When Sun was arrested, he knew something was wrong and was scared to death. He thought everything would be fine after half a year.
Maybe the powder was not poison. After all, her man didn't know what it was when he brought it to her.
Even when his brother-in-law went to buy them, it was the eunuch who told him to buy them separately.
They are just ordinary people and don't know what it is.
But even now, Sun was still terrified.
In the Internal Criminal Department, Sun tried to hold it together at first, but everyone could see that she was guilty.
However, she was halfway through the round of punishment when she shouted that she had confessed everything.
Before this, people from the Ministry of Justice had already put the entire Sun family in jail.
Now everyone in his family is crying in the Ministry of Justice.
Zhen Chongyi knew about this and wanted to go to Ruiqing Palace, but was stopped by several unfamiliar maids and eunuchs: "Empress Chongyi, the emperor has ordered that you don't have to go out to pay respects these days. As for the Empress, we will also ask for leave for you."
Zhen Chongyi's heart skipped a beat: "How dare you stop me?"
"Your Majesty, please forgive me. It is indeed the emperor's oral order, and we dare not do it." The nanny lowered her head.
Zhen Chongyi bit her lip but couldn't confront him head-on, so she went back inside and circled around like an ant on a hot pan.
"What's going on? How could it be Sun?" she gritted her teeth.
"Master, don't be anxious. You know nothing. Maybe something went wrong?" Jinque advised.
"It's bad, no one here can get out!" Nanny Lin came in and said nervously.
"I can't go out? Are you saying I can't live my life anymore?" Zhen Chongyi was both scared and angry.
"Don't worry, there will surely be movement soon, and there is also the Empress Dowager." Nanny Lin was also afraid, but she still had to comfort Zhen Chongyi.
Naturally, there was some movement from the Empress Dowager, and she came to reply in person on the fourth day of the fourth month.
After telling the story of Sun's family, the Queen Mother frowned and said, "This matter must be investigated thoroughly. This Sun is also a person who is courting death. She has been acting like a demon since she went to Ruiqing Palace!"
"Don't worry, Empress Dowager. Although the Emperor has ordered people not to visit Shuyuxuan, it is also for the good of Empress Zhen Chongyi. He is bringing the man from the Sun family into the palace now. Since he said he had seen a eunuch, find someone of the same age and ask him to take a look. He will eventually find the one." Chusi said.
The Queen Mother felt very uneasy and could only nod.
She could only pray that Zhen Chongyi really didn't do this.
After seeing off the fourth day of the New Year, the Queen Mother sighed, "I really can't rest assured for a day."
Grandma Hua was also worried about the lawsuit: "This is really... If it is confirmed..."
"Do you think she did this?" asked Empress Dowager Li.
Madam Hua shook her head: "I don't think so. It's not worth it. The Eighth Prince is already like that."
"Now that the evidence is here, even if it's not her, she can't escape responsibility." The more Empress Dowager Li thought about it, the angrier she got. "Who do you think it was?"
Nanny Hua couldn't tell who it was for a moment.
Empress Dowager Li gritted her teeth and said, "It could be anyone."
That’s right. Zhen Chongyi is the niece of Empress Dowager Li, and her son has a great chance of becoming the crown prince. Naturally, she is the target of everyone’s pursuit.
In the Taiji Palace, the files on the interrogation of the Sun family were in Qi Yixiu's hands.
"Has the person been brought in?" Qi Yixiu asked.
"Your Majesty, it is said that there is a eunuch in his forties who claims to be surnamed Zhang. Now I have gathered all the eunuchs between the ages of thirty and fifty together, no matter which palace they came from or where they came from, and brought all of them to the North Palace Garden. We are just waiting to identify him."
"The arrangements are so thorough that the eunuchs may not be real eunuchs." Qi Yixiu sneered.
"Your Majesty is right, but there is also the letter, and we are comparing the handwriting now." Chu Si said. Qi Yixiu waved his hand and told Chu Si to go.
On the fourth day of the New Year, they went to Beigong Garden. The identification process had already started for a while. Sun's brother-in-law, who was covered in scars from being beaten, was hesitant and did not dare to delay. He began to identify the person carefully.
There were many eunuchs of this age, and they were afraid of missing out, so they had to include even more people, hundreds of them, and it would be impossible to finish looking at them all in one go.
I was afraid that he would be dazzled, so I looked for a while and then stopped for a while.
On the other side, the handwriting of the letter was found to be that of Xiao Chuanzi, the eunuch who served the Tenth Prince.
Xiao Chuanzi is sixteen years old this year. He is literate and was sent to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to be a eunuch because his family committed a crime.
Xiao Chuanzi was arrested and confessed even faster, insisting that it was Zhen Chongyi who instructed it, but Sun didn't know about it.
"It was the master's idea. The master first asked someone to find a homeless man dressed in eunuch's clothes to go to the Sun family to look for someone. Then the servant wrote a letter to keep an eye on Nanny Sun. Nanny Sun didn't dare to disobey, she was afraid that something would happen to her child."
Xiao Chuanzi confessed before he was tortured, and now he spoke very fluently: "I was favored by the master, so I shouldn't have said it, but I really didn't know it was poison. The master only said that it was because the mother of the Eighth Prince offended Mrs. Meng, who caused her to go crazy and caused the Ninth Prince to suffer from nightmares. So she hated the Eighth Prince and his mother very much."
"She said that she just took medicine that made her stomach upset, and that the diarrhea would go away in a few days."
"I really didn't know it was poison. If I had known, I wouldn't have dared to do it even if I had the courage of heaven."
The people from the Internal Criminal Department looked at each other and said nothing, but took the person to the Taiji Palace.
After hearing this, Qi Yixiu looked at this little Chuanzi for a few times and said, "Interrogate him carefully."
This is unbelief.
These words seem to be logically sound, but they are also full of loopholes.
Nanny Sun really didn't know who ordered this. She was just afraid that the other party would hurt her child and was greedy for money.
And this Xiaochuanzi obviously knows more.
The people from the Internal Criminal Department still failed to punish Xiao Chuanzi.
As soon as he was pulled back to the Internal Criminal Department, Xiaochuanzi spat out a mouthful of black blood.
The sixteen-year-old eunuch vomited blood and convulsed all over. He died without saying a word, gritted his teeth and rolled around a few times.
It was obvious that he had taken poison a long time ago.
Qi Yixiu was furious and ordered a search of the palace, including the Ninth and Eighth Princes' residences in Ruiqing Palace, and also the Shuyuxuan of Zhen Chongyi.
At this time, the Queen Mother couldn't stop it. The situation was becoming more and more strange, and she had to search.
And the thing that made them worry and fear happened. The poison in the eighth prince was not found, but the poison that killed Xiaochuanzi was found in a small bottle in Zhen Chongyi's Shuyuxuan. Only one third of the powder inside was used.
a bolt from the blue.
Zhen Chongyi had no way to defend herself. She could only say that she didn't know, because she really didn't know.
This medicine is not hers. Which concubine would put poison in the palace
But neither the emperor nor the empress dowager believed it.
Even if there are still doubts in my heart, this medicine cannot be separated from the relationship.
Everything was so perfect that even if Qi Yixiu had doubts in his heart, he had to pretend not to do anything.
The same was true for Empress Dowager Li. Even if she suspected that Zhen Chongyi was wrongly accused, she had no evidence and could not stop the emperor.
Fortunately, the emperor did not take the opportunity to execute Zhen Chongyi.
(End of this chapter)