Huanzhuzhirong's room

This was the first time Rong Siji went to Concubine Shu's Yongshou Palace. Concubine Shu called Rong Siji while sitting on the kang.

"I don't know what's the important thing for the Empress to let Nanny Rong come to the palace?" Concubine Shu's voice was very soft and sweet, which was very pleasant to hear.In Nanny Rong's memory, this Concubine Shu didn't cause much trouble, and she could be regarded as a master who kept her duty.Her clothes today are also very clean, Rong Siji's favor has improved a lot when he saw it.Rong Siji always thought that if he wanted to find a girlfriend, he should look for someone like Concubine Shu, who was attractive and gentle.

"Empress Concubine Shu, Empress Empress let Zhixia go over there."

As soon as these words came out, Zhixia's complexion became a little bad.She looked at Concubine Shu timidly, hoping that Concubine Shu could save her.

Concubine Shu was holding the Buddha beads in her hands. In the past few years, she has also started to follow Lafayette's approach to Buddha. On the one hand, it can shorten the distance with Lafayette, and on the other hand, it can also calm her heart.

Concubine Shu tentatively asked: "Did Zhixia do something wrong?"

The empress meant that she wanted to investigate the matter calmly. The reason why the empress didn't call Concubine Shu immediately was because she wanted to save face for everyone before the matter was investigated clearly.Rong Siji just said: "Ms. Concubine Shu, the empress is still waiting in the palace."

When Zhixia heard this, her complexion became even worse.

Concubine Shu could tell that Rong Siji didn't want to tell her the truth, but she called Zhixia for no reason, there must be something important, and it's really hard to guess what the important thing is.

"Then Zhixia will go to Kunning Palace with Mother Rong." After finishing speaking, Concubine Shu turned her head and said to Zhixia with a downcast face: "When you are in front of the empress, you can answer whatever the empress asks. Do you know?"

There was a bit of majesty in the soft voice, Rong Siji looked at Shu Fei's fair face with flushed cheeks, and suddenly wanted to laugh.

Inside the Kunning Palace, the empress sat on the kang with a serious expression, and the court lady Zhixia knelt on the ground, her face pale.

"Is this hairpin from Concubine Shu's Palace?"

Zhixia took the hairpin handed over by Nanny Rong with both hands, took a closer look, and closed her pupils: "If you go back to your mother, this hairpin does not belong to our mother. Last time, your mother accidentally dropped the jewelry-encrusted squirrel hairpin on the ground. The hairpin on it After the pearl fell, it was kept in the house, and no one was asked to set it."

"really?"

Zhixia hurriedly kowtowed and replied: "Your Majesty, slaves dare not lie, this matter is absolutely true, this hairpin is placed on your Majesty's dressing table.

The queen smiled lightly, noncommittal, but the fear on Zhixia's face grew a bit more.

Rong Siji sighed secretly in his heart, is this a psychological warfare?

"I heard your name is Zhixia?"

"If you go back to your mother, the maidservant is called Zhixia."

The corners of the queen's eyes slightly raised, and the brilliance dimmed: "Do you know Xiao Cui?"

"Xiao Cui grew up outside the palace with her servants since she was a child, so she knows her."

The queen sneered: "Xiao Cui usually keeps her duty, but after meeting you yesterday, she came back very strange. She was dug up from the lake this morning. I think this matter is the same as yours. related."

Rong Siji was sweating, the queen actually polished up the story, and at the same time Rong Siji was also staring at Zhixia's face intently, for fear of missing her expression.

Zhixia's eyes were full of fear, her whole body trembled, and finally she couldn't help crying: "Your Majesty, yesterday Xiaocui asked me to poison our empress, saying that it was the queen, you ordered her to come and ask me to poison our empress, saying After the incident was completed, the maidservant was honored and honored, but Concubine Shu treated the maidservant very well, but the maidservant refused to agree, so she had a dispute with Xiaocui. Afterwards, the maidservant returned to the palace, and the maidservant really did not know about Xiaocui jumping into the lake."

The queen only grasped a sentence: "Is this palace sending her? This is really ridiculous."

Zhixia trembled, her words were obviously to blame the queen, but it was a fact, a fact, "I don't know either, it was Xiaocui who said it, and my servant doesn't know anything."

Nala said coldly: "Delay it, and send a few more people to interrogate her properly."

Zhixia shouted and was taken down.

The empress sighed while holding her forehead: "Nurse Rong, if the maid's words are true, then it seems that someone wants to put the blame on me."

Rong Siji also felt that it was not that simple.The matter of the hairpin, the queen can find out by going to Concubine Shu's Palace, so from this point of view, there is no need for Zhixia to lie about the hairpin.But Xiao Cui also said that the queen sent Xiao Cui to ask her to kill Concubine Shu, which was obviously someone who set the blame.Rong Siji only thought of two possibilities, either Concubine Shu colluded with Zhixia to blame the queen.Either Xiaocui told Zhixia on purpose.No matter what, if the emperor and others ask about it, the suspicion will be transferred to the empress.

Right now, the only thing that can prove the queen's innocence is the hairpin.

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If Concubine Shu's hairpin was not lost, then it might be Concubine Qing, and the Empress couldn't sit still anymore, so she got up and led Rong Siji to Concubine Qing's palace.

At that time, Concubine Qing was smelling the flowers and plants in the yard, and the scene of the beauty sniffing the flowers was quite beautiful.Rong Siji murmured in his heart, when Concubine Qing confronted Concubine Ling last time, she was very fierce, and she never expected to have such a peaceful appearance.It seems that the concubines in this palace are not so good-looking.

Concubine Qing greeted the Empress, and the Empress and Concubine Qing sat on the stone bench in the courtyard and talked. The flowers beside them were blooming beautifully, clustered together densely, and the fragrance of flowers wafted in the wind from time to time, which was refreshing.

The queen didn't beat around the bush, she told about the hairpin she found in Xiaocui, and said, "So I want to see your hairpin, Concubine Qing."

Concubine Qing's face instantly turned green: "The hairpin of my concubine disappeared a few days ago."

The queen squinted, and the phoenix eyes said with a smile: "Concubine Qing, both Ben Gong and Concubine Shu are here, but yours is not here."

These words were full of suspicion, Concubine Qing hurriedly opened her mouth to defend: "This concubine really doesn't know Xiao Cui, this concubine is innocent."

The queen sighed: "Even if I believe you, will the emperor believe you?"

Obviously the emperor only believes in evidence...

Concubine Qing's face was ashen, and she gave a wry smile a few times, how can she explain everything in the harem with just one mouth, if it is possible, then there is no need to fight.

Doctor Wang from the imperial hospital also sent a letter, saying that the poison was the poison in the bowl of bird's nest that Rongmao Rong gave last time, and Zhixia still kept the same confession.

Inside the Kunning Palace, the Empress glanced at the jade hairpin sent by Concubine Shu herself, and laughed a few times in her heart: "Why did this matter spread so fast, it was spread to Concubine Shu's Yongshou Palace all at once."

Rong Siji was listening and knew that the Queen's words were doubting Concubine Shu. He had just told the Queen that he had not disclosed this matter to Concubine Shu, but Concubine Shu sent the hairpin herself.The empress's words were to suspect that Concubine Shu had planted someone in Kunning Palace.

Concubine Shu also knew what the empress meant, and smiled: "Empress, Zhixia was just called by the empress, and the concubine was also very panicked, so naturally she sent someone to inquire. On the way, the little eunuch in the concubine's palace came If you meet someone in Concubine Qing's Palace, you will know just by asking."

The queen chuckled softly: "It seems that this palace is being overwhelmed. Nanny Rong is going to make a pot of tea for Concubine Shu."

Rong Siji responded and went out. Concubine Shu might not believe what she said, given the queen's temperament.But Concubine Shu really dares to act and speak!

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In this matter, most people think that Xiao Cui belongs to Concubine Qing, and Concubine Qing gave Xiao Cui a hairpin, asking Xiao Cui to help harm others.But what Rong Siji couldn't figure out was that Zhixia said that the queen ordered Xiaocui to poison Concubine Shu. After thinking about it, she should be setting the blame.

When this matter reached Qianlong's ears, Qianlong was also angry and sent someone to investigate the matter thoroughly.But after checking and checking, Xiao Cui is dead, so it is difficult to find out thoroughly.

Then the hairpin of Xiao Cui is that of Concubine Qing, and the two of them are probably in the same group.And the poison in Xiaocui's room cleared the queen's suspicion, so the queen would poison Nanny Rong?No one would believe this, not even Qianlong.

Moreover, the empress so blatantly asked Xiaocui to find Concubine Shu's maid to harm someone, which was full of flaws, and Qianlong didn't believe it.Then the most suspicious person is Concubine Qing. It's not good where Concubine Qing's hairpin appeared, it only appeared in Xiaocui's place.

As for whether Xiaocui was killed by concubine Qing or committed suicide, that is no longer important.

Concubine Qing was crying like pear blossoms and raining, and she didn't admit that she did it herself.If this matter is admitted, life will be difficult in the future.

But Qianlong only believed in the evidence. Fortunately, Empress Concubine Shu was fine, and Xiao Cui deserved her death.

Sitting in the Qianqing Palace, Qianlong sighed and said: "It is passed on to me that Qing Concubine Lu's conduct is not good, she blames the queen and poisons the palace people, but if thinking about it does not cause a serious mistake, she will be fined for half a year, and then she will be fined." Salary for one year."

Many people know what it means to be banned for half a year.

Rong Siji sighed again, another beautiful woman was cannon fodder, pitiful, pitiful.

But at this time in the Palace of Yanxi Palace, the wind blew the beaded curtains and made the concubine sit on the imperial concubine chair and listen to the maid's report.At the end, with a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, he ordered: "Ask someone to send some silver taels to Xiaocui's hometown, remember to be smart."