Chapter 80: Thrilling
Just as Yetian assumed that night, because Moyu hated Concubine Ning, she took the opportunity to go home to save her relatives and buy mandala poison, and then returned to the palace that night to commit murder. The pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info brought the teacup and teapot used for murder back to his palace, but was searched by Lord Liu Chenxuan Liu on the spot.
The emperor looked at his mother and said coldly: "Queen Mother, this case seems reasonable, but in fact, there are still many doubts, the night Concubine Li came back, I was actually by her side, and it was impossible for her to kill people." ”
"What's the doubt?" The Queen Mother said sharply: "Your Majesty, you can't like Concubine Li, just shield her and give false testimony for her!" ”
"Could it be that my words are still false?"
Concubine De interjected: "Queen Mother, right or wrong, Lord Liu will definitely give a satisfactory answer." ”
Someone ran in from outside the door, and when he walked in front of Liu Chenxuan, he said a few words softly. Seeing this, the Queen Mother hurriedly asked, "Lord Liu, what are you talking about?" ”
Liu Chenxuan bowed down and said, "Empress Dowager Qi, when my people searched the Jade Immortal Palace, they found it again. In the garden of the Jade Immortal Palace, the ...... was found The bottle containing the mandala poison was found.
"Show it to the Imperial Doctor."
The imperial doctor took the bottle, poured out a little and twisted it, put it under his nose and sniffed it, and said, "Back to the Queen Mother, the second poison is indeed a mandala." ”
Concubine De exclaimed, "Concubine Li, it's really you." ”
The Queen Mother said angrily: "Concubine Li, what else do you have to say, this thing was really found in your palace, is there anyone who put it in?" ”
Mo Yu sneered in her heart, when she was trying this case, she said that there was a lack of physical witnesses, so they showed her physical witnesses, and finally gathered them as she expected. A discerning person can see what is going on at a glance, but the queen mother is still talking nonsense with her eyes open, and she is not afraid of losing her majesty.
"Queen Mother, I can't rule out this possibility!" The Emperor argued.
"Your Majesty, the Son of Heaven is guilty of the same crime as the common people, as the Son of Heaven, you can't know the law and break the law!"
Mo Yu saw that the two of them were arguing, and secretly shook his head in his heart, it was good that the emperor didn't quarrel with the queen mother, but if he quarreled, he would be even more suspicious of covering up. Looking at Liu Chenxuan again, he was also looking at her, shook his head lightly at Mo Yu, and said three words.
He didn't make a sound, he just made a mouth shape, but the mouth shape was obvious, and Mo Yu could easily see that it was the three words "I'm sorry". It was immediately understood that Liu Chenxuan was not a fool, of course he knew that this case seemed logical, but in fact it was full of loopholes. But he must protect his family, whoever the Queen Mother wants to die, he must die, he also thought about being upright, and he also wanted to be an upright person, but he couldn't care about the life and death of his relatives.
Concubine Li is a smart woman, and if she is really innocent, she can justify herself. So he said: "Queen Mother, Your Majesty, there are regulations in this dynasty that before being convicted, the suspect still has a chance to defend herself, so that she can be convinced." ”
The Queen Mother didn't want Mo Yu to say anything more, it was better to just grab the prison and never turn over, but Liu Chenxuan, as a famous master of case solving in Zhou State, was naturally familiar with the criminal law, and he said so, and she couldn't refute it too obviously. "In that case, Concubine Li, if you have any questions, just ask!"
Mo Yu nodded and said "thank you" to Liu Chenxuan, she did have questions, and there were still many questions! "Thank you Queen Mother, that concubine was offended. May I ask you, Gui, you said that I asked you to buy the mandala, then when and where did I ask you to buy it, and who is there to testify? ”
"On the ninth day of the first lunar month, about two o'clock in the Shen hour, behind a rockery in the northeast corner of the garden, you asked the little one to buy a mandala, there were only two of us at that time, and there was no one around."
"Are you sure I'm meeting you and not the girl next to me?"
"It's really you, the little one still knows the mother."
A sneer broke at the corner of Mo Yu's mouth, "Very good, did I communicate with you before this?" In other words, do we know each other? ”
"I don't know."
"Joke, if I buy poison to kill people, I don't send my cronies to buy it, but I look for someone I don't know you to buy. Also, every word you said was just nonsense, from noon to Shen that day, I had been in Mo Lanxuan, and the second lady of the Wang family, Wang Zhen'er, the Zhao family's young lady, Zhao Danxiu, and the Lin family's young lady Lin Chen's evening catch up, and I never left Mo Lanxuan, if the queen mother didn't believe it, she could pass the three of them to testify. Let me ask you again, was it me or the girl next to me who met you at that time? ”
In the end, Mo Yu couldn't help but raise his voice, exuding a cold aura around him. Agui looked at his master Ji Gangyang, but when he saw that his face was expressionless, his heart trembled, and he said, "Yes, it's the desire of the mother's side." ”
"Agui, you are really amazing, I and Xiangrong are not sisters, do you look the same? Since you said that it was Xiangrong who met you, do you remember what she wore that day? ”
"Small, small, small don't remember?"
"Then which hand handed you the ten taels of silver?"
"Right hand." Ordinary people are accustomed to using their right hands, and Agui blurted out without even thinking about it.
"Joke, I want to be left-handed, how can I use my right hand. I'll ask you again, and then I'll answer after you've thought about it, which hand? ”
"Left hand."
"Hmph, I don't want to be left-handed, she has always used her right hand. Is it left-handed or right-handed? ”
Ah Gui was confused by the question, his head turned dizzy, he didn't dare to say a word, he knelt down directly, and shouted, "I don't remember the little one." ”
"Perjury, change your testimony, I don't know, you shouldn't be a temporary imposter, right? I decree that perjurymen are to be distributed to the whole family, and you will speak after you have thought about it. Of course, I don't want to ask you any more questions, it's just a waste of time, and everyone already knows right from wrong. ”
Mo Yu walked up to He Sheng and said with a smile: "I'm not an ordinary boudoir woman, in front of the Queen Mother and the Emperor, you'd better speak honestly, otherwise, you will correct the Fa on the spot." ”
"Concubine Li, don't intimidate witnesses." The Queen Mother said in a deep voice, things have developed to this point, I am afraid it will be impossible to convict her for a while.
Mo Yu bowed his head slightly and asked, "Are you both literate?" ”
He Sheng nodded, the lady sitting in the hall must be literate, but Agui is indeed illiterate. Mo Yu commanded, "Bring him a pen and paper." The next question I asked, don't you all speak, He Sheng wrote it out, and after I read the answer, Agui will say it again. Since you are referring to the mandala that Agui went to buy, do you remember what he wore that day? ”
He Sheng's hand holding the pen trembled, he wanted to take a look at Agui beside him, but he didn't want Moyu to be standing in the middle of them, blocking their view. So I had to tremble and write a few words on the paper. Mo Yu picked it up and looked at it, smiled, and then said to Ah Gui: "Ah Gui, tell me, what clothes did you wear that day?" ”
Agui timidly replied, "Zang, Tibetan blue." ”
Mo Yu held up the words in He Sheng's hand so that everyone could read them clearly. Obviously, the two answers are not the same, and what is written on the paper is gray linen. Mo Yu said with a smile: "Doctor He must often go to the homes of big families for medical treatment, and he knows that the people in the general mansion wear gray linen clothes. But you are wrong, on the ninth day of the first lunar month, it was a big day for the Ji Mansion, not only the New Year's banquet, but also the two imperial concubines returned to the mansion to save their relatives, so on that day, all the little girls in the Ji Mansion wore brand new navy blue clothes. Am I right, Master Ki. ”
Ji Gangyang's face turned pale, and he said: "Niangniang has a good memory, this person must have made false testimony." The Queen Mother, such a person, it is better to hand it over directly to the Criminal Department, put him in prison, and detain him for a year and a half. ”
The Queen Mother must have received the news of what happened that night in the Ji Mansion, and colluded with Ji Gangyang, taking advantage of this opportunity to get rid of Moyu, firstly, the Yuan clan could stay in the Ji Mansion, and secondly, they were originally going to kill her. In fact, it's almost the same when asked, and it doesn't matter if there is He Sheng or not.
The Queen Mother nodded and said, "Take it down!" Lord Liu, how do you think this case is decided? ”
Liu Chenxuan said: "Although these evidences were found in Concubine Li's bedroom, the source of this evidence cannot be determined, and these witnesses cannot prove that Concubine Li is the real murderer." ”
"In that case, that's all for today! After the evidence is obtained, the trial will be retried. ”
Mo Yu didn't want to toss about this matter in the future, just in time to see Yetian and Yun Commander come in. The corners of his mouth couldn't help but smile, it seems that it is done.
Everyone wanted to disperse, but they didn't want to come up to the sky at night, and reported: "The Queen Mother, Your Majesty." When Commander Yun led people to search the Jade Immortal Palace just now, as soon as this person entered the door, he didn't look at other places, and went straight to the bottom of Niangniang's couch, and then searched out the so-called teacups and teapots. Chen thinks it's strange, isn't this teacup and teapot commonly used, shouldn't it be washed and put on the table? The minister thought it was strange, so he secretly followed the man, but he took out a bottle from his sleeve at the back of the garden, buried it in the soil, and after a while he shouted that he had found it, and the guards gathered around to take a look, and the thing he found was the bottle that the man had buried. ”
Yun Changfeng then bowed down and said, "Lord Ye reported this to the minister, so the person is a guard of the Yulin Army, so the minister immediately searched his room and found these things. ”
A guard came up with a tray with some gold and silver jewelry, beaded jewelry. The guard spun around with his things, and when he walked up to Mo Yu, he deliberately paused for a moment. Mo Yu looked at these beads, picked up one of them and looked at it, and said, "This seems to be Concubine Ning's thing!" ”
When the Queen Mother heard Mo Yu's words, she couldn't help frowning. Concubine Shu, who hadn't spoken from the beginning, finally spoke, and said: "That hairpin is Concubine Ning's thing, it was rewarded by the emperor on Concubine Ning's birthday last year, and Concubine Ning wore it happily for several days!" On the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, the concubine also saw Concubine Ning wear it. ”
The emperor was puzzled: "How could Concubine Ning's things appear in a guard's room?" ”
The most taboo in the palace is the fornication between concubines and guards, some concubines can't see the emperor a few times a year, and it's not uncommon to find a guard to fornicate when you're lonely. Of course, the result of this private result must be death.
Compared with Mo Yu being the murderer, it seems that Concubine Ning and the guard's fornication made the Queen Mother even more angry, and shouted at the moment: "Bold, dare to seduce the harem concubines, the crime is unforgivable, come and drag it out to correct the law on the spot." ”
The guard was frightened, his legs were limp on the ground, and he shouted: "The slave is wronged, the queen mother forgives the sin, and the slave is wronged." ”
Mo Yu turned around, stepped forward and said, "Queen Mother, can you allow the concubine to say a few words?" ”
"What kind of demon moth do you have, say."
These words were extremely ugly, and even the people present frowned, wondering why the Queen Mother scolded a princess in front of so many people, isn't this a slap in the face of the emperor?
Mo Yu just smiled at the corner of her mouth and said, "Queen Mother, I'm afraid you have misunderstood." This guard has nothing to do with Concubine Ning. ”
"Concubine Ning's private belongings were found in his room, you said they have nothing to do with each other, what evidence do you have?"
Mo Yu raised a round jade ring in his hand and said, "This jade ring is the evidence." The reason why the concubine said that this guard has nothing to do with Concubine Ning is because there is a mortal word on this jade ring, please take a look at the Queen Mother. ”
Someone presented the jade ring, and the Queen Mother looked it up and down, and sure enough, there was a small word "Fan". "What does this mean?" ”
Mo Yu turned to look at Liu Chenxuan and said, "Lord Liu, you must have read the names of all the palace people in the Changde Palace, but there are people with mortal names?" ”
"Yes, it's Miss Afan."
"I think the person who has something to do with this guard should be this Avan girl. Only when the two are in love with each other, will the woman give the man something with handwriting as a token. As for these gold, silver and jewelry, they should have been stolen from Concubine Ning's relics, I'm right, Miss Afan. ”
Ah Fan's whole body trembled, knelt down and said: "Concubine Li, there is no evidence, you can't wronged the slave maid, these things, the slave maid has never seen them, even the ancestral jade pendant of the slave maid was just lost two days ago." ”
Mo Yu smiled, walked up to her, and said, "This jade ring is top-grade at first glance, it can't be your family's ancestral, if your family is so rich, how can you let you enter the palace to serve others." This jade ring should be rewarded by the master! Something like this in the palace must be recorded in the book, and you can find it as long as you check it. So, you don't have to quibble. ”
"Even if this jade ring is not the ancestral heirloom of the slave maid, it is true that it was lost."
"Miss Afan is worthy of being an old man in the palace, and her wisdom is really much stronger than the witnesses found temporarily. You said you lost it two days ago, where did you lose it? After Concubine Ning died, everyone in the Changde Hall was not allowed to go out, how did this jade ring get out, and how did it get to this guard's room? Otherwise, I'll make one for you, and your jade ring will be lost somehow, and then the guard will pick it up and take it for himself, right? ”
"I don't remember exactly when it was lost, but the slave didn't notice it was gone until two days ago."
Ah Fan was indeed smart and did not drill into her words. "Miss Afan, once a man lies, he has to tell a hundred lies to fulfill his lies. The girl is a smart person, and if you cooperate, maybe you still have a chance to live. Of course, you can not admit it. ”