Chapter 53: The Truth Is Revealed
The housekeeper looked at this girl with a true temperament, and he loved it very much.
There is really a need for such a cute and unpretentious housewife in this general's mansion.
Mo Qingqing escaped death to realize how valuable this life was, so he no longer treated himself badly, and gobbled up the food on the table.
Concubine Li accompanied the Queen Mother to wait for news in the Lama Temple, and after a while, the Praetorian Guard came with the news that the prisoner was tortured and still refused to spit out the truth.
"Emperor, what can I do?" The Queen Mother had been waiting all morning, anxious, and now she heard that the prisoner refused to tell the truth, and she was even more anxious.
"Don't worry about the queen mother, I will think of a way."
"Your Majesty." An Shuangchi on the side stood up and asked: "If the emperor can trust Weichen, Weichen is willing to give it a try." ”
The emperor glanced at An Shuangchi, then at the Queen Mother and Concubine Li next to him, and finally could only nod and let him go.
An Shuangchi was ordered to come to the Zongren Mansion, and after letting the people around him retreat, he stood alone with a whip in front of the inhuman-shaped murderer who had been beaten.
"General Ben advises you to get acquainted with each other, your mastermind behind the scenes has already blamed you for everything, not to mention ......."
An Shuangchi changed his words, approached the murderer and muttered, "Your eighty-year-old mother and your children are still waiting for you at home!" If you don't want her to have anything to do, give that person a confession. ”
An Shuangchi relied on family affection to disintegrate the murderer's heart little by little, it stands to reason that as a killer, there should be no emotional bonds, but this murderer is different, he has an old mother and children, presumably he must have embarked on the road of a killer in order to make a living!
The killer obviously didn't expect An Shuangchi to investigate his details so clearly, he thought that he had covered it all up well, Rao is the organization that killed people without blinking an eye had not been investigated, so how did the person in front of him investigate it?
The killer hesitated in his heart, and An Shuangchi waited unhurriedly.
In the end, the murderer confessed, "I don't know who you are, I am willing to tell the mastermind behind the scenes, but you have to promise me one condition." ”
"What conditions? You just say, General Ben tries to satisfy you. ”
"This organization of ours stipulates that if you betray your employer, you will kill yourself, and I have only one condition, I ask the general to arrange my mother and a pair of children in a safe place, and give them some silver taels that are enough to live, but I am useless, and I can't support them."
"This is a trivial matter, General Ben will take you to meet the emperor." An Shuangchi asked the guards outside the door to come in and untie him and escort him to the emperor.
"Your Majesty, the criminal has confessed."
The emperor looked at the inhuman-looking murderer who was beaten in front of him, and said indifferently: "Who ordered you?" ”
"Yes, it's the Queen's Mother."
When they heard that the mastermind behind the scenes was the queen, the emperor, the queen mother and Concubine Li were all taken aback.
The emperor slapped the table: "Nonsense, the queen is the mother of a country, how can she hire you, a murderer." ”
Seeing that the emperor didn't believe his words, the killer took out a bead: "If the emperor doesn't believe the grass people, ask the queen to come out and confront her and ask her if she recognizes this bead." ”
When the emperor saw the beads, he had a number in his heart, because there were two beads, one was in the queen's place, and the other had been ordered by the queen mother to wear the bracelet, and the queen mother was wearing the bracelet at this time.
"Your Majesty ......." Of course, the Queen Mother recognized the bead and looked at the emperor in disbelief.
The emperor asked Li Sheng to call the queen over, "The queen mother still needs to wait for the queen to decide." ”
In Baoning Palace, the queen heard the emperor invite her over, and asked Li Sheng suspiciously: "Gonggong Li, do you know what the emperor is looking for in the palace?" ”
Li Sheng said with a smile: "Ouch, mother." How do you know what the emperor asked you to do! You'll find out when you go. ”
Seeing Li Sheng's relaxed appearance, the queen only thought that the emperor had something to do with her, and followed Li Sheng without thinking too much.
When she came to the Lama Temple and saw the person on the ground clearly, she was so frightened that she retreated, but fortunately, Mama Xi quickly supported her.
"The concubines meet the emperor and the queen mother."
The emperor saw that the queen was still pretending to be now, so he pointed at the murderer and said angrily to the queen: "Queen, do you know this person?" ”
The queen knew that the matter had been revealed, so she pretended to take a serious look at the murderer: "Your Majesty, how can the concubines know this person!" ”
The emperor snorted coldly and asked Li Sheng to hand the bead to the queen: "Then can the queen recognize this bead?" ”
"Ah, isn't this the pearl of a concubine? I lost it a few days ago, and the concubine has been looking for a long time! I don't know where the emperor found it? Mama Xi, don't get the beads back soon. ”
The queen wanted Mama Xi next to her to take the bead back, but before she touched the bead, she was kicked away by the emperor.
"Queen, I have been with you for many years, spare your life, you better tell the truth quickly!"
The queen was still in danger at this time: "Your Majesty, the concubines don't understand what the truth you are talking about?" What do you say about your concubine? ”
When the emperor saw that the queen did not see the coffin, he pointed to the killer and asked him to tell him how the queen instructed him.
"Queen Mother, conscience of heaven and earth, how can you not recognize the villain? The villain also has a thorn in your eye except for Mo Qingsoft! ”
The queen looked at the killer in disbelief, and secretly gave him a look, who knew that the murderer said to himself and didn't see the queen's eyes: "If you forget this, should you always remember that it was the slave who bought poison for you and framed the child in Concubine Fang's belly?" If you forget all this, the slave can only consider himself unlucky, blind and following the wrong master. ”
This one by one was said by the killer, and the emperor clenched his fists angrily, if the mutilation is forgivable, then what about the mutilation of the emperor's heir?
'Smack' a resounding slap in the queen's face.
"Queen, queen, the palace maid is also a human life, and she is also raised by her father's mother, as the mother of a country, it is a crime that you can't tolerate the palace maid, and it is a second crime to murder the dragon species in the belly of the harem concubine, queen, is this what you should do as the mother of a country?"
The emperor looked at the queen sadly, is this still the simple-minded, kind and generous queen at the beginning?
"Your Majesty, the concubines are wronged, the concubines are wronged, don't believe those cheap people who instigate."
The queen hurriedly knelt down and cried and prayed to the emperor.
The Queen Mother also looked at the queen with disappointment: "At the beginning, the mourning family saw that you were kind and kind, so the emperor made you the queen, but now you really live up to the expectations of the mourning family and the emperor for you." ”
The queen shook her head with tears in her eyes: "Queen Mother, it's not like this, it's not like this, you have to believe me, Queen Mother!" ”
Concubine Li couldn't stand it anymore at this time, and stood up to intercede for the queen: "Your Majesty, the Queen Mother, the Queen Mother has managed the harem for so many years, and there is no merit and hard work, I hope the Queen Mother and the Emperor can forgive the Queen this time." ”
Who knew that Concubine Li's plea queen did not appreciate it, she looked at An Shuangchi, and then at Concubine Li.
"Your Majesty, it must be Concubine Li and her sister and brother who deliberately set up a situation to frame the concubine, this murderer was also hired by them, the concubine was wronged, you have to be aware of it!"
The queen knocked Concubine Li next to her to the ground, "I don't need you to pretend to intercede, it must be you, a slut, who framed the palace, so I will pretend to show favor now." ”
An Shuangchi quickly held Concubine Li, and Concubine Li looked at the queen with tears in her eyes: "Queen Mother, you ......, the emperor, the concubine is wronged!" ”
The emperor naturally knew that Concubine Li was wronged, so he looked at the queen with hatred: "The matter has come to this, are you still quibbling?" Queen, I'm so disappointed in you."
"Your Majesty ......." The queen wanted to defend something more, but unfortunately the emperor didn't give her this opportunity.
"Enough, don't say it again, the queen has a bad character, as the mother of a country, she can't tolerate the palace maids and the imperial heir, she is grounded in Baoning Palace, and she is not allowed to step into Baoning Palace without my will."
Soon a guard left the Lama Palace with the queen, and no matter how much the queen shouted, the emperor didn't look at her.
Now that the truth is revealed, the killer was also sentenced to death by the emperor, and when he left, the killer glanced at An Shuangchi, and An Shuangchi returned with a comforting look, and the killer put his heart at ease and strode out.
"Your Majesty, now that the truth has been ascertained, the mourning family can give an explanation to the gentle girl."
Concubine Li suddenly saluted: "The concubine thanked the Queen Mother and the Emperor for her injustice." ”
The Queen Mother picked up Concubine Li and patted her hand: "Where did Concubine Li say, gentle this girl, the mourning family also likes it, but it's a pity that she left early, otherwise the mourning family wants to give her a big gift when she gets married!" ”
As she spoke, the queen mother's tears fell again, and the emperor saw that his mother and concubine were so fond of this Mo Qingrou, and proposed to let her be buried as a princess, and the queen mother nodded: "The emperor has a heart." ”
In this way, Mo became a princess softly and inexplicably, and An Shuang, who knew the truth, did not have too many expressions, he was afraid of showing his feet to arouse suspicion.
After Concubine Li and An Shuangchi sent the Queen Mother back to Cixiang Palace, An Shuangchi and Concubine Li returned to Chuxiu Palace.
As soon as he returned to the palace, the third prince ran out and hugged An Shuangchi and said aggrievedly: "Uncle Ruler, Sister Gentle is dead, and there is no one to play with Yu'er anymore, Yu'er really wants to be Sister Gentle!" ”
An Shuangchi touched the head of the third prince and comforted him: "Yu'er, you are gentle Sister is watching you in the sky, don't let her down!" ”
The third prince sniffed and nodded: "I will definitely not disappoint Sister Qingrou, I want to be a man, and I will avenge Sister Qingrou when I grow up." ”
Concubine Li was pleased to pick up the third prince.
An Shuangchi looked at the sad appearance of their mother and son, but still didn't tell them the truth.