Xuan Ling was not completely sure in his heart, but when he heard Lin Zhaoyi say this, he immediately said sharply: "The Imperial Painting Academy's Tibetan Painting Pavilion just caught fire, how can this news run faster than me, who did you listen to, and it didn't come from the truth!" ”

Lin Zhaoyi stepped forward and hugged Xuan Ling's thigh, crying: "It was the guard who summoned the message who said it, Your Majesty, you can't wronged your concubine!" ”

"Who just sent the message!"

Xuan Ling shouted.

One of the guards hurried out of the ranks.

"Your Majesty, it was the villain's summons just now, Zhaoyi Niangniang asked why, and the villain told the truth!"

Yue'er sighed in her heart, the messenger deliberately revealed in advance that he was inseparable from the Daisy Palace.

Xuan Ling pushed Lin Zhaoyi away and said angrily: "I came to ask you, I gave you perilla incense last month, how much do you have left?" ”

Lin Zhaoyi looked pitiful and said: "The box of perilla incense given by the emperor, the concubines have not been willing to use it, and now they are restored and placed in the palace, and they don't believe that the concubines can bring it!" ”

"Okay, get someone to bring it!"

A palace maid got up and hurried into the hall, and soon came out with a box.

Xuan Ling took the box and opened it to see that the box of incense had not been moved, it was still ten neatly organized, and he couldn't help frowning, and asked Yue'er: "Look, Lin Zhaoyi's incense has not been touched at all, could it be that the arsonist of the Tibetan Painting Pavilion is someone else?" ”

Yue'er turned her head and asked her father-in-law.

"Official, may I ask the incense burner in the emperor's palace, which is usually cleaned once a few days?"

"The rule in the palace is to clear the ashes once every three days, and clean them once every seven days."

Yue'er said to the palace maid: "Please take out all the incense burners in the Daisy Palace." ”

The palace maid hesitated.

Lin Zhaoyi's face changed color, and she said angrily: "Concubine Duan, it turned out that you hurt me, you ugly person, you actually calculated the palace, your emperor, you must not believe her fallacies, she wants to kill Ting'er, so as to win the care of the saint!" ”

Xuan Ling said fiercely to the palace maid: "If you are told to take it, you will take it!" ”

Lin Zhaoyi's heart trembled.

The maiden turned again, and a moment later she came out with three incense burners, but they were all washed clean, and there was no ash at all.

Yue'er glanced at it and said sarcastically: "What a coincidence, the incense burner in the Daisy Hall is not washed in the morning or late, but it is washed together at this time!" ”

Lin Zhaoyi said hatefully: "Yes, it's just a coincidence, Concubine Duan, I didn't expect you to be young, but your calculations are so deep!" ”

Yue'er smiled coldly, turned around and bent over towards Xuan Ling.

"Your Majesty, please send guards to search the Daisy Palace, since the incense burner here has just been cleaned, those incense ashes should have just been poured, and they will definitely be found at this time!"

In the palace, except for the clean room, the palace people are sent to empty the toilet every day, and things like incense ash are used for fertilization, and there is no special person to collect them.

Lin Zhaoyi was furious.

"Concubine Duan, what do you mean, this palace has proven that the perilla incense has not been opened here, why are you still looking for incense ashes!"

"Yes, your perilla incense has not been opened, but it does not prove that you have not ordered it!"

Xuan Ling snorted and said, "Yes, I have sent a total of ten boxes of perilla incense out, search for me, where the incense ashes are poured, you must find it!" ”

The guards said yes and searched around.

Lin Zhaoyi knelt down again and walked in front of Xuan Ling.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, don't you like Ting'er?"

Xuan Ling glared at Lin Zhaoyi.

"I'm here to ask you, how did you know that I was going to the Imperial Painting Academy today, and I specially prepared mung bean cake to send to the Imperial Palace?"

Lin Zhaoyi sighed, and said with tears in her eyes: "It turns out that the emperor is suspicious of the concubine, but in fact, the concubine is to make mung bean cakes and give them to the big official, so that the old man can arrange it where the emperor is going, right, big official?" ”

Gonggong Tong nodded, looking a little nervous.

"Well, yes, that's the thing."

At this time, Xuan Ling was a little hesitant, if this suspicion was ruled out, then the arsonist was not necessarily Lin Zhaoyi, maybe someone else.

But Yue'er saw Father-in-law Tong's cowering, and suddenly said, "Father-in-law Tong, in this way, you also told Lin Zhaoyi, where is the emperor going today?" ”

Hearing this, Xuan Ling immediately shot his gaze at Gonggong Tong and revealed the emperor's whereabouts at will, but he was a big taboo.

Father-in-law Tong fell to his knees.

"The little ones should be damned, the little ones should be damned, the small ones shouldn't tell Lin Zhaoyi about the emperor's itinerary."

Yue'er asked Xuan Ling: "When did Your Majesty decide to go to the Imperial Painting Academy, and when did Grandpa Tong know?" ”

Xuan Ling said: "I told the senior official when I went to court yesterday, let him arrange it." ”

Yue'er said to her father-in-law: "May I ask when did the official tell Lin Zhaoyi?" ”

Father-in-law Tong hesitated, but did not answer.

Lin Zhaoyi shouted: "It's this morning, the mung bean cake I made in the morning, and I sent it to my father-in-law as soon as it was ready!" ”

Yue'er said: "That Sister Zhaoyi's hands and feet are really fast, as soon as she listens to what the official Tong says in the morning, she will go back to make mung bean cake immediately, and then bring it to the official immediately after making it, don't you think these words are full of flaws?" ”

Father-in-law Tong coughed, he knew in his heart how determined Xuan Ling was to find out about this matter, and he must clear up the relationship now.

"Zhaoyi Niangniang, are you mistaken, yesterday when the emperor was in court, you asked people to ask the little one, and the little one has already told you."

Xuan Ling glared at Lin Zhaoyi again and sneered: "Okay, very good, what other excuses do you have?" ”

At this time, the guards who went in to search came out one after another.

"Your Majesty, there is no trace of incense ash in the garden!"

"There's nothing in the clutter pile—"

"There's no in the gutter—"

At this time, a fast horse galloped over, and when he arrived in front of him, a guard flew off his horse and reported: "Your Majesty, the Tong Wei of the Imperial Painting Academy is missing, and he doesn't know where to go!" ”

Before Xuan Ling could speak, Lin Zhaoyi glared at Yue'er, gritted her teeth and said: "Concubine Duanniang, I can't imagine that your heart is as dirty as your face, although you have set up a suspicious array, but you can't come up with a piece of evidence, this arsonist is actually you, you are trying to use this matter to take away Your Majesty's favor for your concubines, right!" ”

Yue'er didn't expect Lin Zhaoyi to take this backbite, and she almost laughed angrily.

Xuan Ling said coldly: "The Tibetan Painting Pavilion burns so fast, there must be something sulfurous, according to what you say, where did the incense ash on the head of the concubine get from?" ”

Lin Zhaoyi sighed, as if she had just woken up.

"No wonder Your Majesty checked the incense ash in the Daisy Hall as soon as he came, what is the matter with the incense ash?"

"When Concubine Duan opened the door of the Tibetan Painting Pavilion, incense fell from it, if I pushed the door, then you want to accuse me of arson?"

Lin Zhaoyi pointed at Yue'er, her eyes glowing red.

"Your Majesty, how do you know that she didn't mean it, the sulfur of the Tibetan Painting Pavilion was hidden on her, and the incense ash was also deliberately sprinkled on her head, the purpose was to blame others!"

Xuan Ling's eyes showed a look of determination.

"At this time, you still have to quibble, Concubine Duan is stained with perilla incense, she can't touch this spice at all, blame the blame, who is she to blame, is it you or someone else!"

Lin Zhaoyi felt that Xuan Ling's gaze was very strange to her now, and her heart trembled, she had been with Xuan Ling for so long, so she naturally knew that those paintings and calligraphy were Xuan Ling's favorites, and other people and things, no matter how good they were, could only be ranked second.

"But, but, she can't get a single piece of evidence, how can the concubine be splashed with sewage for nothing!"

Lin Zhaoyi still quibbled.

"You want proof, okay, I'll give it to you!"

Xuan Ling waved his hand and ordered the guards behind him: "Search, thoroughly search the Daisy Palace, drag these subordinates to the court for strict torture, whoever confesses first behind the scenes will be spared death!" ”

The court is a punishment institution under the Zongzheng Mansion.

As soon as this remark came out, everyone was surprised, it seems that the Tibetan Painting Pavilion was burned, and the emperor was furious, and he would definitely kill people to vent his anger.

A palace maid immediately prostrated forward and said: "Your Majesty, the villain confessed that there is not only one box of perilla incense in the Daisy Palace, but also a box that has been opened, and those incense ashes were poured into the gutter at noon today and washed away by the water!" ”

Xuan Ling exclaimed, "There is more than one box, where did you get those from?" ”

The palace maid glanced at Lin Zhaoyi carefully, and saw that Lin Zhaoyi's eyes seemed to be spewing fire, but at this moment, she would never dare to hide it.