The concubine is poisonous

Chapter 14 Arrest
At night, everything is silent, summer nights are always hot and dry, especially in recent days, the cicadas attached to the big trees are also chattering non-stop, as if shouting 'it's hot, it's hot'.

The entire imperial palace was also restless. The emperor issued an order that Zhou Xuemei must be caught. The servants and imperial troops were all dispatched to search for Zhou Xuemei's whereabouts.

"Sister, those people have been searching for a long time. They found the dining hall from Yuqing Palace and the palaces of several concubines, but they still couldn't find Zhou Xuemei." Nian Se listened to the guards running around outside. The voice said to Gu Xinning.

Gu Xinning was breaking off a bowl of tea that she made herself, and sniffed it close to her nose. With an intoxicated expression on her face, she took a small sip and said quietly: "They haven't found the key at all, so they can only fiddle with it." share."

Nian Se walked up to Gu Xinning and said, "Does my sister have any clues?"

Gu Xinning said slowly, "Clues? No, but at least I know that she is definitely still hiding within the Yuqing Palace." The arrest and questioning of the guards was done in secret, and no one else knew about it before. This matter was only known when the servant brought the servants to Yuqing Palace to recognize him.

And when the servants came to identify her, they had already sent people to surround Yuqing Palace. At that time, Zhou Xuemei would never have a chance to escape from Yuqing Palace, at least Gu Xinning thought so, but
"But Miss, the inside and outside of Yuqing Palace have been carefully searched several times. The guards have not even missed the beams of the roof and the bottom of the bed in the bedroom. If Zhou Xuemei hides in Yuqing Palace, it is impossible not to be discovered. Ah." Nian Se asked incomprehensibly.

After taking another sip of tea, Gu Xinning said, "Zhou Xuemei is a weak girl, she has no strength at all, and checking the roof beams is a waste of time. Let me ask you what's in the backyard of Yuqing Palace?"

Nian Se tilted her head and thought for a while, then scratched her head and said, "Backyard? There are... trees, flowers, and... there is a well in the backyard."

Gu Xinning asked again: "What's in the well?"

Nian Se replied: "There is nothing, it is a dry well, ah, I see, the lady said that Zhou Xuemei hid in the well."

Gu Xinning reached out and patted Nianse's head gently, and said with a coquettish smile, "Okay, not bad, little Nianse's head has finally figured it out."

Nian Se said excitedly, "Then I'll tell the guards now."

Gu Xinning stopped and said: "No, we just solved the poisoning case before, before we meet the emperor, we should not make any more publicity, so as not to make too many enemies and increase troubles, isn't Zhou Xuemei still has an earring with you, throw it by the well to be inconspicuous They can't search anywhere else, and they will come back to search sooner or later."

Nian Se smiled and said, "Understood, it's better for my sister to be cautious, and I'll go right away."

They have been searching for more than two hours, inside and outside the palace, almost everywhere, but there is still no trace of Zhou Xuemei.After Ye Junyan found out, he was very angry. First, the prisoner was silenced, and then he mobilized a large number of people but failed to catch the murderer.

The servant's repeated dereliction of duty made Ye Junyan want to take off the heads of the two chief servants who were kneeling in front of him to report the results, and then smashed them into pieces. After hearing the report, Ye Junyan opened his angry eyes and shouted: "There are so many people coming and going in the palace, if she escaped from Yuqing Palace, how could no one see it? Are you all pig brains?"

The two stewards were already trembling in shock, one of them timidly said: "The ministers are stupid, what does the emperor mean, are you still in Yuqing Palace?"

Ye Junyan was too lazy to talk to them any more, and said impatiently, "Do you want me to bring someone to catch them myself?"

"I don't dare, I will take people to Yuqing Palace to search for them after waiting." After the two said, they stood up tremblingly, and walked quickly outside the palace.After leaving the main hall, they ordered people to gather people to go to Yuqing Palace to search for them again. The two of them made up their minds this time to turn Yuqing Palace upside down. Explain in words.

It was getting late at night, and many beautiful girls had already fallen asleep, but they were suddenly woken up by someone inexplicably, muttering unhappily, put on their clothes, and came to the courtyard. I checked the number of people and saw that everyone was here, so I ordered the servants to go to everyone's room to check carefully, even if there was a mouse hole, I had to dig it out.

While everyone was searching, a servant who was searching near the shrubs in the yard came to report with an earring in his hand, saying that it was found by the well in the backyard.The manager took the earrings away and took a look, and found that they were a pair of earrings found near Fu Ya's cell. Immediately, as if seeing hope, he led everyone to the backyard and surrounded the dry well layer by layer.

After that, they found a rope and sent people down to the bottom of the well to search. As soon as the servant who went down the well reached the bottom of the well, a woman's exclamation came from the bottom of the well.Only then did the servants heave a sigh of relief, thinking that they could finally do their jobs.

Zhou Xuemei hid in the well for a long time, her body was covered with dust, and she had long lost her glamor and grace. Seeing that the situation was over, she was sitting on the ground beside the well with dull eyes. She really didn't understand what went wrong. The matter of Fu Ya should have been kept secret, so why was it discovered.

The chief servant answered the question in his heart for him, and the chief servant looked at Zhou Xuemei and said coldly: "You think that what you do is perfect, and you have to leave some evidence when you kill someone." Landing on the ground in front of Zhou Xuemei, Zhou Xuemei looked down at the pair of earrings, feeling even more inexplicable in her heart: "I remember putting the pair of earrings on the jewelry box before, but then they disappeared for some reason. How could they be in his hands?"

Zhou Xuemei was thinking suspiciously in her heart, and the chief servant continued: "Skynet Huihui, your own pair of earrings not only exposed your crimes, but also led us to find your hiding place. It can be seen that your crimes are not even seen by God. Pass it, take it away!" The head guard said this, and signaled his subordinates to step forward and pull Zhou Xuemei up, before going out.

Zhou Xuemei still had a dazed expression, staring at the pair of earrings on the ground unwaveringly, racking her brains for something, when suddenly she seemed to think of something.When I looked up, I saw Nian Se in the crowd, pointing at Nian Se crazily and shouting: "It was her, she was the one who harmed me, she came to visit my room and took the opportunity to steal my earrings, and put the blame on me. "

The manager looked back at the innocent Nianse, then at Zhou Xuemei, who was in a frenzy, and said with a sneer, "Fill it? Then why did you run away? Don't tell me that you accidentally fell into the well."

"I, I." Zhou Xuemei kept repeating the word 'I' at a loss for words.

"Hmph, are you setting the blame on me? Let the servants come and confront you and take them away!" The manager said and led everyone away without looking back.

"After a tossing all night, I finally got a good night's sleep." All the show girls yawned and walked lazily to their rooms.

After returning to the room, Nian Se asked Gu Xinning: "Sister, the servants will not listen to Zhou Xuemei's words, they really suspect me, I think the manager's eyes are a bit scary."

Gu Xinning shook her head with a smile and said, "Don't worry, all the witnesses point to Zhou Xuemei, she has no way to argue, and this time the emperor is very angry at what happened in succession, if there is no definite evidence, the servants must I don’t dare to get involved in more incidents to make the Emperor displeased.”

"Well, what my sister said must be right, my sister should go to bed early."

"Okay, you should go to bed earlier, don't think too much." Gu Xinning looked at Nian Se and said with a smile.

"Ah."

At night, Gu Xinning didn't fall asleep for a long time. It was the first time she felt the taste of revenge. She couldn't tell what she felt in her heart, she just felt it was very complicated. She didn't know whether it was excitement or not?Are you happy?Excited?Is it looking forward to?Still confused or scared?
Finally, he kicked his father and got rid of a person who betrayed his father. After these people were eliminated one by one, it was the man named Ran Hai. The blood debt can only be repaid with blood!Ran Hai!You will soon receive what is yours.

Gu Xinning kept thinking about revenge, and it took some time before she managed to fall asleep.

The next day, early in the morning, Nian Se woke Gu Xinning up. Gu Xinning's residual poison was gone, and the imperial doctor said that she could start listening to the mother's class.So Nian Se came early in the morning to wash and take care of Gu Xinning.

When the roll call was called, Gu Xinning had just walked to the yard and stood in the line, when she saw the maids who were closer to Gu Xinning, all avoiding Gu Xinning like the plague, Gu Xinning sneered in her heart, and ignored her.She knew in her heart that these people just blamed Fu Ya and Zhou Xuemei's affairs on herself. They originally wanted to harm Gu Xinning, but ended up hurting herself. Out of jealousy towards Gu Xinning, almost everyone seemed to sympathize with Fu Ya and Zhou Xuemei.

And staring at Gu Xin, who can't even be poisoned to death by Luoyansha, as a broom star that even the king of Hades would not accept, it's harmful.

In the evening of the same day, there was news that the emperor had ordered Zhou Xuemei to be hanged, and that Zhou Yu'an was guilty of negligence in discipline, which caused this tragedy in the palace. , the family servants were allotted to the frontier.

At this point, Zhou Xuemei's murder and silence case finally came to an end, and Yuqing Palace was temporarily quiet.

The Compassionate Ning Palace is still boiling, and Concubine Yun comes to visit the Compassion Ning Palace several times a day, and every time she scolds a group of imperial doctors as worthless, at night, when Concubine Yun comes to visit again, finally I heard good news that the empress dowager started to have a fever. '

As soon as the imperial doctors heard the announcement of Concubine Yun's arrival, they hurriedly conveyed the news to Concubine Yun in unison.I'm afraid that if I speak too late, I will be scolded again.

Concubine Yun heard that the empress dowager's fever had subsided, her tone softened a lot, and she said, "When will the empress dowager wake up?"

"Weichen waits to guard tonight. If the body temperature does not repeat, he should be able to wake up in the morning."

Concubine Yun nodded and said: "Well, you all do your best to treat her, and I will come to visit my mother tomorrow."

"The minister waits to send off the empress respectfully."

Concubine Yun turned around and walked out, muttering in her mouth: "The palace has been quiet for so many years, and it has been like this for the past few days, one thing after another."

(End of this chapter)