Chapter 7 — She chose Scissors to cut Hong Tran, I chose Peony to win the Phoenix position

As for the group of maids and women who helped my sister bully me back then... Their end is even less worth mentioning. Someone was kicked out by the homeowner. Someone was abandoned by her husband. There are people who have evil diseases and no one asks about them. Some people are crazy. Someone is dead. I never intentionally asked for their information. But there is always someone who takes the initiative to tell us.

"Niang, mama Truong used to slap someone on the mouth. A few days ago, she fell and broke her leg. No one took care of her, so she had to crawl on the street."

“Miss, Tieu Thuy once helped the eldest lady spread the word, but was married to an alcoholic and was beaten every day.”

“Niang Niang, Mama Ly's son lost everything in gambling and even stole her retirement money.”

Every time Thuy Binh mentions these stories, it's like telling an old story. After listening, I just nodded slightly, neither saying good nor bad. The palace servants couldn't guess what I was thinking, so gradually they stopped mentioning it. Currently, the Marquis is relying on our power to survive. I don't even need to do it myself... They will also meet their own retribution. This is humanity. In the third year after becoming Queen, the court situation was completely stable, Tieu Dien's confidants were also spread throughout the court. The net that Tieu Dien and I spread together... It's finally time to collect the net. Each piece of Hau Phu's harp music is like continuously flowing water being brought into Can Chinh Hall. That day, Tieu Dien summoned me to Ngu study room.

“Queen, please look at this.”

He gave me a secret chopstick. I took it and looked at it, my pupils immediately shrank. In the secret document, it was clearly written that the Hou Palace not only colluded with Bac Dich to trade military goods, but also secretly sponsored Bac Dich to violate the border, so that the Hou family could make achievements on the battlefield and advance to higher positions. This is treason. It is a great sin to destroy the Nine Clans.

“Is the evidence confirmed yet?”

I raised my head and asked. Tieu Dien nodded:

"The witnesses and evidence are all there, the secret envoy has been arrested, and the books have been found. This time the Marquis cannot escape anymore."

I was silent for a moment, then asked:

“How does your Majesty plan to handle it?”

Tieu Dien looked at me:

“What does the Queen think should be done?”

“Even though I come from the Marquis Palace, the Marquis Palace committed the crime of high treason, and I do not dare to favorably cover it.”

I kneel down.

“Your Majesty, please follow the law.”

I stopped a bit.

"Even though my sister is a monk, she has already meddled in this matter, an unforgivable sin. It's just that she is my sister after all, I wonder if we can let her live in the temple for the rest of her life?"

Tieu Dien looked at me:

“She is truly merciful.”

“Not benevolent.”

I shook my head.

"Sister living on... is more painful than dying."

Tieu Dien pondered for a moment, then finally nodded slightly:

“Okay, I promise you.”

Three days later, Cam Y Ve surrounded the entire Tham Hau palace. Marquis Tham Kinh was arrested on the spot, and more than three hundred people, large and small, in the palace were all escorted to prison. My sister was taken out of Duong Quy pagoda and imprisoned in a small Buddhist hall located deep behind the mountain. I come to meet her. She sat on the sofa, her hair disheveled, her eyes empty and lifeless, like a walking corpse. Seeing me enter, she slowly raised her head A glimmer of light appeared in his dull eyes.

“What are you doing here?”

she asked.

“Come to see my joke?”

"Not."

I sat down opposite her.

“I came to see you off the last part of your journey.”

“The last stretch?”

Dich laughed coldly:

"You locked me in this place, life is worse than death, what else do you say about the end?"

I looked at her, was silent for a moment, then slowly opened my mouth:

“Sister, do you know why you lost?”

Dich was stunned:

“Because from beginning to end, I never knew where I lost.”

I looked straight into her eyes.

"I think that in my previous life I was able to become a National Teacher because of the profound Buddhism. I think that in this life, if I just choose scissors, I can repeat my path."

“But you don't know…”

"In my previous life, I was able to become a National Teacher, not because of Buddhism."

“So what is it for?”

“Because I cooperated with the Emperor and denounced the Marquis Palace.”

My sister immediately opened her eyes wide and stared at me in disbelief:

“What did you say?”