Liu Qingyan once again stepped into the palace that she had not been involved in for some time.

Two or three guards sent by the queen led her into the palace where the queen lived. The queen was guarding her outside the door for the first time. When she saw her coming from a distance, she walked up to greet her with joy on her face.

"If I hadn't been in a bad state, I would have definitely gone to your Prince Qi's mansion to see you." The queen said with a smile.

Liu Qingyan also smiled: "The Empress is really serious. If there is something wrong, just call me directly. How can I bother the Empress to find me?"

The queen held her hand and took her in for a few steps. She said softly, "You, don't be too nervous. I asked you to come here, not for anything else, I just wanted to chat with you." After a moment of pause, the queen said again, "I have also known a lot about you..."

If you don't have anything to do, come to her? How could that be possible? The Queen seems to be a little underestimating Liu Qingyan. As Baili Yunrou's biological mother, if you think about her actions at the hunting conference carefully, Liu Qingyan does not think that there is any special friendship between the Queen and her.

Therefore, facing the queen's words, Liu Qingyan just lowered her eyes and smiled lightly to show her respect: "I really have to worry about the Queen."

The queen had already pulled her to sit down in the palace, and soon a maid served the top tea. The queen sat opposite her and said softly: "We all know the prince's character, and he would not have done such a thing."

"We can't judge what the prince is, Queen," Liu Qingyan said with a cup, "and if that is really what the prince does, even if I or the queen, since the emperor has sentenced the prince to the crime, it will not be able to turn the situation around. What's more, Prince..." Liu Qingyan paused and frowned: "What's more, Prince is no longer alive."

The queen frowned, not knowing whether she knew about this beforehand. She looked at Liu Qingyan and sighed and said, "The world is impermanent, we are all like this, it is hard to predict what will happen."

"Empress," Liu Qingyan looked at the queen, "I wonder if you encountered something this time?"

"You little girl, I said, it's not a big deal to call you here, just we meet and talk, nothing else..." The queen smiled.

But Liu Qingyan could clearly feel the far-fetchedness in her smile.

She turned her eyes away and said, "Empress, just say anything if you have anything to do. The prince just passed away and there are still many things waiting for me to deal with. The emperor appointed me as the prefect of the capital, but I still have some things that I have not handled properly. So, don't waste each other's time."

After all, that was meaningless. She has always disdained such greetings and tactful refusals in the harem.

The queen's expression changed slightly, and she smiled: "I am really worthy of being the Princess Qi, the prefect of the capital, and the woman valued by the emperor. I really can't hide anything from you."

Liu Qingyan couldn't help but sneer in her heart. It seemed that she did hide something from herself, and she did have something to tell her, and it seemed that she was asking for her. And such thoughts were not something that was difficult to guess.

"Is it because of Princess Yunrou?" Liu Qingyan raised her first question.

The queen shook her head: "Who is Princess Qi treating me as? Since something happened to her, her temperament has changed drastically, and she has not been close to me even if she is not close to me. Now I just hope that she can do well in her princess's mansion."

After pausing for a moment, the queen seemed to remember something important and lowered her voice to Liu Qingyan: "As for the matter of the prince-in-law... I am indebted to it, I did not support this engagement from the beginning. Look, Qin Muyu married Liu Qingyan, but later the Liu family had no chance, so he got entangled with Du Yuyan again. How could Yun Rou marry him later? I was also very dissatisfied."

Liu Qingyan looked at the cup of tea in front of her with her eyes hanging down, her expression faintly, just listening to her words.

Yes, she knew it at the beginning. Qin Muyu did not get any benefits for the queen, so, this time Lu Siguan killed Qin Muyu, the queen would not feel much sad. What's more, why can't Qin Muyu be so bad to Baili Yunrou spread to the queen? If a man who doesn't love his daughter dies, what's wrong with the queen?

But it's still a bit strange.

The emperor personally detained and executed Lu Siguan. As the woman around the emperor, the empress should be on the united front with the emperor. Now she has found Liu Qingyan, so why is it for?

Liu Qingyan couldn't figure this out, and she was still a little confused for a moment. But the queen quickly answered her confusion.

"The emperor has become a little strange these days." The queen sighed.

Upon hearing this, Liu Qingyan frowned and looked at her: "What does the Empress mean? What is the strange thing? What does it mean? The Emperor is the true dragon emperor after all..."

"You are also a smart person. The words of the True Dragon Emperor are used to deceive children. If someone does anything to the emperor and the emperor cannot find it, there is nothing he can do." The queen sighed.

"Is the Empress thinking that someone has tampered with the Emperor?" Liu Qingyan asked.

"I doubt this, and I doubt that the person who tampered with the emperor was Concubine Du." The queen frowned tightly and said very seriously.

Liu Qingyan was slightly stunned and frowned and asked, "So I don't know what strange things the emperor has?"

The queen knew everything about her and said directly: "How can I say it? Now the emperor is getting more and more sleepy. In the past, he would go to the morning court no matter what. However, these days, the emperor always slept until the sun was noon before he was willing to wake up. After waking up, he refused to meet the court officials. Instead, he hanged with Concubine Du..."

Liu Qingyan was a little surprised.

As far as she remembers at the hunting conference, the emperor was not many people who favored Concubine Du. It can even be said that the emperor believed that Concubine Du was her concubine, but she was not extremely favored.

I guess he would be kind to Concubine Du, but it was just part of Concubine Du's family, or because he was a husband and wife and had children. In addition, the emperor may prefer the queen. After all, the queen is generous and very neat in doing things. She is his right-hand man and his first wife's lover.

But after hearing what the queen said now, the emperor seemed to have put more of his attention on Concubine Du.

"That's not all," said the queen. "The emperor must have come to our palace to see me and talk about the big and small matters in the palace. However, recently, the emperor has been reluctant to come to see me. Even if I sent someone to find him, he would not come. It seemed that I didn't plan to care about anything and would not meet me."

"If the emperor doesn't come, will he stay with the concubine?" Liu Qingyan asked strangely.

The queen looked at her and nodded with a grievance: "That's right. The emperor now spends most of his time in the imperial concubine's palace. Just as the palace said just now, he will not see me, nor will the court officials. The only person whom he is willing to see is the person Du Guifei wants him to see."

Upon hearing this, Liu Qingyan recalled some things. She was a little surprised to find that something was wrong, just as the queen said, strange.

First of all, since the emperor has always listened to Concubine Du, according to the queen, this situation has lasted for several days, then when the emperor saw Lu Siguan killing Qin Muyu and Lu Siguan being interrogated and killed by him, they were all in this state. In other words, all of this was the instructor of Concubine Du.

But how is this possible just by relying on Concubine Du? Concubine Du didn't think of killing the people who wanted to kill Lu Siguan like that.

"But Concubine Du... doesn't seem to be someone who will do such a thing." Liu Qingyan spoke out.

"So I suspect that Concubine Du has helpers outside the palace." The queen said softly.

Liu Qingyan suddenly remembered the strange Nangong Yi, whom she thought was Song Jingchen. She frowned and didn't say anything. When the queen noticed her expression, she said, "Princess Qi, you think so too, right? I guess you have found something outside the palace, right?"

Liu Qingyan frowned and said, "But if the Empress, as you said, the Emperor is under the control of Concubine Du. Even if we can find the real murderer, what can we do?"

The queen did not speak immediately. Instead, she looked around first and her eyes fell on Dashuang.

Seeing her posture and gaze, Liu Qingyan probably knew what she meant and said, "This is my confidant. Please rest assured that the Queen is today. As long as there is no problem with the Queen's side, my confidant will not have any problems."

The queen glanced at Dashuang deeply, and was silent for a moment before she was willing to speak.
Chapter completed!