An Lingrong's Rebirth: Red

Hu Xing and Zhou Ninghai came over very quickly, but Hu Xing did not immediately confess the truth as Zhen Huan said.

Only then did Xiao Shi realize that what Zhen Huan said about being prepared was actually a lie.

But he was now in a difficult situation and could no longer turn around and say that he had not murdered Xu Changzai.

"In reply to the Emperor and the Empress," Hu Xing knelt on the ground and kowtowed, "The palace wax and incense sent to Baohua Palace by the Ministry of Internal Affairs are all transported from outside the palace by the wax warehouse, and each batch has a fixed number.

Now Xiao Shi has framed me and Eunuch Zhou, and he just picked up half a candle and said it was soaked in musk. Naturally, I deny it.

I beg the Emperor and the Empress to help me, go to the wax storehouse outside the palace and conduct a thorough investigation to clear my name."

Hu Xing had been in the Imperial Household Department for a long time, so he became eloquent. He was not like Xiao Shi, who was long-winded and could not express a single sentence clearly for a long time.

The Queen and the Emperor looked at each other, and then ordered Su Peisheng to run outside the palace again to check the batch of candles delivered to Baohua Palace.

Su Peisheng had long been accustomed to being the errand boy, so he willingly accepted the task and ran out the door again.

“As for this Xiao Shi, I naturally recognize him. He is responsible for lighting incense and candles in Baohua Hall. These candles and incense must have been handed over to him.

I don't know when I offended Xiao Shi, but I am being framed like this."

I thought this was a simple case of poisoning, but I didn't expect it would take so much effort to investigate.

The queen sighed repeatedly in her heart, but since the emperor was still there, she had to cheer up and investigate the case seriously.

"Xiao Shi, what evidence do you have? You can show it to me and the emperor."

This was a trap set up by Zhen Huan and Xiao Shi. Xiao Shi had no evidence. The only thing he could do was to tell Hu Xing the time, place and content of their private meeting.

After all, this thing is true, and it sounds very real.

As a last resort, the Queen sent people to check whether Hu Xing had gone to Baohua Palace to meet Xiao Shi many times. After confirming the time and place one by one, she began to question Hu Xing how he wanted to explain.

"Empress, when I go to deliver incense and candles, I will naturally meet Xiao Shi frequently. Is there anything wrong with this?"

Hu Xing had a look of surprise on his face. He shook his head repeatedly and played the role of the poor framed man to perfection.

"Of course not! Because you only delivered the incense and candles to Baohua Temple once!"

Xiao Shi finally caught the handle in Hu Xing's words, and his eyes flashed with determination.

"The palace candles in Baohua Hall are different from those in other palaces. Because they are dedicated to the Buddha, each candle is individually wrapped in gold paper and carefully wound with golden silk thread.

In this way, the candles would look extra numerous because of the decorations. In addition, the quantity delivered was for a month, so Hu Xing had to carry two large boxes!

Hu Xing could hide himself, but the box is not so easy to hide. The guards guarding Baohua Palace and the guards patrolling the palace at night might see it. "

Hu Xing pretended to be calm. He was aware that he had not been seen by any third party, so he refused to admit Xiao Shi's testimony no matter what.

Helplessly, the Emperor and the Empress had to appoint someone to investigate what happened a long time ago. Fortunately, both the patrolling guards and the guards guarding the Baohua Palace were on duty, so it was not that difficult to investigate.

Before Su Peisheng came back, he found out that someone had indeed seen Hu Xing transport two large boxes of things to Baohua Hall.

"Even if someone saw it, there's no way to prove that the box contains incense and candles." Hu Xing did not give up. He knew that as long as he refused to admit what was in the box, the emperor and the empress would not be able to do anything to him.

These are the two most honorable masters in the world. They will not accuse themselves of a crime without any evidence.

Hu Xing refused to admit it. The most anxious person was Xiao Shi. When he saw Zhou Ninghai kneeling beside him, he mentioned him again, "It was Eunuch Zhou who told me before that he wanted to put musk candles in Baohua Hall, and he also gave me a lot of silver."

"Where's the silver? Is it still there?" The Queen patiently asked Xiao Shi, "Besides this, is there any other proof?"

It's just some silver, and it's hard to find out who gave it. After all, Zhou Ninghai's name would not be written on the silver. Besides, the silver that Nian promised to give was not only the monthly allowance from the palace, but also the silver sent by the Nian family.

Therefore, even if one flipped through the account books, it would be impossible to determine whether the money was the money that Nian had promised to send out of the palace.

This so-called evidence is better than nothing.

"I spent some of the silver, and most of it is stored in my residence."

The queen just nodded. It was possible to confiscate the silver, but the emperor was still there, so it was not a good idea to ask Xiao Shi to take out the silver.

Zhou Ninghai didn't even bother to look at Xiao Shi. He looked quite haggard, as if he was upset by Nian's promise. "The silver won't have my name on it. If Eunuch Xiao Shi uses this as evidence, I'm sorry I can't acknowledge it."

Now, Xiao Shi was at a loss. After all, what Zhou Ninghai said was true. This kind of thing could not be used as evidence unless their names were engraved on it.

The case came to a standstill for a while, and the people in the hall looked at each other, not knowing how to proceed with the investigation.

It's just that Xiao Shi murdered Xu Changzai, and if we don't get hung up on finding out what happened in the past, the case can be closed quickly.

Fortunately, Su Peisheng did not let the stalemate last too long. When Xu Chang was out of danger, he also rushed back from outside the palace.

Su Peisheng was breathing rapidly. He let out a long sigh and told everything he had found out at the Wax Storehouse.

It turned out that not long ago, someone had indeed ordered a batch of candles to be made, because the candles sent to Baohua Hall were broken during transportation, and the broken candles could not be lit in front of the Buddha, so a new batch was made.

"For this batch of candles, a man named Xie Xun expressed his willingness to take charge, so we gave them all to him for supervision."

Su Peisheng paused, then bowed and apologized to the emperor, "Please forgive me, Your Majesty. I interrogated Xie Xun without your permission."

"It's okay. We have to make decisions in an emergency." The emperor would not be angry about this matter. If he could find out the information immediately, he would naturally not delay asking.

"Thank you for your forgiveness, Your Majesty." Su Peisheng bowed again and continued to tell the news he had just learned, "Xie Xun admitted that he took the money from the Nian family and took the initiative to ask to make this batch of candles.

He put something given by the Nian family into the wax liquid - I asked someone to check, and it was exactly the musk that Xiao Shi mentioned.

Xie Xun has been brought into the palace by my servants, and the Emperor and the Empress can interrogate him at any time."

The emperor nodded and motioned Su Peisheng to go and rest aside.

Now that Xie Xun has confessed, there is no need for the Emperor and the Empress to go through the trouble of investigating the matter.

Zhou Ninghai, who had been silent for a long time, finally spoke and admitted that he was the one who did all this.

The reason was that Xu Chang often took away the favor of the empress, and she wanted to vent her anger for the empress.

This reason sounded so false that not only the Emperor and the Empress, but even Xiao Shi and Huanbi did not believe it.

"You are eager to protect your master."

The emperor twisted the beads in his hand and said these words with ambiguous meaning.

How could Zhou Ninghai dare to respond? All he wanted at this moment was to avoid implicating his queen in this matter, even if it meant losing his own life.

Huanbi was wiping her tears, and her slight sobbing soon attracted the attention of the emperor and the empress.

Seeing that everyone's eyes were focused on her, Huanbi slowly spoke, "Your Majesty, Queen, my young master has been living a hard life in Baohua Palace, and she has been plotted against by Nian, and I don't know what will happen to her body...

If you can no longer bear an heir to the throne, you will be heartbroken."

First, she used musk to kill people, and then used strychnine to kill people. Nian Shilan's methods were so cruel that the emperor couldn't help but feel frightened after hearing them.

But Nian Shilan is now mentally retarded, and she will not admit her mistakes no matter how much punishment is inflicted on her.

"I...will go see Concubine Xu first." After a long silence, the emperor finally gave the order, "Xiao Shi and Hu Xing, be beaten to death. Zhou Ninghai, be sent to the Ministry of Punishment."

Zhou Ninghai was the senior eunuch who had agreed to serve Nian. The emperor spared his life at this time simply because he wanted to find out more information about the Nian family.

After all, everything that Nian Shilan did was revealed by Concubine Li, so it doesn’t matter whether Zhou Ninghai can tell more about Nian Shilan.

Xiao Shi was dragged out by the guards screaming. He seemed to want to say something, but the guards blocked his mouth and took him directly out of Yongshou Palace.

Huanbi's heart was beating like a drum at this moment. Fortunately, the guard acted quickly enough, otherwise, if Xiao Shi found out that the poison was set up by the young master, she would be in trouble.

But the Queen was still there at this time. When she saw Huanbi's changing expression, she vaguely guessed what Zhen Huan was planning behind the scenes.

However, this game was aimed at Nian Shilan and would not threaten the Queen's position or interests. Therefore, the Queen did not expose it and pretended that she had not discovered it.

On the other side, the emperor came to Zhen Huan's bed. At this time, Zhen Huan had just been rescued from the gates of hell by Wen Shichu, and her face was pale, looking particularly fragile and pitiful.

When the emperor saw her like this, he immediately thought of Rouze who died of childbirth complications.

Equally pale and weak, equally dying.

Zhen Huan stretched out her hand tremblingly. Her weakness at this moment was not pretended, but something went wrong when she set up the trap, and she really drank the tea containing strychnine.

But she knew very well that she had not prepared the poison at all, and it was impossible for her to drink it by mistake.

Now it seems that the only possibility is that someone took advantage of my setting up the trap and put poison in it, hoping to make the fake become real and take my life.

Who is this person, is it Xiao Shi, Xiao Li, or Tang Di?

"Doctor Wen, how is Concubine Xu doing now?"

The emperor held Zhen Huan's hand, which was cold and boneless, as if it would slip away from his hand in the next second.

"In reply to the emperor, Concubine Xu was poisoned after drinking tea containing strychnine.

But fortunately, the amount he drank was small, and I treated him in time, so Xu Changzai is no longer in danger.

If it had been a little later, I’m afraid we would have been separated forever.”

Wen Shichu hesitated for a moment. He could see that the emperor was shocked, so he decided to take this opportunity to tell him what Concubine Xu had instructed him to do.

"Your Majesty, when I felt Xu Changzai's pulse, I found that Xu Changzai seemed to have been injured by musk.

Xu Chang's body was already damaged by a miscarriage in her early years, and she was also affected by Musk. If she doesn't adjust properly, I'm afraid it will hinder her from having children in the future."

When Zhen Huan heard this, she shuddered violently, her tears fell down, and her face looked extremely pitiful and helpless.

She sobbed quietly, and her shoulders shook like a butterfly with wet wings in the rain.

Although the emperor did not like her as much as when she entered the palace, he still felt sorry for her when he saw how pitiful she looked.

He held Zhen Huan's hand tightly and softened his voice to comfort her, "Don't worry, didn't Imperial Doctor Wen say that you just need to rest and recuperate.

Huanhuan, we will still have children in the future."

"If, if I can't get pregnant," Zhen Huan's voice was weak and intermittent so that the emperor couldn't hear clearly, "Huan Huan wanted to have a child with the emperor so much, but it was a pity that I had a miscarriage first and then someone else's conspiracy damaged my foundation.

Today… today I almost lost my life. If Imperial Doctor Wen had come a little later, Huan Huan would never have seen the Emperor again."

Zhen Huan could no longer hold back her tears. She held the Emperor's hand and placed it on the side of her face, her tears soaking the back of the Emperor's hand.

Her voice was sobbing, and her cries of self-blame continued to worry the emperor.

"You suffered."

The emperor also knew that any kind of comfort would be pale and powerless at this moment. He could only hold Zhen Huan's hand tightly, as if he wanted to pass on the warmth of his body.

"Your Majesty... who on earth is so vicious that he wants to murder me?"

Zhen Huan gradually stopped talking. She sobbed and asked the Emperor the answer which she already knew.

"It has just been interrogated and it turns out that he is Zhou Ninghai from Yikun Palace."

"Zhou Ninghai? Why doesn't the emperor want to tell you the name of that bitch?"

Zhen Huan's fingers were trembling. She couldn't understand why the emperor was covering up for Nian Shilan when she had done so many wrong things.

"Yes," the emperor nodded, "but Zhou Ninghai took all the responsibility."

Zhen Huan's tone was full of disappointment, and her tears flowed even more fiercely, "But it was Nian Shilan who did the wrong thing. Your Majesty, Your Majesty, won't you seek justice for Huan Huan?"

"I know all your grievances. But now that Ying-yi has become stupid, I really don't know how to punish her for the moment."

Zhen Huan was stunned. Could Nian Shilan escape the blame just because she was stupid? What if she was pretending to be stupid? Why couldn't she atone for her mistakes?

However, because of false charges, he was demoted and confined to his room, and suffered hardships in Yongshou Palace and Baohua Palace.

"The crime of lifting up one's hair to atone for one's sin is too much. How can Nian Shilan's crime be explained in just a few words?"

Zhen Huan cried and shook off the emperor's hand. She could not accept the emperor's decision not to deal with Nian Shilan immediately. "My child was killed by this Nian, and his body was almost destroyed.

If the emperor really cared about me, why would he hesitate and refuse to sentence that bitch to death immediately? "