Judge of the Lamp

Chapter 454

What is the relationship between Nufu Cult and Long Xiulian?
As an arbitrary magistrate, Long Xiulian is the highest existence in the world of judges.

The Nufu Sect is the gathering place of the four evil ways.

This matter must be investigated.

Xu Zhiqiong must know how deeply the nufu religion has penetrated into the judge's way, which is related to the survival of the judge's way.

If you want to find out the relationship between Long Xiulian and the Nufu Sect, you have to start with Long Xiulian or the Nufu Sect.

Starting with Long Xiulian, I can't find an angle at the moment. If he can't think of a suitable character to lie to him, Xu Zhiqiong will hardly be able to ask the truth from him.

Starting from Nufu Cult, there seem to be many angles. Nufu Cultists are everywhere, but how many are useful?
Heretics are almost completely useless, and lowly insiders are of little use either.

What kind of Christians are useful?
Is a state altar master useful in a state?

Not much use in this matter either.

To be able to know the secrets related to Long Xiulian, at least at the level of Xiao Songting, and his identity is Situ, a senior member of the core part of Nufu Cult.

Where can Xu Zhiqiong find someone of this level?

Sui Zhi?Ye Ansheng?

Such a character will certainly not be found.

Go to that Aunt Zhang Jiu and start from the beginning?

It's not that Xu Zhiqiong is impatient, Zhang Jiugu's line must not be broken, but if we start from her, I'm afraid we may not have a clue after a year or so of investigation.

After making a list, Xu Zhiqiong suddenly laughed. He ignored an important person.

The character has always denied being a member of the Cult of Nufu.

But this character's Taoism and actions are highly consistent with Nufu Cult.

Just start with her.

……

In the afternoon, Xu Zhiqiong prepared gifts and went to Baoci Hall.

The Empress Dowager Chai Qiuci has been tortured a lot by He Fang in the past few days, she finally had a day of leisure, she wanted to take a nap in the afternoon, but was disturbed by Xu Zhiqiong.

There's nothing wrong with disturbing it, she's the queen mother in name, but she's actually a prisoner, she doesn't have the right to refuse to meet Xu Zhiqiong.

Fortunately, Chai Qiuci liked the gift from Xu Zhiqiong very much, so he bought the candied fruit from Yue's shop.

Given Chai Qiuci's current situation, it would be useless to give her gold, silver, treasures, and silk. Her daily life was poor, and her mouth lacked such a little taste. A pickled olive was enough for her to chew for a long time.

"If the queen mother likes it, Xu will send some dried meat tomorrow."

The queen mother said with a pickled apricot in her mouth: "If you have anything to say, just say it, don't go around in circles here."

Xu Zhiqiong said: "I want to ask the Queen Mother about the Nufu Cult."

The Queen Mother spat out the apricot core on Xu Zhiqiong's face: "How many times have I said this? My Palace has nothing to do with the Nufu Sect!"

Xu Zhiqiong wiped his face, then handed an apricot to the queen mother: "Then tell me, how did you become queen?"

The queen mother spat out the apricot pit on Xu Zhiqiong's face again: "You still need to ask me about this kind of thing? You can ask the current emperor, you can ask the internal historian, you can ask any older eunuch, and they can explain it clearly! "

Xu Zhiqiong wiped his face again: "That's what you know, it's the same as what they know."

"Joke, how can this kind of thing be different!"

Xu Zhiqiong nodded: "In other words, it's useless to keep you in this world."

The queen mother was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said: "Are you threatening me? Do you know how many times I have heard such words these days? Do you know how many tricks that girl He Fang has used against me these days? She just It’s almost time to torture me, so go ask her, are all those methods useful?”

He Fang's methods are still useful.

Xu Zhiqiong could see that the Queen Mother was not far from collapse.

It was precisely because of the foundation laid by He Fang that Xu Zhiqiong was sure that the Queen Mother could tell the truth.

Tell at least part of the truth.

"You don't need to ask Princess Fanghua. Since nothing works for you, then you shouldn't be kept," Xu Zhiqiong handed the Queen Mother a box of plums: "Queen Mother, eat more, I'll send it to you later on the road."

The Queen Mother threw Meizi to the ground: "Xu Zhiqiong, let me borrow your courage and see if you dare to kill me?"

Xu Zhiqiong smiled and said, "Do you think it is difficult to kill you?"

"I am the queen mother of a country, even Liang Yuyang has to admit it! Even he dare not touch me! How many heads have you grown? What are you? How dare you attack the queen mother?"

As far as the current situation is concerned, her status as queen mother is indeed unshakable.

But so what?

"What about the Queen Mother?" Xu Zhiqiong looked at the Queen Mother with a smile, "You may have heard some rumors. Guess who killed your man? Guess how many times I chopped him off?"

The Queen Mother couldn't help shivering. He had indeed heard some rumors.

He even dared to kill the emperor. A queen mother was nothing to him. This was fundamentally different from the threat He Fang brought.

But why did he want to kill me?
"Xu Zhiqiong, you killed the senior official's family for the sake of the new emperor, but killing me won't do you any good, so don't scare me!"

"Who said it's not good?" Xu Zhiqiong looked at the top of the Queen Mother's head, "You deserve to die if you are full of evil, I can earn a lot of good things by killing you."

The queen mother was startled, and found that Xu Zhiqiong's eyes were shining, as if he had found a treasure on top of his head.

"You, you, you are the judge..." Chai Qiuci tried her best to control her tone, she didn't want to anger Xu Zhiqiong.

Xu Zhiqiong didn't make a sound, just kept staring at the queen mother's head.

The queen mother's cheeks twitched for a moment and said: "Forget it, you can ask anything, I will tell the truth."

Judging from her reaction, she had seen the judge and was also very afraid of the judge.

Has she met Daxuan's biggest judge?
This is unknown.

Xu Zhiqiong took another box of plums and handed it to the queen mother: "It's still the matter just now, how did you become the queen?"

The Queen Mother was silent.

Xu Zhiqiong sighed, "Then let me ask you another way, what's your name?"

The queen mother ate a plum and said: "My name is He Shuiling. There is a tea stall of He's family by the Wang'an River, which is opened by my father.
I was thirteen years old that year, and I was helping my father clean up the table. Some guests came to have tea, and a person pinched me a few times.

I scolded the guest a few times, and the guest's subordinates came to beat me, and my father went up to fight with them, was beaten half to death, and was thrown on the side of the road,

The guest pressed me on the table, surrounded it with a few pieces of cloth, and just wanted me. "

"Is this person Liang Xianhong?" Xu Zhiqiong heard from Taibo that this was Emperor Zhaoxing's eccentricity.

When he watched the woman bend over to wipe the table and sweep the floor, he became very emotional, Tai Bu also experienced it before.

Empress Dowager He nodded and said: "Yes, he is the family of a high-ranking official. Afterwards, my father wanted to report to the official, but two servants came and gave my father thirty taels of silver, and then took me to the palace. ,
Dad told me that this was a good thing, and it was a good destination to go to the palace. He took the money and left. Since then, I have never seen him again. "

Xu Zhiqiong said: "After entering the palace, you became Concubine An Shu?"

Empress He smiled wryly: "When you are in the world, you have such a good fortune, you can be a knight after you have been an official for more than a year?

I worked as a handyman in the palace for two full years, but my life was worse than when I was setting up a tea stall. During these two years, I have never even seen the family of a high official.
In the third year, dozens of palace servants suddenly died in the palace. I don’t know why. That night, I was called to the back garden by the eunuch in charge of the palace supervisor, and I stood with more than twenty palace servants. Stripped clean, and don't know what to do,
Later, someone brought more than twenty large urns, and I don't know what kind of medicine was contained in them.
More than [-] of us were stuffed into the big urn and soaked for a whole month. After a month, among the more than [-] people, I was the only one who survived. Since then, I have become a chaos cultivator. "

Xu Zhiqiong said: "Before you, those palace people who died were also soaked to death in the big urn?"

Empress Dowager He nodded: "I heard later that a total of [-] palace servants died in the big urn, and I was the only one who survived."

The selection mechanism of Chaos Dao is really cruel!

The key is where does the formula for this potion come from?

Did the emperor buy it from the underworld?

This is the business between Long Xiulian and Emperor Zhaoxing?
Xu Zhiqiong said again: "Just because you survived, you became Concubine An Shu?"

"It's not so fast, but these days are much easier. I was sixteen years old when I entered the rank. I first became a treasure girl of the eighth rank, and then Baolin of the sixth rank. I became a talented person when I was seventeen, and then Became a beauty, became Jieyu at the age of eighteen, and then became Zhaoyi after Jieyu, Zhaoyi was ranked as the ninth concubine, and had already reached the second rank, and above the nine concubines was the fourth concubine,
I became Concubine Shu at the age of nineteen and entered the ranks of noble concubines. When I think of the situation, it is like a dream. Three years ago, I was a servant girl serving tea and water. In the blink of an eye, I became a figure in the harem. Those concubines here hate me to the bone, but who knows how much I have suffered in the past three years? "

Xu Zhiqiong said: "In the past three years, have you improved in cultivation?"

"How can I be a noble concubine if I don't make progress? In the past three years, I have spent a year and a half in the big urn, and my cultivation has grown from rank nine to rank six."

It has been promoted to the sixth rank in three years, which is really rare.

The key is that her way of cultivation is still so single, that is, soaking in a big urn.

Xu Zhiqiong really wanted to know more about Chaos Dao, but he didn't want to interrupt the Queen Mother's thoughts.

"Empress Dowager, have you made such a steady progress all the way, but the harem hasn't criticized you?"

Empress Dowager He sneered and said, "It's not just the harem, even the cabinet has intervened, saying that I have a bad family background and have no heirs. Why should I be a noble concubine?"

Xu Zhiqiong said: "At that time, wasn't He Fang born yet?"

Empress Dowager He smiled wryly and shook her head: "Except for the night at Wang'an River, the high official's family never touched me again. What do you want me to do?"

You are already sitting on the imperial concubine, and you don't even touch it?
That's right, he has too many women.

It seems that Emperor Zhaoxing completely regarded Queen Mother He as a tool.

Empress Dowager He went on to say: "In order to shut up other people's mouths, the high official's family lived with me for a month, and I was determined to conceive He Fang immediately, and gave birth to her when I was twenty years old.
The high official family named me Concubine An Shu, ranking below the empress and above the four concubines. "

Xu Zhiqiong said: "But the queen mother is not satisfied with being under the queen, so she tried every means to turn the queen into a blood tree and replace it by herself."

The Empress Dowager shook her head and said: "I am a girl from a poor family, I have achieved that kind of seat and enjoyed all the glory and wealth, what else is there to be dissatisfied with?

I just want to live like this for the rest of my life, I just want to bring my daughter up, occasionally looking forward to the family of a high official coming to my Anshu Palace to have a look, and spend two days with him as a husband and wife should have, but Queen Chai won't let me , she knows that I have chaos cultivation. "

Xu Zhiqiong was startled: "How could she know?"

"You know that Liang Yuyang has special eyes, right? Chai Qiuci has them too!"

(End of this chapter)