Chapter 94: The Empress of the Cold Palace is Back (53)
"Could it be that this is specially provided to Jingren Palace by the Ministry of Internal Affairs? Your Majesty, do you want to announce that the director of the Ministry of Internal Affairs will come over and ask? Su Su turned his head and asked.
"Xuan!" Nangong Mo raised his hand expressionlessly.
After a while, an old eunuch from the Internal Affairs Office hurriedly came with two little eunuchs, "The slave knocked on the emperor and the concubine Shugui-"
"Okay, don't waste time, I ask you, Xin Yixiang was specially supplied to Jingren Palace by your Internal Affairs Office? Where does this incense come from? Nangong Mo's voice was majestic and indifferent.
The old eunuch in charge was stunned when he heard this, "Back to the emperor, the servants have never heard of this kind of incense, because the queen mother has no special instructions for the fragrance to love the requirements, so the Internal Affairs Office has always allocated Jingren Palace Anshen incense according to the regulations, and there is no Xinyi incense." ”
"Are you sure? So where does this Xinyi incense come from? Who is responsible for the incense of Gyeongin Palace? Su Su asked coldly.
"Sure, little Dezi! This tranquilizing incense has always been sent to Jingren Palace by you, what is wrong with this? Did someone change the notes? You think carefully and answer the concubine. The old eunuch in charge tilted his head and shot at a little eunuch behind him.
The little eunuch immediately stepped forward and knelt down tremblingly, "This incense slave is very tight, it is impossible to change it, and the incense slave is very familiar, and it is impossible to send it wrong." ”
Su Su beckoned, and ordered the palace maid to send Xin Yixiang up and hand it to the little eunuch, "Are you sure you didn't send this kind of incense?" ”
The little eunuch took it and sniffed it, "The slave is sure, although it looks similar to the Anshen incense, but a little smell of the minion can clearly distinguish that this is not the Anshen incense, nor is it the incense that the slave sent to Jingren Palace." ”
Su Su lowered his eyes and pondered, raised his head and said to Nangong Modao, "Your Majesty, if it weren't for someone making trouble in the internal affairs mansion, it could only be someone in Jingren Palace who was making a ghost." ”
"Where do you start? There are dozens of palace maids and eunuchs in Jingren Palace, are we still waiting for you to interrogate them one by one, when will this be interrogated? The concubines really can't support it, the emperor, can you let the concubines go back to rest first? Anyway, you have already put Concubine Shu in charge of this matter, and the concubine believes that Sister Shu will definitely find out. Concubine Shu pressed the corner of her forehead with a sad expression, looking tired and physically exhausted.
"yes!"
"The concubine is also a little physically exhausted."
Several concubines have also been standing for a long time, and they have expressed their dissatisfaction one after another.
Concubine Shu is in such a hurry to go back? Is it because he is afraid of finding himself, or does he want to go back to deal with the aftermath quickly?
No matter what, she can't be allowed to go back, and the one who can do things must be someone who can have close contact with Xin Yixiang.
Su Su glanced at the eunuchs and palace maids in the main hall, and walked around the eunuchs and palace maids.
Ignoring the complaining concubines, they just bowed their knees to Nangong Mo, "Your Majesty, the biggest suspect of the person who changed the incense is the palace maid who keeps the Xinyi incense every day. ”
Nangong Mo nodded, his face was slightly cold and glanced at the concubines, "The queen is lying in it and dying, so let you stand for a while, can't stand it?" ”
The emperor was angry, and several concubines dared to talk more, and they all confessed and stopped talking.
And Concubine Shu had a cold face from beginning to end.
Su Su ignored it anymore, looked at the people kneeling on the ground and asked loudly, "Who keeps the spices, incense and other items of Jingren Palace on weekdays?" ”
"It's a slave!" The maid stood up, bent down and walked to the center of the main hall, and then knelt down with her head bowed.
"You have a soothing fragrance every day, don't you know that the fragrance of this Xinyi fragrance is different from that of soothing the gods?" Su Su walked up to the palace maid and asked.
"Back to Concubine Niangniang, the incense given to me by the Internal Affairs Office is Xinyi incense... Yes! Ah......" The palace maid wanted to say that the incense given to her by the Internal Affairs Office was Xinyixiang, she thought that the Internal Affairs Office had changed the regular incense, but she didn't expect that as soon as she opened her mouth, her mouth was unconsciously knotted, and then, "Yes, I know, it was I who replaced the Anshen incense with Xinyixiang." ”
Her pupils widened, and her expression instantly became frightened, what was going on? Why did she say that?
No, no, no!
When Su Su heard this, her eyes narrowed, "Who asked you to change Xinyixiang?" Where does your incense come from? ”
"Yes, yes...", her mouth unconsciously wanted to tell the truth, and the palace maid tried to restrain this impulse, her expression distorted and full of panic.
No, she couldn't say it, and a hint of fierceness flashed in her eyes at the thought of this, and she suddenly stuck out her tongue to bite down......
Su Su has been watching this palace maid closely, her fear, panic and struggle are all in her eyes, so when the palace maid wants to bite her tongue and commit suicide, she immediately realizes that something is wrong, she can't think so much, she quickly stretches out her hand and breaks the palace maid's teeth.
"Ah......" Fortunately, she acted quickly and prevented the palace maid from biting her tongue and committing suicide, but a few fingers were bitten by the palace maid and bleeding.
"Quick, pull them away!" Nangong Mo saw that Su Su suddenly rushed towards the palace maid, and his right hand was stuffed into the other party's mouth and was bitten by the palace maid, so he immediately waved his hand and shouted to pull the two apart.
The two eunuchs ran over to pull Su Su's hand away, but Su Su stopped her, "She wants to bite her tongue and kill herself, quickly, find something to block her mouth first!" Su Shu endured the pain in his hands and shouted.
Thinking of something again, he continued to speak, "Don't use strips of cloth, I still have to ask her, first tie her hands, and then separate her upper and lower jaws with bamboo strips." ”
The eunuch hurriedly went down to find something, and Su Su's hand was bitten in the hand of the palace maid, and the palace maid originally wanted to pull away Su Su's hand and continue to bite her tongue to commit suicide, but she was restrained by the palace maid on the side.
The palace maid's eyes were full of determination and ruthlessness, and when she saw that Su Su didn't let go, she glared at Su Su and bit hard.
Su Shu's brows were furrowed, and he gritted his teeth and didn't snort.
Seeing that the wound on Su Su's hand was getting deeper and deeper, Nangong Mo above was in a hurry, and quickly ran to Su Su's side, shouting, "Hurry, hurry up!" ”
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The eunuch arrived with something and finally subdued the death-seeking palace maid.
At this time, her hands and shoulders were tied to the pillars of the main hall, and the upper and lower jaws of her mouth were separated by bamboo strips, and the two ends of the bamboo strips were fixed by ropes to the pillars behind her, and ropes were also tied under her nose to fix her head.
No matter how much she struggled and shook, she couldn't get rid of the bamboo strips in her mouth.
The reason why Su Su tied her up like this was to ask the real culprit while the truth powder was in effect, and she was tied with bamboo strips in her mouth, although she couldn't say the whole word, but two or three clear words could always be revealed.
The wound on her hand had been bandaged by the imperial doctor, and she squinted at the palace maid, "I'm curious about who your master is?" It can make you desperate to help her keep her secret. ”
Nangong Mo was puzzled, since this palace maid was so sincere to the people behind the scenes, no matter how much she asked, what could she do if she didn't say anything about it.