Chapter 39: The Real Murderer Behind the Scenes
On the second day, Zhao Qiujin brought the young man into the palace, so as not to startle the snake, Zhao Qiujin reported the matter to Leng Lingzhe, and asked Leng Lingzhe to take the man to the palace to identify the murderer.
It turned out that the buyer was Feng Zhaoxia's henchman, the little eunuch she was waiting for.
In the afternoon, Leng Lingzhe sent Feng Zhaoxia to Zhengde Palace, Feng Zhaoxia thought that Leng Lingzhe was very kind to him, and asked her to go to the palace without an owner for a day, and wanted her to be the queen, so she wore gold and silver, and dressed up in fancy clothes.
"Say hello to the emperor." The wind shines and salutes, and the eyes are proud that cannot be hidden. "I don't know why the emperor called his concubines to come?"
"Naturally, there is something important." Leng Lingzhe's face was expressionless, he didn't expect the concubines in his palace to be so ruthless, harming nine people in a row. "Shangguan Xin'er come out, it's your turn."
Zhao Qiujin came out of the side hall next to him and said sarcastically: "Concubine Xia, you are here, you also know that your time is short, how can you dress up so luxuriously." ”
looked at Shangguan Xin'er, who was full of ridicule of himself in front of him, and felt a little surprised, "Aren't you sent to prison?" Why are you still here? ”
"But this palace has been wronged, I'm afraid there is someone else who should be sent to the prison, what do you say, Concubine Xia?!" Zhao Qiujin said meaningfully to Feng Zhaoxia.
Feng Zhaoxia had a little weakness, but confirmed that what she did was seamless, so she said: "You, so bold, when you die, you are still spewing blood." ”
"Is there blood spewing people? Concubine Xia, this word seems to be more appropriate for you. Zhao Qiujin said with a smile: "Someone." ”
The young man went up to the Zhengde Palace, and after saluting Leng Lingzhe and Zhao Qiujin, he pointed out the little eunuch behind Feng Zhaoxia, "Your Majesty, the justice behind this lady is the person who came to our store a few days ago to buy a large number of Jiuling San. ”
Feng Zhaoxia didn't expect her seamless plan to be discovered, so she flatly denied it, "Please let the emperor know, it has nothing to do with the concubine at this time, I don't know who instigated him, please ask the emperor to call the shots for the concubine!" ”
Zhao Qiujin watched the show from the sidelines, "This father-in-law, look at your master, isn't this unloading the mill and killing the donkey, crossing the river and demolishing the bridge?!" If you admit it, you are the mastermind, if you go to prison, you have to be beaten first, and then the torture of the criminal department has to be repeated one by one, let you confess first, and then you have to do it again, to make sure that there is no mastermind behind the scenes, this time the punishment is up and down, people just don't die, and half of their lives have to be gone. ”
The eunuch was already so frightened that his legs were like chaff, his face was pale, and he immediately knelt down and begged for mercy, and his head slammed loudly, "The emperor spares his life, the emperor spares his life, the slaves know that they are wrong, the slaves are all instigated by Concubine Xia, everything is planned by Concubine Xia, and it has nothing to do with the slaves!" ”
"You cheap slave, you dare to wronged this palace, be careful that this palace robs your whole family!" Feng Zhaoxia roared angrily, threatening his family.
"Your Majesty, your gentle and kind Concubine Xia is very fierce, she wants to raid her house at every turn, I don't know who gave her so much power, it sounds bigger than the officials of the Criminal Department!" Zhao Qiujin looked at Feng Zhaoxia and didn't choose to speak, his panicked expression was dark, and he couldn't help but open his mouth and laugh.
"Bold Concubine Xia, dare to spoil and spoil, harm people's lives, and blame the queen, what crime should she be guilty of?!" Leng Lingzhe looked at Feng Zhaoxia's appearance and already darkened his face, and scolded coldly.
"Your Majesty, there are really no concubines, why do concubines do this, concubines have no reason!" Feng Zhaoxia did not miss any opportunity to argue.
Zhao Qiujin was a little angry when she heard Feng Zhaoxia's words, why, it's not because the queen is not her, she doesn't live in Fengyi Palace. "This father-in-law, come, strive for a good attitude, be lenient, and alleviate the guilt, you can talk about Concubine Xia's motive for killing."
"Your Majesty, the queen mother, the minions are all recruited, the minions really know that they are wrong, it is Concubine Xia Niangniang who instigated Princess Cangyue to make the queen mother dissatisfied, and then use Princess Cangyue to deal with Niangniang, but I didn't expect that it was unsuccessful several times, and Concubine Xia couldn't wait and did it herself." The eunuch said, and Feng Zhaoxia's eyes were afraid that they had already shot through the eunuch.
"Concubine Xia sent her servants to the black market to spend a lot of money to buy the famous poison Jiuling San, and then ordered someone to poison the food in Princess Cangyue's residence, and asked people to pretend to be Princess Cangyue's maid to send an invitation to the queen mother, and the queen sent a slave to call the guards to say that there were assassins on the night the queen mother went."
Zhao Qiujin pretended to be surprised and said: "Wow, so that's the case, a good plan to kill two birds with one stone, Concubine Xia is so resourceful and calculating, it's a pity that you can only show your talent in the harem, it's a pity not to go to the front line to be a military advisor, it's really my cold moon's regret." Zhao Qiujin sighed.
Feng Zhaoxia hated Shangguan Xin'er so much that she gritted her teeth, but looking at Leng Lingzhe's indifferent face, she still knelt on her knees and cried to explain.
"That's not the case, Your Majesty, you listen to the concubine, this must be Shangguan Xin'er's plan, she is calculating the concubine, these people are all found by her to deceive you, you must believe the concubine."
Leng Lingzhe really didn't want to listen to Feng Zhaoxia's clumsy defense, so he said in a deep voice, "Come on, drag Concubine Xia down, put her in prison, and let Lord Wang of the Criminal Department be in charge of this case, there must be no mistake!" ”
"Your Majesty, you won't be so ruthless, Your Majesty, the concubines love you like this!" Feng Zhaoxia was pulled down, still screaming hard.
Zhao Qiujin pulled his ears impatiently, love, what is love, for the sake of love, can we cross the bottom line of morality and act recklessly on the road of breaking the law and committing crimes, love is not a shield for doing wrong things, but the birthplace of all beauty.
Leng Lingzhe looked at the impatient Shangguan Xin'er and asked in a low voice, "Empress, now that the five-day deadline has arrived, what about the secret letter we said was good?" ”
Zhao Qiujin didn't expect Leng Lingzhe to have such a good memory, and she hasn't forgotten it now, but she really didn't have a secret letter, so she could only be sloppy, so she pretended to be at a loss, "Your Majesty, you also saw that the concubine is indeed not a murderer, as for what you said, the concubine really doesn't know, maybe you remember it wrong." ”
Leng Lingzhe looked at her with a look of denial of admit, but it was quite childlike, and this time he did prove his innocence, which surprised him, so he didn't bother with her. "Forget it, this time the truth can be revealed, and let the murderer of Princess Cangyue surface, it can be regarded as a meritorious service, I don't care about you."
"Why were you so confident that you could find the murderer in five days, was there any killer at that time?" Leng Lingzhe couldn't understand why she was sure that she would be able to find out the real culprit in five days.
"There is no killer feature, but the concubine thinks that there is no seamless crime, as long as it is done by people, there is no reason that cannot be solved." Zhao Qiujin said seriously, his eyes shining.
Leng Lingzhe seemed to be attracted by the light again, and he felt that he couldn't help but sink into those eyes that shimmered slightly. But reason told him that Shangguan Xin'er's surname was Shangguan and he was an enemy.