imperial psychologist

Chapter 256
Bo Ling's footsteps slowed down, she pulled Wei Shishi's sleeve aside, and motioned him to look aside - there was a palace man standing in the flower garden holding a lantern, as if he was guarding something.

The two ignored the palace man leading the way, and approached the flowerbed surrounded by shrubs.

With just one glance, Bo Ling understood where the bloody smell came from—a bloody three-flowered tortoiseshell was lying on the ground in the flower garden, its small body was split in two by a mousetrap that was almost as long as it was. knots, only some of the flesh is still attached.

Next to the dead little Sanhua, there was a newly dug pit.

Bai Ling's stomach was churning, and she immediately looked away and returned to the main road. At this moment, the palace people beside her shouted softly, "Eunuch Huang."

"Si Yao is finally back."

Bai Ling looked sideways and saw the elderly Huang Chongde standing not far away, she hurriedly leaned forward, "Eunuch Huang, I'm sorry for being late."

Huang Chongde didn't blame, but turned around halfway with a blank expression, "Come with me."

Bai Ling followed quickly.

The main hall of Chuxiu Palace is brightly lit tonight. Emperor Jianxi sits on the main seat with a pale face, and there are several chairs on the left and right sides. Lin Jieyu, who was there, was curled up at Emperor Jianxi's feet and wiped away tears.

Seeing this woman again, Bai Ling's state of mind is quite different from before.

Lin Jieyu cried silently, crying pear blossoms with rain, she seemed to inadvertently raised her eyes to look at her, the reddish corners of her eyes and nose made her extremely aggrieved.

Bai Ling looked at her with complicated emotions, and suddenly understood why the Minggong still wanted her to enter the palace in the end - such a face was still extremely outstanding even in the beautiful Baihuaya, not to mention Put it among the same ladies.

It was expected that she could be favored.

Huang Chongde quickly returned to Emperor Jianxi's side.

Bo Ling and Wei Shishi bent down and knelt together to salute Emperor Jianxi.

As soon as she lowered her head, she saw a broken paulownia doll falling on the open space between Emperor Jianxi and herself.It seemed to be about half the length of an arm, and a piece of white rag with black writing was wedged on the back of the doll.

Both the doll and the rags were stained with black soil—this was obviously the cursed thing that Qiu Shi had specifically reminded her of just now, and was found in her garden.

At this time, thinking of what he saw in the flower garden just now, Bo Ling has roughly guessed the whole story, probably because a cat triggered the mousetrap tonight, and the palace people found the paulownia doll during cleaning, so they built Emperor Xi came overnight and was interrogated by his messengers.

Thinking of this, Bai Ling looked around from the corner of his eye, and suddenly realized that Baoyuan was not here.

According to Eunuch Qiu Shi, Bao Yuan should have been arrested for questioning, her absence... probably means that her interrogation has ended.Looking at the tense faces of everyone in the room, Bai Ling knew in his heart that a storm was approaching.

"Bring that witness up for confrontation." Emperor Jianxi said coldly.

Bai Ling frowned slightly.

... What witnesses?
No one in the room spoke, but a court lady was quickly brought up, and Bai Ling recognized at a glance that it was the court lady who guided her when he came to Chuxiu Palace a few days ago.

The maid seemed to be trembling with fright, kneeling on the ground and not even daring to lift her head.

Emperor Jianxi's voice was majestic, "Speak!"

The palace maid raised her head tremblingly, but she did not look at Emperor Jianxi, but turned to Bai Ling, "Bai Siyao came over that day... the servant led the way."

All eyes fell on Bo Ling.

Emperor Jianxi raised and lowered his nostrils a few times, as if he was furious, and he looked at Bai Ling, "You just need to answer, yes or no."

"Yes." Bo Ling replied as usual, but Ning Bi's expression was slightly worse.

"That day... when Bai Siyao came, he didn't follow me into the house immediately, but... instead, he looked outside for a long time at the rose garden of the empress..." She said, looking at Bai Ling again, "Isn't it? "

"Yes." Bo Ling nodded, "It's rare to see such a rose garden in the palace."

Concubine Ning took a deep breath, and looked at Bai Ling with burning eyes—this child, who usually looks very smart, why is he so sincere now?

At this time, no matter what people say, it is difficult to answer "yes"!

"At that time... At that time, Bai Siyao even reached out to pick one, but the servant stopped him by shouting 'be careful of the thorns'—"

"Then you're thinking wrong," Bo Ling interrupted, "I never pick the flowers because they look pretty, but the morning dew fell on the petals that day, it was very beautiful, so I wanted to reach out and dust it off."

The court lady ignored Bo Ling's rebuttal, and just said softly, "In short, you can say whatever you want from the medicine department...but this is what I saw that day."

Lin Jieyu gently wiped away her tears, "Your Majesty...the concubine has no other questions."

Concubine Ning snorted coldly, "You don't have any questions anymore, I still have questions." She turned to look at Bai Ling, "Bai Ling, you have to answer every question truthfully when I ask you next!"

"My lady, please."

"Did you take anything away from Chuxiu Palace that day? Every plant, tree, needle, and thread...You should think carefully before answering,"

"No." Bo Ling didn't hesitate much, "There are some in Chuxiu Palace, and there are also in Chengqian Palace. I don't need to take Lin Jieyu's things."

Concubine Ning continued, "Have you fed the cat over there in Qinyuan?"

"Hey." Bai Ling replied truthfully, "Sister Baoyuan was doing this all the time. I was not in a good state for a while, so she asked me to feed me a few times in order to pass the time."

Concubine Ning nodded, then pointed to the paulownia doll on the ground, "Then do you know what it is?"

"...I don't know it, but I can guess it." Bo Ling replied.

"Think about it again, you live with Baoyuan on weekdays, right? Did you see this puppet in Chengqian Palace before?"

The corners of Bai Ling's mouth sank, and he didn't answer right away.

Her silence caused Emperor Jianxi to frown, and the emperor leaned forward slightly, "...Say! Baoyuan cursed Jieyu, do you know about it, and participated in it or not!"

Bo Ling met Emperor Jianxi's gaze, and replied softly, "Your Majesty, you know my background. If I really want to attack Lin Jieyu, I will never be reduced to using such illusory methods. It's an insult to my family education."

As soon as these words came out, everyone present took a deep breath—this pharmacist must have dared to say a little bit.

Bai Ling still knelt there as before, with her five fingers together on her thighs, her waist straightened, and there was no trace of fear on her face.

"What happened in Chuxiu Palace tonight, can the emperor... send someone to tell me first?"

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