Chapter 274: Judging the Silk (1)
“…… By this time, you still won't admit that you are a mole? Ouyang Zhen's words exploded in her ears like a thunderbolt.
Ming Juan's hand shook, and the plate fell to the ground with a "clang" and shattered into several pieces, and the soup of the dish splashed his body. Ouyang Zhen sat on the main seat in front of the hall, and his beautiful face was as cold as ice.
She only pursed her red lips and looked at Ming Juan, and she could only hear it in the lobby, ticking and ticking. Kneeling at the bottom, Mingjuan's face was like ashes, and she only stared at the broken saucer in a daze.
Ouyang Zhen asked Wan Hui to push back all the palace people, and there were only four people left in the huge hall, Wan Hui and Dexuan.
Ouyang Zhen sneered: "If this palace doesn't say one, two, three, forgive you and don't be convinced if you die, how can this palace conclude that you are a traitor!" ”
She brushed the long hair that was scattered to the side, and the palace maid gave her a bun, and only loosely pulled it in a bun, which was very comfortable. Ouyang Zhen thought carefully before slowly speaking: "Xiangye Xiangling is a person who has served this palace, what is the temperament of the two of them, this palace has seen it through early in the morning. Of course, this is not sufficient evidence. But you were punished by the two of them as soon as the palace came, and you were relieved, thinking that at most you would be beaten out of the palace with ten rods. Hongu looked at your face and seemed to breathe a sigh of relief. Do you say yes or no? ”
Ming Juan bowed his head and was silent. Ouyang Zhenqing smiled coldly before continuing: "When you saw that this palace punished the two of them, not only did you not panic, but you also seemed to be relieved. Then you smote the snake and put it on the pole, and said to the palace, "Go and receive the punishment too, and go out of the palace tomorrow." At this point, this palace suspects you, but it has not wronged you at all. Later, this palace released cruel words and wanted to beat you to death. You just argued that you were not a traitor, don't you think you defended yourself too late? ”
Mingjuan lay on the ground, trembling like autumn leaves in the wind.
Ouyang Zhen continued: "If that dish is not poisoned, how do you know that something will happen if you eat this dish in the palace, and you will be fine if you eat it?" Ordinary people will struggle a few times if they are forced to take poison, but you are good, you look righteous and awe-inspiring. How? Has this palace wronged you by a star? ”
Mingjuan then fell to the ground and began to cry. The whole hall was empty, and her cry was very clear.
Ouyang Zhen sighed faintly: "Tell me, from the day you arrived at the 'Yunxiang Palace', will this palace have shortened your monthly money?" ”
Ming Juan shook her head: "No, Niang Niang often rewards slaves and maids with silver, gold hairpins, cloth......" The more she spoke, the lower her voice became.
"Does the palace let you do death and work, and often punish you?" Ouyang Zhen asked again.
"No, the easiest job that Niangniang assigned to the slave maid was to do, just to look at the account and serve the Niangniang's daily life......" Ming Juan choked up as she said.
"Then why did you want to make other people's eyeliner, and in the end, you have to take an inch, poison the dishes, and kill the palace?!" Ouyang Zhen raised his voice slightly and asked word by word.
Ming Juan just cried, shaking her head desperately.
Seeing her like this, Ouyang Zhen slowed down his voice: "Since this palace treats you well on weekdays, and you frame this palace like this, there are only three reasons, one is that you have a grudge against this palace; Second, others are kind to you; Three, or someone else coerced you. Which of them do you say? ”
Ming Juan cried so much that she couldn't help herself. Ouyang Zhen watched her cry quietly, Wan Hui stepped forward and said, "Miss Mingjuan, you have to say it if you cry again, Niangniang has never punished you for her kindness." If you don't say it, it may end up even worse. ”
Ming Juan raised her head, with tears in her eyes, as if she had grievances and seemed to have something she couldn't say.
Ouyang Zhen looked at her expression carefully, and suddenly said: "If you don't tell this palace again, maybe you will fail, not only will you not be able to protect yourself, but you will not even be able to protect your own family, do you know that poisoning the emperor's heir is enough to raid your home and destroy your nine clans!" Don't you know what the emperor's temperament is, do you want this palace to be desperate in the end? ”
Her face was pale, and her majesty hidden beneath her usual gentle surface was revealed. Ming Juanse shrank, hurriedly kneeled to her feet, and cried: "Niangniang, the slave maid is also a last resort." It was Mrs. Liu Guo who took the slave's family and ordered the slave to do it! ”
As soon as she said this, Ouyang Zhen and Wan Hui were still shocked, although they were prepared.
Ouyang Zhen cupped her face, and laughed angrily: "The palace said, how could Mrs. Liuguo send the share of the palace that day, if it wasn't for the disclosure of the accounts by you, how could she send no more and no less, and she would have doubled the amount of silver." Then Sakura National Palace suspects that something is wrong with you. ”
She shouted, "Say! What the hell are you going to tell her about this place! One less word, not only will this palace not be able to save you, but even your family will die at the hands of Mrs. Liu Guo in an unknown way. ”
Ming Juan was so frightened that she kowtowed repeatedly: "The slave maid is also forced to be helpless." The slave's grandmother and sister were all held in the hands of Mrs. Liu Guo. Slaves and maids had no choice but to do what they were told. Originally, the slave maid's family was in the middle of the road, his father was a poor talent, he ate a few years of ancestral business, and then he was poor, and then his parents died of illness, leaving only his grandmother and sister, and the slave and maid couldn't, so they had to enter the palace to be a palace maid, one could supplement the family, and the other came to the palace If you find a good master, the family will not be bullied by others. ”
She paused and said: "I didn't expect that the slave maid had only been a palace maid for less than a year, and then the Internal Affairs Office said that everyone wanted to check the truth of the family, and the slave and maid reported it." Unexpectedly, Mrs. Liu Guo saw that there were only orphans and widows left in the slave maid's house, so she picked the slave maid into the 'Yunxiang Palace', and the slave maid didn't know why this was at the time, and then she did it for a while, and she was valued by Meng Niangniang, and sat on the palace maid who was in charge of the account. The slave and maid thanked the mother for her great kindness and refused. ”
She cried: "Niang Niang Mingjian, the slave maid doesn't want it at all, the slave maid thinks that the slave maid is so good to the slaves and maids, and there are many rewards, why should the slave and maid be such a villain, and when she is twenty-five years old and leaves the palace, these money can also buy a good dowry for her sister and marry her well." It can be regarded as a part of the slave's sister's heart. ”