Yin Zhen turned his eyes and said, "Concubine Qin, can Hongying enter the palace with you?" ”

Concubine Qin's face was a little ugly and said: "If you go back to the emperor, Hongying is waiting outside the palace at this moment, and the emperor can summon her for questioning at any time." ”

Yin Zhen nodded, and was about to speak, Tu Lichen suddenly said: "Your Majesty, forgive the old minister, Hong Ying is the person next to Concubine Qin, so she is directly sent in for questioning, I am afraid that she will not tell the truth." ”

Yin Zhen also felt that his words made some sense, and said: "Then in your opinion, what should I do?" ”

Tu Lichen looked at Concubine Qin's increasingly ugly face, smiled secretly in his heart, and said in his mouth: "If the emperor can trust the minister, it is better to leave it to the minister to ask." ”

Concubine Qin flatly refused, "No, how do I know if you will deliberately mislead Hongying and let her say something that she doesn't know." ”

Tu Lichen sneered with a hint of imperceptibility: "Concubine Qin is in such a hurry to stop it, but I'm afraid that Hongying will tell the truth?" ”

Concubine Qin said stiffly: "Every word I say is the truth, what is there to be afraid of, but Lord Tu, I want to ask you, if things are not what you say, what should I do?" ”

Tu Lichen glanced at her deeply, and said: "If this matter is not true, I, Tu Lichen, am willing to resign and return to my hometown, and will no longer ask about court affairs, how about it, is this answer still satisfactory to Concubine Qin?" Or do you want me to stake my life with me? ”

Concubine Qin snorted coldly and didn't speak, she is a person who knows how to observe words and feelings, and she knows that she can't stop it anymore, otherwise it will only make Yinzhen suspicious of herself.

After everything was agreed, the unknown Hongying was brought to the Warm Pavilion, Tu Lichen was already waiting there, Hongying didn't know him, only by the official uniform on his body, he recognized that he should be a member of the court, and after stepping forward to salute, he asked in a low voice: "I don't know why the adults summoned the slaves?" ”

Tu Lichen glanced at her and said, "Is it Hongying?" You've been waiting by Concubine Qin's side, and you think you know a lot about Concubine Qin? ”

Hongying didn't know what Tu Lichen meant when she asked her, so she hesitated and said: "The slave maid is only responsible for the concubine's food, clothing and daily life, and the slave and maid don't know anything else." ”

"What about Ping'er?" This sentence made Hongying quickly raise her head, looked at Tu Lichen in amazement, and after a while, she said tentatively: "The slave maid hasn't seen Ping'er for a long time, but do you know her?" ”

Tu Lichen bowed his head and said: "In order to avoid the pursuit of Concubine Qin, Ping'er came to the old man to save her life, saying that the original accusation against the queen was all the mastermind of Concubine Qin, and now the emperor has learned about this matter, and is interrogating Concubine Qin, I believe that there will be a result soon." ”

Hongying never expected to hear such words, her eyes were full of surprise for a while, and after a while, she calmed down and said, "The slave doesn't know what the old man said about it, the slave ......."

"Hongying, don't say dark words in front of the Ming people, Ping'er has already told me everything, in this matter, you have made suggestions for Concubine Qin." Tu Lichen sneered and said: "Murdering the current queen is a big crime of the Jiu clan, Concubine Qin is the mother of Prince Guo, the emperor will definitely treat her lightly for Prince Guo's sake, but what about you, you are just a maidservant, once the matter is found out, there is only a dead end waiting for you." ”

Ping'er didn't say this, Tu Lichen deliberately made it up to make Hongying panic and step into his trap.

Hongying shook her head in a panic and said, "Slave maid...... The slave and maid have no ......"

She wanted to say that she didn't give advice to Concubine Qin at all, but Tu Lichen didn't give her a chance to say it completely, and interrupted: "You can naturally defend yourself in front of the old man now, but soon someone will take you to the Criminal Division or even the Criminal Department, and when the time comes, they will no longer listen to your lies." After a pause, he continued: "If it is you who change the old husband, the most important thing you should think about at this moment is not to clear yourself up, but to make meritorious contributions." Otherwise, if you drag it out like this again, once Concubine Qin confesses, you will have nothing to do. ”

As early as when she heard about the Criminal Division and the Criminal Department, Hongying's whole person was afraid, she didn't want to go to that kind of terrible place, once she went in, even if she could get out, she only had half a life left, so she didn't think about whether Tu Lichen's words were reasonable or not, she just knelt down in a panic and said: "The slave and maid have not, the slave and the maid have never done anything, please ask the old man to see clearly, it really has nothing to do with the slave and the maid!" Speaking of the back, Hongying was about to cry.

"Nothing to do with you?" Tu Lichen pretended to be surprised and said: "Ping'er is clear, you also have a part in framing the queen's mother." ”

As soon as she heard this, Hongying said angrily: "She is talking nonsense, yes, the slave does know about the Dao, but she only knows the Dao, and she didn't say a word at all, from beginning to end, it was Concubine Qin who planned it, she made Ping'er turn against her, and she also asked Ping'er to push everything on the queen's mother." ”

Tu Lichen's spirits perked up, and he finally took the words out of Hongying's mouth, and hurriedly said: "So, this matter really has nothing to do with the queen's mother?" ”

"Back to the old man's words, it's not irrelevant, the queen really bought Ping'er, let her point out that Xi Guifei had an affair with the seventeenth master, so as to take this opportunity to get rid of Xi Guifei, and then I don't know what happened to Lu Dao, this matter was known by the concubine, the concubine was very angry about this, and summoned Ping'er to ask for a good time, after Ping'er confessed that the queen bought her, the concubine asked her to turn the gun and push everything on the queen, and they should have said something later, but the slave maid went out at that time, so it was not clear." For the sake of her own life, where did Hongying dare to hide anything, like pouring beans from a bamboo tube, and told all the things that knew the Tao.

As early as when she said the first sentence, Tu Lichen was stunned in the chair, the queen mother actually bribed Ping'er to deal with Concubine Xi? Didn't you say that this matter had nothing to do with the queen mother, and she was wronged?

Once the emperor knows about this matter, although Concubine Qin will inevitably be punished, the queen will also be implicated, and maybe, the emperor will take this opportunity to abolish the queen, and then support Concubine Xi as the queen.

Although there is nothing wrong with Ling Ruo in this matter, Tu Lichen has never had a good impression of Ling Ruo, perhaps because when Ling Ruo was "dead", Yinzhen ignored the courtiers' dissuasion and insisted on posthumously crowning her as the queen.

Seeing that Tu Lichen didn't speak, Hongying only said that he didn't believe his words, and hurriedly said: "Boss, you believe the slave maid, the slave and maid have already said all the things about the Dao, and there is no half to hide." By the way, before the concubine summoned Ping'er, she went to the palace to see Concubine Xi, I don't know if it has anything to do with it. ”

Her words pulled Tu Lichen back from his astonishment, and Concubine Xi ...... Could it be that it is a matter of Concubine Qin, and Concubine Xi is also involved? After thinking for a while, he had already made a decision in his heart, whether the queen had bribed Ping'er to harm Concubine Xi, and this matter will be talked about later, and the most important thing at the moment is to confirm Concubine Qin's slander against the queen.