Consort Zhanzhao

Just as Bao Zheng expected, not long after lunch, Wu Chengye came to Kaifeng mansion in person, but his face was not very good.

"A total of three people were found." Wu Chengye said: "Now they are all locked up in a remote palace in the palace."

Bao Zheng asked eagerly, "Which three people?"

"There are two people with moles on their hands, one is from Concubine Pang's palace, the other is from the prince's palace, and the other is the eunuch who burns the fire in the imperial dining room. He accidentally burned his hand on the tiger's mouth yesterday. Now I can't see anything."

The prince that Wu Chengye said was the real prince, Bao Zheng didn’t think much about it, only Zhan Zhao became worried, thinking that the young prince was still very happy when he played with him in the Imperial Garden today, and went back to hear the news...

He must be able to guess what it is for.

"It's too coincidental." Gongsun Ce muttered to himself.

Wu Chengye's smile was flattering, "I think so too, so I locked up all three of them, didn't say anything, and waited for Mr. Bao to interrogate them."

Bao Zheng nodded, seeing that the sun was still early, he brought people into the palace again.

It's just that even if it is said that there are female ghosts to identify, Bao Zheng has a reputation for interrogating female ghosts in the imperial garden, but the three eunuchs did not open their mouths.

Of course, there should be only one person who didn't open his mouth, and the remaining two are innocent.

Bao Zheng looked at the confession presented by Gongsun Ce, and said slowly: "Concubine Pang's palace said that she served by Concubine Pang's side during those two days, and Concubine Pang was there to testify. All the eunuchs can testify, as for the eunuch who set the fire..."

Bao Zheng flipped through it again, "There is a fire in the imperial dining room in the middle, but there are no witnesses."

On the surface, although the eunuch who set the fire was more suspected, the eunuchs of Concubine Pang Gui, who can testify for him, are all concubine Pang Guifei's palace servants, and it is not without the possibility of false testimony.

As for the prince's people, they live in the eunuch's unified house, and there are people from all palaces who testify for him.

"Check again!" Bao Zheng said: "See if anyone has seen the eunuch who set the fire, and whether he has moles on his hands!"

Zhang Long and Zhao Hu followed Wu Chengye, Bao Zheng sighed, "It's getting late, we should leave the palace."

But before they left the palace gate, they saw Concubine Pang Guifei coming with a team of people, and when she saw Bao Zheng, she yelled and scolded: "Well, you are a bag of black charcoal! How dare you talk about the eunuch in my palace! What is going on with our Pang family? How did you offend me, you insisted on beheading my younger brother! If my father didn’t have a son, you would have killed off my Pang family’s queen!”

One of the three eunuchs who were wearing shackles and being held down by Zhan Zhao and the others, saw Pang Guifei and immediately shouted: "Your Majesty, help me!"

Concubine Pang Guifei became more and more unforgiving. Although she was sad and even had two tears on her face, she was eloquent, logical, and her words were clear, and she didn't miss a single word that should be said.

Standing behind Bao Zheng, Zhan Zhao couldn't help being embarrassed, he pulled a little eunuch out of his wits, and said, "Quickly call the little prince to save the situation!"

"... I have pity on my father, who is over fifty years old, and still has to guard the pain of losing his son..."

Bao Zheng, and even the people in Kaifeng Mansion, are very good at dealing with criminals, but they have no way to deal with concubines, especially the emperor's favorite concubine Pang Guifei.

There was nothing else to say except for the sentence "Your Majesty, don't shed tears".

But these words have no effect except to make Concubine Pang cry even harder.

After finishing the old accounts, Concubine Pang said again: "I'm going to ask His Majesty to make the decision for me, but I actually let you ride on my head."

At this time, not far away was another beauty in a palace costume. Zhan Zhao saw that the person next to her was obviously the little prince whom he had just met this morning, and he immediately felt relieved.

It can be regarded as coming.

But the people in the palace...there are indeed many rules. It has only been a few hours, and the little prince has changed his clothes again.

Zhao Bijia winked at Zhan Zhao, motioning him to stop talking, only to see the new Concubine Zhang Guifei sneer, "What is Concubine Pang doing?"

Concubine Pang Guifei dared to act violently in front of Bao Zheng, but for Concubine Zhang Guifei who was also a concubine, Concubine Pang Guifei would not dare to be so shameless in front of her. .

Concubine Pang immediately stood up straight, and the sad expression on her face disappeared without a trace. If it wasn't for the tears still on her face, Zhan Zhao would have suspected that she was just dreaming.

"Concubine Zhang." Concubine Pang looked her up and down, she was a little nervous at first, but she felt much relieved when she remembered that the prince's eunuch was also locked up.

Concubine Zhang Gui must be much more anxious than her.

The emperor's only prince, the son who grew up in the palm of his hand, if something went wrong, Concubine Zhang Gui would want to eat him.

Concubine Pang thought she had guessed Concubine Zhang's intentions, she smiled meaningfully, wiped her tears with a handkerchief, and said, "You came just in time."

Concubine Pang pointed at Bao Zheng, and said to Concubine Zhang: "You also come to criticize. He locked up the eunuch in the palace for no reason. You should know that the eunuch is gone..." Concubine Pang recalled that those two words were slightly vulgar, In a hurry and couldn't think of a suitable replacement, he paused and avoided it.

"That's His Majesty's man, how can Bao Zheng deal with His Majesty's man?"

Concubine Zhang Guifei had a much better impression of Bao Zheng than Concubine Pang Guifei.

Just one thing, after Concubine Pang Guifei's younger brother was beheaded, An Ansheng didn't look for trouble for a year.

So the daughter just mentioned it a little bit, and she brought someone to rescue her.

Concubine Zhang patted Zhao Bijia's arm, signaling her to be calm, then smiled at Bao Zheng, and said, "Master Bao has entered the palace to investigate the case."

So it was very relaxed, and with a smile on it, Concubine Pang Guifei would never feel that Concubine Zhang Guifei was speaking for her.

Bao Zheng bowed to Concubine Zhang Gui and called his wife.

Concubine Pang sneered, "I've heard that there must be witnesses for a conviction. The eunuchs of this palace have this palace to testify, as well as all the maids in this palace to testify. You still don't let him go!"

Without waiting for Bao Zheng to answer, Concubine Zhang asked back, "Witness?" She turned to look at Concubine Pang, "Your witness, hum! Believe it or not, I can make all the maids and eunuchs of the three palaces say that this person is Your eunuch killed it!"

Concubine Pang stopped speaking immediately, she squinted her eyes and stared fiercely at Concubine Zhang, "The eunuchs in the prince's palace are also suspected, you don't have to be afraid—"

Zhang Guifei smiled while shaking her head. This is Bao Zheng planning to take her to the Kaifeng mansion, and the eunuch belonging to the prince's palace spoke again, "Master Bao is upright and upright, and he can break yin and yang, so he will return my innocence."

Saying this, it is a big long face.

Concubine Zhang Guifei smiled, and said: "My lord Bao decides the case, of course I am at ease." She looked Pang Guifei up and down, "It was the same with Anlehou's case in the early years."

Who is An Lehou?That was Concubine Pang Gui's younger brother, who had just grown up, and not long after he was granted the Marquis of Anle, he was cut down by Bao Zheng with a guillotine.

"Okay! Okay!" Concubine Pang Gui was so angry that all her branches trembled, knowing that she couldn't get any cheap here today, she turned her head and left.

"Thank you, Ma'am." Master Bao saluted again.

Concubine Zhang Gui smiled and said: "It's getting late, my lord should leave the palace earlier."

Bao Zheng nodded, turned around and planned to take people away.

Unexpectedly, Zhan Zhao suddenly said at this time, "Little prince, please stay! Zhan has something to ask."

Concubine Zhang Guifei looked at Zhan Zhao, who was good-looking, upright, and a fourth-rank official, turned her head to look at her daughter who was still holding her arm, and said with a smile, "Why don't you go over there soon?"

Zhao Bijia, who was not guilty at all, blushed again for no reason at what her mother and concubine said.

Speaking of it, it seems that after Zhan Zhao became the imperial bodyguard, she blushed more in the past month than usual... well, in ten years.

Zhao Bijia walked slowly to Zhan Zhao's side, raised her face and asked softly, "Why does Guard Zhan want me?"