lcionline Chapter 175 Trouble is coming
Chapter 175 Trouble is coming
Feng Yu is dead.
It was very normal for a eunuch or a palace maid to die in the palace. If the emperor had not wanted to look for Feng Yu today, no one would have known that Feng Yu was dead for a long time.
They went to the Craftsmen's Office to look for Feng Yu today but couldn't find him, so they searched everywhere. Finally, they found Feng Yu's body floating in the well behind the Craftsmen's Office.
Judging from the body, Feng Yu was strangled to death.
"Now that Feng Yu is dead, your words cannot be proven." Lu Junze looked at Xiao Shunzi and said.
Gu Shijin also suddenly understood where Xiao Shunzi's calmness came from. He knew from the beginning that Feng Yu was dead, and that was why he was not afraid at all. After all, there would be no evidence, and Lu Junze was not an absurd emperor.
But this also proves one thing, Xiao Shunzi must know something.
Xiao Shunzi had thought of everything well and arranged everything correctly, but there was one thing he had not taken into account, which was that as the ruler of the palace, Lu Junze did not need to follow the rules.
Lu Junze suspected Xiao Shunzi, so he didn't need evidence.
"Take him away for a thorough interrogation." Lu Junze said to Su Deyuan.
Although Su Deyuan was also a eunuch, he was not an ordinary eunuch. Anyone in the palace who had been in his hands was afraid of him.
When Xiao Shunzi heard what Lu Junze said, he looked up at Lu Junze in disbelief.
Su Deyuan did not give Xiao Shunzi a chance to protest his innocence. He waved his hand and ordered the guards to drag the man away.
As for the remaining one, Gu Shijin felt that the chance of her committing a crime was slim.
The distance from the Craftsmen's Office to Shoukang Palace is short, and if she wants to coat the rattle with something, she probably won't be able to do it.
But there is another possibility, and it is very likely that the Concubine Dowager of Shoukang Palace covered for her.
Anyway, Gu Shijin didn't believe that the concubine had no involvement in this matter at all.
"Your Majesty, I have something to say to you." Just when Gu Shijin was thinking about how to deal with Cuihua, Cuihua spoke.
Gu Shijin looked at Cuihua, and nodded as if he had thought of something, and asked everyone else to leave. Of course, Lu Junze stayed behind.
"Do you have anything to say?" Gu Shijin asked, his voice still soft.
"Your Majesty, I am so sorry!" Cuihua said as she kowtowed three times to Gu Shijin, her forehead turning red.
Sure enough...Gu Shijin just felt that this person had something to say.
But at this point, Gu Shijin was no longer in a hurry to know the truth. She looked at Cuihua for a long time and asked, "Do you know me?"
She actually found Cuihua's face a little familiar, but at the moment she really couldn't remember where she had seen this person.
"It's normal that your Majesty doesn't remember me." Cuihua smiled, no longer as timid as when she first came in, "But I can't forget your kindness back then."
"I have saved you?"
"Six years ago, Your Majesty rescued a palace maid from Concubine Chen in the Imperial Garden. I am that palace maid." Cuihua said.
Cuihua talked about this matter so long ago that Gu Shijin had to think about it for a long time before he could remember it from somewhere.
At that time, Gu Shijin had just entered the palace and was quite curious. She often wandered around the palace, especially the Imperial Garden, where she went the most.
One day, she happened to see Chen Cairen making things difficult for a palace maid, and even said that she would send the maid to the Ministry of Punishment. Although Chen Cairen was only a talent at that time, she was the emperor's legitimate woman anyway, so it was no problem for her to deal with a palace maid.
When Gu Shijin saw this, he said a few words for the palace maid. At that time, Concubine Chen might have been afraid that she would be favored in the future, so she said a few sarcastic words to Gu Shijin and left the palace maid.
At that time, Gu Shijin didn't do much. He just comforted the palace maid with a few words and left.
It turned out that there was such a thing between her and Concubine Chen. No wonder she was embarrassed by Concubine Chen when she went to the Queen's Palace to pay her respects after her first sleepover.
At that time, Gu Shijin had just traveled through time and did not have a clear understanding of the cruelty of the harem. She was still kind and innocent in her heart. She felt that she had already encountered what she had encountered, so she should save the person if she could. But now, Gu Shijin could not guarantee that she would make the same choice as she did then.
"Your Majesty may not take this matter to heart, but I have never forgotten your kindness in saving me." Cuihua said.
Gu Shijin smiled and looked at Cuihua with a strange look. But the fact was that Cuihua did apply the medicine on the rattle. If Gu Shijin had not been careful enough, the two little princes might have been infected. But now Cuihua came to tell her that she had never forgotten her rescue.
Gu Shijin was a little amused, and Lu Junze also thought of the same thing. But at this moment, neither of them interrupted Cuihua's performance, because they still needed Cuihua to reveal the person behind the scenes.
Cuihua was moved for a while, then looked at Gu Shijin and said, "Your Majesty, Madam, it was Concubine Song who asked me to apply poison on the rattle."
"The poison in my hand was also given to me by Concubine Song."
Gu Shijin felt both surprised and not too surprised by this answer.
Concubine Song has the Second Prince, so she does have the motive to harm the Third and Fourth Princes, but...
But Song Jieyu has no relationship with the Concubine Dowager. Even before, when Song Jieyu went to the temple to pray with the Empress Dowager and the Concubine Dowager, there was a conflict between the Concubine Dowager and Song Jieyu, Lu Junze thought in his heart.
The Concubine Dowager is not a generous person. No matter how Lu Junze thinks about it, it is unlikely that the Concubine Dowager will cooperate with Concubine Song.
But what if the Concubine Dowager and Concubine Song were just acting at that time?
Gu Shijin: "The poison that Concubine Song gave you personally?"
Cuihua was stunned, then shook her head and said, "Song Jieyu is very careful in her work and would not personally instruct me to do these things. However, this poison was personally given to me by Song Jieyu's personal maid."
Gu Shijin and Lu Junze looked at each other. As long as Concubine Song was not crazy, she would never let her personal maid do this personally, and Cuihua had not been silenced afterwards.
It's not that Gu Shijin is cold-blooded, but in the palace, it is normal for people to be silenced afterwards like Feng Yu.
"I understand." Gu Shijin smiled gently and shouted to the outside of the door: "Eunuch Su, please take Cuihua down first."
Su Deyuan came in quickly, "Yes."
Where Cuihua couldn't see, Lu Junze winked at Su Deyuan, and Su Deyuan nodded quietly.
"Your Majesty, do you think it will be Concubine Song?" Gu Shijin asked softly while leaning in Lu Junze's arms.
Lu Junze gently stroked Gu Shijin's long hair and said, "Of course not. Concubine Song may have participated, but she is definitely not the mastermind behind it."
Lu Junze believed that Concubine Song was not involved at all.
"But Cuihua has naturally confessed everything, so of course we have to summon Concubine Song to question her." Lu Junze said.
But at this moment, Yong'an Palace was not peaceful. Why? Because Song Jieyu's personal maid was missing, and Song Jieyu was angry.
When the eunuch came to convey the order for Concubine Song and her personal maid to go to Chenhua Palace, Concubine Song knew that she was in trouble.