Chapter 148: Searching for Someone in the Secret Room
After Jin Feng returned to the Xu Mansion, he probably told everyone present about the situation. Qian Yun exhaled a long breath, and the stone hanging in his heart fell to the ground.
"Fortunately, this incident did not cause much harm, otherwise it would have been a dead death." Qianwu glanced at Qianyun and loosened her brow.
Ruxu knew that Qianwu was to comfort Qianyun and didn't want Qianyun to take her life, so she felt guilty. Although a servant girl died in the Prime Minister's Mansion, from Qianwu's standpoint, this is indeed not something worth blaming Qianyun.
"An Guifei already knows that I am behind the scenes, and everyone must be more careful in the future." Such as Xu with a gloomy face.
"Do you want to report this matter to the emperor?" Jin Feng looked at a few people, and then stopped his gaze on Qian Yun, "After all, we have physical evidence. ”
"No." Qianwu and Ruxu spoke at the same time.
"If she can't catch the evidence of the concubine's poisoning, she can completely frame it on others...... Do you think about who might have made the poison in the pastry? Ruxu glanced at Qianwu and asked Jin Feng instead.
"Celery was specially placed in the pastry, just to let the peach blossoms smell the poison in it......" Jin Feng muttered, "Could it be Gyokuro!" ”
Ruxu nodded, "At that time, if we stab this matter to the emperor, the concubine Niangniang will transfer thousands of catties and blame Yulu for the crime of poisoning." Yulu couldn't argue, what would the emperor do with her? ”
"Even if the emperor knew that it was the poison of the noble concubine, this incident did not cause a major accident. If he wants to defend the concubine, he still has to arrest an innocent person to come out and top the bag at that time. Ruxu bit his lip, "No matter what, you can't let the emperor know about this matter." ”
There is another layer. The matter she is pursuing is too sensitive, and the time is not yet ripe, so she must not let the emperor know at this moment. If he knew that they had a conflict with the concubine, the emperor would definitely be suspicious, and once he was caught, there would be many obstacles for no reason.
The so-called "lose all the games if you are not careful" is this truth.
Ruxu had already said everything Qianwu had to say, and the two glanced at each other, and there was a tacit understanding that there was no need to speak.
"What then? Is it difficult to achieve such a dumb loss? I can't swallow this breath! Jin Feng said fiercely.
"Of course not. An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, if you wait patiently for a day or two, I will give you a chance to raise your eyebrows. Ruxu narrowed her eyes, "But Yulu is going to suffer some grievances." ”
In the afternoon of the next day, in the Chang'an Palace.
An Guifei slapped Yulu fiercely, "You stupid and stupid thing like a pig!" Colorless and odorless poisons can be detected! ”
Yulu was pushed to the ground by her, her head lowered and her face covered her face, and tears dripped down in large pieces.
Liuli on the side glanced at Yulu coldly, and asked again, "Now that the plan has failed, what is Niangniang going to do?" ”
The concubine glared at Yulu fiercely, "If this matter is reported to the emperor by Jin Ruxu, he will take the lop ear to blame!" ”
When Yulu heard the name "lop", her heart jumped, and her fist under her sleeve clenched suddenly.
What a ruthless concubine! If there is any failure in the lop ear, I will let the entire Chang'an Hall be a burial. Yulu flashed a hint of cruelty.
At this time, Calamus came in and called, "Niangniang, the emperor invited you to listen to the music in Chengyang Palace earlier, and now it's time to prepare." ”
The concubine glanced at Yulu who was kneeling on the ground in annoyance, "Don't get down yet!" ”
Yulu trembled and crawled out of the gate of Chang'an Palace, she lowered her head, but she was listening carefully to the conversation of several people.
"Liuli is more familiar with Chengyang Palace, so let's go with Liuli......" Guifei said.
"Yes." Ruri answered.
In the afternoon of the same day, the concubine led the glass to Chengyang Palace. After confirming that they had left the Chang'an Palace, Yulu put on a night suit and prepared to sneak into their secret room as soon as it got dark.
Now that Ruxu has been exposed, the people in the secret room are not dead. It seems that this person has a lot of use value and must be an important person. In addition to that, she also wanted to know what else was in the secret room.
After waiting patiently for a while, it was getting dark. Chengyang Palace spread the word, saying that the concubine Niangniang would have dinner in Chengyang Palace, so that Chang'an Palace did not have to prepare. Gyokuro knew it was time, so she asked the lop to spread the calamus.
After the lop took the iris away, Yulu shuttled through the Chang'an Palace, and then came to the courtyard of Liuli. After putting down several palace maids with a needle along the way, she finally succeeded in coming to the house. Relying on the general location of the secret room he had seen that day, he came to a wall.
Touching the smooth wall in front of her, Gyokuro tried many methods, but couldn't open the door of the secret room. When he was in a dilemma, he saw a vibration from the stone wall, and the door on the wall suddenly opened.
I saw a palace maid carrying a food box come out of it, Yulu reacted quickly, she just came out of the door, the hemp needle in her hand had fallen out of her hand, and the palace maid fell to the ground and fell unconscious in an instant.
Gyokuro dragged her over and jammed the door of the chamber to prevent it from closing, and she entered the chamber vigilantly.
When the door opened, Gyokuro saw a staircase leading down, and it seemed that the chamber was underground. The secret passage was lit with dim lamps, illuminating the surroundings a little terrifyingly.
She walked briskly through the passage, only to find two rooms on the left and right at the end of the passage.
How can there be two? She was puzzled for a moment, and then she reached out and pushed open one of the stone doors, only to see that it was dark inside, and she couldn't see anything clearly. She knew she wasn't looking for this one, so she closed the door and flew into another room.
This secret room is located in the hinterland of the palace, not far from the concubine's Chang'an Palace, and the structure is not too complicated. Liuli was arrogant and arrogant, and she would not set up a mechanism in it, so she safely entered another room, and as soon as she raised her eyes, she saw Xu Chongxin who was hanging high in the air.
His limbs were entangled in wisps of green silk, which were entangled in his flesh, strangled into a blur of flesh, and blood was dripping down at the moment.
Yulu didn't know Xu Chongxin, so she frowned and walked over to take a closer look at him. Xu Chongxin's head hung weakly, Yulu walked up to him, found that his seven orifices were bleeding, and then looked at it, and suddenly saw a sharp object as thick as a wire in his ear.
The pain of the wire piercing her ear was beyond the imagination of ordinary people, she reached out and touched Xu Chongxin's feet, and found that he still had body temperature. It seems that he is still alive.
At this time, Xu Chongxin suddenly woke up, and he saw a figure in front of him in a daze, but because there was blood in front of him, he couldn't see clearly. After struggling for a moment, he spat out a mouthful of blood from his mouth.
"Lao Tzu...... Anything...... I don't know, if you want to kill or chop you! Hmm......" After saying this, the green silk on his hands and feet seemed to be wrapped tighter. He gritted his teeth and could no longer utter a word.
"Can you hear me?" Yulu seemed a little happy to see that he was awake.
At this time, Xu Chongxin was silent again, and Yulu tried to say a few words to him, but he didn't seem to hear it.
She had to look away from the rest of the room, and suddenly saw a wooden shelf at the end of the secret room, and a white cloth was spread on it, and on the white cloth lay a bald woman. She took a few steps closer and looked at it, and saw that it was a monk.
Getting a little closer, Gyokuro finally saw her clearly, and was immediately frightened and took a few steps back. Her eyes were hollow except for two horrible holes, her eyeballs had been gouged out, her face was a black color, and a few patches of white skin could be faintly seen.
She was sweating profusely, and the expression on her face was distorted, and she looked extremely painful, but her limbs and body did not react. Gyokuro took her pulse and checked her whole body. It was found that the meridians of her limbs were broken, and all the bones at the joints were broken. Not only that, but she also found that her tongue had been cut out.
This person looks like she's a waste, so why do they keep her here? Gyokuro wondered.
At this time, she didn't know that this person was Ru Xu's fifth senior sister.
At this moment, Lao Wu, who was lying on the wooden frame, suddenly started to go crazy, it seemed to be extremely painful, her face was indescribably distorted, and her mouth kept shouting babbling sounds, looking very painful. But she has no eyes and no tongue, and her body is already useless, so no matter how painful she feels, it seems that it is just a wailing and roaring.
Gyokuro finally sensed that something was wrong, and stabbed the silver needle in her hand on her finger, and the blood quickly gushed out and gathered into blood beads, but the blood turned orange-red, and then after a while, it turned black and red again.
It's crazy! These people are experimenting on living people! It turned out that Liuli kept her in order to use her to experiment with various poisons and test liquids, and looking at her situation, it is estimated that her body contains four or five poisons at the same time. These poisons interact with each other and combine with each other, and the pain during this period is needless to say. If Xu Chongxin is the pain caused by physics, then Lao Wu is the pain caused by internal toxins.
Gyokuro's face changed, and she turned around, but found no trace of poison in the secret room. Unless...... The other room just now is where the poison is stored!
By this time she had already learned most of the information here, and she could not stay here. Even though she couldn't bear it when she saw the two of them suffering, it was useless for her to do anything alone, so she didn't delay any longer, got up and walked out of the secret room, and quickly returned to the room just now along the secret passage.
He dragged the maid back to the secret passage inside, put the food box in her hand, pulled out three silver needles from her neck, and then left the courtyard and returned to his quarters.
She concluded that after the palace maid woke up, she would not tell Ruri about her fainting. First of all, because the prisoners in the secret room did not make any mistakes, and secondly, Liuli was ruthless and ruthless, and she could not tolerate such a mistake, so the fate of this palace maid can be imagined.
In order to save her life, she will pretend that nothing happened and choose to hide it.