Chapter 35: The clouds open and the moon shines
Hearing Concubine Xiang talk about Liu Xiang, Li Shenlan was stunned for a long time and didn't remember who this person was, until she kept Xia Hu laughing wildly.
"That! She promised me that as long as I poisoned me, she would give me ten taels of silver regardless of success or failure. ”
As soon as Liuxia said this, Li Shenlan remembered who Liu Xiang was. Xiao's dowry maid was ordered by the Taiwei to break her legs and throw her out of the house.
"It's a pity, Xiao's uselessness was exposed, and the was cut off and driven out of the house. Obviously, the matter is over, but she threatens me with this matter and asks me to find a place for her to live.
Oh, anyone who dares to threaten me will die! ”
After hearing this, Concubine Xiang saw that Li Shenlan was still stunned, so she told the cause and effect.
When the secret guard found Liu Xiang's body, she was already dead, and although the body was badly decomposed, the explanation was that someone had given fatal injuries.
"Nearly half of the neck was slashed by a sharp blade, and he was killed with one stab."
If Li Shenlan only felt that staying in Xia was mercenary, then now she suddenly felt that she might never recognize this maid.
is ruthless and scheming, if it weren't for Yin Chen's favoritism to help Concubine Xiang, I was afraid that I would really die like this.
"Who instructed you?"
Li Shenlan didn't believe that all this was arranged by Liuxia alone, even if it wasn't Li Mingyue, it would definitely be more than the Queen Mother.
"No one instructed me, it was all my idea, I hated you!"
There are still blood stains left on the corners of Liuxia's mouth, and the screaming here makes people feel like a grudge ghost.
"Shen Lan, since you are in the Punishment Division, wouldn't it be a waste if you don't use things."
At this time, Concubine Xiang completely lost her previous gentleness and tenderness, but her face was ruthless, worthy of being a tiger girl.
Li Shenlan knew that she had to take this step, but when she saw the flowing water torture instrument placed next to Liuxia, she still didn't dare to hold it in her hand even when she walked in front of her.
"Pick it up, or do you want to live like this forever, this time it's Liuxia, next time it's Zhang San and Li Si! Don't think that this palace will always help you, if you have been so cowardly, this palace will not mind fighting back. ”
Looking at Li Shenlan's appearance, Concubine Xiang was forcing her.
For a long time, so long that Liuxia chuckled.
"This palace asks you again, does anyone instruct you!" Li Shenlan is giving Liuxia a chance, and she is also preparing for herself.
"Nobody."
After Liuxia finished speaking lightly, he closed his eyes calmly, as if life and death had nothing to do with him.
I didn't want Li Shenlan to reach out and pick up the long needle that was more than twice as many as the original embroidery needle this time, and the knife fell from the knife, so she pierced into Liuxia's fingers.
The screams, the terrible screams were endless.
Li Shenlan asked her again, but Liuxia still bit her death without saying anything despite the screams.
Take a closer look, the people of the Ten Fingers Lianxin Punishment Division have already used her, and there are still blood clots in Liuxia's nails, Li Shenlan went like this, and the blood clots split up and gushed out new blood.
"You are also pitiful for not being here for more than three or four days, and a piece of good land on your body is gone."
Li Shenlan was also ruthless, saying sympathetic words on her lips, but her hands were hard to pick open the rotten flesh between Liuxia's fingers.
"Ahh
Ten fingers connected to the heart, and Liuxia almost passed out.
"It's all like this, don't say it, this palace really didn't expect you to hate me so much."
At this time, Liuxia was hanging there with half a breath, but no matter how much Li Shenlan tortured and how she forced her, she kept her head down and didn't say anything until she died.
"If you don't say it, don't say it, I didn't plan for you to say it. The family in Lane 13 of Lujia Village, you don't care if you think about it. ”
After Concubine Xiang finished speaking, she didn't wait for Liuxia to react, she stepped forward and pulled Li Shenlan and walked out.
"Stand ......"
When the two of them were about to walk to the door, Liuxia gasped and stopped them.
"My brother is in your hands?"
Li Shenlan didn't know that Concubine Xiang had found this, so she naturally understood that Liuxia was asking Concubine Xiang.
"This palace knows that you care about your brother, and of course the people behind you also know. Now that he has been rescued, the young son's innocent palace will naturally take care of him. ”
Concubine Xiang also knew the news early this morning, and the people behind her threatened Liuxia's younger brother, and she must have done it herself.
I said...... But, why should I believe that my brother is in your hands? ”
Concubine Xiang raised her eyebrows, she really didn't expect this little palace maid to have such exquisite thoughts. But since she had been prepared, Concubine Xiang took out something from her sleeve and put it in front of Liu.
That thing was nothing else, it was the jade pendant that Liuxia bought for his younger brother through gritted his teeth when he took the first month's commission.
I don't know if the wound was too painful, or for other reasons, Liuxia closed his eyes in pain, and then said slowly:
"I don't know about others, it's just that Lu Changzai was the first person to envelop me......"
Lu Changzai, Lu Xin.
Li Shenlan had already thought of it, and the woman was unhappy at the beginning of the fight. It's just that it can't be only Lu Xin, and although Lu Xin is the queen mother's person on the surface, it is impossible for the queen mother to directly order a new person to enter the palace.
"Is there anyone else?"
"I don't know, she's not the biggest person, the purified powder was given by the person above, I haven't seen that person......"
Li Shenlan and Concubine Xiang glanced at each other, and they both had their own numbers in their hearts. Thinking of He'an, Li Shenlan asked again.
"Li Mingyue, Princess He'an's distress outside the palace was not done by her."
When she asked this, Li Shenlan used an affirmative tone, obviously she already had a guess in her heart, and she was inseparable from it.
But he had no choice but to say that he didn't know anything, "She hasn't contacted me since she entered the palace, and I naturally don't know what this matter has to do with her." ”
Seeing that they couldn't ask anything more, Li Shenlan and the others went out of the Prudent Criminal Division.
"The secret guard will prepare a confession for me, and when the time comes, I will present it to the emperor, and you will probably be able to come out in less than a day."
Li Shenlan smiled, in fact, she had just said so much, but she had nothing to do with the eldest princess, she always felt that she was hiding something.
"It's not too early, you go back early so that no one will find out."
"It's okay, say hello to the queen mother for me."
Concubine Xiang responded, and the two parted ways.
In the Punishment Division, Ruxia was tied to a cross and hung his head. After several days of torture, there was still salt water splashed by those secret guards on the wounds. When Liuxia moved a little, his whole body tightened with pain.
The body has reached the end of the crossbow, and no one in the huge torture room knows that Liuxia, who is hanging his head, smiles gloomily, and mutters to himself:
"Wait, Li Shenlan, I still have a big gift......"
"The mother is finally back, and the slave has been worried for a long time."
Looking at Bang Chun's appearance, Li Shenlan remembered how they looked when she first saw the four of them in Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Saving spring is simply to stay in summer gossip, and harvesting autumn is straightforward and shy in winter, but now that spring is going to the summer solstice, it has long been a matter of right and wrong.
"Bang Chun, I'm so tired......"
"Niang Niang is tired, why don't you make some sweet soup for you to get tired?"
Bang Chun was about to leave, but she didn't want Li Shenlan to hold her and shook her head weakly.
"Ask to see Lan Jieyu!"
Outside the door, a woman's voice suddenly came to mind, and Li Shenlan looked out but saw that it was Qin Yun next to Concubine Xiang who came over.
"What?"
"The slave maid came to tell Jieyu on the orders of my master that Liuxia is dead."
"Dead?"
Li Shenlan's mind went blank for a moment, didn't Liuxia already explain it, why did he die suddenly?
"Who did it?"
"Our people have been guarding the Penal Division, and no one has even infiltrated from beginning to end. Liuxia committed suicide by biting his tongue. ”
Biting your tongue and killing yourself!
She is not afraid that she will die, Concubine Xiang can't keep her brother and let her return to the hands of the people behind her? Even if she has long lost the heart to survive, but in the end, her brother is still alive, so can't she care?
What the hell is wrong?
For this matter, Li Shenlanmo said that he was spending his days on food, but he couldn't even sleep, and he kept thinking about it.
Since all the clues are sorted out and there are still inconsistencies, then something must have been missed......
Before Li Shenlan could figure out this, the door of Yongfu Palace was opened from the outside on the second day.
When Yin Chen saw Li Shenlan, she was squatting on the ground and taking care of the lily orchids she gave her.
The first two days of heavy rain, where could these flowers withstand such destruction, even if Li Shenlan tried her best to protect it, she still lost a large piece.
And Li Shenlan looked up at the door when she heard the sound, her face was still a little muddy. Because I didn't sleep well yesterday, there was already black green under my eyes, and I just saw the flowers falling into the mud, and I thought of Yin Chenlai and choked back tears.
So Yin Chen saw the haggard poor child with a little sludge and tears in his eyes.
"A ......"
Yin Chen admitted that at that moment, his heart seemed to have been pricked by Li Shenlan with a needle, and the pain suddenly contracted.
Three steps and two steps forward, hugged Li Shenlan into his arms, so fast that he didn't even realize it.
"I'm sorry I'm late."
The beauty was in her arms, but Yin Chen obviously felt that Li Shenlan had lost a lot of weight.
"It's Shen Lan who is useless, she was framed like this, Ah Qi don't blame herself......"
Li Shenlan is also red-eyed, grounded for many days, Yin Chen will always break into Li Shenlan's dreams. But every time Li Shenlan wanted to reach out and touch it, he disappeared without a trace.
"Don't worry, no one will dare to bully you in the future, I made an order early in the morning to degrade the Lu family as a concubine and rushed to the cold palace."
Lu Xin went to the cold palace like this, but there was still the Lu family behind Lu Xin, which was the Shangshu Mansion of the Ministry of War. Yin Chen was able to abolish Lu Xin without scruples for his own sake.
"It really doesn't matter......"
Yin Chen knew what Li Shenlan was thinking, and when he saw that she was thinking about herself, he couldn't bear to feel the warm current.
"You think about me, but I think about you with satisfaction. No matter who is in this palace, as long as it is someone who hurts you, I will not let it go! ”
In the Taiwei Mansion, Li Mingyue sat in the room and read the letterhead quietly.
The letter was sent by the eldest princess early in the morning, and the meaning was clear, Liuxia died a thief, and Lu Xin was also sent to the cold palace.
"Liuxia will die sooner or later, after all, she knows so much, and I can't keep her. Lu Xin's slut, relying on his identity as a successor, pressed me everywhere! Now it's also a great joy in my heart!
It's just that this Li Shenlan really made me look up to her, no wonder even my aunt couldn't fight her back then. ”
"What is Miss afraid of, don't say it's Lan Jieyu after the matter is completed, maybe Miss is all a concubine."
Hongmei has been with Li Mingyue for a long time, and she has more or less figured out her temperament, so she naturally knows how to say more flattery.
"Naturally, the more my father wants me to marry an ordinary person, the more I want to be a superior person. Let's enjoy a few more days of happiness for Li Shenlan......"
When the news of Li Shenlan's restoration of favor reached Tingzhu Palace, Wang Jun'er drove everyone out, locked them in the house and smashed everything to pieces.
Even if the final result was Lu Xin's hand, if it weren't for her Li Shenlan who dominated Yin Chen, Lu Xinneng would have framed her and killed her own child?
Wang Jun'er entered the palace in order to ascend to the sky and support the family business. Seeing that the eldest son of the emperor was about to be born, the boiled duck was blown away like this, and Wang Jun'er was eager to kill everyone involved.
Walking to the bedside, Wang Jun'er took out a doll from under the futon with a gloomy face. The doll has already been pierced with silver needles, and the puppet's service dress, plus the eight characters of birth written on it, is Li Shenlan!
"Slut! In vain, I have all been sincere to you! ”
After a few stitches, Wang Jun'er was still angry, so she picked up the scissors and cut them off with her head.
"Cuiyue! Go! Bring the materials! I'm going to make two more, sooner or later...... Sooner or later, I will let them go to my children under the nine springs to be buried! ”