Chapter 308: Fifty Boards
I thought it was a useful clue, but who knew that it was just a maid who loved to watch the excitement. In order to make Concubine Zhang get better quickly, the emperor asked Mu Li to stay in the palace and supervise Concubine Zhang's diet and daily life.
It's a big head, why do you want me to stay? Mu Li was not worried about taking care of Concubine Zhang, she was afraid that during the time she stayed in the palace, she would accidentally fall into the queen's trap.
In the harem, the queen's rights are the greatest, and no one dares to offend, even Zhang Guifei, who is now favored, has to respectfully go to the queen to say goodbye.
Zhang Guifei has a soft temperament and is good to anyone, let alone the queen. The things rewarded by the emperor, Zhang Guifei will use them to honor the queen, but the queen is not rare, she loses them or rewards them to other people.
Zhang Guifei's mistake is that she is a little similar to Mu Li, and the queen always thinks that Mu Li is in the palace, so she vents all her dissatisfaction on Zhang Guifei.
If Concubine Zhang Guifei didn't get the emperor's favor, it would be fine, but the emperor would love it very much. In the past, only the queen's share was the queen's share when he entered the palace, but now this favor is all taken up by Concubine Zhang Guifei.
"Do they move?"
The queen secretly sent someone to keep an eye on Mu Li, and she knew that Mu Li was a difficult person to deal with. At this juncture, the queen knew that she couldn't do anything to Mu Li, but Zhang Guifei would never let it go.
"Back to the mother, they have been checking whether anyone has poisoned the concubine's clothes or food."
Zhang Guifei is allergic to yams, which everyone in the imperial dining room knows, even if it is a pot that has boiled yams, they do not dare to use it for Zhang Guifei, in case Zhang Guifei is unwell.
And the queen took advantage of this, secretly asked people to grind the yam into a fine powder, and each time she took a little and put it in Zhang Guifei's incense.
Zhang Guifei is a person who loves to use incense, and she can't sleep without incense. She never thought that her favorite incense almost took away the emperor's favor and her own life.
"What are you afraid of?"
The queen felt that Mu Li and the others could not find a problem, because the incense would only be lit at night before Zhang Guifei went to bed, and Mu Li did not sleep with Zhang Guifei.
It's really strange why the concubine's rash went down and rose again. Mu Li checked all the food, clothing, and daily life of the concubine, and did not find any problems.
"What went wrong?" Mu Li squatted in front of the concubine's door and was annoyed.
Chu Lingyi was afraid that Mu Li would be bored in the palace, so he came to accompany Mu Li in the morning, and seeing that Mu Li was worried again, Chu Lingyi also wanted to share it for her.
"But I've checked it carefully, and there's nothing missing?"
Mu Li put it on his cheek, "It's all checked." ”
It was the day when the concubine took incense, and the concubine sent her personal maid to fetch it. For some reason, this time, which housekeeper deliberately gave an extra month's amount, which made the concubine's maid feel strange.
"Concubine Niangniang, the incense slaves and maids have all been brought back for you, and the steward has given more."
The concubine's body was itchy and uncomfortable, and she didn't sleep well at night, which made her sleepy at noon. "Give me some of it." Only incense can make the concubine feel a little more at ease, and after squinting for a while, the rash on her body began to rise again, which was even more serious than before.
Mu Li and Chu Lingyi were talking outside, and when they heard Zhang Guifei's scream, they immediately rushed in.
"What's wrong?"
Zhang Guifei rolled up her sleeves to show Mu Li, her entire arm was red, and it was still big. It's much more serious than the previous one, "How can this be?" ”
The medicine has already been used, how can it be so powerful repeatedly. What does it smell like? Mu Li has always been very sensitive to fragrance, and a smell that she couldn't accept rushed to Mu Li's nasal cavity, and Mu Li smelled it and covered her mouth busily.
"Oh, it's the incense that the concubine ordered."
Incense? What kind of incense was ordered in broad daylight, but the smell of this incense was a little strange, Mu Li didn't think it could calm his nerves, but was impetuous.
"I don't have any other hobbies, but incense is my favorite." Zhang Guifei has a soft spot for incense, and she will make it herself when she is empty, but today she has this disease, where does she still have this mind.
Mu Li took a closer sniff, the smell was indescribable, but Mu Li felt uncomfortable. "Can I open it and take a look?"
"Of course."
Mu Li looked at it, and there was white powder on it, which was obviously put on later. Mu Li sniffed it carefully, isn't this smell a yam?
The mastermind behind the scenes is really thoughtful, and he can still think of this. There is not much powder on it, and you have to look closely to find that unintentional people will think that the incense itself comes with it.
Mu Li extinguished the incense.
"There's something wrong with this incense?"
Zhang Guifei's eyes widened, this was specially assigned by the emperor, so Zhang Guifei never doubted that someone actually did something on the incense.
It seems that there is something wrong with the Internal Affairs Office, and Chu Lingyi immediately asked the emperor for an order to investigate the Internal Affairs Office.
"What, they found out so quickly?"
The queen couldn't sit still, this time she deliberately spent a lot of thought, how could she let Mu Li find out, could she have the ability to go through the sky. The queen was afraid that she would be involved, so she destroyed all the ground yam powder, and sent a message to the people of the Internal Affairs Office, if they confessed, they would definitely die without a place to be buried.
"This harem is my harem, and there are still people who dare to frame the concubine?" The emperor wants to personally interrogate, find out the mastermind behind the scenes, and clean up the harem by the way, so as not to let such a thing happen.
Chu Lingyi brought all the suspicious people in the Internal Affairs Office to the emperor, and lowered his head one by one.
"Say, who did this, if I find out, I want him to look good." The emperor angrily threw the incense in front of the people of the Internal Affairs Office.
No one spoke, just lowered his head and listened to the emperor's reprimand.
It's not a matter of going on like this, you have to find evidence. Mu Li took people to their residence to look for evidence, but the evidence had already been destroyed by them, and they were busy working in vain.
Mu Li could only return to Zhang Guifei in vain.
The queen has already let people say hello, and no matter what, she can't be implicated, otherwise they will die without a place to bury. They don't dare to joke about their mission.
"Drag me down and hit fifty boards."
Fifty boards, Mu Li's buttocks felt cracked when he heard it, and he estimated that his life would be lost after the beating. This trick is really ruthless, it can be seen that the emperor is sincere to Zhang Guifei.
The people from the Internal Affairs Office knelt down and begged for mercy, "It really wasn't us who did it, the emperor bypassed us." ”
Mu Li was also anxious for them when he stood aside, if he didn't confess, the fifty boards would only be half-paralyzed, and it would be worse than death. Don't hurt a group of people because of one person.
The guards dragged them all out, screaming in pain one by one. Mu Li's heart tightened when he heard this, but no one confessed and could only use this trick, this was the emperor's will, and no one dared to disobey it.
What is it that makes them so hard-mouthed, and would rather endure great pain than confess.