Chapter 70: Crisis and Evidence
Following Yin Jingya's words, Yin Quan looked down, and sure enough, she saw that her right foot had been trampled under her foot by an inch at this time.
"Stand still."
After Yin Quan finished speaking, he turned sideways and checked the surrounding walls, and sure enough, he saw that there were many small holes in the walls. In this already dark environment, not to mention the ordinary walk-through, it is only possible to find it half-loudly if you look closely.
"It's a backhook and arrow, and once this thing pierces a person's body, it will grab a person's flesh like a cat's claw, and if it is pulled out, it will have to tear off a piece of flesh. And looking at the faint blackening of this scissors, it should have been smeared with poison. β
Yin Jingya also saw those holes at this time, although they were not dense, but there were one or twenty of them, if they really pierced themselves, they would become a sieve if they didn't die.
"I counted three times, and after three we crouched down together, and I saw that there were no holes in the wall below. We can only avoid it by squatting down as fast as we can. β
This is the only way that can be thought of at this time, Yin Jingya nodded, and then Yin Quan's low countdown sounded in her ears.
"Three, two, one!"
As soon as the words fell, Yin Jingya let go of her feet as quickly as possible, took a step forward, and then leaned forward, falling to the ground in an instant by inertia. Countless sharp arrows above their heads stabbed out of the place where the two of them had been, and then stabbed close to the walls on both sides.
Just as the two were about to breathe a sigh of relief and move on, they found that a piece of copper suddenly fell from the bottom of the wall, and the wall behind the copper sheet was a dense hole with a hidden weapon inside.
didn't have time to think about it, Yin Quan turned over and flew in front of Yin Jingya before she got up. Then he grabbed her collar with one hand, and moved the two of them three feet away before Yin Jingya could react.
"Thank you."
After the two of them stabilized and ensured that the surroundings were temporarily stable, Yin Jingya felt a little like the rest of her life, and she was sincerely grateful.
Yin Quan didn't speak, but after looking at her and seeing that she was fine, he squatted down and began to carefully pick up those dark arrows, and then pressed them back to the hole one by one.
"These things weren't here originally, if the Queen Mother came in and saw it one day, she wouldn't have to think about it and suspect you."
Yin Jingya naturally knew this truth, so she stepped forward to help clean it up. After everything was done, the two of them moved on again.
"I'll go ahead, and if anything happens, I'll avoid it in time."
Yin Jingya naturally had no opinion, so the two of them continued to move forward one after the other.
As soon as they entered the secret passage, they had already encountered a rain of arrows in just half a mile, and both of them knew in their hearts that they were afraid that it would be more difficult and dangerous.
The further I go, the encounter seems to be getting wider and wider. Even if the two walked side by side, there was a big gap, which made Yin Jingya feel inexplicably uneasy. Just when she wanted to tell Yin Quan about the uneasiness in her heart, the scene presented in front of the two of them stopped her footsteps in place.
The originally unbright corridor in front of him suddenly became clear, and two holes appeared in front of the two. There is no difference between the two holes on the surface, but in fact, according to the two of them, one should be true, one is false, one is a dead end, and the other is a pathway.
"It's worthy of the Lu family." Yin Quan sighed, and couldn't help but laugh when he saw that Yin Jingya didn't speak: "What, I'm afraid?"
"Then you're underestimating me."
"Since I'm here to play with my life, I naturally want to explore it. What do you say? β
Yin Jingya walked in again and looked at the two holes, but she still couldn't tell which one was true and which one was false.
"I don't have time." Yin Jingya is not exaggerating, she needs to find the exit in the shortest possible time, and she always has to show up at the banquet in Linhua Palace.
"Okay, let's pick one." Yin Quan is also unambiguous.
Yin Jingya didn't hesitate, and directly chose the one on the right, and Yin Quan naturally walked to the one on the left.
At the moment when she was about to enter the cave, Yin Quan stopped her, and then instructed her like a farewell: "Pay attention to safety."
Yin Jingya didn't speak, just nodded slightly, and then entered the darkness without a trace of hesitation.
On the other side, the farce of Linhua Hall is still in full swing.
"The Emperor Mingjian. My mother has served the master in the palace since the time of the first emperor, and it is a bad thing to say for so many years, it is a time-honored brand. If there is no unspeakable hidden, coercion and temptation, where would such a self-smashing signboard thing be done? β
The person who claimed to be Mama Cao's son first confessed to his mother as soon as he came up. Compared with Wang Jun'er, who denied it when he came up, the words of this family seem to be more reasonable.
"Since you say that the Cao family was coerced and lured, do you have any evidence? You can't just rely on your empty words to convict Wang Jieyu. β
The evidence is naturally there, and since the person is here, he must be very sure.
Wang Jun'er is not a fool, and she naturally understands this when others figure it out. So at this time, while everyone's attention was focused on the Meng family, Wang Jun'er raised her head slightly, and her eyes for help were passed on to the Queen Mother as much as possible.
However, the Queen Mother above turned a deaf ear, and such an attitude obviously showed that Wang Jun'er's life and death did not have much impact on her.
In fact, from the very beginning, when Wang Jun'er bought Mama Cao, the Queen Mother was already clear about the situation. She remembered that she had reminded Wang Jun'er at the beginning not to touch Li Shenlan's child.
But if she doesn't listen, if there is no problem, the Queen Mother will not hold her responsible. But now that the East Window incident happened, then everything is no wonder to the Queen Mother.
Seeing that the Queen Mother didn't pay attention to herself, Wang Jun'er was already covered with a layer of cold sweat at this time.
It's not that she didn't think that things would be more exposed, so from the beginning, everything she did was to prevent Concubine Xiang's people from investigating these things. However, what she didn't expect was that in the end, she was defeated at the hands of her concubines in her own palace.
I was thinking in my heart that Monsan, who was on the side, had already brought in all the evidence, and there was a child who came in.
Although Wang Jun'er didn't know this child, she also knew that it was the grandson of Mama Cao's life-saving baby.
"Your Majesty, this is all the things that Wang Jieyu's mother's family bribed us at the beginning, the grass people have no ability, although they are greedy for money on weekdays, they will not do these things that go against human nature.
So at first, the grass people refused these things, but when they saw that they couldn't get through me, they went to my confused mother. β
Meng Shan said this, knelt on the ground and moved to the child's side step by step with his knees. The child was obviously a little afraid of him, shrugged his shoulders and ducked to the side. But Meng Shan didn't care, stepped forward and stretched out his hand to wrap around the child, and said:
"The grass people are really unfilial, and they are not good to their old mother on weekdays, so my mother loves my eldest sister. The eldest sister worked hard, and gave birth to my nephew and died, so my mother took this little grandson as the root of her life.
The Wang family also saw my mother's weakness because of this, and threatened the child's studies, and to put it bluntly, it was also forced to force her life, which made my mother forced to agree to persecute the noble lady in the palace. β
Meng San's words were reasonable, although the kid was still afraid of him in his eyes, he didn't push him away in the end. He did not deny his uncle's words.
And plus those treasures brought in, each of them was worth hundreds of taels of silver. The only thing that makes you sure is that none of the treasures have the logo of the Wang family under the ink, which is really undeniable.
However, despite the ironclad evidence, Wang Jun'er is still crying and crying out for wrongs.
"If the emperor really did it by his concubines, why do you think he would be so stupid and have to give something with the seal of the Wang family to their family, doesn't that show that it was me who did it? When the East Window incident happened, all the sharp swords were pointed at the concubines, and the concubines were not stupid and would not do such stupid things. β
Li Shenlan couldn't see it for a long time, Concubine Xiang didn't interrogate Mama Cao that day, but Mama Cao's bite to death had nothing to do with Wang Jun'er.
However, when the autopsy was performed, Concubine Xiang found that she was carrying a letter in her pocket, which was sent by the little grandson. Moreover, the nature of the letter is not cheap, and the people who can afford this kind of letter paper in the end are all bought from the shops under Wang's hands.
At that time, it was just for a letter paper, and Li Shenlan couldn't convict Wang Jun'er, but now that countless evidences are pouring in like waves, Li Shenlan naturally wants to contribute.
After finishing the investigation, Li Shenlan ordered someone to get the letter from Yongfu Palace.
The child was naΓ―ve, where did he know anything, but after reading the letter, he didn't think about it and decided that it was written by himself to Mama Cao.
Although Wang Jun'er saw that the general trend had gone, in the final analysis, there was no proof that Mama Cao was dead, and she could say that these people framed herself.
"Your Majesty, the concubine hopes that you can thoroughly search the Tingzhu Palace, the concubine doesn't believe that since Wang Jieyu wants to discuss with her mother's family to deal with me, how can there be no correspondence?
Even if these letters have been burned, the concubines also want to send the palace people from Tingzhu Palace to the Shen Criminal Division for trial, especially the people who have been with Wang Jieyu all the year round, and Cuiyue is the first to bear the brunt. β
"Why did Concubine Lan say that the palace will be searched, after all, Mama Cao is now dead, and these people are likely to be bribed and framed by someone. How can you listen to their slander and think that it is the sin of this palace? β
Wang Jun'er was not to be outdone, the Queen Mother obviously didn't help herself, even if she really wanted to die in the end, she wanted to delay it again. What's more, Yin Chen didn't spoil herself, so she didn't believe that Yin Chen didn't have any affection.
However, what she didn't expect was that Yin Chen really didn't have any affection.
didn't wait for Wang Jun'er to say anything, Yin Chen directly ordered a search of Tingzhu Palace, and even the room with the concubine was searched, and the concubine said that she would naturally have no objection to prove her innocence.
Then he summoned someone from the Shen Criminal Division on the spot, and took the torture instrument on the main hall of the Linhua Hall to interrogate Cuiyue!
In the Shoukang Palace, Yin Jingya and Yin Quan separated and left, estimating the time when there was a stick of incense.
What made Yin Jingya strange during this period was that the entire corridor was spacious and straight without any mechanism in the middle, and she was originally very vigilant, although she was a little relaxed at the moment, she still walked forward slowly step by step.
At this moment, she suddenly noticed that the candle flame in her hand shook very obviously, as if the candle flame would be blown out by the wind in the next moment.
It's windy! That means the exit is not far away.
Yin Jingya's heart was overjoyed, and her steps couldn't help but speed up. But after thinking about it, if this is the exit, then it means that Yin Quan's place is a fake secret passage and a dead end.
Thinking of this, Yin Jingya cautiously walked to the wall on the left, and after checking that there was no mechanism, she clenched her fist and knocked it on the wall.
She didn't have any so-called secret words with Yin Quan, she just wanted to knock on it, if Yin Quan could hear it, he could signal him to turn around and walk to his side.
The sound of percussion filled the entire originally empty and secret passage, and Yin Jingya was a little excited because she found the exit, and she didn't notice that something seemed to be quietly approaching under her feet.
After a few moments of tapping, there was a responsive tapping sound on the other side of the wall. The voice was very close, and Yin Jingya guessed that either Yin Quan was only separated from him by a wall, or he was very close to him in that secret passage.
She knocked again to signal that he had an exit here, and he didn't know if Yin Quan could understand it.
But before she had time to think about it, she found that her feet and neck seemed to be crawling on something, and the itching was terrible.
When the candle flame was lit, I saw that it was two insects that couldn't tell what they were. Yin Jingya didn't even think about it, so she slapped it off and trampled it to death with her foot.
However, as soon as the two insects under her feet died, she heard the sound of dense ropes. When I looked up, there was a dense patch of the same bugs behind the good guy and crawling quickly towards him.
didn't have time to think about it, Yin Jingya turned around and ran towards the exit. Seeing that the light of the exit was in front of him, the road ahead suddenly became a fault, and the two roads focused on forming a large crater. On the other side of the road, it is estimated that it is three feet away, and even if you fly, you can't pass it all at once.
Seeing that the insect swarm was getting closer and closer to her, Yin Jingya's heart was horizontal, thinking about running and flying over, even if she fell into the pit and climbed up, it was better than standing here to feed the insects.
Thinking so, Yin Jingya took two steps back, and was about to lift her feet, but found that a lot of wooden stakes came out of the pit.
Obviously, it was Yin Jingya who stepped on the mechanism that triggered them when she stepped back.
Rejoice in my heart, this stake is a plum blossom stake to put it bluntly. Jump over the stakes one by one in order.
Yin Jingya didn't think much about it, and jumped on the first pile with her feet.
After standing still, he saw that the stakes were not the same, and knew that he was on the right track, so he continued to follow his memory to the next stake.
There are two and there are three, but after a moment's effort, Yin Jingya smoothly walked to the other side. Looking back at the insects, they climbed into the pit one by one and did not climb up, but followed the stakes into the cracks in the ground.
Yin Jingya took a long breath, Xu is heart was very responsive, and scratched her feet and necks to make sure that there were no insects before running to the exit again.
And those plum blossom piles after the last insect drilled in, slowly retracted to the state of being level with the bottom of the pit, and it was impossible to find it without looking closely.
After walking for a long time, I finally reached the entrance of the cave.
The wind was blowing in outside, and it was very cold.