Shouxi received the order and immediately ordered to go down, and a little eunuch rushed all the way to invite Yuehua to the Leisurely Palace.

Yuehua knew that it must have happened in the cold palace, so she was already prepared in her heart, and secretly planned all the way, saluted the empress dowager, and looked at the situation in the house, a little inexplicable: "The empress dowager is coming to concubines, but what are your orders?" ”

The Empress Dowager didn't say much, and pointed to the slender song kneeling in the center of the hall and asked, "Does the queen know this girl?" ”

Yuehua turned around to take a look and said in surprise: "It turned out to be you?" Could it be that this is to the Empress Dowager to complain to the palace? ”

"Does the Queen know her?"

Yuehua nodded, and snorted coldly: "Yesterday, the concubine saw her walking outside the Qianqing Palace, and she was reckless, she walked with her head down and didn't have long eyes, and she splashed the concubine's body in mud, and almost knocked the concubine down." The concubine asked her which palace she belonged to, she spoke quite hard, and the concubine was also angry, so she slapped her and reprimanded her. Unexpectedly, she was the wicked who sued first. “

"What hour?" The Empress Dowager asked aggressively.

Yuehua smiled indifferently: "Yesterday was cloudy, there was no sun, and I don't remember the exact time of the concubine, anyway, there was chaos in the imperial garden at that time, and it should be the time when the cold palace had an accident." ”

The Empress Dowager stared at Yuehua, her eyes flickering, and she was suspicious: "What you said is true?" ”

Yuehua frowned slightly: "What's wrong, what's wrong?" Yesterday, people came and went, and there should have been a Royal Forest Army who saw the two of us talking next to the Qianqing Palace. It's just that this maid is disrespectful, and I really can't find a witness, and the palace maid Yushu in front of me has just been sent back to make herbal tea. ”

The Empress Dowager curled the corners of her lips slightly: "It's not a big deal, it's just that the mourning family suspects that yesterday's cold palace incident has something to do with this slender girl, so I asked a few questions." ”

Yuehua sighed, looking like she didn't care about herself: "At that time, the incident happened suddenly, although the concubine body has indeed seen this girl, but there may also be a time deviation in it, which is enough for her to go back and forth between the cold palace and the Qianqing palace, and the concubine does not dare to assert." ”

The Empress Dowager nodded: "That makes sense." ”

Xian Ge's heart was anxious, she looked up at Yuehua, and explained: "Yesterday, my master sent me back, there were many people on the road, and when I saw the slaves and maids, they were all sneering, and the slaves and maids dodged all the way, so they went around to the vicinity of the Qianqing Palace and collided with Niangniang. Even if he lent the slave a few guts, the slave didn't dare to do this privately, and asked the queen mother and the queen mother to be clear. ”

Concubine Crane on the side was afraid that she would inadvertently get into trouble and track down her body, so she was silent for a while, secretly thinking in her heart.

The Empress Dowager looked at her playfully, and then looked at Concubine He: "Then why did another old man say that she had seen you near the Fourth Institute of Qianxi?" ”

Concubine He's heart sank, and there was panic on her face, and she was already sweating.

However, Xian Ge was not in a hurry, and smiled at the Queen Mother: "Xian Ge has never dared to publicize in the palace, and I really don't know what kind of old people can be." ”

The Empress Dowager turned around, pointed at the slender song, and said to the virtuous concubine: "Look at this girl, do you know it?" ”

The virtuous concubine is now much calmer, and she is no longer as excited as she was when she first came out of the cold palace. She tilted her head and looked at the song for a long time, a little puzzled: "The voice sounds familiar." ”

The Empress Dowager was not in a hurry at all, and looked at Xian Ge for a long time: "Think slowly, did you just see it yesterday?" ”

The virtuous concubine shook her head suspiciously: "But it's not quite like it, that person is obviously a little eunuch, but she is a woman." ”

Concubine He asked with some confusion: "Could it be that the Empress Dowager means that Xian Ge saw the virtuous concubine yesterday?" Probably not, right? When the concubine saw the virtuous concubine yesterday, she had already sent Xian Ge back, and the two did not meet. ”

As soon as she interjected, the virtuous concubine suddenly shook her spirits and raised her eyebrows at her: "Who are you?" When I talk to the Empress Dowager, where can I allow you to interject? ”

"Is it possible that the virtuous sister has forgotten her sister? I'm Concubine He? We saw it again yesterday in the Imperial Garden. ”

"Imperial Garden?" The virtuous concubine thought hard: "Yes, yesterday the palace went to the imperial garden, and I went to look for my child. Are you there too? Have you seen him? ”

Seeing that the rumors began to rumble again, the Empress Dowager scolded angrily: "Enough, shut up!" ”

The virtuous concubine seemed to be extremely afraid of the Empress Dowager, so she immediately closed her mouth aggrievedly and stopped talking.

She was sober for a while, crazy for a while, even if she identified Xiange, she was afraid that she couldn't do it, and no one was convinced.

The Empress Dowager was simply embarrassed, a little embarrassed, and said to the outside of the hall: "Bring that girl in." ”

Hearing the sound of cowering footsteps behind them, Xian Ge and Concubine Crane turned around, and saw that it was Concubine Crane who had sent the girl Qingying to serve Xiang Ge's daily life, and the two glanced at each other, puzzled what they meant.

Yuehua didn't know Qingying, but she knew that since the Empress Dowager came to Xingshi to ask about the crime, she must have all the preparations, and she would not come over recklessly, and she would be refuted by the song in a few words.

It's just that Xian Ge himself said that he acted seamlessly, how could there be so many flaws, and there were still people who couldn't prove it?

Qingying entered the hall, kowtowed respectfully to the Empress Dowager, and glanced at Concubine Crane timidly.

The Empress Dowager snorted coldly from the end of her nose: "Tell your master again about your return to the mourning family." ”

Qingying lowered her eyes, raised her eyes to peek at Concubine He, just as Concubine Crane looked at her, she couldn't help but shudder, and immediately silenced.

"What are you afraid of, just tell the truth! Naturally, there is a mourning family for you to decide. The Empress Dowager said proudly.

Qingying's heart sank, and she made up her mind, and slowly spoke: "The maid was sent by Concubine Crane to take care of Miss Slender Song's diet and daily life. Yesterday, Miss Lixian Song came back from outside, and seeing that she was preoccupied, the maid didn't dare to disturb. It's just that when I got up this morning to clean up the room for Miss Siange, I saw that the shoes she wore yesterday were thrown under the bed.

These miscellaneous tasks are all done by the maid, so the maid thought that the road was muddy yesterday, and the soles of the shoes were afraid of being dirty, so they should be taken to scrub and dry. Who knew that when I took it out, the soles of my shoes were stained with a lot of white ash.

Yesterday, the maid heard about the accident in the cold palace, and she was a little puzzled, so she made a special trip to the gate of the cold palace to take a look. Although the footprints at the door were messy after yesterday's accident, there were still a lot of white ashes washed away by the rain. Therefore, the slave maid decided that Miss Xian Ge must have been to the cold palace yesterday. ”

A few words, so that Concubine Crane and Xian Ge were all secretly shocked in their hearts, they thought they were seamless, but they didn't expect that they would be so dense and sparse, leaving a flaw.

Yesterday, Xian Ge took advantage of the absence of the guards in the cold palace, secretly locked the door of the cold palace, and then deliberately used lime powder to lure out the concubines in the cold palace to come out and rob, break the door, and escape from the cold palace.

She was extremely cautious, pretending to be a little eunuch, because her clothes were wide and covered her feet, so she wore a pair of blue satin plain shoes that she usually wore, and after the fact, she tied her clothes to a stone and threw them into the river and sank, but she didn't expect to leave traces on her shoes.

Rao is that she is mentally prepared and has already thought of a way to justify, but now Qingying's betrayal has caught her off guard, where do you know how to explain it for a while?

"Ying'er, I know, Niangniang asked you to serve me, but you were not convinced, and you have provoked trouble in front of Niangniang several times to discuss right and wrong. That's all there is to it, but do you know that if you frame me like this, it will also affect our master? In order to get out of this breath, you do such a thing of betraying the lord and seeking glory, can you have a good conscience? ”

Concubine He listened to her reminder, and immediately understood the meaning of the slender song, and echoed: "Isn't it that you counted the slender songs in front of the palace last time, and you have a grudge when you are accused by the palace, right?" ”

Qing Ying was a little timid in the face of the accusations of the two, and shook her head: "Qing Ying is not a traitor seeking glory, nor is she telling a lie, it is Xian Ge who has done this kind of hurtful thing, and the maid is going to expose her." ”

Xian Ge said to Qingying, and retorted in a deep voice: "Nonsense, yesterday I did go out with Niangniang, and traveled along the Imperial Garden for a week, but I have never been to any Qianxi Sisuo, what are you not spewing blood?" ”

"Hehe, Xiange, there are so many human and material evidence, do you still have to quibble?" The Empress Dowager interrupted her with a cold snort.

Xian Ge complained bitterly in her heart, this matter was indeed her own negligence for a while, and she was caught by Qingying, even the queen couldn't make her own decisions. Because, after he came from the cold palace, he destroyed all the evidence of the crime, thought about it again, felt that it was dangerous, and then went to find Yuehua, there was indeed a gap for a period of time in between, and if the Empress Dowager studied it carefully, she would not be able to refute it.

It's just that, as the saying goes, "if you don't see the coffin, you won't cry", until the last moment, you naturally have to grit your teeth and say that you can't admit anything.

Concubine He on the side saw that the Empress Dowager had collected so many human and material evidence, and she couldn't allow Xian Ge to quibble, so she turned her head and said to Xian Ge: "At the beginning, Concubine Lian was indiscriminate, and it was indeed inappropriate to humiliate you, but Concubine Lian was pregnant with royal blood after all. If you really have such a scheming and frame Concubine Lian, you will confess it truthfully, right? One person does things and one person is responsible, and this palace will always take into account the old friendship for the sake of you and my master and servant. ”

This is a little bit of a warning, so that Xiange will take everything on the same page. Her wide-sleeved shirt was sweated against her body, and her curvaceous curves were already faintly revealed.

It was really as Xian Ge expected.

Yuehua also smiled indifferently: "If this matter is really done, although the plan is clever, the means are also clumsy. There are people coming and going in this harem, so many eyes and ears, if you go, no one can see it? ”

Xian Ge was so anxious that she was about to cry: "Xian Ge is really wronged, the white ash slave on the sole of the shoe doesn't know it at all, and she can't argue with it." Besides, after the torrential rain yesterday, if the soles of the maid's shoes were really white and gray, they would have been clean all the way, how could they still remain on them? ”