Chapter 234: Taihe Hall Investigates the Murderer (2)
The emperor turned his head to look at Huo Guifei, and stretched out his hand to help the favorite concubine up and hold it in his arms.
"Don't worry, Concubine Ai, I believe that Concubine Ai has nothing to do with this matter, and she will not murder her own emperor."
Huo Guifei was like a kitten lying in the emperor's arms, her delicate body was soft and lovable.
In addition, the empress sitting beside the emperor looked at Huo Guifei and the emperor with a dark face, her hands clenched into fists, and her eyes were full of resentment and jealousy.
The same is also Huo Yingling who sat in the Huo family's banquet, she once entered the palace with Huo Yingji in the draft, but she didn't expect the emperor to take a fancy to Huo Yingji, who pretended to be weak, and after entering the palace, she firmly bewitched the emperor with her fox charm, and gave birth to the respected Chang Wang, who was very popular in the harem, and even the whole Huo family followed the chicken dog to heaven.
She has risen from an obscure concubine to a proud existence of the family, and her methods must be very tough.
Huo Yijun saw that the emperor and Huo Guifei showed their affection in public, but he couldn't get an answer to his previous question, and looked at Jiang Xie helplessly.
What was he thinking?
It was just a wandering look that fell on him, Jiang Xie turned his head to really look at her, the two looked at each other, and after looking at each other for a moment, he stared at the emperor again.
"Emperor, didn't Huo Guifei just want to explain? The king is still waiting. ”
The affection between the emperor and Huo Guifei was interrupted, and everyone's focus fell on Huo Guifei again.
I saw that Huo Guifei had a soft attitude, and said in the emperor's arms: "Yes, this palace still needs to explain, this matter has nothing to do with this palace, this is what I want to say." ’
The crowd was speechless.
So far, none of the questions have received the corresponding desired reply.
Under the stalemate, Huo Yijun no longer dwelled on this matter and continued the previous topic.
"Okay, then this order issue can also be put aside, after the explosion, Xia Guan asked Gao Gonggong to assist in the investigation of gunpowder, and found out that someone pretended to be an official of the Ministry of Rites and came to the Internal Affairs Office to get two artillery battles and explosives, according to the description of the eunuch on duty, Xia Guan painted a portrait."
The waiter of the Ministry of Rites suddenly asked, "What portrait??" ”
"What kind of portrait will not be publicized now, and I will see it later."
Huo Yijun continued in public: "Now it is certain that the person on this portrait is very likely to be the murderer, this person pretended to be a person from the Ministry of Rites and received explosives and arranged them in the furnace, and then hid in the crowd, thoughtful. ”
"After the explosion, the palace banquet organized by Huo Guifei began, and the adults of the Ministry of Rites who were far away at the palace banquet did not have any symptoms, but the clan relatives were collectively poisoned, and the poison in His Majesty was the most serious."
"The princes all know that the specifications of the palace banquet are strict, and it is impossible to poison them before going to the table, so there are other ways for the murderer to poison him, he put the poison on the paintings and veils used to decorate the Taihe Hall before, so that as long as the wind blows, the poison on the paintings and veils will float to the food, so some people are poisoned by the mandala flower and fall into hallucinations."
"And the second poison is more hidden, the murderer is to put the red leaf green in the tea, this poison itself is not poisonous, but if it encounters a mandala flower, it will become highly poisonous, so many people also have symptoms of violent vomiting."
"Finally, there is the third poison, as expected, it is also a synthetic poison, it is a mandala flower poison, Hongye Qing and Qingxinsan have a highly toxic reaction, fortunately, Your Majesty is not deeply poisoned, and now it has been detoxified, and there is no big problem."
"To sum up, what do you think?"
After Huo Yijun finished speaking, the hall fell into silence.
Soon after, there was a lot of talk.
"So, the murderer must be familiar with the palace, understand the process of the coronation ceremony, and even participated in the planning?!"
"I think this murderer must be someone we all know well, and he is also familiar with His Majesty! It should be the people around us! ”
……
Huo Yijun solemnly stood up at this time and said: "The murderer is indeed the person next to us. ”
"This person must be very familiar with the Tai Hospital if he was able to enter the Tai Hospital to steal medicine, and it just so happened that the apprentice of the Tai Hospital also saw the murderer."
At this time, Huo Yijun took out the portrait of the murderer drawn in advance and unfolded it in front of everyone.
"The person in the portrait must be known to the adults of the Ministry of Rites."
Everyone present looked at the position of the Ministry of Rites, suspicion, anger, and all kinds of eyes intertwined.
The officials of the Ministry of Rites all stood up in an instant and stepped aside, except for the people who had previously held the blessing ceremony at the coronation ceremony.
The waiter of the Ministry of Rites looked incredulous: "The murderer didn't expect it to be you!" ”
It was also hard for everyone to believe that this man was obviously quiet, but he didn't say a word, and when he was crowned, he was like a pillar standing there, and no one paid attention.
The emperor got up and looked over, his face full of anger: "Come on, take it!" ”
The forbidden army in front of the palace stepped forward to take down the ceremonial officer who held the ceremony, and escorted him to kneel in front of the palace.
Huo Yijun walked up to him and asked, "Lord Rite, the matter has come to this, can you tell me why you are doing all this!" ”
A cold gaze was focused on the man.
"What Master Xiao Huo said is not false at all, I did the explosion and poisoning." The ceremonial officer seemed very indifferent, and behaved calmly about the occurrence of this incident, without the panic after the incident in the east window.
Huo Yijun refuted his words with a word: "You are lying." ”
"If you did this, why don't you poison all of them, because three poisons will expose your existence, which is suspicious point one; And if it's you, then why didn't you run away and stay here before the palace gate was blocked, this is suspicious point two. ”
"What's more, why did you worry about Huo Guifei when you did it, what you wanted to do with the coronation ceremony of King Chang was far from assassinating His Majesty, the relationship between you and Huo Guifei was suspicious."
The murderer caught by herself was overturned and denied by her own hands, and more and more people couldn't understand her operation.
Jiang Xie stood up and walked off the stage at this time, came to the official of ceremonies, lowered his eyes, and said with a cold attitude: "If there is a suspicious point, it means that this matter is not simple, do you say it yourself, or do you throw it into the prison, and this king will personally interrogate you?" ”
The ceremonial officer's originally calm face became panicked when he heard the word 'prison clearance'.
"No, I'm not going to clear the prison!"
"If you don't want to go, just be honest and honest, otherwise between life and death, what Kiyomasa is best at is that life is better than death."
The ceremonial officer turned pale with fright, and bowed his head forward.
"I said that the criminal minister was instructed by Huo Guifei to murder His Majesty, as long as His Majesty dies, she will immediately support King Chang to succeed to the throne!!"
The audience was in an uproar.
The emperor was furious and pushed Huo Guifei away, allowing her to fall to the ground.
"No...... That's not the case, Your Majesty, listen to me...... The concubine has nothing to do with this matter!! ”
The spearhead pointed at Huo Guifei again, and the ceremonial official took out evidence at this time, a golden hairpin, anyone with a discerning eye can see that this golden hairpin is a royal gift, and it is the beloved thing that Huo Guifei wore on her head before.
"The concubine's golden hairpin was stolen a few days ago, Your Majesty, you have to trust the concubine."
The emperor was angry and didn't want to listen to the explanation at all, and at that time, the entire Huo family also came out of the banquet and knelt on the ground.
Only Huo Yijun did not kneel.