Chapter 1297 [July 15] A Unique Mark as a Queen
What he said, the suspicion that Ruoyin had tripped Concubine Wan was completely cleared up, and it blocked all of Youyou's mouths in time.
On the contrary, it sounds more like the concubine in the harem poisoning Concubine Wan and deliberately planting the empress.
With so many people present today, although everyone didn't say that the empress must have done it, they still had suspicions.
Otherwise, after today, it is estimated that the whole Qing Dynasty will spread the story of the empress.
Therefore, the emperor took advantage of the fact that everyone was still there, and cleared away the suspicion that the empress had tripped Concubine Wan.
As for the others, we will review them after returning to the palace.
After all, there are still some concubines who are not here, so it is not easy to deal with them here.
I thought that the emperor wanted to completely remove the empress's suspicion, but everything had to be based on evidence.
There is no basis for saying it, if you blindly protect the calf, it will not be convincing, and it will seem that something is wrong.
Among the crowd, Su Peisheng's words were spread to ten, ten to hundreds...
In fact, they didn't know what happened on stage, they just listened to the wind and rain, relying on wild guesses.
Hearing what Su Peisheng said now, he thought he had caught some evidence, so he walked away with a face of sudden realization.
After the fourth master left, Ruoyin brought his concubines back to the palace, and concubines Qi followed behind her.
The cold wind of early spring blew on their faces.
But their hearts are colder than the cold wind blowing.
In order to get rid of the suspicion that the queen tripped Concubine Wan, the emperor was willing to drag all the concubines out of the harem to take the blame.
This is simply abandoning the car to save the handsome!
However, even if the queen cleared up the suspicion of tripping Concubine Wan, she still couldn't clear up the suspicion of poisoning.
After returning to the palace, Yongshou Palace still has to accept interrogation and interrogation with them.
How do you say that the poisoning matter is still the queen's biggest suspicion.
Who makes Concubine Wan's identity the most threatening to the queen.
After returning to the Forbidden City, the concubines went back to their respective palaces.
When Ruoyin arrived at Yongshou Palace in a phoenix chariot, it was already dark.
She is also a member of the harem, so she is naturally suspected.
Until the matter is clarified, she can only stay in the Yongshou Palace and is not allowed to enter or leave at will.
Fourth master definitely believed her about what happened during the day.
But he believed her, others might not believe her.
Therefore, you have to speak with facts.
After a day of exhaustion in the field, Ruoyin washed up and fell asleep.
When they came together the next day, the harem was ups and downs.
"Mother, Concubine Wan's personal servants have died. They all said that someone wanted to kill someone to silence her. The emperor is summoning all the masters in the harem to interrogate Concubine Wan's Palace of Yanxi Palace." Rushuang stepped forward to report.
After Ruoyin heard this, she asked Banmei to comb her hair.
Because Concubine Wan had a miscarriage, she didn't dress up too brightly.
She only wore a lotus-colored jacket, combed her hair a little, and went to Yanxi Palace.
When they arrived at Yanxi Palace, Ruoyin saw several chariots parked steadily outside.
One of them was Si Ye's light-step dragon-headed chariot, and the rest belonged to those in the harem.
Ruoyin got off the phoenix chariot before entering the courtyard of Yanxi Palace, and saw that the courtyard was full of servants waiting.
When everyone saw her, they saluted one after another.
Ruoyin has long been used to this.
She held Banmei's hand and entered the hall.
The fourth master is sitting at the top, and the concubines are sitting at the bottom.
Concubine Wan woke up, lying on the imperial concubine's couch beside her, her face was pale, she seemed weak and frightened.
When the concubines saw her, they saluted as usual.
Fourth Master walked up to her from the top, tightened her hand, and pulled her to sit down on the top.
She knew that this meant fully trusting her.
After the empress took her seat, Su Peisheng said sharply, "Miss Wanfei, please explain in detail what happened."
Concubine Wan, who was lying on the bed, nodded and said weakly: "I was about to get up early this morning, but the maid who kept watch at night didn't come forward. I lifted the bed curtain and saw her... actually fell to the ground, and the other servants who came over heard the sound and found that she was out of breath."
While she was talking, a servant came in with a wide spring stool.
The spring stool was covered with a piece of white cloth, and when it was lifted, it was the palace maid Wanfei said was lifeless.
The palace lady's eyes were wide open, obviously she couldn't rest in peace.
There are still unknown marks of blue and purple on the neck, which is creepy to look at.
At this time, a servant carefully inspected the wound on the maid's body.
Wu Zuo is the officer who examines the dead bodies of the government.
After some inspections, I heard the clerk say: "Your Majesty, this court lady obviously died strangely. There are signs of struggle on her wrists. The strangle marks on her neck were also caused by a strong pull from behind."
Hearing this, the fourth master looked at Concubine Wan and asked calmly: "Concubine Wan, since this maid is your personal maid and she was on errand last night, did you hear any movement or find anything unusual?"
"Your Majesty, my concubine fainted yesterday when she was at the Royal Farm, and she woke up in a daze until this morning, and then found that the child in her belly was gone, and the maid was dead." Concubine Wan felt ashamed. Back to.
The fourth master nodded slightly, and after a moment of contemplation, he asked, "Apart from this, are there any other discoveries?"
Concubine Wan shook her head, saying no.
At this moment, the servant at the bottom said, "Your Majesty, this servant found something that does not match her identity in this maid's room this morning."
"Bring it up." Fourth Master said in a deep voice.
After a while, a servant came in with two trays.
Ruoyin took a closer look, and there was a set of black clothes in a tray.
There was also a tray containing some luxurious red gold jewellery.
Wu Zuo pointed to the tray, and said: "This set is night clothes. Presumably this court lady has betrayed Concubine Wan long ago, and this set of clothes is convenient for her to wear when meeting people at night."
As he said, he pointed to another tray, "As for the few pieces of red gold jewelry here, there are special marks engraved on them. Since the issues involved are serious, I dare not judge without authorization, so I alarmed the emperor and wanted to invite the emperor decide."
At the top, Fourth Master asked in a deep voice, "What mark?"
Wu Zuo glanced at Ruoyin first, then lowered his head and said, "Going back to the emperor, it's...the mark of the phoenix shape."
As soon as the voice fell, the tense and quiet hall suddenly became weird.
The servants, like Wu Zuo, bowed their heads one after another, as if they didn't know anything and couldn't hear anything.
The concubines all looked up at Ruoyin in unison, each of them breathed a sigh of relief, and pointed their finger at Ruoyin.
Probably feeling that things finally had a clear direction, there was a relaxed look on their faces.
Only Ruoyin lifted his spirits.
The phoenix-shaped mark is her unique mark as a queen.
She said to those servants in a deep voice: "Bring it to Bengong to have a look."
At first, the minions stood still.
It wasn't until fourth master glanced at them coldly that they handed the jewelry to Ruoyin.
Ruoyin randomly took a dragonfly hairpin from the tray, looked at it in the direction of the good light.
This hairpin belongs to the fine jewelry, and in the middle of the hairpin, there is indeed a phoenix-shaped pattern of her as a queen.