The North Palace of the Imperial Palace of Luoyang City, the Chongzheng Hall where Liu Zhi is located is located on the west side of the central axis of the North Palace. Among the palaces on the east side of the central axis, the Yongning Hall is the palace where the queen of the Han Dynasty lives.

Suddenly, I heard the eunuch outside the Yongning Palace shouting loudly, "The general's wife, Xiangcheng Jun Sun Shou, has come to see the queen Chitose!" ”

After a long night, I heard the voice of the inner servant in the Yongning Palace, "General Xuanda's wife, Xiangcheng Jun Sun Shou, come to see you!" ”

A woman outside the hall said loudly, "Empress Xie Chitose!" "Get up and walk towards the Yongning Palace, only to see this woman's willow eyebrows, charming eyes with spring, petite mouth and nose, thin chin, luxurious and charming clothes, slender waist is not enough to Ying Ying a hand, one step forward only toe to the ground, immediately the hind feet have also poked out, the waist twists left and right, the foot is connected to a straight line, so the gait seems that every step has to fall with the wind, so that every man wants to step forward to help.

As soon as the woman stepped into the temple gate, a woman walked out of the hall, but this woman had a round face, thick facial features, and delicate skin, like a piece of gravel inlaid on the bronze mirror, and her figure was slightly blessed. Partial born with a jeweled body, wearing a pearl and phoenix crown, sideburns and gold steps, agate hairpins, wearing red palace clothes, said with a smile, "Why should my sister-in-law be polite...... This person is Liang Nuying, the sister of Liang Ji, the queen of the Han Dynasty, and the person opposite is Sun Shou, the wife of Liang Ji.

"The concubines don't dare to be rude in front of the queen, the general has newly obtained ten pearls and a hundred horses of Shu silk to order the concubines to come in and present them to His Royal Highness......" Saying that the maid behind her had already brought out the gift, the queen let the palace maid take it, and said with a smile, "Sister-in-law is so polite, I came to the palace today, but I have a new makeup I want to teach my sister, but my sister-in-law has not practiced the 'bending step' sister before, and ......"

But seeing Sun Shou shaking his head, his eyes were wavering, but he was unintentionally flattering, "The concubine entered the palace today, but there is a big event to inform Niangniang." ”

"Oh, what's the big deal my sister-in-law said?" Liang Nuying asked slowly.

"As we women, as the saying goes, 'The master is born in the sky', how can there be more things than the husband. But this husband, husband, is only a husband within a zhang, and he is out of a zhang away, humming ......" Speaking of this, Sun Shou seemed to think of something, and said angrily.

Liang Nuying sneered in her heart, and said secretly, it must be that her brother has no rules outside, so she grabbed the handle again, in the past, she always ran to the palace to complain to the Queen Mother, and today is as expected. Therefore, Liang Nuying was not panicked when she heard Sun Shou say that there was a big event, but she said, "My brother let my sister-in-law be obedient, so what's wrong?" ”

"A few days ago, your brother stood respectfully in front of my bed at night, and couldn't say a word for a long time, I was suspicious, I didn't give him a good face, and I even asked with a bluff, it turned out that I had no conscience and hid from me in the suburbs of the west of the city to build dozens of other courtyards, and there were hundreds of sluts caught everywhere hidden in them!" Speaking of this, Sun Shou's voice was full of emotion.

"And what else did he say, 'Now that you already know, you have let those go and dispose of them,' he didn't dare to do it again, so he tried to ask me for mercy...... I didn't know it beforehand, and I was already angry...... The concubine was rude in front of the queen...... I don't know who will ...... those cheap The maid let go, but he counted it on my head. But if he keeps hiding it from me, I don't know about it, who knows what tricks he plays......" But Liang Nuying looked indifferent, as if she was not interested in what Sun Shou said.

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And the commander Cui in the Chongzheng Hall on the west side is also informing Liu Zhi about the investigation in the western suburbs of the city, "The ministers sneaked into the rabbit garden at night, and went into the depths, and sure enough, they saw the two towers that the man surnamed Xiahou said, and the ministers did not dare to act rashly and monitored for two days in a row. ”

"The minister sent someone to follow the old man, the old man took the food box in a restaurant called "Feihe Tower" in the city every day, and then went to deliver the food, and when the old man walked to the deep forest with the food on the third day, the minister let the old man faint, and the minister himself changed into the old man's clothes and trousers, bent his body, pasted the white hair and white beard prepared in advance, and drove to the black tower, and the soldiers who watched the tower in the dark night did not find it, all thanks to the blessing of His Majesty, the minister mixed into the tower......

"Oh? What does the tower look like? Liu Zhi knew that the key point had arrived, and he couldn't help but ask.

As Your Majesty expected, this tower is a large prison, and the inside is extremely dim, and the minister did not realize until he reached the top of the tower that this tower has ten floors, and each floor has more than ten large and small prisons, some of which are only one person, and some are empty. The minister took out the torch and wanted to see who the people in this pass were, but how could anyone know him, but the minister didn't dare to leave like this, so he only went to the fire one by one, and when he walked to the seventh floor, there was a minister who knew him. ”

"Who do you know?" Liu Zhi shouted.

"This person is called He Tongshan, is a bandit leader who occupies the mountain on Pingming Mountain in the territory of Sili, the minister went to Sili to do things for His Majesty last year, and saw this person slaughtered in the village at night, killing more than ten people from three families in a row, and the minister couldn't stand it and took it to Tingwei death row. This man was thin and small, and he was not like a thief, and the minister was very impressed with him. This person was already thin, but when the minister saw him, his thin ribs protruded, as if he was about to pierce the layers of outer skin out, his eyes were even more swollen, and his expression was terrifying......

"The minister shouted in a low voice, 'He Tongshan, who do you listen to me?' Although the thief was dying, he was frightened when he heard the voice of his minister, and recognized me as his captor. The minister threatened to ask him who was in this level, otherwise he would kill him......"

"Ahem, pick it up." Liu Zhi listened a little impatiently and said on the side.

"Yes, yes! The thief was exhausted, and his speech was intermittent, and finally the minister understood that all the prisoners in this tower were death row prisoners! There are those on death row in the Tingwei Mansion, those on death row in the Yin Administration of Henan, and the prison of the County Government Office, and Nahe Tongshan said that they were taken here after the first month of the year......

"Death row prisoner! On the first day of the first lunar month, I amnesty the world and spared all the death row prisoners, how could these death row prisoners be taken to this ......?"

"The thief said that for the first few dozen days, he gave them good food and good food every day. But just more than ten days ago, he felt that he had lost all his strength, the flesh and bones on his body seemed to be dissolved, and he had severe pain for two hours every morning and evening, he really didn't want to live, and begged the minister to finish ......him off."

"Only then did the minister remember that some of the death row prisoners in the several cells he had seen before were swollen all over, some had become short and fat balls, and some were as ...... as Nahe Tongshan."

"Suddenly, the minister heard someone shouting at the bottom of the tower, and the middle of the tower was empty, and the people at the bottom of the tower could hear the people talking, and heard one of them shouting, 'Old deaf head, why are you dragging so much today, and you won't come down at this time,' and the other man said, 'Have you lost your mind, the old man is deaf and dumb, how can he hear, let's go up and see', and the ......minister came out of the tower, and the same is true in the other tower."

"You also went to check the Flying Crane Tower, right?" But it was Liu Zhi who asked on the side.

"Your Majesty Shengming!" Commander Cui hurriedly patted his horse, "The minister saw that he couldn't find anything here, so he sent someone to sneak into the Flying Crane Tower, and sure enough, ......" As he spoke, Commander Cui took out a paper bag from his arms and presented it to Liu Zhi with both hands, "Please take a look at Your Majesty!" ”

"What is this?" Liu Zhi took the paper bag and opened it, only to see that there were three round pills inside, but it was not too round, one of them had been concave and flattened, three pills, two red and one black, "This is like a pill refined by Fang Shi!" "Liu Zhi's father, Liwu Marquis Liu Yi, admired Huang Lao's learning, and once also learned to open a furnace to refine medicine, Liu Zhi also saw it, the red one thought that Dansha was added, and the black one seemed to have added mercury.

"Exactly! Your Majesty is really well-informed! These pills were all refined, and the chef of the Flying Crane Tower smashed these pills into powder and sprinkled them in those meals. Seeing that Liu Zhi was interested, Commander Cui raised his voice.

"Oh? Those death row inmates ate this meal with these powders to become like this, this! These pills were sent by Liang Ji? Liu Zhi was also excited.

"The minister asked the cook, he said that someone from outside the city sent it, but I don't know who sent it, these pills are only sent once every two months, so the minister has to wait for the next time the pill is sent to investigate......" Commander Cui did not find out all the facts, for fear that Liu Zhi would blame, and his voice was respectful.

"Good! You have done a good job in this matter, and together with your subordinates, they will all be rewarded, so you can continue to investigate the source of the Dan pill. Liu Zhi said with satisfaction.

"Thank you, Your Majesty! The minister still has something to play! This matter has nothing to do with the tower, and it has not been reported at the right time. Commander Cui said happily.

"Oh? Tell me what else. Liu Zhi asked.

"The minister found very little by investigating the tower, thinking of His Majesty's kindness to the minister, how could he leave like this, so he searched around the tower, and found dozens of courtyards in the dense forest behind another fork in the road, which were all closed up by women of different ages, some were only thirteen or fourteen girls, and some were over forty years old."

"What are these women for? Have you been fed those pills too? Liu Zhi couldn't help asking.

"Back to Your Majesty, these women are ordinary people, and after investigation, the ministers learned that they are all women from good families in various states and counties, and they were captured by Liang Ji as slaves and maids, and the ministers ...... The minister was bold and made his own opinion, and used the Sun family's waist card to let all these women go, and let them go home, and the guards did not dare to stop them, but these private women were discovered by the tigress. ”

"Hmph, this Liang Ji is really hateful, he actually robbed the people's daughter, you did a good job!" I was also happy in my heart, "Yan'er will definitely like it if she learns about it......"

Commander Cui said some words of gratitude and left, only a black shadow flashed out of the Chongzheng Palace.

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On the other side, in the Yongning Palace.

"Niangniang, the concubine is here to remind you, you have to watch the emperor look at him, and you can't let him go out of the palace all the time." Speaking of this, Sun Shou looked at Liang Nuying with a smile, as if there was something in his words.

Liang Nuying also saw that Sun Shou's expression was different, and she was also suspicious, so she looked at Sun Shou with a smile and said, "Sister-in-law, what news did you hear outside?" Younger sister...... My sister thanked my sister-in-law first......"

"Hey, the concubine doesn't dare to be a concubine, as long as the queen mother says more good things about the general and the concubine in front of His Majesty." Sun Shoujiao said with a smile.

Liang Nuying was gloomy in her heart, thinking in her heart, "Your Majesty doesn't look at me every day, although I think that I am the queen, and I usually reward me well, but I never spend the night in my palace, and sometimes I can't speak for a few days...... His Majesty has been treating me as coldly as he used to be, and sometimes he looks at me with a smile, but when I walk up to him he walks away. His thoughts fluctuated, but he didn't pay much attention to what Sun Shou said later.

But I heard Sun Shou have said, "The concubine wandered in Luoyang City two days ago, and saw a carriage rushing into the Liwu Marquis Mansion, and the concubine inquired that the car was loaded with silk silk, and the next day there was a car into the house, but it was said that it was all kinds of jewelry purchased from the largest pearl and jade store in the gold market, the queen, you say this is not strange?" ”

"I think the emperor rewarded his mother, what's so strange?" Liang Nuying said absent-mindedly.

"If Your Majesty is a reward, how can it be purchased from the gold market, and what abnormal behavior Your Majesty has done recently, I hope Niangniang will pay attention." Sun Shou saw that the queen was tired, and it was boring to please the boss, and he didn't want to stay longer, so he only asked a sentence and said some miscellaneous things and went out of the palace, but when Sun Shou left, Liang Nuying thought about Liu Zhi Recently, Liu Zhi seemed to be more energetic than before, and a shadow fell in her heart.