Hearing Chu Qingli say this, the queen mother looked at Xiao Feng twice, and the queen mother looked at Xiao Feng, asked Chu Qingli curiously, and said, "Didn't you always bring that girl named Qinghe into the palace every day?" Why did you change people today? But what did your previous girl do wrong? ”

Listening to the queen's question, Chu Qingli turned his head and glanced at Xiao Feng, his eyes full of sympathy. Then he turned his head to look at the queen mother, sighed deeply and said, "I think this girl is too pitiful, so I want to take her with me." ”

Looking at Chu Qingli's extremely sympathetic and sad look, the queen mother was even more curious. "Oh? What's going on, what's wrong with this girl? The queen looked at Xiao Feng, and looked at her as delicate and delicate, not like she had suffered, but her temperament was too restrained.

Chu Qingli sighed again, shook his head and said: "This girl was looked down upon by an official, she didn't want to, so the person beat her brother to death, no, they have no power and power, and they can't avenge his brother." Chu Qingli pretended to wipe the corners of his eyes with a handkerchief, wanting to win the sympathy of the queen.

When the queen mother heard this, she leaned forward, wondering what was going on? "If there is such a thing, is it true that the yamen in the capital are not doing anything?"

"Her brother was beaten to death, so naturally he had to go to the government to report to the official, but the official position of the evil man was too high, and the people of the yamen did not dare to disobey him, so they suppressed the matter, and in the end, they were not the ones who were pitiful." Chu Qingli had red eyes, and explained what had happened to the queen mother.

The queen mother was a little angry after hearing this, and slapped the armrest of the chair fiercely, "How can this be reasonable, such a hurtful thing can happen at the feet of the Son of Heaven, this palace wants to know, which great official is it that can still get away with killing people." ”

The queen mother looked at Chu Qingli and asked her to tell the perpetrator. Chu Qing stopped talking, looking very entangled, and finally shook his head, persuaded the queen mother and said: "Niangniang, this matter has been several months, Niangniang still don't interfere, so as not to make yourself unhappy." ”

"If you don't find that person out and punish him well, it will make this palace unhappy." The queen mother was full of anger, which was exactly what Chu Qingli wanted, and the queen mother looked directly at Chu Qingli, and said to Chu Qingli in a commanding tone: "This palace asks you to say it, you can rest assured and say it boldly, no one will know." ”

Chu Qingli lowered his head and gently raised his eyes to look at the queen mother, "It's all my fault for being too talkative, I knew that the queen wouldn't have blocked it." ”

The queen is now furious, she doesn't know that there are still such presumptuous people in Chaozhou who disregard people's lives. Such a person, who is worthy of being an official?

Chu Qingli's hesitation made the queen mother feel even more irritable, and the queen mother's tone was a little impatient, "How can the princess swallow and vomit today, there is no freedom in the past, this palace is asking you, do you want to disobey this palace?" ”

"Don't dare, don't dare." Chu Qingli hurriedly replied, then bit his lower lip, and replied to the queen in a low voice: "Yes...... It is the book of the Ministry of Officials. ”

"Is that him?" The queen mother was obviously a little surprised, she didn't expect that Wu Jingzhi looked upright on weekdays, who knew that he could do such a shameless thing.

The queen mother has all the relationships in this person in her mind, and the queen mother has indeed heard of this person, but she doesn't know much about him. Wu Jingzhi is a civil official, and he is very low-key in the court on weekdays, and rarely argues with other ministers, so the queen rarely hears about him. Hearing Chu Qingli talk about this matter today, she was very surprised, it wasn't like something that Wu Jingzhi could do.

The queen mother went through Chu Qingli's words in her mind a few times, and asked Chu Qingli very cautiously and said: "What you said is true, it is about important officials of the imperial court, if there is a little deviation in this matter, I am afraid that the result will be very different." ”

Chu Qingli nodded firmly at the queen mother, "It's true, this is what Xiao Feng said to me personally, I have also read the complaint they wrote, and everything must be consistent with what I said, if the queen mother doesn't believe it." You can send someone to the yamen to investigate, and you will definitely be able to find out the complaint they submitted before. Chu Qingli had a frank face, she was not afraid of the queen mother to check this matter, the queen mother looked at her, and guessed in her heart that she didn't dare to use this matter to deceive herself, so she believed it a little in her heart.

The iron was struck while it was hot, in order to let the queen believe his words, Chu Qingli beckoned to Xiao Feng and said, "You yourself explain this matter to the queen mother, you must tell the queen mother as it is, and you can't let go of any detail." ”

Xiao Feng hadn't spoken yet, but she felt a little choked in her throat, just listening to Chu Qingli's relays just now, the sourness in her heart came up again. Xiao Feng swallowed his saliva, suppressed his crying, and replied to Chu Qingli: "Yes!" ”

Immediately, Xiao Feng knelt down in front of the queen mother, prostrate on the ground, and said to the queen mother earnestly: "Back to the queen mother, the slave maid and the elder brother were buying in the market that day, and they happened to meet the official book. But one was seen by the adult, and he ...... He looked at the slave and maid's posture, and wanted to forcibly take it back to the house. The slave and maid naturally refused, and the elder brother was on the side, and he would definitely not watch the slave and maid being taken away by the adult, so he stepped forward...... Stood up in front of the slave and the maid, and protected the slave and maid behind him...... "Xiao Feng thought back to the situation there, and still felt a lot of pain in his heart, seeing his brother in front of him, being beaten to death by life, how desperate and sad it was?

Xiao Feng closed her eyes, and her brother's tragic situation lingered in her mind. Tears wet her eyelashes and ticked to the ground. Xiao Feng warned herself in her heart that she couldn't cry, and she also had to expose Wu Jingzhi's evil deeds to the queen.

Xiao Feng reopened his eyes, wiped the corners of his eyes with the back of his hand, sniffed hard, and said to the queen mother with a crying voice: "Although my brother has the heart to protect me, he is outnumbered after all, and finally ...... Eventually, he collapsed and never got back up. Speaking of this, Xiao Feng couldn't hold back any longer, covered her face and cried out, crying so heartbroken that the queen couldn't bear to interrupt her.