Chapter 56: Twists and Turns
The queen secretly gritted her teeth, and it seemed that things had already been out of her control.
The aconitum she prepared turned into a cold food, and the concubine was also caught by Shen Yunqing and His Majesty by such a coincidence.
Then, His Majesty searched the palace, and inexplicably searched for cold food from the palace of the concubine.
Now, the concubine didn't care about the ground and bit her.
Where, exactly, did things start to go wrong?
The queen thought to herself in her heart, her face was full of shock, and she hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, the concubines are really wronged, and the concubines don't know what happened." And at the chrysanthemum banquet, the concubine was the most seriously injured. Recently, the concubine has not gone out because she has been injured, and I don't know what happened, why did it become like this......"
"I don't know, why did the concubine do this, and inexplicably said that it was the concubine who instructed her to attack Yun Qing?"
"Concubine Ling and Yun Qing have no grievances or hatreds, and what enmity does the concubine have with Yun Qing?"
Shen Yunqing glanced at the queen lightly, the queen's singing ability, it is really a pity not to go to the troupe.
"Father's ......"
As soon as Shen Yunqing spoke, Emperor Wei turned his head to look at him.
Shen Yunqing groaned slightly: "Concubine Ling said that it was the queen's mother's instructions, but the queen's mother said that she was innocent, as if everyone had some reason, and I don't know how to tell the difference." But ......"
"Since the concubine has identified the queen as instructing her to attack me, does the concubine have any evidence? or...... Witnesses?"
"And my daughter heard that the cold food was found from a palace maid's house, did the palace maid interrogate?
Emperor Wei took a deep breath: "The palace maid is interrogating, as for the concubine ......"
Emperor Wei looked at the concubine: "What about the princess asking you, you said that the queen instigated, can there be evidence or witnesses?"
"Yes!" Concubine Ling hurriedly said: "Soon after entering the palace, the concubine began to follow the queen and do some things for the mother. The queen mother gave the concubine a lot of rewards, and the things that were given were all placed in the concubine's hall, in a locked box under the concubine's bed......"
"This time, the queen instructed the concubine to attack the princess, what Mama Chen next to the concubine knows, she knows about me. That ebony ...... Ebony is the incense condensation next to the queen's mother, for the concubines. ”
Emperor Wei pursed his lips: "Take that Mama Chen and Xiangning down for interrogation!"
Then he took someone to her temple and brought the box under the bed. ”
"Yes. ”
As soon as the palace people retreated, another palace person walked in quickly.
"Your Majesty, the palace maid of the Huayin Hall has finished interrogating, this is her confession. The palace man said, and his eyes subconsciously drifted to the queen's side.
Empress?
Shen Yunqing pretended to be curious: "What did the palace maid say?"
As he spoke, he leaned in front of Emperor Wei, and his eyes quickly swept over the confession.
Then, Shen Yunqing covered her mouth in surprise and took two steps back: "How can this be?
The queen looked up suddenly, and saw the faint green tendons on Emperor Wei's forehead.
The queen's throat tightened: "Is there someone...... This matter is simply a conspiracy, someone wants to murder the concubine!"
The queen's voice was hoarse, and then she knelt on the ground suddenly: "Please Your Majesty, please let Your Majesty be the master of your concubines." ”
"The concubine has never done these things, but all the evidence seems to point to the concubine. It's a conspiracy......"
"Conspiracy?" Emperor Wei sneered: "So, when all the evidence points to you, can a conspiracy clear everything?"
"Then if someone kills someone, when the human and physical evidence points to her, is it a conspiracy that can be dismissed?"
Emperor Wei's eyes grew cold: "Since you said that this is a conspiracy, then you should come up with evidence." ”
Evidence.
The queen gritted her teeth, the other party had already arranged everything, just waiting for her to drill, she didn't even know who the other party was now, where did she go to find evidence?
The queen's heart calmed down slightly, judging from the whole thing, the concubine did not lie, and the others ......
The only thing that can be confirmed now is that the palace maid in the Ling Concubine Palace found out that there was a cold food in the house!
She lied!
The queen gritted her teeth: "That palace maid, Your Majesty, beg Your Majesty to re-interrogate that palace maid!"
As soon as the queen's words fell, she heard footsteps hurriedly outside the hall: "Your Majesty, something happened." ”
"What's the matter?"
"That palace maid, that palace maid died suddenly. ”
The queen turned her head sharply to look at the palace people who had come to report it.
"Your Majesty, you see, someone killed someone because they knew that after the concubine saw this confession, she would definitely ask Your Majesty to re-interrogate the palace maid, so they disposed of the palace maid in advance!"
"Your Majesty, the palace maid lied. ”
"Shut up!" Emperor Wei scolded.
The queen was stunned, her face full of disbelief.
She?
Shut her up?
Emperor Wei took a deep breath and stopped looking at the empress before continuing to ask, "What is going on? How could he suddenly die violently?"
"Back to Your Majesty, before the palace maid died violently, the palace maid in the queen's palace Xiangning had seen the palace maid. Xiang Ning said that His Majesty has a question to re-interrogate the palace maid. The minions thought that the queen mother was in the Taiji Palace, and perhaps several fathers-in-law around His Majesty were busy, so they sent Xiangning to pass the word. ”
"Xiangning?" the queen's eyes widened suddenly.
When did she call Xiangning to pass the word?
So, the servants let Xiang Ning into the place where the palace maid was held, and we also went in with Xiang Ning. At the time......"
At that time, Na Xiangning did only ask a few questions, as if she hadn't done anything else. ”
The palace man frowned and recalled, but paused, but suddenly said: "No, that Xiangning, stretched out her hand and pulled the palace maid's clothes, let her think about it and tell the truth." ”
"Not long after Xiangning left, when we went in to check, we saw that the palace maid had died violently. ”
Emperor Wei's gaze swept over the face of the bewildered empress, and he only took a deep breath: "Go and bring incense." ”
"Yes. ”
Emperor Wei narrowed his eyes: "That Xiangning, but one of your most trusted palace maids, I see, you have something to say now." ”
The queen shook her head: "No, it's not like this, there must be something wrong with this." Your Majesty, you know, the concubine has never left since she entered this Taiji Palace. Where did the concubine go to order Xiangning to interrogate the palace maid?"
Concubine Xian chuckled lightly on the side: "Maybe it was the mother's order in advance, originally I wanted to block the palace maid's mouth, who would have thought that Xiangning would be a step slower?"
"Concubine Xian!" the queen suddenly raised her voice: "It's you! It's you, isn't it?"
"The queen is wronging the concubine, the concubine is just asking at random, why did the queen mother bite the concubine?"
When the two were arguing, someone came to say: "Your Majesty, the minions went to interrogate Mama Chen next to the concubine and Xiangning next to the queen mother as instructed, but the minions searched everywhere they could, but they didn't find Xiangning......"