Chapter 61: Who is behind the scenes?
"Did you put the silver needle you found in my room? No one has entered my room except you. Qin Kexin was straightforward and didn't want to beat around the bush.
Aunt Mei was completely panicked, and she even said no, but her eyes had betrayed her.
"Do you doubt me?" Aunt Mei asked rhetorically after calming down.
"I really hope it's not you, but your expression has betrayed you" At this moment, Qin Kexin had already affirmed that the poison needle was done by Aunt Mei, but she still couldn't figure out why she did it.
"If you are coerced, I can help you, we can fight her together, if you have a hard time, I will never expose you, I will bear it for you." Qin Kexin spoke bitterly, but Aunt Mei still denied it.
Although there is no direct evidence to prove that Aunt Mei is the one who put the poison needle, Qin Kexin already knows it.
Even if there was evidence, Qin Kexin would not denounce Aunt Mei, because she felt that Aunt Mei must have been coerced.
Qin Kexin thought that as long as Aunt Mei said who was behind the scenes, she would do her best to protect Aunt Mei. But Aunt Mei just wouldn't admit it.
Qin Kexin was betrayed, and her heart was like ashes. Aunt Mei is the elder she relies on the most except for Mama Qiao, and now she is helping outsiders frame herself.
After coming out of Aunt Mei's, Qin Kexin didn't say a word when she went to Longying Hall to find Xiao Shujun.
"What's wrong?" Xiao Shujun sensed that something was wrong.
"Don't check, I'll take care of everything." If the investigation continues, even if the mastermind behind the scenes is found, Aunt Mei will definitely be implicated.
Although Aunt Mei is unkind, Qin Kexin doesn't want to be unjust.
is as smart as Xiao Shujun, and naturally knows what Aunt Mei does at regular times, and Qin Kexin, who values friendship, is willing to be a scapegoat.
But Xiao Shujun naturally wouldn't let Qin Kexin be wronged in vain, and decided to find out the mastermind behind the scenes.
"You stay here obediently, and leave everything to me?" Facing Qin Kexin, who had no desire to survive, Xiao Shujun was coaxed to change the law.
"Take a good look at Miss Qin, don't let her take half a step out of Longying Palace." Xiao Shujun was afraid that Qin Kexin would find the queen mother to turn herself in, so he secretly explained that Min'er was optimistic about Qin Kexin.
After Qin Kexin's interrogation, Aunt Mei knew that Qin Kexin already knew that she had framed her, and she was ashamed, but she was also coerced by the queen's mother. Only now do I understand that even if he dies, he can't let Qin Kexin die in vain.
But the queen's power is flourishing, and it is not something that can be shaken by her soft-spoken people. So she was not prepared to measure herself, but was ready to sacrifice herself to save Qin Kexin.
So she wrote a letter of surrender, wanting to hand it over to King Qin unknowingly, and then ask King Qin to hand it over to the emperor, so as not to intercept and destroy her letter by the queen's people.
"Queen Mother, Aunt Mei has written a letter and handed it to King Qin." The people who secretly observed Aunt Mei reported Aunt Mei's every move like the queen in time.
"What? Stop the letter. The queen was horrified, afraid that her plan would be disrupted by Aunt Mei and that she would be exposed and become a joke.
"It's the letter that Xiao Shuwei, the king of Ning, got it, and the slave can't stop it." Those kneeling below wanted to bury their heads in the ground.
"Waste." The queen was furious and knocked the tea sets on the table to the ground.
"Go, just in case, kill people." Aunt Mei's letters alone will not harm her. As long as Aunt Mei is dead, create the illusion that she used Concubine Li to frame Qin Kexin because she was jealous of Qin Kexin, and now she has woken up and committed suicide in fear of sin. And that's the end of it.
Although doing so will make Qin Kexin retreat, but in the future, there will be a chance to kill Qin Kexin. The most important thing now is to get out of it all by yourself.
As soon as Xiao Shujun received Aunt Mei's letter, he immediately rushed to Qin Kexin to make a decision.
Qin Kexin took the letter, and the letter only said that he framed Concubine Li to frame Qin Kexin, and now his conscience found that he wanted to turn himself in, but he couldn't see the emperor, so he had to ask King Qin to hand it over on his behalf. But there is no mention of the mastermind behind the scenes.
Qin Kexin once again confirmed with Xiao Shuwei that it was Aunt Mei who personally handed it over to him.
But Qin Kexin always felt that there was something strange, firstly, why did Aunt Mei not mention the mastermind behind the scenes, and secondly, why she didn't hand it over to the emperor directly, but asked King Qin to be handed over, obviously she could see the emperor.
Qin Kexin frowned tightly and didn't say a word.
"Oops!" After a while, Qin Kexin shouted. "Accompany me to find Aunt Mei, she is in danger."
Qin Kexin thought about it for a long time and finally figured it out, all of which showed that the mastermind behind the scenes had a lot of power in the palace. Aunt Mei and even Qin Kexin couldn't fight the mastermind behind the scenes, and wanted to convict herself, so she was over. If you give the letter directly to the emperor, I am afraid that it will be intercepted as soon as you are halfway there.
Since the mastermind behind the scenes is so powerful in the palace, he will definitely find someone to keep an eye on Aunt Mei, and now that Aunt Mei has turned herself in, the mastermind behind the scenes must be afraid of harming herself, and she wants to kill people and kill her.
Thinking of this, Qin Kexin felt a chill down his spine, hoping that his conjecture would not come true.
The top priority is to protect Aunt May.
Seeing Qin Kexin so flustered, she must have thought of something, all Xiao Shujun could do was to hurry up with Qin Kexin to find her.
Along the way, Qin Kexin was trembling. She had never felt that time had passed so slowly, and she didn't want anyone to lose their lives because of herself. Although Aunt Mei made a mistake, it was because she inadvertently provoked someone.
Seeing that Qin Kexin was in a hurry, Xiao Shujun urged the sedan chair over and over again to hurry up.
Qin Kexin, who got off the sedan chair, stumbled to Aunt Mei's residence.
Pushing open the door, he was stunned by the scene in front of him.
She was still a step too late after all.
Aunt Mei hanged herself with white silk.
After all, it's my daughter's house, and I'm still very scared when I see this kind of scene. She screamed and threw herself into Xiao Shujun's arms.
"Come on, put Aunt Mei down." Xiao Shujun ordered his entourage.
Qin Kexin stepped forward and hugged Aunt Mei and cried, feeling deep self-blame.
If it weren't for herself, Aunt Mei wouldn't be like this.
"This must not be a suicide." Xiao Shujun spoke.
Qin Kexin looked at Xiao Shujun's eyes, and the two of them actually thought of going together. Aunt Mei, who hanged herself, didn't even have a stool under her feet, she must have been murdered by someone, and then faked the illusion of suicide.
"What's that?" Qin Kexin saw a small note slipping down Aunt Mei's sleeve, and opened it to see that the word 'queen' was written on it.
Seeing these two words, everything was clear to Qin Kexin and Xiao Shujun. It turned out that the mastermind behind the powerful power in the palace turned out to be the queen's mother.
Although I don't know why the queen mother framed herself, this thief's trick to catch the thief can be described as a must.
sent someone to place Aunt Mei's body, and Xiao Shujun went to the emperor with Qin Kexin and the letter left by Aunt Mei before her death.
The queen's affairs can be discussed in the long run, and now it is the most important thing to clear Qin Kexin's guilt and return her innocence, so as not to cause more trouble.
Xiao Shujun presented Aunt Mei's letter to the emperor, and the queen's expression beside the emperor was tense, for fear that she would be mentioned in the letter.
Qin Kexin looked at the queen's expression and felt extremely ridiculous.
"In that case, then arrest this Aunt Mei. Miss Qin is innocent. "The emperor said.
"Aunt May is dead." Qin Kexin said lightly.
"Suicide in fear of sin? It's also scary. Miss Qin, this palace misunderstood you before, and I was offended. Please don't take it to heart. The Queen's fake face looked really disgusting.
"It doesn't matter." A good suicide in fear of sin has left himself completely abandoned.
Now she can't help the queen, but she has written down this account.
Qin Kexin, who left the emperor's palace, went to Concubine Li's bedroom to inform the result, of course, she didn't tell Concubine Li that everything was done by the queen, so as not to be cranky about Concubine Li, who had just been canonized, but she couldn't fight the queen.
After that, I went straight to the Imperial Hospital.
"Why did you frame me?" found Imperial Doctor Li, and Qin Kexin questioned him face to face.
"I ...... It was Lord Xiao Xiaojun who asked the old minister to do this. Seeing the King of Qin following behind Qin Kexin, Imperial Doctor Li knew that he was in big trouble. had to confess Xiao Ruoxue, after all, it was much better to offend the little lord of King Qi's mansion than to offend King Qin.
"She's everywhere." Hearing Xiao Ruoxue's name, Qin Kexin knew it.
Ignoring Imperial Doctor Li, he informed Xiao Shujun and went to King Qi's mansion by himself. I happened to hear that Mama Qiao was worried about herself, but she didn't go to visit in time because she was guilty.
"Who gave your dog the guts to frame the woman of this king? Punish you for five years, can you complain? "Xiao Shujun knows that Imperial Doctor Li loves money, and this is the best punishment for him.
Imperial Doctor Li knelt on the ground, saying that he didn't dare to complain, but his heart was already dripping blood.
Looking at Xiao Shujun's distant back, he wiped his cold sweat, thinking in his heart that he was fortunate to have a box of gold, silver and jewelry from Xiao Ruoxue.
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"What? Is Qin Kexin okay? Xiao Ruoxue was annoyed, didn't she pour the oil on the fire in vain?
"Go and bring back Imperial Doctor Li's box of gold, silver and jewelry, useless old things."
As soon as the words fell, I saw Qin Kexin enter King Qi's mansion.
"What, are you disappointed?" Qin Kexin knew Xiao Ruoxue's little abacus.
Xiao Ruoxue was weak-hearted, "This county lord doesn't know what you're talking about." ”
"Do you know that you know it in your own heart, and you won't use this kind of clumsy trick in the future, it's a shame." Qin Kexin warned Xiao Ruoxue again.
Xiao Ruoxue, who was told about the sore spot, was just about to raise the whip in her hand to beat someone, but fortunately she was stopped by Xiao Ruoqing who came in time, "Ruoxue, don't be rude." ”
Seeing that Qin Kexin was safe and sound, he was happy in his heart.
"Kexin, it's okay if you're okay." Xiao Ruo looked at Qin Kexin with affection.
Qin Kexin smiled politely, and rushed to Mama Qiao's residence, not wanting to entangle the two siblings too much.
"You're worried about people, but people don't appreciate it at all, what do you care about?" Xiao Ruoxue's words were thorny.
Xiao Ruoqing knew her sister's temper, and she was not annoyed. Seeing that Qin Kexin was safe and sound, the heart that had been hanging in the past few days was finally put down, so he didn't want to quarrel with Xiao Ruoxue and affect his mood.
Xiao Ruoxue saw that she was ignored everywhere, and she was even more angry.
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"Mother." Qin Kexin saw the person he had missed for a long time.
Mama Qiao, who was doing the work, heard the familiar voice, turned around, and saw Qin Kexin standing there safe and sound, ran over and hugged Qin Kexin, crying with joy.
Qin Kexin, who felt the embrace of her mother, felt that her fatigue and anxiety for so many days had disappeared.