Chapter 18 The timid cat owner
At this moment, Zhao Tingxuan came in, knelt down beside them, and said, "After you burn the paper, go and have a rest. I am here."
Zhao Yunnuan asked: "Where did you go just now?"
Zhao Tingxuan: "Old Master Qian is here. I just went out to see him off."
Old Master Qian was Zhao Tingxuan's mentor. He retired and left the palace two years ago. Now that he came to express his condolences, Zhao Tingxuan naturally wanted to send him off in person.
Zhao Yunnuan gave a few more instructions, then took Zhao Shiqing out of the mourning hall and went directly to the place where the servants were detained.
When King Liang received Princess Jiayi and Prince Consort Xiao, he used the white jade lamp given by the emperor.
There are six white jade lamps in total, packed in exquisite boxes. They are usually kept in the warehouse and only taken out when needed.
Therefore, as soon as the banquet was over, the set of white jade cups was immediately cleaned, then put back into the box and locked in the warehouse.
King Liang only had the seizure an hour after the banquet had ended. Even if he checked the white jade cup immediately, nothing could be detected. By that time, the white jade cup had long been returned to the warehouse.
It was Eunuch Zhang who took the white jade cup out of the warehouse, and it was Eunuch Zhang who sent the white jade cup back.
Eunuch Zhang was in the dungeon at this time.
The other person who had access to the white jade cup was Eunuch Cai, who was in charge of pouring wine at that time. Eunuch Cai was also imprisoned in the dungeon.
After the banquet, King Liang returned to Shun'an Palace where he lived. He drank a bowl of sobering soup, but otherwise did not eat.
In fact, King Liang only drank one glass of wine at the banquet, but it was a custom in the palace to serve sobering soup after drinking. Whether it was King Liang or Zhao Tingxuan, whenever they drank alcohol, sobering soup would be served in the kitchen.
King Liang drank up every drop of the bowl of hangover soup. There was no leftover in the kitchen, and the bowls and chopsticks had also been washed long ago.
Aunt Li who cooked the sobering soup, the maid Qinghe who delivered the sobering soup, and the maids Libai and Taofen who served King Liang to drink the sobering soup were also in the dungeon at this time.
On the day King Liang died suddenly, the six of them were ordered to be imprisoned in the dungeon by Zhao Yunnuan.
It's just that Zhao Yunnuan was too busy and deliberately wanted to dry them out. Therefore, these six people have not been interrogated since they were imprisoned.
Although he was not put on trial, he suffered no less hardships and received no less beatings.
Zhao Yunnuan was worried that they would be silenced, and not even a fly could fly in the dungeon. The people responsible for guarding them were Zhao Yunnuan's confidants. Without Zhao Yunnuan's words, no one, not even Nie and Zhao Tingxuan, could come in.
When Zhao Shiqing saw these six people, she complained silently in her heart. These people were neither humans nor ghosts. She actually met seven of them in just one day!
There are six here and one more in the villa.
Especially the two maids Taofen and Libai, they both served Prince Liang in his daily life, and they were similar to Tongfang. Both of them were as beautiful as flowers and jade, and they were graceful.
But now he is unkempt and smelly, which is obviously caused by not changing his clothes in time after incontinence.
Zhao Shiqing's nose was extremely sensitive, and she could only hold back a few questions before walking out of the dungeon with Zhao Yunnuan.
But just as he was about to go out, Zhao Shiqing suddenly shouted: "My cat, my cat has run away!"
The people in the dungeon were going to look for it. Zhao Shiqing waved her hand generously: "Forget it, let it play here for a few days. I'll ask Ling Bo to bring some food. Remember not to catch it. It is timid. It will be scared. It got seriously ill last time when it was scared, so you must not scare it. It will leave on its own after it has had enough fun here. "The guards in the dungeon.
After walking out of the dungeon, Zhao Shiqing said to Zhao Yunnuan: "Sister, send someone to check their family members. If the two father-in-laws have no family members, check their relatives and friends."
No one cared about Zhao Shiqing's cat. Everyone in the palace knew that this second lady had been eccentric since she was a child.
Once, a woman saw Zhao Shiqing wearing a bracelet with a very special color on her wrist. The woman praised her so much. Seeing that she liked her bracelet so much, Zhao Shiqing took off the bracelet and asked the woman to Looking at it up close, I didn't expect that the woman who was frothing at the mouth was so frightened that she screamed loudly when she saw the bracelet.
It turned out that there was no bracelet there, but a small snake!
So now that Zhao Shiqing is carrying a cat with him, no one in the palace is surprised. Compared to the snake, the cat is not too cute.
But the few confidants who were sent to guard the prisoners were very worried at this time. If the second lady's cat died in the dungeon, they would be guilty.
However, the cat could neither be caught nor thrown away. If it ran away and could not be found, the second lady would still be angry with them.
Fortunately, Lingbo brought cat food, so they put the cat food and water in a corner of the dungeon, waiting for the cat owner to come over and have a meal when he got tired of playing.
But until night, they didn't see the cat, and they didn't know where the owner was hiding.
Tonight, Zhao Yunnuan ordered not to make things difficult for these six people, but to give them space and time to think about it for themselves.
So the guards locked the door and left.
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Where these six men were imprisoned, there was nothing to assist them in committing suicide. Unless they bit off their own tongues, there was no way to commit suicide.
After a night like this, the next morning, the guards opened the door to the dungeon and saw that the six people were still alive and well. Although they looked miserable, they were definitely not dead.
What made the guards even more gratified was that the cat owner with the ethereal fragrance was lying in front of the food bowl at this moment, lazily licking his paws.
A guard remembered what Zhao Shiqing said and said to his companion: "I don't know if this guy wants to go out. How about we open the door and see if it can go away?"
The companions readily agreed that if this person stayed here for one more day, they would have to bear one more day of responsibility. The second lady also said that if it wants to leave, just let it go.
When the guards opened the dungeon door, the cat rushed up and disappeared from their sight in an instant.
The guards all breathed a sigh of relief, hoping that the cat owner was not afraid. The second lady said that if the cat owner was afraid, he would get sick, and that would be entirely their responsibility.
On the same night, the people sent by Zhao Yunnuan also found out a lot of things.
Although Eunuch Zhang was an orphan, he had a benefactor who was very kind to him. However, the benefactor's grandson suddenly disappeared recently. It is not known whether he was abducted by a kidnapper.
Eunuch Cai also has two younger brothers. Eunuch Cai has helped them a lot over the years, but recently these two brothers got into a fight over building a house and occupying land, and one of them had his head broken by the other.
As for Aunt Li in the kitchen, her son has developed a gambling addiction and has not been home for a month.
The maid Qinghe had a lifelong private engagement with a servant in the mansion, and her mother was so angry that she wanted to beat her to death.
Both Taofen and Libai have a large family to support. Yes, although these two are just maids, they only serve Prince Liang. Their lives are not worse than those of ordinary ladies from wealthy families. My wife and brothers are all supported by them.
(End of chapter)