Outside, the morning sun was getting brighter, and the air was as clear as frost. The queen reclined on the beauty couch, ready to admire the painting. The two palace ladies faced her and carefully opened the picture scroll. But before she could take a few looks, she heard a lot of movement outside the hall.

In an instant, a small crowd poured into the temple.

The queen raised her eyes and couldn't help but be surprised, only to see Yao Duran leading a few attendants in, and the attendants behind her were dragging an unconscious person, and after coming in, they threw the person on the ground.

The queen looked at it, and it turned out to be Guiqing!

"Guiqing, what's wrong?" The queen was confused and frowned and asked.

Yao Duran knelt down and said: "Back to Niangniang, the slave maid just went to the lower courtyard to find Sister Guiqing, but no one opened the door after knocking for a long time, so the slave maid had to plan to go back to the room to change clothes and continue to serve in the palace." But who knew that as soon as the slave maid opened the door, she found that Sister Guiqing was fainting in the slave's room, and she was still holding such a thing in her hand......

Yao Duran said, and presented the things in his hand to the queen with both hands.

The queen took a look, and in an instant, her face changed color, which made everyone in the hall also hang, and saw that the anger of thunder was about to explode.

The next moment, the queen was really angry, staring at the things in her hand, and gritted her teeth and said resentfully: "Bastard! This turned out to be a technique of disgust! Who is it?! How dare you use this evil art to curse Hongu?! ”

After saying that, the queen slammed the thing in her hand to the ground. I saw that the object that rolled down to the ground was actually a puppet, with the queen's name and birth date written on it, and there were needles on the puppet!

The queen was so angry, and the palace ladies in the palace all saw the things on the ground clearly, and they all knelt on the ground in fright.

Yao Duran elaborated: "Niangniang, this is the art of disgust, Sister Guiqing actually made such a puppet in order to frame the slave maid, and then slipped into the slave's room through the window when the slave maid was at night, wanting to hide the puppet in the slave's room, and then get the stolen goods." ”

"Then why did she faint in your room?" The queen asked with a cold face.

Yao Duran hurriedly said: "Back to Niangniang, the slave maid can't sleep well these days, so I went to the Internal Affairs Office yesterday to get some benzoin, and I lit it before the night last night, and I said that I can sleep well when I go back this morning." Probably because the incense was a little heavy, Sister Guiqing fell asleep inside, and the slave maid was startled as soon as she entered, alarming the other people in the courtyard, everyone came to see, only to find out about Sister Guiqing's evil deeds, and the slave maid asked her to tie her up. ”

At this time, Fuquan also said: "Niangniang, that's exactly the case, Sister Fang Duran screamed in fright as soon as she entered the room, and everyone went in to take a look, only to find that Sister Guiqing was fainting inside, still holding this puppet in her hand." ”

After hearing this, the queen's face became more and more gloomy, she looked at Guiqing on the ground, and said, "Wake her up!" ”

"Yes." Fu Quan picked up a cup of tea on the table and splashed it on Guiqing's face.

After a while, Guiqing really woke up slowly, she was tired and weak, her eyes were half open, and after looking left and right, she suddenly woke up completely.

She sat up all of a sudden, looking confused, she first glanced at the queen, only to see a cold and angry look, she looked left and right, and saw that everyone was looking at her meaninglessly......

With a flicker of her eyes, she saw the puppet on the ground again.

Suddenly, there was a "boom" in her head, and her whole person was like being struck by lightning and stayed there.

Yao Duran stretched out his slender finger and pointed at the puppet on the ground, and said to Guiqing: "Sister Guiqing, you did this puppet right, right?" Last night you sneaked into my room through the window, trying to hide this puppet in my room, and then come and catch the stolen goods, so that everyone thinks I'm using witchcraft to kill my mother, right? It's a pity that I was too stupid, and I actually lit the benzoin heavier, and by mistake Sister Guiqing fainted in my room, and it wasn't until this morning that Sister Guiqing's scandal was revealed. ”

"Guiqing, the matter has come to this, what else do you have to say?" The queen's tone was no longer angry, but calm, but she was the most terrifying.

"! Empress! Slaves and maids are wronged, slaves and maids are wronged! Guiqing went crazy at this time, threw herself at the queen's feet, and hugged her legs.

She knew better than anyone how terrible it was.

"Where did Sister Guiqing be wronged? You fainted in my room, clutching the puppet in your hand, and how many pairs of eyes in the lower courtyard saw it, and your unjustified cry was so unreasonable! Niangniang believes in you so much, but you made this puppet in order to harm me, so wolf-hearted, Niangniang really hurt you in vain! Yao Duran said awe-inspiringly.

"! The slave and the maid are not, the slave and the maid are wronged! Beg Niangniang not to believe their words, the slave is loyal to the mother, and the slave is wronged! Gui Qing begged a few times, and suddenly turned to Yao Duran again, and said angrily: "Yao Duran, I understand, I understand everything!" You're hurting me, you've designed everything! What a terrible scheming! ”

When the words fell, she eagerly turned back again: "Mother! It was Yao Duran who deliberately set a trap for the slave! Also, what benzoin, who hasn't used it! How could a mere benzoin make the slave faint, she must have used some other method, begging the mother to search her room, begging the mother to see! ”

The queen looked at Yao Duran again and said angrily: "It is indeed a bit unbelievable that benzoin can make people faint. From this point of view, neither of you is innocent! One by one, for the sake of Qiao Fengzhi, they actually made a big fuss about the palace! ”

After that, she instructed a few attendants: "You guys go and search Yao Duran's room again to see if there is anything suspicious." ”

"Yes." Fuquan went down with a few other chamberlains.

The atmosphere in the hall was still tense, Yao Duran and Guiqing both knelt on the ground and bowed their heads, and in the afterglow, they only felt the queen's majestic and cold gaze sweeping over them.

Time gets long.

After about a stick of incense, Fuquan took a few attendants into the hall to reply.

"Back to Niangniang, the minions searched Sister Twilight's room, and found nothing suspicious, except for the usual clothes and accessories, only a box of benzoin."

Yao Duran listened, and quickly answered: "Niangniang, the slave is innocent, please ask Niangniang to learn clearly." ”

Guiqing also begged: "Niangniang! Slaves and maids are wronged! The slave really fell into her trap! ”

"Shut up!" The queen suddenly scolded angrily, and Guiqing's body shook in fright, and she didn't dare to say any more.

The queen asked in a cold voice, "Trap? It's true that you made a puppet, it's true that you slipped into Twilight's room in the middle of the night, who set you a trap? Come! Guiqing framed Twilight many times, and this time she had the audacity to make a puppet that cursed the palace, and immediately gave her a cold punishment! ”

It's cold torture again! It is rumored that sinners will be stripped naked and hanged to death in a frozen lake. It's just a tragic death, and you have to be tortured naked, what a humiliation.

When Gui Qing heard this, her face suddenly turned pale, her eyes were full of horror and despair, and then she burst into tears of regret and pleaded earnestly: "No! Empress! Spare the slaves. The slave and maid have been serving you with all their hearts and souls for many years, so you can spare the slave and the maid once, and the slave and the maid will never dare to commit any more crimes in the future! ”

The queen ignored it. The guards outside the hall poured in, set up the frightened Guiqing and dragged it out.

"Mother-please spare the slave - the slave will not dare anymore-"

"Yao Duran! You have done me so badly, and you will be punished! I won't let you go if I'm a ghost! ”

Yao Duran listened quietly, with no sadness or joy in her heart. Harming others ends up harming herself, she is to blame, no one is to blame.

Just when Guiqing had been dragged to the temple gate, a calm male voice came from there: "Wait." ”

Then, it was Guiqing's pleading: "Manager Qiao! Please help me! The queen wants to give me a cold punishment! Help me! ”

Yao Duran knelt on the ground and looked back, only to see that a slender and straight figure had appeared at the gate of the palace, it was really Qiao Fengzhi.

Guiqing saw the savior, grabbed Qiao Fengzhi's hand tightly, and asked him to save his life with tears in her eyes. Qiao Fengzhi looked at her, broke away from her hand and walked in.

When the queen saw him coming, she didn't give him a good face the first time, snorted coldly, and said, "It's really a blue face!" The two big palace ladies under the seat of this palace are fighting for you, what do you say? ”

After Qiao Fengzhi saluted, he said calmly: "Niangniang, anything is a trivial matter compared to you, you calm your anger first, don't be angry with the phoenix body." ”

The queen's anger and dissatisfaction came to him, like an iron fist hitting cotton, and she lost her strength, so she had to snort coldly again and stopped talking.

Qiao Fengzhi picked up the puppet on the ground, and after looking at it, he said, "It's bad luck to keep this thing for a while longer, Fuquan, why don't you take it and burn it?" ”

"Yes, yes." Fuquan agreed, stepped forward to take the puppet, and led a few chamberlains out.

Qiao Fengzhi only then faced the queen and saluted: "Niangniang, in other words, with the way of others, but also to treat the body of others, Guiqing dares to be this needle puppet, Niang Niang will give her the needle punishment, the puppet has three needles, Niang Niang will give her thirty needles, and after she is punished by the needle, she will be degraded to the bitter alley, I don't know what Niang Niang thinks?" ”

At this time, Gui Qing also pounced from the palace gate, knelt on the ground and cried: "Niangniang, please keep the slave and maid alive, the slave and maid have no intention of cursing you, the slave and maid are just angry with Yao Duran, you appreciate her, Manager Qiao also likes her, the slave and maid are confused for a while and want to harm her, the slave and maid know that she is wrong!" ”

The queen pondered for a moment, and finally said: "That's it, the reincarnation of the phoenix in this palace, the mother of the world, how can a mere witchcraft harm this palace." did as Feng Zhi said, gave thirty sentences, and then fell into the alley of suffering. Twilight, you go to prison. Everyone else is scattered for Hongu! ”

When everyone heard this, they secretly breathed a sigh of relief. This witch plague is finally over, and it is not implicated again.

……

Guiqing was dragged by the guards to the special torture room of Fengyi Palace, and Qiao Fengzhi and Yao Duran followed behind. After the two walked silently, Qiao Fengzhi stopped: "That's it, I won't go in." ”

With that, he turned and left.

Yao Duran watched his tall and straight figure drift away, thinking thoughtfully. He and Guiqing can be called the queen's right-hand men, and they have served the queen together for many years, and now that Guiqing has fallen like this, it is estimated that he is a little unbearable, otherwise he would not have rushed to intercede for Guiqing.