The main hall of the Pear Flower Pavilion is still very magnificent, and the word Shouchun is hung in the middle of the Ming room, which is obviously the handwriting of the Ming Emperor. At this time, it was the Empress Dowager Dou who was sitting in the main seat, she was dressed in a cyan silk silk phoenix tail curled skirt, her hair was swaying with the flying steps of the five phoenixes of the rising sun, hanging with a string of pearls and tassels, scattered in a black bun. The sunlight shines lazily through the screen window as thin as a cicada's wings, and falls on the gilded hollow step like smoke, reflecting a little flash, which looks extravagant.

The Yuan sisters and the ancient masters who came with the Inner Court Division often served the ancient masters together, and knelt down to salute the Empress Dowager Dou: "Meet the Empress Dowager, the Empress Dowager is a thousand years old, a thousand years old, a thousand years old!" Empress Dowager Dou waved her silk sleeves lightly: "Flat!" ”

Raising his head, he glanced at the Yuan sisters, and then fixed his gaze on the ancient master: "What is your name, why hasn't the Mourning family seen you?" She spoke in a calm tone, and seemed to be extremely approachable, knowing that everyone understood that her uncertainties had nothing to do with her tone.

"The Venerable Master of the Ancient Dynasty is a permanent servant appointed by the Inner Court Division, and he used to serve! Not! Wrong! served Concubine Yang, the concubine passed away, and there was nothing to do, so Da Changqiu transferred the minister to investigate the case of Li Meiren. "The ancient master had a sharp mouth and a loud voice, and the Empress Dowager Dou seemed to be very satisfied.

"Oh, Concubine Yang's people, when she passed away last year, the mourning family also cried, thinking that the sisters in the original palace all went before me. I'm the only old immortal who's still messing around in this palace, right? As soon as she said this, everyone knelt down, frightened and overwhelmed, and just kowtowed.

"Get up, the mourners don't blame you. Let me ask you, Gu Shangren, what did you find in Lantai, where the two beauties of the Yuan family lived? She stood up. Pacing in front of Yuan Yi and Yuan Xiang, their bright eyes flashed on their faces, with a hint of chill, the Yuan sisters trembled with fright.

"Empress Dowager, the minister has found something in the town!" The ancient master reported for duty.

"Take it to the mourning family!" Empress Dowager Dou still stared at the two sisters, but reached out to ask for the nightmare.

The ancient master hurriedly instructed the little yellow door below to bring up the evidence and hold it on a tray. It was held up in front of the Empress Dowager Dou. Empress Dowager Dou looked away and saw two silk cloth villains on the plate, with the birthday time written on them. And there are needles on it. sneered, pointed to the evidence and said, "I don't believe this, whose birthday is it?" ”

The ancient master said again: "The minister went to the court order office to verify that one of them was Li Meiren on this birthday." The other one is a Yin nobleman. ”

"Oh? And the matter of the Yin nobles? You two are so bold! Empress Dowager Dou suddenly raised her voice. The shrill screams frightened everyone to their knees again, and they didn't dare to make a sound.

Yuan Xiang whispered: "This thing is not ours, I don't know who put it in Lantai, we don't have this thing!" ”

"Really? So who do you say put it? Empress Dowager Dou stared at her with distrust on her face.

Yuan Yi said: "That's true, our two sisters never interact with the concubines, except for the day when they went to Song Guiren, they didn't go out of Lantai a few times. will not resent the concubines for no reason, how can they harm people? ”

Yuan Xiang said: "Queen Mother." I think someone deliberately framed us, we have no grievances with Li Meiren, and we only have one side relationship with Yin nobles, we are quiet and self-controlled, do our duty as a concubine, when will it harm people's hearts? Please check the Queen Mother! ”

Song Jun is the lord of the Pear Blossom Pavilion, and has been standing next to the Empress Dowager Dou, as everyone got up and knelt down, but secretly sneered in his heart, Wei Zhen and witchcraft are taboos in the palace, and it seems that the Yuan sisters can't hide. I don't know which of her hearts touched by the words of the two, but the tip of her nose was sore, her eyes were already wet, and she picked up a silk and gently wiped her tears.

Empress Dowager Dou saw it and asked, "What does Song Guiren mean by this?" ”

Song Jun's face was pale and bloodless, as if he was really sad, his body trembled like a dead leaf, and he was dressed in plain white clothes, which made him even more lovely. "The Queen Mother, the two younger sisters, are both teenagers, how can they understand the art of this nightmare town, I think it must be instigated by the people in the palace, and I want to come like a lovely flower, alas!" He sighed and wiped away his tears.

"Instigation! You don't understand, there are people in the palace who understand, come and arrest everyone in Lantai and beat them to death! ”

"Queen Mother, we did it, spare them, we confess, we confess." Yuan Yi knelt down and climbed a few steps to hug the ankle of the Empress Dowager Dou, crying like a tearful person.

As soon as the words "beaten to death with a stick" came out, everyone's faces changed, Song Jun originally just wanted to put the blame on which palace people and exonerated the two sisters from the guilt, but she didn't expect that the Empress Dowager Dou was so ruthless that she wanted to beat all the palace people to death. It was a golden-headed stick that hit a person's head on the top, and in a few strokes, his brain would burst out, and his life would return to Jiuquan. Her heart began to "pound" and she was terrified.

Yuan Yi stood up and said coldly: "The palace people are not guilty, how can we ever be guilty, the world in this palace is like people eating people, we can't afford to play." She picked up Yuan Xiang, who was kneeling and crying, "Let's go, let's take the guilt with those palace people, since they want to frame us to death, it has become their wish!" The two of them are the granddaughters of the left general Jiaodong Hou Jia Fu, Jia Fu gathered hundreds of people to respond to the Green Forest Army, claiming to be generals, and has a hard personality, and these two daughters also have the style of ancestors.

At this moment, I heard someone report to work, "The emperor has arrived!" As soon as the words fell, I saw Liu Zhaofeng arrive in a hurry. The Yuan sisters were stunned for a moment, then stopped at the door, looked at the emperor, and said nothing.

Liu Zhao had already heard that the Empress Dowager Dou was going to beat the palace people to death with a stick, and after entering the door, he saluted the Empress Dowager Dou and said: "Queen Mother, even if the palace people are guilty, they can't all be punished, let the inner court torture first." You two don't have any temper, the queen mother is angry, you don't explain well, and you are very rude. Your name is Sun Jue, please ask the two beauties to go back to Lantai, put them under house arrest, and they are not allowed to leave the palace. ”

"Whoa!" Sun Jue heard this, knowing that things had taken a turn for the better, and hurriedly whispered to the two sisters: "Beauty and ministers go back to the palace, there will always be a time to find out what is going on." ”

Yuan Yi and Yuan Xiang glanced at Liu Zhao, who was looking at them, and knew that the emperor had come to save him, so he put down his heart and turned to leave.

Song Jun saw it in his eyes and said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, Da Changqiu is too hasty in doing things, which makes the chickens and dogs in the palace restless, and the concubines feel that Wei Zhen is not necessarily the work of the two sisters, although there is evidence, but anyone in this palace can put this thing into Lantai, so it is not enough to win the trust, or let Da Changqiu slowly figure it out, investigate it slowly, and if it is too hasty, it will be bad." ”

Empress Dowager Dou nodded and said, "Yes, Emperor, what Song Guiren said is that you have also been an emperor for so long, and you are still too reckless in doing things!" ”

"What the queen mother taught me is that my sons know that they are wrong." Liu Zhao replied with his head down.

"That's it, the palace has also been searched, the people have been arrested, the mourning family is almost exhausted, Yin'er, let's go back to the Jiade Palace!

After Empress Dowager Dou left, only Song Jun and Liu Zhao were left in the Pear Flower Pavilion, Liu Zhao sat on the soft couch, feeling that the bones in his whole body were about to break, and he was very tired. Song Jun ordered someone to clean up the Xinuan Pavilion and helped Liu Zhao to lie on the couch, while he gently pounded his legs for the emperor, rubbed his shoulders, and did not make a sound, only doing it softly.

Liu Zhao was rubbed comfortably by her, so he closed his eyes and recuperated, but his heart was churning terribly, Zheng Zhong had come to his place to discuss for a day, and what happened in the palace reached their ears one by one.

Zheng Zhong knelt on the carpet woven with bright flowers, kowtowed and said, "Your Majesty, the Inner Court Division was set up by His Majesty to investigate the murder of Li Meiren, and the minister should not have said anything. But since this has been set up, the minister feels that it needs to be perfected, first of all, the Tai Hospital, the Shang Gong Bureau, the Shang Yi Bureau, the Shang Fu Bureau, the Imperial Dining Room, the Shang Sleep Bureau and the Shang Gong Bureau should all send experts to join the Inner Court Division. In this way, no matter what situation arises in the palace, the Inner Court Division can deal with it. Second, since the Inner Court Department is to investigate the ills in the palace, the palace maids should also send corresponding internal officials to manage affairs, and the meaning of the ministers can be set up separately, called the internal official order, and smart and talented and qualified people can be selected among the palace maids to serve, so that the management of the palace maids and concubines will return to normal. He looked up and saw that Liu Zhao was listening carefully, then smiled and said, "Your Majesty, this is the minister's own idea, if the emperor thinks it is inappropriate, he can bring it up." ”

Liu Zhao shook his head, "I want to hear it again, you go on." ”

"Whoa! Li Meiren's case, although it is a change that occurred within two days, is extremely wide-ranging, so the minister's meaning, since the emperor has notified the new masters, it is better to start with the search of the palace. There are two advantages to this, first, the new masters are young, and it is not necessarily their doing, but it is difficult to guarantee that the subordinates will make it bad, and all palaces will be searched, which can play a deterrent role, so that they will not dare to have bad intentions in the future. Second, if someone really poisoned Li Meiren's palace, I didn't know that we would suddenly search the palace, so we could be caught off guard, and the evidence would be easy to grasp. If nothing is found, it will be proved that the new masters are innocent, and His Majesty will be relieved. ”

Liu Zhao nodded, "Okay, that's it!" ”

"However, the minister always thinks that this matter is extremely strange, so the minister has to discuss it with the imperial doctors, Your Majesty, you can wait for the minister's news."

Zheng Zhong didn't come back until the afternoon, and the news in the palace had been pouring in like a sea of mountains, except for the Yin nobles who didn't go to search, there were things in the palace of the five people, and the strange thing was that the work was similar, obviously done by one person. This also shows that someone deliberately provoked an uproar among the concubines.

Liu Zhao heard that the beauty of the Yuan family, who was the first to find evidence, was called to the Pear Flower Pavilion by the Empress Dowager Dou, and knew that it was not good, so he trotted to save people, but fortunately, he finally arrived and was safe and sound.

However, Zheng Zhong solemnly told Liu Zhao that this matter should not be publicized, so as not to startle the snake. The imperial doctors are inspecting all over the palace of Li Meiren, and if there is anything wrong, they will report it immediately. (To be continued......)

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