At the third watch, the sound of bangzi entered the eardrum through the layers of courtyards.

The sky was covered with black clouds, and it was pitch black all around, so calm that it seemed that the arrival of the storm could not be seen.

The lights in the Funing Hall are bright.

Li Fu bowed and cautiously stepped forward to report, "The saints, auxiliary ministers, and others are all waiting outside the palace gate, and they want to meet the official family......

Cao Yuqing was silent for a moment, her face pale.

"At this hour, the palace gate must not be opened."

Li Fu glanced at her, "Don't let the ministers see the officials, I'm afraid that there will be extraneous branches......"

Cao Yuqian lowered her eyes and rubbed her forehead, "Go, privately tell the ministers of Fubi, let them wait until dawn, the palace gate will open, and then enter the palace face saint." ”

"Yes."

The Funing Hall was quiet.

Cao Yuqing was silent for a long time, then suddenly turned her head and looked at Gao Miao, who was sitting silently, "Did Little Lady Zhang just say that there is something strange about the death of the official family?" ”

Gao Miao lowered her eyes, "This is indeed the case." Eleven said, I'm afraid someone will poison ......"

Cao Yuqing's palms clenched fiercely, and her eyebrows were cold, "What a big guts." Someone moved his hands and feet into the palace. Red Cloud ......"

The palace maid standing on the side immediately stepped forward, "The maid is here." ”

Cao Yuzhen said: "Where are the palace concubines?" ”

Hongyun said: "Kneel in the outer hall to pray for the blessing of the official." ”

Cao Yuqing pondered for a moment, "Let everyone who has been to the Funing Hall today gather in the inner hall." ”

"Yes."

Hongyun responded and went down on an errand, Cao Yuqi didn't know what to think, and suddenly turned his head to Gao Miao and said, "You go and find Xin Yi." You go in person, and you can comfort her, but tonight the incident happened suddenly, and she was wronged. ”

The emperor died suddenly, Cao Yuqi had not yet mourned, all the medical officials were disgusted, and Xin Yi was naturally no exception, and they were all detained.

Gao Miao's eyebrows moved slightly, as if she wanted to say something, but finally bowed her head silently.

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Xin Yi was calm.

Tonight's events were not sudden, she was mentally prepared, but Zhao Zhen's death still surprised her a little. She is a foreign woman, and it is not easy to get close to the emperor, in order to arrive in time when Zhao Zhen needs it, she specially changed into men's clothes and entered the palace and was with the medical officers.

But no matter how much you can't prevent it, a person who is good at dinner will get sick when he falls asleep.

The whole course of the disease is too fast, and there is no possibility of rescue at all.

Previously, Xin Yi found that the imperial dining room used a warm diet, and the medicine taken by Zhao Zhen contained ingredients to dissolve dampness and detoxify, so he specially adjusted his diet and prescriptions, and his body had already recovered, so Xin Yi didn't believe that this illness was accidental.

Xin Yi entered the hall with Gao Miao with doubts, and when he saw Cao Yuqing, he saluted respectfully.

"What is the saint looking for me?"

"The little lady is here." Cao Yuqing said gently: "If everyone who has been to the Funing Hall today is present, can you help the palace recognize which one is the one who poisoned it?" ”

Xin Yi glanced at Cao Yuqing and hesitated.

After all, she was also taken care of as a suspect.

"A courtier can try, but if she is wrong, she hopes that the saint will forgive her sins."

Cao Yuzhen nodded, "This palace believes in you." ”

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In the side hall, a group of people stood upright with their heads bowed.

The saints were present, from the palace maids to the chamberlains, all holding their breath.

Whoever is charged with killing the official's family is the crime of peeling the skin and cramping to kill the whole family......

Xin Yi's eyes were slightly cold, and he quietly swept over their heads, and said, "Stretch out your hand......"

And all the people stretched out their hands.

Xin Yi: "Look up." ”

Whatever she says, the people do.

Xin Yi carefully looked at everyone, from their expressions to their body movements, and shook their heads at Cao Yuqing: "Sage, the courtiers can't see it." ”

Cao Yuqing pursed her lips, "Li Fu, are all the people here?" ”

Li Fu bowed down, and the whole person couldn't wait to lie on the ground, "It's all here, ...... here"

Before the voice fell, he raised his head suddenly, "The little princess came here today, and the official family played with her for a while." ”

Cao Yuqing's expression changed slightly, and just as he wanted to say that he would bring Zhou Yiliu's mother and daughter in, he saw Xin Yi shaking his head.

"Sage, I can't ask anything if I let Zhou Niangzi come, why don't you just pass on the little princess and then send someone to observe Zhou Niangzi? Separate the mother and daughter duo and ask? ”

Cao Yuqi accepted Xin Yi's suggestion.

After a while, the little princess was brought in by the palace maid.

Cao Yuqing sent the palace maid away, and summoned the little princess over with a pleasant face, "Tell your mother, what did your father tell you and what did you play today?" ”

The child is young, but she can perceive the atmosphere in the palace, she was originally a little nervous, but the mother in her eyes is very close, so she is unguarded and says it sentence by sentence.

After speaking, Xin Yi checked the details again.

"You say, Mrs. Zhou told you, don't rub your eyes, don't wipe your nose?"

The little princess nodded, "Mother said that if you love cleanliness, your father will like me......"

Xin Yi asked: "Then after you return to the palace, did Mrs. Zhou let you take a bath and wash your little hands carefully?" Did you wash it again, wash it again? ”

The little princess's eyes widened, "How do you know?" ”

Xin Yi didn't answer her, "Because I'll guess, is it that Mrs. Zhou still took all the small clothes you changed into to wash......"

The little princess looked at her innocently, "You're so smart, I like to play guess with you......"

Xin Yi turned around and nodded to Cao Yuqing.

Cao Yuqing's face did not change: "Red rain, bring the little princess to Kunning Palace." ”

The little princess's smile froze on her lips, and she wanted to cry without crying, "I won't go to Kunning Palace, I want to go back to the palace to accompany my mother...... I don't go to the Kunning Palace, the Kunning Palace is where the tigress lives......"

Cao Yuqing: "Take it away!" ”

The little princess was taken away, and outside the hall, Zhou Yiliu was with a group of concubines, kneeling on the futon to pray for the blessing of the official family, listening to the little princess crying and being taken away, and her face was like ashes.

"Zhou Jieyu, the saint is invited."

The father-in-law of the steward walked up to him and sighed.

Zhou Yiliu even got up and looked in the direction of her daughter and chased out.

"What do you do? Lay down my daughter......"

"Disobedient." The steward's father-in-law's face sank, and he motioned to the two guards, "Drag it away." ”

Zhou Yiliu was forcibly dragged in front of Cao Yuzhen by two guards, and when she saw Xin Yi on her side, her whole face changed.

"It's you, it's you who framed me, right? I have no grudge against you, so why do you want to put me to death......"

The lights flickered.

The room was lifeless.

Xin Yi looked at her motionlessly, without pity or sympathy, she was like a spectator of a story, a recorder, silently watching all this.

Cao Yuqing listened to Zhou Yiliu's crying, leaning on the chair with her hands, her face as indifferent as a sculpture. No one knows how much impact Zhao Zhen's death has on her, they are husband and wife, husband and wife for decades, but she is very calm, so calm that Xin Yi can't help but admire.

Cao Yuzhen is like being born for the throne of the queen,

When the sky fell, she could still stick to her duties as a queen, what to do and what not to do, she followed the rules from beginning to end and was not emotional.

"Don't you still plead guilty?"

Cao Yuqing's voice was shallow and faint, and if she listened carefully, she was a little hoarse and tired. After operating for so long, she must have been tired, closed her eyes, and didn't even ask Zhou Yiliu why she did that, let alone ask the details of the matter, just sighed.

"You can't live if you do your own iniquity! Red Cloud. ”

Hongyun stepped forward, and in the tray was a three-foot white silk, a pair of scissors, and a glass of poisonous wine.

Cao Yuqing looked at Zhou Yiliu's stunned expression, and said lightly:

"This is the last decent thing for you, choose for yourself."

Zhou Yiliu sat on the ground.

No one forced her, just looked at her like that. She even saw a hint of sympathy in Cao Yuqing's eyes.

Scold!

Zhou Yiliu knew that the general trend was gone, swallowed his saliva, slowly straightened up, sat on his feet, and stroked the three things in the tray with his pointed fingers, and his voice was shallow.

"Don't you ask me why I'm doing this?"

Cao Yuqing: "Go to the palace of the king of Hades and explain to the king of Hades." ”

Zhou Yiliu raised his head.

If you don't say anything in your heart, even if you die, you don't feel at ease.

Those grievances, those hatreds, what can't be said now?

She smiled, smiling coldly, "I hate the official family...... Just secondary. He no longer treats me as a human being, and he also gives me a decent life, I hate him, but I am also grateful to him, he is dead, and it doesn't do me any good......"

Speaking of this, she stared at Xin Yi with a sharp gaze.

"And you, and Fu Jiuqu...... It's my most heart-wrenching hatred, and it's the reason why I have to do it. ”

She stared at Xin Yi resentfully, a smile on her lips.

"Someone gave me that package of medicine and told me that as long as Fu Jiuqu's case is discovered, he will poison the official's family. As long as the official family is dead, his case will not be able to hold on...... When the time comes, he will be finished, and you will be finished, and you will all be finished...... Hahahaha......"

"It's Zhang Xun, right?" Xin Yi squinted slightly, "I thought he was coercing you." I can't figure out why he is dead, and you still have to do such a thing for him, as soon as you say this, I understand. ”

Zhou Yiliu smiled lowly.

"Understood, it's too late. Little lady Zhang, looking at your proud appearance in the past, it is more uncomfortable than letting me die...... Thankfully, you'll soon be following in my footsteps...... The official family can't protect you if they are alive, let alone the official family is dead? ”

Xin Yi: "Why are you bothering? ”

The cold wind blew through Zhou Yiliu's long hair, and her smile was like a ghost.

"A few years of cold palace have made me live the way I am now...... All these things are given by you...... Why? I can't get anything, so why can you be happy? I'm a helpless orphan girl, I can pull you on your back, it's very cost-effective...... You say, right? ”

Her eyes stared at Xin Yi faintly, and she smiled wildly.

Xin Yi looked at her quietly, "It's a pity, I'm afraid you're about to miscalculate." If you're dead, I'll live well. Brother Jiu and I, as well as our children, are a happy family. Pity your daughter, who has no father and no mother, and wants to follow the old path of your own mother...... Aren't you angry when you hear this? ”

Zhou Yiliu was originally sitting upright on the ground, looking proud of revenge, but he was stunned when he heard this, and rushed towards Xin Yi like crazy.

"Death will also drag you to hell, I will die with you......"

Xin Yi grabbed her arm, and with a little force, Zhou Yiliu fell to the ground.

"I can't do it." Xin Yi sneered coldly, and Zhou Yiliu cried bitterly.

Cao Yuzhen was so noisy that her brain hurt, and she sighed, "Fulfill her." ”

The two mothers-in-law stepped forward in response, picked up a three-foot white silk, and put it around Zhou Yiliu's neck.

The candle burst into a faint spark.

Xin Yi watched Zhou Yiliu fall to the ground in embarrassment, and sighed almost imperceptibly.

"Sage." She saluted Cao Yuqing, "Can I leave the palace?" ”

Cao Yuzhen looked at her and smiled slightly, "The palace gate has long been locked, and the door is full of ministers who want to enter the palace to face the saint, and I still have to think about how to deal with it." The current situation is pressing, I want to wronged you to stay in the palace first, and then talk about it when things calm down. ”

The death of the emperor and the ascension of the new emperor to the throne is an extremely sensitive time node.

Xin Yi was worried about Cao Yuqing, and nodded, "It's all up to the saint's arrangement." ”

"And ......" Cao Yuyu glanced at Zhou Yiliu's corpse, "It is about the royal daughter, this matter must be kept tight-lipped and not the slightest rumor." ”

There is another secret of the palace.

Xin Yi, "The courtiers understand. ”

Cao Yuqing called Hongxiang over, "You take the lady to rest for a while." ”

(End of chapter)