Chapter 135: Coerced Confession
When night falls, in Concubine Xu Shu's Changui Palace, the crystal pillars are shining and beautiful.
Under the corridor, Concubine Xu Shu, who was wrapped in a snow-white fox fur, touched the hand warmer and looked at the maid in the lotus vat in the courtyard with a gloomy face.
The ice cubes that were originally frozen in the lotus vat were roasted on the shelf and melted into water. The colorful satin tied with five flowers only showed the head, and the whole person was soaked in warm water.
As soon as the firewood was extinguished, the temperature of the water dropped suddenly, the snowflakes fluttered, the cold wind was bitter, and after a while, the water in the lotus pot was bitterly cold.
Caisu's face turned pale, and gradually turned to blue and gray, and she shouted intermittently: "Niangniang, the slave and maid have been wronged, the slave and maid have not poisoned the third princess, and the slave and maid have been spared......
"Your mouth is still quite hard!Look at the ice cubes or your mouth will be hard after a while!?" Xu Shufei watched quietly, and the voice she spit out was colder than the cold wind, "The legendary ice disc punishment is unpleasant, and in a moment and a half, you will be eager to explain!"
"Niangniang, Niangniang spare her life!" Caisatin's voice suddenly rose up, as if she had been pricked by a needle, "Niangniang! Caisu is really not poisoned!"
"The ice water begins to freeze, freeze through the skin, and the pain will become more and more intense," slowly walked from the porch to the lotus pot, stepping on the snow-white snow all over the ground, Xu Shufei snorted coldly, "I can't bear it! If you don't move, you will be frozen by the ice water, and then it will be ten thousand knives to cut your body, just like Ling Chi! You still obediently say, who is it, who instructed you!!"
"Niangniang, the slave maid has no ......" Caixi's voice trembled to pieces, "Niangniang spares her life......"
"Hmph!" Xu Shufei turned around fiercely, the gold bead tassels on the plum fragrant jade hairpin on her hair bun swayed violently, making a crisp sound, "If you figure it out, you can move, if you don't want to move, just be a beautiful and moving ice plate lady!"
The main hall of the Toad Gui Palace, the Guixiang Palace, the brass Rui beast carved with the Toad Palace's Gui is curling and spitting the light smoke of incense, and the fragrance of the osmanthus is lingering in the hall, which is rich and intoxicating. The earth dragon burned vigorously, and as soon as he entered the temple gate, he felt warm like spring.
Xu Shufei's white wrist supported her forehead, watched Caizhen slowly rub in, lifted the copper brazier shrouded in silk auspicious clouds, and added snow silver charcoal to the basin.
"Caizhen, you say, how long will the colored satin last before it is recruited?" Xu Shufei's faint voice was slow and cold, and the coldness sounded, which frightened Caizhen a lot, and the copper brazier of the silk auspicious cloud in her hand was shrouded and loosened, and a muffled sound of "bang" fell on the brazier.
"Niangniang forgive your sins!" Caizhen knelt on the ground, not daring to look up.
"You say, who could it be that I poisoned my Yan'er without knowing it?" Concubine Xu continued as if she hadn't heard, "How did you do it, let my close maid poison the noble third princess?!Even if the punishment for betraying me is not terrible, isn't it terrible to even the Holy Judgment of the Nine Clans?"
Caizhen shuddered violently and slowly looked up at Concubine Xu Shu.
Concubine Xu Shufei also slowly lowered her eyes and looked at Caizhen.
Caizhen, who has always been round and white and fat, has been full of haggard face in just two days, her two dark circles are frighteningly thick, and the whites of her eyes are full of red bloodshots.
"You say, I found the person who harmed my Yan'er, how should I punish it, in order to relieve the hatred in my heart!" Xu Shufei looked at Caizhen deeply, but her eyes seemed to be looking at others, "Raw squeezing, boiling alive, or a thousand cuts?!"
Caizhen couldn't support herself anymore, and sat on her knees limp on the ground, "Niangniang, Caizhen can't stand you!"
"You, what are you talking about?" Concubine Xu Shufei looked at Caizhen with sloppy eyes, and it lit up in an instant, as if two ghost fires were burning under her eyes, "I'm sorry for this palace!?
"The third princess is poisoned by the slave. Chaejin mustered all the courage to say this, and gasped.
"Why?" asked Xu Shufei word by word, her voice so calm that it was penetrating.
"Because, the slave maid was also poisoned by the poisonous mushroom powder, and if she didn't poison the third princess, she wouldn't be able to get an antidote. Chaejin said in a trembling voice, snot and tears flowing.
"This palace treats you well, the third princess is still young," the light in Concubine Xu's eyes was even stronger, and her voice was still steady, "You, you can't bear to do it?!"
"The slave maid thought that the poison in it was only addictive and would not harm the body. The slave and maid were poisoned for a longer time, and as long as they took the antidote, everything would be fine. Caizhen sobbed and said, unable to suppress an involuntary twitch in her cheeks, "But if you don't have an antidote for a day, you will be better off than dead." Now, there has been no antidote for two days. ”
"Who, sent the antidote?" the fire in Concubine Xu's eyes trembled, and she almost wanted to burst out, "Also, how to send it into my Toad Gui Palace?"
"The slave didn't know who the person who brought the medicine was. Under the osmanthus tree behind my house, every night someone wrapped stones and medicine bags with cotton wool and threw them in from outside the palace wall. Caizhen's pale face turned purple and her whole body began to tremble.
"You, how did you get poisoned?" Xu Shufei asked quickly, as if Caizhen would lose her breath in the next second.
"Niangniang's fifth prince originally liked me, and said that he would make me a concubine as soon as the big thing was completed. Caizhen couldn't kneel anymore, trembling and tilting to the side, her eyes crooked and her mouth slanted, "The fifth prince can't enter the palace to see me after being grounded, knowing that I must go to walk under the osmanthus tree behind the bedroom every day after dinner, so I wrote a letter and threw it under the osmanthus tree for me to pick up, saying that I was afraid of affecting the mother, so I had to be so quiet." The letters under the osmanthus tree were written one day a day, and after ten consecutive days, I was unknowingly addicted to the mushroom powder entrained on the letterhead. ”
"In the letter ten days later, the handwriting is still that of the five princes, but I know that the person who wrote the letter is definitely not the fifth prince. Because the letter asked me to take the fever medicine for the princess, I should change it to a hypodote so that I could get my antidote every day. Caizhen's trembling became more intense, she struggled, raised her head and stretched her neck, and tried to continue: "I originally wanted to risk my life and not harm the third princess, but the third princess had a fever again and attracted the emperor, and the imperial doctor cured the third princess with a medicine." The next day, I could not find the letter and the antidote under the osmanthus tree. ”
Caizhen took a deep breath, and ten fingers began to twitch and pinch together: "On that day, I was like being skinned and boneless, buried in fire and snow, but I couldn't die. I died and lived for a whole day, and at night I crawled under the osmanthus tree and waited for a life-saving antidote. ”
"I, I can't bear the pain without an antidote," Caizhen's eyes began to lose their luster as she looked at Xu Shufei's angry distorted face, and tried to say the last sentence, "Niangniang, Caizhen can't stand you, can't live with the third princess......"