"Really?" Hongli smiled coldly and said sideways, "Xiao Wu, go and remove the gauze on his hand to see what kind of injury it is."
Hongli's words made Ergitu panic, but he did not dare to resist. He let Xiao Wu remove the gauze on his wrist, revealing the bloody wound. After Xiao Wu took a closer look, he bowed and said: "Qiu
Your Majesty, the injury suffered by Ergitu was indeed caused by a match gun, hitting his wrist in the middle."
"Musket..." Hongli repeated slowly, and then said: "Ergitu, I am very curious, what kind of careless method can you use to hurt yourself so seriously."
Ergitu forced a smile and said: "It's all because of my clumsiness that I hurt myself and made the emperor laugh..." Before he finished speaking, Hongli stood up and said sternly: "The injury on your hand
It wasn’t my own carelessness that caused the injury at all, but it was the one who was shot by Yong Huang, right?”
Ergitu endured the shock in his heart, lowered his head and said: "I have never seen Lord Beile these days. I don't know why the emperor said this."
In fact, after the incident happened this morning, he had already expected this moment, but he didn't expect it to happen so soon, and he didn't even have time to inform Concubine Yu.
Ergitu and his son, who had been in Taiyuan Mansion, did not know that Concubine Yu had been placed under house arrest by Hongli, and they were eager for her to save them.
"Never seen it?" Hongli sneered: "But Aluo said that he saw you shoot Yonghuang with his own eyes. It was this shot that killed him. Ergitu, this matter,
How do you explain it to me?"
"Slave...slave..." Ergitu said with cold sweat on his head and lowered his eyes: "If I go back to the emperor, the eldest brother has a distinguished status. Even if the slave is bold, he will not dare to shoot him; besides, the slave and the eldest brother
There was no reason to celebrate, and there was no motive for shooting."
"Because Yonghuang prevented you from killing Wang Laosan, you shot Yonghuang in anger, and then tried to kill Wang Laosan, but Yonghuang shot him in the wrist, leaving Wang Laosan with a gunshot wound.
I will risk my life to testify against you!"
"I have really never harmed my eldest brother. As for who Wang Laosan is, I don't even know." Faced with Ergitu's evasion, Hongli calmly ordered someone to bring Wang Laosan up, and then pointed
Looking at Ergitu, he said: "Wang Laosan, please see clearly, is this the person who hired you to dig the spring water?"
Wang Laosan looked at it carefully and said: "Seven years have passed and I can't remember it clearly, but he must be right. I remember that he often urged me to dig it out before March 17th."
It doesn’t take a day to wait until the spring water comes out!”
"March 17th..." Hongli walked around the imperial desk and walked to Ergitu who was trembling secretly, and said coldly: "Do you know what day this is?"
Ergitu said in a trembling voice: "When I return to the emperor, it is...it is the birthday of the fifth elder brother."
"Yes, on Yongqi's birthday, in order to make me think that Yongqi is the son of destiny, you deliberately dug out such a spring and said it was some kind of ground spring, right?"
Ergitu quickly denied it and said: "No, I have never done anything. It is this untouchable who deliberately slandered me. Your Majesty, please do not believe him."
"Wang Laosan lied, and Aluo also lied. All the evidence against you are lies, right?" Faced with Hongli's relentless questioning, Ergitu was speechless and just talked to Tuhe.
They kept pleading that they were not guilty.
At this time, the palace servant came in and called Qian'er and said: "I am reporting to the emperor that I and the prince's attendants are seeking an audience outside the palace. They say that they have extremely important matters to see the prince."
Hong Zhou glanced at Hong Li, who waved his hand and said, "If you have anything to do, please leave first."
After Hong Zhou went out, Hong Li said coldly again: "I give you one last chance, do you accept it or not?"
Ergitu said with an aggrieved look on his face: "I am really wronged. Please tell me from your Majesty!"
"Your Majesty." Xianyue, who had never spoken before, said coldly: "The Ministry of Punishment is best at making people tell the truth. Why don't we let them and their son go to the prison of the Ministry of Punishment and let them be released when they are willing to tell the truth."
Upon hearing this, Ergitu and his son repeatedly begged for mercy and refused to go to the Sentence Department. Tuhe even said: "The imperial concubine clearly knows that the slaves and his son have never done anything harmful to nature or committed crimes. That's right."
Someone deliberately wronged the slave father and son."
"Intentionally?" Xia Yue said in a cold voice: "Did Yonghuang intend to wrong you by dying, and did Fu Heng deliberately intend to wrong you by injuring himself? It's true that he won't shed tears until he sees the coffin."
Amidst their pleading, Hongli said indifferently: "I ask you, whether the auspiciousness of the white fish piggyback and the white deer holding the zhi is also fabricated by you?"
Tuch insisted: "No, I have never done such a thing. All auspiciousness comes from heaven. Furthermore, if these can be made up, then when the fifth elder brother was born, the room was filled with red light and the fragrance was fragrant.
Well, how to make it up?"
Xianyue stared at the two of them with disgust and said: "You are deliberately trying to use the fifth elder brother to seize the Qing Dynasty. Is there anything you can't make up?"
Ergitu ignored him, knelt in front of Hongli, kept talking about his innocence and grievances, and then added: "If the emperor doesn't believe it, why not invite Concubine Yu and Brother Wu to confront him face to face?"
Who is lying?"
Hongli remained silent. At this moment, a clear voice suddenly came from outside, "We should confront you, but that person is not Concubine Yu, let alone Brother Five!"
Everyone followed the sound and were surprised to find that it was Hong Zhou. For some unknown reason, he left and came back, and there was a woman behind him. When they saw this timid woman clearly, Ergitu and his son felt as if someone had
A bucket of cold was poured on my head
The water was cold all over; how could...how could Hong Zhou find her? Damn it, those bastards who just took money and didn't know how to do anything, even if they didn't kill Wang Laosan, they didn't even kill this woman.
This time I was really in big trouble.
Hongli frowned and said, "Lao Wu, didn't you leave? Why are you back? Who is this woman?" Judging from the woman's clothes, she was definitely not from the palace.
"Your Majesty, my servants are eager to see me because of this woman, the daughter of Wenpo Liu Erniang who delivered the baby to Concubine Yu."
Xianyue looked at Hong Zhou in surprise and joy. She never expected that he would actually find Liu Erniang's daughter, and at such a critical time.
"Wenpo's daughter?" Hongli asked doubtfully, "Why did you bring her here?"
"She came to tell the emperor the truth about the birth of fifth elder brother." As he said this, Hong Zhou stepped aside. His move made the woman step back in panic. Hong Zhou comforted him: "You don't have to be afraid. Just tell the truth."