, is the best."

She was so thoughtful in everything that even the late queen could not find any fault with her.

Recalling everything that happened before, regret flowed through Li Heng's body.

He held onto the pure wood with his hands, exerting so much force that his nails almost dug into it.

Li Heng's look of deep regret made Wen Yuan want to vomit.

In her eyes, Li Heng's acting skills were too poor, not even as good as Su Jinyun's.

When I read novels before, I often saw a sentence: Late affection is cheaper than grass.

Now Li Heng shed a few tears in a mean manner, but it did not stop him from turning around and hugging the warm and soft Su Jinyun and showing his affection to her.

Wen Yuan came to the coffin and looked down at Ji Xingyao who was sleeping peacefully in the coffin.

It turns out that death is so ugly.

His face was shriveled and gray, his eye sockets were sunken, and he looked very scary.

Wen Yuan stared at Ji Xingyao's remains. She wanted to remember that her best friend and relative died because of love.

Life is so precious, it’s a pity to waste it on a scumbag.

However, thinking that she might now use the huge bonus to embark on a world tour and kiss foreigners everywhere, Wen Yuan felt a little comforted.

After a while, Eunuch Zhou arrived with the prefect of Shuntian Prefecture.

"Your Highness, Your Highness." The prefect saluted the two of them.

Li Heng became half-deaf and half-mute like a dead man again. He ignored everyone and just lowered his head to look at Ji Xingyao's body.

"Prefect, is the coroner here?" Wen Yuan asked.

"Your Majesty, the coroner is here."

Following behind the prefect was a man carrying a wooden box, who was the coroner.

"Princess Ruiping passed away suddenly last night. The Ruiping Palace said she died of illness. Coroner, please go and take a look. What was the illness?"

This is really difficult, as no coroner can tell the cause of the disease with the naked eye.

However, he couldn't disobey the imperial concubine's words.

The coroner came to the coffin, took a look, and his heart tightened.

The princess' lips were purple and black, and her fingernails were dark blue, which was obviously a sign of poisoning.

If the bones are also black, it must be poisoning.

The coroner's head was hanging on his neck, sandwiched between Prince Ruiping and the imperial concubine. He watched for a long time without daring to speak.

"Coroner." Wen Yuan asked, "How is it?"

The coroner secretly glanced at the prefect, but the prefect was standing far away and did not see the princess's remains, so he had no idea what had happened.

On one side is Prince Ruiping, and on the other side is the Imperial Concubine, neither of them can be offended.

The coroner gritted his teeth and risked his head before saying:

"Reporting to Her Majesty, the princess appears to be poisoned."

The words were like thunder, and Li Heng, who was in a state of wandering thoughts, was struck hard, and his whole body trembled noticeably.

"What did you say?" Li Heng looked at the coroner in disbelief, suspecting that there was something wrong with his ears.

The coroner was so frightened that he dared not look back at Prince Ruiping. He repeated in a low voice, "The princess appears to have been poisoned."

"Impossible!" Li Heng angrily waved his sleeves, "How can we tolerate your nonsense here in the Ruiping Palace?"

The coroner was so frightened that he knelt down and bowed his head.

"Oh? Prince Ruiping is denying his identity? Then, do we need a coroner to perform an autopsy?"

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