Chapter XXVI Interrogation
"You're so bold that you actually let your mother take a medicine with five stone powder."
"Niangniang Mingjian, the slave really doesn't know." Cui Ying's cold sweat broke out even more, and the sweat of the bean size dripped on the marble floor one by one, splashing one circle after another.
"Isn't it your usual mother's diet and daily life? If you don't even know yours, who else does? Concubine De's phoenix pupils opened, her eyes stared sharply at the back of Cuiying's drooping head, and her voice was also a few points higher, with a thick sarcasm, as if she disdained Cuiying's answer.
"Niangniang spare her life, these days, because Niangniang doesn't want anyone, no one sees, and only lets the slave and maid accompany her, so the food and medicine in the past few days are all done by the people below." Cui Ying shook her hands, knelt on the ground and didn't dare to hide anything, and reported them to Concubine De one by one, and the truth was indeed the case.
"Huh? Someone came to find all the palace maids and eunuchs who had been on duty for the past few days. Concubine De frowned, stared at the light of her eyes, lowered her head and pondered, thinking of Mrs. Li's appearance, it was indeed as Cui Ying said, only Cui Ying was close, and she also agreed with Cui Ying's statement.
So who is going to kill my sister?
Could it be the Queen?
Concubine De shook suddenly, but then retorted to her own thoughts.
If the queen wants to deal with Mrs. Li, she will not wait for this time, she will deal with it a long time ago.
Could it be a concubine?
Wrong! Concubine De vetoed it again, and the concubine only accompanied the Queen Mother back to the palace not long ago, and she didn't appear in front of everyone, why didn't anyone deal with it, but just dealt with Sister Li?
Could it be a concubine?
But think that Concubine Shu is even more favored than Mrs. Li, and she has to deal with her but not Mrs. Li.
Therefore, Concubine De excluded Concubine Shu again.
Even after thinking about several people, there were reasons why there was no need to deal with Mrs. Li, so she ruled it out.
When Concubine De was thinking, the eunuchs and maids of the palace bowed their heads and eyes, respectfully and respectfully, walked up to Concubine De in a proper manner, and knelt down and kowtowed to Concubine De to say goodbye.
"The slave participates in Concubine De Niangniang, Niangniang Jin'an."
"Slave maid see Concubine De Niangniang, Niangniang Jin'an."
Concubine De didn't let them get up, her phoenix eyes raised slightly, and the cold light slowly swept over their faces.
Everywhere the cold light passed through the cold and indifferent, it caused a terrifying chill to gush out of their hearts.
They lowered their heads, and tried their best not to show the fear, panic, restlessness, fear, uneasiness and other emotions in their hearts.
Concubine De looked at them coldly without saying a word, and did not speak.
She just needs this kind of invisible pressure, invisible threat, as long as this person has bad intentions, she will be more or less uneasy in her heart, and she will show it in her expression, this is a psychological tactic.
The threat of feeling in the heart is better than the threat of words, it is more frustrating to the heart, it is easier to make mistakes, it is easier to expose his intentions.
Cui Ying still knelt grovellingly to the side, not even daring to raise her head, although she was Mrs. Li's personal palace maid, but no matter how much scenery she did, she was a slave, but this one in front of her was a concubine, a master, a master who had the ability to slaughter their life and death, could she not be afraid? Can she not kneel?
The other palace maids and eunuchs saw Cui Ying, who was the big palace maid, kneeling respectfully in front of them.
Not to mention them, kneeling in a proper manner, and they didn't dare to breathe.
After a while, they were all sweating nervously, and even their underwear was soaked.
"Who is in charge of the mother's diet these days?" Concubine De took the hot tea from Jinxiu, and after taking a sip slowly, she felt that her heart had been working for enough time, so she asked lightly.
"Yu Niangniang, it's a slave." A sophisticated palace maid about twenty years old immediately kowtowed and replied.
"Look up." Concubine De's phoenix eyes flashed with an elite starlight, and she looked indifferently at the familiar palace maid in front of her.
"What's your name, you've been on duty here for a few years."
"Back to Niangniang, the slave maid is called Xiufang, and she has been on duty here for five years." Her eyes were as clear as water, and she looked back at Concubine De calmly, without the slightest hint of fear or fear.
"Well, you've ever left the stove every time you've cooked medicine." Concubine De looked at her and asked as if nothing had happened, and the afterglow at the end of her eyes secretly looked at the other palace maids and eunuchs who were kneeling.
"Yes, let the slave think about it." Xiufang slightly twisted her brows slightly, and recalled carefully.
"Back to Niangniang, once the father-in-law sent by the emperor asked Niangniang what medicine to take, and it happened that Sister Cuiying was serving Niangniang to bathe, Cuiying asked the slave to reply, and she didn't leave when she cooked medicine at other times." Xiufang thought for a moment and immediately reported it.
"Cuiying." Concubine De raised her eyebrows slightly and called quietly.
"Back to Niangniang, it is true, that day the slave maid happened to help Niangniang bathe, and a father-in-law came to the Heart Raising Palace, and the slave and maid asked Xiufang to reply, what Niangniang ate, she knew best." Hearing this, Cui Ying immediately replied smartly, without concealing it at all, and explained what happened that day.
"Well, when you left, you asked someone else to watch the fire for you." Concubine De glanced at everyone indifferently, and her jade hand casually followed a long spike of jade pendant on her waist, and said slowly as usual.
"The slave maid left in a hurry that day, thinking that it wouldn't take long to reply, and the medicine had been cooked, just warm and waiting for the mother to drink after bathing, no longer need to watch the fire, so I didn't let anyone else take care of it, and the slave and maid immediately ran back to pour the medicine for the mother to drink as soon as she finished talking."
Xiufang carefully explained the situation that day, she said clearly and did not hide it at all, but she frowned slightly, as if she was very puzzled why Concubine De asked like this.
Concubine De carefully observed Xiufang's expression, judging from her calm expression and plain tone, there was nothing to doubt, if it wasn't for a clear conscience, she wouldn't have been able to do such an attitude of not being surprised.
But if she really did it, she could still behave so ordinarily, so relaxed, and so calm, which shows how well she acted, how unfathomable the city is, and what a powerful character.
"Well, in this way, during the time you left, there was no one to take care of Niangniang's Yaoluo at all." Concubine De's eyebrows were raised lightly, and her tone was slightly higher to ask.
"Hui Niangniang, yes." Xiufang was so frightened that she immediately knelt on the ground, and her high head was also lowered.
"Then you don't know if anyone has done anything in Niangniang's medicine, you dare to be so bold and pour the medicine that is not certain to Niangniang to drink, you are guilty." Concubine De's expression was pale, her phoenix eyes narrowed slightly, her pupils constricted, and she shouted coldly.
Xiufang, who lowered her head, looked whole, her cold eyes narrowed slightly, and a touch of coldness swept over her eyes, she knelt without shock, and kowtowed to Concubine De to admit her mistake.
"The slave and the maid should die, the slave and the maid know that it is wrong, the slave and the maid should not leave without permission, and the slave and the maid should not pour the medicine that is not sure whether it has endangered the mother's life to the mother to drink, please forgive the mother." Xiufang kowtowed and begged Concubine De for mercy, and her tender white forehead was immediately red and swollen.