A Thousand Gold Order: Inheritance

Chapter 268 Murder Case (Second Update)
What Qi Huan was most afraid of was that someone would directly murder Yang Qingyun. Seeing that he came back unscathed, he put his heart back into his stomach again.

She looked back and continued eating as if nothing had happened.

Over there, Eunuch Jia left and did not return for a long time, and the whole banquet was coming to an end.

It was too late, the emperor must have been a little mentally ill, he had a few words with Empress Gu in private, and got up to leave the table.

Seeing this, everyone immediately got up and knelt down to see them off, but the emperor raised his hand and stopped them with a smile: "Today's banquet is for the joy of the monarch and his ministers, and to celebrate the festive season together. There is no need to be formal. My spirit If you are tired, take a step ahead, and all the lovers will have fun."

The courtiers ordered their wives to do good deeds, so they were spared the ceremony of kneeling and worshiping. They still kept their expressions clean and shouted: "Respectfully send your majesty!"

The prince personally accompanied the emperor and got up to see him off.

Everyone remained silent.

It was not until the father and son left the banquet that the prince asked the emperor beside him: "Did the imperial sister not show up today?"

The emperor smiled helplessly: "You don't know that girl's temper? I came here in the evening, kowtowed to my mother and your mother, and then left again."

Yun Cheng is unwilling to attend such an occasion because he is tired of being a different person in the eyes of everyone, and being stared at by them for flaws in his appearance.

Thinking of this, the emperor couldn't help sighing: "Let her be happy."

The court ladies and eunuchs followed behind, seeing that the father and son were about to bypass the screen wall and go out——

Unexpectedly, the two girls hurried around from the other side of the screen wall with their heads buried.

They were walking in such a hurry that they didn't even pay attention to the road.

As soon as he turned around, one of them staggered and bumped forward suddenly.

Yun Zhan's reaction was extremely quick, and he immediately reached out to block the emperor behind him.

For the sake of caution, he would not easily ask outsiders to approach him, but he recognized the exact identities of the two girls the moment he snatched them up, knowing that they couldn't be assassins, so he raised his hand to catch them.

Hold the girl's arm firmly, support her, and send her to the side.

"Be careful." Yun Zhan said casually.

While speaking, he had already calmed down, calmly withdrew his hand, and flicked the corner of his robe as a gesture to cover up the movement just now.

The girl almost fell down. She was already feeling wronged, but when she suddenly raised her head, she found that she had bumped into the emperor and the prince. The blood in her body was instantly frozen in the blood vessels, and she stood still.

The girl walking next to her, who just couldn't hold her back, was also secretly panicking.

Seeing her lost her composure, she hurriedly took a step forward, pulled her to kneel down and pleaded guilty: "Your Majesty, forgive me, Your Highness the Crown Prince, forgive me, it's the recklessness of the two ministers and daughters, and they deserve death."

The emperor has always been a lenient person, and this is not a big deal...

Yun Zhan glanced at his father's face from the side, and just about to expose the matter, there was a steward behind the screen wall listening to the movement and hurried around.

Seeing this, he knelt down to plead guilty to the two emperors without distinction, and at the same time pointed at the two girls sharply: "Whose girls are you two from? Didn't the house teach you how to behave? The occasion was reckless and unruly..."

Yun Zhan frowned involuntarily——

This thing is interesting, huh?The eunuch snatched the white so directly that he and the emperor couldn't speak?
Originally, everyone at the banquet was staring at this side, wanting to watch the emperor leave first, the entire courtyard was almost silent.

As soon as the eunuch in charge yelled, the elders of the two girls' families at the banquet quickly got up and trotted towards this side.

As for the two girls, the first time they had such close contact with the emperor and the crown prince, they were already terrified, and when they were accused like this in front of the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty and the children of the family, the two of them cried out of fright.

Their respective parents arrived afterward, and they knelt down first in fear and pleaded guilty: "It's my humble minister's incompetence in teaching my daughter, and my disrespect... I am willing to accept the punishment for my little girl."

Being forced into this situation, the emperor finally regained the right to speak, and said with a smile: "It's not a big deal, it's just that I and the prince walked quietly, and just happened to be blocked by the screen wall, so let's get down, what are you scolding the girl for? Look at scaring the kids."

Only then did the people of the two families heave a sigh of relief, and each helped their weak-legged girl to stand up and make way for the emperor.

The eunuch in charge also stood up, but he didn't know if it was out of loyalty to protect the lord, but he scolded the two girls with a sullen face and persevering: "Your Majesty is merciful, this is our blessing, but you two Girls should also pay attention to their manners and the rules of the palace, chasing and running around at the banquet is not right."

As soon as this remark came out, the two families immediately panicked again.

The girl who almost got into trouble stopped her tears just now, and now she was anxious and angry, holding her mother's hand with tears in her eyes, and hurriedly defended: "Mother... my daughter didn't, we didn't do it on purpose, just now Sister Siying and I got married Passing by the shore of the lake ahead, I saw someone throwing himself into the lake..."

On such a festive occasion, the girl's mother immediately scolded in a deep voice: "Don't talk nonsense, it must be dark and the wind is high, and your eyes are dazzled."

Guo Siying next to her also became angry, and said loudly: "Aunt Tang, it's true. A court lady drowned, and she has been fished out, but it's really scary."

In the middle of the night, two teenage girls saw a dead man with a wet face and pale face, and anyone would be terrified.

The two lost their composure and ran back in a panic.

and--

The girl from the Tang family felt that she had tripped over something just now.

It's just that looking back now, there is no raised floor tiles in the place where I walked before, only a row of eunuchs and maids standing next to me, watching their noses, noses, noses, noses, noses, noses, noses, noses, noses, noses, noses, and hearts.

The occasional death of one or two palace people in the palace is not a big deal, but when it comes to this mid-autumn palace banquet, the atmosphere is somewhat bad.

The emperor can't just ignore people's lives and just ignore them, right?
Everyone at the banquet has already started whispering in private.

At this time, Empress Gu had already walked to the emperor's side, and responded calmly: "Someone fell into the water contentedly, and the concubine has heard the report. Manager Jia will go to deal with it. When he handles it properly, he will return to the concubine. Because today This day is different, just now at the banquet, I didn't want to disturb His Majesty, but I didn't think about scaring the two girls."

What she said was appropriate and beautiful.

It seems to be an explanation to the emperor, but in fact——

But it was to appease everyone present.

The emperor came down the steps, nodded and said: "Accidents are inevitable. The queen has always done things properly, so I won't ask questions."

At this point, the matter should come to an end.

The emperor was just about to continue to walk away, but he heard a woman's shrill cry from outside the wall faintly coming from a long distance: "It wasn't me...I didn't kill the person, Ji Gonggong! Ji Gonggong, you speak for slaves, it's true! It wasn't the servants who drowned Yuxiu...the servants were wronged...you can't treat human lives like this!"

It should be that in order to clarify the murder case to save her life, she wanted to rush this way, but was stopped by someone.

The cries were intermittent, and even the court lady showed signs of being dragged away.

At the banquet, the atmosphere that had just calmed down became agitated again——

Although the matter of one or two court ladies is of no importance to these high-ranking officials, but the gossip mentality caused this matter to happen right in front of their eyes, and everyone stretched their necks, wanting to see what happened.

Empress Gu can of course settle matters in the palace by herself in the harem, but——

Someone desperately pushed the incident to Manchao Wenwu, and pushed it under the noses of her and the emperor...

"Under the rule of this palace, the interruption of this harem does not allow any injustices to take people's lives lightly. Anyway, the Mid-Autumn Palace Banquet has been enjoyed by the guests and the host, and it will be over..." Queen Gu accepted the move without hesitation.

She glanced sideways at the big palace lady beside her: "Go tell them to bring in that palace man outside."

"Yes." The palace lady responded, and then walked out quickly.

Empress Gu has a swift and decisive personality, so she probably decided to make a quick decision, so she didn't ask anyone to move a chair for her.

She just turned her head and asked the emperor again: "It's getting late, didn't your majesty just say that you are tired? Here, the concubines can handle it themselves, why don't you go back to the palace to rest first?"

The emperor's face was still calm: "I'm not sleepy after being made such a fuss by them. I'm also waiting here to hear the result of this matter."

This incident started with an obvious intention to ruin the scene, he thought it was from the harem targeting the queen.

He said he wanted to stay, but Queen Gu never objected.

Not long after, the grand lady sent out led a terrified palace lady with tears all over her face, and a [-]-year-old eunuch in administrative attire came in.

The identities of these two people are obviously not high, and they don't usually have the opportunity to meet the emperor, so they knelt into two balls as soon as they came in: "Slave/servant has seen the empress...your majesty...your majesty... ..."

There were too many nobles present, so I didn't know whether I should continue to greet them later.

Empress Gu didn't take it seriously, and asked directly: "Let's report their names first."

The eunuch in charge spoke first without hesitation: "Slave Ji Tiantian works as an errand in the tea room of the former court. This... this servant's name is Xu Qiu, and she is the palace servant under this servant. Tonight is for the Mid-Autumn Palace Banquet, servant. When they were ordered to temporarily transfer the harem to help, there was another servant named Yuxiu who said she had gone to have a rest but hadn't returned, and then Xu Qiu went to find someone... The slave saw with her own eyes that the two of them were in front of the lake. While arguing and arguing, in the end Yuxiu fell... into the lake and drowned."

While he was talking, Eunuch Jia must have gotten the news urgently and rushed back.

After this season Toyota finished speaking, Empress Gu glanced at Eunuch Jia.

But before Eunuch Jia could speak, Xu Qiu panicked and yelled: "Your Majesty was wronged, it's because Yuxiu wanted to commit suicide, when I went to find her, I saw that she was going to throw herself into the lake, I wanted to save her, so I dragged her Yes, but Ji Gonggong doesn't discriminate between the young and the young, and insists on counting this life on the head of the servant, the servant is wronged!"

Queen Gu was noncommittal.

She only glanced at Ji Fengtian with a menacing look.

Ji Fengtian's eyes flickered, and his momentum also weakened: "The servant did see the two of her quarreling by the lake, but... when the servant ran over, Yuxiu had already fallen into the water, but...he didn't hear the two of them." The content of disputes."

Now the two sides are sticking to their own words, and they are not talking about it. On the contrary, what the two said may be true.

At this time, Eunuch Jia took two steps forward, bowed to the emperor and empress, and then murmured a little unspeakably: "The slave did a preliminary inspection of the corpse and found something wrong..."

He is Empress Gu's confidant, and he has no taboo against Empress Gu. As he spoke, he gave the emperor a vague look.

Queen Gu said: "It's okay, just speak up if you have something to say."

Eunuch Jia said: "When the corpse was picked up, the lower body was red, and it didn't look like a woman Yuexin..."

The emperor couldn't stay here anymore, at this moment Concubine Sheng Xian and other concubines had already left the table and gathered around.

Therefore, before Eunuch Jia finished speaking, Concubine Sheng Xian said in amazement: "If the woman sees red under her body, if it is not for Yue Xin, then is she still pregnant and having a miscarriage?"

In the entire harem, there is only one man, the emperor, but at this moment, no one dared to look at the emperor, but I don't know if everyone firmly believes in the emperor's character, there is no need to do such dirty things, or they are simply afraid of the emperor's prestige and doubt I dare not reveal anything.

As soon as Concubine Sheng Xian said this, the unmarried sons and ladies present...

Including the young Crown Prince, all of them looked uncomfortable to varying degrees.

Mr. Jia said: "The slaves are not sure, so I have already asked the imperial physician to check it. Please wait a little longer, masters."

At this moment, Ji Fengtian and Xu Qiu were also frightened into silence, they didn't care about biting and arguing with each other, they just touched their heads to the ground, standing motionless next to each other, waiting for time.

The reason why Eunuch Jia didn't come back was because the subsequent handling of this matter was difficult. He was waiting for the imperial physician, and at this moment the imperial physician was already conducting an autopsy.

Therefore, everyone waited patiently for a short time, and the imperial doctor outside rushed over to return to his life.

Queen Gu still directly asked someone to bring him in.

After the imperial physician knelt down to pay his respects, there was no need for the empress to ask, and he directly replied: "Reporting to Your Majesty, empress, the palace maid who drowned was indeed pregnant with Liujia, and she was more than three months pregnant, and she had just taken a dose of medicine before throwing herself into the lake. The anti-abortion drug was very effective, which caused physical damage and caused massive bleeding."

The words fell, and finally caused a long uproar!
Everyone present was still pretending in front of them, but now some people couldn't help but sigh.

Such a scandal in the palace is equivalent to a slap in the face of Empress Gu.

Concubine Sheng Xian put on a hypocritical look of embarrassment, and called out in a low voice: "Empress, look at this..."

Empress Gu didn't talk to her quickly, but asked Ji Fengtian again: "Since you are under your command, you can talk about it."

Where did Ji Fengtian think that such a mistake would happen under his hands, and he was already soaked in cold sweat. He desperately recalled, trying to clear his mind, "This... Your Majesty, that Yuxiu did not enter the palace after being a criminal minister, because she had a good hand. She is good at ordering tea, and she only got the manager's permission in the past two years, and she usually doesn't go out of the palace when she is transferred to the tea room..."

He couldn't explain this matter, so he suddenly thought of Xu Qiu beside him, and hurriedly dragged her into the water: "You live in the same room with her, and the lowly maidservant usually pretends to be noble and doesn't make out with anyone, I don't think so." Just talk to you for a few words. The evil seed in her belly has been there for more than three months, so you really don't know who her adulterer is?"

The palace people in the palace basically have no chance to go out during their service, but occasionally there are some exceptions, or there is a big funeral at home, and they need to go back to support their parents to fulfill their filial piety, or they have to go out due to serious illness Those who buy medicines have to go through layers of approval, with exceptions.

Then there is another kind of unwritten, that is, buying in the palace. These people can go out of the palace regularly, and then some people exchange some money with the buying people occasionally to replace the errands, and they can also get out.

But the chief eunuch in charge of the purchase was also afraid of causing trouble, and this path was not easy to follow.

But Yuxiu is like this, firstly she has a body of guilt, and secondly she has no relatives outside the palace, let alone she has no reason to go out, even if she wants to, she can't go out.

So now-

There is another possibility that those officials or guards who can walk around in the palace kept the seeds.

Xu Qiuwan didn't expect that such a hot potato would fall into his hands, and immediately panicked: "She has such a withdrawn and weird temper, and the slaves are just sharing the same room with her, not really close, your majesty knows clearly, such a secret thing , exposed that she was about to lose her life, how could she tell me?"

After such an outrageous thing happened, the emperor was obviously annoyed by the public tossing around at night, and he suddenly said in a heavy tone: "Then there must be some clues left behind, go to the palace maid and her residence. Search for me!"

"Yes!" Eunuch Jia took the order and left.

Concubine Sheng Xian rolled her eyes, and immediately called to the mother beside her and said, "Mother Xing, you can also bring someone to help, I'm afraid Boss Jia and they don't understand the tricks in women's things."

This is what the people who were guarding against Empress Gu found out, but kept it secret.

Empress Gu didn't have any guilt at all, she just let them go.

The palace lady's residence is very remote, and Eunuch Jia and his party took a long time to go this trip.

It's just that it's common for people to die in the palace, but it's rare for the palace to be filthy, and the scandals of maids and even pregnant women are rare, so everyone is eagerly waiting to see the outcome of this matter, and everyone's waiting is not boring.

Empress Gu even ordered someone to move the chairs here, and she sat and waited with the emperor.

Everyone waited left and right, and finally waited until Eunuch Jia and his party came back.

Mother Xing was carrying a bundle in her hand, and she threw it in front of Xu Qiu as soon as she entered the door: "You share the same cabinet with her, these things, see which ones belong to you, and pick them out."

Trembling, Xu Qiu picked up a few things and brought them out.

As for the rest of the package, apart from a hairpin made of pure gold, a few pieces of clothing, and some embroidery.

Small items, a half-embroidered baby bellyband, two women's embroidered handkerchiefs, and—

There are some trinkets such as sachets and purses, but judging from the styles and the embroidery patterns on them, almost all of them are suitable for men.

Concubine Sheng Xian was furious immediately: "Dirty things, there are so many forbidden things hidden in the room of a palace maid? Has she been doing nothing but thinking about men all day long?"

However, among these objects, none of them had a clear direction and could be used to identify the adulterer.

Concubine Sheng Xian then lost interest and became hoarse, a little dissatisfied.

Empress Gu saw the look on Eunuch Jia's face the moment he came back, she already guessed that he got something that was not good for her, she was not sure what it was for a while, so she didn't speak first.

Concubine Sheng Xian calmed down a bit, she naturally did not give up, and looked at Eunuch Jia displeased again: "Is it just these things?"

Eunuch Jia stepped forward, then opened his palm and took out another thing: "There is another jade pendant!"

(End of this chapter)