The daily life of young girls in ancient times

Chapter 174

Zhao Chen went directly to the Punishment Division, where the two maidservants had already started to be interrogated. To put it bluntly, the Punishment Division used all kinds of means to interrogate them. From the very beginning, they directly beat twenty big boards. Zhao Chen directly ordered the person named Qing'er Be gentle with your hands.

Zhao Chen still believed in Baozhu's conclusion. Firstly, what the aunt in charge said was right. This Qing'er was an honest man with caring relatives at home. Most people would not dare to do such a thing like murdering a prince, besides, someone must have ordered him to do so. Yes, even if you really wanted to find someone to do this kind of thing, you wouldn't find a maid with Qing'er's character, who had everything written on her face and couldn't hide it at all.

If he wanted to find someone to do this, he would only find a shrewd maid like Hanxuan, and it was even more suspicious that Hanxuan went to wash up at this time.

Zhao Chen asked the Department of Punishment to execute the punishment, and sent people to search the two people's rooms, but found no medicine powder, but Hanxuan's beds were all changed, and they were as clean as new.

After hearing the news, the Department of Punishment had already done its work, but the two maids still didn't say anything, saying that they didn't do it by themselves.

Zhao Chen lost his patience and went directly to the punishment room in the Punishment Department. The two maids were not locked in the same room. Zhao Chen went to Hanxuan's punishment room. Bloody and bloody, the board of the Department of Punishment is not the same as the board outside, and the effect of hitting fifty boards outside is nothing more than this.

Zhao Chen stood still in the execution room, "If you tell the truth, you will suffer less."

Hanxuan's face was pale from the pain, cold sweat broke out on her forehead, she still gritted her teeth, "No...it wasn't done by the servant."

"Oh?" Zhao Chen snorted, "It wasn't you who did it, who did it? Just now you said outside the hall that Qing'er did it, do you have evidence? The queen just asked a few words, how can you be sure it was Did Qing'er do it?"

Hanxuan gritted her teeth and said, "Yes... it was a servant who bumped into her."

Zhao Chen was silent, motioning for her to continue, Hanxuan continued, "The servant girl shares a room with Qing'er, and I saw her hiding things furtively a few days ago, so the servant girl must have been made by Qing'er."

"Based on this alone, you can conclude that Qing'er did it. It's too hasty." Zhao Chen's expression was cold, "Come here, continue to torture, I think this maid is very stubborn, and give another [-] slaps."

If you go down to [-] boards, you will die. Hanxuan's face turned pale, and she struggled to say, "Qing'er did it, she still smells like medicine powder..."

After saying that, he stopped abruptly, Zhao Chen said coldly, "How do you know that the medicinal powder was used to murder the prince? Can you still smell the medicinal powder?"

Needless to say now, he can be sure that Hanxuan did this. He asked several people to smell the powder, but they all said they couldn't smell anything.It can be seen that Hanxuan slipped her mouth in a moment of panic, she must have known that Baozhu could smell the smell, and then sprinkled the powder on Qing'er, which is why she said something wrong.

Hanxuan's face was frighteningly pale, and her teeth were chattering, "Yes... it was the servant who smelled it on the little prince, and Qing'er also had... so... so, the servant guessed..."

"Shut up!" Zhao Chen directly interrupted her, and directly ordered the people from the Punishment Department to get some rouge for Hanxuan to smell, but they could tell what it was like.

Hanxuan's face turned pale all of a sudden, and her body trembled more and more. The people from the Punishment Department quickly brought over several kinds of rouge, but Hanxuan made several mistakes, so it can be seen that saying that she smelled the medicine powder was also a lie.

Zhao Chen said softly, "If you are willing to tell the mastermind behind the scenes, I will spare your life."

Hanxuan raised her head violently, "Is what the emperor said true? The emperor is the Ninth Five-Year Supreme, but... don't count on what you say." She also blushed anxiously, otherwise how would she dare to say such outrageous words in front of the emperor.

Zhao Chen sneered, "Of course it means what you say."

Hanxuan took a deep breath before saying, "Yes... Yu Zhaorong asked the servant to do it. A few days ago, she gave the servant a pack of medicine powder, saying that she let the servant secretly put it in the little prince's closet on the day of Jiali. And...and told the servant girl that the queen has a keen sense of smell, so she would definitely smell the medicine powder, so the servant girl sprinkled some of the powder on Qing'er, and sprinkled the rest on the little prince's clothes, and then the servant girl went to wash it up After a while, I was afraid that the queen would smell something."

Seeing the frighteningly cold face of the emperor, Hanxuan shuddered and stammered, "I beg the emperor to spare the life of this servant."

Zhao Chen sneered, threw off his robe and strode out. Since he said to spare the maidservant's life, he would naturally spare her life, but he would make her life worse than death.

Zhao Chen went to the Imperial Study Room again, and the news that Wang Chao went to Luling to investigate had already been there, and it was indeed the same as what the Queen Mother said, the news leaked by Baozhu before was passed on by Yu Zhaorong Feige to the Queen Mother in the capital .

This time the general ledger was settled together, Zhao Chen directly had someone arrest Yu Zhaorong and take him to the Punishment Department. When Yu Zhaorong met Zhao Chen and Hanxuan in the past, the Punishment Department did not change his expression much. It seemed that he had expected it a long time ago. this day.

Zhao Chen asked someone to tell Yu Zhaorong's crimes, and asked, "Yu Zhaorong, can you plead guilty?"

Yumei saluted Zhao Chen gently, "I plead guilty."

Zhao Chen said coldly, "Since I have pleaded guilty, there is nothing more to say, come here, give Yu Zhaorong a glass of poisoned wine!"

Yumei smiled instead of anger, and gently put the hair behind her ears, and said softly, "The emperor is so cruel, if the emperor can look at the concubine, the concubine will be loyal to the emperor for the rest of her life, for the sake of the emperor." Don't want to look at my concubine more? The first time I saw the emperor in the palace, I was very pleased with the emperor..."

It has been a few years since she married into the palace, and it can be seen that the number of times she has seen Zhao Chen can be counted on the fingers. He only has the queen in his eyes, and he is still innocent until now. Satisfied, it's a pity, in the end, she still didn't get even a little bit of affection from him, and she didn't even get him to look at her more. It seems that in the past few years, this is the only time when his gaze is completely on her. of.

Thinking of what the man told her, "Yu Zhaorong's appearance is not worse than that empress at all, why does the emperor only have empress empress in his eyes?"I'm afraid this harem will be the queen's world in the future, it's really a pity for Yu Zhaorong. "

The man's words were indeed correct, so I gradually became dissatisfied. Why did he only have the queen in his eyes? What's wrong with the concubines in the harem? He wanted to teach him a lesson, how could he know that this little prince is also in poor health, and his body would be covered with rashes with just such a little medicine powder.

Yumei sighed in her heart, and looked at Zhao Chen with bewildered eyes.

Zhao Chen was disgusted in his heart, and all the subsequent matters were handed over to the Punishment Department, and then it was announced to the palace that Yu Zhaorong murdered the prince, gave him a glass of poisoned wine, and the maid Hanxuan murdered the prince, broke her legs and threw her to the cold palace.

After finishing these things, Zhao Chen did not go back to Deyang Palace. He stayed in the imperial study for a long time until dawn and went directly to the morning court. These ministers have also heard about Yu Zhaorong murdering the little prince. He was very honest, he didn't cause trouble for Zhao Chen, but he was afraid that the irritable emperor would take advantage of the little prince's affairs and send them off.

Don't worry, ministers, the morning came down early, Zhao Chen didn't sleep all night, and then passed the Deyang Palace. What happened in the Deyang Palace, Zhao Chen sent a lot of guards today, Zhao Chen can enter the main hall It felt like these servants were all tense, and they seemed to be even more nervous when they saw him.

Zhao Chen waved his hand to make everyone retreat, Bao Zhu was already up when he went to the room, and was having breakfast, Zhuang Zhuang also lay in Bao Zhu's arms and asked Bao Zhu to feed him millet porridge.

Bao Zhu knew what happened last night early this morning, and didn't pay much attention to it, anyway, the emperor has already dealt with it.

After one night, the rash on Zhuangzhuang's body also subsided, and his face became white and tender again. When this little guy saw Zhao Chen, the smile on his little face immediately collapsed, and he tightly grabbed Baozhu's clothes.

Baozhu patted him on the back, and said to Zhao Chen, "The emperor can eat in the morning? How about letting the maid outside come in to serve the emperor?"

"No, I ate it in the morning." Seeing his strong appearance, Zhao Chen felt really uncomfortable. It has been almost two months since his son returned to the palace, but he still treats him like this, but he is also to blame. He misunderstood their wives and bullied his mother. This kid really loves his mother.

Zhao Chen thought for a while, got up and came to Baozhu's side, "I'll hug him, you eat first." After saying that, he wanted to take Zhuang Zhuang, who knew that the child would scream in fright when he saw him like this, She hugged Baozhu vigorously, but refused to let Zhao Chen hug her.

Baozhu was also quite embarrassed, and patted Zhuang Zhuang on the back, "Why don't I hold him, he was frightened yesterday, and today he doesn't even want Miaoyu and the others."

Zhao Chen gave a deep acknowledgment, but didn't leave, just pulled a chair and sat down beside Baozhu.

Seeing that this person didn't come to hug him anymore, Zhuang Zhuang stayed in Baozhu's arms and looked at Zhao Chen curiously.

Zhao Chen smiled at him, picked up the spoon on the table and added a spoonful of porridge to feed him.

Zhuang Zhuang immediately withdrew into Baozhu's arms again, Zhao Chen was not discouraged, Zhuang Zhuang didn't eat, so he would feed him with a spoon from time to time, and then Zhuang Zhuang didn't hide when he stretched out the spoon, just glanced at him.

Bao Zhu and Zhuang Zhuang finally had breakfast, Zhao Chen was not in a hurry to go out, and stayed in the room with his mother.

Zhuangzhuang just ate, Baozhu didn't dare to let him crawl on the bed, for fear that he would vomit, so she just hugged him and gently patted her back.

Seeing this, Zhao Chen asked, "Did you think of Zhuang Zhuang's name?"

Baozhu shook her head, "The emperor should come and name Zhuang Zhuang."

Zhao Chen said, "I thought I might as well call him Zhao Tianhan, what do you think?"

Baozhu nodded, "This name is not bad. If the emperor thinks it is not bad, Zhuang Zhuang's name will be Tianhan."

Zhuang Zhuang seemed to know that the two were calling him, he babbled in response, and both of them softened their hearts.

Zhao Chen laughed again, "Although Tianhan is young, if he is older, he should choose a grand teacher to teach him. I think the Fourth Master Rong has a great literary talent and is not pedantic. If Master Yue Zhang can personally teach Tianhan, I will rest assured." What do you think, the queen?"

Baozhu probably didn't expect that Zhao Chen would ask her father to teach Tianhan, but she can rest assured that her father's literary talents are indeed good, and he has been in the officialdom for so long these years, enough to teach Tianhan up.

(End of this chapter)