The emperor waved his hand, and Concubine Shu walked behind the imperial book case and picked up the painting to take a closer look.

"That's right, the concubine is dressed like this, and Your Majesty knows it, especially the concubine inserted a nauvelle flower behind her ear yesterday, and Your Majesty also drew it this week."

The emperor patted her hand, as if he wanted to ask her not to participate, but the concubine did not seem to understand, and bent down again and said:

"Your Majesty, although this Su'e is a person from my Chuxiu Palace, she is a newcomer, Yuqing, you say, where was this Yuqing on an errand before?"

The palace maid who came with Concubine Shu hurriedly gave a salute.

Then he took out a scroll from his sleeve, unfolded it, and turned to a page.

"Back to the words of the concubine, this is the palace file, this Su'e is one of the people added by the queen to Chuxiu Palace on the second day of December, and she is listed as a second-class palace maid in Chuxiu Palace."

As soon as these words came out, the emperor's eyebrows trembled slightly, he didn't like the harem battle the most, but over the years, maybe the prince and princess have grown up, and the harem has been quieter, although he rarely mixes in some things, and most of them are left to the queen to take care of.

The queen even eats fasting and recites Buddha, except for occasionally going to sit, the emperor seems to rarely mention this wife.

"The queen sent it?"

Yuqing held the scroll aloft alof.

"Please take a look at Your Majesty, this is the record of the Internal Affairs Office, the slaves and maids are just borrowed and presented to Your Majesty, and the people from the Internal Affairs Office are outside."

Su'e, who was kneeling on the ground, was already trembling, so many people were commenting on her, and they were all the ones who controlled her fate, her face was pale and her forehead was sweaty.

The emperor's eyes were fixed on the palace maid Su'e and asked:

"I ask you, did you just tell the truth?"

Su E knocked her head three times in a row, her forehead instantly saw blood, and she raised her face to look at the emperor.

"Back to Your Majesty, the slave and maid are true."

"Then the Zhou Court just asked you, why can't you answer what Miss Liu and Concubine Shu wore yesterday?"

Su'e burst into tears, crawling and trembling.

"Slave maid...... The slave was just nervous, and she couldn't remember it for a while. ”

"Then why do you remember the footprints on Miss Liu's dress? But someone taught you? ”

Su'e shook her head vigorously, straightened up and wiped a handful of tears.

"Your Majesty, although the slave maid was assigned to Chuxiu Palace by the queen, the slave maid did not forget for a moment that she was a person from Chuxiu Palace, every word is true, and there is no half to hide, today...... Today is just to tell what he has seen and known, and Su'e is determined to die. ”

Before the words fell, the whole person jumped up like a cannonball, and rushed towards a pillar in front of him.

Concubine Shu was frightened and retreated, and fell towards the emperor with a stumbling foot, and the emperor could only quickly help Concubine Shu up.

Fang Jizhong pointed at Su'e and shouted:

"Stop her!"

Several little eunuchs poured in at the door, but the distance was too far to come.

And the palace maid Su'e had already rushed to the pillar at this time, and when she was about to hit the pillar, Zhu Yunmo had already stood up and kicked Su'e in the abdomen.

Such a sudden kick directly kicked Su'e sideways.

Falling down with one hand on the steps, there was a click, and Su'e raised her head and screamed sharply, curled up on the ground.

You don't need to look at Zhou Heng to know that this is a broken arm.

And it may be a humerus fracture, so vigorous, the shoulder joint of the upper arm must be affected, if it is severe, it will be avulsed, such pain cannot be described, but Zhou Heng didn't have the heart to go over and see.

This person falsely accused Liu Xiu'er and wanted to drag him and Zhu Yunmo into the water, and even Concubine Shu was difficult to preserve.

What a big game this is, and the person behind this person is so scheming that it is shocking.

Seeing that the person was not dead, Concubine Shu breathed a sigh of relief, turned around and glanced at the emperor, and said in a low voice aggrievedly:

"I'm scared of the concubine, this concubine doesn't want it, please ask Your Majesty to help return it to the queen."

Zhou Heng wanted to applaud Concubine Shu, these little shoes were skilled.

Shocked the pregnant concubine, what a felony this is, compared with a dead Zhaoyi, this is much more important than that, and I didn't ask for a serious rule, but I just begged to return this person, and this expression was in place.

Zhu Yunmo also knelt down at this moment.

"The nephew made a move in a panic and asked the imperial uncle to atone for his sins, but the nephew felt that this person was very strange, this was just an investigation in court, why did he have to hit the pillar and die, is he afraid of leaking his mouth?"

The emperor looked at Su'e, who was constantly wailing, and glanced at Fang Jizhong, who was not good, Fang Jizhong's soul trembled, and he quickly knelt down.

"Your Majesty, the slave will send someone to interrogate."

Only then did the emperor retract his gaze, and Fang Jizhong hurriedly glanced at the little eunuchs, and dragged Su'e out one by one.

As soon as he got started, Su E roared even more, and Fang Jizhong was also angry.

"You don't need to be treated, interrogate like this first, make it clear and then find the imperial doctor, you can't die."

Zhou Heng thought for a moment, then clenched his fists and said:

"Your Majesty, can you let the minister go and see the footprints on the Xiyuan rockery?"

The emperor seemed to be a little shaken, and glanced at Fang Jizhong.

"Yesterday's footprints are gone, are they still there today?"

"Back to Your Majesty, the footprints are still there, the weather is cold outside, and it is sunny today, but it has not melted."

The emperor stood up, "Yuqing sent Concubine Shu back to the palace." ”

Concubine Shu got up and was helped away by Yuqing.

Before leaving, he glanced at Zhou Heng, although it was only a faint glance, Zhou Heng read a lot of meanings, and slightly lowered his head to digest the information.

Obviously, this Shuguifei sensed that someone around her was restless and wanted to take advantage of this to clean up, which meant to make Zhou Heng feel at ease.

However, Zhou Heng is not rare, he doesn't want to get involved in the disputes in the harem, one Zhu Yunmo will break his heart, if there is anything else, then he doesn't want to die!

Seeing that the people were gone, the emperor stood up.

"Let's get up, let's go and see together, I also want to know, how many shady deeds there are in this harem, it is my Zhaoyi who died today, although he is not favored, he is also my concubine, how can he allow others to trample on and drive the West Garden!"

The movements of the people were extremely fast, and in less than two quarters of an hour, these people came to the West Garden.

A group of factory guards surrounded Xiyuan, and when they saw the emperor coming, they knelt down one after another.

Fang Jizhong led the way and called a eunuch who was in charge of Xiyuan to walk towards the rockery behind the Canglan Pavilion together.

Although it is winter, this West Garden is full of pines and cypresses, and it does not look decadent, and the layers of rockeries and strange stones are exceptionally beautiful against the backdrop of snow.

When I walked to the front of the Canglan Pavilion, I saw a series of footsteps extending to a gap in the rockery, and looking at the traces on the ground, it was obvious that it was the place where the corpse was discarded.

There were only footprints on the ground at the location of the Canglan Pavilion, and it seemed that in order to protect this footprint, the corpse was also carried away from the other side.

Therefore, as far as the eye can see, there is no other footprint in the more than 20 meters from the Canglan Pavilion to the gap between the rockery.

However, this footprint attracted Zhou Heng's attention.

In terms of the shape of the footprints, the factory guards who investigated were attentive, and the direction of each footprint was the same as the width and width of each footprint.

However, the footprints were very deep, exposing the stones directly from the ground.

Zhou Heng raised his foot and stepped on a snow without footprints, only a snow nest appeared on the ground, and all the snow on the ground was not stepped on, and the middle position was flattened as if melting to form a layer of ice film, and some lines on the soles of the shoes were all imprinted on it.

Zhou Heng squatted, squinting at the footprints he had stepped on.

The emperor glanced at Zhou Heng, and his such strange movements attracted the emperor's attention.

"Did the Zhou court judge find anything?"

Zhou Heng pointed to his footprints and said:

"Your Majesty, please see, this is the footprint that the minister just stepped on, what is the difference between it and the footprint on the rockery?"

The emperor looked at it and shook his head slightly.

"Let's be honest, what's the difference."

Zhou Heng knew that this was not the time to sell Guanzi, so he hurriedly said:

"This snow, the snow will not melt immediately when people step on it, and the footprints left behind should be the kind of people who step on them, you see that the middle should be sunken in, and the flattened snow has a pattern on the soles of shoes, and the footprints are directly below the stones, which is unreasonable."

Fang Jizhong looked at Zhou Heng and retorted directly:

"Zhou Yuanju is a person, and he is thin, if a person carries a corpse on his back, it will definitely be different if he steps out."

"Where is so troublesome, try it and find out!"

Zhu Yunmo squeezed over, leaned over and directly carried Zhou Heng on his back.

Next to Zhou Heng who had just stepped on it, he jumped up and landed with both feet, this weight is definitely needless to say, much heavier than the two women.

As soon as Zhu Yunmo raised his feet, everyone's eyes fell on the footprints.

Compared with Zhou Heng's, this footprint was a little deeper, but it only flattened the snow vertically, except for a little snow at the heel, which did not lift all the snow on the ground.

The emperor was stunned, looked at Zhou Heng and Zhu Yunmo, and pondered for a moment with a puzzled expression.

"Then there are no snow footprints, how it was formed, you can tell me about it!"