The rain and snow are dripping, the grass and trees are miserable, the incense is gone, and the wind and frost are not over.

The rain and snow are not wet, the grass and trees are sparse, the Yiren go to Xi, and the witches dance together.

The rain and snow are murmuring, the grass and trees are still clinging, the cold plum is fragrant, and the phoenix bird is suspicious.

The rain and snow have gone, the grass and trees have not yet grown, the phoenix has returned, and the water has fallen out.

When the palace maid saw the queen mother coming, she quickly knelt down to worship, and Shuying noticed it, and quickly wiped away her tears and knelt down to say goodbye.

"The queen mother has arrived, and she is far away! The concubine said hello to the queen! Mother's blessing Jin'an! ”

"Sister, hurry up, come over to the palace to take a look, my sister is looking for the plum palace here, but are you still used to living? If you lack anything and what you don't have, you will talk to Grandpa Zeng. ”

Shuying's unhappiness, Murong Ningyan saw it in his eyes as soon as he entered the door.

"Thank you for the queen's concern, Shuying lives very well, and she doesn't lack anything. Since entering this palace, Shuying has almost never left Chuxiu Palace, except for meeting the emperor and queen in the plum garden that day, Shuying doesn't know anyone else, and his father is not a dignitary, presumably the concubine can be a concubine, it must be the queen's mother in front of the emperor, for her sister, thank you sister! ”

Shuying is a grateful girl, from the first time she saw the queen, she had a very good impression of her, and she respected and liked her very much.

"The harem is to pay attention to peace and unity, help each other, my sister is knowledgeable and reasonable, and she is kind, the palace and the emperor feel that my sister has the qualifications to be promoted to the imperial concubine, but this should be a good thing, my sister should be happy, why does this palace look at my sister as if she is unhappy?"

As soon as Murong Ningyan said this, Shuying's forcibly endured tears were like a flood bursting the embankment, and she burst out of her eyes: "Sister doesn't know, when my sister picked plum blossoms and went back that day, Sister Wu had already passed away, woo woo!" Shuying whimpered quietly.

"What's the matter, didn't you say that she was getting better and ate the porridge you fed? Why is it suddenly gone? Tell Hongu about what you're seeing. Murong Ningyan's eyes widened in surprise, feeling that there must be something wrong with this, so he pulled Shuying and asked her to sit down and say.

Shuying sobbed and said, "Sister Hao did see a good one, not only ate some porridge, but also talked to me for a while. But when I went back, I said no. ”

"I'll listen to the details of what happened when you went back, so as not to miss any tiny details."

"When the concubine went back, she found that the doors and windows of Chuxiu Palace were closed, and when she pushed the door open, there was a choking smell of charcoal, so I quickly opened all the doors and windows, went to see Sister Wu, and found that her face was as red as a cherry, and there was a small amount of vomit at the corner of her mouth.

"Sister Wu, where is she now?"

"The body was removed by someone from the Department of Internal Affairs."

"Manager Zeng, hurry up and go with me."

"Queen Mother, you just have to tell the old slave to do it, it's not convenient for you to take care of that kind of thing now."

"Hearing Concubine Shu say this, Wu's family is obviously a symptom of poisoning, didn't the imperial doctor see it?"

"Poisoned?" Grandpa Zeng asked suspiciously.

"Because of the charcoal fire burning in the house, the doors and windows are closed, and the carbon monoxide concentration rises, it will cause poisoning, and if the rescue is timely at that time, it should be able to survive. You should go to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to find out what happened to the Wu family. And find out who closed the doors and windows, and which doctor went to answer the consultation? This palace will go back to Yaoguang Hall and wait for your letter. ”

"Yes! The old slave will do it! ”

When Shuying heard Zeng's father-in-law say this, she knew that the queen was pregnant, and hurriedly said: "The queen's mother, it's all my sister's fault, you are pregnant and let you worry about these hearts, please punish you!" ”

"What does my sister say, as the master of the harem, doesn't this palace have to worry about all aspects! Now that something like this has happened in the harem, it means that it is also due to the negligence of the palace on weekdays. If it is really as judged by this palace, then there must be people in the palace who have improper intentions. It's nice to have a sister who values love and righteousness and has a kind heart in the harem, which is also a blessing for me. ”

"The queen has won the prize!"

"Sister Wu's matter, this palace will definitely find out, and give her justice, this palace will go back first, sister, don't be sad."

"The concubine sends the queen mother slowly!"

Not long after, Grandpa Zeng came back to report: "If you go back to the queen's mother, the Wu family has been buried, and the imperial doctor is indeed a fake, and after the death of the Wu family, no one has seen him again." ”

"Manager Zeng, how did you know that the Imperial Doctor was a fake?"

"The old slave went to the Tai Hospital to learn that the Tai Hospital has not received any consultation from Chu Xiugong in the past few days, and I also looked at the diagnosis records, and it is indeed not. No one had ever been examined after Wu's illness and death, which shows that this imperial doctor was indeed impersonated. ”

Murong Ningyan said with a solemn expression: "There must be something strange about this matter, I dare to conclude that the Wu family was murdered, and human life is at stake, I have to quickly send someone to recover the fake imperial doctor, he must be instructed by someone." And there must be an internal response in Chuxiu Palace, and there is something wrong with the person who notified the imperial doctor. Manager Zeng, you must follow the vine and touch the melon, don't startle the snake. ”

Murong Ningyan reported the matter to the emperor, and the emperor immediately sent Lord Cui of Dali Temple to investigate the matter thoroughly.

Within a few days, Dali Temple found the fake imperial doctor in a brothel, and brought him back for a little trial, it turned out that he was just an unemployed vagrant, and he spent fifty taels of silver alone, brought him to the palace, and taught him to act in this scene.

"Who taught you to do that?"

"The little one doesn't know who that person is, he should be a eunuch or something."

"And where do you live?"

"After they took me into the palace, they left me in a utility room. When I said that someone would call the doctor, I would follow with the medicine box. But when the girl came to call me for a diagnosis, I accidentally seemed to hear her calling Yang Meiren when she was talking to her master. ”

"Do you remember the road from the utility room to Chuxiu Palace?"

"The little one remembers."

So as not to startle the snake, Dali Temple sent someone to change the fake imperial doctor into a disguise, I don't know the details of the original appearance at all, let him pretend to be a eunuch and follow Grandpa Zeng's side, led by Grandpa Zeng, Dali Temple's Master Cui walked together, on the grounds of inspection work, one by one in the concubine's house to inspect, let him find out where he was hiding before.

When the group approached the vicinity of Yang Meiren's residence, the fake imperial doctor said that it was here. So, Grandpa Zeng stepped forward and walked into the house, only to see a eunuch beating Yang Meiren's back. The fake Tai doctor's finger quietly poked Zeng Gonggong in the back, Zeng Gonggong understood, immediately slapped his hands three times, and rushed in from outside the door to restrain Na Tai Monitor.

At this time, Yang Meiren's performance made everyone present suspicious, only to see that she first wanted to protect the eunuch with her body, but failed to do so, and shouted angrily: "What are you doing here?" Who gave you the power? Dare to come and take the people in my house? But there was a flash of panic in his eyes.

All this did not escape the fiery eyes of Lord Cui of Dali Temple, and thought: A concubine actually used her body to protect a eunuch, it seems a little unreasonable, what is she panicking about?

"This case is a matter of life, Cui was ordered by the imperial court to investigate, and asked Yang Meiren to cooperate. In case Yang Meiren is implicated in this case, please go with us to Dali Temple to cooperate in the investigation. "Master Cui made a gesture of please.

Yang Meiren ignored it at all, squinted her eyes and rolled her lips and said: "When did Dali Temple take care of the internal affairs of the saint?" ”

Master Cui raised his voice and said with a dignified look: "We are under the order of the queen mother to thoroughly investigate this case. Do you want the queen to come and invite you personally? ”

When Yang Meiren heard this, a trace of panic flashed in her eyes, but she quickly calmed down again, and with many years of experience in handling cases, Master Cui was sure that this matter was inseparable from Yang Meiren, so he nodded to Grandpa Zeng.

Grandpa Zeng said to the palace maid in Yang Meiren's room: "Help your master to follow!" ”

The three halls of the Dali Temple, the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Criminal Department were tried, and because the people involved in the case were implicated in the harem, the queen attended as an observer. also because the queen was pregnant, so there was no torture, the eunuch seemed to want to restore the truth, and soon revealed a shocking secret that caused a sensation in the audience---- he was not a eunuch.

Yang Meiren heard the man tell this secret, and thought to herself, this is over, am I not good to him on weekdays? How could he have said this? You can't be trying to stab me in the air, right? I couldn't help but tremble like chaff, and I couldn't stand steadily.

Everyone turned their surprised eyes to Grandpa Zeng, thinking to themselves how this chief could be, there was a fake eunuch hidden under his nose, and Grandpa Zeng himself was extremely surprised, his eyes were like copper bells, and he looked at the eunuch and said excitedly: "How is it possible? Xiao Shenzi followed the old slave when he was six years old, and the old slave saw his clean body with his own eyes, and then he fainted on the couch for three days before he woke up, or I took care of it personally, it's been fifteen years, why is it suddenly not a eunuch? ”

Grandpa Zeng touched his crotch as he spoke, and suddenly his face changed instantly, and he sat down on the ground: "This, this is unbelievable, what the hell is going on?" ”

"What's your name? Hurry up and recruit from the truth. The presiding judge, Master Cui, spoke.

"The younger one is named Shen Shanwu, and he has a twin brother named Shen Shanwen. The family that was not rich gave birth to two of us at the same time, and then a brother and a sister were born below, which made the poor family even more strained. My parents have been sick in bed for many years, and they have children to feed them, and they are so poor that they can't open the pot. When I was six years old, my brother Shen Shanwen was introduced to the palace as a eunuch. Later, I heard that my brother passed out during the cleansing and died for three days before he woke up. My mother cried for three days and three nights, and then fell seriously ill. My brother gave up his dignity of being a man all his life, and in exchange for the meager silver he received, he provided for our family to live hard. ”

"Then how did you get into the palace?" Grandpa Zeng was a little impatient.

Master Cui hurriedly stopped Grandpa Zeng: "Don't interrupt him, let him speak slowly." ”

"My brother has really suffered over the years, and he has survived it, and as he grows older, the money he entrusted to send home has gradually increased, and the family's situation is finally a little more comfortable, and he can basically maintain the life of the family, but tragedy began to befall my family last winter." Speaking of this, Shen Shanwu wiped a handful of tears.

"Shut up, don't talk about it, you don't want your family's life, do you?"

Yang Meiren, who was listening to the trial on the side, suddenly stopped loudly, and everyone saw her glaring angrily, her face was hideous, and she looked very anxious, and she actually ignored this wild remark in front of everyone. After speaking, he realized something, and he hit the wooden pillar in the middle of the lobby, but fortunately, the jailer next to him was quick and grabbed him.

"The Yang family is quiet, above the Dharma Hall, no noise!" In order to prevent the Yang family from having another demon moth, Lord Li of the Metropolitan Procuratorate ordered someone to hold her arms.

Yang Meiren quieted down at this time, Shen Shanwu glanced at her in disgust, and continued: "My brother suddenly wrote home last winter, asking me to quickly learn his daily affairs and habits, and also described in detail the appearance characteristics and habits of the people in the palace, as small as how to talk and walk, all of them asked me to imitate him. This was done for the sole purpose of getting me to replace him. ”

Shen Shanwu turned his head to the Yang family, but his eyes were clearly full of hatred.

Murong Ningyan asked puzzledly, "Why did your brother suddenly ask you to replace him?" ”