I don’t blame the emperor for saying so, because this place is really not something that people from other places can tamper with casually.
If this thing was buried in the backyard or somewhere else, it might have been framed by someone else.
But it happens to be right in front of the main hall of Furong Palace. Needless to say, during the day, there are almost no people coming and going.
Even at night, regardless of whether it was a night patrol or a night watch, it was impossible not to hear movement.
Unless it was done by one of their own, it wouldn't be justified.
At this time, Xue Hengzhao whispered a few words in Concubine Rong's ear. Concubine Rong couldn't help but nodded, and then said: "It seems that Concubine Fu is really suspicious. But this goose head is pickled with lime."
It's been there and it hasn't rotted all year round, so we can't say it was buried last year, right?"
"What do you mean by the concubine?" The emperor was puzzled.
"If my old lady's memory is not too bad, I remember that every part of the palace was completely overhauled the year before last." The concubine said, "At that time, I took Concubine Fu and others to Qingliang Temple to spend the summer.
When I came back, all the palaces had been renovated."
"After the ancestor said it, I also remembered it. It is indeed like this." Li Fei snatched the words away, "It would be really convenient if someone took advantage of that time to do something."
After saying that, he quickly called the steward in his palace: "Yanda, go back quickly and look through our palace. What if someone frames me?"
Then he pointed at the little eunuch next to Zhang Ze and said, "Little Eunuch Zhang, follow him over there and have a look, so that you can have a witness."
But the emperor didn't quite believe it and said: "The renovation of the palace is true, but how can we say that someone tampered with it during the renovation? Compared with this, I think it is more likely that Concubine Fu did something."
At this time, the queen on the side did not speak. She was very calm on the surface, but in her heart she disliked Dowager Rong for being so meddlesome.
Not long after Yanda left, he hurried back with little Eunuch Zhang, also holding a wooden box in his hands. It was slightly smaller than the one found in Fu Fei's palace, and the material was different.
It contained the corpse of a large centipede, which is also a poisonous insect.
"To report to the Emperor, the boys dug this in front of the main hall of Tamamo Palace, and the head of the centipede is also facing the direction of Yangze Palace!" Yanda said tremblingly, "By God, no one in our palace would dare to do such a thing.
, someone must have framed it!"
Concubine Li simply threw herself in front of the emperor and cried: "Your Majesty, I have to say something unpleasant. Any concubine in this palace may harm you, but I will never do it. Everyone knows that if I leave you
You are just like a melon without its seedling, or a fish without water, it cannot survive."
"Your Majesty, why don't you send someone to my concubine's palace to look through it?" Concubine Xian also stood up and requested, "This will help clear my concubine's suspicion."
When she said this, the other concubines also asked to prove their innocence.
After all, they didn't know what was going on, so they might as well take this opportunity to figure it out to avoid causing any trouble in the future.
The emperor had no choice but to send people to various palaces to investigate, and finally found similar things in Jiaolan Palace and Mulan Palace.
At this time, Li Fei stopped crying, wiped away her tears and stood up with a sneer: "This is really interesting. Could it be that we all agreed upon it? It's obvious that someone took advantage of the palace renovations to give us
There are traps everywhere.”
"Who could that be?" Concubine Xian asked.
"Who is it? I don't know. But some of us will either get a favor or have a son." Li Fei sneered slightly, "Although Ma Cairen's son is gone, the power of the Ma family was one of the best in the court back then.
ah!"
"Concubine Li, what do you mean by this? Do you mean that I deliberately framed you?" The queen couldn't sit still. Although Concubine Li did not mention her by name, no one could tell that she was talking about herself.
"Is there anyone else?" Concubine Li turned around and looked directly at the Queen, not discouraged at all. "The Queen may want to prove her innocence. Now let people go to Ronghua Palace to search. If there is someone else, it is someone else.
I also plotted against you. If not, haha..."
Li Fei didn't say anything further, but her meaning was very obvious. If there is no such thing in the Queen's Palace, it means the Queen did it.
"Your Majesty..." The queen turned to the emperor, "We should examine Concubine Fu carefully now."
"Queen, I also think that your palace should also check. After all, we have looked everywhere else." The emperor also realized that something was wrong.
Although the things buried in these places are not the same, they are obviously made by the same person.
The matter was beyond the Queen's control at this point, and she had not yet ascended to the position of Queen when she did this.
Liang Jing was not in the palace at that time, and was busy planning how to drive the deposed queen and deposed prince to a dead end, and was unaware of this matter.
As a noble concubine at that time, Yao Ziyun had the responsibility of co-managing the Sixth Palace.
She came up with this idea suddenly, and it was considered as a precautionary measure.
At that time, I thought that any concubine who was a threat to me would inevitably fall out in the future.
This thing can be regarded as a trump card.
Of course, she is not stupid enough to use this method to deal with everyone. She just prepares it in advance and waits to see who will be used on it.
But she never expected that Li Fei, a bitch, would take the initiative to prove her innocence, prompting others to follow suit.
In this way, his painstaking planning was revealed, and Concubine Fu became self-explanatory.
Zhang Ze personally took people to the Queen's Palace, checked it carefully, and came back to report: "Nothing similar was found in the Queen's Palace."
"What's the matter? I'll just tell you!" Li Fei said in a cool tone, "She is indeed a queen! She is so scheming.
But I don’t understand. We just have some in the palace, but why does the Mulan Palace where Ma Cairen lived before also have it? Apart from anything else, you and the queen are like sisters!"
"Your Majesty, I don't know how this happened, but I really didn't know about it!" At this time, the queen had to be tough to the end, "Someone must have done it deliberately. On the surface, it was to harm Concubine Fu, but in fact it was
You want to harm my concubine!"
She also thought about it, it had been many years since the incident, and the people who knew about it had already been dealt with by her.
As long as he grits his teeth and refuses to admit something that has no proof, the emperor will not be able to do anything about it.
But at this time, Ma Cairen stepped forward, looked at the queen, and asked: "Queen, do you still remember Rui'er?"
The Queen felt very uncomfortable when she stared at her, and when she heard her mention the Eighth Prince, she felt even more uncomfortable.
Pretending to be calm, he said: "Why did my sister bring up Rui'er? It's late at night and the wind is strong. It's better to ask the concubine, your majesty, and all the sisters to go back to the palace. We'll talk about anything tomorrow."
The queen knew that the situation at this time was not good for her, so she thought about leaving first.