readx;? The Queen Mother took the repentant book and looked at it carefully, but in the end she didn't find anything wrong. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 She asked, "How can you tell that this maid was murdered, not killed?"

"The Queen Mother, the paper used to write this letter of repentance is high-quality bamboo charcoal rice paper, and only the masters in the palace can use this kind of paper. Female officials, including Yingquan and slaves, all use inferior rice paper. Let me ask, Xiaoxi is a second-class palace maid, where did she get such a good paper to write a letter of repentance?" Yun Yao said the doubts she found, and then spoke again, "In addition, the Queen Mother, the slave maid came here today, and she also wanted to invite the Queen Mother to let the slave and maid investigate this matter." ”

"You are the female official next to the queen, and the queen is the master of the harem, can you just ask her to agree? Why do you have to go to great lengths to find the mourning family?" the queen mother asked puzzled.

"Back to the Queen Mother's words, the Queen Mother is so young that she can't suppress people, and the harem concubines rarely obey her. At this time, it is okay to let her lead the investigation, but you still have to support her. Yun Yao didn't forget to pat the Queen Mother's ass, and then said, "And in this matter, the slave maid feels that someone wants to deliberately go against the Queen Mother, and it must be investigated, and the people behind this curtain cannot be allowed to succeed." ”

"You have repeatedly said that someone wants to go against the mourning family, is there any evidence?" the queen mother asked, "Yun Yao, the mourning family knows that you are smart, but you don't want to use the mourning family as a gun, the mourning family is not so easy to fool!"

The Queen Mother's tone was very harsh, and Yun Yao was shocked when she heard this, she was silent for a long time, staring at the Queen Mother's face with sincere fear, thinking that the Queen Mother already knew her thoughts.

After a long time, seeing that the Queen Mother did not continue to make trouble, Yun Yao took a deep breath and said: "The slave and maid will never dare to fool the Queen Mother, just because this matter is widely implicated, and the slave and maid have no way to explain it clearly for a while. But the slave maid has two pieces of evidence that are enough to prove that the person behind this has bad intentions. ”

"What two pieces of evidence?" asked the Queen Mother.

"First, it's what the slave maid just said, the slave maid and Yingquan had accidents one after another, and they were both in Changming Palace, which is too much of a coincidence. This reminds the slave maid that when he went south to control the water, Yang Yushi was also victimized, although the slave maid was only a humble palace maid in the palace, but he also knew that Yang Yushi was the queen mother. Second, the poison in General Gu is called Seven Days, he was injured and poisoned when he was protecting Yang Yushi, and the slave was poisoned by the people behind the scenes, and it was also Seven Days. This poison is very rare and peculiar, most of the medicinal herbs are abundant outside the Saiwai, but it appears in the south and the palace at the same time, which has to be said to be another coincidence. ”

Yun Yao analyzed it methodically, although she knew that the purpose of the person behind this poisoning might not be so, but she wanted to be far-fetched to make up for it. Because only in this way will the Queen Mother support her investigation, and she will be able to get the results she wants.

The Queen Mother listened to Yun Yao's explanation, although there was no substantive evidence, but this speculation was very reasonable.

Whether it is Yang Yushi, Yun Yao and Lu Yingquan, accidents have occurred one after another, which is directly weakening the power of the Queen Mother in the court and harem. If she can't find out the person behind the scenes, it will do her a lot of harm and no benefit.

The Queen Mother's eyes were full of sharpness, and she stared at Yun Yao, as if she wanted to see through her. However, Yun Yao's mood at this time had slowly settled, and she did not panic anymore, but returned to calm.

"In that case, the mourning family will let you investigate. But if you don't give an explanation to the mourning family about this matter, the mourning family will still punish you for the crime of deception. The Queen Mother finally relented, "If you can find out the truth, the mourning family will make up for your mistakes." ”

"Thank you for the grace of the Queen Mother. Yun Yao knelt down again, kowtowed to the Queen Mother, and then said, "In that case, without further ado, the slave maid will go to Changming Palace to investigate the whole story of this matter." ”

"Jinxiu, you go and have a look. The Queen Mother instructed towards Jinxiu, "If you go, it will represent the meaning of the mourning family, regardless of whether the queen is young or not, be sure to find out about this matter." ”

"The slave obeys. Jinxiu answered, and then withdrew from the main hall of Jianzhang Palace with Yun Yao and went to Changming Palace.

At this time, the Changming Palace was already full of people, and there were many people surrounding the door of the palace maid Xiaoxi, including the palace maids and eunuchs of the Changming Palace, and the concubines of other palaces who came to join in the fun.

Now, except for Yang Liangren, who was grounded, he has not arrived, and the mysterious Mrs. Li, who has never appeared, is still missing, and everyone else has arrived.

And Zhou Meiren ...... Also coming.

But this time, Zhou Meiren didn't join in the fun, but stood outside, followed by Lianxin, silently observing the movements in the house.

Rong Ya stood at the door, not allowing anyone to enter, and no one knew what was going on in the house.

"Are you sure everything is done neatly?" Zhou Meiren asked Lianxin quietly, "There is no evidence left, right?"

"Rest assured, beauty, there is absolutely no evidence left. The slave and maid were carefully checked before leaving, Xiaoxi hanged herself, and before she died, she wrote a letter of repentance, saying that she committed suicide in fear of sin, and they couldn't find anything. Lianxin said with a sworn face.

"That's good. Zhou Meiren breathed a sigh of relief when she heard this, "You have also done this to my heart." ”

"Thank you for the compliment. Lian Xin said happily.

In fact, Lianxin has been paying attention to the movements of Changming Palace in the past few days, she originally thought that the queen mother would take Lu Yingquan away, and no matter what, she would confirm Lu Yingquan's crime. But when she saw Lu Yingquan being sent back by Aunt Jinxiu, and then saw Xiaoxi enter Lu Yingquan's house and talk a lot inside, she felt that something was wrong.

She was afraid that Xiao Xi's timid nature would confess everything, which would affect Zhou Meiren and her, so she took the lead and took advantage of the fact that Changming Palace had just opened the door in the early morning, and when the palace people were not very awake when they had just gotten up, they slipped into Xiao Xi's room, killed her directly, and then pretended to be Xiao Xi who committed suicide in fear of sin.

Lian Xin was afraid that someone would follow the clues to investigate, and she also got a letter of repentance there, telling everyone that Xiaoxi was indeed committing suicide in fear of sin, and there was a letter of repentance as evidence.

But what she didn't know was that it was this letter of repentance that became one of the evidences of the murder.

Soon, Yun Yao and Aunt Jinxiu also arrived, looking at the people surrounding the room, they couldn't help but glance at each other, and sighed in their hearts at the same time: Things are still big after all.

And Zhou Meiren, who had been paying attention to the movement of sight-reading, was shocked the moment she saw Yun Yao, and she couldn't believe her eyes at all.

"Lianxin, didn't you say that Yun Yao had been poisoned and unconscious?"

Lianxin also saw Yun Yao, she also felt unbelievable, obviously what she heard was consistent with what Xiao Xi said, there was no problem, but why did Yun Yao suddenly appear in a good way?

"Slave...... The slave didn't know what was going on. Lianxin stammered, "Xiao Xi said that he watched Yun Yao drink the poison......

Zhou Meiren was angry, her chest rose and fell, she wanted to know what was going on, but she couldn't go over and ask like this, because it would seem too deliberate, but it would arouse Yun Yao's suspicions, so she could only continue to stand here and stare at the situation inside.

Yun Yao and Aunt Jinxiu pushed aside the crowd and walked to the corridor, and when they saw Rong Ya, they saluted: "Say hello to the queen." ”

"You're finally here, let's go in and have a look!" Rong Ya didn't waste any time, and directly let Yun Yao and Jinxiu into the house, "There is nothing moving inside, just waiting for you to come over." You see, there are no clues. ”

Yun Yao looked around the room to see if there were any flaws, and finally she found that the forgery of the entire scene was perfect, and there was nothing suspicious. In addition to the letter of repentance left behind, the rest ...... It should be Xiao Xi's corpse.

At this time, Lu Yingquan was also supported by Furong, she looked at the body of Xiaoxi hanging in the room, she was startled, her lips trembled, but she didn't know what to say.

Although this is not the first time she has faced a corpse like this, every time she sees such a scene, she still can't help but be afraid. remembered the picture of Rumei being pushed to the bottom of the well by tassels in the past, and remembered the scene where Shuwen died under Yun Yao's silver needle.

And now, another person who has been involved with her has died.

"Yingquan, you still have injuries on your body, don't run around. Yun Yao saw Lu Yingquan, walked over to her and said, "There are only dead people here, and it's not an auspicious place." ”

"I'm fine, I just want to know what's wrong with Xiaoxi. Lu Yingquan's expression looked a little sad, and said, "Yesterday, Xiaoxi told me that she was very worried about her mother's health, and I advised her to relax." But I didn't expect that after only one night's work, she was already a corpse......"

"Don't worry, I won't let the murderer go unpunished. Yun Yao shook Lu Yingquan's hand and spoke.

Yun Yao knew that Lu Yingquan's heart was the same as what she thought. Even if they knew that Xiao Xi was the one who poisoned her, they couldn't hate her, because they understood that Xiao Xi also had her own difficulties, not to mention, she had also lost her life for this incident now.

"I believe you, just as you used to prove your innocence in the past, this time, you will definitely be able to. Lu Yingquan nodded and said.

Yun Yao took a deep breath, turned to Rong Ya and said, "Queen Mother, the slave maid asked for an autopsy, and asked Niangniang to send two little eunuchs to dismantle Xiaoxi's body. ”

When Rong Ya heard this, she hurriedly followed Yun Yao's words and ordered them to put Xiao Xi down, lie flat on the ground, and let Yun Yao check it.

Yun Yao squatted down, approached Xiao Xi, held Xiao Xi's face, carefully examined it, and finally found two strangulation marks on Xiao Xi's neck, one deep and one shallow, intertwined with each other.

Seeing this, Yun Yao was almost certain that Xiao Xi had committed suicide in disguise after being murdered.

The deep strangulation marks were strangled by Xiao Xi with some kind of rope-like thing before he was hung on the beams, while the shallow strangulation marks were the traces of Bai Aya's hanging. Because the blood does not circulate after death, the bruises caused will be relatively shallow, so there are two strangulation marks, one deep and one shallow.