The emperor is really the emperor, you can say anything. Ren Ning Twenty-six begged for two things, one was to have a wife, and the other was to leave the chaotic house of right and wrong.

As a result, the emperor, your old man, sent the wife he wanted so unexpectedly to a distant place. It's true that he left Prince Min's mansion, but he wants to be a little wife for someone else, is it really appropriate?

And to say, well, your request, you're half done!

Ma Dan, what about the other half? Is it cold?

Xia Xiaodong felt like he couldn't cry or laugh. When other emperors are old and want to mess around, they are all ridiculous and extravagant, or what kind of swords and swords are messed up.

It's good today, I'm old, I'm old, I'm willful, I'm guarding the old Chen Huang Guifei, neither desolate nor lewd, and I'm going to mess around here!

"Bengong thought, if you can persuade the queen to come out, the size is also a credit. Maybe the emperor will change his mind, and he won't let you go to Daqi. Or, if Xiao Twenty-six has any excessive actions, such as snatching you away, the emperor will not be too angry. ”

Emperor Chen Guifei explained.

But Xia Xiaodong felt like a chess piece, or rather, like a cat and puppy being teased. Whether he and Ning Twenty-six can finally become a family is just a small interest between the emperor and Emperor Chen's concubine.

The emperor's so-called 'anger' is not necessarily really angry -- if the emperor was angry because his subordinates asked too much, he would have died of anger a long time ago.

And what Emperor Chen Guifei said about 'snatching away' is not so much speculation as bewitchment.

One raised a stick to make a gesture to break up the mandarin ducks and let you Lao Yan fly, and the other pretended to stop and secretly waved his hand, saying that you should run.

Maybe the emperor and Emperor Chen made a bet, right?!

Forget it, the thinking of the superiors, don't think about it. Having said that, now it seems that the queen has to go there.

"Thank you for your trouble." Xia Xiaodongfu thanked him as a courtesy: "However, I have only heard many rumors about the Jiaofang Palace, and I really don't know what it is, and I have to bother the mother to send someone to talk to me, and I can only speak in front of the queen mother." ”

Let me persuade, I don't know what's going on, I only heard the rumors that my ears are messed up, how can I persuade you?

"This is natural, you sit here for a while, and this palace will let someone from the Shen Criminal Division come and talk to you in detail." Emperor Chen immediately agreed.

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The people of the Punishment Division are quite unpopular in the palace. Whenever it comes to the Punishment Division, it is really immortal and has to shed its skin. Everyone wants to get as far away from them as possible.

There were two middle-aged eunuchs who came over, and they should be in charge of the clothes, not ordinary eunuchs.

The color of the Punishment Division's clothes is very special, a strange gray-blue. In this palace, there are many people who wear gray, and even more who wear blue, but those who wear this gray-blue color are only limited to those who are in the Punishment Division.

Usually when a person in this kind of clothing appears, everyone will consciously or unconsciously avoid walking.

Seeing the people from the Shen Penal Division coming in, even the people from Jianheng Palace laughed reluctantly. The palace maid took the two to the side hall designated by Emperor Chen, and after introducing a few words to Xia Xiaodong, they quickly disappeared, and they didn't even serve a cup of tea.

The two eunuchs of the Shen Criminal Division, one surnamed Du and the other surnamed Ge. Among them, Eunuch Du was the chief judge of the investigation and handling of the Jiaofang Palace case at this time, and he was actually a deputy palace official.

Xia Xiaodong didn't know how powerful the deputy palace was, he just regarded it as something like a eunuch supervisor, and he didn't pay much attention to it, so he naturally just treated him with regular courtesy, which made Eunuch Du secretly surprised.

In fact, there is nothing to greet, there is no tea and snacks on the table, Du and Ge are accustomed to this, and at the moment under the instructions of Eunuch Du, Eunuch Ge began to tell the beginning and end of the Jiaofang Hall incident.

On the surface, things seem simple.

Construction projects in pepper houses are not common, but this is not difficult for the craftsmen to oversee. As with countless palace affairs, the Jiaofang Project has extremely detailed rules for making it.

It's always right to play by the rules.

According to the rules, this pepper paste can be coated with up to seven layers. But because Emperor Chen was worried that the taste would be too strong and uncomfortable, the final order was to ask for three coats.

Of course, the lack of pepper is also one of the main reasons.

As a result, the first layer of the first layer was finished, and the two craftsmen fell off the bamboo frame. When the second layer was applied, five more people fell ill one after another, and the beginning of the symptoms was different, but gradually they all converged, and all of them had headaches, vomiting, spots on their bodies, and sores in their mouths.

After that, it was confirmed that it was poisoning, and further investigation was launched.

All the pepper is offered by the uncle of the Lu family, but unfortunately it has been used all, although the pepper paste has been shoveled from the wall, but because the pepper has been ground into powder, there is really no way to sort it out.

I found pepper from elsewhere, and I tested it with some common or uncommon poisons, but I have not been able to find a way to poison them.

"Actually, the queen mother is not out of the door, of course, it is self-evident." Eunuch Du waited for Eunuch Ge to finish his report, and sighed slowly: "It is inevitable that some people will question it, and this move is suspected of hindering the investigation of the truth." ”

The queen closed the door, and it was not only the queen who was inside, but the entire Kunning Palace continued to serve inside.

Of course, these people will not come out on their own, but those on the outside who want to ask people inside can't.

As for asking the queen, you don't even have to think about it.

Investigating the case, but the key suspect and the people around the suspect are not asked, of course, it will cause considerable inconvenience.

"If Miss Xia goes to visit the queen, she might as well explain this matter to the queen." Eunuch Ge was afraid that the young girl would not understand Eunuch Du's words, so he immediately took over the conversation and spoke more clearly.

Xia Xiaodong was thoughtful, thinking about something else.

After a while, Xia Xiaodong asked, "Then the uncle of the Lu family should always be able to ask." ”

If you want to poison it, you will also go outside, and you won't all go into the treasury of the palace, and then bother to send someone to poison it.

The key is on the side of Uncle Lu.

"It didn't work." Eunuch Du said lightly: "The merchants who purchased the goods from the Lu family, the people in the shops that ordered the boxes, and the people who packed the boxes and delivered them, all of them have been interrogated and interrogated, and no clues have been found. ”

I have interrogated and questioned lightly, but somehow it sounds cold.

Xia Xiaodong was silent for a long time.

The most, if not all, of these people are innocent. But in the face of imperial power, all are worthless.

"Is there really no pepper at all?" Xia Xiaodong always felt unlikely. Not to mention others, I have seen a small bottle in the summer resort. (To be continued.) )