Chapter 060: The Abandoned Pawn
"Miss Mu's words are right, it's better to ask clearly, we can't convict the Third Emperor Sister based on this assassin's words, it's unfair to the Third Emperor Sister. Nie Xinyao also nodded and said so.
Qingchen and Nie Xinyao both said so, and the ministers also echoed it, after all, this assassin did not have any substantive evidence, and it would be a bit hasty to convict the three princesses with just one sentence.
Nie Xinrou swept around the crowd, and finally her eyes fell on the faces of Nie Xinyao and Mu Qingchen, and she sneered in her heart.
On the surface, these two people seemed to be speaking for her, saying that they could not easily trust this assassin, and everyone agreed with them, but only she knew that these two people would make her completely unable to turn over.
Because there must be some evidence in this assassin's body that she couldn't think of at all, but couldn't deny.
Sure enough, when she was thinking like this, the assassin spoke again: "The villain has evidence! The evidence is on the villain's body, the villain did not bite indiscriminately, nor did he lie, please Your Majesty Mingjian!"
As soon as these words came out, Nie Xinrou's heart sank suddenly, and she looked at the assassin with an unclear look in her eyes. She didn't even know what kind of evidence the Assassin had, but she had to suffer the consequences for it.
"Oh, you say you have evidence, so take it out and look at it. If you can convince people, your family will be safe. The Empress spoke in a deep voice.
"There are three pieces of evidence in the villain. The assassin said, "The villain's right arm has the mark of the Three Kings' Mansion, which is tattooed on the arm of everyone who works for the Three Highnesses to distinguish friend from foe. ”
As soon as the assassin's words fell, Commander Yun naturally glanced at the forbidden army beside him, who nodded, walked to the assassin's side, rolled up his sleeve, and revealed his right arm, on which there was indeed a tattoo with a small dragon tattooed on it, and the shape of the dragon was like a "soft" character.
The empress's eyes flashed slightly, and her eyes looked at Nie Xinrou more and more unkindly, what does this tattoo represent, the empress knows very well in her heart. After each princess is allowed to leave the palace, she will have a certain qualification to raise a group of palace soldiers and some secret guards to protect her mansion and facilitate her own actions.
Once these people have tattoos on their arms, it is equivalent to a deed of sale, indicating that the person has given himself to the master to work for him. There are secret guards and government soldiers in each imperial daughter's mansion, and the tattoos on the arms of the people in each mansion are different, and the assassin in front of him has such obvious marks on his arms, if he is not Nie Xinrou's subordinate, I am afraid that even Nie Xinrou himself will not believe it.
"You say there are three pieces of evidence, and two more?" the Empress asked again.
"The second evidence is that the poison found from the mouth of the villain, the same as the one hidden in the mouths of the brothers next to him, is a poison unique to the soldiers and secret guards in the Three Emperors' Mansion, once the mission fails, he will immediately commit suicide, and he will definitely not leave any clues and opportunities for the enemy. The Assassin continued.
"Miss Huaijin, you can see if this poison is the same. The empress turned to look at Huai Jin and said.
Huai Jin nodded, walked to the side of the cloud commander, looked at the poison that had just been found from the mouths of this group of assassins, carefully identified it, and observed the color and smell, and only after confirming it, did he speak:
"Yes, these poisons are indeed the same, and the toxicity is extremely strong, they melt in the mouth, and the blood seals the throat, the folk girl has been practicing medicine for so many years, it can be determined that if it weren't for Miss Mu's foresight to take these poisons out of their mouths, I'm afraid there would be no chance to ask questions now. ”
"Even if the poison in this man's mouth is the same as that of the others, that does not prove that he is the person of the Three Princesses, and this is not enough to constitute strong evidence. Qingchen spoke again.
"No, this is strong evidence, if Your Majesty doesn't believe it, you can search the mouth of Miss Baolian, there must be the same poison hidden, it is a unique secret medicine specially made by the Three Kings, and only in the hands of the Three Highnesses can have an antidote. The Assassin said, "Your Highness is like this to all your people, even Miss Pauline. ”
The assassin's words set off waves, which caught Nie Xinrou off guard, and when Nie Xinrou heard this, she suddenly raised her head and looked at Qingchen, but she clearly saw a flash of laughter in Qingchen's eyes.
Nie Xinrou can be sure that Mu Qingchen is deliberate, it seems that Qingchen is leading all the questions, whatever Mu Qingchen asks, Nie Xinyao will echo something, the empress will suspect something, and the assassin will also answer something, layer by layer, it seems that all the dirty water has to be splashed on her head.
"Someone, search-" The empress gave an order, and Commander Yun stepped forward again, this time directly to Bao Lian, pinched Bao Lian's chin, and found the poison hidden between Bao Lian's teeth in the same position.
After Huai Jin's identification, it was found that the poison found in Baolian's mouth was exactly the same as the one found from the assassin's mouth, and now the evidence was ironclad, Nie Xinrou couldn't refute it, and the empress was even more convinced.
"Go on, what is the third piece of evidence?" Nie Xinyao saw that things were going in the direction she expected, and then asked again.
"...... The third evidence is the order given by the Three Imperial Maidens to the villain and others, the orders of the Three Highnesses are usually passed on with a small bamboo tube, and she herself never comes forward in person for the sake of insurance, and the bamboo tube, usually after we read it, will be destroyed. But before this operation, the villain was afraid that he would not see his wife and children for the last time, so he went down to see them in private, and when he came back, he was about to destroy them, but he received an order to set off urgently, and he didn't have time to do it, and he didn't dare to throw it away at will, so he took it with him......"
As the assassin narrated, everyone understood that this third piece of evidence was the order given by Nie Xinrou, since it was packed in a bamboo tube, that is, written on paper, it only needed to check the handwriting to know if it was Nie Xinrou's doing.
Things went unexpectedly well, and the evidence found from the assassin's body, whether it was tattoos, poison, or bamboo tubes with undeniable handwriting, were all ironclad evidence, none of which Nie Xinrou was allowed to deny, and any one of them could be convicted of Nie Xinrou's murder of killing her mother.
After Nie Xinyao's interrogation, she bowed to the empress, and then stepped aside. The empress had a calm face, looked at Nie Xinrou, and asked:
"Rou'er, I asked myself if I took you well, why did you do this?"
"Mother, the sons and daughters are not ...... Erchen is wronged......" Nie Xinrou panicked in her heart when she heard the empress's affirmative questioning, and then knelt down in front of the empress with a plop and opened her mouth to defend, "Erchen doesn't know why there are assassins, but the mother emperor, don't you think that what this assassin said, the evidence is all pointed to Erchen, isn't it too much of a ......coincidence? Everything was like it was arranged. ”
Nie Xinrou found another way, she couldn't come up with conclusive evidence that was not a refutation, so she could only play psychological tactics with the empress, wanting to shake the empress's suspicion of her through this method, and turn to suspect elsewhere.
"The Third Highness thinks this is a coincidence?Tattoos, poisons, secret letters, no matter which one they are, all represent the Three Princes' Mansion, you think this is a coincidence, then you want to tell me, who has such a great ability, can know the shape and texture of the tattoos of the people in your mansion, can also know the formula of the poison in their mouths, and can even imitate your handwriting and give orders to these people?" Commander Yun retorted.
Commander Yun has been an errand boy by the empress's side for many years, and has always been loyal and trusted by the empress, so her words have also attracted the empress's attention.
Because what Commander Yun said is reasonable, Nie Xinrou has always been delicate, and she has done things without leakage, and the reason why she has been able to stand tall in southern Xinjiang for so many years is precisely because of this caution. In this way, who can inquire about the affairs of the Three Kings' Mansion so clearly, and even put so much effort into framing her?
"Commander Yun thinks it can't be someone else?it must be the Third Highness?" Suddenly, Baolian spoke, "If I say that I did all these things, and the Three Imperial Maidens don't know about it, does Commander Yun think it's possible?"
When Nie Xinrou heard Baolian's words, she chuckled in her heart, and immediately understood that Baolian was taking the blame for her, and when she couldn't argue and had no conclusive evidence to prove her innocence, she had no choice but to abandon the car to protect her handsome.
Baolian is the person next to Nie Xinrou, she is the closest to Nie Xinrou, and she is also Nie Xinrou's confidant, she knows a lot of things and secrets about Nie Xinrou, and even many things in the Three Kings' Mansion are also ordered by Baolian to do them. Pick killers, tattoo tattoos on their arms, know the recipe for poisons, let these killers hide in their mouths to kill themselves, and even imitate Nie Xinrou's handwriting to give orders, if there is one person in this world who can do it, it must be Baolian.
"Mother Emperor, you have to believe me! It's really not Erchen's doing, Erchen doesn't know about it-" Nie Xinrou obeyed Baolian's words and said, "Baolian, I ask myself if I take you well, why do you want to do this to me? Your Majesty is my mother, why did you send someone to assassinate her?"
Baolian turned her head to look at Nie Xinrou, a complicated look flashed in her eyes, some relieved, but also a little sad, and said: "There is no reason, everything is just because of my own ambition, Your Highness is kind-hearted, and I never know what to fight for, if I can kill Your Majesty, and then support Your Highness to ascend to the throne, this southern Xinjiang is naturally in my hands." ”
Qingchen listened to Baolian's words and smiled, laughing very strangely.
Ambition. What a justifiable reason! I can't believe it, this Baolian is really loyal, while apologizing for Nie Xinrou, she even has to defend Nie Xinrou, saying that Nie Xinrou is kind-hearted, everything is controlled by her behind her back, if Nie Xinrou refuses to admit it again, then she really has nothing to say.
"Baolian, you ......" Nie Xinrou looked distressed, tears rolled down her face, sighed and shook her head, as if she couldn't bear it.
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(Tianjin)