Empress Dowager Liu instantly looked murderous, gritted her teeth and said, "Who is it?" The mourning family wants to break his body into thousands of pieces! ”

Concubine Ying raised her eyes and looked at the hall with concern.

Empress Dowager Liu turned her head to take a look, walked straight towards the way she came, and said coldly: "Go to Renshou Palace to talk." ”

Concubine Ying agreed, followed behind her, glanced at the calm on the side, but said in a low voice: "Ancestor, this matter has something to do with Leng Si, can you bring her over?" ”

Empress Dowager Liu's eyes narrowed, and she snorted: "The mourning family knows it, she must know, so she will take her with her." ”

Calm followed them to the Renshou Hall.

Outside the Renshou Palace, there were two female histories of the Shang Palace Bureau, with their hair scattered, covered in blood, and they looked at them calmly, but they couldn't remember which department they were for a while.

"They?" Empress Dowager Liu asked coldly.

"Old Ancestor, you still go in and sit, and Concubine Rong will tell you slowly." Concubine Ying helped Empress Dowager Liu into the palace, waited for her to sit down, and handed over the tea with her own hands, before standing aside and whispering:

"Ancestor, this matter has to start from the time of the election of the new Shang Palace, as soon as Han Shang Palace died, the Shang Palace Bureau had no leader, and those who were qualified to choose the Shang Palace could not sit still, and they all wanted to take the throne.

But they all knew in their hearts that the ancestors valued calmness in their hearts, and they were afraid that you would change the rules and let Calm also run for election, so they did all kinds of ugly things, just to put calmness to death. ”

Empress Dowager Liu waved her hand impatiently: "Which one will gossip with you, only about the assassination of the emperor." ”

"This is exactly what the concubine said, but there must always be an introduction to the occurrence of this matter, and it was just a primer, and the poisoning of Liang Si was also caused by this incident, but unfortunately they did everything they could, but they didn't succeed, and they were calm and exonerated because of their wit.

So if the plan failed, another plan was born, but this time it was more vicious than the last time, which shows that this person is ruthless and staggering. Concubine Ying continued.

Empress Dowager Liu squinted: "You mean, this time the incident is for Concubine Zheng Guifei?" The purpose is to set up a spoof? ”

Concubine Ying nodded: "That's right, these sluts, for their own selfishness, actually came up with such a vicious idea, they really should be cut down by thousands of people to relieve the hatred in their hearts." ”

"Do you have proof?" Empress Dowager Liu said coldly.

Concubine Ying bowed down and bowed, and her angry voice said: "Back to the Queen Mother, if the concubine has no evidence, how dare she talk nonsense in public?" ”

As he spoke, he turned his head to Xiaoyue and said, "Call Caiming in." ”

Xiaoyue agreed, and after a while, she called the female Shi Caiming, who had been waiting outside the palace, in, and knelt in front of the Empress Dowager Liu.

Empress Dowager Liu looked at her carefully and nodded: "Some of them are familiar, they seem to be the maids of the catering department, and they have served the mourning family for dinner." ”

"The Queen Mother has good eyesight, she is the female history of the Si Catering Division, fortunately there is such a righteous and unyielding girl, otherwise, it will be difficult for this public case to see the light of day." Concubine Ying sighed.

Empress Dowager Liu stared at Cai Ming, her face gloomy: "You raise your head." ”

Cai Ming slowly raised his head and looked at the Empress Dowager Liu, tears streaming down his cheeks.

"You're dumb?" Empress Dowager Liu asked.

"Ancestor, she is not dumb, she can't speak, just because someone cut her tongue!" Concubine Ying said bitterly.

Empress Dowager Liu took the case and said angrily: "What kind of place is this? How could such a thing happen? If you can really die for the mourning family, can you all do whatever you want? ”

Seeing that she was furious, Concubine Ying hurriedly took her clothes and knelt down, and stopped talking.

Empress Dowager Liu was angry for a while, took two sips of tea, Fang He calmed down, and then asked Concubine Ying: "Since she can't speak, how can she testify?" Aren't you trying to fool the mourners? ”

"Old ancestor, she told her friend Caiwei what she saw, Caiwei is now outside the hall, only called her in, let her tell the ancestor the truth, if what she said is right, this girl will nod, if it is wrong, she will shake her head, what does the ancestor think?" Concubine Ying said.

"Caiming, do you agree to do this? If you are really aggrieved, just rest assured, the mourning family will definitely seek justice for you. Empress Dowager Liu said solemnly.

Chaemon kowtowed with tears.

The two little eunuchs in the palace of Concubine Ying walked in with Caiwei.

Cai Wei glanced at Concubine Ying in horror and knelt down beside Cai Ming.

"Your name is Caiwei? How do you look at the noodles? Empress Dowager Liu stared at her and asked.

"Back to the Queen Mother, the slave maid is the chef to do rough work, and she can't serve the Queen Mother, so the mother will feel that the slave and maid are angry." Caiwei replied.

Empress Dowager Liu nodded, stretched out her hand and pointed at her: "Then tell me quickly, what have you heard?" ”

Caiwei raised her head slightly and said: "Back to the Queen Mother's words, it is that on the day of Liang Si's poisoning, the slave maid cleaned up the work in the yard and talked to Caiming, but saw that she was hiding in the shade of a tree and crying secretly.

The slave went over and asked her what had happened.

At first, she refused to say, only that the sand was blind, but later, when she couldn't stand the slave and maid's repeated questioning, she told me that the medicinal food that Master Sishan asked her to boil could eat the dead.

The slave maid was shocked when she heard this, and persuaded her to come to the Queen Mother to surrender, but she said that her parents and brothers were in the hands of Master Sishan, and she didn't dare.

The slave was anxious and told her, how wise the old man is the Queen Mother, if you eat this medicinal diet and kill someone, you will definitely not be able to escape, and it will not be a death by then, so it is better to turn yourself in now,

The Queen Mother, her old man, has always been kind-hearted, knowing that you are forced, she will not sentence you heavily, and it is unknown whether she can save the life of her family. ”

"Then what did she say, why didn't she come to the mourning house to explain the facts?" Empress Dowager Liu interjected and asked.

Cai Wei shed a few tears, glanced at Cai Ming, who was crying, and then said: "The slave talked to her for a while, and because she was called by Mama Zhou to clean the flower garden, she never saw her again.

A few days later, I asked her why she didn't go to the Queen Mother's place to turn herself in, but she told me with a smile that it was Master Si Shan who had made a mistake in the prescription, and that she did not intend to make a poisonous medicinal diet, and that the poisonous medicinal diet was not sent out. The death of the master of the division did not do anything about the medicinal food she boiled.

When the slave heard her say this, she was relieved and didn't ask about it again.

Until two days ago, I met her again in the yard, and when I saw her holding a burden in her hand, she looked a little panicked, so I stepped forward and asked her what was the matter, why her face was pale, and her lips were trembling.

She shook her head and said that it was okay, Master Si Shan sent her to Si Shi to deliver something.

If I just went to deliver something, why would I be so panicked, I was more careful, and quietly followed her to the Si Shi Si Si and saw her enter the utility room of the Si Si Si.

I hid outside the window, poked through the window paper, and looked inside, only to see her take out a thick, yellowed book from her baggage, open the top drawer of the utility cabinet, and stuff it in.

When the slave saw that she really came to deliver something, she didn't care and went to make a living.

Later, the emperor was assassinated. ”

After Caiwei finished speaking, she wiped her tears, kowtowed, and begged the Queen Mother to let her go, she didn't know that this matter was important, if she knew, even if she couldn't persuade Caiming, she would kill her relatives and report it to the Queen Mother.

"Okay, you stupid rough girl, where are those people so careful, don't blame you, get up, stand up." Empress Dowager Liu frowned tightly and said coldly.

Caiwei kowtowed again, stood up, and walked while standing with her hands down.

"Caiming, Caiwei's words are true? Is there anything wrong with that? Empress Dowager Liu pointed to Caiming and asked.

Chaemon nodded with tears in her eyes, then shook her head again.

Empress Dowager Liu's face darkened more and more, and she spoke again: "Concubine Ying, according to Caiwei, she just saw Caiming put the book in the drawer of the utility room, and she didn't see who made the box with the hidden weapon. ”

"Ancestor, the box was indeed made by a calm person, but after it was done, it was put in the showroom of the division that night, and it was clearly done by someone, and a bag drop trick was made, and the box made by calm was replaced with a box containing hidden weapons!"

Concubine Ying said.

Empress Dowager Liu didn't speak, just stared at her face.

Concubine Ying asked people to drag the two female histories kneeling outside the hall in.

One of the female historians' hair was scattered, revealing her face, and she could see clearly when she was calm that it was the female Shi Mujiao who exposed her to the Queen Mother at that time.

"Ancestor, this female history is called Mu Jiao, and she is the person in charge of the lights and candles at night. His father was a blind man who lived as a fortune teller on the outskirts of the city, and her mother washed clothes for the rich families in the city, and there were three younger siblings in the family who ate dead food.

But such a family ordered a set of storefronts with three floors on the nineteenth street in the most prosperous city the evening before yesterday, and paid 56,730 taels of silver. ”

Concubine Ying pointed to the kneeling wooden pepper on the ground and sneered.

"The evening before yesterday? Is it the evening of the day she identified the calm? Empress Dowager Liu asked.

Concubine Ying nodded: "Isn't it that evening, if their family is not a small family, seeing the money, they get carried away, they can calm down and put the ill-gotten wealth for two or three years, the concubine may not be able to find out the reason in such a short time." ”

"It's really hateful that a damn slave has become an accomplice to the murderer for a mere tens of thousands of taels of silver!" Empress Dowager Liu scolded angrily.

"The Queen Mother is wronged, the slave maid's family did not buy a shop on Nineteen Streets, it is all Xun Ying'er's family's words, ask the Queen Mother to learn clearly!"

Mu Jiao shouted loudly, kowtowed heavily, and his forehead bled out.

Concubine Ying sneered, took out a deed from her sleeve, and respectfully handed it to Empress Dowager Liu: "Ancestor, this is the contract she personally signed with the owner, the signature on it, I have seen it with the bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, it is indeed from the handwriting of this slave."

The concubine not only took this contract, but also asked Jing Zhaoyin to check the recent months, and all the people who had dealings with his family had confirmed that his family had no relatives or friends who could come up with fifty or sixty thousand taels of silver at once! ”

Empress Dowager Liu looked at the wooden pepper on the ground and sighed slightly: "Ying'er, although the origin of his family's money is unknown, it may not have been given by her master, and you don't have any evidence, right?" Look at her appearance, it seems that she is really wronged. ”

"Queen Mother, don't be deceived by her acting skills, the evidence in the hands of the concubine is naturally not these, the jewelry box she made calmly out of the withered bag, the concubine also found it."