Qingchuan waited for a while, until the sound of footsteps had gone far, and then followed without hurries behind with a lantern. She had been following the concubine Liang for many days, and found that as long as Kangxi did not come to Cheng Qiangong, Concubine Liang would go to the fire to calculate the time, but after going there for so many days, she did not see any progress. Qingchuan couldn't help worrying about it together. When the calculation goes on, when will he be able to cross back
She was complaining, and suddenly felt a gust of wind coming from behind her head. She subconsciously flashed to the side, avoiding the fist of the incoming person, and turned around to see that a man in black was standing behind her, raising her fist again to open her. Qingchuan was shocked and hurriedly called for help, but as soon as he shouted, the man in black stepped forward and covered her mouth.
Qingchuan was even more panicked. Under the panic, he couldn't remember any self-defense techniques. He closed his eyes and screamed and grabbed the man in black's hand. The man in black was stunned for a moment, obviously angry, facing Qingchuan with a palm on the back of his neck, Qingchuan only felt that his eyes were dark, and suddenly lost consciousness.
When he woke up again, he was awakened by water splashed with water. A rousing spirit in Qingchuan subconsciously shouted: "Help, help!"
A little eunuch stood in front of her with a half bucket of water in her hand. He couldn't help but smile and said, "Okay, stop screaming. The monster eating hair has already been caught, and you're all right."
Qingchuan was stunned for a moment, only to realize that the sky was already bright.
Then the little eunuch said, "You are lucky. The help you called last night attracted the Guards. The monster was scared away before he could eat your hair. The Guards kept chasing you. At the scene of the fire, I caught her."
Qingchuan was stunned when he heard it, and wondered: "Catch it? Who is it?"
The little eunuch said mysteriously: "You don't believe it, it's the concubine of the Emperor Qiangong."
Qingchuan was stunned, Liang Fei? How could it be a concubine? Every day, she researches the things that go back to modern times in the fire field. How can she cut people's hair? Is it being framed...
"You are so lucky that you didn't lose your hair when you were stared at. Unlike those palace ladies, all of them became bald..."
The little eunuch continued to chatter, but Qingchuan didn't bother to listen to what he said, and hurriedly got up and ran to the fire.
There was a wooden cage in the open area of the fire, and Liangfei was locked in it. Eighth elder brother was silently kneeling outside the cage. Seeing Qingchuan running over, he looked up at her and smiled bitterly. , Said: "Come and persuade Ermian, no matter what I say, she will not speak."
Qingchuan glanced at Concubine Liang who was sitting in the cage with her eyes closed, squatting next to the eighth elder brother, and asked in a low voice, "What the hell is going on?"
Eighth-age replied: "Last night, Concubine Lid said that she had caught the monster that ate the hair, and deliberately led Huang Ama to the fire scene, asking him to see E-niang doing those weird things here, Huang Ama. Asked what Eniang was doing, Eniang refused to say, Huang Ama was sad and angry, so she asked De Fei to deal with it according to the palace rules."
As he said, he turned his head to look at Concubine Liang, and said bitterly: "Em Niang, have you ever thought about why Concubine De concubine wants Huang Ama to come here in person? She is trying to force Huang Ama to execute you. What are you hiding? Why can't you tell Huang Ama? Why can't you tell your son?"
Concubine Liang closed her eyes in pain, and said in a low voice, "Lao Ba, go back and leave me alone."
Eighth prince smiled bitterly and said: "You are my mother, how can I care about you?"
Concubine Liang couldn't help crying, and slowly stretched out her hand to touch Ba Ge's face, and whispered: "Son, E Niang I'm sorry for you, E Niang never brought you a bit of maternal love, but always let you bear the E Niang stay. The sins... This time, if Eniang can escape this catastrophe, you will definitely make up for it. If you can’t escape, you will be treated as if you don’t have my Eniang... "
Eighth Brother slowly shook his head, "No, I don't want you to say sorry, and I don't want you to make up, I want you to save yourself."
Concubine Liang closed her mouth again and said nothing.
The Eighth Brother looked at her, kowtow heavily, and begged: "Emama, I beg you."
Concubine Liang's tears kept streaming down, but she refused to speak. Seeing the eighth elder brother kowtow, she simply closed her eyes and stopped looking at him.
Seeing this, Qingchuan hurriedly grabbed Ba Ge, and said, "Ba Ge, don't worry, I have a way to save Niang Niang."
Eighth elder brother moved for a while and turned to look at Qingchuan.
Qingchuan nodded and said, "Last night I was caught by the monster who eats hair and scratched his hand while struggling. We will go to see the emperor now. As long as we can find the thief, we can prove the innocence of the empress. Up."
After speaking, he took Ba Age and ran to the Palace of Qian Qing.
In Qianqing Palace, Kangxi listened to Qingchuan’s statement, was silent for a moment, and asked her: "You tell the truth?"
Qingchuan hurriedly replied: "The servant girl did not dare to lie, and this morning the servant girl was awakened by water from the Ministry of Internal Affairs. If the emperor doesn't believe it, he called the little eunuch to come over and ask."
Kangxi didn't believe that there were any monsters, and he didn't believe that Liangfei was a monster that eats hair. But Liangfei did such weird behavior on the fire scene in the middle of the night. He asked her why, but she refused to answer. Naturally, he was very much in his heart. Angrily, she handed Liangfei to Defei for disposal.
Now that Qingchuan said that it can prove that Concubine Liang is not a monster who eats hair, Kangxi pondered for a while and asked, "How do you want to check?"
Qingchuan replied: "It's very simple. Ask everyone who was on duty in the palace that night to come over and see who has injuries on their hands."
Kangxi nodded and said: "Then check it out from Qianqing Palace first, Li Dequan, you ask all the people on duty in the palace last night to come over and recognize Qingchuan. You also took a few of them to each other. The palace checks to see if there is another scratch on the back of the hand."
Li Dequan replied, and within a short while, the maids and eunuchs in the Qianqing Palace lined up in two lines and stood in the hall. Qingchuan asked them to stretch out their hands and inspected them one by one. Except for the old wound on one's hand, there was no wound on the other's hand.
Eighth Brother couldn't help showing a hint of anxiety on his face. Qingchuan comforted him in a low voice: "Don't worry, wait for Grandpa Li to come back and see if there is any news. Maybe it is from another palace."
While talking, Xiao Shunzi brought the tea to Kangxi, and said respectfully: "The emperor, please use tea."
Kangxi was absent-minded, and nodded when he heard the words. He stretched out his hand to grab a teacup on the tray at random. He never thought that the teacup was extremely hot with tentacles. Kangxi subconsciously pushed it out, and a cup of hot tea was poured on Xiao Shunzi's. On hand.
"Ah!" Xiao Shunzi screamed and hurriedly withdrew his hand.
Kangxi didn't expect such a thing to happen, and asked: "Why is this cup so hot?"
Xiao Shunzi hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed his head to plead guilty: "The slave deserves to die, the slave deserves to die."
Kangxi was in an extremely bad mood because of the concubine Liang's affairs. When something like this happened again, he gave Xiao Shunzi a cold glance and said impatiently: "Hurry down."
Xiao Shunzi curled his hands and was about to leave, but was stopped by Ba Age. Eighth prince said to Kangxi: "Huang Ama, do you have to check this person's hand?"
Kangxi was taken aback for a moment and nodded.
Xiao Shunzi stretched out his hand, only to see that the hand that had been scalded just now was bloody and mushy. Eighth Brother sneered, grabbed Xiao Shunzi's hand, and said, "The thief is here."
Xiao Shunzi was taken aback, and hurriedly shouted: "Big Brother, you can't talk nonsense, the wound on my hand was just burned by the emperor."
Qingchuan walked over after hearing this, took a close look at his injured hand, and mocked: "A cup of water can be burned like this? Father-in-law Xiao Shunzi's hands are so tender."
A trace of panic flashed in Xiao Shunzi's eyes, her lips tightly pressed, and she stood motionless.
Li Dequan brought people in. He first glanced at Xiao Shunzi, Ba Age and others. Then he knelt down in front of Kangxi and reported: "Go back to the emperor, the slave is in the concubine's concubine Chengqian palace. I found this in it."
As he said, he took out a large strand of hair from his sleeve and handed it over.
Kangxi took the hair and looked at it carefully. He was furious and asked the eighth prince in a cold voice: "The fact is right in front of you, don't you believe it? Okay, this is the end of the matter, go on, go on. , All go down!"
This matter involves the life and death of the concubine Liang, how the eighth prince would be willing to leave, he knelt down when he heard the words, and was about to say it again, but Qingchuan rushed to him and said: "The emperor, the servants think this matter is still weird. Not a good concubine. Please give the maidservant one more day to the emperor, and the maidservant will definitely catch the murderer."
Kangxi looked at Qingchuan coldly and asked, "What if you can't catch it?"
Qingchuan paused and replied in a loud voice: "The slave servant is willing to commit the same crime with the concubine Liang."
Kangxi glanced at Ba Ge, then answered Qingchuan and said, "Okay. I will give you one more day."
After speaking, he walked away.
Eighth elder brother stretched out his hand to Qingchuan, and said in a low voice, "Qingchuan, why are you so confused?"
Qingchuan smiled and shook his head, and said, "My eighth brother, if I don't get ahead, you will definitely have to quarrel with the emperor again. When that happens, the emperor will be angry and it will be no good to any of us. It is better than that. Tell me to take a gamble by myself, at least it will save you."
Eighth elder brother was moved, and took her hand, slowly but firmly said: "Don't worry, whether it's you or Emanny, I won't make you anything!"
Besides, Xiao Shunzi was blown by the wind after leaving the hall, only to realize that the clothes behind him had been soaked with sweat. He walked out in shock, when someone behind him suddenly slapped him on the shoulder, and he was so scared that he jumped up from the ground, almost screaming.
I heard Li Dequan’s voice coming from behind, “I’m not a human-eating tiger. What am I afraid of?”
Xiao Shunzi hurriedly reduced his flustered mind, and shouted, "Goddaddy, it's you!"
Li Dequan twitched the corners of his mouth, and said angrily: "Who am I? Who else is willing to risk his life to help you with these conscientious things?"