"This..." Manager Zhong hesitated for a moment and said reluctantly: "Qi Jia was still alive when Eunuch Yang left." Of course he could lie, but when Qi Jia sent Yang Hai out, many people saw it.
, there is no way this lie can be rounded off.
"That's it." Ling Ruo's lips curled up slightly, and she looked at Nala and said, "Empress, I just asked Yang Hai to see how the Qi Jia family was doing in the Internal Affairs Office. I had no other intention. I never expected that I would be there."
After Yang Hai left, she would suddenly be poisoned and die suddenly. Alas, if Yang Hai had stayed a little longer, maybe something like this wouldn't have happened."
Nala looked at Ling Ruo with cold eyes and clenched her hands slightly in her sleeves. She was sure that Niu Hulu had killed Qi Jia, but Niu Hulu had done the whole thing so well that she even picked it up for a moment.
No stabbing came out, and after suppressing the anger in his heart, he said: "That's strange, who could it be if it wasn't Eunuch Yang?"
Guarjia stroked the tortoiseshell armor in her hand and said casually: "Maybe... maybe someone from the Ministry of Internal Affairs. After all, there are hundreds of people there, so no one can guarantee it."
Seeing that Guarjia was pointing the finger at the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Nala felt quite troubled. After all, she had shady matters in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. If Manager Zhong was found to be responsible, she would be in trouble.
After thinking for a moment, Nala said: "As far as I know, Xu Changzai has always been kind to others. I really can't imagine who would do such a cruel thing."
Guarjia smiled and said, "Even the queen can't think of it, and I don't even know about it. If Qi Jia is still alive, I can find out something about it, but it's a pity that she is dead. If I want to ask, I can only ask in the underworld."
Nala frowned and said, "Then according to Concubine Jin's wish, this matter should be settled like this?"
Guarjia spread her hands and said: "I don't know, but I really can't figure it out. Unless I bring everyone in the Ministry of Internal Affairs for questioning, even then, I may not be able to find out anything.
Come on, after all, we don’t have the ability to see through people’s hearts.”
Nala sighed: "Having said that, I feel a little unwilling to see the perpetrator go unpunished."
Ling Ruo said: "Although Qi Jia is dead, I will continue to investigate. I believe that one day the perpetrator will be caught and she can atone for the blood on her hands."
Nala nodded happily, "Then the noble concubine will have to take a lot of trouble."
"Your Majesty, you're welcome. All this is what a concubine should do." After Ling Ruo finished speaking, Nala said to Xiao Ningzi: "I'm a little tired, please help me go back. In addition..." His gaze..."
Falling on Xu's face, she said with pity: "Xu Changzai can't use those pearls anymore. I'll bring my pearls to Xu Changzai later."
After hearing this, Mrs. Xu quickly asked Zirong to help her up to express her gratitude, and then she and Ling Ruo and others respectfully sent Nala away. After he left, Ling Ruo and Guarjia comforted Mrs. Xu with a few words and asked her to leave.
After being careful about anything eaten in the stomach, he also left Yikun Palace, took Qi Jia's body away, and had people carry it outside the palace to find a place to bury it.
On the way back, Ling Ruo said softly: "Why did sister just say that Qi Jia was killed? Wouldn't it be easier to just say that she committed suicide out of fear of crime?"
Guarjia smiled slightly and said: "What's wrong? Are you worried that the queen will really investigate this point? She didn't dare, otherwise she would have investigated it long ago. It was she who asked Xu Chang to put arsenic on the pearls, and she
How dare you dismantle yourself." At this point, she said: "I said before that I wanted to borrow someone from you, and now it's almost time."
"Who does sister want to borrow?" Facing Ling Ruo's question, Guarjia spit out a name that surprised Ling Ruo, "Zhou Minghua!"
Qi Jia didn't know how long she had been "dead". When she woke up, she was on a bumpy carriage, and her internal organs felt like they were about to be knocked out. And...why was she on the carriage, even if she died?
He was later taken out of the palace, so he should have been in the capital.
Thinking of this, she crawled over and lifted the car curtain, shouting to the driver who had his back turned to her: "Where are you taking me? Stop! I told you to stop!"
The driver did not stop or even look back, he just said: "Master has a destiny to send you to western Sichuan, where you will spend the rest of your life with no worries about food and clothing."
Qi Jia was stunned for a while before she realized what she was doing and shouted: "No! I don't want to go to western Sichuan, I want to go back to the capital. Send me back immediately!"
The driver ignored her words and continued to drive the carriage quickly. He was originally from Hongli, and on Hongli's order, he took this woman to western Sichuan and was never allowed to return to Beijing.
Ling Ruo followed her promise and allowed Qi Jia to live without worries, but it was not as Qi Jia thought. But this was indeed the best for her, because staying in the palace or
In the capital, with her temperament, there is only one way to die, just like Ping'er in the past.
Qi Jia screamed desperately, but in exchange her mouth was gagged, her hands and feet were tied, and she was thrown into the carriage, while the carriage still drove all the way to western Sichuan...
Just three days after Qi Jia left, Hongshi found out that Xu was almost dead due to poisoning. He was very worried and wanted to visit him, but because of his promise to Nala, he wandered around Yikun Palace for a long time.
In the end, he didn't go in, but asked Wang Zhong to send a box of high-quality Cordyceps sinensis.
When Wang Zhong put down his things and was about to leave, Mrs. Xu suddenly said: "How is my second brother doing lately?"
Wang Zhong lowered his head and said, "Thank you very much, Xu Changzai, for caring about me. Everything is going well for my second elder brother."
"That's good. Thank you second elder brother for me." Mrs. Xu didn't know why she wanted to ask this. Whether Hongshi was good or bad had nothing to do with her at all.
After Wang Zhong left, she opened the box containing Cordyceps sinensis and unexpectedly found a piece of Chengxintang paper, as thin and smooth as white as jade, with eight words written on it: May Xu Changzai have a good day.
good.
There was no signature at the bottom, but Xu knew that this must be written by Hongshi. He had been poisoned for several days. Although Yinzhen also knew about it, he only asked people to send some nourishing things, without even asking, let alone personally.
When I came to Changyueju, it was Hongshi who met me by chance. I only met him a few times, but he asked someone to bring me something and wrote these eight words.
The second elder brother... At that moment, a ridiculous thought flashed through Xu's mind. If she had not entered the palace in the fifth year of Yongzheng's draft, but was given to the second elder brother, then everything would be different from now. At least...
...She doesn't have to stay alone in Changyueju like this, waiting endlessly for the king's call. Hongshi... will definitely be a very good husband.
It's a pity that she doesn't have this blessing...