Chapter 308: Funeral (3)

Hui Jue waved his hand and interrupted Miaoxin's words and said: "That's it, seeing that the five aggregates are empty, and overcoming all suffering, the Buddha will cross the world, and my generation should be the same——"

Miaoxin looked at He Xi's back as she walked away, and murmured, "Concubine Xi, she-"

Hui Jue closed her eyes slightly, and sighed: "She has worked hard, and her heart is bitter, even if it is me-that's it, let it be." Miaoxin, go and enshrine this Buddha bead in front of the golden coffin of the Great Prince—"

Miaoxin was ignorant, but he did it obediently. On the other side, when He Xi arrived at the Heart Cultivation Palace, he saw Baozhu kneeling outside the Heart Cultivation Palace, constantly kowtowing, his forehead was broken, his face was full of tears, and he kept crying: "Your Majesty, our little master is wronged, Your Majesty, you have to be aware of it——"

He Xi frowned slightly, and Fuqing personally helped her hand and said, "Niangniang, go in, Your Majesty has been waiting for a long time——"

He Xi nodded, walked up the stairs step by step, and when passing by the jewel, suddenly the jewel kneeled to He Xi's feet, stretched out his hand and grabbed He Xi's skirt, and cried: "Concubine Xi - you help our little master, our little master is wronged, we didn't harm the eldest prince, that secret letter, the slave really doesn't know where it came from, someone must have planted the blame, and asked Concubine Xi to help our little master talk——"

Fuqing immediately stepped forward, pulled away the hand of the treasure bead, and said in a deep voice: "Bold, even dare to offend Niangniang, let go-"

He pushed the orb away, and it fell to the ground, crying bitterly.

He Xi just glanced at her lightly, did not speak, and entered the inner hall, there was a person kneeling in the hall, dressed in plain white palace clothes on the ground, like a blooming lily, and the person was also trembling, like a rui who couldn't help but wind and rain.

He Xi bent his knees slightly, and said, "I have seen Your Majesty, the queen mother, and the noble concubine Niangniang." ”

Tuoba Chen waved his hand, and said with some distress: "You are weak, so it's better to be polite." ”

After Ruyi helped He Xi sit down, Tuoba Chen pointed to Bai Zhi who was kneeling in the palace and said: "The queen asked people to search the six palaces to find out if there was a trace of the assassin, but she didn't want to find this in the treasury of Chuxiu Palace——"

He raised his hand slightly, and the glass beside Lan Ruo immediately presented something, a very light and thin piece of paper.

He Xi unfolded it, and the time plan was clearly written on it.

He Xi lowered his eyebrows and looked at Bai Zhi, who was kneeling in the hall and crying, and almost fainted, and did not say a word.

The queen seemed to be extremely tired and said: "According to what the letter said, this palace checked one by one, and sure enough, it was Bai Cairen who bought a palace maid named Cuiwei next to you, and it was the palace maid who answered in private, and the assassin was able to find your dormitory smoothly." Na Cuiwei had already confessed in the Criminal Division, and this was the testimony - and the letter of the white genius was also found from the assassin's body. The main palace has already made people compare the handwriting, and it is from the hand of Bai Cai-"

Her tone was deep in her ears, every piece of evidence was enough to put Bai Zhi to death, how could Bai Zhi admit it, she cried loudly: "The concubine is wronged, the concubine is just a woman in the deep palace, how to know the assassin?" The concubine didn't write any letters, it was fake, it was all fake, and the concubine didn't know why the letter was in the concubine's treasury, and the concubine was wronged, Your Majesty—"

She cried hoarsely, every word seemed to be stained with blood, Lan Ruo frowned and said, "Then Cuiwei is also a fake confession?" ”

Speaking of Cuiwei, Bai Zhi's face sank, and after a while, she stammered: "Cuiwei - Cuiwei - she is my good person, but I just bought her, thinking that she would help me pay attention to Concubine Xi's sister's preferences, so as to please my sister, I have always respected Concubine Xi, which is known to the whole palace." ”

She didn't seem to dare to look into He Xi's eyes, there was an embarrassment and ugliness after the lie was exposed.

Lan Xin finally couldn't help but say, "Oh? Pry? It's better to say surveillance—"

Bai Zhi shook her head vigorously, desperately denied it, Lan Ruo said: "In that case, come on, bring Fu up——"

Bai Zhi's face was immediately the same color as the plain clothes on his body, and immediately, a person dressed in an inferior eunuch service was brought in, his face was bruised and swollen, and his clothes were also stained with blood, obviously he was tortured, as soon as he entered the Heart Nourishing Palace, he knelt on the ground and said, "Your Majesty spare your life, spare your life-"

Tuoba Chen said coldly: "Say, what crime did you commit?" ”

Fu raised his swollen face like a pig's head, and cried: "The slave should be damned - the slave smeared the juice of the small nepeta on He Xi's wrist before, at that time, near the palace gate Yongdao, there were often wild cats infested, this wild cat liked this taste very much, Bai Cairen - Bai Cairen asked the slave to find an opportunity to apply this medicine on the sleeve of Niangniang, causing the cat to rush into Niangniang——"

Bai Zhi muttered, "No, no, Your Majesty, no-"

Tuoba Chen seemed to be impatient and said: "Then you can talk about it, what's wrong?" ”

His voice was full of anger, with the violence of losing a child, Bai Zhi couldn't help but shrink for a moment, and then cried: "The concubine-the concubine is just thinking that if the concubine saves Concubine Xi, the concubine can look at this life-saving grace, pity the concubine a little, and say the concubine in front of His Majesty-"

She seemed to cry in despair: "Your Majesty - since the concubine entered the palace for a few months, the concubine has been looking forward to you coming, from the former concubine can see that you love Concubine Xi, so she sent her a screen, sure enough, Your Majesty likes it, and also came to sit in the palace of the concubine, but later, Concubine Xi was convicted and sent to the Autumn Dew Palace, and the concubine thanked her for helping me, so she often sent some things over and said good things in front of Your Majesty, these Your Majesty all know——"

She choked up and looked at He Xi, and finally smiled slowly, but the smile was full of bitterness, she said: "Sure enough, Concubine Xi later returned to favor, but neither Your Majesty nor Concubine Xi seemed to have forgotten me, Concubine Xi Ning was close to Concubine Xu Shu, who had framed her, and she didn't want to look at me, how could the concubine be willing—so the concubine thought, thinking that if the concubine saved Concubine Xi, would Concubine Xi be willing to help the concubine?" ”

Lan Xin caught the loophole in her words and said: "You saved Concubine Xi, everyone in the palace knows about this matter, but then I heard that you are sick and don't want to see people, and even Concubine Xi is turned away, what is the reason?" And Concubine Xi didn't invite you to favor you in front of Your Majesty afterwards as you expected, is it because of this that you have a grudge and lure the assassin into the palace in an attempt to kill people? ”

Bai Zhi actively denied: "No, it's not like this, although the concubine is unhappy, she hasn't done anything wrong." ”

Tuoba Chen closed his eyes as if he was tired, and said: "In the past, I also praised you for your ingenuity and good heart, but I never thought that you were such a vicious woman, and you were so scheming, you really made me disgusting, Fuqing, take people down, whip fifty, take away the title of talent, and degrade you to a concubine——"

Bai Zhi screamed in shock: "Your Majesty - the concubine is wronged, the concubine is sincere to you, although the concubine is wrong, but the crime is not to death, Your Majesty-"

He Xi suddenly said: "Your Majesty, during Lin'er's funeral, Your Majesty invited the master of Zhaohua Temple to chant the scriptures, it is really not suitable to see blood in the palace, fifty lashes, a man may not be able to stand it, let alone a woman, this is no different from beating to death, and please Your Majesty can accumulate blessings for Lin'er——"

Lan Xin couldn't wait to execute Bai Zhi immediately and set this charge, but she didn't want He Xiheng to come out and intervene, so she said in a deep voice: "What Concubine Xi said is not right, the eldest prince is raised under your knees, it stands to reason that you should be the one who wants to execute Bai Cairen, why do you still plead with her?" I don't know if the eldest prince would be blind if he saw his mother and concubine tolerating his murderer? ”

Tuoba Chen's eyebrows furrowed, and he said angrily: "What are you waiting for, pull it down-"

He Xi hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, there is still something strange about this matter, I want to punish the murderer, but if it is also the real murderer, I will pull out one person to convict at random, and the concubine is unwilling." ”

Tuoba Chen saw that she was excited and there was a slight flush on the ground, and his heart softened by half a point, and she saw her love for Lin'er.

And now that the eldest prince is gone again, the child in her womb is very important to herself, thinking of this, he softened his voice and said, "How do you say this?" ”

He Xi was not afraid, but just held up the letter in his hand and said: "Not to mention that the queen mother was ordered to search the six palaces, how can she find the treasury, if this matter is really done by Bai Cairen, such important letters should also be put away or destroyed, and those assassins are strong in martial arts, how can a low-ranking concubine of Bai Cairen avoid layers of palace bans?" The most important thing is that that night, there was someone else who broke away from wish-fulfillment—"

When Ruyi heard this, he immediately stood up and knelt on the ground and said: "Back to Your Majesty, it was Zijin who told the slave that night that the eldest prince was unwell in the upper study, so the slave and the maid went to see it." Later, the slave and maid asked, and no one went in and out of the study that day, so it can be seen that Zijin lied——"

Lan Xin sighed and said, "According to what you mean, that Zijin is the most suspicious, what about people?" ”

Tuoba Chen also looked at Ruyi, and Ruyi said with an ugly face: "The assassin killed dozens of people in Lingxiu Palace that day, and Zijin was among them. ”

Tuoba Chen frowned and said, "If it was really her, how could she be murdered?" ”

He Xi said in a deep voice: "Xu is the person behind the scenes was worried that the matter would be revealed, so he got rid of her first, after all, no matter where you look at it, she is the biggest flawed." However, if Zijin knows something, maybe one of them also knows about it-"

Tuoba Chen is such a smart person, he said in a deep voice: "It's the concubine-"

Lan Xin said in a bit of a panic: "Your Majesty, even if this matter is strange, but Bai Cairen's attempt to frame Concubine Xi has admitted it herself, and she must not be spared-"