Long live the palace left an undulating sound of snorting melon seeds, Shen Shuzhao was sitting on pins and needles in this banquet, she desperately looked at the door of the Xuan Pavilion, hoping that the emperor and the queen would listen to the report as soon as possible, and then take a good look at how this group of concubines who were pampered in the six palaces were regardless of the occasion and had no dignity!

"The emperor has arrived-" The bead curtain was shaken back and forth by the eunuch's voice, Shen Shuzhao's eyes lit up, finally here!

"The concubine body visits His Majesty, and may His Majesty be happy forever; Meet the queen mother, may the mother be worry-free; Meet the eldest princess Kunyi, and wish the eldest princess a hundred years of good health. The concubines paid homage to the three heavyweights who came in in an orderly manner, and their voices were delicate and unambiguous, and they did not have the state of doing whatever they wanted when they were still eating melon seeds and telling rumors a moment ago! Shen Shuzhao turned around, and saw that these people were all dignified, and their faces were tight, just like the decent appearance of hearing that the heavens and the earth had collapsed after hearing that a good sister had been killed, and then hurried over to seek justice for her!

All the melon seeds on the small desk disappeared without a trace, and the leftover shells that the eldest sister was holding in her hands before didn't know where to hide, she was now stacked on the ground with her hands, and there was no superfluous schadenfrefreude expression at all. Shen Shuzhao felt a little dizzy, the changes behind her were too fast, she even had the idea of following the worship was hooked, and when she came back to her senses, the emperor walked to the dragon throne again, and he was impatient to stop without wanting to be entangled in etiquette, "Flat, don't kneel." ”

After the Son of Heaven gave the order, everyone got up and returned to their positions, Shen Shuzhao secretly looked around, and found that no one noticed that she didn't kneel, so she cheekily followed the situation and sat down. The queen followed him to the top position, and Wei Yang was also by his side, and the three of them had all arrived, and the interrogation must not be too light. The emperor was bound to get out behind the scenes, and he first signaled his henchmen to pour a scoop of cold water on the two unconscious people. The two of them were poured with biting cold water in the cold autumn, and they "stood up" coldly and immediately sobered up! The crowd watched them being poured cold water, and they themselves felt chills.

"Qi Yu Xià, these people are all murderers who tried to murder the concubine." The emperor's guards clenched their fists and said.

"Tell me, who sent you?"

The two looked at each other, the man's eyes showed a fierce light, and the woman buried her head and didn't dare to say much, and the emperor looked coldly at their protector's behavior, "At my feet, there is nothing that I can't find out." You are all slaves in the palace, and when you enter the palace, you are recorded in black and white, which palace people you are, what work you have done, and the internal affairs office is clear. I gave you a chance, and if you missed it, you should understand the consequences of murder! ”

A man and a woman under the seat trembled, how did they know that nothing foolproof would become like this, killing a woman like a concubine is not as easy as crushing ants, where did the eldest princess and others with strong martial arts come from? The high promotion of errands turned into a sweet dream, and the old palace maid began to sob. Concubine Yan next to her was also in a hurry to add fire, "Oh, why do these two people look so familiar, but they look like people from Concubine Xi's palace?" ”

"What nonsense are you talking about!" There was an angry reprimand outside the hall, and she saw Concubine Xi rushing over in a hurry, she pushed away the official eunuch who came over from the Long Live Hall and wanted to help her, and shouted directly at Concubine Yan: "If they are not from this palace, do you dare to cut off the long tongue!" ”

Concubine Yan pouted, so fierce, "Concubine Xi usually comes early, but this matter is half a step late, and she is still so impatient when she enters the door, the queen mother, I don't know if Concubine Xi, as one of the four concubines, will lead by example for concubines." ”

"Concubine Xi, you are not the first to serve, and you are still cursing the concubine in the Long Live Palace, which is really immoral." The queen was majestic and condescending. Concubine Xi knew that she was wrong, but she was unwilling, so she defended a few sentences and said: "Before the case is conclusive, Concubine Yan slandered the head of the palace, how can the palace bear it?" It's hard to ......"

"Alright, alright." The emperor patted the jade case heavily, "You take a seat." His face was full of expressions that there was nothing to be afraid about.

When Concubine Xi passed by Shen Shuzhao's side, she could see Shen Shuzhao rubbing her eyebrows and still feeling unbearable, she couldn't stand the way these women solved things.

As for the corner, Shen Zhuangzhao coldly and silently reproduced a peanut in the palm of her hand, and after peeling the shell, she slowly put it into her lips, and the things that emanated from her body were not her own high breath, and a few big words were written: This matter has nothing to do with me.

"Concubine Xi, why are you so late." The emperor suddenly asked, and Concubine Xi hurriedly asked, "Something happened in the concubine's palace, so it was delayed." ”

"Oh? What is it? Empress Xiao's eyes were quite meaningful.

Concubine Xi wiped her forehead sweat, "In the concubine palace...... There was a fire. ”

Fire?

Her words undoubtedly caused the shock of everyone present, Shen Shuzhao sneered in his heart, the harem is tightly controlled, the water and wood are similar, how can a fire spread lightly? Concubine Xi saw that the stolen goods were obtained, so she made this ruthless move to destroy the rest of the evidence?

"Your palace is burning, how can you still have the heart to come here to listen to the trial?" The emperor also asked.

Concubine Xi smiled embarrassedly: "As the queen said, as the head of the four concubines, the concubine dare not be present." ”

"How's the fire?"

"The palace people have already poured water to control it, and your majesty is at ease."

"Hmm." The emperor dragged out the end and nodded.

"Are there any casualties?" Shen Shuzhao asked.

"I don't know...... Specifically, I have to go back to the palace to see it. ”

"Why don't you go back immediately, the dormitory is on fire, and you have to rush to the Long Live Palace to listen to the murder that has nothing to do with you, it's really difficult for you." The queen scoffed.

Shen Shuzhao couldn't help laughing when she heard this, in this aspect where Concubine Xi had to hide her tail, she agreed with the queen.

"Don't worry." Concubine Xi secretly gritted her teeth at Xiao Mengru, and the emperor also understood a little, and he asked the wet wolf bèi, "Have you figured it out?" ”

The man and woman were silent, "It seems that you have decided to be faithful to the Lord." The emperor raised his hand, and the guards in the palace gathered around and surrounded the two of them, and the emperor continued: "These people are all from the right martial arts background, and they know how to do it, so you will not die if you are locked up in the violent room." I will keep you and ask you every day until you confess what you are behind you. Confess as soon as possible, release it as soon as possible, whether your hands and feet are sound or half-crippled, you weigh it. ”

"Your Majesty spare your life, your majesty your life!" The two were dying and struggling, and the emperor was puzzled, "You don't want to die, why don't you testify?" When they heard the word confession, they immediately shut up, and then they heard the voice of the concubine from the seat-"These lowly women have really been blinded by money to do such cruel things, haven't they ever thought about their families?" It's confusing! ”

Her words fell on the ears of the two, and it was called a weight. Shen Shuzhao shook his head when he saw them pleading but not daring to confess, and then the guards dragged them away and sent them to the violent room, their fingers trembled, their knees were weak, and even so, they didn't say a word more. The interrogation is over, in fact, this scene is just for the people of the Six Palaces to see, in order to achieve the purpose of killing chickens and monkeys, but Concubine Xi's sudden appearance did not make people think of it. The emperor dismissed them, Shen Shuzhao stayed and walked briskly towards the dragon seat, "Your Majesty, there is something ......" Before her words fell, this sentence sounded in front of her at the same time, it turned out that they were Wei Yang and the queen. The three of them looked at each other and knew it.

The emperor saw Shen Shuzhaoyuan, so he chose her to speak first. Shen Shuzhao said: "Please send someone to protect the bedroom of these two people, so that the physical evidence will not be tampered with." "Concubine Xi can do murder and arson, it must be to delay time to destroy and cover up something.

"I understand." The emperor picked up the portrait of the palace people in his hand and showed it to them, "This was presented when the pavilion was announced, they are third-class slaves and maids who do rough work in the imperial garden, and they have been doing it for half their lives." There should be acquaintances who are doing things in the womb of the concubine, and they are envious and want to be promoted, so they help do this kind of thing. ”

He knew where they were, but he deliberately didn't say it in public, it seemed that the emperor had deliberately caught turtles in the urn. Shen Shuzhao raised her eyes and saw the corners of Empress Xiao's lips, remembering that Concubine Yan had repeatedly spoken to provoke Concubine Xi this time, and knew that everyone had a tacit understanding about Concubine Xi.

"I'm afraid that acquaintance has long since disappeared in the fire." Shen Shuzhao whispered everyone's thoughts, but the queen answered with a smile: "Right and wrong, black and white, know in your heart." ”

The more Concubine Xi covered it up, the more convincing the facts became. Later, within a day, the emperor's guards arrested the head of the Imperial Flower Garden, the female official Yan, in the house of the two maidservants. She claimed that she was just doing an inspection, but the guards still sent her to the emperor, and they also found silver taels in the maid's house, which was quite a deposit. These evidences were transferred to the inquisitor of the violent room, after many days of cruel torture, the two were already dying, the violent room did not let them die, and they had to keep them, the two couldn't hold on, the palace maid's confession first, confessed that she was bought by the fellow in the palace of Concubine Xi, and then the man saw that she had recruited, and he silently admitted it. And the middleman they confessed, when they checked it later, it turned out that he was buried in the fire when he was extinguishing the fire for Concubine Xi's palace, and he couldn't even find the ashes in the mess, which was really pitiful.

The emperor summoned Concubine Xi into the palace that night, and she was tortured to the point of being emaciated by fear for days, which was far from the spirit of the past. The emperor smiled coldly at her rhetorical question, and then called out the key witnesses.

The man who walked out of the bead curtain destroyed what little confidence Concubine Xi had left. Her eyes widened, and she couldn't believe that the person in front of her was still alive - the person in front of her who was being tortured was the same fellow who had died in the flames. The emperor asked rhetorically: "What else do you have to say?" ”

Concubine Xi knew that there was no power to return to heaven, so she fell to her knees in despair, her eyes hazy with tears. That person is a servant in her palace, serving her for many years, after the incident in the east window, Concubine Xi knew that if she was arrested alive, she would definitely be confessed, so she simply faked a fire, and the outsiders died, in fact, they sent people out of the palace, who would have thought that at the gate of the palace, Shen Shuzhao and Wei Yang led a group of soldiers to wait here for a long time, hiding the people in the freight carriage, and they couldn't hide.

Shen Shuzhao saw that Concubine Xi had confessed, so she quietly left the screen, and Wei Yang turned to leave. On the wooden corridor, Shen Shuzhao laughed at Concubine Xi's experience, "She killed people and set fires, she did something that should be put into hell, but she let go of the palace people who would be forced to confess if they were caught." Fortunately, you and I were cautious to keep someone around the palace to guard, so that we didn't let that person take advantage of the chaos to leave the palace. Concubine Xi did great evil and did great good, but in the end, this good made her show her feet. It's just that I pity the good concubine, and I suffered this crime for no reason. ”

Wei Yang was noncommittal.

They walked out of the Long Live Palace, and the rest of the things were handed over to the emperor.