Qiu Yuan rolled his eyes at the two of them and said, "If you don't need him in the future, it's okay for us to turn against him." But my young lady, we haven't come to know anything yet, and we have to rely on his momentum, right? You have lost your temper, and when the emperor comes back tomorrow, let's give him a step down. ”

Qing Dai said angrily: "I also know this truth, but I am bored in my heart." Forget it, in two more days, I'll talk about it when I'm out of breath. ”

Qiu Yuan shook his head disapprovingly, and was about to persuade again, but he heard a commotion outside the palace walls in the distance. It seems to be in the direction of Yanqi Palace in the distance.

The three masters and servants all frowned, the palace rules are strict, who dares to die and make a loud noise?

Qingdai stood up, thought for a while, and said, "Qiufeng, you go and inquire; Qiuyuan, you go and restrain our people, don't talk nonsense. ”

Qiufeng and Qiuyuan promised to go separately.

Not long after, Qiufeng came back and saw Qing Daiyu report: "It was Mrs. Xianxiao's palace that had an accident, and Xu Chenghai of Jinyiwei personally took people to arrest her, and it was the palace maid in charge of Mrs. Xianxiao's side, called Jinhua." ”

Qing Dai frowned and said, "Do you know why?" ”

Qiu Feng shook his head and said: "At that time, Mrs. Xianxiao was also present and stepped forward to stop her, but Xu Chenghai said that it was the emperor's decree and asked Mrs. Xianxiao to go to Cining Palace to hear the trial. ”

Qiu Yuan said: "We can't enter Cining Palace, what should we do?" ”

Qing Dai said: "We can't get in, Liu Anke can do it, Qiuyuan, you go to Liu Anke and inquire clearly." Let's be on guard, too. ”

Qiu Yuan frowned and said, "You mean the queen?" ”

Qing Dai said with a smile: "You said that the queen is pregnant, who is the most taboo?" ”

Qiu Yuan said: "The third prince is now the only prince in the palace, and the most taboo in front of the queen mother, of course, is Mrs. Xianxiao." ”

Qing Dai raised her hand and threw the hydrangea in her hand to the fish in the pool, watching them chatter and compete for food, and said, "Isn't the queen taboo the three princes?" Therefore, who is right and wrong in this matter, I am afraid that it is not clear, and it depends on the meaning of the emperor and the queen mother. ”

Qiu Yuan realized something, and hurriedly went to Liu Anke to inquire about the news.

At this time, in Cining Palace, it was tense, and the hall was filled with a low and almost suffocating atmosphere.

The Queen Mother and the Emperor sat on the left and right, and the mother and son faced each other with cold faces, as if there were different opinions between the two.

Yan Qingluan, the virtuous and filial wife who was hurriedly sent by Xu Chenghai, was in a hurry, and did not have time to carefully dress up, so she only cared about the homely purple satin dress covered with a cloak of smoke and blue gold, and her pretty face was pale.

In addition to these masters, in the entire hall, there were only Xu Chenghai and Mama Feng who were standing behind the Queen Mother, and Jinhua, the palace maid in charge of Yanqi Palace, who was kneeling with her head bowed at the bottom of the steps.

When the Queen Mother saw Yan Qingluan arrive, she snorted coldly and said to the emperor: "Since the person has been brought, please ask the emperor to start interrogating." Qingluan, sit down beside me. Don't be afraid, let you come just to let you come and witness it. ”

Yan Qingluan stood up tremblingly and asked, "Queen Mother, I don't know what Jinhua did to make Lord Xu rush to my palace so violently to ask for someone?" ”

The Queen Mother sighed, patted her hand and said, "You listen to it, don't be afraid, there is a mourning family here, nothing to do with you." ”

The emperor snorted coldly, did not answer Yan Qingluan's question, but nodded to Xu Chenghai and said, "Let's start." ”

Xu Chenghai nodded yes, bowed upwards and saluted, then stood up and said, "After the queen mother rested last night, Yu Zishi felt unbearable abdominal pain at the second moment, and there were signs of redness. Kunning Palace immediately passed on to the imperial doctor, and after the diagnosis of several imperial doctors such as the imperial hospital, the queen mother ate food containing musk, which caused uterine labor. Later, the imperial doctors confirmed one by one that there was no problem with the ingredients that Niangniang ate that day, and there was no problem with the clothes and utensils in the palace, and finally found that it contained a light amount of musk in the kitchen water! The water used by the queen mother every day is taken from Yuquan Mountain in the suburbs of Beijing, and the water from the palace well is not used. Wei Chen started from here, took people to the water intake of Yuquan Mountain, and was identified by the little eunuch who was responsible for delivering water in Kunning Palace, and dug up this bag of things upstream of the spring where he often took water! Please check it out, masters! ”

He put aside a small earthy brown bamboo cage for a few people to examine, opened the cage and poured out a handful of things that were also earthy brown and round, and at this time, needless to say, only a few people knew from the aroma of that thing, this was musk.

Xu Chenghai put away those musk beads and continued: "These are all musk people, good quality, although soaked in water, the content is low, but over time, it can also cause pregnant women to slip the fetus." Fortunately, Niangniang has been pregnant recently, and she only likes to eat fresh melons and fruits, and she doesn't eat much, so she luckily saved the dragon fetus. Weichen thought that the time for this bag of things to be buried must not be long, at most, from the day when Niangniang found out that she was pregnant, only those who have a heart will hear the wind and do it. Therefore, Weichen carefully made a book of the people who left the palace in the past few days and checked them one by one. After investigation, a total of 126 people left the palace in the past few days, all of whom confessed, and those who could prove each other or had witnesses were checked, and one hundred and seven people were excluded. Only nineteen could not explain their whereabouts. After careful interrogation, seven of the nineteen people went out of the palace to meet their lovers, five went to the casino, and three took the things in the palace to steal and sell, but the whereabouts of the last four people did not match the actual investigation. Among them is this Jinhua girl. According to Miss Jinhua, she left the palace because she brought a letter from home, and her mother was sick and wanted to see her. But according to investigation, her mother has been operating as usual when she goes out these days, and the neighbors say that she is full of red face, loud voice, and there is no trace of sickness. Miss Jinhua went home, but she went out of the palace at the time of the hour, her family lived in Jingshui Hutong, even if it was on foot, it was only half an hour away, and Miss Jinhua only entered the house in the afternoon! At this hour, her neighbor Aunt Fan remembered it very clearly, because the sun was about to set at that time. Dare to ask these hours, where have you been, Miss Jinhua? ”

After he finished saying this long sentence, Yan Qingluan, who was sitting next to the Queen Mother, turned even paler, her eyelashes trembled a few times, she sat up straight, and asked, "Lord Xu, didn't you say that there are still four people who can't explain their whereabouts?" Then why are you interrogating Jinhua alone? Do you want me to be present, and you want to interrogate the Queen Mother? You mean something! Do you suspect that I did it?! ”