Reborn as King again

Xia Zhiyuan kept arguing that he and Xia Jin were pure siblings and had not committed any unruly behavior, but there was a person who testified against Ruolan.

The queen mother also became more and more confused. Didn't Xia Zhiyuan say that Jia Liang was an adulterer?Why is it being bitten back now?In any case, she did not believe that Xia Zhiyuan would do such an outrageous thing.

The queen mother asked: "Ruolan, besides Yuan Ronghua, have you seen anyone else in Xia Jin's courtyard?"

Ruolan pointed at Xia Zhiyuan and shook her head.

Seeing this, Jia Wanru asked, "Do you mean to say that during the time you have been serving Jincai, you have only seen Yuan Ronghua come?"

Ruolan nodded vigorously, and Jia Wanru said what she wanted to express in one word.

"No! It's not like that! It's not like that! Ruolan was just blinded by superficial phenomena!" Xia Zhiyuan was a little incoherent, but he didn't know how to refute.

Jia Liang saw that the situation was getting more and more favorable to him, so he cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty, the Empress Dowager, as the captain of the Imperial Forest Army, how can I do something that endangers the palace and my concubines? What happened to Jin Cairen?" The official didn't know anything from the beginning to the end, and everything was just Yuan Ronghua's side story!" Jia Liang knew that Xia Zhiyuan had no evidence to prove his affair with Xia Jin, and the only people who knew about it were Aunt An Qing and the palace maid besides Xia Jin and Xia Zhiyuan. Chunjuan, but now that Xia Jin, Aunt Anqing, and Chunjuan are all dead, Xia Zhiyuan's words alone are not convincing at all.As for the new maid Ruolan, Jia Liang must thank Xia Zhiyuan. After he killed Chunjuan, Xia Zhiyuan stopped him from going to Xia Jin, saying that he was afraid that he would be discovered too often, so if Lan has never met Jia Liang.

Jia Wanru also excused Jia Liang: "Your Majesty, my concubine's elder brother is loyal to the Lord. He was really wronged. You must trust my concubine!" Looking at me, with a look of being wronged but not daring to say more, if it were me in the previous life, I would definitely feel distressed and compromise on this, Jia Wanru says what she says, and I can forgive her for anything wrong, Who taught me to love her?

It's a pity that I'm no longer the fatuous emperor who loved Jia Wanru to death. In my opinion, her showing weakness and grievance is just a way to fight for favor and supremacy.But I am still facing her, the higher I hold her, the harder I fall!

But I still have to pamper her on the surface, so I quickly said with distress: "Concubine Wan, don't cry, I didn't say that your elder brother was guilty, I have to investigate this matter slowly." Jia Wanru who was on the ground helped her up.

Seeing that I had compromised so much for a concubine, the queen mother was very angry: "What are you investigating slowly?! Don't you suspect Yuan'er? If Yuan'er is an adulterer, why did he jump out and make us suspect?"

"Mother, I have been married to Concubine Wan for ten years. I believe in her, so don't make things difficult for her anymore." For Jia Wanru, I got into a fight with my mother. I did this in my previous life. Through the heart of the queen mother, but this life is just acting, I glanced at Xia Zhiyuan from the corner of my eye, he was kneeling there in despair, but there was a hint of pride in his lowered eyes.

"Emperor! You are so mad and mournful!" The queen mother was beating her chest, a little out of breath.

At this time, a young eunuch came in and said: "Your Majesty, the imperial physician Ruan Tao is asking to see you."

"Xuan."

"Yes."

Then Ruan Tao came in and saluted us.

I didn't want to irritate my mother any more, so I changed the subject and asked Ruan Tao, "Why did Imperial Doctor Ruan ask to see you?"

Ruan Tao was stunned for a moment, not understanding what I meant: "Your Majesty, didn't you just order to go to the Imperial Hospital to find an imperial doctor to examine the corpse of a court lady in the mortuary?"

After being reminded by Ruan Tao, I realized that I had indeed sent Wanfu to do this, so I asked, "Then what is the result of your inspection?"

Ruan Tao replied: "It is written in the mortuary's roster that the palace lady named Chunjuan died due to wind and cold entering her body, but when Wei Chen inspected the corpse, he found that there were obvious strangle marks on the neck of the corpse. The real cause of death of this palace lady should be was strangled to death."

After listening to Ruan Tao's answer, Xia Zhiyuan seemed to see hope, and quickly said: "Your Majesty, I'm right, Chunjuan was strangled to death, and the one who strangled her was Jia Liang!"

"Your majesty, no, this can at best mean that the court lady died unexpectedly." Jia Wanru also argued: "Maybe she was strangled to death by Jin Cairen or Yuan Ronghua, it has nothing to do with my eldest brother."

I didn't answer Jia Wanru's words, and continued to ask Ruan Tao: "What do you think?"

Ruan Tao glanced at Xia Zhiyuan, and then said truthfully: "Your Majesty, according to what I see, the court lady should not be the victim of Yuan Ronghua, and as for Jincai, it should be even less likely."

"Why is that?" I asked.

Ruan Tao explained in detail: "The palace lady is taller than ordinary women, and she can tell at a glance that she usually does physical work. When I checked the autopsy, I found that the palace lady's throat had been cut, and according to the pinch on the neck Judging from the scars, it was broken with one hand. I think Yuan Ronghua's body and bones should not have that strength."

I said, "You mean the murderer knows martial arts?"

Ruan Tao thought for a while and said: "Not necessarily, I guess that the person who strangled the palace lady should be an adult man. It's hard to say whether he has martial arts skills, but he must be a powerful person. At least he can twist others with one hand. neck."

Xia Zhiyuan looked at Ruan Tao gratefully: "Your Majesty, this proves that I didn't kill people."

Jia Liang's complexion was a bit ugly, he didn't expect Chunjuan's body was still in the palace, let alone that I would conduct an autopsy, but he quickly calmed down, and said: "Your Majesty, this only means that Yuan Ronghua didn't do it himself. To kill that maid, maybe he bought someone else to do it?"

"I didn't!" Xia Zhiyuan said bitterly: "You killed the person clearly, why don't you admit it? I buy people? Who do I buy? This palace is either a maid or a eunuch. Who would have the strength to cut off someone's death with one hand? Throat?"

Jia Liang was speechless by Xia Zhiyuan's questioning, he felt a little uneasy, and felt that something was wrong, as if he had been caught in a certain circle since a long time ago.

I suddenly thought of Doctor Wu who prescribed fake medicines for Xia Jin. Didn't he also die unexpectedly? I'm afraid it was also Jia Liang's poisonous hands.I asked, "Yuan Yu, are you familiar with Yu Yu Wu who died before?"

Ruan Tao didn't quite understand why I suddenly changed the subject, but he still replied: "It's okay, everyone is a colleague on duty at the Supreme Hospital."

I said, "Then did any strange things happen before Doctor Wu died?"

"Probably not. I usually work in the Imperial Hospital, or go out to see a doctor," Ruan Tao recalled, "But before Dr. Wu Yu died, he had a lot of money, and he suddenly became rich. I remember that Dr. Wu was a bit gambler." , I owe some gambling debts, and I paid off all the gambling debts a while ago, and invited a few well-connected imperial doctors in the imperial hospital to drink during the rest day."

"Do you know where he got that money?" I glanced at Jia Liang, his hands were clenched into fists, trembling a little.

Ruan Tao said lightly: "It should be given by Captain Jia Liang Jia."

"You are planting and framing!" Jia Liang stared at Ruan Tao viciously: "Have you been bribed? I am not related to Wu Yuyi, so why give him money? Wu Yuyi is dead , and you can’t help talking nonsense!”

"I didn't talk nonsense," Ruan Tao still looked flattered, "Actually, Imperial Physician Wu has two hobbies, one is gambling, and the other is alcoholism. Every time he gets drunk, he will talk nonsense. When he wakes up, he will forget about it, it’s not a secret in the Imperial Hospital.” Ruan Tao looked at me and said, “Didn’t Weichen just say that after Wu Yufu got rich, he bought a few imperial doctors to drink? I was there at the time, and I remember that at the restaurant, an imperial physician jokingly asked Imperial Physician Wu if he had better gambling luck recently, so please drink if you have money. , The reward given after the completion, the emperor, I did not lie, the imperial physician who accompanied Wu Yuyi to drink that day was not the only one, you can announce other imperial doctors, they can all testify."

I didn't speak, just looked at Jia Liang to see if he had anything to explain, and sure enough, Jia Liang immediately said, "Your Majesty, Imperial Physician Ruan also said that Imperial Physician Wu said that when he was drunk, he would give him money. You can't believe what this man said when he was drunk, the officer has nothing to do with the imperial doctor, he was talking nonsense after drinking too much!"

Jia Wanru also spoke for him: "Your Majesty, please trust my elder brother, he can't bribe the imperial doctor, let alone kill someone!"

Xia Zhiyuan looked at Jia Liang's pale defense with cold eyes. He knew that the time was ripe and it was time to give them the final blow.Thinking of this, Xia Zhiyuan immediately put on a look of suddenly thinking of something, as if he had caught the light of hope, he quickly raised his head and said: "Your Majesty, Weichen... Weichen thought of something, it was sister Jin who told me before. passed."

"What's the matter?" I knew how Xia Zhiyuan could be defeated so easily.

Xia Zhiyuan pointed to Jia Liang and said, "I remember that Sister Jin once told me about Jia Liang. She said that when Jia Liang first forced her, she resisted desperately. When she couldn't break free, she reached out and pulled out the hairpin on her head. He stabbed at Jia Liang, but Jia Liang dodged very quickly at that time. He was not stabbed, but a wound was drawn on his chest. Because the wound was deep, there was a scar. Your majesty, if you don’t believe me If so, let Jia Liang take off his coat and look at his chest."

Jia Liang could no longer maintain the expression on his face. He didn't expect Xia Zhiyuan to know such a secret thing, and he stuttered a little: "The emperor...the emperor, I have scars on my body, but the scars are micro-scars. The minister accidentally got injured while practicing martial arts, and the minister is a martial artist, and he often goes topless with his brothers, so... so many people know that the minister has an injury on his chest, which... doesn't explain anything. "

"You are so arrogant!" The queen mother, who had been listening and not speaking, finally couldn't help but cursed: "You are an adulterer! How dare you frame others?! The maid was killed by you, you said it was Yuan'er, imperial doctor You bought it off, you said he was talking nonsense after drinking, you were obviously hurt by Xia Jin, but you said that you were hurt by practicing martial arts, Xia Jin, a woman in the palace, how could she know where the scars on your body are? Unless You undress in front of him!"

Jia Liang couldn't justify anything anymore, because what the queen mother said was true and everything was exposed.Everything was fine at first, even if Xia Jin was arrested, as long as she didn't confess, no one would have thought that he would be the one who dealt with it, but Xia Zhiyuan came forward and told everything. Since Xia Zhiyuan betrayed him, He would not make Xia Zhiyuan feel better, so he simply pushed everything on Xia Zhiyuan, and his younger sister Jia Wanru helped to fuel the flames. Seeing that Xia Jin was about to be convicted, why did so many things happen suddenly? Pointing the finger at yourself? !Jia Liang raised his head and saw Xia Zhiyuan's slightly upturned mouth, revealing a sarcastic and triumphant smile. Jia Liang suddenly realized that this was all Xia Zhiyuan's plan? !

Everything was clear, so I asked seriously, "Jia Liang, what else do you have to say?"

Jia Liang resigned to his fate, he had nothing to say and could only use silence instead.

I sighed deeply, and asked in a disappointed tone: "Why did you frame Yuan Ronghua just now?"

Jia Liang still didn't answer, is there any point in saying this?They were doomed anyway.

I was just about to ask someone to drag Jia Liang down, but was interrupted by the queen mother: "Emperor, don't worry, we have to catch this matter carefully. Covering it up so tightly, Ai's family had never heard of any news before. If Concubine Wen and Concubine Liu's medicines hadn't been accidentally changed, it would have been impossible to find out. According to what Ai's family saw, Jia Liang alone How could he manage things so well in the palace? There must be someone behind him to help! Are you right, Concubine Wan?" The queen mother looked at Jia Wanru coldly.

Jia Wanru was really wronged this time. She shook her head and cried and said: "Mother, this has nothing to do with the concubine. The concubine doesn't even know that Jincai is pregnant. I didn't help me hide it. Empress, please You are aware!"

"You didn't help Jia Liang?" The queen mother said mockingly: "Then who just sang with Jia Liang and sang the oboe, trying to put everything on Yuan'er's head?!"

Jia Liang couldn't watch his own sister being hurt by him. When he knew that Xia Jin was pregnant with his child, he planned to hide it from Jia Wanru. Otherwise, with Jia Wanru's behavior, he would definitely not keep that child. He is in his 30s After all, a woman finally got pregnant with her own child. Even if she was a concubine, she had to take the risk to let her give birth. He wanted to leave a queen for himself!Jia Liang explained: "Your Majesty, the Empress Dowager, this has nothing to do with my sister, she doesn't know anything, she didn't give me advice and help me arrange things."

"It's not her? Who is that?" The queen mother asked back.Besides Jia Wanru, who else in the harem will help Jia Liang.

Jia Liang gritted his teeth and said everything: "It was Yuan Ronghua, and Yuan Ronghua planned it for me. He told me that Chunjuan wanted to inform me, so I killed Chunjuan, and he told me Doctor Wu is a gambler and often has no money to gamble on, so he asked me to buy him with money, and Xiao Gao, the eunuch who brews medicine from the Royal Pharmacy, was also asked by Yuan Ronghua to threaten me with his family's life."

"You're talking nonsense! You're trying to frame me again!" Xia Zhiyuan cried to his mother aggrievedly: "Aunt, don't listen to his nonsense. It wasn't Chunjuan who I asked Jia Liang to kill. What kind of imperial doctor, imperial pharmacy eunuch? I don't know him at all. If he listened to me like that, I knew he had defiled Sister Jin back then, and I scolded him to let him die. Why didn't he die? Aunt, me, woo..."

After listening to Xia Zhiyuan's words, the queen mother nodded her head and comforted him: "Yuan'er, it's okay, your aunt will make the decision for you!" Then the queen mother sternly said: "Jia Liang, you are so courageous, you have repeatedly slandered the concubines in the harem, you started off to get rid Sin, say that Yuan'er is an adulterer, and now things have come to light, in order to protect your sister Concubine Wan, you actually want to slander Yuan'er?! How can Aijia let you do what you want?!"

Jia Liang really couldn't explain it clearly, and he realized that this was all planned by Xia Zhiyuan, and he wanted to use his sister as a scapegoat!

The queen mother asked me urgently: "Imperial son, what do you think about this matter? Are you going to let Concubine Wan go?"

I looked at Jia Wanru in complete disappointment, but my heart couldn't stop laughing, Jia Wanru, you still have today, being tricked by an unfavored concubine, you underestimate the enemy!I couldn't help but think in my heart, how should I torture her?It's fun to take your time.

Jia Wanru looked desperate: "Your Majesty, you don't believe me?"

I also had a very hurt expression: "How do you make me believe you?" Who told you to be aggressive just now to help Jia Liang, if you used your brain and kept silent, Xia Zhiyuan could drag you into the water?

Tears welled up in Jia Wanru's eyes, as if her heart ached like a knife, "I didn't, I really didn't help my brother hide it, I didn't know about it from the beginning to the end."

"If you didn't know, why would you help Jia Liang insist that Yuan Ronghua is an adulterer?" I said, "If you didn't block the news, how could Xia Jin's pregnancy be discovered now?"

Jia Wanru shook her head vigorously, grabbed the hem of my clothes and said, "I didn't, I didn't block the news, I was also kept from it, I really didn't do anything!"

"Concubine Wan, you have let me down so much!" I shook off Jia Wanru's hand and shouted towards the door, "Come on, drag Jia Liang to me, and cut off his position as captain of the Imperial Forest Army. , cut in half at the Meridian Gate!"

The author has something to say: Regarding the issue of how to deal with the dead body of the palace lady who died for five months, let me explain first~ In ancient times, the death of a palace lady was always cremated, but for the sake of the plot, let her lie down first. But among the people, if someone dies In a foreign land, the corpses have to return to their roots, so they are all placed in Yizhuang, waiting for family members to collect them. In ancient times, news was blocked, and many corpses had to wait for a long time before they were claimed, so some embalming work would generally be done.

Here I will open the gold finger a little bit, so that the maid looks like she was put in Yizhuang for embalming.