Comprehensive film and television: Queen Queen uses her beauty to commit crimes

"Liu Zhu!!!!"

Huanbi's cry made Zhen Huan turn around suddenly.

What caught her eyes was once again the tragic sight of her servants being splattered with blood.

"Liu Zhu..."

Zhen Huan was too weak to stand up at this moment. She stood there in a daze, and suddenly found it extremely difficult to breathe.

Tears fell from her eyes. Liu Zhu had grown up with her since she was a child, and now... it was also because of her young age...

"How could it be, how could it be..."

Yinzhen did not comfort Zhen Huan in public, he just urged someone to clean up.

The palace maids in Suiyuxuan were spared the trouble of going to the Ministry of Punishment because of Liuzhu's sudden suicide.

Coincidentally, when the palace servants used water to clean the bloodstains at the door, the people who went to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to investigate also came back.

"Your Majesty, Jiang Zhongmin, the chief steward of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, has arrived."

With the emperor's consent, Jiang Zhongmin entered the hall.

"Your Majesty, I have something to report.

I heard from the Imperial Guards that the arson cases of Suiyuxuan and Yikun Palace involved "oil", so I immediately conducted a thorough investigation of the expenditures in the past two months.

Lan Zhen from Shoukang Palace received a whole quarter's supply of hair oil and rapeseed seeds for cooking in the small kitchen half a month ago.

The auspiciousness of Yanqing Hall provided the Buddhist temple with lamp oil for half a year.

Three days ago, Xiao Yunzi from Suiyuxuan received osmanthus oil, flower dew oil, and tea oil, and also used silver to buy a few barrels of rapeseed seeds. "

On the way, Jiang Zhongmin naturally learned that Xiao Yunzi was the perpetrator of the murder. He was filled with fear and anxiety. He kowtowed to Yinzhen and explained himself,

"I was a little curious about what he was going to do with these things, and Xiao Yunzi replied that he wanted to make something special to please Concubine Wan and asked me not to tell anyone...

I hope Your Majesty will blame me. It was my negligence that caused such a disaster.

This is the money that Xiao Yunzi used to buy rapeseed. It was eighteen taels in total. I paid the price in the palace and I did not take a penny of it.

Please understand, Your Majesty."

Although Jiang Zhongmin admitted his mistake, palace rules allowed palace servants to use money to buy some exceptional but not inappropriate items.

After all, they are rich people and they want to live a better life, so how can that be wrong?

It was just two barrels of oil, and she received many kinds of hair oil for the queen to comb her hair and dress up. In anyone's eyes, it was a normal thing.

Seeing Jiang Zhongmin's sincere attitude and his honest attitude, Yinzhen only gave him a symbolic salary deduction and beat him with twenty boards.

Jiang Zhongmin's words revealed a lot of information.

The Empress Dowager was in Shoukang Palace, and Concubine Duan was in Yanqing Palace.

Concubine Duan, who was named at the scene, felt her heart skip a beat for unknown reason. With her long experience in palace fighting, she also had an ominous premonition.

At this time, Yinzhen ordered Su Peisheng, "Go check."

And soon, in less than the time it took to stick of incense, the result came.

After receiving the report from the young eunuch, Su Peisheng's face couldn't help but turn ugly.

He bent over tightly, suppressed his fear, and reported to Yinzhen,

"Your Majesty...

There is no lamp oil left in the Buddhist hall of Yanqing Palace, and Lan Zhen of Shoukang Palace... was just found, she fell into the water and drowned. "

The dead Lan Zhen couldn't come, but Jixiang was standing behind Concubine Duan.

The deaths of Xiao Yunzi and Liu Zhu were still vivid in his mind. Jixiang suddenly knelt down in front of Yinzhen and kowtowed, begging for mercy.

"Your Majesty! I didn't know! I didn't know! I got the lamp oil and put it under the shrine in the small Buddhist temple!"

Yinzhen looked at Su Peisheng, and Su Peisheng shook his head, indicating that he had already searched and there was nothing under the shrine.

At this time, Concubine Qi, who had been sitting for a long time, could not understand the excitement in front of her, but she felt that she understood Concubine Duan's auspicious matter.

She looked at Jixiang, puzzled and jokingly asked,

"Could it be that there are rats in the Yanqing Palace that are specifically stealing lamp oil?"

"It was such a coincidence that the lamp oil was lost."

These words made Jixiang feel as if he had fallen into an icy cave and was at a loss.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, I am innocent!!!"

Looking at Concubine Qi who was making sarcastic remarks, looking at Yinzhen who was frowning and saying nothing at the top, and looking at Jixiang who was so panicked that he had nowhere to cry to, Concubine Duan suddenly understood how Zhen Huan felt before.

There is no such thing as true empathy unless you experience it yourself.

Concubine Duan stood up with the help of the handrail, and also knelt beside Jixiang, and explained to Yinzhen in a weak tone,

“Your Majesty, it was indeed me who asked Jixiang to go to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to get the lamp oil half a month ago.

But it has always been like this in Yanqing Palace, receiving profit share only twice a year, once for half a year.

I am not feeling well, and I don't want the palace maids to toss me around, and it has been like this for years."

The Ministry of Internal Affairs will record all of these.

If she really wants to investigate further, she is not afraid of getting into trouble.

However, this still cannot clear Jixiang of suspicion.

If the lamp oil was really stolen by thieves and used to burn the Yikun Palace or Suiyuxuan, then auspiciousness... would be over.

Concubine Duan suddenly felt a sense of powerlessness.

Who on earth is so scary?

The first move is a killing move, making it impossible to defend against.

Where did she get the manpower, and how could she arrange so many coincidences?

She just used the lamp oil this morning!

Yinzhen, who was sitting at the top, nodded and did not question Concubine Duan's words.

Over the years, he has seen Concubine Duan's low profile and frail health.

She had always been like this when she was in the palace. She didn't like the hustle and bustle, nor did she like fighting with others.

These slaves and servants are in collusion with each other, and their high-ranking masters cannot detect it at all.

He never expected that this was the case during the reign of the previous emperor, and it would still be the same when he was in power.

When Xiao Yunzi was brought up by the imperial guards and they had a verbal conflict, he had already made up his mind.

The investigation by the Imperial Guards also yielded results.

"Your Majesty, I have brought the statements of the coroner and officials.

After three quarters of an hour of investigation, the adults unanimously came to the following conclusion.

A large amount of lamp oil and rapeseed seeds were poured into the Yikun Palace. Lamp oil is a combustion-promoting agent, so the fire in the Yikun Palace was so unstoppable.

The "flower oil flavor" mentioned by Commander Jin Jia in Sui Yuxuan is actually the aroma of osmanthus oil, floral dew oil and some rapeseed oil from Brassica rapa.

The fire in Suiyuxuan started from the inside out, from the warm room in the side hall, with two arson points, the warm room and the main hall.

The fire at Yikun Palace has just been put out, and the ruins are too smokey and too hot, so a detailed investigation has not yet been conducted."

The dispatch of all items in the palace is recorded.

At this moment, even if he didn't send anyone to Shoukang Palace to investigate, Yinzhen knew that the small kitchen in Shoukang Palace had run out of oil.

Now that the criminals are caught red-handed, it doesn't matter whether these slaves confess or not.

Even if he was sent to the Ministry of Punishment, he would probably die soon.

Just like the palace maid named Lan Zhen.

Any witnesses who might be suspected of being the mastermind behind the incident have long been silenced.

What are you still sitting here reviewing?

Should we punish Concubine Duan, or Concubine Wan and Noble Lady Shen?

They were just scapegoats chosen by the real culprit who manipulated the bondservants.