Chapter 1299 [July 16] It's Her! Is Her! That's Her!

After thinking about it, Ruoyin still couldn't figure out who framed her.

Ruoyin shook his head, that's all, don't think about it.

Since Fourth Master ordered the servants to investigate, there will be a day when the truth will be revealed.

Moreover, the one who wants to find the murderer behind the scenes more than her now is Concubine Wan.

After she fainted and woke up, the child was gone, and after the trusted servant betrayed her, she was murdered to silence her.

What a miserable woman!

After returning to Yongshou Palace, Ruoyin told Banmei: "I have memorized all the jewelry recorded by the Ministry of Internal Affairs before. Let's look for them and see if there are any in the warehouse."

If there is no more in the warehouse, it is very likely to be stolen and dropped.

But if there are still in the warehouse, then someone has copied the same jewelry.

As she said that, she found a piece of rice paper and a brush, and wrote on it the approximate material and appearance of the jewelry, asking them to look for them accordingly.

Banmei took the paper and arranged for someone to look for it.

There are many slaves in Yongshou Palace, and the things in the warehouse are stored according to the day and category.

Thinking of this, half an hour later, Banmei came to Ruoyin with a jewelry box in her hand.

As soon as Ruoyin saw the jewelry box, he knew it in his heart.

Sure enough, Banmei handed the jewelry box in front of her, opened it, and said, "Your Majesty, the slaves found all the jewelry you mentioned in the warehouse, and they were brought back on the ninth day of the first lunar month."

Ruoyin flipped through the jewelry in the jewelry box, and it was exactly the same as what he saw in Yanxi Palace.

She lowered her head and played with a golden hairpin in her hand, and said casually: "It seems that the problem is not with our Yongshou Palace, but someone has imitated a batch of jewelry."

Speaking of this, she suddenly thought of something, "Go, invite the emperor."

"yes."

It was night, and fourth master arrived at Ruoyin's Yongshou Palace.

But he didn't stay there, nor did he stay for long.

After only sitting for a stick of incense, he returned to the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

No one knows what the emperor said to the empress.

It's just that the atmosphere in the harem suddenly became tense.

Because they thought that the queen's evidence was solid, there was nothing wrong with them.

Who knew that the emperor would protect the queen so much, then some of them would be in danger.

Either the murderer behind the scenes is dangerous.

Or they were framed.

This time the incident is so big, there must be someone to come out and give an explanation, otherwise the Horqin tribe will not be able to justify it.

Fortunately, this matter did not delay too long.

In the early morning three days later, Fourth Master summoned all the concubines from the harem to Concubine Wan's Palace of Yanxi Palace again.

The fourth master ordered, how dare everyone in the harem be negligent.

Moreover, their intuition told them that the emperor must have found out something.

When everyone gathered in Yanxi Palace, it was still the same scene as last time.

Fourth master pulled Ruoyin to sit down at the top.

Because Concubine Wan was still in the confinement period, she was reclined on the imperial concubine's couch.

In those gentle eyes, there was sadness, sadness, and a strange emotion that could not be explained clearly.

The rest of the concubines sat at the bottom, not daring to breathe.

Seeing that everyone was here, fourth master gave Su Peisheng a look.

Su Peisheng understood, and hurriedly shouted to the door in a sharp voice: "Bring everyone here."

Then, a guard escorted the two of them in.

Among them, one was wearing a eunuch uniform similar to that of Su Peisheng.

Looking at the appearance of being neither male nor female, this person is the chief manager of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The other was dressed in a gray cotton gown and a dirty apron.

There are some sparkling powders on it, and it looks like a craftsman making handicrafts.

Su Peisheng pointed at the eunuch and asked sharply, "Tell me, who did you sell the empress's custom-made jewelry list to?"

"I'm wronged, Your Majesty. Even with the courage of my slaves, I dare not reveal the empress's jewelry list in private. If this is discovered, it will be a matter of losing my head." The eunuch knelt on the ground and kowtowed at the fourth master.

Fourth Master looked indifferent and unmoved.

Su Peisheng, who was at the side, interrogated him: "Since you didn't sell it to others, why did someone copy the jewelry made by the Empress's House of Internal Affairs. You must know that the jewelry is complicated and has different craftsmanship. Only you, the chief executive, know it best."

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty the Empress, this slave is really wronged." The steward of the Ministry of Internal Affairs kowtowed non-stop.

Knocking, as if remembering something, "I see, one night, a masked man in black broke into the artwork room of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. When we arrived, the man in black had already disappeared." Run away."

"At that time, we checked the room, and nothing was lost, only the queen's jewelry list was messed up, and a few pictures were lost. In order not to cause unnecessary alarm, we kept quiet, who knew that something like this happened things."

As soon as the voice fell, Fourth Master snorted coldly and said: "This careless and irresponsible slave will be dragged out to beat 30 boards and kicked out of the palace!"

After hearing this, Su Peisheng quickly gestured to the guards, and the steward of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was dragged out.

This manager is indeed a bit outrageous.

Since I already knew that someone had looked through the Queen's jewelry list and lost a few pictures, I should have said it earlier.

But he was lucky, because he was worried that he would be charged with improper guarding, so he concealed the matter.

He also said "in order to cause unnecessary alarm", which is simply evading responsibility.

After the steward of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was dragged out, Su Peisheng continued to ask another middle-aged man.

"Tell me, who gave you the money to make a batch of jewelry engraved with a phoenix mark in the capital."

Middle-aged man: "..."

"Don't think that you are innocent if you take money from people and make jewelry for them. In the whole Qing Dynasty, no one knows that only empresses are qualified to engrave phoenix-shaped marks on jewelry. You dare to accept business when you know it. , should be punished by death!"

Su Peisheng threatened the middle-aged man.

As soon as the words came out, the middle-aged man knelt in the middle and kowtowed begging for mercy: "The emperor has mercy, the empress has mercy..."

"It's not impossible to live, just look at the people in this room, who gave you the money." Su Peisheng shook the whisk at the harem concubines.

"Okay, okay." Hearing that he could survive, the middle-aged man looked at the concubines and servants around him with bright eyes.

He first took a few glances at Concubine Qi on the left.

Then the eyes slowly shifted to the concubine on the right.

When he saw the maid next to Concubine Qing, his eyes never moved away.

Moreover, he pointed at the maid, as excited as if he saw the savior.

After all, Su Peisheng said that as long as he pointed out the person who gave him money, he could live.

So, he said excitedly: "It's her! It's her! It's her! She gave me a lot of bank notes that day, and also gave me a few drawings, saying that I should make them as soon as possible, and they have to be exactly the same , especially the phoenix mark."