Forty-eight, the judge of the dead

Zhou Guiren was still a little scared, but now seeing that Jian Huaizhen treated Queen Qian and her equally, he thought that Jian Huaizhen didn't know the ins and outs of the matter, so his heart was relaxed.

After everyone sat down, Jian Huaizhen's gaze swept over everyone's faces, and fell on Queen Qian's body, "Queen Mother, are you okay?" ”

"Aunt and Grandma Qi, everything is fine with the concubines" Queen Qian said very respectfully, her courtesy was from the heart. is not only to respect Jian Huaizhen's identity, not only to thank Jian Huaizhen for saving her, but also to thank Jian Huaizhen for saving the emperor, in the heart of Queen Qian, the importance of the emperor is undoubtedly more than herself.

Jian Huaizhen smiled slightly: "That's good." Jian Huaizhen's gaze fell on Zhou Guiren's face again, she glanced at Zhou Guiren and said, "Zhou Guiren heard that when the palace was not there, you were going to execute the queen's mother, is there such a thing?"

Zhou Guiren's pink-white face suddenly turned red, she glanced at Queen Qian with some annoyance, and said to Jian Huaizhen: "The eldest princess doesn't know, the concubine doesn't have the intention to deal with the queen's mother, and because the queen's mother has done a big rebellious thing, the concubine just can't see it, the queen mother, she poisoned the emperor, poisoning the emperor is a big crime." ”

"Oh, yes, the queen mother poisoned the emperor" Jian Huaizhen looked at Zhou Guiren quietly, in fact, she hoped that Zhou Guiren could confess and be lenient and explain things clearly, so that she could also give Zhou Guiren a chance to reform himself, after all, Zhou Guiren was the biological mother of the crown prince Zhu Jianshen.

"Yes, it was Queen Qian who murdered the emperor, everyone can testify, after the emperor took the pill that Queen Qian gave to the emperor, he was immediately poisoned, which one is not the queen's mother?"

"The queen mother poisoned, but why poisoned the emperor? The queen has no heirs, and the emperor loves the queen very much, why did the queen poison the emperor"? Jian Huaizhen asked rhetorically.

Zhou Guiren stood up one after another, glared at him and said: "How do you know that this cheap concubine knows, in short, it is the queen mother who plotted to kill the emperor, according to what the concubine saw, the queen must be jealous that the concubine gave birth to the crown prince, and she has no heirs, so she hates the emperor in her heart, so she thinks of a way to murder the emperor." ”

"But what good is it to the queen mother if you murder the emperor?" Jian Huaizhen sneered: "The queen mother is currently the mother of a country, if the emperor is murdered and the crown prince succeeds to the throne, the queen mother may not even be able to sit on the queen mother, and Zhou Guiren you are different, what are the three long and two short of the emperor, the prince succeeds to the throne, you Zhou Guiren is the new queen mother of our Ming Dynasty." ”

"You, you, you ......" Zhou Guiren said "you" three times in a row, her face became very ugly, she pointed at Jian Huaizhen and said: "The eldest princess, the concubines have always respected you very much, but now aren't you partial to the queen mother?" Is it because she is a noble queen and I am just a nobleman, so you favor her. ”

"Bold, dare to say that the eldest princess is partial!" Zero Luo couldn't look at it and stood up, glared at Zhou Guiren, and said coldly.

Zhou Guiren was not afraid, and met the scattered gaze: "Do you have the right to speak here, what are you, just a little palace maid, to put it bluntly, you are a slave, is there a slave here?" ”

Jian Huaizhen looked at Zhou Guiren with his eyebrows tightened, and sneered: "You still don't want to speak, where is your little palace maid here to speak, if you have an identity like Zhou Guiren, you can speak." Zhou Guiren is capable, but I haven't seen you for a few days, and even the palace maids in this palace have your turn to teach you a lesson. ”

Zhou Guiren reprimanded Zero, and said it very fiercely, and after finishing speaking, he also felt regretful, after all, Zeroo is the favored palace maid next to Jian Huaizhen, everyone knows that everything in Wan'an Palace is handed over to Zero, and the person Jian Huaizhen trusts the most is Zero. Now that she is scolding Jian Huaizhen in front of Jian Huaizhen, even if she doesn't give Jian Huaizhen face, it's no wonder that Jian Huaizhen can't swallow this breath.

Zhou Guiren had no choice but to swallow his anger, glanced at Scatter and said: "It was the concubine who just said the wrong thing, the concubine first made a compensatory note to Aunt Scatter, but the eldest princess, the murder of the emperor was indeed instructed by Queen Qian, if the princess you don't believe it, you can ask the person invited by Queen Qian." After speaking, Zhou Guiren pointed at Wang Daoling with his finger.

Wang Daoling watched coldly from the side, he originally thought that in addition to Queen Qian, Zhou Guiren was the biggest in this palace, Zhou Guiren's son was the prince, as long as he helped Zhou Guiren poison the emperor, and in the future, Zhou Guiren's son, the crown prince became the emperor, then he could also enjoy endless glory and wealth.

Who knew that the truth was not so simple, in addition to Queen Qian and Zhou Guiren, there was actually an eldest princess in this palace who was bigger than them. In front of the eldest princess, Queen Qian, who has always been flamboyant and domineering, all looked respectful, and Wang Daoling thought about what to do. At this time, Zhou Guiren asked Jian Huaizhen about Wang Daoling.

"Are you Wang Daoling? Does the murder of the emperor have anything to do with you? ”

Jian Huaizhen's tone of asking Wang Daoling was very ordinary, and it fell in Wang Daoling's heart, but he couldn't help but shudder, he saw Jian Huaizhen become very afraid.

He stammered, "Emperor Qi... The eldest princess, murdering the emperor... The emperor's thing, villain... The villain did not participate, and everything was done by the queen mother. Wang Daoling blurted out suddenly.

In fact, he also wanted to tell the whole story and blame Zhou Guiren for the matter, but when his eyes met Zhou Guiren's arrow-like gaze, he was so frightened that he didn't dare to speak.

He made up his mind in his heart, although it seemed that Jian Huaizhen was going to favor Queen Qian, but Zhou Guiren was always the biological mother of the crown prince, and Jian Huaizhen would not dispose of the crown prince's biological mother no matter what. Therefore, Wang Daoling turned his heart and put the responsibility on Queen Qian.

Empress Qian stood up and saluted Jian Huaizhen, and said sincerely: "You know the eldest princess, the concubines will not murder the emperor if they have no choice, and the concubines would rather die by themselves than harm the emperor's life." The concubines will never be able to do anything to murder the emperor, and the pill I gave to the emperor was given to me by this Wang Daoling. ”

"You said that the pill was given to you by me, why is it that only the one you gave to the emperor is poisonous, and all the pills I have here are not poisonous," Wang Daoling said unconvinced.

Jian Huaizhen knew that if he didn't bring out the evidence until now, whether it was Zhou Guiren or Wang Daoling, I am afraid they would not tell the truth of the matter.

Jian Huaizhen sighed, she originally wanted to give Zhou Guiren a chance, but she didn't expect Zhou Guiren to be stubborn, so no matter what the consequences were, she was to blame herself, and she had nothing to do with others. Jian Huaizhen glanced at the fragrant wax and said softly: "Fragrant wax, come out and tell me what you know."

"Yes" Xiang Wax took a step forward, his body trembled, he glanced at Zhou Guiren a little timidly, and said softly: "The eldest princess of the Emperor Qiqi and the queen mother, it was Zhou Guiren's personal palace maid Wan Zhen'er who came to me, and I happened to be short of silver taels at that time, so Wan Zhen'er gave me five hundred taels of silver, saying that it was given to me by Zhou Guiren, and asked me to speak in front of the queen mother, saying that I have a fellow countryman Wang Daoling with superb magic skills and can cure the emperor's illness." ”

"But there is such a thing," Jian Huaizhen glanced at Zhou Guiren.

Zhou Guiren looked at Jian Huaizhen, Jian Huaizhen was expressionless on her face, she couldn't see from her face, what was she thinking in her heart, Zhou Guiren only felt that this eldest princess was unfathomable, no wonder even the emperor had to respect her for three points.

Despite this, Zhou Guiren still shook his head and said: "Fragrant wax is nonsense, I don't know that there is such a thing, is there such a thing as Zhen'er?" You privately gave five hundred taels of silver to the incense wax, and you also bought the incense wax, so that she could make a speech in front of the queen mother and recommend Wang Daoling? ”

Sure enough, as Wan Zhen'er expected, Zhou Guiren put everything on Wan Zhen'er. Wan Zhen'er glanced at Zhou Guiren, then at Jian Huaizhen, and knelt on the ground with a puff to stop talking, but couldn't say a word.

Jian Huaizhen sighed, feeling very sorry for Wan Zhen'er in her heart, seeing that Wan Zhen'er's situation was very pitiful, she said to Wan Zhen'er: "Wan Zhen'er, get up, wait for the palace to ask others, and then ask you?" ”

"Yes" Wan Zhen'er agreed to stand up and step aside.

Zhou Guiren was very surprised, why did Jian Huaizhen ask many people, but he didn't ask Wan Zhen'er, but Wan Zhen'er seemed to be very scared, and it didn't seem to have anything to do with Jian Huaizhen. Zhou Guiren and Wang Daoling refused to admit it, and the matter reached an impasse.

At this moment, the crown prince Zhu Jianshen walked in with a person who looked like a eunuch,

Zhou Guiren caught a glimpse of Zhu Jianshen holding the eunuch-looking person, her face suddenly turned pale, she stepped forward and reprimanded Zhu Jianshen and said: "Shen'er, now that your father's life and death are unknown, and the murderer who framed your father has not been found, you still have the heart to catch this little eunuch to play, quickly, quickly release him, and go to the eldest princess to confess." ”

Jian Huaizhen saw that Zhou Guiren suddenly became so excited, and felt that something was wrong.

She was about to say something, but before she could say anything, Zhu Jianshen had already said to Zhou Guiren: "Mother, you don't know, this little eunuch was just seen outside by me, I saw him sneakily harboring evil intentions, and it seemed that he wanted to do something unseemly." I asked him what he wanted to do, but he couldn't say, so I took him to this Wan'an Palace and handed him over to the eldest princess for trial, maybe he had something to do with the case of his father being poisoned. ”

It turned out that Zhu Jianshen went to the imperial medicine room and instructed the eunuchs, and after giving Zhu Qizhen a tonic, he came out of the imperial medical prison, and he walked on the road and saw a little eunuch sneakily in the imperial garden, as if looking for someone everywhere. The little eunuch had a dagger in his hand, and he looked very raw, as if he had never seen it before.

So Zhu Jianshen stepped forward and asked him what he was going to do, but the little eunuch not only couldn't say it, but also turned his head and ran, the more Zhu Jianshen thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong, so he stepped forward and kicked off his dagger, grabbed him and brought him back to Jian Huaizhen for interrogation.

Jian Huaizhen nodded, thought for a while and said, "Since this little eunuch is so sneaky and refuses to say what happened, it's okay to send someone to drag him down and beat him to death."

When Jian Huaizhen saw Zhou Guiren seeing the little eunuch, she suddenly became very panicked, and subconsciously felt that the little eunuch seemed to have something to do with this case, so she spoke out to intimidate the little eunuch.

Sure enough, after the little eunuch was so intimidated by Jian Huaizhen, the whole person was so frightened that his face turned pale, he knelt down and kowtowed to Jian Huaizhen and said: "The eldest princess spares her life, the eldest princess, please spare her life, the villain... The villain will never dare again, it's her... It's her... It was Zhou Guiren who told the villain to kill the wax girl. ”

"Kill incense wax, Jian Huaizhen glanced at the little eunuch, you said that Zhou Guiren sent you to kill incense wax, what the hell is going on, you say it slowly."

Zhou Guiren hurriedly took a step forward, and also knelt down and said to Jian Huaizhen: "The eldest princess, this little eunuch can't be Queen Qian's person, don't listen to his nonsense, he must have deliberately colluded with Queen Qian to slander the concubine, you must be the master of the concubine." ”

Jian Huaizhen glanced at Zhou Guiren, and said calmly: "Who is right and wrong, right and wrong, this palace will definitely find out clearly, clearly, Zhou Guiren, you will go aside first, and wait for this palace to interrogate this little eunuch first, whether it is your fault or Queen Qian's fault, this palace will definitely be able to find out." Zhou Guiren had no choice but to retreat to his seat on the side.

The little eunuch kowtowed and said, "Zhou Guiren, it's obvious that you ordered the servants to do it, don't push everything on me now." ”

Jian Huaizhen glanced at the little eunuch very majestically and said, "What the hell is going on, you just take your time." ”

The little eunuch knelt on the ground, and said in fear: "The eldest princess of the Emperor Qiyu and the queen of Qiyu, in fact, the villain is not a eunuch, the villain is the house slave of Zhou Guiren's brother Zhou Fu's family, because the villain knows a little martial arts, so he was recruited into the palace by Zhou Guiren to assassinate Xiang Wax." ”

"Why did you assassinate Xiang Wax, did Xiang Wax have some deep hatred with Zhou Guiren?" Jian Huaizhen asked quietly.

The eunuch-like servant shook his head and said, "As for what happened, the villain doesn't know very well. ”

Jian Huaizhen thought for a while, and said to the domestic servant dressed as a eunuch: "Okay, there is nothing for you here, you can wait aside and wait for punishment."

"Yes, yes, yes," he said three "yes" words in a row: "Ask the eldest princess to be gracious and spare the villain's life." ”

Jian Huaizhen didn't answer him, but said to Zhou Guiren: "Zhou Guiren, didn't you say that this case has nothing to do with you?" So why did you send someone to assassinate Wax? Didn't you say that Wan Zhen'er did the matter of buying fragrant wax, why did you have something to do with fragrant wax, the matter has come to the present, this palace will give you one last chance to confess, if you don't recruit from the truth, then this palace will definitely not be able to protect you, after all, murdering the emperor is a big crime. ”

Zhou Guiren listened to Jian Huaizhen's voice, knowing that the paper could not contain the fire, she looked up to the sky and screamed, fell from the chair, and sat on the ground. She exaggerated and shouted at the sky: "Oh God, are you really going to kill me, oh God, don't you really give me a chance." ”

Wang Daoling watched Zhou Guiren being frightened into such a situation on the side, knowing that Zhou Guiren's momentum had gone, he hurriedly knelt down, and hurriedly kowtowed: "The eldest princess, the queen mother, the villain is willing to say it now, and the villain must tell everything he knows." ”

"Okay, you take your time and listen," Jian Huaizhen said in a very cold voice.

Wang Daoling nodded and said: "Yes, that's the case, the villain was originally just a folk warlock, one day, suddenly Zhou Guiren's brother Zhou Fu Zhou found me on the street and gave me a task for me to do." ”

"What task?" Jian Huaizhen asked.

"He gave me a lot of silver, so I followed him to the palace, after coming to the palace, I didn't know what to do until I saw Zhou Guiren, it turned out that what they asked me to do was to give the queen mother two poisonous pills, let the queen mother take these two poisonous pills, and the emperor took them, the villain was almost stupid at the time, and naturally refused to do it, but ......\ can't tolerate you. You said that the eldest princess is the princess of the previous dynasty and can't control you, this palace is the mother of a country, the queen of the six palaces, but the affairs of the six palaces are all in the palace, and the palace is always qualified to deal with you. ”

Zhou Guiren saw that Queen Qian swept away the past and didn't ask about everything, and suddenly became very powerful, and he was scared.

She didn't know that what she did today had violated Queen Qian's bottom line, Queen Qian could allow someone to hurt herself, but she would never allow anyone to hurt the emperor. Zhou Guiren is the emperor's wife and concubine, but for his own selfishness, he even did such a rebellious thing as poisoning the emperor, no wonder Queen Qian was angry in her heart.

Before Zhou Guiren could say anything, Queen Qian said slowly: "What's more, when the emperor is in good health on weekdays, he has always respected the eldest princess, and the eldest princess has always been the master of the affairs of the six palaces." Even if there is anything in the palace, you have to ask the eldest princess for instructions, not to mention that you are a little nobleman. ”

Zhou Guiren's heart was full of despair at this moment, she looked up to the sky and said, "I am defeated, but not in your hands." Queen Mother, do you think you are still the Queen Mother of the past? ”

Jian Huaizhen saw that Zhou Guiren's expression was a little crazy, and he sneered and said: "The agency is too smart, but it has mistaken Qingqing's life, and it makes no sense to say anything." Zhou Guiren, you plotted to kill the emperor and rebelled, not only should you be executed for your crimes, but also to the clansmen, and no one can protect you until now. ”