Chapter 528: Revealed
Qin Zeng was wearing a dark purple brocade robe today, with a plain yarn middle sheet inside, which looked a little less dull than usual, and he had a calm temperament. But the pace at which he entered the temple today was obviously something more.
When the emperor saw him coming up to the palace, he said, "You must have known what had just happened."
Qin Zeng nodded and said, "The minister already knows everything, and he is willing to share the emperor's worries."
The envoys of the two countries have already left first, but the ministers and those involved in the matter have remained in their places.
Qin Zeng's eyelids lifted slightly, and he swept everyone, "Actually, there are traces of this matter from the beginning."
The emperor frowned slightly and asked, "What do you mean by this?"
Qin Zeng's gaze looked around, and finally fell on Queen Wang's body. The queen felt something, and asked with her eyebrows, "If you have something to say, you might as well speak up."
Queen Wang was stabbed five times, and she had already planted grass in everyone's hearts, and at this time, Qin Zeng drew his attention to her, making other people's hearts itch and unbearable, and they frequently went to see Mu Guifei. It's a pity that Mu Guifei's face didn't change, and she couldn't see any flaws at all.
Qin Zeng said: "The poisonous needle in that box is aimed at the queen's mother, and it also involves the gift offered by Chongnan, obviously someone wants to borrow the hand of the eldest girl Wang to kill people, and then marry Chongnan."
Many people are speculating in their hearts, but no one dares to say it.
Qin Zeng actually made it clear at such a time and on such an occasion what he wanted to do?
The eyes of many ministers became obscure, and there was horror in the obscurity.
Many people secretly took their eyes to look at Mu Guifei.
The corners of Mu Guifei's lips hooked up a sneer, and her eyes narrowed slightly.
The hand in the queen's sleeve clenched the handkerchief tightly, sucking the sweat from the palm of her hand.
The assassination failed yesterday, and the "old thing" brought by Chongnan by chance just created an opportunity for Mu Guifei to assassinate her again.
If it weren't for Li Qingyi's quick reaction, she would be as desperate as Wang Xuanyi now.
Almost all of the people present, including Li Qingyi and Qin Zeng, knew about this matter, and the focus was on whether they could find evidence of Mu Guifei's crime and punish her.
And Qin Zeng took the initiative to mention it at this time......
Feeling Qin Zeng's gaze towards her, Li Qingyi's heart sank, could it be that he wanted to start one step ahead of Mu Guifei and the four princes?!
Qin Zeng saw that everyone was watching, so he said, "Your Majesty, this matter is very important, and the minister implores you to retire from unrelated people."
The emperor immediately waved his hand and motioned for the others to retreat.
The two monarchs and ministers sang and harmonized, and everyone in the hall exchanged expressions and retreated outside the hall.
Mu Lan was originally sitting next to Mu Guifei, and was about to retreat when she saw the situation, but Mu Guifei turned her head to look at her, signaling that she didn't have to leave, Mu Lan was overjoyed, and secretly thought that Mu Guifei regarded her as her own.
Qin Zeng was noncommittal about this, and said, "Please also ask Prime Minister Xu, all scholars, various scholars, and Chen Yushi to stay."
Everyone was shocked, Qin Zeng opened his mouth to stay, all of them were important ministers of the court, and Chen Yushi was the father of Chen Yan, the commander of Jinyiwei, who was known as the Iron Mouth Yushi.
Let them stay, will there be any changes in the DPRK and China?
Mu Guifei was startled, her eyes shot straight at Qin Zeng, and her expression was no longer indifferent, as if a wave of anger was brewing, and she was about to burst out at the right time.
Li Qingyi clearly saw that the long nails of her little finger snapped off because of the armrest of the chair she was holding hard, and her eyes became proficient.
Mu Lan chuckled in her heart, and had a bad premonition, but if she wanted to leave at this time, she couldn't speak.
Chen Yushi, as a doctor of Yushitai, is upright and upright, and he is dedicated to the court. He was just stunned, then he took the lead in stopping, turned back to the side of the main hall and stood with a solemn expression.
All the scholars, including Song Qian's uncle, heard that Qin Zeng's mouth was different, and they walked to the side and stood up, listening to each other.
And Xu Xiang and the various departments belong to various forces, and the interior of each ministry is also very complicated, and several people were shocked when they heard this, and they were stunned for a moment
Standing on both sides of the main hall, some of them already had sweat on their heads.
Li Qingyi looked around, and he had some consideration for everyone in his heart.
The others, except for the Four Princes, are the emperor's henchmen.
It seems that today, we really have to divide a meridian to stop.
Above the main hall, all the imperial relatives and relatives were strangely silent. Li Qingyi could feel Empress Wang's nervousness, but Li Qingyi believed in Qin Zeng's arrangement and believed that he would not be wrong.
Qin Zeng picked up the box that hid the hidden weapon, looked at it repeatedly, and said, "Sure enough, as Madam Wang said, this kind of machine is very ingenious, and it has to be opened and closed many times before it can be triggered, and it will even kill people."
He raised his eyes to look at the emperor and said, "As far as the minister knows, after the gifts brought by the envoys of Chongnan were sent to the palace, the queen mother personally led people to check them."
The queen slowly walked to the palace to face the emperor, and saluted, "What Qin Zeng said is right, it was the concubine who personally led people to check one by one, and who had touched what objects among them were all recorded, and there was no omission." After that, she ordered Su Rong to present the record of the inventory of gifts that day to the emperor.
The emperor looked calm, took it and flipped it over, and sure enough, everything was recorded in the book.
Mu Guifei looked at Queen Wang with a smile and said, "The queen is really careful."
Queen Wang said: "The concubines just feel that the emperor is worried about state affairs day and night, and since the concubines have places that can help the emperor, they naturally have to do their best, so as not to cause extraneous branches."
After that, she immediately asked people to call all the palace people who were checking the gifts that day.
Of course, Queen Wang didn't take everything in front of her one by one to take a closer look, but the palace people around her did check everything and report it to her.
If this puppet was also in it at the time, there must have been palace people who saw it.
After a few people from the Yikun Palace came over, Su Rong brought the puppet to them and asked, "How many of you, have you ever seen this thing?"
Several palace maids were all stable palace maids, and one of them, who wore a blue palace skirt, named Lily of the Valley, said, "The slave maid has seen this thing."
"Oh? Now that you've seen it, how did you tell the queen?"
Lily of the valley thought for a moment and said, "The slave opened the box and looked at the contents and showed that it was a wood carving."
Everyone heard this.
At first glance, this puppet is just a small wooden carving.
"No wonder Hongu didn't pay attention......
Su Rong took the small box containing the puppet and asked, "When you opened this box at that time, did you find anything unusual?"
Hearing this, Lily of the Valley looked at the box and couldn't help but be stunned.
Su Rong noticed something was wrong and asked, "What's wrong?"
Lily of the valley hesitated, "The slave remembers...... At that time, the box containing the wood carving was a box carved with a fairy mountain treasure tree carved on all sides of rosewood, and it was not this!".
When they heard this, their ears were pricked.
The queen frowned and asked, "Are you not mistaken?"
"The slave is absolutely not mistaken." Lily of the valley was very sure, "At that time, the slave maid was puzzled, this wood carving didn't seem to be as precious as the box, I don't know if there was anything special about this wood carving, so the slave and maid looked at this thing curiously several times."
Qin Zeng said in due course, "So, there is no problem with the contents inside, but the box has been replaced."
Queen Wang stepped forward and took a closer look at the box that was loaded with a mechanism that almost killed her, and then frowned and asked, "This palace feels that this box is a little familiar."
When the emperor heard this, he asked, "Has the queen seen this box, where is it?"
"Let's bring the gift booklet brought by the envoy of Chongnan last year."
Queen Wang nodded to the emperor, instructed Su Rong, turned to look at Mu Guifei, and said, "Sister, should I explain why the puppet's box has been replaced?"
Mu Guifei frowned and said disdainfully, "I don't know what the queen meant? Does it mean that the main palace has changed the box with the wood carving?"
Queen Wang heard that Mu Guifei was slightly not
Yue's questioning, his face did not distinguish between joy and anger, and motioned to Su Rongfeng to take the two booklets together, and said to the emperor: "For the sake of prudence, the concubine specially recruited a painter and painted an album of the gifts brought by the envoys, and asked the emperor to take a look."
The smirk on Mu Guifei's face suddenly froze, and her gaze at Queen Wang suddenly became as sharp as a blade.
However, the queen only didn't know what to do, and stood calmly in the same place.
The emperor first picked up this year's booklet, turned to one of the pages, compared the box on the painting with the box in Qin Zeng's hand, and then said, "Although it looks similar, it is indeed not the same box. It seems that this box has indeed been replaced."
The queen turned another booklet to one of the pages and said, "Your Majesty, this box in front of you is the one in the album."
"Indeed." The emperor nodded in confirmation, and asked again, "What, this box in front of you belongs to Mu Guifei?"
Everyone's eyes looked at Mu Guifei, Mu Guifei's expression had returned to normal, she looked at the female official next to her, Liuye knelt down with a plop, and said, "It's a slave...... The slave maid went to the queen's palace that day, and saw that the palace people of Yikun Palace were taking stock of the gifts brought by the envoys of Chongnan, so they looked at it curiously, but they didn't expect to accidentally break the box with wood carvings...... But the slave really didn't know why this box was hiding a murderous purpose...... Please enlighten the emperor!"
In front of so many people, how could Lu Ye, as a person from Mu Guifei, do such a small action in the queen's palace without being discovered?
But if you want to investigate it carefully, Lu Ye will insist that the people in Yikun Palace are negligent and slack, and they didn't find out what she did, and it was the people in the queen's palace who were unlucky at that time.
Queen Wang frowned, trying to find the flaws in Liuye's words, but she didn't have a clue.
Mu Guifei smiled and said, "The queen mother is too sensitive. Even if the maidservant of the palace did something wrong and secretly changed the box, but this box went out of the Kunji Palace and went to many places, the queen mother couldn't say that this box was the hands and feet of the palace, right?"