When He Linwan heard this, he stood there and didn't speak for a while.

The queen thought that He Linwan was a little nervous when she saw the emperor's presence, so she softened her voice and said: "Don't be afraid, if this matter has nothing to do with you, Your Majesty will naturally make decisions for you, our Majesty is a Ming Jun, and he will definitely not wronged innocent people, you just have to tell the truth." ”

The emperor, who was drinking tea, raised his eyes and glanced at the queen when he heard this, and was noncommittal.

Concubine An De smiled, and her eyes were easy to turn: "What does the queen mean by this sentence that this He Linwan is wronged?"

The queen said gently: "This palace just wants to find out the truth, and I don't want a little girl to be wronged." Does Concubine De mean that she has already decided that Yukihime's death has something to do with her?"

Concubine An De sighed and frowned at the emperor: "Xue Ji was specially found by His Majesty to give it to me, so I love it very much on weekdays, but today I suddenly heard that it died, I feel extremely uncomfortable, and it is natural to find out the person who harmed it." ”

The emperor gently patted Concubine Ande's hand in front of his knee, but his eyes were looking at the empress: "As the master of the harem, if the empress can't even find such a culprit, I really have to doubt whether she is qualified to continue to be in charge of the phoenix seal." ”

Everyone was shocked when they heard the emperor's seemingly frivolous words.

The emperor first hinted today that he wanted to appoint Concubine An De as the imperial concubine, and now he doubts the empress's ability to manage the harem, is it planning to abolish the queen and set it up separately? The palace people in the empress palace all looked at the empress anxiously and worriedly, and even Concubine Liu Xian, who was sitting on the side, was a little surprised.

The Empress was silent for a while, then smiled gently under the gaze of all kinds of people, bowed her head slightly and said to the Emperor respectfully: "What Your Majesty said is very true. If the concubine misjudged even such a trivial matter, she really didn't continue to be in charge of Fengyin's face. ”

As she spoke, the queen looked at He Linwan, and even said with a little ridicule in her gentle tone: "He Linwan, this palace still believes what you say." You must know that a woman's kindness and credulity are unforgivable sins for a queen in charge of the harem. If this palace believes you wrongly this time, you will be punished for not saying anything, and this palace will also write to ask the emperor to abolish the queen. ”

As soon as the queen's words came out, everyone present was silent, and the atmosphere in the hall was stagnant.

He Linwan looked at the different expressions of the people present. Seeing Wei's somewhat pale face again, I couldn't help but smile bitterly in my heart.

How can she be virtuous, and today's innocence has become the key to whether the emperor is deposed or not?

This harem is really a dangerous place, and you can't make a mistake.

Concubine Liu Xian was the first to speak: "Niangniang." How can such a thing be child's play after the abolition, and please take back the preface. ”

The queen smiled: "The words of the emperor and the empress are all golden words, since they have already spoken, how can they take it back?"

Concubine Liu Xian looked at the emperor anxiously: "Your Majesty ......"

The emperor glanced at the queen, and his face was indifferent: "Since the queen has a golden mouth, then it will be according to the queen's wishes." ”

The palace people in the queen's palace heard this. In an instant, their faces turned pale, and the knees of several young palace maids went limp.

Concubine An De looked at the emperor, then at the queen and Concubine Liu Xian, and lowered her eyes slightly, making it impossible to see the look in her eyes.

The queen didn't pay any attention to the expressions of the people present, and only motioned to He Linwan with an unchanged face: "Say it." ”

He Linwan glanced at Wei who was looking worried, and then replied, "Yes, Queen Mother." ”

He Linwan told him about the previous incident in the Imperial Garden.

As soon as He Linwan's words fell, Concubine An De raised her head and said to Zhi Xue: "Say what you saw again." ”

Zhixue immediately spoke: "Yes, Niangniang." The slave maid originally took Yukihime to bask in the sun in the imperial garden. But Xue Ji suddenly got into the rockery, and when the slave and maid climbed the rockery to look for it, it ran away from the other direction, and the slave and maid had to hurry to chase it. But it didn't take long for the slave to hear the shrill screams of Yukihime, and when the slave ran over, she saw her grabbing Yukihime's neck, and Yukihime was struggling in her hands. ”

Zhi Xue pointed at He Linwan, with a thick question in her tearful eyes: "This He girl keeps saying that Xue Ji attacked her first, but everyone who has seen Xue Ji knows that it has a docile temper and never attacks people for no reason, it must be what this He girl did to annoy Xue Ji, and Xue Ji will make an attacking gesture." ”

He Linwan glanced at Zhixue's excellent singing and writing. Said to the queen: "Niangniang, there was a palace maid who accompanied me before, did I do anything to the cat at that time, you can ask her." ”

The queen thought for a moment. Instructed the palace people: "Let that palace maid come into the palace." ”

He Linwan noticed that when the queen said this, Zhixue was not only nervous, but from her standing, she seemed to be more relaxed, and He Linwan had a number in her heart.

The palace maid was soon brought into the palace, and her face was still a little nervous, especially when she saw that the emperor was also here. The words of Greeting are a little stammering, which shows that he is not always serving in front of the master on weekdays.

The queen asked, "Is it the imperial garden that you brought the girl of the He family into?"

The palace maid bowed her head and said, "Hui Niangniang, it is the slave maid." ”

The queen said softly, "You can see that Xue Ji attacked He Linwan?"

The palace maid glanced at He Linwan and said tremblingly: "Yes, Niangniang, the slave saw Xue Ji rushing towards Miss He and wanted to arrest her." Speaking of this, the palace maid's voice paused, "But the slave maid also saw that it was He, and Miss He threw Xue Ji with something first, and Xue Ji was annoyed by her before attacking her." ”

The queen frowned, "Oh, what did you see her throwing at Yukihime?"

The palace maid didn't seem to remember for a while: "The slave and maid were hiding far away at the time, and they didn't see it clearly, so it must have been a stone or a hard object on her body." ”

Zhixue immediately sobbed and said, "Niangniang, please make the decision for Xue Ji." ”

Concubine An De glanced at He Linwan and then at the queen, but did not speak.

The queen looked at He Linwan and her tone was still gentle: "Do you have anything to say?"

He Linwan glanced at the palace maid and said softly, "Niangniang, can I ask a few words?"

After the queen nodded, He Linwan asked the palace maid, "What is the name of this sister?"

The palace maid was stunned: "Slave, slave Hongrui." ”

He Linwan nodded: "Sister Hongrui, have you seen Xue Ji before?"

Hongrui said: "Everyone in the palace knows that Xue Ji likes to bask in the sun in the imperial garden, so the slaves and maids have also seen Xue Ji in the imperial garden a few times, but Xue Ji is the favorite of Concubine De, and the slaves and maids will take a detour when they see it, and they will not come forward to disturb." ”

He Linwan frowned: "In other words, you are not familiar with Xue Ji, and you don't know what her temperament is?"

Hongrui immediately said: "Although I have no contact with Xue Ji, but the people in the palace know that Xue Ji is a cat with a docile temperament. Never attacked anyone. ”

He Linwan looked at Hongrui with some surprise on his face: "Since Xue Ji is a docile cat, why did you leave me far away when we met Xue Ji, looking very scared?

Hongrui was stunned when she heard this. Then he argued: "Slave, slave...... The slave just didn't want to collide with Xue Ji, so she avoided it. ”

He Linwan smiled slightly: "Leave the princess to tell you to avoid a cat? Could it be that in your heart, the majesty of the princess is not as good as a cat?"

Hongrui was speechless for a while, not knowing how to respond.

The queen glanced at Hongrui. Instructed a grandmother behind him: "It seems that there is something else hidden? ”

Hongrui glanced up at the solemn-faced grandmother, and her body couldn't help shaking, she recognized that this was the grandmother in charge of the punishment of the palace maids in the harem, these old grandmothers in the harem may not have other means, but there are many ways to torture life as well as death.

Seeing that the grandmother approached her after receiving the order, Hongrui immediately cried and begged for mercy: "Niangniang spare her life, what the slave and maid said is the truth." “

Concubine An De smiled slightly, and said seemingly casually: "I'm afraid there is no one in this harem who can keep silent in the hands of Mama Shen, presumably the queen can really ask something." ”

At this time, the emperor spoke, and his tone was slightly cold: "Does the queen want to stage a torture trick in front of me?"

The queen smiled helplessly. waved his hand: "That's it, Mama Shen, stand down." ”

Mama Shen, who had already walked in front of Hongrui, paused, bowed her head and retreated behind the queen. Hongrui breathed a sigh of relief and gradually relaxed a little.

He Lin was not discouraged when he saw that the way to start from Hongrui had been blocked by the emperor, and continued to ask Zhixue: "What happened after you left the Imperial Garden with Xue Ji, and how did Xue Ji die?"

Zhi Xue glared at He Linwan with the eyes of the enemy: "Not long after I left with Xue Ji, Xue Ji began to convulse all over her body, and she kept vomiting, and it didn't take long for it to stop...... "Zhi Xue cried again and again, "I hurriedly carried her back to the palace, and I wanted to go to the imperial doctor to take a look." But it didn't take long to get back before it breathed. ”

He Linwan didn't react to Zhi Xue's accusations, but just asked, "Did the imperial doctor come later, but did you mention the cause of Xue Ji's death?" ”

When Zhi Xue heard this, she looked at Aunt Lan.

Aunt Lan said: "After I found out that Xue Ji was dead, I immediately sent someone to report to Niangniang, and I heard Zhi Xue say that the person who killed Xue Ji was in the queen's palace. So I came over and wanted to call someone over and wait for the mother to come back and interrogate me. The princess was very sad because of Yukihime's death and sent someone to call for a doctor. Now the Imperial Doctor should have arrived at Jingxiu Palace. ”

The queen sighed and said, "In that case, then invite the imperial doctor to come and interrogate." ”

Aunt Lan looked at Concubine Ande and saw that Concubine Ande didn't say anything, so she responded.

He Linwan asked a few more questions about Xue Ji's symptoms before she died, and still turned over and over again. She would ask the same question a few times, Zhixue was very impatient by He Linwan's question, but because the emperor and empress were present, the queen did not stop He Linwan, so Zhixue dared to be angry and didn't dare to speak, so she only held her breath to answer He Linwan's question, and decided that He Linwan was doing it on purpose.

When He Linwan asked Zhixue softly, the emperor glanced at He Linwan, and Concubine An De noticed it and also looked at He Linwan, but seeing that He Linwan was still a childish child, she threw it away.

Aunt Lan soon came with the imperial doctor, and with them came Princess Chunyang, who had never appeared.

Princess Chunyang's eyes were a little red and swollen, and she looked like she had just cried.

When the emperor saw Chunyang, his majestic and cold eyes became a little more gentle: "What's wrong with my princess?"

After Chunyang saluted the emperor and the others, he walked in front of the emperor and squatted down without saying a word, buried his head in the emperor's knees, and said in a muffled voice: "Father, Xue Ji is dead." ”

Faced with his daughter's coquettishness, the emperor patted her shoulder lovingly: "Father will give you a better one." ”

Chunyang raised his head and turned his head to look at He Linwan coldly, as if looking at the enemy: "But before that, my father wants to avenge my Xue Ji! It was poisoned by someone, and I want to let the people who hurt it also taste the pain of being forcibly fed poison!"

The emperor frowned when he heard this: "You said that Xue Ji was poisoned?"

This time, even the queen's face changed slightly, He Linwan felt a pain in her arm, but when she turned her head, it was Wei who subconsciously pulled He Linwan tightly, and scratched her painfully, He Linwan ninja didn't make a sound in pain, but just comforted and covered the palm of Wei's hand on the back of Wei's hand, and said silently: "It's okay, mother." ”

How can it be okay?

Wei's face was ugly.

If it was really He Linwan who killed Concubine Ande's cat, then her biggest crime was just disrespecting Concubine De, and if she was put on a vicious hat, even if she was punished, she would have no worries about her life.

However, if poison is used in the palace, it will be a capital crime to hide poison and enter the palace without permission to despise the majesty of the royal family, and at worst it will be a crime of assassination and rebellion!

Wei was really scared at the moment, afraid that he would not be able to protect his children at that time. But now she had nothing to do but hold on tightly to her daughter's arm, and there had never been a moment when someone who hated her so much as she did now was so soft-spoken and powerless.

The emperor patted Chunyang's hand, pulled her up, and then frowned and looked at the imperial doctor standing below: "Are you sure Xue Ji died of poisoning?"

The imperial doctor bowed his head and said, "The minister has examined the cat's corpse, and it is indeed poisoned and died." ”

The queen glanced at He Linwan and asked in a deep voice, "I don't know what kind of poison is there?"

The imperial doctor said: "Judging from the symptoms, it should be the poison of oleander." The whole oleander plant is highly poisonous, and if you accidentally eat it, even people will die of cardiac arrest, let alone a cat. ”

Hearing that this poison can not only poison cats but also poison people, many people's faces changed again.

Chunyang looked at He Linwan condescendingly: "He Linwan, it was just an accident that you met Xue Ji today, originally you were going to Jingxiu Palace to see me, but you have such a poisonous thing on your body, I don't know what your intentions are?"

He Linwan looked at Princess Chunyang, not mistaken for the malice and viciousness that emanated from her eyes.

Murder in the palace, such a big crime, is this an attempt to put her to death?

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I'm sorry, but I've been writing this chapter for a long time, and it's almost time to come back to my senses after writing it. /(ㄒoㄒ)/

(To be continued.) )