Just as she was about to go out to find Master Sikong, Master Sikong had already sent someone over on his own initiative.
"Your Majesty the Empress Dowager, the master requests your presence."
It was just in time. Shi Muyuan hurriedly told the people in her courtyard and then went to Master Sikong's courtyard.
As soon as she walked in, she couldn't wait to ask, "Master, do you still remember the oath you made in front of the Buddha back then? You said you wouldn't tell anyone about this."
Master Sikong asked someone to close the door, and then said, "Your Majesty the Empress Dowager, don't be in a hurry. I didn't tell this. It should be that someone eavesdropped on our conversation."
"How can I not be in a hurry? Now there are already commoners blocking the foot of the mountain, waiting for me to go out and explain."
Hearing this, Master Sikong thought carefully for a while. "The most urgent thing is to find out the person behind this. Otherwise, this matter will become more and more serious."
Now she had also calmed down. She gritted her teeth and said, "Then I'll have to trouble Master Sikong to check the people in your temple first."
In the few days since she returned, she had already investigated everyone in the temple thoroughly.
Actually, in Baotuo Temple, Master Sikong had more say than the abbot.
After the two discussed, Shi Muyuan returned to her courtyard.
"Xiao Xiao, use the power of the Shi family to investigate and find out who is behind this. By the way, be sure to report what has happened these days to the clan elders of the Shi family."
"Yes."
"Ze Ze, go back and tell the Emperor about this and ask him to send someone to help me."
"Your servant obeys the order."
She quickly gave the orders. Shi Muyuan began to recall in her mind. She always felt that it must be someone inside Baotuo Temple, and that person should be the one who had colluded with Concubine Xiao.
When the Emperor received the news, Cui Qizhou happened to be in the study helping him deal with state affairs.
"Your Majesty, Eunuch Ze, who is beside the Empress Dowager, is here. He said he has something very important to see you."
Ji Heng looked up. He remembered that his imperial grandmother should be in Baotuo Temple at this time.
However, he didn't think much about it. He waved his sleeve and called the person in.
Ze Ze knelt directly under the main hall and pleaded for his master.
"Your Majesty, if you don't stand up for the Empress Dowager this time, she may be killed by those people."
Ji Heng raised his eyebrows. He didn't know exactly what had happened yet. But since it involved his imperial grandmother, he couldn't be careless.
"Get up quickly and tell me what happened to my imperial grandmother?"
Ze Ze told the person on the high throne exactly what had happened. After the young Emperor heard it, his face immediately changed.
Although Ji Heng felt that his imperial grandmother seemed to be a different person since she woke up that time, she had been treating him better and better. Just for this reason, he couldn't let anyone hurt his imperial grandmother easily.
Just then, Cui Qizhou was also there. He directly asked the man to go.
"National Master is always the best at dealing with this kind of thing. Why don't you go and help my imperial grandmother? It will also make some people behave themselves."
"Your servant obeys the order."
Cui Qizhou agreed very readily this time because he thought this matter was mostly related to the spy in Baotuo Temple.
Everything had happened too coincidentally.
Not long after, he led people to the foot of the mountain. Sure enough, there were a large number of commoners gathered at the foot of the mountain. They seemed determined not to leave until they got an answer.
Seeing this, his sword-shaped eyebrows frowned slightly. "I wonder what you are all blocking at the foot of this mountain for?"
The commoners lived in the capital city of Changjing every day, so they had naturally seen the National Master. Moreover, they also respected him very much.
"National Master, you don't know. We've received definite news that the current Empress Dowager has been possessed by a monster. Well, this monster is here to harm our Great Liang. Today we want that monster to come out and then burn it to eliminate future troubles."
"That's right. Only in this way can we ensure the safety of our country."
The crowd got more and more excited. If it weren't for the fact that they were at Baotuo Temple and didn't want to anger the Buddha, they wouldn't have just stayed at the foot of the mountain. They would have rushed up long ago.
Cui Qizhou didn't expect the situation to be so serious. He was a little dissatisfied. "I've never heard of what you all are saying. Those so - called monsters only exist in storybooks. It's better for you all to go back early."
However, since the commoners had come today, how could they leave easily?
"National Master, we know you are loyal to the court. This time the Emperor must have sent you here. But you have to believe us. The Empress Dowager must be a monster in disguise. If we don't get rid of her early, she will endanger the country."
Since persuasion was useless, Cui Qizhou decided to change his method and first find out the person behind this.
"Then can you all tell me who told you that the Empress Dowager is a monster?"
The commoners looked at each other, as if hesitating.
The Minister of the Supreme Court he had brought had already broken out in a cold sweat on his forehead. Seeing that these commoners still wanted to cover it up, he suddenly got angry.
"The situation has become so serious, and you still want to hide it. It seems you all want to go to the prison of the Supreme Court."
This remark successfully intimidated everyone.
Finally, one of the commoners was too scared and confessed the person.
However, everyone was surprised by this person's identity.
...
"Yuru? It can't be him. He always seems so insignificant in the temple. There must be someone else behind this."
Knowing that she didn't believe it, Cui Qizhou could only take out the confessions that the Minister of the Supreme Court had just collected from the commoners.
"Take a look."
Shi Muyuan read those confessions carefully, not missing a single word. Almost all the evidence pointed to that ordinary little monk.
She took a deep breath and asked Xiao Xiao to bring the person over.
When Yuru saw Shi Muyuan, his first reaction was to run. Now, I'm afraid no one would think he was innocent.
There was only disappointment in Shi Muyuan's eyes.
"I've never thought I've ever offended you. Why are you doing this to me?"
Hearing this, there was a sneer on Yuru's face.
"Never offended me? Who would believe such words? Right. How could our hard - working Empress Dowager remember what happened back then? You must have long forgotten that you killed my whole family."
Shi Muyuan twitched the corner of her mouth. According to the original owner's temper, it was indeed possible that such a thing had happened.
But she couldn't remember for a moment and could only ask the person kneeling on the ground to remind her.
"You said I hurt your whole family. There must be some evidence. You've never said what happened back then. Do you just want to put such a big blame on me? I can't bear it."
At this moment, Yuru seemed to think of something sad. He immediately closed his eyes.