Chapter 35 Examination
But she couldn't control her tears at all, and wept while thinking about it. During the day, she was boiling soup, and a little maid burned the wrong charcoal fire, causing thick smoke to billowing in the house, so she had to go out to avoid it. Later, when she went in, she found a new jar not far away, and she didn't know what it was boiling, anyway, it was mellow and fragrant, and even she couldn't help swallowing her saliva.
When it was almost dark, a maid came and took some of the contents of the soup and threw it to the dog in front of the door to eat. Then he poured out all the soup and left with the soup.
"It must be this, there must be something wrong with this! What should I do, what should I do~" Liu Mengyan leaned on the window and looked, and there were guards around the house. Looking at Mo Yuhang's attitude, Liu Mengyan suspected that if she broke out now, she would be beaten to death by these people!
Liu Mengyan waited anxiously alone until the next morning, when someone from the government came to take her away. There was no interrogation, and he was directly put in prison! Along the way, no one wanted to listen to her, and she didn't know how long she had been in the dark prison until King Xuan stood outside the prison. As soon as Liu Mengyan saw him, her tears were like beads with broken threads, which could no longer be strung together, and slipped down one after another.
King Xuan squatted down in front of her, through the cell door, stretched out his hand to wipe away her tears, and asked softly, "What your father said, is it true?"
"No, it's not true, I don't, I don't, it's really not me~" Liu Mengyan tugged at his sleeve and looked at him pitifully, making him feel distressed.
"Okay, I believe you, do you believe me?" King Xuan patted her head with his other hand.
Liu Mengyan nodded hurriedly, how could she not believe him?
"Believe me, don't cry, don't be afraid! Be good here, waiting for me to pick you up! King Xuan stroked her face: "Okay?"
"Good!" Liu Mengyan's tears collapsed again: "Then you hurry up, I'm so afraid~"
"Okay, good, don't cry, just get some sleep!" King Xuan kept comforting her. The prison was dark and full of stench, filthy floors, and oversized rats, cockroaches, centipedes, and other bugs. For a woman, that place is not hell, but it is like hell. What's more, if she can be rescued by King Xuan, then the truth about her mother's death can be revealed, and the murderer can be brought to justice. Mother, her mother, in this ancient world where human lives are everywhere, her mother-in-law is so protective of her, even if she breaks into a big carry, she will bear it for her. She was so good to herself, she didn't start to repay her, and she didn't start to hurt her like she hurt herself, and she was killed!
No, you can't let the murderer go unpunished, and you can't let the murderer be so simple as you. Hurting the royal family and slandering the royal family is an unforgivable crime!
If you can get out, you must kill the murderer!
Watching King Xuan leave, Liu Mengyan pinched her palm fiercely: "Can't cry, can't cry, cheer up, think about how to face the next thing, can't cry~"
"Your Majesty, why don't you go in and have a look?" King Xuan walked out of the prison door and looked at the emperor standing at the door.
"No!"
"Does the emperor really want to send her down?"
"If she really kills the imperial sister, let's do it according to the law!" The emperor said helplessly.
"You're ruthless! What if she was wronged? King Xuan looked at him ridiculously.
The emperor sighed, then turned around and walked back: "So, you must find out for me!"
Mo Yuhang originally wanted to kill her with one blow, and he didn't even put her in prison without even interrogation. Thinking that the emperor cares about the princess, he will definitely behead him immediately without saying a word. Unexpectedly, the emperor did not give this order, but let King Xuan come in and participate! Angry, he directly overturned the table!
The next day, King Xuan came to the princess's mansion and asked the parties one by one. Many maids in the house said that the county lord had been boiling soup in the kitchen that day, and had never left, and the only thing to leave was to go to the princess's room with the soup. Then I heard the colt say that the princess was dead! All the maids answered the same thing.
But the only thing is the county lord's personal maid, and the small curtain is gone! The god mysteriously disappeared, and asked no one to know that there was such a person. King Kexuan clearly remembered that it was time for the county lord to have an accident, and it was Xiao Curtain who came to him overnight to beg him to save the county lord.
Ever since Nettle had come to tell him that the colt was going to kill the princess, he had been extremely vigilant in examining every detail, but he didn't expect him to do it so quickly. What King Xuan couldn't imagine was that for his wife, how could he bear to be a killer?
King Xuan collected his thoughts and asked people to stay alone in the princess's mansion one by one in the room where the princess died. In addition to King Xuan, there was also an iron-blooded judge who was known as the Qing Dynasty Lian Ming.
The first one to bring in was a timid little maid: "The slave has seen the prince!"
King Xuan nodded, and raised his hand to signal that she didn't need to be polite: "Don't be nervous, this king, just ask you a few questions, and you can answer truthfully!"
"Yes! What does the prince have, just ask! The little girl was still a little nervous, and a pair of white and tender little hands were tightly tugging at the corners of her clothes.
"Good!" King Xuan quickly got to the point: "What's your name?" What did you do on the day of the incident? What do you see? What do you hear? ”
"Back to the prince, the slave is called Xiaoxi! On the day of the incident, the slave maid was not in the kitchen to make tea for the princess, and after a while, she saw the county lord happily running into the kitchen, walking around a few times, catching a fish for people to kill, and began to clean and make soup! At the halfway point of the night, I heard someone say that the horse found out that the princess had poisoned the princess~"
After the little maid finished speaking, King Xuan paused, took the paper recorded beside him, looked at it, and then handed it to the person who recorded it, signaling him to continue!
"Do you have any good friends in the house?" King Xuan continued to ask.
"There are two, one is called Xiaowen, a little!"
King Xuan looked at the person who recorded it again, and found that the person was as fast as lightning, and recorded all the words on the paper word for word. Turning his head in reassurance: "On the day of the incident, do you know where they were and what they were doing?"
Xiaowen seems to say that she is going to give medicine to the donkey, saying that the pony is sick! Xiaoxiao was in the princess's yard, and that day, it seemed to be cleaning in the yard! ”
King Xuan waved his hand and asked her to go down, and ordered: "Okay, you go down! Go to the next room, and don't have contact with people in the house until the trial is over. ”
"Lord Wang, next, is it a friend who wants to pass on this little girl?" Feng Qinlian, a Qing official beside him, asked.
"No, continue to spread the word about people who have nothing to do with this girl!" King Xuan waved the folding fan, and his movements seemed to be chic, but in fact, there was a bit of a bitter taste!
The next one came was a family member, who seemed to be very bold, King Xuan didn't spend time with him, and asked directly: "What's your name?" Where were you on the day of the incident? What to do? What do you hear? ”
"Go back to the prince!" The family replied with a big grin: "The minion's name is Wanglai!" On the day of the incident, the weather was very good, and the servants bathed the horses in the house until it was dark. Tired lying on the bed and falling asleep, and then halfway through, I heard that the county lord had poisoned the princess, and I felt that I got up to see, but I didn't expect that the princess was really, really ......"
King Xuan: "Then do you have a good friend?" Do you know where they were and what they were doing at the time of the incident? ”
"Yes, Wangcai who cleaned the front yard, he stayed in the front yard that day and didn't go anywhere!"
"Alright, let's go down!"
asked many people, and everyone unanimously replied that the county lord went to the kitchen to make soup from time to time, and never left, so it could be that someone else poisoned and wronged her. Everyone was sure that they had heard the princess's death training in the middle of the day. No matter what they are responsible for, everyone's time can be remembered so clearly, and their answers are the same, which is obviously, it is a collusion!
At this time, King Xuan took the list previously recorded and began to announce the designated people. "Call Xiaoxiao here!"
After a while, a little woman named Little walked in hurriedly: "The slave has seen the prince!"
"Excuse me!" King Xuan: "What were you doing on the day of the incident?" What did you see and hear? ”
"Back to the prince! Of course, the slave maid cleaned the yard, during which the lord of the county came many times, chatted and ate with the princess, and the atmosphere was happy. When it was almost time, Xiaowen asked me to help her go to the kitchen to steal some ingredients while there was no one in the kitchen, and she cleaned it for me. I wanted to be lazy, so I went. She also told me not to tell anyone, I would be punished. When he returned, he happened to see the princess carrying fish soup to drink. After a while, the county lord ran out quickly. Then the colt went in and found that the princess was no longer dead! ”
"Okay, let's go down!"
"Call Wangcai in!" King Xuan looked at the list and said.
Wangcai is very handsome, a small face is sharp and round at a glance, and a pair of big eyes keep turning: "The slave sees the prince!"
"Where were you on the day of the incident? What do you see? What do you hear? ”
"Back to the prince, the slaves really cleaned the yard that day. It was probably not around the time, and suddenly I saw the county lord running happily past the minion, and he was still muttering about boiling soup! ”
"And then?"
Wangcai: "Then, about halfway through the hour, word came out that the county lord had poisoned the soup and poisoned the princess!"
"Poison in the soup?"
"Yes, the whole house knew that night that the county lord was poisoned in the soup!"
"Why is that?" King Xuan was curious.
"The minions don't know, and the news just spreads?"
King Xuan: "Who spread the word?"
Wangcai: "This, the slave doesn't know!"
King Xuan: "Who told you that the county lord poisoned the princess?"
Maid: "It seems to be prosperous!"
Maid: "I don't know who said it first, several sisters are talking about it!"
Maid: "Wangcai said it first!"
"Wangcai!"
"It's Wangcai~"
Everyone recognized it as prosperity.
King Xuan stopped continuing to ask: "Call Xiaowen in!"
"The slave has seen the prince!"
"What were you doing on the day of the incident? What were you doing when the princess died? ”
"Back to the prince, on the day of the incident, the slave maid first bought a pair of sleep aids for the horse to go to the street, and then kept boiling the medicine in the kitchen."
King Xuan: "What were you doing when you first arrived?"
"Back to the prince, at that time, the slave maid had just boiled the medicine and was about to send it to the courtyard of the concubine, but I didn't expect to hear that the county lord had poisoned the princess halfway, so I came to the princess's yard!"
"Alright, let's go down!" King Xuan picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea. "Lord Feng, please keep all the subordinates in the mansion in custody and not allow anyone to visit. Hold Wangcai and Xiaowen alone, secretly detain, and can't let anyone know! ”
Feng Qinhuan immediately stood up and saluted: "Yes, but according to the orders of the prince!"
King Xuan returned the salute: "It's hard work!"
Before coming, King Xuan had asked Xiao Lumo to ask Liu Mengyan, and Liu Mengyan said that she had finished lunch and was still drunk for a while before going to make soup, and it was estimated that the time was probably at the end of the day. And everyone's confession is a delay. After putting the soup on the fire, Liu Mengyan deliberately looked at the hour in order to calculate the time. After that, Mo Yuan boiled for three hours, that is, an hour and a half, and put it for half an hour to season and let it cool, until the temperature of the soup was just right, and the entrance was neither hot nor cold, then he ran over quickly and served it to the princess to drink.
Liu Mengyan cried and asked, obviously she also drank the soup, why is she still alive, but the princess is dead! Xiao Lumo patted her shoulder and whispered, "Silly piggy, you forgot, you have eaten other people's holy fruits, and you are already invincible to all poisons!"
"I forgot, at that time, I could save my mother, and the people in Changchun Hall said that my blood could be detoxified. It's me who forgot, it's me who forgot! When Liu Mengyan suddenly knew that she had the ability to save her mother, the pain in her heart was overwhelming, and she couldn't breathe and couldn't breathe in pain!
After the trial, King Xuan came to the front hall, and the horse looked decadent, and the cyan Hu fork on his face added a bit of exhaustion. King Xuan smiled embarrassedly: "Forgive this king for being incompetent, and he hasn't found out any news that is conducive to the princess's death training, and I hope that Ma Mo will be blamed!"
"No problem! Although the emperor ordered a thorough investigation of the matter, the little girl was ruthless and the evidence was ironclad, no matter how she investigated, she would not escape death. On one side is a wife, on the other side is a beloved daughter, all, all, alas! It's all my old bones, and I don't have a way to teach my daughter......"
King Xuan apologized to the horse, humble and respectful, without the slightest prince arrogance: "It's also that the king is incompetent, but the king promised the horse that he would definitely find out the truth, so he had to borrow the servants from the house for a while. The scarce manpower in the house, this king sent someone to the top, and when the king found out, he would return to Zhao! ”
Mo Yuhang obviously hated to death in his heart, and he had to pretend to be sad and happy on his face: "So, thank you King Xuan, you must, you must find out, so that Jingru can go with peace of mind!"
"That's natural, the princess and this king have also been friends since childhood. And the princess is still older than this king, and she is also the elder of this king, and this king will not let his elders die in vain! ”
"I still hope that King Xuan will see clearly, in this way, I will be annoyed by King Xuan, and I will not accompany him!" Mo Yuhang pretended to be weak and weak, and was helped to rest.
As soon as he entered the room, Mo Yuhang flicked his sleeves and sat on the chair with an extremely grim face. Lu Lan knew that he was in a bad mood, poured a cup of tea, and handed it to him carefully: "Master, now that King Xuan is investigating this matter so thoroughly, what should we do?"
Mo Yuhang was drinking tea, and when he heard this voice, his eyes suddenly lit up. put down the tea bowl and pulled Lu Lan into his arms: "Don't worry, the husband has already thought of a way, Lan'er just needs to do what I say!"
Lu Lan waved her handkerchief shyly: "Okay, everything is up to the master, the concubine!"
"Jing Xuan, why don't you try it, you haven't asked anything yet! The speed is so slow, when will the nettle come out! Xiao Lumo hurriedly walked around in front of King Xuan: "The prison is already dark and dirty, how can she stand that suffering as a girl!"
King Xuan stroked his forehead: "This matter is not in a hurry, we have to wait!"
"How long will we wait, can we wait, Nierd?" Xiao Ran Mo hurriedly circled.
King Xuan was silent for a while, then got up and came to the prison with Xiao Luomo!
Liu Mengyan sat on a pile of hay and hugged herself. The hair was not scattered, but the clothes became dirty due to environmental problems. King Xuan ordered someone to open the cell door, walked over and patted her on the head gently, and helped her to the small bench that Xiao Luan Mo put on the ground. Then spread the quilt he brought on the ground, and then handed her a set of clean clothes, and changed them under the protection of him and Xiao Luomo.
"Nettle, don't be afraid, my cousin is here, and Jing Xuan, he is trying to find a way to get you out, and you can get out soon!" Xiao Ranmo rarely shows his side as an elder brother. While coaxing her, he took out some food for her: "Eat quickly, my cousin will come to see you every day in the future!"
"Well, thank you, cousin!" Liu Mengyan sat on the small bench obediently and ate small snacks one bite at a time. In the past few days, the food in the prison is rancid and smelly, no matter how persistent Liu Mengyan is, she can't take a bite of it, such food! I don't know how happy I am when I can eat some of the things I usually eat!
King Xuan patted her head again: "Trust me!"
"Well, I believe you!" Liu Mengyan smiled: "You don't have to worry about me, it doesn't matter what I do, the important thing is to bring the murderer who killed my mother to justice!" Even if that person is my father! ”
"Good! Wait for me! King Xuan touched her face, and then left with Xiao Lumo!
Three days later!
Xiao Lumo jumped again: "Jing Xuan, you said you were going to wait, I've been waiting for three days! I haven't done anything for three days, how can I ......"
"That's it!" King Xuan interrupted him: "Let's go, go and have a round with Lord Feng, and then go to the Princess's Mansion!" Then decisively go ahead. Xiao Lumo hurriedly followed. The group came to the princess's mansion in a mighty way, and then summoned room by room.
King Xuan was assigned a group of six, so this time it was six people who came. After being humane, King Xuan was angry, slapped the table and said angrily: "Wangcai and Xiaowen have been recruited, don't you recruit yet?"
When everyone heard, you looked at me and I looked at you, and they didn't say anything. Until King Xuan was afraid of the table again. Everyone knelt on the ground in unison, saying that what they had begun to say was a lie, and they didn't remember when the county lord went to boil the soup, nor did they remember when the princess died! The county lord did leave halfway through the soup! There was also a mysterious soup maid, but after that day, the maid was never seen again. It's the colt who tells the lie, or else it will be sold into the kiln!
Lord Feng watched in amazement as they told the truth, and instructed the person who recorded it to write it down quickly.
Everything that follows has been recruited, and only Xiaowen and Wangcai, who are imprisoned alone, are left!
"Bring Xiaowen up!"
After a few days of calm, Xiaowen suddenly began to panic again.