Chapter 248: Heavy Inquiries
"Shut up all of them!" Situ Huoqing suddenly burst into rage, and the originally noisy hall suddenly fell silent.
【Latest chapter reading. Situ Huoqing paced up to the housekeeper and the other two subordinates who reported the news, with a sharp and cold glow in his deep eyes, and for a while he could see that the housekeeper and the other people were furious.
"This king is wondering, everything in our house has always been peaceful, but today there have been repeated changes, I really don't know if all this is accidental or someone did it on purpose." Speaking of this, Situ Huoqing paused slightly, raised his chin slightly, leaned closer to the housekeeper, and said with a smile on his face,
"Steward Wen, what do you say?"
"This ...... Rajah...... The old slave shouldn't have been artificial. Steward Wen dodged Situ Huoqing's sharp eyes, swallowed his saliva, and said in a trembling voice.
When Situ Huoqing heard this, he suddenly laughed loudly and said: "It's a pity, this king doesn't believe in this evil, since someone is here pretending to be a god and a ghost, trying to hide from the world and use this king as a monkey, then this king must find out this person today." Situ Huoqing's words were almost finished through gritted teeth.
It seems that he is too indulgent to some people on weekdays, so he will become more and more presumptuous to treat him Situ Huo Qing as a fool.
After Situ Huoqing finished speaking, the sound of everyone's gasping could be clearly heard in the quiet hall. For a while, everyone had different expressions and different thoughts.
Steward Wen and the other two servants stood there, their legs trembling, and they felt an invisible pressure that made them almost unable to breathe.
In their impression, although Situ Huoqing is not smiling on weekdays, as long as he doesn't make big mistakes, it won't be too difficult to deal with.
But today's reaction was unexpected. At this moment, they have already experienced what is called the sign that the mountain rain is about to come and the wind is full of buildings.
The sweat on his forehead was constantly dripping, his back was also wet, and his clothes were very uncomfortable sticking to his back, but the three of them didn't even dare to come out, they just felt as if they were on the line between life and death.
"Steward Wen, immediately gather all the people in the house into the courtyard, this king has something to order." The voice that is not angry and self-righteous reveals a toughness that people can't refuse.
"Yes, lord." Steward Wen answered, and quickly took the order. Everyone in the hall held their breath, and now none of them dared to say a word, for fear of becoming Situ Huoqing's punching bag at this time.
Jiang Mengrao was a little restless, although she tried her best to maintain her composure on her face, her hands on her chest kept twisting the silk handkerchief, and her inadvertent behavior had exposed her mood at the moment.
She quickly exchanged glances with the three aunts in the blink of an eye, and found that the other three were just as uneasy as her.
For a while, she couldn't help but regret that she had listened to Zhihua's plan. Enduring unspeakable torment in his heart, after a while, Steward Wen led all the subordinates in the palace to gather in the courtyard outside the hall.
Most of the officials looked at Situ Huoqing, and there was a look of good show in their eyes.
At this time, they also wanted to know whether the messy things that happened in the palace were man-made or a warning from heaven.
Situ Huoqing walked out of the hall, his gaze coldly sweeping over all the subordinates in the courtyard. The next moment, his eyes fell on Steward Wen's body, and his voice was as cold as ten thousand years of ice,
"Steward Wen, tell everyone all the strange things that happened in the mansion just now." Suddenly hearing Situ Huoqing call him, Steward Wen shrank his neck in fright, and then walked to the front of the subordinate, and then he swallowed and said: "Back to the prince, all the koi in the pond died inexplicably this morning, and the cattle, sheep, chickens and ducks that were bought back for slaughter yesterday also died strangely, and the ancestral hall went to water, fortunately, someone found out in time to extinguish the fire......" After Steward Wen finished speaking, those subordinates in the palace immediately whispered.
All that is said is to say that these things are very weird, and to guess whether it is man-made or not. Seeing that everyone was almost discussed, Situ Huoqing waved his hand, and those subordinates were immediately silent, only to hear Situ Huoqing continue: "Whoever did such a pickled thing in the palace naturally knows it in his heart. Now the king will give these people a chance to confess their sins, and confess and be lenient. If someone admits it now, this king can be punished lightly, but if this king finds out, he is afraid that his life will not be saved. As soon as these words came out, a clear gasping sound sounded in the crowd in an instant.
Situ Huo Qingfeng's eyes narrowed slightly, and he said coldly: "Now this king will give you a cup of tea, you think about it carefully." Then the subordinates all hung their heads and said nothing.
In the hall, Jiang Mengrao and the others heard Situ Huoqing's words clearly, and their hearts were almost hanging in their throats.
Time was particularly difficult in the long wait, and the time for a cup of tea finally came, but no one among those subordinates took the initiative to stand up.
Some people in the hall were visibly relieved when they saw this. Situ Huoqing seemed to have expected this to be the case, and there was no angry expression on his face.
It's just that his body suddenly exuded a strong aura of slaughter. For a while, those subordinates were so frightened by the aura on Situ Huoqing's body that they didn't even dare to come out.
"Okay, very good, since none of you have come out to admit it, then the king will have to take extraordinary measures." Situ Huoqing's voice carried a cold aura, but faintly it revealed a sense of confidence.
The people present were very curious about what Situ Huoqing meant by the extraordinary measures in his mouth for a while, and even the water condensation smoke in the hall was also curious.
"Now if anyone can give the king useful clues, he will be rewarded as he sees fit. As little as fifty taels, as much as a thousand taels...... Gold! ”
The word "gold", Situ Huoqing deliberately said it very slowly and bit it very hard. As soon as these words came out, the eyes of the people present were so shocked that their eyes were about to fall.
The sound of gasping is incessant. Gold, if they get a thousand taels of gold, then they won't be able to spend it in this life, not only in this life, but also in the next life, in the next life...... For a while, everyone had a big dream of early autumn, and then they racked their brains to think about what kind of clues they should provide to get the gold.
Shui Ningyan listened to the black lines on his head, and secretly sighed in his heart that Situ Huoqing was really wealthy. I knew that she should have been responsible for tracking down the mastermind behind the scenes, so that she could still get the one thousand taels of gold from Situ Huoqing.
Although she is not short of gold, who thinks that she has a lot of money? With a light glance in her eyes, Shui Ningyan saw that Jiang Mengrao's face was so pale that there was no trace of blood, and there were many dense scars on her face, she looked as terrifying as she looked, and she had a completely weak expression of being a thief, and as for the other three aunts, her face didn't look much better.
Look at the auspicious time has already passed, people in this era attach great importance to the auspicious time, so Situ Huoqing has no way to force her to worship today, and now she can watch the series of good shows for free, not to mention how happy Shui Ningyan is at this time.
Of course, she really wants to thank the people behind everything today.
"Lord, the slave and maid remembered, and the slave and maid saw a figure sneaking into the backyard. The slave only saw his back, which should be a man, seven feet tall, slightly fat. "There was a girl who was the first to speak.
There is only one ancestral hall in the backyard of the palace, and ordinary people will not go there.
"Okay, hurt a hundred taels of gold." Situ Huoqing's eyes flashed slightly, and he said without hesitation. As soon as these words came out, all the subordinates were eager to try, but they didn't expect their prince to promise a thousand gold, and now you said it to me.
"Lord, the slave maid was cleaning in the princess's yard today, and I saw the three aunts staying in the princess's room all morning.
"Lord, that's not all, the slave maid was on an errand with the princess, and the princess sent all the people in the room out at that time, I don't know if she was discussing something big with the three aunts."
"Lord, during this period, the painting girl went to the princess's room, and she stayed there for a long time.
"Write it down, this reward is fifty taels, that reward is two hundred taels, and that one hundred taels ......"
"Lord, this morning the princess summoned Steward Wen and said that she had something to hand over to Steward Wen......
"Lord Wang, the princess is very hostile to Miss Shui, I wonder if the princess is trying to frame Miss Shui this time?" …… All the news came one after another, and after a period of analysis, the suspects were temporarily locked in Jiang Mengrao, Aunt He, Aunt Yao, Aunt Xin, Steward Wen, and Zhihua.
Among the subordinates, there was a figure that sneaked away while everyone was not looking. Among the three aunts, Aunt Xin is the most timid on weekdays, but now she can't hide the matter anymore, she suddenly pounced in fright, fell directly from the chair, knelt on the ground, and begged for mercy at Situ Huoqing for a while.
"The prince spares his life, it has nothing to do with the cheap maid, it was the princess's sister who said this morning that she wanted to deal with Miss Shui, and she didn't want to see Miss Shui sit in the princess's seat, and later Zhihua came to ventilate and report the news, and gave the princess an idea......" Without waiting for Aunt Xin to finish speaking, Jiang Mengrao suddenly interrupted angrily,
"Shut up! , obviously you did it yourself, but you want to buckle the basin on the princess's head, it's really vicious! At this moment, Jiang Mengrao was angry and afraid, she originally thought that today's plan would be seamless, but she didn't expect her husband to make such a move, there must be a brave man under the heavy money, and the truth of the matter gradually surfaced.
Situ Huoqing's eyes almost wanted to breathe fire, but he laughed angrily: "Princess, this king's good princess, it seems that this king usually spoils you too much, so it will make you lawless!" At this moment, Situ Huoqing obviously had a smile on his face, but in the eyes of everyone, it was even more terrifying than when he was angry.
Jiang Mengrao's body shook in fright, and she immediately slipped from her seat to the ground and knelt down. The other Aunt He, Aunt Yao, and Steward Wen also knelt down one after another.
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