Chapter 161: Under the Darkness
After all, this palace banquet is also to pick up the wind and wash the dust for Princess Pinghu, but I didn't expect this kind of thing to happen, how can this make today's face passable? This heart is naturally angry!
"No, it's not, the courtier's strength is smaller, and she was quickly pushed aside, and the carvings on the small bridge were all broken by the courtier, and the courtier's clothes were also newly changed, and the one with the hole was in the courtier's carriage." Li Lian shook her hand and hurriedly explained.
Then Li Lian continued: "Just when the courtiers wanted to stand up, Zheng Mengna and Shen Yuxiang had already pushed Wang Linna down the river, originally the courtiers wanted to call for help, but Zheng Mengna and Shen Yuxiang threatened the courtiers, if the courtiers really went to call people, they said that the courtiers retreated from Songshan Pond!" ”
"So you watched that Wang Linna drown?" Today's face is already iron-blue, how vicious is this heart, to watch a living life drown in the pool?
"No, Your Majesty! The courtiers took advantage of Zheng Mengna and Shen Yuxiang's inattention, and secretly told the palace people about it, but it was too late..."After Li Lian finished speaking, the strength of her whole body seemed to be suddenly drained, and she fell to the ground.
At this time, Zheng Mengna had long lost her previous panic, knelt on the ground, there were tears in her eyes, and said to Jinshang seriously: "Your Majesty is clear, it is really this Li Lian who pushed Wang Linna down the Songshan Pond, and she was the one who beat her upside down!" The courtiers and Shen Yuxiang were wronged! ”
At this time, Shen Yuxiang, who was beside Zheng Mengna, also nodded heavily, but in fact, he didn't have any opinions in his heart.
"You! You guys! Li Lian pointed at Zheng Mengna and Shen Yuxiang angrily, her chest rose and fell greatly, and it only eased up a little after a while.
"It's clear that the two of you are threatening me! If I reveal this truthfully, you two will blame me for everything! Li Lian yelled at Zheng Mengna and Shen Yuxiang with great resentment.
"Then you say, since we are murderers, why did you wipe the traces on your shoes with a weak heart?" Zheng Mengna's whole person seemed to be extremely confident, without the slightest fear or guilt.
This makes everyone around me wonder, who is this murderer, this has its own rhetoric, and no one looks like they are lying.
Li Lian looked at the shameless Zheng Mengna in front of her, and she never expected it, so she went on to explain: "Even you were the ones who pushed me out just now to testify against Princess Huaining and Princess Pinghu!" That's why I was anxious to get rid of the involvement, and when Princess Huaining deduced, I washed the mud stains on the call, and even changed this outfit to clear up the suspicion. ”
After Li Lian finished speaking, she raised her head boldly, and the tears on her face had not yet been wiped away, so she kowtowed her head again and said, "Please Your Majesty be clear." ”
Although Zheng Mengna's expression was as usual, and it really made people unable to see anything abnormal, but Shen Yuxiang was different, trembling all over, lowering her head, and she was already panicked.
And Shen Yuxiang couldn't stop whispering and asked Zheng Mengna: "What should we do now?" What do we do? ”
"Rubbish!" Zheng Mengna naturally noticed that Shen Yuxiang had ruined herself, and scolded angrily.
Seeing this scene, where could Jin Shang and everyone present not know who was lying, when he got up and stood up with his hands in his hands, he said: "Enough, drag these two people down first, and interrogate them well!" ”
"If this is the case, then these two people will be dealt with by law, no one is allowed to intercede, his father will be demoted to the third class, and he will be fined for three years, Li Lian will be regarded as an accomplice, and his father will be demoted to one class and fined one year." Imakami commanded the guards beside him.
Then he said to the prince-in-law: "Bury Wang Linna, appease Jing Zhaoyin for me, I am tired today, so let's all retreat." Imami waved his hand very tiredly and said, and then took the hand of the other father-in-law and left.
This farce-like murder is over here, but Su Ziran still can't accept it for a while, how can a good palace banquet be so deceitful, thinking of this, Su Ziran, who is not deeply involved in the world, still can't help but feel a little creepy, if he is in Gu Muyan's position today, I'm afraid he won't even be able to say a word of rebuttal!
The palace banquet was unhappily dispersed, almost no one had a smile on their faces, or doubts, or frowns, or sighed, and the expressions on everyone's faces were different, but more of them were still looking at the lively appearance.
After all, it didn't happen to him, and no one would really take all this as one thing, at most it was just a conversation after dinner.
"What's wrong?" Gu Muyan saw the frustration on Su Ziran's face, and also knew that Su Ziran was probably the first time to experience such a thing, and he had seen this expression himself, wasn't it the same as himself who had just stepped into the palace in his previous life?
If it weren't for my grandfather and Cheng Qi, I'm afraid I would have been gnawed to the point that I didn't even have a bone left, but in the end I was still just a chess piece.
Su Ziran was silent for a long time before he slowly raised his head, and said to Gu Muyan with an extremely serious face: "Yan'er, today's events are really terrible, if I were you, I am afraid that I would not even be able to say a word of rebuttal, and I am afraid that I will become a wronged soul under the knife!" ”
"No, don't you have me?" Gu Muyan took Su Ziran's hand and said comfortingly.
"Well, Yan'er, I sometimes think that you don't look like a human, like a fairy!" Su Ziran looked at Gu Muyan's appearance a little distracted, this sentence was really from the heart, Su Ziran really felt that Gu Muyan was sometimes a little unreal, as if it was close in front of him, and it seemed to be far away in the sky.
When Gu Muyan sent Su Ziran to the gate of the palace, the two separated, because of the will of the Queen Mother, Gu Muyan would live in the palace for the next few days, so naturally he couldn't go out of the palace with Su Ziran today.
"When I leave the palace, I will definitely come to Su Mansion to find you as soon as possible." Gu Muyan and Su Ziran reluctantly held each other's hands and said.
Hearing Gu Muyan's promise, Su Ziran happily jumped up and said, "Really? Then I'll wait for you to come to me! ”
"Hmmm! Bring new books with you! Gu Muyan smiled at Su Ziran.
"Yes, yes, yes! And books! Su Ziran is like a child, this sad emotion comes and goes quickly, and after two or three sentences, he is already very happy.
After bidding farewell to Su Ziran, Gu Muyan walked very slowly, carefully connecting all the events of today, and kept going back and forth in his mind as if he was looking at flowers, and finally discovered the strangest point.
It's just that Cheng Qi is not by his side now, even if he wants to say countless words, no one thinks of this, after a long sigh, he went to a small side hall in the queen mother's bedroom.
Just when Gu Muyan instructed Xi Xiang and Yi Jin to close the door and prepare to go to bed, Cheng Qi suddenly appeared.
"Big Brother Cheng?" When Gu Muyan turned his head to see who it was, he saw Cheng Qi who was called away by Li Zhonghe halfway, and said with confusion and surprise.
"I have something to say..."
"I have something to do with you..."
The two looked at each other almost in unison and said, and then said again in unison: "You say it first..."
"Today, when Wang Linna calculated the right time to provoke me and Princess Pinghu from the beginning, I thought that someone should be behind this, otherwise how could such a deep boudoir woman be in a good palace banquet, and if she wants to target me and Princess Pinghu like this, how can she know that I and Princess Pinghu have some contradictions, so as to intensify it even more?"
"Not only that, then Wang Linna's falling into the water should not be an accident..."Cheng Qi said in a deep voice, his brows were also tightly wrinkled, thinking of what Li Zhonghe said, he felt that the entire palace was shrouded in gloom.
However, Gu Muyan was a little puzzled when he heard this, Zheng Mengna was the one who fell into the water. Shen Yuxiang still wants that Li Lian has already confessed, how can there be a problem?
Therefore, Gu Muyan looked at Cheng Qi even more suspiciously and asked, "What do you mean?" Haven't they all already admitted it? ”
"It's one thing to admit it, but it's another thing to have a driving force behind it, it's just that it happens to be the three of them, not that they will have others, or that three people in a row are all set." Cheng Qi said this, his brows furrowed even deeper.
Seeing this, Gu Muyan unconsciously stroked Cheng Qi's forehead, as if he wanted to smooth Cheng Qi's wrinkled forehead.
The skin of the two touched each other, as if they had been electrocuted by each other, and their faces were red.
"You... You continue..."Gu Muyan hurriedly raised his eyes and said without looking at Cheng Qi.
Cheng Qi coughed lightly a few times, his brows really no longer wrinkled, and then said: "Do you know that the three people who have been demoted today are all from the master, so this matter is destined to be not simple from the beginning, I don't believe that there is such a coincidence in this world." ”
"What about the death of King Jingzhao Yin's daughter?" Gu Muyan thought that since the three of them had a relationship with their maternal grandfather, Old Lady Fu, then presumably Lord Wang should also have some origins, right?
Cheng Qi didn't rush to answer this Jing Zhaoyin matter, but continued: "I haven't thought about this yet, I'm afraid the matter behind this Jing Zhaoyin has to be investigated, what I said next is what Li Zhonghe saw with his own eyes, in fact, when Wang Linna fell into Songshan Pool, Zheng Mengna and Shen Yuxiang didn't do it directly, although the two did touch Wang Linna's body, but it was another force that knocked Wang Linna into Songshan Pool!" ”