Saying that, a few people walked into the palace quickly, it had snowed before, but the palace roads were all swept, and it was still very easy to walk.

In less than two quarters of an hour, several people had already come to the front of the Dongnuan Pavilion, and a little eunuch saw it from a distance, and hurriedly went in to pass it.

When they arrived at the door, the cotton curtain had been opened, and the little eunuch smiled and stretched out his hand and said:

"The prince is inside, please, His Majesty is waiting inside."

Zhu Yunmo glanced at Zhou Heng, only to find that Zhou Heng was also wearing the clothes of the Rejuvenation Hall, not wearing an official uniform, this discovery made him stunned, and asked in a low voice:

"Hey, why haven't you changed your official uniform?"

Zhou Heng lowered his eyes and looked at Zhu Yunmo innocently.

"I forgot in a hurry, this is not just a day of being an official, don't care about this, go in quickly."

Zhu Yunmo knew that it was useless to say anything now, and stepped into the East Warm Pavilion.

The emperor sat in front of the imperial book case and seemed to watch the folds, while Fang Jizhong stood aside and waited, and several people walked quickly to the front and bowed.

The Emperor raised his eyelids, glanced at it and did not scream.

"I heard from Fang Banban that his people went to ask the apprentice of the Zhou court, but they were blocked by the Zhou court, I don't know if there is such a thing?"

Zhou Heng hurriedly straightened up, clenched his fists and said:

"Back to Your Majesty, there is indeed this matter, when the incident happened suddenly, those people were just wearing strong suits, the minister had never seen people dressed like this, and he didn't know if it was true or false for a while, so at this moment, please take the prince into the palace with us, if you need to answer questions, it just so happens that several of us are here."

Only then did the emperor raise his head, throw away the fold in his hand, and look at Zhou Heng who was kneeling below.

"You mean, if you check your apprentice, I will personally make an order, right?"

Zhou Heng knew that this was when the factory guard went back, and he learned the original words, but he could say this in the way of the factory guard, but if you really said this in front of the emperor, you would like to die.

He hurriedly bowed down, a look of shock on his face.

"Your Majesty, the minister couldn't distinguish the truth from the fake at that time, this was just a sentence of haste at that time, if the minister really thought so, wouldn't it be a great crime of rebellion.

The minister's apprentice Xiu'er participated in the palace banquet for the first time, so he went to the Queen Mother's palace and the Baohe Palace, which are crowded places, so looking for someone to ask, so the minister felt a little surprised, so the first reaction at that time was that there was fraud in this matter, and it was impossible to confirm the identity of those people, so he said this. ”

The emperor snorted and looked at Zhu Yunmo.

"What are you doing here? Afraid that I will eat Zhou Heng or Miss Liu? ”

Zhu Yunmo looked aggrieved, "My nephew just wanted to know what was going on, thinking that the imperial uncle was what's wrong here, he was very worried, and he hurriedly followed when he heard the news." ”

The emperor's face looked a little better, and he waved his sleeves at several people.

"Get up and talk back."

Zhou Heng breathed a sigh of relief, and the three of them stood up and stood below with their heads slightly down.

The emperor said to Fang Jizhong beside him:

"Isn't Fang Banban going to ask, and there is no need to change places, just ask here, and I will listen to it."

Fang Jizhong hurriedly saluted and said yes, and turned to look at Liu Xiu'er below.

"Miss Liu, we want to ask you, when you went to the palace of Concubine Shu yesterday and returned to the Baohe Palace, did you stop on the road?"

Liu Xiu'er paused, leaned over and said:

"Coming out of the concubine's dormitory, passing through the imperial garden, there seemed to be a lot of noisy people, and the palace maid who led the courtiers said that they wanted the courtiers to follow to see, but the courtiers felt that this was a harem and could not move around at will, so they refused, she said let me wait for her, I stood on the side of the road for a while, and when she came back, she sent me back to the Baohe Palace."

Fang Jizhong nodded, clapped his hands and two little eunuchs walked over with things, one put down a square ink plate one foot square, and the other was a roll of white paper, one arm wide and long, Fang Jizhong said with a smile:

"Would you please Miss Liu stand on the cloth with ink and walk a few steps forward along the white paper?"

Liu Xiuer didn't know why, but she still picked up her skirt, stood in the ink tray and dyed the soles of her feet with ink, and a palace maid walked over and helped Liu Xiuer walk over on the white paper.

Zhou Heng looked at the things on the ground, his eyes narrowed, why do you want to rub the shoes, is this to compare the footprints?

Could it be that there was something theft in the palace, leaving only footprints and it was impossible to identify whose it was, so the women who entered the harem that day were compared?

In the end, the ink on Xiu'er's shoes was completely gone, so she hurriedly returned to Zhou Heng and stood behind.

I saw Father-in-law Fang waving towards the door, and a man in a strong-suit with white hair and eyebrows stepped forward to meet the emperor and Father-in-law Fang.

Father-in-law Fang ordered: "Hurry up and compare." ”

The man said yes, and then he opened a scroll, and inside was a similar footprint, but Zhou Heng knew at a glance that this was a painting, not a mark of stepping on, from the size of the shoe to the gait was almost exactly the same, the white-eyed man quickly knelt down and said excitedly:

"Your Majesty, these footprints are exactly the same."

Sure enough, as soon as these words came out, the emperor's eyes when he looked at Liu Xiu'er were different.

Raising his hand and waving the tea cup on the imperial book case to the ground, the tea was scattered on the ground, the broken porcelain pieces splashed, and Zhu Yunmo and the three of them quickly knelt down.

"You still haven't recruited from the truth, but you told me what you did after the palace maid left?"

Liu Xiu'er was frightened, and the whole person was covered with a lie on the ground, and said tremblingly:

"The courtiers don't know what Your Majesty wants to know, the courtiers just waited for the palace maid on the side of the road for about a quarter of an hour, and then she came and we went back to ......"

Before Liu Xiu'er finished speaking, the emperor waved his sleeves.

"Fang Companion, call the palace maid over."

Fang Jizhong hurriedly called a little eunuch to summon him, and the emperor looked at the three people kneeling on the ground.

Zhu Yunmo was a little anxious, knelt forward and kowtowed two steps and asked:

"Please also ask Uncle Huang to make it clear, what happened, I am confused now."

"Fang Companion will accompany you!"

The emperor's face was pale, and he had lost his usual calmness, and it was clear that something had happened that made him extremely angry.

Zhou Heng looked at the two pieces of paper on the ground, the gait and footprint size on them were indeed very similar, but what could this mean?

It can only mean that the person is a woman, the same size as Xiu'er's shoes.

Zhou Heng squinted his eyes and looked at the footprints carefully, Xiu'er's footprints and toes were slightly inward, and some of the toes of the drawn footprints were inward, and some were outward, normal people walked, and they would not deliberately change their gait in non-specific circumstances, so he was a little confused by this discovery.

Could it be that this man is still dancing when he walks?

Or deliberately disrupt other people's auditions?

If it's the latter, it's a problem.

At the same time, Fang Jizhong walked up to the three of them and began to speak.

"The Imperial Garden is divided into two parts, east and west, during the palace banquet, someone in the East Garden fell into the ice lake, so a lot of people gathered to watch, and a few eunuchs of the Internal Affairs Office who knew how to wash the water inquired about the past and saved people.

On the other side, the West Garden of the Imperial Garden is a forest rockery, during which there are several pavilions, and the eunuch who was responsible for clearing the snow in the afternoon found that Sun Zhaoyi's body was found in the rockery behind the Canglan Pavilion. ”

Zhou Heng was stunned and quickly raised his head, Zhu Yunmo and Liu Xiu'er also raised their faces in shock and looked at him, who is this Sun Zhaoyi?

Who knows, if you die, it will depend on Liu Xiuer's body?

Fang Jizhong continued:

Sun Zhaoyi's body was lying face down on the ground, and when he found it, he was already dead of anger, and his body was not stiff, and Liu Yuan judged that he was poisoned and died, and this poison was poison, and there was no such poison in the harem, and Sun Zhaoyi only left this series of footprints behind him.

The little eunuch who cleaned said that the snow lived at noon, and he had inspected it here, and found no abnormality, and then he was busy cleaning the snow on the road, so he came up here, and waited until the afternoon to clean the Canglan Pavilion, and found Sun Zhaoyi's body at this time. ”

Zhu Yunmo's eyes widened and he looked at the emperor.

"Uncle Huang relied on such a series of footprints to conclude that Liu Xiu'er was the murderer?"

The emperor's face was gloomy, obviously this Sun Zhaoyi had a different status in the emperor's heart, and slapped the imperial book case hard.

"Daring, how do you talk to me?"

Zhu Yunmo wilted in an instant, knelt honestly, and the emperor raised his eyes and said:

"Of course, it's more than that, the palace maid who led Miss Liu back to the Baohe Palace, her confession is very different from what Miss Liu said."

After saying this, the little eunuch who had gone to deliver the message came in quickly, knelt down and said:

"Your Majesty, Su'e, the palace maid of Chuxiu Palace, brought it."

"Biography."