A Thousand Gold Order: Inheritance

Chapter 346 Throwing bricks to attract jade, a crime of mortal death (second update)

The three of them entered the hall, but they didn't dare to go too far, and when they got to the middle of the hall, they fell to their knees one after another.

Touch the forehead to the ground, extremely humble.

Words, even dare not say a word.

In this way, even if Qi Huan lay down on the ground, he would not be able to see their true faces.

Of course, under the watchful eyes of everyone, no matter how curious and anxious she was, she couldn't do such a thing. She was puzzled, so she turned to look at Qi Wenyan.

Qi Wenyan was calm and unhurried, and there was no flaw in the expression on his entire face, and she couldn't see any clues.

Then turned to look at Ye Xunyi——

However, she found that her face was pale and her eyes were wandering. Under this situation, she couldn't control her expression at all, and she lost her composure.

Qi Huan suddenly became more puzzled, what kind of big shots came in that could scare her like this?
When she turned her head again and continued to try to identify the identities of those people across the hall, Yun Xi, who had been holding her hand close to her, poked her back with her finger and whispered: "That ... seems to be the teacher of Zhong Yuzhai."

One word awakened the person in the dream, and Qi Huan was like enlightenment.

The next moment, he was also shocked.

Taking a closer look, it really is Zhong Yuzhai's old master, shopkeeper and buddy.

The three of them were neatly lined up, and a lot of them knelt in a row.

After being missing for several months, Gu Zhan even used all kinds of connections to find people in heaven and earth, but was he always under his nose?
She always thought that these people were either silenced by Ye Xunyi, or they sensed something was wrong and ran away.

But it turns out——

Have they been in Qi Wenyan's hands for more than half a year?

The legendary dark under the lamp?
Qi Huan couldn't control his expression for a while, Huo De turned his head and looked at Qi Wenyan again, but at the same time, deep down in his heart, he was filled with overwhelming panic——

What on earth did her third uncle do without making a fuss?

If he had brought these three people out at that time, Yunheng's case would not have developed in the current direction. It was related to the prince of the dynasty, and even involved the entire government. He really couldn't bear it, so he just held on How many key people have witnessed the white play for so long?
If this person was not her third uncle, and he was sure that he was a friend rather than an enemy...

If she was in a hostile position, she would be so terrified that she would ignore him and rush forward to bite him to death on the spot!

because--

Only in this way can there be something to say later.

But obviously, Ye Xunyi was terrified and completely dumbfounded, Yue Mo was only thinking about how to keep himself safe and retreated, and didn't even consider the aspect of pulling people back to the same end.

All the people in the hall stared at the three ordinary people shivering below.

In the end, His Highness the Crown Prince was the most genuine, quick to speak, staring so hard that his eyes ached and didn't see what was so special about these people, so he asked directly: "Qi Aiqing, who are these people?"

Ye Xunyi subconsciously opened his mouth, instinctively wanting to grab the point, but obviously he had nothing to say, so he closed his mouth anxiously.

Qi Wenyan clasped his hands, and said truthfully, "These three people are the shopkeeper and assistants of Zhong Yu Zhai that my niece said."

He bowed to the emperor again: "Your Majesty, after King Rui's collusion with the enemy and treason case occurred, these three people stopped the sedan chair on the way home from the minister to surrender, and the reason why the minister has the audacity to try it at today's state banquet In this case, the niece's loss of jewelry is just an insignificant detail, the main thing I want to talk about is the old case of King Rui. These three people are key witnesses, and please make an exception to allow them to enter this warm pavilion for face-to-face interrogation."

Because Yun Heng absconded in fear of crime and has not been found so far, so although his case has already been finalized, the matter has always been hanging by a tail, and no one is safe.

The emperor really didn't expect that the young minister of Dali Temple would bring up this case as soon as he made a move. At this time, his expression was extremely serious, and he nodded and said in a deep voice: "Yes."

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Qi Wenyan thanked him.

Without his further instructions, Eunuch Li took them down in person, searched the three of them briefly and roughly, and made sure that they hadn't brought any sharp weapons or anything illegal, so he took the three of them inside and continued to go inside.

The three of them still only dared to stare at the ground, and after entering the warm pavilion, they knelt down again.

In Yun Heng's case, the emperor never believed that his son would commit treason and colluded with the enemy. Yun Heng was convicted and the case was concluded.

Now, Qi Wenyan brought up the case again in public. He felt urgent and asked, "You said these three people are important witnesses in the case of King Rui? Who are the witnesses?"

"Your Majesty, please be calm." Qi Wenyan said.

He walked to the side of the three of them, and said calmly: "I called you here today to serve as witnesses to help solve the case. Your Majesty is merciful and will not pursue your disrespect. Look up and see. Do you know who is here?" man of."

Ye Xunyi's gaze was dodged again for an instant, and he even turned his head slightly to the side, wishing he could find a crack in the ground and slip in.

"Yes... yes!" The three looked up tremblingly.

It was still the shopkeeper who had seen more of the world, so he took the lead and looked around boldly.

Because Ye Xunyi was kneeling and was next to the banquet table, they saw Qi Huan and Yun Xi first.

The old master was particularly impressed with Qi Huan, pointing to her for a moment showing a bit of joy at meeting an old friend, and said: "This girl from the Qi family is the daughter of the Hou family and a regular customer of the old man. The grass people not only give She has beaten jewelry a few times, and pointed her to a familiar blacksmith shop, and she said that she would like to order a few hand tools for making jewelry, so that it is convenient for daily repair of minor defects on the jewelry."

After the master finished speaking, he turned his head and looked at the shopkeeper and fellows beside him.

The two also nodded.

The clerk pointed to Yun Xi who was standing next to him: "We've met this girl before, and I've been to the shop twice with Miss."

At this time, there was no need for Qi Huan to intervene here, so she felt at ease to be a good prop and didn't say anything.

Qi Wenyan frowned when he saw that she had directly put down the pick, and reminded: "Show them the earrings in your hand."

"Oh." Qi Huan responded, and then reluctantly stepped forward, and gave the earrings to the shopkeeper, "Does shopkeeper Lin still remember my pair of earrings?"

The shopkeeper didn't dare to act rashly, holding the earrings in his hand, he got together with the two shop assistants to have a look.

In the end, he came forward and nodded conservatively: "Yes. The first time the girl came to our store in February of the new year was for this pair of earrings? At that time, there was a girl in your house who was a habitual thief and often touched the earrings. I bought your jewelry and went to our shop for sale. This pair of earrings... She gave it to you the other day, and you found it on the back. Another regular customer who happened to be there at the time bought it at a high price."

The buddy also quickly echoed: "Yes, yes, yes, you said at the time that it was over, and asked our shopkeeper to check the accounts, and gave you a list of all the things that the girl in your house had resold, and made an order on the spot, and made a call." It's quite an expensive face."

The shopkeeper was holding the earring in his hand, and at this moment, he also reacted a little bit, and couldn't help showing doubts: "But why did this earring come back to you again?"

At this point, it is completely in line with Qi Huan's previous rhetoric.

Then--

Why this earring fell out of His Highness the Crown Prince again today has become a very intriguing question.

But Qi Huan's current attitude is to be passive and sabotage, not wanting to shine in her third uncle's home field, so she just keeps silent.

The three shopkeepers looked at each other.

Qi Wenyan took the earring from him, threw it to Qi Huan, and urged again: "Keep watching, see if there is anyone else I know."

The three quickly collected their minds, and once again looked at the warm pavilion one by one.

Ye Xunyi is a real person after all, when the shopkeeper recognized her at a glance, he exclaimed immediately: "It's her. Miss Qi's earrings were bought by this girl."

Ye Xunyi couldn't sit still, and retorted on the spot from embarrassment: "Your Majesty, this matter is unfair. Mr. Qi said clearly that these people are all hiding in his house. They are all in the same group and have enough time to interact with each other." Colluding confessions, making up a set of false statements to deceive the world in front of the emperor. This is a crime they want to add, concubine... I don't know them at all!"

"Girl, you have visited our shop once or twice. How can you say you don't know each other?" These words made several people anxious on the spot, and the shopkeeper immediately retorted, "You are the third lady of the prime minister's mansion, the prime minister The mansion is only three streets away from our shop."

"The location of our Prime Minister's Mansion is not a secret, everyone knows it!" Ye Xunyi knew that until now she could only refuse to admit it.

The matter of Qi Huan's earrings is not the most troublesome thing for her. She is mainly afraid that the matter of engraving the seal privately will be exposed. There is no real evidence in the hands of these people.

At that time, just to be extra careful, when she gave the silver, she directly gave it loose silver without any markings, because if she gave the bank note, someone might find out the bank, and then follow the vine to find the door.

Thanks to these few street people who didn't know how important the seal she was going to engrave was. Although she asked for fineness, it must be engraved according to the drawings she provided, and the size and size were also required, and there could be no deviations. In the end, the other party only happily asked her for a hundred taels of silver as a reward.

"You girl, why are you talking nonsense with your eyes open?" The shopkeeper was also anxious when he saw this, but he seemed unable to tell for a while.

At this time, the old master next to him suddenly spoke up and murmured: "I remember that day the girl went to repair a jade hairpin that broke in two. You said it was a relic of my deceased mother, and your request was very strange. In addition to repairing the broken hairpin, you also asked the old man to make a hole in the head of the hairpin to make a mechanism for hiding small things."

Ye Xunyi's face changed suddenly, regretting that he hadn't removed the jade hairpin from his hair earlier to hide it.

The old master pointed straight at her forehead: "If the old man is not mistaken, it is the hairpin. You dare to take it off and identify it. If the mechanism on the head of the hairpin is not the handicraft of the old man, the old man will pay for this old life." here you are."

At this time, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was already fully excited. Before the old master finished speaking, he had already waved his hand to greet Eunuch Jia: "Boss Jia, take off her hairpin and have a look."

Although Ye Xunyi knew that she couldn't even hide in front of the imperial court, but she was really guilty and shameful, she was still in a panic and wanted to grab the hairpin first.

but don't want to-

That eunuch Jia, who looked tall and burly, was actually a nimble trainer!

She only saw the figure in front of her flash, and before her hand touched her hair, someone grabbed her wrist.

The next moment, Eunuch Jia had already pulled out her jade hairpin, and at the same time pushed her lightly, and she fell to the ground.

She screamed uncontrollably: "That is my biological mother's relic, the dead are the greatest..."

but--

Who cares about her?
She didn't have the courage to ram her head to death to frighten everyone, and she didn't have the ability to rush up to snatch the hairpin back again, so she just leaned on the ground and shouted anxiously.

Knowing that His Highness the Crown Prince was curious, Eunuch Jia took the hairpin back and was about to hand it to him...

Qi Wenyan also reminded at the right time: "If there is really a mechanism at the top, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince should not use it, and be careful."

His Royal Highness still cherished his life. Although he was a little embarrassed, he immediately withdrew his hands like a gentleman, and even deliberately hid his hands behind his back with lingering fear.

Qi Wenyan gave another wink, and Eunuch Jia didn't move rashly, and simply took the hairpin to the old master.

The master craftsman unscrewed the mechanism of the hairpin head precisely, and there was indeed a hollow groove inside.

and--

There is also some very fine reddish powder hidden in it.

Qi Wenyan quickly took out a handkerchief, knelt down, and supported the broken hairpin.

Ye Xunyi saw that the incident was brought to light, and all her strength seemed to be sucked out in an instant, so she maintained a slumped posture, unable to move.

"It's really a mechanism. What's inside? It seems to be able to enter?" Yun Zhan leaned from his seat, pulled his neck to look around, and waved impatiently: "Where is the imperial physician? Is there any imperial physician here? "

Master He, the envoy of the Taiyuan Hospital, hurriedly agreed to get up.

At the same time, for the sake of fairness, he also greeted a colleague who also came to the banquet.

The two hurried into the warm pavilion.

"Check what it is." His Royal Highness ordered hastily.

"Yes, Your Highness." The two imperial physicians carefully took what was in Qi Wenyan's hands, and knelt on the ground nearby to study it.

After a while, the two of them changed their faces together, knelt down on the ground, and said in a panic: "Qi...Qi Your Majesty..."

Because Ye Xunyi is a female family member, Imperial Physician He then looked at Empress Gu again: "Ma'am, what is hidden in this hairpin is erysipelas, also... that is commonly known as Hedinghong, a highly poisonous thing."

As soon as these words came out, the whole hall was in an uproar.

The emperor's daughter-in-law, Ning Wang's side concubine, who sat a few tables away from him, actually deliberately planned to bring poisonous things to the palace with her?

"Bold!" The empress was still calm, but someone among the clan was furious on the spot, jumped up and pointed at Ye Xunyi and shouted: "This woman has ulterior motives and intends to assassinate, come..."

Ye Xunyi's hands and feet were cold, his mind was buzzing, and he was already unable to react.

Ye Caizhi, who was sitting on the mat outside the Nuan Pavilion, also stood up, knelt down in panic and cried out, "Your Majesty..."

The one who reacted the most was Concubine Sheng Xian. Her legs gave way and she fell directly to the ground. Her expression was terrified, her face was pale, and she pointed at Ye Xunyi with trembling fingers, "You...are you crazy?"

Her first thought was not that Ye Xunyi brought poison to the palace, whether it meant that this woman wanted to take the opportunity to harm the emperor, but——

She has been in frequent private contact with this woman lately, and if this woman has ever thought badly about her, she is now a dead person who can't speak.

The frightened mind was dizzy for a while.

The imperial guards guarding outside the hall heard the shout of assassination from inside, and a group had already rushed in, their swords drawn.

But the emperor raised his hand in time to calm them down.

He neither panicked nor showed much surprise, but just stared at Ye Xunyi carefully.

Ye Xunyi's teeth were chattering at this moment.

With this poison, she actually has no chance to throw it into the diet of the empress or the crown prince, and if she poisons herself, unless she is ready to burn everything, she will not take this risk, and carry this hairpin with her The poison in it is just for emergencies.

Moreover, she is very sure that no one will notice the secret hidden in this thing.

But she counts everything—

No matter how hard he thought about it, he would never have imagined that on an occasion like a state banquet, a master craftsman who made hairpins in the market would bump into her here.

Now just relying on this hairpin...

She seems to be speechless, and there is only one dead end? !
Today, she is obviously full of ambition to disintegrate the prince's one-party interest alliance and do great things, and it is clear that everything is going well at the beginning, and the results are gratifying. How can the situation turn so suddenly to this point now?
Qi Wenyan's big move today should be to use these three people to testify that she is the mastermind behind the design of framing Yunheng, so as to overturn the old case and put her to death on the charge of framing the prince, but the big move has not yet come If she came out, she was charged with an indefinable capital crime?

Ye Xunyi felt that the development of this situation was really absurd and funny, but——

In this situation, she couldn't laugh!

　Huanhuanzi: passive sabotage, ready to lie down and win, never want to work hard...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)