Wang Zhi didn't watch out for her sudden gaze, subconsciously avoided it, touched his nose with one hand and said, "The imperial doctor has said it, why don't I believe it?" ”

Zhang Weizhao knew that he was lying, and when people were lying, they would always make some small movements to hide their unnatural expressions. Touching your nose, arranging your hair, holding up water to drink, and smoking a cigarette are all common small actions at this time. An old man like Wang Zhi generally doesn't feel uncomfortable because of lying. But Zhang Weizhao's sudden, penetrating gaze made the unsuspecting Wang Zhi reveal his bottom at that moment.

Wang Zhi is familiar with the inside story. Any curses, little ghosts, are all excuses.

After Wang Zhi avoided Zhang Weizhao's gaze, he suddenly came back to his senses, this girl dared to provoke him like this.

It seems that this sister-in-law, who confused the queen mother and the prince soon after entering the palace, is not as easy to deal with as she began to think. Facing her sudden direct gaze just now, I unconsciously showed a trace of weakness. This made Wang Zhi very interesting. He didn't have anything to do with Zhang Weizhao and didn't notice this person. I thought she was just a girl who relied on beauty and wild fun to charm the prince, but I didn't expect it to be really a bit of a way.

"The words of the ghosts and gods are ethereal. It is even more absurd to say that someone can kill people with ghosts. If I could really control ghosts, would I still be tried here now? Zhang Weizhao cross-examined.

"It seems that you don't cry when you don't see the coffin." Saying that, Wang Zhi threw out a purse at Zhang Weizhao's feet, "Is this what you did with the pothos?" ”

Zhang Weizhao picked up the purse and looked at it, then opened the tether and took out the herbs inside to smell it, but found a very small, pitch-black wooden doll in the herbs, and the doll was carved with strangely shaped ornaments.

"This purse is sewn by pothos, and the medicine is prepared by me. It's just that we didn't put the puppets in here. This purse filled with herbs is made during the Dragon Boat Festival to expel mosquitoes. The palace maids of Changle Palace, you can go to the pothos to get whatever you want. So many people have it in their hands, and it's easy for someone to sneak it open and stuff something into it. Why do you insist that it is me and the pothos who are making a fool of you? ”

"No matter how sharp your teeth are, you can't match the human and material evidence. It is clear that you have a deep grudge with pothos and pink peaches. Therefore, taking the opportunity of wearing a herbal purse during the Dragon Boat Festival, he performed witchcraft through the purse, causing the pothos to die violently in blue and black. ”

After Wang Zhi finished saying this, he stared at Zhang Weizhao with interest, just waiting for Zhang Weizhao to justify that she had no grudge against Fan Tao and had no motive to kill her at all, so he could throw out more evidence and confirm her charges.

However, Zhang Weizhao didn't take the bait: "Admiral Wang, you forget, I am a Taoist doctor." If I have a grudge against Pink Peach, I don't know how many chances there are to let her die quietly and without a trace, it seems that the storage is no different from a sudden illness, and the doctor can't detect it. Why should I go to great lengths to make purses, grind herbs, and carve small figures, leaving so many handles to be realized? ”

Wang Zhi paused slightly, almost wanting to laugh. Interesting, really interesting. No wonder Jin Guifei took great pains to get rid of her, and told her not to be vague about the results, and she must first confirm the charges.

"Then you mean that you don't have a grudge against Pink Peach?" Wang straightened forward, lowered his eyebrows and stared at Zhang Weizhao.

"I'm afraid that no matter what I say, you will definitely find a way to prove that I do have a grudge against her, right?" Zhang Weizhao also stared at Wang Zhi without flinching.

"Smart people." Wang Zhi leaned back in his chair, "It's a pity that you've come here, no matter how smart you are, it's useless." ”

As he spoke, he turned back to the eunuch who had been standing by the wall with his hands hanging down and said, "Tian Mao, go and bring the peony over." ”

Tian Mao responded and left. After Wang Zhi finished instructing, he looked at Zhang Weizhao to see how she reacted. Zhang Weizhao sneered, revealing an expression of "sure enough".

Not long after, the peony came in with Tian Mao. She was dressed in green clothes, which was the outfit of an inferior palace maid who was a handyman. After entering, she knelt down to Wang Zhi and saluted. Wang Zhidao:

"Get up. Let's talk about you and Pink Peach, what grievances do you have with Zhang Weizhao and Pothos? ”

Peony turned his head and glanced at Zhang Weizhao, his eyes flickered, with an expression that you have today, turned his head and said:

"Your Excellency. Pink Peach and I have no personal grudges against the two of them. Just because Zhang Weizhao entered the palace, he colluded with pothos and forbade private techniques, and was discovered by Pink Peach. Pink Peach reported to me that I was really worried in my heart and truthfully returned to the Queen Mother. Who knew that Zhang Weizhao was scheming, and he was bent on coaxing and deceiving the Queen Mother, so that the Queen Mother believed that she was only good at medicine and painting, and would not forbid art. They also provoked me to denounce them out of jealousy, so I was sent to Xiyuan to do hard labor. Although Fan Tao was not punished that time, she was ostracized by them in every way since. Because Pink Peach and Pothos live in the same house, they know too much about their affairs and are eventually poisoned. Please be aware of the Admiral, and give the pink peach a fair! He wiped away his tears a few times.

"You said that they practiced forbidden arts, what kind of forbidden arts?"

"Spiritualism."

"How do you know they do spiritualism?"

"They painted portraits of souls that had been dead for a long time, and they painted them very realistically, as if they had seen themselves."

Wang Zhi took out a scroll and threw it on the desk, Tian Mao came over and picked up the scroll, and unfolded it towards Peony and Zhang Weizhao.

Wang Zhi asked, "Is this the portrait?" ”

Peony glanced at it and said, "This is the portrait!" The painting depicts a begonia, a palace maid who used to bring pothos. Pothos often holds this portrait and worships in private. ”

"I've seen begonias too, and they do look alike. How did you know what she looked like when she's been dead for a long time? Wang asked Zhang Weizhao.

"I asked Pothos to find a similar person as a blueprint, and on this basis, it was modified according to Pothos's description." Zhang Weizhao replied.

"What the top painters in the court can't do, but you can do?" Wang Zhi questioned.

"The painters in the court used Gongbi techniques, and I used Western techniques." Zhang Weizhao explained.

Peony couldn't hold back and said: "What kind of gongbi technique, Western technique, is clearly a quibble." If you say that painting the undead is your skill, then what about setting up a formation to summon spirits? ”

"The portrait was indeed painted by me. But what's the deal with setting up a formation to summon spirits? I've never heard of it, so explain it. Zhang Weizhao fought back indifferently. In the heart, it is quick to think. What Peony said about "setting up a formation to summon spirits", does she mean the family system arrangement she made for Chen Youcong? Only a limited number of people know the news that she gave Chen Youcong a family platoon, but where did Peony learn about it?

Peony didn't answer Zhang Weizhao's words, and said straight to Wang Zhi: "Lord Admiral Qiqi! Luluo learned the art of conjuring spirits from Zhang Weizhao, and privately worked with Qingtong, the little palace maid in the same room with her, and Niu Lu, the little eunuch of Shang Shanjian, to try to summon the spirits of Begonia, Qingtong's mother, and Niu Lu's father. They went to the utility room in the backyard of Changle Palace where the cleaning utensils were stacked to cast spells, and they were secretly followed and seen by Pink Peach. Because they noticed that Pink Peach seemed to know what they were doing, they tried to make it difficult for Pink Peach in many ways. Fan Tao was afraid in her heart, and she once went to Xiyuan to complain to me on Humu's day. Who knew that after she went back, she was killed not long after! ”

Zhang Weizhao didn't know that Luluo had privately imitated her to do a family system arrangement. I think it's because I miss the begonias too much. just fell into the eyes of others, but it became the evidence of the crime of arraying spirits.

"Bring the green tung, the ox and the pothos." Wang Zhi instructed Tian Mao.

Tian Mao took the order and left. After a short time, he turned around, followed by Qingtong and Niu Lu, both of whom were only twelve or thirteen years old.

However, he didn't see the pothos come in, and Zhang Weizhao's heart lifted. After a moment's pause, there was a jumble of footsteps. I saw two eunuchs dragging a person in and throwing it in front of Wang Zhi's desk like a broken leather bag. This is a pothos, with a cloak and bloodstains, apparently heavily punished.

"Pothos!" Zhang Weizhao strode forward, wanting to check the injury of the pothos, but was stopped by Tian Mao with a brisk walk.

Wang Zhi admired Zhang Weizhao's sad and worried look, and then asked again: "Qingtong, Niu Lu, how did you set up a formation with Luluo to summon spirits, and recruited them from the truth." ”

Qingtong and Niu Lu trembled and said: Qingtong and Luluo live in the same room, which is very good, and Niu Lu and Qingtong are fellow villagers. They are all lonely, so they often come and go, which can be regarded as a group for warmth. Because during the Qingming Festival the previous month, the three of them each talked about their deceased relatives and missed them very much. Luluo said that in fact, our relatives have never been far away, and they are still in our hearts. If we miss them, we can talk to them. The other two people asked how to talk, and the pothos told them that we could play each other's relatives, inspire heaven and earth, and let the imprints of these relatives in the heavenly path appear through us.

So they went to the utility room, prayed silently, and then spoke for each other's loved ones. They only said some words of thought and encouragement through the mouths of each other's relatives, but did not inspire ghosts, nor did they manifest supernatural beings. At that time, I didn't notice that anyone was following and peeping, let alone retaliating.

After hearing these words, Peony said sharply: "What is just pretending to encourage and comfort the other party's relatives, it is clearly a ghost!" If you don't find the pink peach, it doesn't mean that the pothos didn't find it, and then wait for an opportunity to retaliate. This girl is a big ghost, ambitious, and doesn't abide by women's morals, what don't you dare to do? ”

Wang Zhi waved his hand and asked people to take Qingtong and Niu Lu down. Then he ordered Shigeru Tian to wake up the pothos. Tian Mao took a mouthful of salt water and vigorously sprayed it on the face of the pothos. Pothos shivered in pain, trying to open her blood-stained eyes.

Wang Zhi said slowly: "Pothos, are you willing to confess?" Did you learn forbidden techniques from Zhang Weizhao, set up a formation to summon spirits, and kill pink peaches? ”

"No, I didn't ......," Pothos said intermittently, "I didn't kill the peach." I don't know how to summon spirits, that, that's just a ritual to honor the dead in my hometown, not a spirit......"

"Looks like you're still stubborn. Come on, and then teach her the rules. ”