Chapter 35: Imprisonment
"That's okay, come to the good apprentice, help the master to do it, and peel this bamboo shoot first."
Zhao Qiujin worked obediently. In the soft and yellowish light and shadow of the setting sun, an old man and a young man are busy talking and laughing for a dinner, and the picture is warm and moving.
"The apprentice has to remember that this bamboo shoot needs to be blanched to remove the astringency; A dish with heavy oil and heavy sugar should have more oil; Be sure to add boiling water; Flavor with soy sauce without salt. ”
Zhao Qiujin nodded, "It turns out that such a simple dish is still so exquisite." ”
"There's a lot of knowledge on this food, so you can learn to read it slowly." Old man Lu nodded, pointing to the cooking dishes and said.
After eating, Zhao Qiujin burped contentedly, afraid that if he was not in the palace, someone would come to bully Ling'er, and then hurried back to the palace.
After having dinner at Doctor Lu's office, Zhao Qiujin rushed back to Fengyi Palace.
As soon as she entered the palace, Ling'er handed her an invitation, "Niangniang, you are back, this is an invitation sent by Princess Cangyue at noon today, saying that she wants to invite you to her palace tomorrow." ”
"The invitation from Cangyue?! Is there a mistake? Zhao Qiujin couldn't help but have questions in his heart. This bear child, wasn't he miserable by me the day before yesterday, why do you still have the courage to provoke me at this time? Could it be that there are masochistic tendencies? ”
Princess Cangyue will hold a banquet tomorrow to entertain herself. Isn't this the weasel giving the chicken a New Year's greeting, what kind of kindness can be settled, maybe he is here to seek revenge on himself.
Zhao Qiujin looked at the invitation that said that he wanted to make amends to himself, and a sarcastic smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Apologize? What kind of apology, if Lao Tzu really died at that time, she was afraid that she would laugh out loud even when she slept! ”
This is obviously a feast! Zhao Qiujin rubbed his eyebrows, thinking that since he was in this palace, this palace fight was not a compulsory course, anyway, the soldiers would block the water and cover the earth, and I would be a high-tech in the 21st century, and I could still be afraid of them?!
On the evening of the second day, Zhao Qiujin arrived as scheduled and walked to the outside of Princess Cangyue's palace, but the palace was extremely quiet, and it was not the tranquility of the storm.
The two entered the courtyard with doubts, and found that there was no one in the courtyard, no guards outside the door, and none of the maids waiting to serve them.
Ling'er shouted, "The queen has arrived!" But no one answered, and no one came to salute.
The master and servant looked around suspiciously, looking at the room next to them with the door closed, and Zhao Qiujin dimly saw through the window that there seemed to be someone inside.
Pushing the door in, he found Princess Cangyue lying on the table, and the maids all lying on the ground.
Zhao Qiujin thought to herself, I'm afraid that if I didn't scare her last time, I also invited a group performance today to scare myself? !
"Princess Cangyue, this palace is here to make an appointment." Zhao Qiujin said tentatively.
found that no one answered, so he stepped forward and pushed Princess Cangyue, and found that she was stiff, and when she looked closely, her face was already pale, and her lips were black, which was obviously poisoned. This was also the case with the rest of the maids.
Although Zhao Qiujin could think that today's was the Hongmen Banquet, he never thought that the mastermind behind this matter would play so big. actually killed the princess of Cangyue Kingdom, as well as a group of maids, this is bound to provoke the contradiction between Leng Yue Country and Cangyue Kingdom, and finally under the pressure of Cangyue Kingdom, Leng Lingzhe will also kill himself to give an explanation to King Cangyue, the mastermind behind the scenes is sure that I will die, and the means are too vicious!
Zhao Qiujin helplessly supported his forehead, oh Ma Ka, borrow a knife to kill people, this plan is too vicious, this princess Cangyue is worthy of a supporting role, and she will receive a box lunch casually. The princess of Cangyue died in the harem of the Cold Moon Country, and I am the last witness, that is, the biggest suspect. It's difficult, it's hard to do, I'm a martial arts person, do I have to work part-time to solve cases now?!
Princess Cangyue, Princess Cangyue, can't you be smart and keep your head, now you have to trouble my sister and me to find out the murderer for you.
was thinking about it, at this time, a group of guards arrived,
"See the Queen!" The guards saluted, then got up and looked at the corpses in the room, a little panicked.
"I received a secret letter saying that there were assassins here." A guard leader clasped his fists and said that he thought to himself that the queen mother was here, and she would definitely not be able to get out of it, but how could he, a small guard, dare to personally take the queen of the dynasty into custody.
Zhao Qiujin looked at the guard's embarrassed appearance, so he waved his hand and motioned for him to get up, "Mmmm, get up, when the palace rushed to the palace of Princess Cangyue, she had already lost her breath." Go and invite the emperor. Zhao Qiujin thought that now that she was the biggest suspect, it was better to ask Leng Lingzhe to come over generously, and let him quickly find a way to give an explanation to the emperor of Cangyue.
Anyway, you can't escape the prison disaster this time, so it's better to face it calmly and take an ancient prison tour.
After a while, Leng Lingzhe arrived. Looking at the corpses in the room, as well as Shangguan Xin'er sitting on the chair in front of the hall, he couldn't believe that Shangguan Xin'er would do such a poisonous act to Princess Cangyue.
Leng Lingzhe carefully checked the situation in the room, there was no trace of a fight at the scene, Princess Cangyue was indeed poisoned and died, and now Shangguan Xin'er became the only suspect.
"What do you think, Queen?" Leng Lingzhe wanted to know what Shangguan Xin'er had to explain.
Zhao Qiujin heard Leng Lingzhe's words, and whispered in his heart, "How do you look, sit and watch, stand and watch, I'm not Yuan Fang, you ask me, who do I ask?!" Detective Conan?! I'm still confused! ”
Of course, Zhao Qiujin couldn't say that, so he could only look innocent and pretend to be frightened and weak, "This, the concubine doesn't know, yesterday Princess Cangyue sent someone to send an invitation, so that the concubine could come to her for a gathering, and I was like this as soon as I came in." ”
Leng Lingzhe didn't make a sound, he knew in his heart that Shangguan Xin'er could not be a murderer, once Shangguan Xin'er had countless ways to kill Princess Cangyue, he would never be so stupid as to run to the scene of the crime and wait to be discovered; Second, she just loves money, and Shangguan Xin'er has no motive to kill Princess Cangyue at all.
Although Leng Lingzhe believed that Shangguan Xin'er was not the real murderer, so many pairs of eyes at the scene saw that there were only Shangguan Xin'er and her maidservants in the house when Cang Yue died. So he said in a deep voice: "Come on, take the queen down and put her in prison." ”
Zhao Qiujin already knew in his heart that he would not be able to escape the prison this time anyway, so it was better to face it calmly and come to the ancient prison for a sightseeing. But he still pretended to shout: "Ah, the emperor, the concubine is not a murderer, the concubine is wronged, the concubine doesn't know anything......"
The next day, the news that Shangguan Xin'er was sent to the prison spread far and wide, and there was a heated discussion in the capital.
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"Did you hear that? Our queen has been put in prison. ”
"What?! It's really fake, the queen has both virtue and ability, how can it be? ”
"It is said that he killed the princess of Cangyue Kingdom, and the emperor was furious and went to prison last night."
"I really didn't expect that our queen mother would kill people, but the queen mother has nothing to do in charge of the harem, why should she kill the princess of another country?"
"Harm, who knows, I heard that Princess Cangyue came to be with her relatives, our queen mother has a deep love for our emperor, and everyone in the capital knows it, maybe it's to get a favor."
"Oh, it's a pity that the queen's talent is really a love word, how many children in ancient and modern times have suffered!"