When the king of Shang heard the conversation between the two concubines, he was immediately irritable, and looked up, but saw that the last one to speak was Yang Chonghua, and he was even more displeased in his heart, so he shouted: "Shut up for me! Daji is usually the most astute and will definitely be able to think of a way to escape." ”

Yang Chonghua flattened his mouth and said: "The king, the concubine also hopes that Daji's sister can turn evil into good fortune, but this fire ......"

Before he finished speaking, he heard a loud bang, and everyone looked at the sound, only to see that the wall that was not on fire was smashed out of a huge hole, and a bronze pillar two feet high and eight feet round flew out of it. The bronze pillar flew out more than ten zhang away, and then fell to the ground, and immediately smashed the ground into a big pit more than one zhang deep.

When the king of Shang saw the bronze pillar, he was overjoyed and said, "It's a cannon brand!"

Everyone looked at the hole in the wall that had been smashed out, and saw a delicate figure staggering out of the thick smoke, and before he could get out of the range of the fire, he collapsed limply.

The surrounding attendants were not eating dry food, but hurriedly rushed over and put the figure out.

King Shang hurriedly stepped forward and looked at the face of the figure, only to see that her face was blackened and covered with a soaked dirty cloth, but the silhouette was undoubtedly Su Shufei.

The king of Shang was overjoyed, and hurriedly stepped forward to catch Huang Xue and said, "It's Daji, I know that she can escape, what are you still doing in a daze?

When everyone heard this, they were overjoyed, and they got busy again. But no one noticed that Yang Chonghua on the side was looking at Huang Xue blankly at this time, his face was pale, his eyes were dull, and his lips trembled and he muttered repeatedly: "Impossible, this is impossible." ”

The next morning, the fire was finally extinguished, and of course, it could be said that it had exhausted what it could burn and extinguished itself. People in this era are too powerless in the face of fire. At this time, the Shufang Palace had already become a ruin, and it was only as strong as the Liuyun Palace ten years ago.

Huang Xue finally woke up and turned around under the careful treatment of several imperial doctors. When the king of Shang heard that Huang Xue had woken up, he immediately canceled today's morning dynasty and hurried to visit her.

Hush Han asked a few warm words, and King Shang said, "Daji, how did you suddenly walk in the palace?"

Huang Xue already had some doubts in her heart, but it was really inconvenient to say it at this time, so she said gloomily: "The concubine also doesn't know, but when she woke up in a dream, the fire was already very big, if it wasn't for the concubine's urgency and wisdom, she smashed the wall with a cannon, I'm afraid she would never see the king again." ”

Seeing this, the king of Shang hurriedly comforted her a few more words, and then frowned and said: "This fire is really a bit strange, since the Liuyun Palace was burned ten years ago, the palace has always attached the most importance to fire prevention, and the slightest fire will alarm the patrolling palace people." According to the patrolmen, it was a bit of a perverse fact that it took only a moment from the time they spotted the fire to the time it grew bigger. Moreover, it is too much of a coincidence that the door of the main hall is jammed by the latch, and there are many debris blocking the door, so that it cannot be opened. ”

Huang Xue sighed: "King, if this matter is investigated, I am afraid that it will make the king a little embarrassed." ”

The king of Shang resolutely said: "Daji, you are too worried, this is my palace, and no one here can make it difficult for me. You can rest assured that I will thoroughly investigate this matter and give you justice. ”

As he spoke, he suddenly raised his head and looked in the direction of the East Palace. If someone in the harem wants Huang Xue to die at this time, I'm afraid anyone will start with the East Palace first.

In the East Palace, Queen Jiang sat in the middle of the main hall, and Hu Yumei on the side said: "Queen Niangniang, I don't want this Yang Chonghua to be so useless, and he actually failed to burn Su Daji." ”

The queen sighed: "It's no wonder that Yang Chonghua, this Su Daji is really blessed and fateful, and he was able to escape from such a fire." ”

Hu Yumei said again: "Niangniang, the concubine inquired, then Yang Chonghua is not clean, do you want the concubine to help her clean up? ”

The queen pondered for a moment and said, "No need, I didn't do this in the first place, and even if I checked, I couldn't find anything." If you clean up for her, it will be self-defeating if you don't do it, and you will be burned. ”

Hu Yumei thought for a while and said, "Niangniang is wise, it's the slave who thinks too much." I'm just afraid that after Yang Chonghua is exposed, he will bite indiscriminately and affect Niangniang. ”

The queen muttered, "This is also true, send people to investigate, if it really comes to such a situation, we will not be too late to make a move." ”

In this era, in the palace of the king of Shang, if the king of Shang wanted to investigate something, it was difficult for others to cover it up.

What's more, Yang Ronghua was originally from the eldest lady of the official family, and entered the palace at the age of sixteen, and he is not a criminal genius, nor has he read any detective novels, this case is full of loopholes, and after a little investigation, many clues were found.

A lot of fire oil was lost in the imperial dining room, but before the incident, at least a dozen people saw Yang Ronghua's personal maid carrying a large jar from the imperial dining room back to Chonghua Palace. Everyone checked the time, but it was not the same day. The maid used the method of ant moving, and it took five or six days to steal seven or eight cans of fire oil.

Jiao Fang told the king of Shang about this, and the king of Shang said in disbelief: "If this matter is Yang Chonghua's doing, how can she be so blatant? I think someone must be to blame her, you must investigate thoroughly." ”

Hearing this, Jiao Fang hurriedly said: "The old slave also thinks so. King, the old slave plans to take down the maid today, find out who she was bribed by, and blame Yang Chonghua. ”

King Shang nodded and said, "You can just let it go." ”

When Yang Chonghua's maid was caught by Jiao Fang's people, seeing that the matter was revealed, before she could interrogate, the maid confessed all of them, but the result was that Jiao Fang was surprised.

It turned out that a few days ago, Yang Chonghua suddenly ordered the maid to get some oil. The maid suddenly felt that her head was extremely big, and although she didn't want to, she had no choice but to accept the order.

It must be known that Yang Chonghua is full of old oilmen in the palace at this time, and his body is still extremely weak, and he is unreliable at all. Since there was no one available, she had no choice but to go to the imperial dining room to find a way by herself.

It stands to reason that stealing this kind of thing, of course, is best done at night, but this maid is timid, and likes to listen to some ghost legends on weekdays, and what she does is a bad thing, the imperial dining room is really a little gloomy in the middle of the night, and she went a few times, but the oil was not stolen, but she scared herself half to death.

So, she had an idea, and simply stopped going in the middle of the night, but waited until the sky was bright and the people in the imperial dining room had not yet come, and then went to do it, wanting to make a time difference. Not to mention, in this way, she stole fire oil several times, but she was never caught red-handed.

The problem of stealing is solved, and how to transport the oil back has become a problem again. The oil drums are marked on them, and when they walk on the road with the barrel in their arms, whoever sees it will come over and interrogate them. Fortunately, there were not many other in the imperial dining room, but there were many large jars for water and spices, so she was clever enough to pour fire oil into the jars, and then carried them back to the Chonghua Palace in a grand manner. She is a maid, holding a jar of spices, which does not arouse suspicion, but the jar is too heavy, and she does not dare to ask for help, which makes her tired enough these days.

Of course, she was the one who set the fire, Yang Chonghua lost power, and there was no one else to call, but she was too timid, and Yang Chonghua was not at ease, so Yang Chonghua personally went to the scene to direct her to set the fire that day. That night, she was so tired that she still has a sore back to this day.

Jiao Fang looked at this murderer who set fire to Shufang Palace, but he couldn't hate it in his heart, but he just sympathized with her. Such a weak woman, she has to steal fire oil in the morning, transport fire oil in the morning, serve Yang Chonghua when she goes back, and set fire to it at night.

After getting the murderer's confession, the matter is already simple, at this time it is already late, the king of Shang has already rested, just give the king of Shang early tomorrow morning, take Yang Chonghua, and the matter will be perfectly solved.

At night, at three o'clock, a figure flashed into the main hall of Chonghua Palace.

Yang Chonghua hadn't rested at this time, and was still sitting at the table in a daze, her personal maid suddenly disappeared this afternoon, and she didn't know where she went, which made her feel a little uneasy.

Suddenly, the door of the main hall was pushed open, and a person walked in, Yang Chonghua looked up, but saw that it was the maid of the queen who he saw in the East Palace that day.

The maid was still smiling like a flower at this time, but she was holding a jade pipa in her hand, and when she saw Yang Chonghua raise her head, she bowed to her slightly and said, "The slave Hu Yumei has seen Chonghua Niangniang." ”

Yang Chonghua frowned and said, "It's so late, does the queen have anything to do with the palace?"

Hu Yumei said: "Niangniang, you haven't rested so late, but are you waiting for your maid? If so, then the slave is here to tell you, don't wait any longer, rest early." ”

Yang Chonghua's heart sank, and he said, "What do you mean by this?"

Hu Yumei said with a smile: "Niangniang must not know that your maid has been arrested by Chief Manager Jiao, and she has already told Chief Manager Jiao about your arson in Shufang Palace." ”

Yang Chonghua was shocked when he heard this: "How is it possible? We are doing this very secretly, how did we find out?"

This sentence almost made Hu Yumei laugh, and she paused for a long time before saying: "Chonghua Niangniang, Manager Jiao will bring someone to arrest you early tomorrow morning, I don't know what your plans are?"

When Yang Chonghua heard this, he was stunned for a moment, and said urgently: "I don't know how the queen plans to save me?"

Hu Yumei covered her mouth and smiled, and said: "Chonghua Niangniang said that you are laughing, what you committed is the great crime of burning the forbidden palace and murdering the concubine, and the queen has no ability to save you." ”

When Yang Chonghua heard this, he was immediately shocked there, and he was already in tears at this moment, and he said urgently after a while: "I want to see the queen mother, you take me to see the queen mother now." ”

Hu Yumei said slowly: "Chonghua Niangniang really looks down on the slave maid, the queen Niangniang has already rested, and the slave maid doesn't have the courage to disturb her dreams." ”

Yang Chonghua glared at a pair of teary eyes, gritted his teeth and said: "The queen's father is Dong Bohou, who is powerful, how can he not save me." But if she refuses to save me, I will tell the king that she was instructed by the queen, and I will burn her with her. ”

When Hu Yumei heard this, she said unhurriedly: "Chonghua Niangniang doesn't want to talk nonsense, you seek death yourself, what does it matter to the queen and the queen?"

Yang Chonghua was discouraged when he heard this, and was about to continue to plead.

Hu Yumei said again: "Chonghua Niangniang, I am thinking about an acquaintance, and the slave will play a song for you, so you can rest early." ”

After saying that, he had already plucked the jade pipa in his hand, so that Yang Chonghua's words that had already been uttered were swallowed back, and he no longer made a sound, just quietly listening to the music played by the pipa.