Chapter 13 Secret Feelings
Ji Yutang's words were like a bolt from the blue, and Xie Huaichu felt trembling all over. They were all deceived. Concubine Shu was not poisoned to death by the poison in the anti-fetal medicine! In this case, many speculations have to be overturned.
Liuzhu suddenly became discouraged and said with an indifferent attitude: "Yes, that's right, it's not the imperial concubine we poisoned to death. Haven't we already confessed this before? It's just you 'adults' who don't believe it."
Ji Yutang snorted coldly: "Don't be arrogant. Even if the imperial concubine was not poisoned by the bowl of anti-fetal medicine, the imperial concubine's death still has something to do with you. Otherwise, why have you kept silent? Why did you react after Bai Zhu said it? Such a big reaction?”
"That's because we really plotted to poison the imperial concubine, and we actually implemented the plan, but the plan only went as far as knocking you out, and the imperial concubine suddenly died suddenly. Although we are not the real murderers, as you said We can't get away from it, so we decided not to talk about it," Liuzhu said.
Ji Yutang gave Xie Huaichu a look, and Xie Huaichu understood tacitly: Liuzhu was not completely telling the truth.
"Okay, Liuzhu, then please explain the ins and outs of your plan." Xie Huaichu asked, and motioned to Ji Yutang to record it.
Liuzhu swallowed a gulp of saliva and said with a sigh: "You won't believe it even if I tell you, my concubine, she is completely two people on the surface and secretly. She treats the officials and the queen very gently, and she never even speaks loudly. But treat us privately The palace servants are different. She beats and scolds them all the time. She spends the whole day thinking of ways to tease people, even pricking them with needles and burning them with charcoal. She likes to make people get slapped the most. You don't know, but the imperial concubine wants to be beaten. How tormenting the board is, first let the whole palace gather around it She got up, then she was put on a bench and her pants were taken off and she was beaten. Finally, she was not allowed to apply any medicine, and she had to go through it by herself. We respectable maids were no exception, and we were all subjected to these punishments, and we were always in front of her. , so I suffered more. A few of us were relatively good and survived. In fact, there were a few maids with pearls in their names before us who couldn't resist the humiliation and committed suicide. Do you think such poisonous women should be poisoned? Will she be happy if she is poisoned to death?”
Ji Yutang sighed silently in his heart, Concubine Shu was really seeking death and treated the palace people too harshly and cruelly.
"So how did you implement the plan?" Xie Huaichu continued to ask.
Liuzhu thought as he said: "Actually, our plan is not mature enough, but before the banquet started, the two sisters Baizhu and Mengzhu somehow made the imperial concubine angry and were punished with a cane. Cuizhu was so angry that she decided to do it during the banquet. To implement the plan, she first delayed the imperial concubine, and Lanzhu brought the poison to me on the pretext of going to get the cushion. Then Cuizhu deliberately burned the young prince, and I pretended to visit the young prince too. I actually went to the banquet room to knock out Dr. Ji and sprinkle the poison into the imperial concubine’s anti-fetal medicine. Unfortunately, I just knocked out Dr. Ji, and the concubine came to the banquet room and took a look. I was ready to do nothing. Without stopping, he rushed to strangle the concubine to death, sacrificing himself for the safety of the other sisters. But before I could get close to the concubine, she suddenly trembled all over, bleeding from her orifices and fell to the ground dead. "
Xie Huaichu narrowed his eyes and looked at her: "No more?"
"It's gone, what else is there?"
"Where did the poison in the anti-fetal medicine come from?" Xie Huaichu asked.
Liuzhu was stunned for a moment.
"When you knocked me out, the imperial concubine happened to see her, and the imperial concubine died suddenly. Isn't everyone happy? The imperial concubine is dead, and you have no evidence of murder, so why did you sprinkle poison into the anti-fetal medicine? Isn't it unnecessary? ?" Ji Yutang reminded.
Liuzhu frowned and said, "I'm afraid that some of us will be found guilty, and someone will have to take the blame. Anyway, I am alone and have nothing to worry about, so why not let me take the blame. So I sprinkled the poison in, and if something happens, just say it was me.”
Ji Yutang and Xie Huaichu almost laughed out loud. This guy Liuzhu really lied and didn't make a draft. First, he was extremely excited about Baizhu's leak, and looked like he wanted to cover up Bai Zhu to prevent the leak. Later, they suddenly cooperated with the interrogation and revealed their plan. But she made too many mistakes. Cuizhu was obviously troubled by Bai Zhu's love and couldn't avoid it. How could she take revenge for Bai Zhu? There was also a leak in the poison, and it was only after Ji Yutang reminded her that she desperately tried to fix it. Moreover, the system mentioned that Bai Zhu was designed together with Liu Zhu and Caizhu, but Liu Zhu did not mention Caizhu at all. Generally speaking, most of the lies are true and false!
"Let's ask someone else." Ji Yutang said to Xie Huaichu.
"Who?"
"If Bai Zhu can't interrogate, then let's interrogate her sister." Ji Yutang thought for a moment.
"Okay."
Not long after, Mengzhu was escorted in. She doesn't look like Bai Zhu, who is bright and beautiful, but she has a gentle appearance and a pair of round and lively almond eyes.
"Mengzhu, I hope you will tell the truth you know." Ji Yutang said. The only thing that can be asked is that she can't use too many systems now to prevent her from losing her chain at critical moments. She must use the system on the edge.
Mengzhu refused very gently: "Why?" Ji Yutang said: "Just because your sister's loved one died, your sister went crazy because of it. Don't you want to seek justice for them?"
Xie Huaichu was confused and asked Ji Yutang in a sad voice: "Who is Bai Zhu's beloved husband? How come you got the secret and didn't tell me?"
Ji Yutang did not lower her voice, she said to Mengzhu: "Yes, I know, it's Cuizhu. Cuizhu is dead, why did she die? You and your sister Baizhu should know some inside information, right?"
Xie Huaichu blinked, he was a little confused.
Mengzhu was still lucky at first, thinking that Ji Yutang was deceiving her. Who would have thought that Bai Zhu's sweetheart was Cuizhu? But now when she heard Ji Yutang say it clearly, she felt very frightened.
"Who told you?" Mengzhu clenched her fists.
Ji Yutang stood up and said, "Don't care who told me, just tell me if you want to seek justice for them?"
Mengzhu thought for a moment and said: "I don't know much."
"You can tell me as much as you want," Ji Yutang said.
Xie Huaichu added: "I hope you can tell me everything you know and tell me everything you want to know."
Mengzhu then said eloquently: "I didn't know when Bai Zhu fell in love with Cuizhu before. When I found out, it was when the imperial concubine exposed it in front of us maids. It really scared me. Lived, never thought that Bai Zhu would be happy Huannu Niang. Cuizhu also distanced herself from Bai Zhu at that time. Bai Zhu cried to me several times, and I persuaded her to stop thinking about it. She agreed, and things were quiet for a long time until the eve of the Muxian night banquet. "< br>
Mengzhu let out a long sigh: "Bai Zhu suddenly told me that she had received a letter from Cuizhu. The letter said that she actually liked Bai Zhu, but she pretended to hate Bai Zhu because of the obstruction of the imperial concubine. The letter was full of dissatisfaction with the imperial concubine and said many treacherous words. For example, "It would be better if the concubine died." I knew as soon as I heard that this letter was definitely not written by Cuizhu. Maybe it was someone who wanted to use Bai Zhu as a raft to instigate her to do harm to the concubine. But Bai Zhu didn't believe it. I had to follow her quietly to prevent her from doing something wrong.”
"Excuse me, Cuizhu knows Bai Zhu's feelings and avoids her like a snake. How come Bai Zhu thinks Cuizhu likes her based on such a letter?" Ji Yutang didn't understand.
Mengzhu replied: "It's because the letter mentioned one thing. That was when Cuizhu was tortured with a cane for the first time. She had an arrogant temper and was humiliated by the concubine in front of the whole palace years ago, so she had the heart to die. At that time, Bai Zhu quietly went to clean her wounds and gave her medicine, and she came over. When Bai Zhu saw this, she couldn't help but cry. Xin, Cuizhu was so burned that she fell asleep. Bai Zhu had already left when she woke up. Besides, she hadn't mentioned this matter for so many years, so why did she suddenly mention it now. ? Someone must have seen Bai Zhu taking care of Cuizhu, and chose to use Bai Zhu at this juncture to forge the letter. "
Mengzhu became excited as she spoke: "I was just afraid that someone would take advantage of Baizhu, so before the start of the Muxian night banquet, I pretended to accidentally bump into Baizhu, and threw her with her towards the concubine's child-giving Guanyin. That was the concubine's most precious gift. It’s my precious thing. I saw the Guanyin that gave birth to children was broken into pieces. As expected, the imperial concubine was furious and scolded both of us. I thought this would allow Bai Zhu to escape other people's plans. Unexpectedly, after being scolded by the rod, Bai Zhu endured the pain and participated in Liuzhu's plan to poison the imperial concubine. I didn’t stop it after all.”
Finally getting to the point, Ji Yutang asked: "Who participated in the poisoning of the imperial concubine?"
"Liuzhu is the leader. She is responsible for knocking you out and putting poison into the imperial concubine's anti-fetal medicine. In addition to these, I also suspect that she wrote the letter to Bai Zhu. Bai Zhu went out to do it I don't know what, I only know that she was not in good spirits from that night on. I don’t know why Cuizhu joined the conspiracy to poison the imperial concubine, let alone why she was killed. As for Caizhu, she should be responsible for getting the poison. After all, she often ran errands and met many people, including He Tai Hospital. It’s easier to get poison if it’s cooked.”
Ji Yutang suddenly realized that it was Bai Zhu who came to the banquet room with the imperial concubine. After the imperial concubine was poisoned, Bai Zhu left the banquet room and returned to his room, as if nothing happened. Since she had been scolded before the banquet and needed to rest, no one would have thought that she could still serve the concubine to the banquet room. This can also explain why the imperial concubine died alone in the banquet room.
"Mengzhu, I don't know if you have understood this level. Maybe Bai Zhu knew that you would stop her, or the person who plotted against Bai Zhu knew that you would stop Bai Zhu, so he told Bai Zhu to break his plan and send him away. Guanyin. In this way, after you two are punished with the rod, With the alibi, Bai Zhu sneaked out again. At this time, all the Zhus needed to find witnesses. Only Bai Zhu could move freely, so she was responsible for waiting for the maid who was temporarily serving the concubine on the road, and then led the concubine herself. To the banquet room," Ji Yutang speculated.
Xie Huaichu agreed: "It is much smoother to speculate this way. With Bai Zhu playing such a role, their plan can be implemented smoothly. However, things are unpredictable and their plan failed. This is also a good thing, if everything goes well. If so, Bai Zhu will be the abandoned son who will bear everything.”
Mengzhu finally figured this out, and her face turned pale: "Yes, they all have witnesses and physical evidence, but Bai Zhu is the only one who takes a big risk. It is impossible for the imperial concubine to be without people, and Bai Zhu has to take care of her." The other maids had to move away to lead the concubine to the banquet room. In this way, wouldn't she be a living target? It turned out that she was considered an outcast from the beginning. Did Bai Zhu become mentally ill after understanding this? ”
In the last sentence, she seemed to be asking, and she seemed to be answering herself.
(End of chapter)