Chapter 80: Questioning

"What the hell is going on?" Seeing that Huo Qinglian and Zhang Liang were in a bad situation, the queen's heart suddenly tightened, although these two people, although only Zhang Liang was raised under her knees, but Xiao Huo's was the heart of the queen mother, and suddenly fell into the lake together...... Isn't this another proof of his own ineffective governance of the six palaces?

Fortunately, the Empress Dowager Jiayi's expression was not leaking, and she still calmly asked everyone to quiet down and wait for the imperial doctor, leaving Qi Yun and Sleeve Xiang to guard Huo Qinglian and Zhang Xuan, and called the other people to the next room, and then she waved lightly and called the county lord of Danzhu: "Danzhu, how did they fall into the lake?" ā€

"If you go back to the Queen Mother, Danzhu doesn't know." The lord of Danzhu County was the youngest, and he was a little stupid because of this scene, and he was stunned for a long time, and was swept by the Queen Mother's eyes before he reacted, and said with a crying voice, "Just now the Queen Mother asked us to step back, Sister Lian'er said that she wanted to make us snacks, originally the plum blossoms picked on Chinese New Year's Eve night were enough, but Sister Huaizhen, and the two sisters of Weiyang Palace suddenly came to visit Cai Mingxuan, and Sister Zhang said that it was better to go to the north of the Imperial Garden to pick some." ā€

"And then?"

"Then, because Cai Mingxuan's small kitchen was not done, Sister Yi'er proposed to go to another Sister Zhou in Weiyang Palace to borrow a small kitchen, and discussed that Sister Yi'er would help Sister Lian'er, and by the way, Sister Lian'er would go there, and the others would go to pick plum blossoms." Danzhu is the county lord, although he was frightened, but after calming down, he still said it clearly.

The Queen Mother listened, was noncommittal, and said, "Then why are you all here?" ā€

"Sister Lian'er and Sister Yi'er said that they would send us to Meilin and then go to Weiyang Palace, just now we walked to the edge of the Taiye Pool, and saw that Meilin was opposite, the two sisters went to the direction of Weiyang Palace first, and we divided into two ways to cross the lake, Sister Ruhui and I wanted to take the Jiuqu Bridge, and the others took the lakeside path. Because the road on the Jiuqu Bridge was slippery, my aunt reminded Danzhu to step steadily, and was concentrating halfway through, when she suddenly heard a cry for help by the lake, Sister Ruhui listened to it, and her face changed, saying that the voice seemed to be the handmaiden Xiuying next to Sister Yi'er! Danzhu said a little timidly, "We hurriedly ran back to the place where we broke up, and in the middle, Sister Rue ran too fast and accidentally fell...... Then I saw that Sister Lian'er and that Sister Zhang were both in the lake, but fortunately there was a small yellow gate nearby clearing the snow, and when I heard it, I jumped down and rescued them. ā€

After Danzhu finished speaking, the Queen Mother looked at the others and said, "But so? ā€

Su Ruhui was with Danzhu anyway, so she naturally nodded and admitted.

But Song Caisu and Lord Huaizhen glared at each other fiercely, and said in unison: "Huaizhen (courtier) has something to report!" ā€

"Say one by one, Huaizhen, you come first!" The Queen Mother's face seemed to be very calm, and at this time, the Imperial Doctor finally arrived, and Queen Zhou hurriedly got up and said, "Queen Mother, the daughter-in-law is going to watch?" ā€

"Go ahead." The Queen Mother said lightly.

Huai Zhen paused for a moment and said: "Queen Mother, after I saw Song Caisu talking to Zhang Huan, Zhang Huan suddenly caught up with Sister Lian'er, who had already left the Taiye Pool, called her back to the pool, and sent the palace maids away, saying that they had something to say, but as they spoke, the two of them suddenly fell!" ā€

"The Queen Mother Mingjian! The county lord is lying! When Song Caisu heard this, he immediately knelt down and shouted fiercely!

"Oh? So what do you want to say? The Queen Mother said coldly.

"It's the county lord of Huaizhen, who forced his courtiers to murder Miss Huo Qi a few days ago! The courtiers didn't dare, she later went to the courtier's next door, that is, Zhang Xuan's residence! Song Caisu kowtowed and said sadly, "Queen Mother, tonight's incident must have been instructed by the county lord to do it!" ā€

The Queen Mother raised her eyelids and said to Zhou Yi'er: "What about you?" Anything to say? ā€

The courtier didn't know the joints here, but she was discussing the matter of dim sum with Sister Lian'er while walking, Miss Zhang suddenly caught up and said that she remembered something and wanted to talk to Sister Lian'er, and Sister Lian'er was called aside by her alone. Because it was night, Sister Lian'er was wearing another light-colored coat, and the courtiers and the palace maid Bing'er beside Xiuying and Sister Lian'er didn't pay attention, so they disappeared. At that time, the courtiers and Sister Lian'er were already some distance away from the Taiye Pool, and they didn't think too much, so they just thought that the two of them were talking and walking, and they were far away, and then they waited for a long time to see Sister Lian'er come back, and Bing'er was worried that the stove in Sister Lian'er's hand should run out of charcoal. When the courtiers saw that Bing'er was young, they asked Xiuying to send charcoal for her, and by the way, she welcomed Sister Lian'er. Zhou Yi'er said calmly, "How do you know that after the courtiers sent Xiuying back, they waited in place with Bing'er, but suddenly heard Xiuying shout!" ā€

"Then who saw the scene of two people falling into the lake?" The Queen Mother's eyes flashed, and she looked at the palace people who had already knelt behind several people.

"Back to the Queen Mother, the slave maid saw it!" A scarlet-clothed palace maid crawled out, kowtowed, and said tremblingly.

"Whose person are you close to? What does it look like? Say! ā€

The scarlet-clothed palace maid said in a trembling voice: "The slave maid is not the palace maid next to the ladies, but the palace maid Huixin, who is the fourth grade of the neon beauty in the Liuhua Palace." Because I want to choose a few plum blossoms for the beautiful people, I also want to go to the vicinity of the North Garden of the Imperial Garden just now, but the slave maid accidentally fell near the lake near the two young ladies, and saw that there were a few steps by the liquid pool, so I wanted to go down to wash my hands, but as soon as I walked to the lake, I saw a rockery diagonally opposite, the two young ladies were talking face to face, and suddenly one of them turned around and wanted to leave, and the other also took a step, Xu stepped on the skirt of the one in front, and the two suddenly rolled into a ball, and fell into the lake from the rockery together! ā€

"Liuhua Palace? Ni Beauty? The Queen Mother thought for a moment and asked the other palace people present, "What about you?" ā€

"Back to the Queen Mother, the slave maid is Xiuying who serves Miss Zhou in Lumingtai, on the order of Miss Zhou, just now I turned back and wanted to add charcoal to Miss Huo Qi, by the way, I greeted Miss, by the way of the palace lamp by the lake, but I found that there were things in the Taiye Pool, but the slave and maid did not know the water nature, fortunately, after the shouting, a little father-in-law came nearby, first rescued Miss Huo Qi, and the slave and maid only then knew who the people in the lake were!" Xiuying also came out and knelt down.

"What about the little yellow door that saved people?" The Queen Mother suddenly asked.

Everyone was dumbfounded, or Su Ruhua said: "Just now when we rushed to the place where Sister Lian'er and Sister Zhang Juan's fell into the lake, the little yellow door was still saving Sister Zhang, and many people were scared, but fortunately, the Third Highness was also nearby, attracted by the noise, and the Third Highness sent people around him to ask for the imperial doctor, and on the other hand, let us and the palace maid place the two sisters in the Chuanqing Pavilion first, that little yellow door, the courtiers seemed to hear His Royal Highness let him go back to change his clothes first, and then talk about the reward. ā€

"Where is Gantang?"

"Just now, His Royal Highness summoned the nearby palace people to smash open the door of the Chuanqing Pavilion, let us stay here and wait for the imperial doctor, he went to see if there was anything wrong with the two sisters falling into the lake, and said that he would come again to ask the queen mother and queen for guilt."

"The grandson of the mourning family is doing a good job, what is there to ask for?" The Queen Mother narrowed her eyes and said coldly.

Su Ruhua didn't dare to speak, owed, and retreated.

"Huaizhen, Song, the words of the two of you are not true, they are all recruited by the mourning family, otherwise, the mourning family will not mind cleaning up the six palaces with you!" The Queen Mother still spoke in a light tone, but when she heard it, Huaizhen and Song's faces changed.

"Queen Mother, don't you believe my words?" The identity of the county lord of Huaizhen is different, and he has not knelt down until now, but just looked at the queen mother aggrievedly.

Song Caisu whimpered and knelt in front of the Queen Mother, kowtowing desperately and said, "The Queen Mother, the courtiers are really wronged!" It was the county lord's doing, what the courtiers said to Zhang Liang just now really has nothing to do with Miss Huo Qi——"

The fierce shouting of grievances of the Song family echoed in the pavilion, and Su Ruhui suddenly looked worriedly at the place where the imperial doctor next door was still diagnosing Huo Qinglian and Zhang Huan, and the queen mother immediately and decisively ordered left and right: "Plug her mouth!" ā€