Xue Chu'er stretched out her white and slender fingers, gently stroked his eyebrows, and asked gently, "But what happened in the Daming Palace?" ”

Guo Yan buried his face in the palm of her hand and sighed lightly: "Someone poisoned Your Majesty, the noble concubine Niangniang is investigating thoroughly in the harem, and my eldest brother and I need to pay attention to some things outside." If it weren't for this, how could Your Majesty allow me to take a leave of absence at this time! ”

Xue Chu'er knew that he had a hard time during this time, and while rubbing it for him, he said: "Niangniang has a hard time, and San Lang is not easy." But San Lang worked hard, and the concubine couldn't be the little woman of the back house with peace of mind. Although the concubine is a woman, if she can do her part for San Lang and Niangniang, she can feel a little better. San Lang is not at ease with his mother, but how can the concubine rest assured about San Lang? ”

She said this softly, and Guo Yan was also soft-hearted, holding her a pair of wattles, and her voice was a little hoarse: "When I sent Nianyun to the East Palace, I was originally a little unavoidable. When she entered the East Palace, she had to carry the Guo family on her back, and she had to fight and rob it. When I think about it now, I just hate that I didn't take her with me. Nianyun is already like this, so I always don't want my woman to work so hard......"

Xue Chu'er has always felt that everything can happen to his sister, but she always can't do this or that, and she is always a little unhappy in her heart, and when she heard him say this today, she realized that he has always felt guilty about the noble concubine in the palace.

Thinking about it like this, the grievances she has harbored in her heart over the past few years have also dissipated seven or eight points, she leaned her face on Guo Yan's back, and said: "When I wanted to come to the concubine Niangniang, it was also her own choice, and I would not complain about San Lang." Chu'er is not an omnipotent strange woman, but she still hopes to share the ups and downs and hardships with San Lang, and San Lang doesn't have to blindly protect Chu Er. ”

He always felt ashamed of Nianyun for this, so he always inadvertently protected Chu'er and Chang'er firmly and prevented them from facing the storms outside. But Chu'er is not the delicate flower in the greenhouse, she was the sensational Xue Duzhi!

Guo Yan smiled self-deprecatingly and nodded silently.

There was some bumps in the carriage, Xue Chu'er took a thick cushion and leaned back against the back wall of the carriage, Guo Yan crouched in her arms. After a while, she asked softly, "But isn't Xingqing Palace unwilling?" ”

Guo Yan didn't answer for a long time. She looked down and saw that the person in her arms had fallen asleep at some point.

He hasn't had a good rest in a long time, has he? She looked at the two patches of black blue under his eyes with some distress, and adjusted her posture a little so that he could sleep more comfortably.

As soon as he arrived at Chengnanzhuang, the carriage stopped, and he got up again with a hundred times more energy, smiled and went to help her arm, and helped her out of the carriage, as if the person who was so tired that he fell asleep just now was not him at all.

He took Xue Chu'er's hand into Zhiqiuwu, sat down in the study, and ordered to call the housekeeper Guo Qi to come. Xue Chu'er groaned slightly, then stood up and said, "I'll go and see if dinner is ready." ”

Guo Yan took her hand: "You don't have to avoid it, just sit down." ”

Xue Chu'er lowered her head gently, sat down beside him, and waited for Guo Qi to enter the door, called "Guo Duwei", turned her head and saw her, although she was a little surprised, her face was well hidden, and she called "Mrs. Xue" respectfully.

Guo Yan said: "You don't have to hide it from Mrs. Xue when you talk in the future. ”

Guo Qi agreed, and Guo Qian instructed: "Send a few people who are good at tracking to visit the people who are going from Chang'an to Qinzhou, especially Xiangshi, if there is anything suspicious, keep an eye on it, and don't act rashly, Qinzhou Taishou Mansion will send another group of people to keep an eye on it." ”

Suddenly commanded such a sentence, Guo Qi still didn't understand, "This ......"

Guo Yan then added: "Let's see if there is any change over there in Qinzhou Taishou, if there is a dispatch of troops and horses, report quickly, if you really encounter special circumstances, you can cut it first and then play!" ”

This time Guo Qi understood, "Yes!" "Strode down on an errand.

There has been a lot of commotion in the Daming Palace, and the palace people in the entire Zichen Palace have been replaced, replaced by some of the old palace people who are innocent, have been in the palace for a long time, and have nothing to do with the Emperor Taishang, Concubine Wei Xian and others, and the other part is the people brought over from the East Palace.

Imperial Physician Liang had already checked that the spices stored in the Zichen Hall had not been contaminated, and the incense burner in the incense burner was only lit for a day, so the people who poisoned the spices for several days in a row must only be people who could touch the incense burner every day.

In this way, the scope was narrowed a lot, and Nianyun did not say a word, and ordered the palace maids and eunuchs who might have come into contact with the incense burner every day to be punished with ten canes each, and locked up in a room specially tortured by the court bureau to extract confessions.

There was a row of low huts in the court, each only three or four feet square, and there was no place for people to lie down, so they could only curl up. There were no windows, and the door was so narrow that it could only fit one person sideways, and when the door was closed, there was an oppressive darkness.

Dark, damp, and perhaps with unidentified creatures such as rats and cockroaches. And because there were too many prisoners in the past, there was a strange smell of blood in it. When the door opened, the light briefly shone on the wall, and the bloody handprints, which had become dark and heavy, could be seen pressed against the wall.

Nianyun ordered, and didn't ask a word, first shut them up separately, and then shut them up for two days.

Ten strokes of the cane is not a big punishment in the palace, even if there is no medicine, no one can die, but the pain will be subconsciously amplified in the space where there is no sound, no light, and it seems to be an infinite eternal night.

She told her again, whether it was the executioner, the prisoner, or the food delivery, they didn't say a word or ask a word, which made people on the verge of collapse.

When a person has just been arrested, the sense of prevention is often the strongest, and even if he is tortured to extract a confession, he may not be able to find out anything. But after such a long period of mental torture, when the string in people's minds is about to break, it will be twice the result with half the effort.

was locked up like this for three days, and on the night of the third day, when the person who had been arrested for no reason did anything was about to have a nervous breakdown, Nian Yun also got the news that the third brother and the eldest brother were handed in outside the palace, so he changed into a black robe and went to the court bureau.

Luluo knew that she had been stimulated when she went to see King Shu in the prison before, and she was a little worried about her, "Does Niangniang really want to go to the arraignment in person?" ”

She nodded slowly but firmly: "If you dare to poison Your Majesty under the nose of this palace, you should know the consequences, and this palace will personally supervise the trial." ”

The wide black robe, even the mandala pattern on the top was embroidered with black silk thread, completely enveloping her slender figure, her pointed chin was slightly raised, like a black bat flying out of hell, and her whole body exuded a dark and treacherous aura.

The concubine of Daming Palace, I don't know when, has faded away, and her heart has gradually become cold and strong.

One by one, the people involved were brought up and interrogated in three adjacent torture cells. The eighteen torture instruments were slowly stained with flesh and blood, and the screams of those palace people and eunuchs were repeated, and there were many wronged people.

Fennel was so stimulated by the smell of blood that she couldn't stand it, and couldn't help but run out and vomit, but the concubine Niangniang who was drinking tea on the side always just sat coldly, and from time to time she held a knife-sharp eyes to Ling Chi The palace people who were being interrogated had no expression on their faces.

The only time I frowned in the middle was because a small piece of minced meat flew from the body of a palace man when he was tortured and got on the teacup of the concubine Niangniang, so she ordered someone to remove the teapot and teacup.

She knew very well in her heart that if she couldn't find out, these palace people and eunuchs, whether they had grievances or not, could only be executed.

For her, the concubine Niangniang, who has recently ruled the Daming Palace, at this time, only by suppressing it with an iron fist can she stabilize the Daming Palace, and what mercy and tenderness are a long time later.

Not only does she have to be ruthless, but she also has to make it clear how ruthless she is, she can laugh like a Buddha on the lotus, but after putting away her smile, she is also a Shura of hell.

Under the severe torture of the eunuchs who were in charge of torture and interrogation in the Yeting Palace, after this long and bloody night, great progress was indeed made.

There was a palace maid, after watching the skin below the knees of her legs being bloodily peeled off, she gritted her teeth and scolded: "Guo's poisonous woman, I'm sorry for the spirits of the ancestors of the Tang Dynasty!" ”

After scolding, he bit his tongue and committed suicide, and the blood in his mouth splashed three feet, all of which sprayed onto Nianyun's black robe. To death, a pair of eyes were wide open and glared at her.

The little eunuch below hurriedly took a cloth towel to wipe it for her, and Nianyun raised his hand, "It's okay." ”

She walked over and flipped through the file of this palace maid, it was the talented person who had been in the palace for seven years and had served a Jieyu successively, who was transferred from the Shicui Palace.

"That's her." Nian Yun narrowed her eyes slightly and looked at the bloodstained corpse, and ordered, "Go and find out who she has seen since the death of the first emperor, and if there are any unusual behaviors." The corpse was left here and left untouched, and all the people she had come into contact with were called over to take a look. ”

The chief eunuch responded and asked, "There are still two or three left, do you want to continue the trial?" ”

It doesn't take two people to poison the incense burner, and besides, the people behind the Nine Clans won't put two chess pieces at the same time. If you can let it go, let it go first.

Nian Yun said: "No need, just lock it up in an ordinary cell first." ”

The chief eunuch hesitated for a moment, and then asked, "But this person is gone, and there is no result......

Nian Yun raised his hand to signal that he didn't need to say any more, "This palace has a plan in mind. ”

She really knew in her heart that under such strong psychological stimulation, her spirit was on the verge of collapse, and she bit her tongue in anger, and the sentence in front of her was not deliberately to blame.

Since I am sorry for the spirits of the first emperors of the Tang Dynasty, then the main envoy behind this is related to the first emperor.

The people who had the most to do with the first emperor and knew the inside story of His Majesty's accession to the throne all gathered in that place at this time.

Xingqing Palace.