The east of the Wende Hall is out of the Donghua Gate, not far from the Criminal Division, but for some reason, this time the Yellow Gate sent out by the Empress Dowager Zhang has not been seen for a long time.

After more than an hour, the yellow gate hurriedly entered the hall from the outside, and when he reached the bottom of the steps, he immediately knelt on the ground with a "plop".

At this time, it was early winter, the weather was slightly cold, but he was full of sweat, his upper body was lying on the ground, and he shouted: "Queen Mother, the minister went to the prison to mention people, I didn't want to go out of the street, I walked to the bridge street, and suddenly encountered the opposite side of the horse, that Song Weizi was a suspect, and was sitting on horseback, and was caused to stumble on the horse, and fell off the horse, and hit his head on the ground......"

When Gu Yanzhang heard this, his heart tightened, and he was already very bad, and hurriedly looked at the other party.

Huang Men still knelt on the ground, speaking of this, his throat and eyes were stuck, and he said in a dumb voice: "There are just a lot of stones on the ground, their shape is very sharp, and it is entering the head and face of Song Weizi, knocking his head and bleeding...... It's out of breath......"

After he finished speaking, he didn't dare to raise his head, because he knew the temperament of the Empress Dowager Zhang, and he didn't dare to excuse himself and beg for mercy, so he only bowed to the ground with his head, suppressed the uneasiness in his heart, and said in fear: "The minister's errand is not good, please punish the Queen Mother." ”

***

The autopsy documents of "Song Weizi" arrived quickly, and the fatal wound was on the left side of the temple, pierced by a sharp stone.

However, even without this sharp stone, he would not have lived long.

It was also a coincidence that the group encountered a frightened horse on the state bridge. There was a large ditch near the left side of the state bridge that was washed away by water, and the Kyoto government was busy repairing it, and there were a lot of sediment and gravel piled up on both sides of the road.

The horses brought out by the palace were just ordinary mounts, and they had never been on the battlefield, and when they encountered a sudden collision from the opposite side, it was difficult for people to deal with it, and how could the galloping livestock be prepared, and five or six fast horses stumbled at one time.

The rest of the people are still injured, although there are also those who have fallen off the horse and are injured, they know how much to avoid the vital places, at most they have injured their hands and feet, and it is a great fracture, only Na Song Weizi, he is a guilty body, and the guards who mention people see that he is strong and strong, and they are afraid that he will escape, so they bind his hands behind him, so that even if he encounters sudden danger, he will not be able to move.

Na Song Weizi fell from the horse's back to the ground, and his head was knocked on the left side of the horse, and his cervical vertebra was also dislocated, and there were several sharp stones, all of which were submerged in his left eye, and another piece was pierced into his neck, and his throat was punctured, and there was blood all over the ground, and he couldn't see it. Huangmen hurriedly invited the doctor to come over, but he only had time to apply needles to stop the bleeding, and he didn't even have time to bandage the wound, and the person was gone.

Two other guards went to catch the startled horse, but they chased it for three or four streets before they counted seven or eight great horses. The horses were empty, and there were no riders.

The two of them carefully traced the trace, but the source of the frightened horse was a street away from the horse shop at the Sangjia Wazi, chasing over, only to see three or four merchants from the Western Regions pulling the remaining many horses that wanted to get rid of the reins in a hurry.

The guards helped to restrain the horses, and then went to question, those few people did not speak official words, only a few simple sentences over and over again, and it was easy to ask the cause and effect from the left and right vendors, it was a new shop opposite to open, put seven or eight plates of more than ten zhang of artillery battles, the horses listened to the loud noise, were frightened, and escaped immediately after biting off the reins.

The horses of the rest of the horse dealers are more obedient, and they are local traders, and they are used to raising them, and they are barely able to hold on, but these are exotic BMWs, and they have just entered Beijing, and they are already a little irritable, how can they stop it, and they all run out with their hooves pouted.

The pedestrian on the left also interjected: "Tsk, it's really a good horse!" Than our local, that foot power! That hoof, Ladu can't pull it! This is called a penny of silver! ”

***

In the Wende Hall, the magistrate of the Kyoto Prefecture is standing at the foot of the steps.

He bent his back slightly, his expression was serious, and his speed of speech was three or two minutes faster than usual, although he was a little far away, and he couldn't see the expression of Empress Dowager Zhang, but he couldn't help but raise his head and carefully aim at the person above.

While he replied, he sighed in his heart-

That Song Weizi is really not lucky.

On the surface, everything is just a "coincidence".

Not a day earlier, not a day later, but at this time, the shop in Zhouqiao opened; Not sooner, not later, they picked the auspicious time to fire; Impartially, the merchants of the Western Regions are selling horses not far away; What's even more coincidental is that the palace guards escorted Song Weizi to walk on the road full of sharp stones at that moment, and the frightened galloping horse collided with them.

The official is more than 50 years old, has been in the office for more than 20 years, except for a short period of foreign office, in the Kyoto government has been in turn three or four times, it can be said that he is old in the officialdom, at this time facing the Empress Dowager Zhang, although he is nervous in his heart, he is not timid at all.

He methodically talked about the situation on the Tongzhou Bridge Road, the results of Song Weizi's corpse inquest, and analyzed the reasons again, and pushed the matter to the "providence" in and out of his words.

"Those merchants from the Western Regions have been detained in prison, although they are foreign merchants, they are generally punished according to the law, this is a confession and sentenced by the Kyoto government, and the queen mother is also asked to show ......"

He said as he handed over the Chinese book in his hand.

The little yellow door on the side hurriedly stepped forward to take it and transferred it to the steps.

Empress Dowager Zhang hastily flipped a few pages and saw the last text written by the Kyoto Mansion, but she didn't speak, and only sent Hu Quan and Gu Yanzhang out of the palace together, leaving only the one who pushed the official, and asked him a lot of words repeatedly.

***

Late at night, Wende Hall.

Empress Dowager Zhang frowned, rubbed her temples with the fingers of her left hand, propped her elbows on the table, and her right hand was holding a pen like flying, reviewing the music on the table.

Rao was very fast, and it took more than half an hour for her to clear the paperwork that was piled high on the table.

While the Yellow Gate was sorting the approved documents, Empress Dowager Zhang moved back, pressed her shoulders on the back of the chair, pinched the eye sockets on both sides of the bridge of her nose with both hands, and let out a long breath while closing her eyes to recuperate.

Her usual eunuch Cui Yongchen stood aside, and when she saw this person behaving like this, she hurriedly made a silent gesture and sent out the small yellow door standing aside to bring hot water.

In the early winter night, it was already cold and close to the skin. It wasn't long before the attendant came in with hot water from outside. Cui Yongchen personally stepped forward, wrung the water-soaked handkerchief in the copper basin half-dry, lightly held it in front of the Empress Dowager Zhang, and whispered: "Sage, it's getting late, why don't you wipe your face first...... It's time to rest. As he spoke, he raised his hand again, and waited for a while before he saw the person sitting behind the table slowly raise his head.

Empress Dowager Zhang originally pinched the eye acupoint with her right hand, and half of her face was hidden in the shadow covered by her palm, but at this time, as soon as she raised her head and withdrew her hand, as her face was reexposed to the bright candlelight little by little, her eyes gradually opened, as if she was the finishing touch, and the whole person suddenly had an indescribable "momentum".

She was radiant and energetic, like an old man in her fifties and sixties, who said that she was only in her forties, and some people believed it.

Cui Yongchen was holding a hot sweat towel in his hand, and when he saw her face, he was startled for a while, and said in his heart: Is there any panacea that can rejuvenate people on this dragon chair?

Empress Dowager Zhang didn't notice the eunuch's expression, she took the hot wipes given by the other party, first put them on her face and covered them, wiped them twice, and handed them back casually, but she opened her mouth and called out.

Cui Yongchen came back to his senses at this time, hurriedly reached out and took it, took the other party's clean wet cloth, wrung it out, and handed it back to the Empress Dowager Zhang, bowed down and asked, "What does the Empress Dowager command?" ”

Empress Dowager Zhang said: "You watched the sudden appearance of poisonous snakes in Funing Palace, why did it come from?" ”

At this time, several small yellow doors had already gone down with copper basins, and although there were many palace maids standing behind them, they were all at least a zhang away, and only Cui Yongchen bowed and stood aside.

He heard Empress Dowager Zhang's question, hesitated for a moment, and said: "The minister does not dare to discuss Funing Palace, but before this matter, there are often people in the palace who talk about the time of the day, and they all say that it is the turn of autumn and winter, and there are frequent insects and rats. ”

The Great Jin Dynasty has been established for more than 100 years, has never moved the capital, several generations of emperors have come down, this forbidden palace hides dirt and dirt, I don't know how many ghosts and ghosts are hidden, and there are holes, forests, snakes, insects, rats and ants in the broken tiles, spiders and centipedes, at night, the female palace people have never dared to go alone to the back garden garden.

Cui Yongchen's words sounded as if he had answered, but when he looked back and thought about it, he didn't reveal what he meant.

Empress Dowager Zhang didn't dwell on this, and asked again: "I can't remember what year it was, it seems that it was also near the left side of the Qinghua Palace, and someone had been bitten by something?" ”

Cui Yongchen nodded hurriedly and said: "The saint has a good memory, there is indeed this matter, the minister only vaguely remembers that it seems to be five or six years ago, and it is also the turn of autumn and winter, when the palace is flooded with rats, caught and caught, it is still difficult to catch them all, so I had to raise a cat to catch mice, but the wild cat has a strong temperament, and the little yellow door that has just entered the palace is not stingy, and somehow it was bitten, and then it became crazy......"

Empress Dowager Zhang sat up straight, took a copy of the music in her hand, looked down twice, and said to herself: "There are many palaces in the palace, and it is inevitable that there will be places that cannot be taken care of......

While talking, he couldn't help but flip through the paperwork handed over by the Imperial Medicine Academy.

The snake that bit Zhao Rui was called the Money White Flower Snake, which was not a common ringed silver snake, but a variant, which used to only haunt the miasma in the deep mountains of Guangnan and Yunnan. Kyoto is located in the Central Plains, where can ordinary people see such a snake in the past, if it weren't for Sun Fengyao of Tai Hospital who once went south to treat the epidemic when the epidemic broke out in Guangnan, he happened to encounter it, I am afraid that it cannot be confirmed at this time.

Even the species of the snake can't be recognized, so how can it be cured of poison and healing?

The son is dead, although he can't die in vain, but at this time, when the court is shaken, the Empress Dowager Zhang is very reluctant to make waves again because of this matter.

She was a little undecided, thought for a while, raised her head and asked, "Then Zheng Lai has ever woken up?" ”

Cui Yongchen said: "No, although the bite is not Huanyin, it is generally a poisonous snake...... he paused, glanced at the Empress Dowager Zhang carefully, and said again, "Sun Fengyao said...... You may not be able to get it back. ”

Empress Dowager Zhang's face was even more ugly.

Zhao Rui's hand before her death, if it was compared to chess, it could be described as smelly, so that she had to focus all her energy on dealing with the funeral of the Son of Heaven. Whether it is to maintain law and order in Beijing, agree on the name, and prepare the corresponding rewards and comforts, it is not too late to take a step, and there are priorities, and when it is over at this time, she can spare a little strength to explore the cause of her son's death.

The little yellow doors on duty that night were all in the outer hall, and the three attendants who were supposed to be in the inner hall had already been sent out, what was the situation in the hall, except for Zhao Rui, who had already closed his breath, only Zheng Lai knew.

If Zheng Lai can't be saved, the cause of Zhao Rui's death this time has really become a mystery.

When did the poisonous snake enter the palace, from which place did it enter the palace, what was special about Zhao Rui before going to bed that day, and what was the difference in the temple compared to before, all of them had to be corresponded one by one in order to be studied in detail.

Empress Dowager Zhang pondered for a moment in her heart and asked, "Where are the people who served in the Funing Palace that day?" ”

Cui Yongchen hurriedly said: "The minister has been ordered by the sage, and he has already imprisoned people in the side hall of Funing Palace. ”

He paused, and before Empress Dowager Zhang could speak, he added another sentence: "In order to prevent the palace people from colluding to confess, they are all divided and detained one by one, can you ask now?" ”

Empress Dowager Zhang nodded, and because she was a little uneasy, she specially instructed: "You go and stare at the question." ”

Cui Yongchen got the order, and he didn't dare to be contemptuous, and immediately withdrew after saluting.

Empress Dowager Zhang squinted at the palace gate, and she didn't know whether she was watching Cui Yongchen go out, or looking at the night sky in the distance from the direction of the palace gate.

There are only a few scattered stars in the sky, and the night is like a thick curtain, which has already covered the bright moon tightly, and not even a trace of light can be seen.

Empress Dowager Zhang stared at the night sky for a long time, withdrew her gaze without saying a word, took the living note that was placed in her hand, turned back to the day of Zhao Rui's accident, and looked at it carefully.

When the fish belly was white, Cui Yongchen hurriedly returned to the Wende Hall and presented the thick confession to the table of the Empress Dowager Zhang.

“…… There were a total of 21 people in the Yellow Gate in the Funing Palace that night, including four in the inner hall, seventeen in the outer hall, and two teams of guards outside the hall, none of whom saw anything unusual outside the hall, but Zi Shi was close to the left, but he heard Zheng Lai calling people in the inner hall......"

Zhao Rui didn't love beauty in the first place, and she worked hard for her heirs before, but then she was really powerless, so she had to give up.

Since then, for more than 360 days a year, he is afraid of 360 days, either in the vertical arch hall or in the Chongzheng hall, or to review the chapters, or to discuss the country with the courtiers until late at night, and then return to the Funing Palace to sleep.

The emperor goes out early and returns late, and he doesn't stay in the Funing Palace for more than three hours a day, and he doesn't like luxury, there are not many furnishings in the palace, and there are only a few people who are used to serving around him, and the rest are arranged in the outer hall. Cui Yongchen stared at the guards and searched carefully from beginning to end three or four times, and repeatedly interrogated the chamberlains and guards who were on duty for seven days, and it only took less than two hours.

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