Playful Queen

Chapter 126

"Your Majesty, it's not advisable to be in bad luck."

Mengli squinted at the chief guard, approached with carelessness, squatted down, and opened the white cloth covering the sweet words, and saw a pair of eyes that were glaring wide open. Some shock.

Although she is not someone she is familiar with, seeing such thoughts, her heart still pleaded a bit, but she still examined her body carefully, so she opened the whole white cloth, and saw that she was not injured at all, fingers Her body was stiff and distorted, and she seemed to have struggled at the bottom of the well. There were many wounds on her body, but none of them were fatal. What caused her death was a large bloodstain on the back of her head. According to the cloth, she remembered that the dumb slave was wearing a white palace dress yesterday, so that means, the piece of cloth held in Qiaoyu's hands was not from the dumb slave, and neither was the person who wanted to wrong her in the palace. simple!

Mengli stood up, turned around and told the guards: "Who is that, you, go and get all the eunuchs from the imperial dining room last night, and the eunuchs who found their bodies today, come to Fengyi Hall to see me, and then go and send the sweet words to me." His body was sent to the morgue."

"Empress, is there anything for the servant to do?" Tu Mocheng asked the empress with a courteous expression, not knowing when he came.

Mengli looked at the finished picture, thought about what he might be able to help, and handed a small piece of cloth to her, "Then the father-in-law of the picture will help me to check the place where the enthroned clothes are, Those palaces or those palace ladies received palace uniforms of this color yesterday."

Everything in this palace follows the rules, and the clothes and colors worn by the maids will be clearly remembered in the book, because different levels will have different treatment.

"I'll do it now, slave." Tu Mocheng smiled, turned around and left, and then Mengli took Xi'er and Qiushui back to Fengyi Hall first.

On the front hall of Fengyi Hall, the golden copper pillars carved with dragons and painted with phoenixes are resplendent and gorgeous.

Mengli sat on the soft couch with a calm face, her eyes gleamed with a cold light, staring at the two eunuchs kneeling below.

The little eunuch in the imperial dining room was already trembling, and he didn't dare to raise his eyes to look at the empress, but said in a trembling voice: "Go back to the empress, last night the servant went to deliver the soup of the concubine Yun to sister Xiaoyu of the Ningyun Palace. After that, I heard some voice, and when I got to the corner of the palace, I saw Ningyun Palace's clever words pulling her all the time."

The dumb slave also knelt on the side, silent, his face pale, when he heard the little eunuch's words, he immediately looked up at Mengli, not knowing how to explain the anxiety in his heart, at this moment, Mengli's voice was clear and sharp Thinking of it, his eyes flicked over the little eunuch in front of him.

"Only saw the pulling? Didn't see the killing with your own eyes?"

"Yes, that's how it is, slave. The slave also said the same thing to the chief guard today. What the slave saw at the time was that Qiaoyu seemed to be pulling the dumb slave and not letting her go."

"Mute slave, did you pull you with sweet words last night?"

The dumb slave nodded.

"You killed Qiaoyu?"

The dumb slave shook his head vigorously, tapped himself with his hands, and then made a pushing gesture, hoping that the empress could understand what she meant.

Maybe Mengli only half-understood a little bit. At this time, Mr. Tu, who was going to register the room, hurried over. list, and also found all the maids on the list.

"Your Majesty, the name of the dumb slave is not on the list. In terms of the color and texture of the fabric, it is not something that a court lady of the dumb slave level can get."

"The grade can only be obtained by the girl who is close to the master. The mute slave has just entered the palace. Although he has been with the concubine Li, he has not yet reached this qualification." , even he brought it, which is a lot of convenience for Mengli.

"Go and write down where these court ladies were last night, where they went, what they did, and whether there were any witnesses to testify."

Listening to what the empress said, Tu Mocheng couldn't help but smile with relief in his heart, and turned around to do what the empress said, and the other courtyard of Fengyi Hall suddenly became lively.

At this time, the sky was already dark, Fengyi Hall was holding bright lights, and Mengli walked out of the front hall with Xi'er's support. Those who have done something wrong must have a guilty conscience, and those who have a clear heart will only be careful answer.

Her sharp eyes took into account every move of the maids in the front yard, and stared at them without hesitation. When she reached the last row, a palace maid in a light green palace dress immediately dodged her eyes, and Meng Li stepped forward. Walking in front of her: "Look up at Ben Gong."

As he said that, he took her record from a eunuch, and glanced casually, "Chunmei, right? You were resting in your room last night?"

"Yes, slave girl was not feeling well last night." The little palace maid named Chunmei replied tremblingly, but she didn't know that the empress' scorching gaze had already examined her whole body, and her cold voice reached her ears. inside.

"Then you come and tell Bengong how your clothes are torn."

As she spoke, she brought the rag in her hand to Chunmei's eyes, which indeed matched the nipple on her sleeve, "You explain to me."

Chunmei looked down at her sleeves, her face turned pale, "Your Majesty, forgive me, sister Qiaoyu was not murdered by your servant!" With a plop, she suddenly knelt down on the ground, kowtowed and said : "The servant did not kill the clever words, please check it out!"

"Then tell me, why the rags on your clothes are in Qiao Yu's hands."

"The thing is like this. Last night, the servant was not feeling well and wanted to go back to lie down. When passing by the corner of the palace, I heard someone's miserable cry coming from the bottom of the well. The servant walked over to see that Qiaoyu fell into the well. At the end, the servant girl reached out to save her, but she was powerless, and she fell down hard. Seeing that she had no way to save her, the servant girl thought of going to the nearby Ningyun Palace to find someone. The servant girl and Sister Qiaoyu are the same From the village, after she enters the palace, she gets along better with the slaves, how could the slaves kill Qiaoyu..."

"Who did you go to Ningyun Palace to find!"

"I went to look for it... I happened to see Sister Xiaoyu outside the door, so I told her. Later, I really got sick in my stomach, so I left after talking." Chunmei told what happened last night. She came out, "Your Majesty, the slaves really didn't kill anyone, no matter how courageous the slaves are, they wouldn't dare to kill anyone."

Mengli looked at Chunmei who kept kowtowing, so she now connected the dumb slave with her gestures. She saw Qiaoyu and was arguing with her, and when they were arguing, she accidentally pushed her away. She entered the well, she left in a hurry, not knowing whether to find someone or run away, and then this Chunmei appeared, at that time Qiaoyu was not dead, but she was injured and couldn't recover, plus Chunmei's death It stated that the rag in Qiaoyu's hand was also torn when Chunmei tried to save her. She found herself unable to save others, so she went to Ningyun Palace.

(End of this chapter)