At this moment, in the Queen's Palace.
Dongfang Yi had naturally already heard about what had happened outside the palace, because Ruyi had come in the early morning and told her the whole story from beginning to end.
Although she was locked in the Cold Palace, the gates of the Cold Palace couldn't stop those who knew martial arts.
When Dongfang Yi learned this news, her heart skipped a beat. She never expected that the Dong family would suddenly encounter such a thing out of the blue. She couldn't imagine who on earth wanted to kill them all.
Thinking of this, she lowered her head and pondered for a while, then asked, "Does Concubine Dong know about this?"
Ruyi shook her head after hearing this and said, "Now Concubine Dong's palace is full of Concubine Chu's people. They've surrounded the whole palace tightly. I don't know if they're afraid Concubine Dong will do something. Anyway, no news can get in."
Hearing this, Dongfang Yi couldn't help but let out a cold laugh. She thought to herself that Concubine Chu had become smarter. She never expected that she would know to send people to guard Concubine Dong. She naturally didn't believe that she just wanted to place informants. The most important thing must be that she was afraid Concubine Dong would learn the news about her family and break down and expose everything after that.
Thinking of this, all the things could be explained. She never believed that with Concubine Dong's personality or the Dong family's power and influence, they would have the courage to assassinate the emperor. There must be someone behind them pulling the strings, and that person was the Nangong family, namely Concubine Chu.
Although all the things were approaching the truth, she couldn't go out and tell anyone. After all, she was the sinner locked in the Cold Palace now, the bewitching concubine who had brought disaster to the emperor.
After thinking about it, she couldn't help but let out a cold laugh. Then she said, "She will know sooner or later. There's no need to do anything else. How is Helian Qi's condition now?"
For the time being, she didn't want to think about how to fight against Concubine Chu. She just wanted to see Helian Qi wake up.
Ruyi replied after hearing this, "Don't worry, Your Highness. The remaining poison in the emperor's body is about to be completely cleared. The next steps will definitely be completed within seven days. Mr. Bai's medical skills are really superb."
Hearing this, Dongfang Yi finally smiled with relief. Now as long as it was good news about Helian Qi, she would be happy. Although she couldn't accompany him every day, as long as he could get better, she didn't ask for anything else.
After Ruyi left, Donghua saw that her expression was a bit lonely and couldn't help comforting her, "Your Highness, look, Mr. Bai will definitely completely detoxify the emperor. You must also take good care of your own body!"
Dongfang Yi knew that she was concerned about her, so she hooked the corners of her lips, stood up and turned around twice, saying, "Look, haven't I taken good care of my body?! Xiaolan's cooking skills are really good. The meals she makes are delicious."
She knew that she couldn't let the people around her worry about her. After all, everything would be over after Helian Qi woke up. Now she might as well just think that she was being punished to be confined. After all, the Empress Dowager wasn't that excessive. At least she still left her the Queen's Palace.
Donghua was amused by her and then pushed her towards the room, saying, "Your Highness, you'd better go into the bedroom quickly. It's too cold outside!"
On the other side, outside the palace.
Both the Nangong family and the Dongfang family had launched an investigation into the case of the Dong family's extermination.
The two teams of people almost arrived at the residence of Minister Dong at the same time to look for clues.
As soon as Prime Minister Dongfang stepped through the threshold, he saw Nangong Liuyun inside directing people to carry the corpses. He couldn't help but let out a cold laugh and asked, "Brother Nangong really has a lot of leisure time. Isn't the renovation of the imperial mausoleum outside the capital something you need to worry about anymore?"
After all, he had come back privately.
Nangong Liuyun didn't care about his words at all. Then he raised his eyebrows and replied, "Such a big thing has happened in the capital now. How could I still enjoy myself outside? Moreover, the emperor has been assassinated, and now the Dong family has suffered such a disaster. How could I not be worried?!"
Every word he said sounded like he was concerned about the country and the people, as if he really wanted to share the emperor's burdens.
But Prime Minister Dongfang naturally knew that he was just pretending to be sad. He was very likely involved in the emperor's assassination this time. Now he was still framing others here. He was really extremely insidious.
Thinking of this, he didn't want to argue with the man in front of him anymore. He led his people straight into the inner courtyard.
The corpses in the inner courtyard hadn't been disposed of yet. The whole Dong family was still lying on the ground. Minister Dong and his wife were lying dead in each other's arms, and not far away was their son.
Although he knew that the Dong family had sent people to assassinate the emperor, when he saw the scene in front of him, he still couldn't help feeling pity. After all, it was just a seven - year - old child, and he had died like this.
He couldn't bear to look anymore. He ordered his subordinates to carry all their corpses out, and then led some people to continue searching.
First, they entered the study. The books on the table were scattered randomly, and there were also some letters on them.
When he picked them up, he found that they were from Concubine Dong in the palace. But there was no important information on them. Most of them were just words about missing home. There was nothing suspicious.
But this was normal. Usually, the secret letters would be burned immediately after being read to avoid leaving any evidence.
He led his people to search the whole mansion, but still found no clues. This could only mean that the assassins were really too cautious.
And besides the Golden Wolf Guards ten years ago, almost no one else could do this. Could it be that the former Golden Wolf Guards had really resurrected?
If so, the first thing they did after their resurrection was to assassinate the emperor and exterminate a whole family. This obviously had a great purpose. It was really terrifying. It seemed that he must report all these to the Empress Dowager.
On the other side, Nangong Liuyun also found no clues just like Prime Minister Dongfang. But he really suspected that this matter must have been done by the Golden Wolf Guards.
The reason why he had tried to win over the Dong family back then was that he knew that they had some connection with the former Golden Wolf Guards. He had heard that although the Golden Wolf Guards had been wiped out, one of them had been saved by the Dong family, so they still had some contact.
That was why he had chosen the Dong family as his most useful pawn. Now that they had been exterminated, it was probably ordered by the current leader of the Wolf Guards. The purpose was to not leak any information about the Wolf Guards. He had to admit that they had done the right thing.
After all, to keep a secret, one had to keep a person's mouth shut, and the only way to make a person shut up was death.