Chapter 69: Cross-examination
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The nurse said, "Let's talk first." The maid is the grandmother of the fourteenth prince since childhood. Although the fourteenth prince is a little naughty, he is really a good boy who knows how to hurt people. I don't know who was so cruel to him. Ladies have to call the shots for him, but he is a motherless man, only five years old, and he can do it against such a young child!"
As soon as she spoke, I felt that her accent was familiar, and after thinking for a while, I looked at my father-in-law, who was listening intently to the nurse's words, and looked indignant at the person who had harmed others.
"Today, the prince is playful and naughty again, after getting out of school from Chongwen Pavilion, he threw off the people who followed him and ran all the way into the imperial garden, only the maid chased him all the way from afar, and ran around the Canglang Pavilion. When the maid chased to the Canglang Pavilion, she saw Concubine Qu and the noble man next to her talking in the pavilion, and the prince had already taken two noodles and ran down the mountain to eat them all the way. The servant chased him down the hill again. But when I got to the bottom of the mountain, I didn't see the prince no matter how I ran forward, so I thought that maybe I was following the wrong direction. The maid turned back again, and saw the two sisters waving to the maid at the mouth of the cave under the rockery on the south side of the Canglang Pavilion. The servant ran over to see that the fourteenth prince was already lying on the ground, with blood at the corner of his mouth. The maid was in a hurry at that time, but the prince couldn't wake up no matter how much he screamed! Later, many palace people came and brought the fourteenth prince and the maidservant here. ”
When the nurse said this, she kowtowed in fear, "What the maid said is the truth." Just now, the lady asked the maid, and the maid said the same. Don't dare to hide anything. ”
I kept staring at the nurse's face, and her expression didn't seem to be fake. I remembered that she was in a hurry to chase Shenghui before, but she didn't forget to salute me and Concubine Qu, which shows that she is a rule-abiding person. What's more, if something happens to Shenghui, her net worth and life will have to be escorted in. I already believed most of her words in my heart.
But what these two maids saw during the time when the nurse ran in the wrong direction and turned back is the key.
Seeing that the queen mother looked at the two maids but did not speak, Concubine Shu tilted her face to the side and ignored it, Concubine Qu was gentle and not good at interrogation, and the two maids knelt and trembled but did not take the initiative to explain the situation at that time. I asked, "Where are you two on an errand?"
The two maids replied, "Yaoguang Palace." ”
I glanced at Concubine Shu, and she had an indifferent look on her face.
"Canglang Pavilion is remote, since he is a person from Yaoguang Palace, why is he near Canglang Pavilion?"
The two maids glanced at Concubine Shu and lowered their heads silently.
I sneered in my heart: It seems that Concubine Shu's palace is in charge of staring at me and Concubine Qu's eyeliner.
Concubine Shu raised her voice and said, "The imperial garden is so big, can't the people of this palace go?"
I smiled: "Naturally, I got it." It's just that they all went to Canglang Pavilion, which is naturally a coincidence. ”
Staring at the two maids, I raised my voice: "The Fourteenth Prince was first discovered by you to be unconscious, did you accidentally injure the Fourteenth Prince?"
The two maids were not very old, fourteen or fifteen years old, and when they heard this, they kowtowed, and said tremblingly: "The maids don't dare!"
I turned my head to the Queen Mother and said, "These two people were taken by the Queen Mother Fengyi, and they don't know how to reply properly, and they can't say anything, so it's better to give each pen and paper and write down what the two of them see." ”
Concubine Shu interrupted eagerly: "These two are just rough maidservants, and they can't write. ”
I smiled and said, "When the maid in the palace entered the palace at the age of ten, there was a Shangwen Bureau to teach etiquette and writing. If these two people are dull and can't write in the past few years, then it doesn't matter, first leave one person to explain the situation at that time, and the other person to take it outside the hall, so that the situation at that time can naturally be restored. ”
If there are two people, then ask separately. If there is deception, there will naturally be inconsistencies. If it is true, what is written naturally coincides. Concubine Shu was in such a hurry to stop her, and she didn't hesitate to excuse herself that the palace people couldn't write, and she was not afraid of losing face, and she became more and more like a ghost in her heart.
Sure enough, Concubine Shu's anger was about to flare up.
The Queen Mother spoke: "Emperor E, just do what Qu wants." ”
Gonggong Wan took a maid to wait outside the palace.
The remaining maid managed to compose herself, kneeling without saying a word, but her fingers propped up on the tiles were white.
I asked in a calm tone: "The Fourteenth Prince was still fine when he ran out of the Canglang Pavilion, why did he get injured and faint when he got to you?" Although the Nurse Quan ran in the wrong direction, she quickly turned back, and this time was not long. Since you don't dare to hurt the Fourteenth Prince, then you must see who hurt him, right? Otherwise, even if the two of you harm your master as slaves, you will be executed by Ling Chi. Don't try to make up lies to hide the past, no matter how similar your two minds are, you can't make up exactly the same lie without flaws. ”
At this I shouted, "Raise your head!"
The maid hesitated and raised her face.
I couldn't help but gasp, the contours of this woman's nose, mouth and jaw really looked like the big sister. However, at this time, the lips are red and swollen, and it seems to be ...... It's a bite.
Could it be that this woman is fornicating with someone in the palace? I turned my head to look at the Queen Mother with some embarrassment.
The Queen Mother had already opened her mouth to ask: "What's wrong with your face? With such a good appearance, don't you know the rules of serving in the palace?"
"Son, the slave accidentally fell. ”
"Nonsense! Are you old and confused in mourning? If you have any more to hide, you will drag it out and beat it to death. Anyway, there is one living one who will know to be honest. ”
The maid couldn't hold it anymore, sat down on the ground all of a slump, and quickly got up and knelt down: "The maid repeats it again, the Queen Mother spares her life." As he spoke, he glanced at Concubine Shu while crying, and lowered his head in fear.
"Say it again?" I had already heard the maid's words, and I had already told the lady the truth before. The sound was not loud or small, and it was repeated again.
The Queen Mother was a little impatient: "What are you talking about, don't you tell the truth soon!"
Qing'er stopped sobbing and said intermittently: "The maid and Sister Liuzhi received an errand, so they enjoyed the scenery near the rockery of Canglang Pavilion", and glanced at me when he said this, "I saw the fourteenth prince running into the Canglang Pavilion, and I wanted to take a detour behind the rockery in the south to see what was going on." Who knew that when I arrived near the rockery cave, I met His Royal Highness the Prince. ”
Everyone in the hall was a little surprised, only Concubine Shu glared at Qing'er in annoyance.
Qing'er had already spoken it, thinking that it was out of the way, and the words that followed were more fluent, "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was staring up at the Canglang Pavilion in a daze, and he was about to get angry when he was alarmed by the two servants, but when he saw the servants, he laughed and pulled the servants over......"