He Xiao and the others sat in the Wenyuan Pavilion, waiting for Bian Zhang to be escorted up for him to interrogate in person.

Qiu Anren continued to avoid suspicion, but he couldn't come at all, Empress Dowager Lin didn't know how to do it, she became ill after the autumn, and she had a fever intermittently, and she didn't get better until now, so she couldn't come.

He Xiao suddenly became "pro-government", and he was very uncertain, so he dragged Yu Zhiwei up.

Although this is the Inner Dynasty, when Yu Zhiwei appeared, someone still whispered a few words.

But it quickly subsided.

The queen mother can be in charge, why can't the queen, besides, before Yu Zhiwei entered the palace, she had a real title on her body.

Chen Hui and a few new factions, sitting without squinting, have no opinions, and the rest of the people are not good at chattering, so they quickly quieted down.

There were two chamberlains standing next to the emperor and queen, Xiao Ye should have been present, and Yu Zhiwei's head serving the pen and ink turned out to be Leng Changqiu.

Zhou Manzai died in Jinan, I don't know who cut it down, in short, his position as the eunuch of the ceremonial eunuch was vacant, and Yu Zhiwei quickly stuffed Leng Changqiu in.

Leng Xiaogong's father-in-law is wearing new clothes, which is an over-the-shoulder bullfighting given by the emperor, and the whole person looks beautiful and beautiful, if he doesn't always bow his head with his chest down, it can make people have the illusion of "Qiu Anren is second".

Everyone sat on both sides, waiting for the Jinyi guard to escort Bian Zhang up. Today's arrangements for the deliberations of the Inner Dynasty are very strange, Tan Huaiyu and Yu Jingning, who were supposed to arrive, did not arrive, and all the complaints were sick leave. Yu Jingning's old injuries have not healed, and the family has Yu Zhiwei's will, so people are not allowed to come, who knows that Tan Huaiyu is also coincidentally ill.

He Xiao sat on the throne, feeling that he had burned charcoal too early in the Wenyuan Pavilion, and his clothes were thick, and he was sweating behind his back.

When he was uncomfortable going north, he was irritable, he was a little restless, and he wanted to wait for Jinyiwei to escort Bian Zhang up quickly, and quickly finished the trial.

Yu Zhiwei has seen the folds before and after this matter, and this Bian Zhang's crime is extremely evil, and the new school has already found out the mistakes of people, and the Empress Dowager Lin wants to protect people and has no power to return to heaven, and now the "trial of the Son of Heaven" is just a formality, and the rest of the matter still has to be pry open his mouth by Jinyiwei.

But this ...... Why haven't people come yet?

Yu Zhiwei sat beside him for a long time, she was a person who went back and forth on the battlefield, and she didn't care much about the "showing up", so there was no need to be like Empress Dowager Lin to cover the beaded curtains.

She glanced at He Xiao, who was frowning beside her, and felt that she was also affected by his emotions.

yes, why haven't people come yet?

But soon, everyone in Wenyuan Pavilion heard the sound of "da-da-da" on the steps, and looked at the brocade-clothed guards in Tsing Yi below and ran up.

Everyone thought that the prisoner should be brought, but who knew that as soon as the little brocade guard came, he knelt on the ground with a "poof" and cried: "Emperor! ”

The people in Wenyuan Pavilion all stared at him: "Prisoner Bian Zhang, dead!" ”

Yu Zhiwei raised his head suddenly, and saw Gao Miao, the envoy of the suppression, enter Wenyuan Pavilion with a black face, and knelt down with a swing of his robe: "My subordinates are derelict in their duties." ”

The ministers were all in a bit of a commotion, and Yu Zhiwei spoke before everyone: "How did people die." ”

She didn't ask Gao Miao to blame first, but she first asked why people didn't have it, because she didn't want to leave a chance for the person who killed people.

Gao Miao hugged his fist at Yu Zhiwei: "Back to Niangniang's words, the prisoner Gao Miao was brought out of prison an hour ago." The minister was worried that Bian Zhang would commit suicide, so while putting him in the flail, he wrapped his hands and feet and gagged his mouth. ”

Before the prisoners go to the court, they have to search their bodies, Yu Zhiwei is not worried that Gao Miao will make such a mistake in doing his own work, not to mention that Gao Miao is even more thoughtful, in order to prevent people from biting their tongues, they even plug their mouths.

So how did this Bian Zhang die?

Gao Miao continued: "Bian Zhang got into the prisoner car from the Fusi Edict Prison in Beizhen, and from the edict prison to Wenyuan Pavilion, there were all guards, but just after driving the prisoner car, I found that Bian Zhang had lost his breath. Gao Miao paused, looked up at He Xiao, and then looked at Yu Zhiwei who was sitting next to him, and then said, "The minister is already on the road, although the minister did not touch the corpse easily, but just looking at his face, the minister feels that he is suspected of poisoning." ”

Gao Miao was mixed in the brocade guards when he was a teenager, and he had never seen any dead people, so he naturally mixed up a little experience, and none of the scholars here could refute what he said.

Yu Zhiwei pondered for a moment and said, "If you ask you to carry the corpse up to the Wenyuan Pavilion, I don't know how many hands it will take, so why don't you please move outside the hall, and let's see for yourself who has the audacity to do something to the criminal under the eyes of the emperor." Speaking of this, she deliberately turned her face sideways and asked He Xiaodao, "What does the emperor think?" ”

He Xiao was looking down and pondering, and he was almost startled when he was named, but he quickly remembered that it was not his queen mother sitting next to him, so he quickly reacted, he nodded, and said, "What the queen said is reasonable, and Zhu Qing will go with me to take a look." ”

The cabinet ministers of Wenyuan Pavilion did not dare to disobey, and they all stood up and walked forward with Gao Miao leading the way.

The pretence had already come, and Bian Zhang's fat body fell to the ground, and he was rolling his eyelids by the pretence.

Yu Zhiwei looked down at Bian Zhang's face, his face was pale, he was a dead man, and there were signs of poisoning.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for the man to raise his head and arch his hand at the people around him: "Emperor, Niangniang, my lords, this person was indeed poisoned to death and took arsenic." ”

He turned his head and asked Gao Miao again: "May I ask the pacification envoy, how was the deceased's mental state before he got into the prisoner's car?" ”

Without thinking, Gao Miao replied, "It's okay." ”

He then asked, "When was the last time he ate or ate?" ”

"Three hours ago." Gao Miao frowned and replied, "The swill bucket in the edict has not been emptied today, do you want to send someone to investigate?" ”

The man probably wanted to brush his beard, but because he had just touched the corpse, he endured it: "Two hours...... It would have been a little early, and if the deceased had taken arsenic at that time, he would not have been in good spirits when he got into the prison car. ”

Yu Zhiwei stared at Bian Zhang's face for a long time, and suddenly wondered if this old man said this because he didn't want to turn over the swill bucket.

Qi Zuo and Gao Miao were still there asking and answering, and Yu Zhiwei continued to stare at Bian Zhang, as if he wanted to stare at the flowers on his face.

Suddenly, Yu Zhiwei noticed something, the ball of cloth used to prevent Bian Zhang's tongue from biting, was now resting neatly beside him.

"Isn't there going to be a problem with this gagged cloth?"