"Oh?" Xianyue raised her eyebrows, her eyes fell on Su, and said, "What's the important matter?"
Mrs. Su said eagerly: "Madam, I would like to ask, have Chen Ying and the others confessed?"
"Not yet. I am planning to retry the matter later. If you continue to refuse to confess, you will have no choice but to be punished." After a pause, she continued: "I know you are impatient, but you should not be impatient about this kind of thing. You can go back first.
If there is any news, I will send someone to inform you."
Hearing Xiayue's words, Mrs. Su gritted her teeth and said, "Can you let me see Chen Ying and the others? I... I will definitely try to make them tell the truth."
Xianyue shook her head and said: "It's useless. They have very tough words. You can't persuade them with just a few words."
"But if the punishment is used, I'm afraid..." She glanced at He Fang and said pointedly: "I'm afraid some people will say that the empress was beaten into submission, denying their confession, and even falsely accuse the empress; let me give it a try.
If I can't persuade you, it won't be too late for me to punish you."
Xianyue looked at her and suddenly laughed, "Why are you thinking about me like this all of a sudden?"
"Your Majesty is willing to investigate this matter for me, so I naturally have to think about your Majesty, don't you think? Moreover, I have the same purpose as your Majesty, which is to find out the truth of this matter and let those with malicious intentions be punished.
The punishment you deserve is what the emperor hopes your empress will do."
Xianyue listened to her words quietly, and after she finished speaking, she smiled and said: "After so many years, your eloquence is still so good. If I don't let you see Chen Ying, it seems like you are making trouble with yourself.
Similar."
"I don't dare, I just..." Before she could continue, Xianyue raised her hand and said: "Okay, I understand, okay, I will let you meet Chen Ying and the others. Qi Kuan, you
Take her there, Chen Ying and the others are very dangerous, you will be imprisoned, do you understand?"
Qi Kuan's eyes flashed slightly and he said: "Slave, I obey."
After they all went out, A Luo said uneasily: "Master, don't you think Su is acting a little strange today? I'm worried that...she will do something bad."
Xianyue took the tea brought by Zhichun and took a sip, and said leisurely: "How do you know that Chen Ying and the others want Su's life? Will Su help them in turn?"
A Luo thought it was impossible, but he always felt that something was wrong. After thinking for a while, he said: "Master, why don't you go over and take a look?"
Xianyue shook her head and said: "No need, Qi Kuan will watch them, Su Shi can't do anything."
"How do you know she will..." Halfway through, A'luo seemed to understand something and blurted out: "I understand, my slave, what the master just said to Qi Kuan was to make him stare at the Su family."
"Yes, Mrs. Su thought that what she said was reasonable, but she didn't know that from the moment she came in, I had already suspected her. Although she wouldn't help Chen Ying, there must be some conspiracy, so she hinted that Qi Kuan was watching them.
Qi Kuan is careful in his work, and he will not make any mistakes if he thinks about it."
A Luo nodded, and then said in confusion: "This Su family is really strange. The master has promised to track down Chen Ying for her. What else is she dissatisfied with, so she insists on resorting to some shameful means."
Xianyue thought for a while and said: "Where are you going to catch up and ask, who else has the Su family seen since they returned from this palace yesterday?"
When A Luo Yiyan left, Qi Kuan also took Su to the place where Chen Ying and others were detained. Chen Ying and the others sat on the floor. When they saw someone opening the door, they all showed panic. After they saw Su clearly
, the panic subsided slightly, and a bit of surprise appeared. They didn't understand why the Su family came here?
After entering, Mrs. Su bowed to Qi Kuan and said, "Please, Eunuch Qi, please bring me here." She said this, implying that Qi Kuan could leave. Unexpectedly, the latter just had no intention of leaving, and instead said: "
They are here. If you have anything to say, feel free to say it. I hope you can really persuade them to tell the truth and avoid suffering any physical pain later."
Su Shi was startled, glanced at Qi Kuan quickly, then lowered her head and said, "That's what my father-in-law said." With that said, she walked up to Chen Ying and the others, and said angrily: "Tell me, why do you keep repeating this?
If you want to kill me, is it because I have enmity with you, or are you being instigated by others to do this?"
Chen Ying was silent for a while, gritted his teeth and said: "No one ordered us, as for you... you deserve to die!"
Su sneered and said: "Chen Ying, you have no choice but to recruit me honestly. In this case, I will help you plead with the imperial concubine, and you may still be able to save your life and avoid the pain of flesh and blood.
Seeing that he was silent, he continued: "There is no one who can't get along with me, don't you think so?"
A trace of hesitation and fear flashed in the eyes of Chen Ying and others, and one of them said sternly: "I told you that no one is instructing me, so why are you talking so much? Get out of here."
Su said disappointedly: "You are really stubborn. Since you insist on seeking death, I can't help it. I hope you will be reincarnated in your next life and stop doing evil things." After that, she was about to leave, but Qi Kuan said in shock: "Didn't you say that?
Is there any way to convince them? Why..."
Su Shi sighed and said, "I thought too simply and thought I could really persuade them. But now that I saw them, I realized that they all refused to take the hard way and couldn't persuade them at all. It seems that I can only invite the imperial concubine.
Your Majesty is going to punish you."
Qi Kuan felt strange in her heart. Even if she really felt that she couldn't persuade him, she shouldn't have given up in just a few words. No wonder the master wanted to keep an eye on Su herself. She was really a little strange.
"Eunuch, let's go." Faced with Su's words, Qi Kuan nodded slightly and led her out. At this moment, Su put his hands behind his back, relaxed them slightly, and an inconspicuous paper ball came out.
It fell from her hand and rolled to the ground.
The sound of the paper ball falling to the ground was very soft, and most people would not notice it at all, let alone the sound of footsteps disturbing the hearing and hearing. That was why Su dared to do this. However, to her surprise, Qi Kuan actually noticed this extremely subtle sound.
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Turning around, Su's face turned pale with fright. She quickly moved sideways and stepped on the paper ball. However, Chen Ying and the others were right behind her, so they must have seen the paper ball. If they didn't know the reason, they would tell everyone about it.
Kuan, that would be tragic.
Qi Kuan took a look and found nothing strange, and asked doubtfully: "What was the sound just now?"
Su Shi tried her best to maintain her composure and said, "Is there a sound? Why didn't I hear it?"
Qi Kuan muttered: "Did I hear it wrong? But there was clearly a sound..." Although he was about to leave just now, he never relaxed his attention to Su, otherwise he would not have noticed the sound that was so small that it was almost inaudible.
, I had an intuition that there was something wrong with Su Shi, but couldn’t find it.