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Just as Imperial Concubine Yu was about to leave her room, the empress was also changing her clothes and dressing up inside the empress's palace. Isabel came over and reported in a low voice, "Concubine, His Highness is here. He's just outside the door."

"Come in."

Just as the queen finished speaking, Chunyu Feng walked in with his sleeves up.

"Muhou." When he saluted, he saw that the queen was dressing. He got up and went to take the pearl hairpin from Gongzi and put it on for his mother.

Isabel signaled to the other ladies with her eyes and they left.

There was no one else in the palace. Chunyu Feng then said, "Imperial Mother, do you really want to join hands with Imperial Concubine Yu?"

"Today is August 15th. As usual, we will invite important officials to a banquet. The Duke of Jin will naturally come." The empress spoke in an extremely indifferent tone. Ye Zichen hid all the bad blood in his words.

However, Chunyu Feng frowned, "Imperial Mother, since you know of the Duke of Jin's identity, why did you agree to Imperial Concubine Yu's words?"

It seemed that her own son already knew the truth, so she decided not to hide it anymore. "You already know?"

Chunyu Feng naturally knew who the memorial tablet without any carved name belonged to, so he was very curious about it. Every year, when that person's birthday was met with death, his mother would make him kowtow, but she would never tell him who the person he had knelt for so many years was.

Moreover, all of this was going on in the dark.

What unspeakable secrets did the Queen Mother have?

Chunyu Feng's curiosity accumulated from the first day and it was only now that he found out some things. He never thought that his mother was also from the Jin family!

He was very meticulous in his planning, and had not known the whole story for many years until today.

However, with this, wouldn't his relationship with Jin Yu Lie become even more complicated?

What puzzled him even more was, why did his mother agree to Imperial Concubine Yu's request? Even if Imperial Concubine Yu didn't know and the empress did this to get the information, with Chunyu Feng's current understanding, this wasn't the case. His mother really did join hands with Imperial Concubine Yu.

If Imperial Concubine Yu's goal was very clearly to target Jin Yu Lie and Mu Wan Yun, then the empress's goal wasn't to deal with her own nephew, right? There was only one explanation, and that was, her goal was Chunyu Hong!

"Imperial Mother, you must treat royal father …" Chunyu Feng blurted out, but as soon as he said it, he felt that he was wrong. He quickly stopped and said in a low voice, "Mother, are you crazy?"

The Queen turned her eyes to look at her son. He was her only son, but the blood that flowed in her blood was the blood of the Jin family. There were some things that she simply couldn't make a decision about.

"Feng Er, Mother only wants you to remember one thing! That's what happened today, you never knew, you never asked, you never thought about it! "

"But, Imperial Mother …" He wanted to ask her, was it worth it?

"Nothing worth it." The empress gave a faint smile, her eyes containing a hint of relief, as if she had been looking forward to this moment for a long time.

This made Chunyu Feng a bit unhappy. What he wanted, his mother actually never put it to heart. He did not say anything. He only picked up the last golden hairpin and inserted it into the bun. At that moment, his eyes were stung by the white light hidden beneath his mother's black hair.

They did not care about the world of the Great Qin, but he wanted it very much! Even if he had the blood of the Jin family in his body, his surname was Chunyu!

Chunyu Feng had already made up his mind.

"Imperial Mother, take care!" Chunyu Feng Yan quietly left.

Jin Yulai was at the Duke of Jin's mansion. His hand slowly skimmed over the pillow. This was the place where Mu Wan had lain, and there was her breath still on it. Beside him were a few strands of her black hair that had fallen off.

He picked them up and walked over to the dressing table. There were also several wooden combs, and Jin Yulai arranged them one by one. Finally, he tied them with a red rope and placed them in his scented bag.

When he put away the scented sachet, Zuo Chenfeng knocked on the door. His usual cynicism was gone from his face, and his expression was grave.

Jin Yu Lie was very surprised that he appeared here.

"You didn't return to your house?"

Zuo Chenfeng's lips curled up into a smile, as if he didn't care much, "Everyone knows that you and I are best friends, and also know that we are friends. Even if I deliberately avoid suspicion at this time, it is useless." Don't worry, my old man has already agreed. He said that since the Hou Mansion has him, I can do whatever I want. However, there is only one request. "

"What request?" The storm this time was not so small. If there is any involvement.

"He said, only success is not allowed!"

This sentence seemed like what the Old Marquis had said to Zuo Chenfeng, but in reality, Jin Yu Lie understood that the Old Marquis was making it clear that he was standing in a side. He was supporting him with all his might!

Although the old marquis was a cunning old fox, he couldn't deny that he also wanted to support his son. If it wasn't for Zuo Chenfeng, he wouldn't have betrayed her so easily. What was hidden was something he understood!

Jin Yu Lie nodded and patted Zuo Chenfeng's shoulder.

There was a lot of talk between the two, as long as they looked at each other with determination and trust, it was enough!

There were many routes to the palace, and on many of them, there were countless carriages moving towards the same destination with their own thoughts.

The Imperial Palace was abnormally bustling with noise and excitement, but when Jin Yu Lie appeared in the midst of the liveliness, it gave birth to a strange scene.

All the princes and officials were more cunning than foxes, they had also smelled today, and no one wanted to participate in this mess. However, the Mid-Autumn Festival had been set since the founding of the kingdom, and no one dared to refuse.

Their faces were bitter, but they still dressed in formal attire.

Compared to them, Jin Yulai was much calmer. He was still dressed in black, and his whole body was shining with a serious and calm light. Silver Qilin embroidery was on his back, ready to take action.

"Good morning, Duke Jin."

"Greetings to the Duke of Jin."

Along the way, Jin Yu Lie was greeted by countless other ministers. No one knew what would happen after today. And now that Jin Yu Lie was in the limelight, everyone still wanted to build a good relationship with him. Until the end, no one knew who would win.

The Mid-Autumn Festival was very important to the people of the Great Qin Empire, so when the Inspector General shouted that the auspicious hour had arrived, the ceremony began. It was a complicated and grand ceremony.

Then at noon, the banquet began!

Everything was the same as before, a banquet that lasted six hours! It would continue from noon until night, when the full moon hung high in the sky.

Jin Yu Lie looked at the green and light wine in the cup and laughed coldly.

This was poison wine!

Imperial Concubine Yu's methods were only so? A mere poisoned wine wanted his life?

However, this cup was specially bestowed by Imperial Concubine Yu. She raised the cup from a distance, her eyes cold and sinister. She wanted to see whether the Jin Family would drink this poisonous wine in front of all the ministers and emperors.

Zuo Chenfeng sat right next to Jin. He looked at the wine in the cup and thought to himself: Imperial Concubine Yu is such a wicked woman. She presented a cup of poison wine, but she purposely used a silver cup to show you that this is poison wine!

Imperial Concubine Yu's eyes were sinister, but there was a trace of a smile on her lips.

I want to see if you dare to drink it. If you don't want to, pour wine on the table and wait for me to punish you for committing such a crime!

This cup of wine was very simple. If Jin Yu Lie drank it, he would be poisoned, and if he didn't drink it, he would be punished!

However, she had plotted and plotted a thousand times, but she didn't know the other truth. That was, Jin Yulai was actually immune to poisons!

His mother had forcefully protected him from the poison when he was still in his mother's womb. After that ordeal, she had accidentally left him with blood that was immune to poisons.

Naturally, he didn't care about this meager poisoned wine. He slowly raised his glass.

Zuo Chenfeng said softly, "You really want to drink it? But it doesn't matter whether you drink it or not, you won't die anyway. " He was aware of the special characteristics of Jin Yu's blood, so he was not afraid of him being poisoned to death by this cup of wine.

"Nope." His lips moved slightly, "Won't we be unable to see what good show she'll have after this?"

Just as he was about to raise his glass, he put it down again. Yet she smiled at Imperial Concubine Yu, her smile full of provocation.

Imperial Concubine Yu's complexion changed when she saw this smile. Her hand hidden in her sleeves tightly gripped her wine cup as the silver colored wine cup slightly deformed.

Chunyu Hong had clearly seen everything, but he chose to ignore it.

On the other side of the table, Chunyu Feng was thinking about what his royal father's intentions were.

"What's wrong? Is the wine that I bestow really not allowed to enter the mouth of the Duke of Jin? "

It was very common for Imperial Concubine Yu to grant wine, but the Duke of Jin refused and Imperial Concubine Yu questioned him. It suddenly attracted everyone's attention. The conflict that everyone was hoping for finally broke out.

They were willing to face such a conflict calmly, so they didn't want to be in the middle of thinking about when something might happen.

The conflict between Jin Yulai and Imperial Concubine Yu officially began with a glass of wine.

Jin Yu Lie smiled lightly, and said: "This wine is poisonous, I still want to live a few more days."

"What a joke!" "How could the wine bestowed by me be poisoned? Although the Duke of Jin has a noble identity, as a noble concubine, how can you slander me like this?"

"If Imperial Concubine Yu doesn't believe me, everyone can take a look!" Jin Yulai stood up, carrying his wine cup to the center of the table.

At this moment, there was Gong'e dancing in the middle of the banquet. The moment he appeared, the dancers all retreated.

Under everyone's gaze, Jin Yu Lie poured the wine on the ground in front of everyone. The wine was just like the ground, corroding the ground in a split-second, emitting bursts of white smoke.

"This wine is poisonous!" Everyone was shocked as they looked at Imperial Concubine Yu.

Imperial Concubine Yu sneered, "Duke Jin, how dare you frame me in front of His Majesty?" As she spoke, she cast her gaze towards Chunyu Hong, her voice filled with grievance. "Your Majesty, you have to seek justice for me!"

Chunyu Hong looked at the crowd coldly, as if he didn't understand just yet, "What happened? It's just a glass of wine, come! "Who served the wine?"

As these words were spoken, two eunuchs pushed a small palace maid forward. She was the one who had served the wine to Jin Yu Lie just now.

"Your majesty, unjustly accused! "Even if this servant had the guts, I still wouldn't dare to poison her with wine."

Chunyu Hong lightly said, "It was pushed down and cut down!"

Killing a palace maid would stop the matter.

He examined everyone while simultaneously increasing the difficulty of the examination.