Chapter 317: Investigate the Assassin of the Palace

"Your Majesty, why do you want to toss so much? The prime minister's room is big and the bed is big, how comfortable it is to live, why is the minister willing to be luxurious and simple? Stretching out the three fingers wrapped into seeds, he sighed and said: "The emperor doesn't know, although he is a prime minister, he is not as good as his relatives." Although Princess Bao is the wife of the minister, but she is not in harmony with the minister, yesterday the minister wanted to sleep with Princess Bao, but Princess Bao looked at the minister like a beast, and if she didn't die, forget it, bite the minister's finger like this, how can the minister still live? ”

"Pass on the Imperial Doctor!" The fire in the emperor's heart was extremely hot, Pingyin shouted, a white-haired and white-bearded imperial doctor rushed in with a medical box on his back, opened Ah Zhen's three fingers on the spot, saw that the tooth marks were extremely deep, took a breath, hurriedly applied medicine, and re-bandaged. Kneeling down with His Royal Highness, he said: "Your Majesty, the right prime minister's three-finger tooth marks are extremely deep, which makes people hissed with all their might." ”

Zhou Bolun saw it clearly, sighed secretly, waved his hand to let the imperial doctor retreat, and no longer asked him about moving out of the right prime minister's mansion without permission, and said with a pale face: "Last night, an assassin broke into the forbidden palace and killed dozens of people. The criminal department said that it was hanged, but Dali Temple said that it was killed, each according to the word, each other has a reason, and now I summoned all Aiqing, just to listen to his opinion. The words fell, his eyes looked at Ah Zhen, and then said: "I know that Lin Aiqing is very wise, maybe Lin Aiqing can solve my doubts." ”

"Your Majesty, Wei Chen really doesn't know how to investigate the punishment, but it is at stake for Concubine Rong's life, so the minister boldly investigates, I wonder if the emperor can let the minister take the minister to the place where Concubine Rong died?" It turned out to be a word for each one, and this is easy to do.

Zhou Bolun nodded, went around the royal table, and wanted to let the pavilion elders investigate and enter the harem, and ordinary people in the forbidden place of the harem could not enter, but Concubine Rong didn't seem to have hanged herself last night, and she was very puzzled, and called in a deep voice: "You Aiqing come with me." ”

"Yes!" The old ministers of the cabinet were frightened, and they did not dare to say a word, and followed the emperor in the direction of the harem.

As soon as Zhou Bolun came out of the imperial study, a large number of eunuchs and imperial guards followed, and everyone looked solemn as if they were facing a great enemy, and they had not yet recovered from last night's fright.

Ah Zhen followed closely, and along the way, there was a martial law in the palace, and he secretly said in his heart: Is there any need to be so nervous? It seems that last night broke into the palace and killed people, which scared this group of masters in the inner world, and there will be more opportunities to break into the palace in the future, and after getting used to the palace being broken into, the imperial guards will not be so nervous.

The distance from the imperial study to the harem is moderate, and it is possible to arrive by bypassing a large number of palace buildings and feather forest flowers. Seeing that the guards under the harem were like ants on duty, there were hundreds of people densely packed, and a large number of yellow velvet guards were well-equipped, extending to the left and right of the gate in rows. When all the imperial guards saw the emperor, they knelt down together. Zhou Bolun's lower palate collapsed, his face was not good, he hummed lightly, and quickly stepped into the palace of stick play.

Compared with last night's pitch black, Ah Zhen finally saw the true face of the harem today, the palaces and pavilions were beautiful, magnificent, and extremely luxurious, and soon came to the Lingxiao Palace. Zhou Bolun was half out of breath, and stepped into the hall by himself, Lao Ma Zhitu led the crowd into Concubine Rong's bedroom, raised his finger to the rope that was still hanging on the beam, and said in an extremely cold tone: "Concubine Rong used the mattress cut by this last night to hang herself. ”

Everyone looked at the rope, Ah Zhen naturally had to see it, he couldn't see why, looked down at the chair that had not been moved, stepped forward to squat in the ground to investigate, so he looked up at the rope again, picked up the chair and straightened it, jumped on the chair and asked: "Is the height of Concubine Rong consistent with this mattress?" ”

Dali Siqing and the Criminal Department nodded together, "Yes." ”

Tang Yi walked to the bed, touched the pillow, and asked, "Can this piece of water stain be tested?" ”

"It is indeed a tear stain, not only a pretend, but also a lowly one, and it is indeed salty." Dali Siqing and Xing replied in unison.

Li Guodong squinted and picked up the scissors on the bed, lowered his head to the side of the bed, shook his head and said, "It's unreasonable?" ”

Hearing this, Zhou Bolun hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "Can Li Aiqing see something wrong?" ”

"Your Majesty, if Concubine Rong is really sad and hangs herself, why would she go to the trouble of cutting the futon with scissors?" Li Guodong walked to the mattress and said: "This silk rope is smooth, it is cut one by one with scissors, don't talk about it, the emperor thinks about it, if Concubine Rong is sad and hangs herself, she can't tear the futon, and she only needs to cut a gap with scissors. ”

Dali Siqing nodded again and again: "Shangshu Province is right, if a person really seeks death, he will hesitate in his heart, he will not be so calm, let alone so resolute." He said, walked to the bed and gestured, "Your Majesty, according to the humidity of her pillow, Concubine Rong is crying in great grief, but the strange thing is that since it is a great sorrow and tears are raining, why is there a tear stain on the pillow alone, but you can't find half a tear in the four places?" He turned around and hurried to the window, pointing to a small hole that had been poked out, "Your Majesty, where did this hole come from?" Why is there a peephole in Concubine Rong's bedroom? ”

Good guys, all of them are masters of judging. Ah Zhen quietly followed everyone to watch the suspicious points one by one, knowing in his heart that he had made a mistake, but he didn't expect the ambivalence of the suicide person's heart, how to complete this murder scene now?

As soon as Dali Siqing finished speaking, the Shangshu of the Criminal Department immediately disagreed, and pointed to the silk rope and said: "Your Majesty, according to common sense, Concubine Rong must be torn to be made by hanging herself, but this place is not as good as outside, there are eunuchs and palace maids everywhere, if you tear the cotton mattress, it will make a sound, Concubine Rong wants to die, how can it attract eunuchs and palace maids?" After the words fell, she walked to the side of the bed, pointed to the wet pillow and said: "Concubine Rong must be lying on the pillow and thinking about the five princes, the more she thinks about it, the more sad she becomes, so that the pillow is so wet, she dies up in an instant, wipes the tears on her face, and then gets up to make silk, so that in addition to the wet on the pillow, there are no tears around." ”

"Not bad." Huang Yuan nodded, pointed to the hanging silk tied to the heavy object, and said, "If the assassin kills the mother, why is it so troublesome?" There is a heavy object in the hanging silk knot, it must be that the mother can't throw away the hanging silk and tie it, even if the assassin really wants to be so troublesome, with the martial arts of breaking into the palace, the beams and pillars can be made in one jump, why do you need to tie things? "Patted the chair," the height matches, there is no flaw, the assassin entered the palace to commit a crime, and was chased by the imperial guards, how can he be so indifferent in a panic? ”

Huang Yuan's words made Ah Zhen stunned for a moment, he didn't think about this, generally speaking, the assassin must be panicked when he was chased, after all, he was caught to raid his family and exterminate the clan, but he was really not afraid at all last night, he was chased and hid in the remnant palace, and he was still bent on killing the old cousin.

Li Guodong was immediately unconvinced, and pointed to the window to peep into the hole: "According to what the scholar said, what is the explanation for this peeping hole?" ”

"It's ridiculous to expect that Niangniang was killed based on this little peephole alone." Huang Yuan was disdainful and glanced at the little peephole, | Isn't the window still bolted? If the assassin kills the mother, he can pick out the latch from the outside, come in and make this troublesome thing, and then go out through the window, how to latch it from the outside? ”

Zhou Bolun looked left and right, lowered his head and pondered, feeling that the matter was too abrupt, there must be an unknown scene in it, frowned and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, yesterday the imperial guards said that the assassin, Concubine Rong fainted in fright, I have also come to see it, it doesn't look like there is a self-hanging." ”

That peephole was dug out by Ah Zhen last night to see the emperor and his old cousin make people, his heart was bright, and when he heard the emperor's words, he was surprised and asked: "Did the emperor come last night?" ”

"Yes, I heard that Concubine Rong fainted, so I came to take a look." Zhou Bolun couldn't figure it out on the side, and said to himself: "It's really strange that there is no self-hanging." ”

Didn't you? Ah Zhen smiled in his heart, and asked Zhengse: "When the emperor came up, Concubine Rong had already woken up, was there any blame or quarrel with her?" ”

"This ......" Zhou Bolun scolded Concubine Rong, and when he was asked, he nodded lightly, "I blamed her for some things." ”

"Alas!" Hearing that, Ah Zhen sighed and retreated silently, and stopped investigating the scene, with a gesture that understood everything.

Everyone didn't know that the emperor was in the bedroom last night, but now that they heard the emperor say this, they naturally had some epiphany in their hearts. Concubine Rong died her son suddenly, her mind and body were already tired, and the emperor reprimanded her like this, she must have been heartbroken, and the more she thought about it on the pillow, the more sad she became, and finally she had the idea of hanging herself. After all, when the son died, the husband not only did not comfort but reprimanded, what a pain in his heart, what a human feeling!

After Zhou Bolun finished talking to himself, he saw that Zhong Aiqing bowed his head and stood respectfully, no one was investigating the case anymore, he was slightly stunned, lowered his head and pondered for a long time, seemed to close his eyes, and sighed silently and said: "Okay, this is the matter of self-hanging, there is no need to investigate again, you Aiqing follow me to the study, I have something to say." ”

"Yes!" There was a lot of trouble and Concubine Rong died because of the emperor, and if she continued to investigate, she would be guilty of royal authority, and the ministers did not dare to say more, and followed the emperor to leave the harem, how could she dare to talk too much about the affairs of the heavenly family.

Putting the cause of the old cousin's death on the emperor, Ah Zhen followed back to the imperial study without saying a word, standing quietly in the crowd, listening to the official report to the envoy, the emperor asked a few times, and asked the Ministry of Rites to pass on some intimate words on his behalf, discussing the gift of tomorrow's envoy's majesty. The envoy made up his mind, asked the squad to return to the army, asked about some more things, repeatedly instructed the military department, named a few people to stay, and let a large number of people leave.

Ah Zhen always maintained a respectful posture, kneeling down in peace, knowing in his heart that the emperor was going to discuss the assassin matter with them, how is the princess now, she shouldn't be guilty, right?

After calling away the suspicious people, Zhou Bolun took a sip of tea, looked down at the prime minister, the university scholar, and the four people of the six Shangshu, thought about it and said: "I left you because I want you to think about it on my behalf, our assassin entered the palace very strangely, only killed dozens of imperial guards and fled into the waste palace, and killed two deputy royal guard leaders in the waste palace, the disobedient criminal woman Shao Yizhao was covered and killed in the room, and her daughter escaped death because she hid under the bed." He took a deep breath, frowned and shook his head and continued: "These assassins are all strong in martial arts, they are fearless in the face of the guards, they are quick to act, and they are extremely familiar with the palace. ”

The four of them looked at each other, without any idea, Ah Zhen came out and said: "Your Majesty, the matter is undecided, and the ministers dare not speak falsely, can you ask the emperor to send someone who is lucky?" ”

"Hmm." Zhou Bolun only guessed, nodded and called: "Call the leader of the imperial guard and the rebel girl." ”

There was an answer outside, a knock knock of footsteps went away, and another knock of footsteps came, and the leader of the inner house and Zhou Mengmeng entered the room in fear, and stepped forward to kowtow and shouted: "The slave knocks to see the emperor, long live my emperor, long live long live." ”