Restoring the Truth (2)
Chapter 127: Restoring the Truth (2)
Shen Wan put Tong Shi aside and stood up from the collapse, and the long skirt embroidered with vermilion dark lines by Baifeng carved silk was extremely untouchable, dragging on the soft multicolored long-staple Persian carpet, which became more and more dazzling.
"The mountain rain is about to come and the wind is full of buildings, this palace is going to open a court in the palace tonight, teacher, please arrange everything!" Shen Wan said slowly.
"Yes." Cui Shanggong bowed his head and retreated.
Xiangming asked worriedly: "Niangniang, shouldn't the noble Xia be prepared?" The royal court sentence has been ......"
Shen Wan smiled slightly and said, "Perhaps, she was carried away by the emperor's personal inquiry last night, and she is dreaming of the Spring and Autumn Festival at this time!" ”
Xiangming asked in surprise: "Could it be that Niangniang deliberately got angry with the emperor last night?" So that the noble people of Xia can relax their vigilance? ”
Shen Wan shook her head with a smile and said, "How can I be so clever and know that the emperor will be angry with me?" I was really angry with him, but although I was angry, I didn't forget to provoke him to Xia Guiren. ”
Because of Xia Guiren's pregnancy, the two had a knot in their hearts, Xichen thought that Shen Wan was still caring, and Shen Wan knew that Xichen deliberately went to Yongning Palace to be angry with herself, so everything became her calculation.
This morning, when Imperial Doctor Sun gave himself a pulse of peace, Shen Wan had already asked him to record it, saying that he occasionally felt a cold and wanted to recuperate for a few days. Therefore, her time tonight is free, she doesn't have to sleep, and the emperor can't come over according to the rules, so as not to get sick, so she can use tonight to deal with some things.
Although she hasn't been a queen for too long, she has already had the road paved by her sister when she was a queen. And now, there are some things and some people who do not depend on who is the queen, but on who is the queen!
No matter who the queen is, the position of queen can already do what others can't do.
Deeper and heavier, Shen Wan was playing with an ivory comb in her hand, and two strings of jade were strung on the handle of the comb, and there was a dingdong sound when she moved, which was very beautiful.
Cui Shanggong came in, bowed his head, and said in a low voice: "Everything is ready, the emperor has rested in the Qiangong." ”
Shen Wan got up with a smile, Chun'er put a black velvet cloak on her, and played a lantern in front, Shen Wan helped Xiangming's hand, Cui Shanggong walked on the side, and the four of them walked out of the Chen Palace and slowly walked towards Gong Zhengji.
Gong Zhengji was in a corner of the harem, and the distance was a little remote, and it took some time for the four of them to walk here.
There were two people standing at the door, and when they saw the word "Chen" on the lantern, they hurriedly knelt down to say goodbye.
Shen Wan raised her hand slightly, and asked in a low voice, "What about people?" ”
One of them replied, "I've been locked in the dark room for some time, and I guess I can't hold it anymore at this time." ”
Shen Wan nodded and followed the man in.
There is no particularly wide hall in the palace office, as if it is a deep alleyway, and the further down the stairs, the colder it becomes, and the stone steps are narrow, not allowing two people to pass side by side, and one of them needs to walk sideways cautiously.
There were no bright palace lights, just flickering torches burning.
The corners of Shen Wan's lips twitched, this place was similar to the prison where she had stayed, and it was indeed a purgatory on earth.
A eunuch took Shen Wan and the others to a secret room, and through a palm-sized window, he saw a palace maid tied inside. The maid sat motionless on the ground with her head covered, her hands tied behind her back, paying special attention to the occasional noise.
Shen Wan nodded, the eunuch opened the door, Shen Wan went in, and saw the palace maid shrinking into the corner of the wall.
The eunuch stepped forward and took off her hood, and untied the strip of cloth from her mouth, her eyes still blindfolded.
Shen Wan sat on the chair, looked at her quietly for a while, and said in a low voice, "Jin'er, is it?" Tell me everything you know. ”
Her voice seemed strange in the chamber, and even she was a little surprised.
Jin'er couldn't see who she was, and asked tremblingly, "Who are you?" ”
"Presumptuous!" The eunuch drank sharply, and Jin'er's body trembled again.
Cui Shanggong said slowly on the side: "Jin'er, sixteen years old, entered the palace in the twenty-third year of Chenghua, and has been washing clothes in the Huanyi Bureau. In the first year of the draft, he entered Yongning Palace and was reused by Xia nobles. You are the confidant of Xia Guiren, naturally you know about Xia Guiren, what the queen wants you to say, don't you know what to say? ”
"Queen...... The queen mother ......" Jin'er's voice was full of fear, "Slave, slave doesn't know anything!" Queen Mother, spare the slaves! The slave really doesn't know anything......"
Shen Wan said: "You can say nothing now, you don't know anything, and after you have tasted the two hundred criminal laws of Gong Zhengsi, you will know everything and say anything." ”
Jin'er shook her head desperately, and tears flowed out: "Niangniang spare her life, Niangniang spare her life, whatever Niangniang wants to ask, the slave and maid will say, but what the slave and maid don't know, what can the slave and maid say......"
"Well, I'll come and ask you what you know." Shen Wan spoke, but paused again, and said, "Did the noble Xia have a menstrual affair before?" ”
Including Jin'er, everyone present was stunned. Except, of course, Choi Sang-gung.
It is impossible for a woman to have menstruation after she is pregnant, but the queen actually asked...... Don't?
Jin'er's face changed drastically, she shook her head with a shrunk, and said tremblingly: "Noble Xia is pregnant, naturally...... Naturally, there will be no menstrual ......."
Shen Wan quickly cut off her words and said briefly: "Take her down to be tortured." ”
"Don't, don't, don't, Niangniang, I said, I'll say ......" Jin'er cried and said intermittently, "Actually, whether Xia Guiren has had menstruation after she is pregnant, the slave really doesn't know." Only, but ...... The strange thing is that the slaves and maids were responsible for cleaning the personal clothes of the Xia Guiren before, but since the Xia Guiren became pregnant, she didn't let the slaves and maids take care of these anymore. Instead, it was handed over to the first-class palace maid Dongxue. ”
The concubines in the harem, everyone has palace maids of different ranks around them, except for the concubines who occupy the main position above the noble concubine and have the aunt in charge. The little masters have a first-class palace maid, a second-class palace maid, and so on. This Jin'er is a second-class palace maid, and there is a first-class palace maid above. And the first-class palace maid does not need to do these cleaning work, as long as she is responsible for light work such as serving tea and water.
Xia Guiren didn't use Jin'er to do her part, but let a first-class palace maid do it, which was indeed very unreasonable. Unless there is something unsightly that Jin'er can't know, otherwise, why bother?
Shen Wan was silent, and everyone was silent, and everyone fell into deep thought.
As soon as Xue Ling died, Shen Wan was about to execute Xia Guiren, but she was pregnant at this time.
It's just that the royal court sentenced to send pills to Concubine Qing, and accidentally diagnosed her pulse, and, from beginning to end, it didn't go through the hands of other imperial doctors.
Not long after she became pregnant, Xia Guiren slipped on the fetus, and the murderer pointed directly at the painting!
Shen Wan let go and wanted to use the painting to get rid of Concubine Qing, but the royal court sentenced her to be kidnapped by the strongman at this time.
Everything, sure enough, is too coincidental!
So...... Maybe it's really as Cui Shanggong guessed: Xia Guiren, she was not pregnant at all from beginning to end!