Empress please be more ruthless

Chapter 75
Dongfang Liang's round head was covered with a layer of cold sweat. He lowered his head and walked quickly to the center of the hall, knelt down on his knees and said: "I am currently preparing for the winter solstice ceremony. I have neglected it."

Song Qingtong's eyes rolled slightly. He heard Dongfang Liang mentioned about the ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven. It seems that there is still more than a month to go. Are you starting to prepare now?It is estimated to be quite cumbersome, and it must be much more grand than Xin'an's small sacrifice ceremony.

"Oh, Aiqing is busy preparing for the ceremony, and has no time to be distracted by other affairs. How about this, I will leave it to Yuan Aiqing to be responsible for the supervision and punishment of officials who violated the system."

Yuan Yong listened in the court, his eyebrows were all screwed together, this kind of job is thankless, strictly following the rules will offend a large number of people, even if you turn a blind eye, the emperor said that the ministers exceeded If you can't find out a single case that exceeds the limit, isn't that clearly against the emperor?Last time at the banquet in Changle Palace, he had a fever and wanted to test the emperor. It turns out that the emperor can be tested by anyone?It seems that she is hating herself.

I can only list: "I would like to obey the holy order..."

For a while, the court broke up early, and all the officials left one after another. Only Chen Mian, Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, was left in the Jinluan Hall.

Standing at the foot of the jade steps, Chen Miangong said: "Your Majesty, some clues have just been found out about the death of Hoe He. He was poisoned with a strange poison. After taking it for ten hours, the poison developed. The symptoms are like dyeing." During the epidemic, the whole body was convulsed with high fever, and it took less than an hour from the onset of the disease to his death. Chen and Master Chu investigated the people who had been in contact with He He after he was imprisoned, and Lu Ju was the most suspected."

"Who is Luju?" Song Qingtong asked.

"Green Ju is the nanny hired by Princess Suyang for Lin Xiangwan's son three months ago. According to Qing'er, Hoe He often went to see her in the past month. The relationship between the two is ambiguous. Oh, Qing'er is Lin Xiangwan The servant girl next to her is one of the five eyeliners assigned by the Ministry of Punishment."

Song Qingtong pondered and asked, "Have you interrogated Lu Ju?"

Chen Mian sighed softly: "Lvhe is very likely to be Xue Rulai's person. I discussed with Master Chu. I wanted to secretly follow Luhe and find out Xue Rulai's lair. Unexpectedly, I received news last night that Luhe Accidentally fell into a well and died."

Song Qingtong frowned, got up and left his seat, it was obvious that Lu He was killed and silenced, "Did you do the autopsy? What clues did you find?"

Chen Mian replied: "Lv Ju had almost no trauma on her body. She fell into the well and drowned. Her left hand tightly held a silk handkerchief. The son also said that Lu Ju's hands and feet are not clean, and she often steals some valuables from the West Wing while the young mistress is not paying attention, and that handkerchief is probably stolen by Lu Ju."

Song Qingtong paced back and forth on the jade steps, and Lu Ju liked to take advantage of small things, so she was taken advantage of by others. It was not difficult to see that she was just a ghost, and the real murderer was hidden behind the scenes.

"What do you think of Chen Aiqing?" Song Qingtong stopped and glanced at Chen Mian.

Chen Mian hesitated to speak, but Song Qingtong said, "There is no one else here, but it's okay for Chen Aiqing to say it."

Chen Mian then said: "Your Majesty, if the handkerchief was stolen by Luju, she would not dare to hold it in her hand in a blatant manner, and when Luju fell into the well, she would definitely open her hands and try to grab the wall of the well, and she would never die. Hold on to a handkerchief, unless that handkerchief is important physical evidence torn from the murderer."

Song Qingtong nodded, his analysis was correct, "You mean Lin Xiangwan is a murderer?"

Chen Mian quickly said: "I don't mean that. Although the handkerchief belongs to Lin Xiangwan, it may be rewarded to the servant girl under him. According to Qing'er, Lin Xiangwan usually gives more kindness and less punishment, and often rewards the things at hand. My servant." After finishing speaking, he raised his sleeve and wiped the sweat from his forehead. Lin Xiangwan is the younger sister of Prime Minister Lin Kuang, and Lin Kuang is Chu Tianmo's favorite student. Even if he doubted it, he dared not mention it clearly , unless he doesn't want to be in the officialdom anymore.

Song Qingtong's eyes flickered, he knew Chen Mian's worry, and said, "I checked Lin Xiangwan's background."

Chen Mian raised his eyes and glanced at Song Qingtong. Lin Xiangwan checked it out, to be precise, he checked it behind Chu Tianmo's back, and replied: "I checked it out. Lin Xiangwan is not Lin Kuang's sister, but a fellow villager." His distant cousin was married, but her husband died, and there was a plague in her hometown. Two years ago, Lin Xiangwan came to the capital alone to join Lin Kuang. Lin Kuang took her in because of his pity. Looking for Xi Niang to be happy, Lin Xiangwan proposed to remarry Ji Yunzhou, and asked Lin Kuang to go to Ji's mansion to propose marriage. Princess Suyang initially disagreed, but a fortune teller said that Lin Xiangwan was a lucky star in Ji Yunzhou's life, and he would be able to marry him. After giving birth to an heir, Princess Suyang agreed to marry Lin Xiangwan in."

Song Qingtong frowned and pondered, intuiting that Lin Xiangwan was suspicious, and suddenly remembered that on the night of chasing the chaotic party, before Xue Rulai appeared, the child in Lin Xiangwan's arms suddenly burst into tears, and Lin Xiangwan carried the child into the west. On the other hand, Xue Rulai arrived on the back foot. Now think about it, is everything too coincidental?

"Chen Aiqing, tell Qing'er to pay more attention to Lin Xiangwan's movements, please step back."

Chen Mian secretly let out a sigh of relief, and took the order to retreat.

Song Qingtong called out his intestines and ordered: "Go to the Ji Mansion to monitor Lin Xiangwan closely, and let me know if there is anything unusual."

Yuchang took the order without changing his face. In his eyes, there was only the master, and there was no distinction between men and women. Song Qingtong also valued him, so he sent him to perform the task.

Song Qingtong walked out of the Golden Luan Hall, only then remembered that he was going to send Chu Tianmo off, and called Fuquan: "Where is Xiangfu?"

Fuquan sighed and said, "Your Majesty, Lord Chu has been gone for a long time."

"Oh?" Song Qingtong responded, her heart felt as if stuffed with a ball of cotton, tightly swollen, she walked towards the palace on foot without riding a dragon chariot, and when she was about to reach the inner court, two people walked towards her, Song Qingtong stopped her pace.

Ji Ruyi ran up to Song Qingtong excitedly, with dishonest paws, patting her shoulders and touching her head, "Nephew and daughter-in-law, seeing that you and Lianyue are like glue, the purpose of my uncle's trip has finally been achieved... ..."

Song Qingtong rolled her eyes secretly, you probably haven't seen anything like glue like paint, have you?Even if he is more than one meter away from her, can this word be used to describe it?
However, soon Song Qingtong no longer had any objections. Ji Ruyi pulled Shangguan Lianyue who was retreating, like playing with a puppet, stuffed Song Qingtong into Shangguan Lianyue's arms, and put Shangguan Lianyue's arm It rests on Song Qingtong's shoulder.

(End of this chapter)