Feng Jin walked into the room, glanced at the women in the room, and finally stopped at the queen, "Get up."
Going to the top and sitting down, Feng Jin said expressionlessly: "I heard that the queen is interrogating the slaves today, and I happened to stop by and have a look, you continue."
The queen was stunned, not knowing what the emperor meant. She couldn't help but glance at Zhuang Luoyan, or did the emperor care about Zhuang Luoyan's child
"Your Majesty, the concubine has already found out that among the five people here, two have been in contact with people in Concubine Shu's palace, one has been in contact with Concubine Rou and people in Xu Zhaorong's palace, and one has been in contact with Concubine Yangui and Concubine Zhuang Jie. Yu has been in contact with another person, and another person has contact with Concubine Shu, Concubine Yangui, Concubine Rou, and everyone in Ye Shurong's palace. Just now there was a servant who refused to admit his guilt and has been punished by the concubine. That servant used to be in the palace of Roufei. I have served in the middle." The queen explained in detail the strong relationship between several servants and the palaces, but all the concubines who were named showed the expression of being wronged.
Zhuang Luoyan frowned slightly. The Queen's move actually pulled several people into the water. What was the purpose of this? Although there are no real good sisters in the harem, they will not tear their skin. I don't know if the queen has other plans or she has no other choice but to do this
"Huh?" Feng Jin listened to the Queen's words, and glanced at the concubines who were named with interest, "The Queen means that these people are suspicious?"
The queen was slightly blessed: "The concubine thinks that all the sisters serve the emperor with all their hearts, and it is the best choice to clear their suspicions early."
"The queen said this politely," Feng Jin casually pointed at a palace maid, "Tell me which servants in the palace she has come into contact with?"
"Back to the emperor, this palace maid is called Xiao Ju, she is on duty at the Shang Food Bureau, and she is responsible for serving food for Zhao Chongyi that day," Ming Lu replied, "This palace maid is with Concubine Shu, Concubine Yangui, Concubine Yangui, Concubine Rou, Everyone in Ye Shurong's palace has contact. The servants also checked the servants who were in contact with them, and there was nothing suspicious."
"Everyone is suspicious, and everyone is not suspicious," Feng Jin looked at the queen with a half-smile, "then, my queen, come and tell me, who is the one who harmed Zhao Chongyi, or is it the one who harmed Zhao Chongyi? People are not among these people at all.”
The queen didn't expect the emperor to speak so reluctantly, and immediately knelt on the ground.
The other concubines and concubines did not dare to sit when they saw the Queen kneeling down.
"I just said this, the Queen doesn't need to do this, I understand your intentions." Feng Jin lifted the Queen with one hand, glanced at the five servants, and said lightly, "Since these people don't admit it, they will all be killed. Bar."
All these people were killed, so how should they go through the investigation? The queen was shocked, but did not dare to speak out against it, she could only watch the slaves being dragged down.
Gao Dezhong led a few powerful eunuchs to drag these criminal slaves out. As soon as they arrived at the gate of Jingyang Palace, they saw Ye Cairen and Jiang Xianconcubine walking here. Ye Cairen looked quite introverted, and no one could see that she was Ye Shuyi who was very favored in the harem a few months ago.
"I have seen Jiang Xianconcubine and Ye Cairen." Before Gao Dezhong's ceremony was finished, Jiang Xianconcubine exempted him from the ceremony.
"Eunuch Gao is this?" Jiang Xianconcubine, an unfavored concubine, dared to put on the air of master in front of the eunuch chief, she carefully glanced at the few servants behind him, and vaguely guessed something.
Before Gao Dezhong could answer, he heard Ye Cairen's exclamation.
"Hey, you're not the hometown of Mu Yue, the maid next to my sister. I remember that last year, you stole Mu Yue's bracelet and got scolded by the stick. What did you do today?" Ye Cairen pointed at Xiao Ju, quite surprised Looking at Gao Dezhong in confusion, "Eunuch Gao, what did she do?"
Gao Dezhong glanced at Xiao Ju and bowed to Ye Cairen, "Thank you Ye Cairen for reminding me that this servant has something to report to the emperor, please retire Rong servant." After speaking, he left Xiao Ju behind the eunuch and turned around and walked back. Jingyang Palace.
Ye Cairen was even more puzzled. Looking at the slaves who were taken away and Xiaoju who was left behind, he turned to look at Jiang Xianconcubine, "Sister, what do you think this is?"
Jiang Xianbi looked at Ye Cairen's puzzled face, smiled and shook his head: "Ye Cairen, I don't understand either."
Before the two of them walked a few steps, they saw a eunuch hurried out, saying that the emperor wanted to summon the two of them.
As soon as Ye Cairen and Jiang Xianbi entered the side hall of Jingyang Palace, they saw many people sitting in the house, and Xiaoju was kneeling in the middle of the house, all in a mess.
"Meet the Emperor, Empress Empress," Ye Cairen saluted blankly. Seeing that her sister Ye Shurong was there, and her face was very ugly, she looked at the other party in confusion, but unfortunately the other party didn't look at her, so she had no choice but to withdraw her gaze. .
"Ye Cairen, you said just now that Xiao Ju and the maid next to Ye Shurong are fellow villagers, but is that true?" The queen looked at Ye Cairen.
"Back to the empress, the two of them knew each other, and the concubine didn't know it at first. It happened that last year I heard the big palace maid next to my sister complaining that her fellow villager had stolen her bracelet. The concubine was very angry at that time, so she was rewarded with 20 boards by Xiaoju. The concubine still remembers that the elder sister still blamed the concubine for making a big fuss, saying that it was just a misunderstanding, and then the concubine never asked, why..." Ye Cairen seemed to realize what the emperor and the queen were investigating, and his expression changed, Don't speak again.
The Empress glanced at the Emperor, and seeing that he did not speak, she said, "Come here, bring Mu Yue to Ye Shurong Palace." After saying this, the Empress saw that Xiao Ju's complexion changed, and there was a faint guess in her heart.
Zhuang Luoyan looked at the play with a sick face, but she didn't expect that the relationship between the Ye family's sisters was not as good as she imagined. She didn't believe that Ye Cairen was so brainless and said what should be said and should not be said. After he finished speaking, he realized what was going on in front of him.
It's just, why did Ye Cairen treat her own sister like this? What good does this kind of thing do to her
In less than a stick of incense, Mu Yue was taken to the side hall. Seeing Mu Yue kneeling on the ground and her pale master, Mu Yue knelt down with her face unchanged.
"What a servant, don't you ask why Xiaoju is kneeling here, why did the emperor and this palace ask you to come?" The queen looked at Ye Shurong coldly, "Ye Shurong, this is the palace maid by your side, why don't you let her explain honestly." I didn't expect that this matter would be related to Ye Shurong. Ye Shurong has been out of favor all these years. Even if she is in the position of Shurong, she is still unknown. Even the birth of her child a few months ago did not attract much attention from the harem. How could she intervene in this kind of thing? thing
Ye Shurong's lips moved, but she didn't speak, and finally just glanced at Ye Cairen.
Mu Yue kowtowed: "Your Majesty, the Empress, and the slaves confessed their guilt. All this is because the slaves resented Zhao Chongyi, so they asked fellow villager Xiaoju to help, and they have nothing to do with my master."
"What grievances do you have with Zhao Chongyi to make you do such cruel things?" the queen asked.
Zhuang Luoyan's brows moved, the queen is going to dig her own black history? She glanced at Mu Yue, her memory didn't make much impression on this palace maid. Not to mention this palace maid, even Ye Shurong didn't have much impression on her, and she never thought that Ye Shurong wanted to deal with her.
"A few months ago, the servant girl accidentally bumped into Zhao Chongyi, and was slapped by Zhao Chongyi for half an hour and kneeled for three hours. That day was the day when the palace people visited the palace gate once every two years, because Zhao Chongyi easily If you are unhappy, slaves will not be able to see their relatives, how can slaves not hate them." Mu Yue glared at Zhuang Luoyan fiercely, "Just because slaves are humble, are they allowed to be trampled on by others?"
"There are rules in the palace. The servant should be punished if he collided with the master. Even if Zhao Chongyi was punished more severely, you shouldn't mutilate the emperor's heir!" The queen said sharply, "Aren't you afraid that the emperor and this palace will punish you? Your nine clans."
"The slave and the mother depend on each other. Mother has gone a few days ago. The slave is alone, so what are the scruples." After Mu Yue finished speaking, she suddenly kowtowed in Ye Shurong's direction. Red blood flowed from the corners of his mouth and ears, and his body fell limply.
Several eunuchs rushed forward to drag her body away, and another palace maid wiped the floor, but in the blink of an eye, a life was cleaned up.
Ye Shurong shook her body and slumped on the chair, with no trace of blood on her face.
The whole room was instantly deadly silent, all the concubines bowed their heads, daring not to look at the floor where Mu Yue had been lying.
"Forget it, since this is the case, let's do it." Feng Jin stood up and said with a blank face, "Ye Shurong is incompetent, remove her Shurong title, downgrade to seventh-rank noble, and move to the side hall of Jingqiu Pavilion Zhao Chongyi gave birth to meritorious deeds, and was framed by a traitor for miscarriage, so he was promoted from the third-grade Chongyi to the third-grade repairing instrument."
After saying these words, Feng Jin looked at the queen again, "Nowadays, there are a lot of things in the harem, and I am worried that the queen is tired. Concubine Shu Gui, Concubine Ning, and Concubine Xian will assist the queen in managing the affairs of the harem." After speaking, she did not look at the queen. The expression on his face, "It's getting late, it's time for me to deal with political affairs."
"Congratulations to the emperor."
After sending the emperor away, the empress still maintained her majesty, but there was still a look of sadness between her brows and eyes.
"Ben Gong is also tired, let's all retire."
The concubines and concubines resigned wisely, and the queen was in a bad mood, so they would not be foolish enough to offend the queen's taboo at this time.
While salute, Zhuang Luoyan seemed to see Ye Cairen showing an unintelligible smile to Ye Shurong, but when he looked closely, he only saw Ye Cairen's ignorant and anxious face.
Zhuang Luoyan looked back, and sure enough, there was no one who couldn't act in this harem.
This time, although the emperor did not explicitly put this matter on Ye Shurong, the downgrade from the second-rank Shurong to the seventh-rank nobleman is enough to prove the emperor's opinion on this matter.
Ye Shurong's relegation is not good for Ye Cairen, why did she do it