Chapter 92 If something goes wrong, there must be a monster
After hearing what Xue Hengzhao said, Wei Zhong hurriedly took her to a secluded place and asked her in detail.
Xue Hengzhao did not hesitate and said simply: "I was in the room just now, listening to what Chun'er said, and I always felt something was wrong.
If the queen really wants to kill those two pots of flowers, she can find a reason to embarrass our queen.
You can just do a little bit of manipulation before delivering the flowers. Why go to all the trouble to find someone in our yard to be a traitor?
Wouldn’t it be easier to reveal the truth?
Could it be that you deliberately let our queen know that there is a traitor in this yard?
This is the first unconscionability."
Wei Zhong nodded after hearing this: "You are right, but I also think this matter does not make sense."
"Furthermore, if she was really bribed by someone close to the Queen, how could she confess so easily?
It is obvious that our queen is more merciful and soft-hearted. Although Sister Danyue said that she would brand her mouth, she may not really do that.
After all, in front of the empress, she is never allowed to use torture on people. Even I, who have only been here for less than a month, know that Chun'er has been in this yard for more than two years, so how can I not be clear?
But she just said it, as if she was waiting for someone to scare her before speaking out.
Doesn’t she know that betraying the queen will lead to a worse outcome? Our queen will punish her alone at most, but the queen wants to destroy her entire family.
Even if her whole family is gone and she is the only one left, aren't we afraid that her parents will be dragged out and whipped to death?"
Xue Hengzhao told the truth.
Anyone who knows about Queen Yao Ziyun's methods will feel terrified.
She just looked gentle and virtuous in front of the emperor, but in fact she was very cruel and cruel, especially those who betrayed her.
Not only will the living be spared, but the dead will not be able to live in peace either.
"Don't tell me, what you said is true." Wei Zhong's eyes suddenly opened wide, and he clapped his hands and said, "She can even seek death! Why must the queen be told?"
"So I think most of what Chun'er said was not the truth, but someone deliberately taught her to do this and said so." Xue Hengzhao asserted.
"Who could that be?" Wei Zhong asked! "Is this done to sow discord?"
"Obviously," Xue Hengzhao said, "They must know that even if Chun'er says that it was the Queen's people who instigated her, we here probably won't dare to confront them.
But there must be a grudge in my heart, and I feel that the Queen is bullying others too much."
"Who is so bad?" Wei Zhong gritted his teeth, "We, the queen, have always kept aloof from the world, but someone has to drag us into trouble!"
"Those two peonies can't survive no matter what, but we still have to ask the matter clearly." Xue Hengzhao said, "We can't be so confused."
"Although I say that, since Chun'er has been bribed, I'm afraid it won't be easy to get the truth out of her mouth." Wei Zhong said, "We can't take her to the Queen's side, if she talks again, it will be us.
Isn’t it bad if you are acting yourself?”
"It's not impossible. Maybe the person who ordered her was just a serial trap.
The first level is that we believed her words and thought that all this was arranged by the queen.
Although I won't go to confront him, I already have a rift in my heart. This at least plays a role in sowing discord.
The second level is that we dare to bring her to confront her. Of course the queen will not admit it if she didn’t do it, and she will inevitably have to use force against her.
She pretended that she couldn't hold it any longer, so she admitted that we had raised the flowers to death ourselves, and later blamed the queen again.
In this way, the queen will naturally hate our empress, which will make it even more difficult to deal with.
Although we will naturally find various explanations when the time comes, the queen is very suspicious and will feel unhappy even if she doesn’t say anything on the surface.”
"It's even possible that she died in the middle of the confrontation, so we wouldn't be able to tell for sure." Wei Zhong said fearfully, "I'll have to ask someone to guard her more strictly."
After saying that, he hurriedly called two people over: "Send two more old and reliable nuns to watch Chun'er carefully.
There can't be less than four people in the room at the same time, otherwise no one will be able to clean up if something happens."
Then he turned around and asked Xue Hengzhao: "Hengzhao, you are indeed a very smart person.
Since you can even see this, you can probably think of a way to deal with her, right? Make her tell the truth!"
"Chun'er dares to do such a thing, and the other party must have spent a certain amount of money to bribe her." Xue Hengzhao analyzed, "You can't go back if you use soft words."
"Then use hard ones?" Wei Zhong said.
"No," Xue Hengzhao shook his head, "If we torture her, the people behind her will definitely report her.
After all, the palace rules clearly stated that lynching maids and eunuchs was not allowed.
When the time comes, people from the queen’s side will definitely come to ask, and won’t the matter be exposed?
What's more, even if she is tortured, she may not be able to tell."
"If the soft one doesn't work and the hard one doesn't work, what else can we do?" Wei Zhong couldn't help but get anxious.
"The sage said, a gentleman can deceive others, and the same goes for villains." Xue Hengzhao smiled slightly, "I have a method here, but it can only be regarded as luring a confession."
"Whether it's to induce a confession or to force a confession, as long as she tells the truth and we don't get kept in the dark, it's better than anything else," Wei Zhong said.
"Only the two of us know this method now, no more people can know it, otherwise it will be difficult if the news leaks out." Xue Hengzhao said, "General manager, you are like this..."
Youzhu and Danyue were drying handkerchiefs on the flower tree in the courtyard when they saw the chief guard leading a few eunuchs in.
"Who are they? What are they doing here?" Youzhu asked.
"The beams in the house over there are infested with moths. Ask them to come and repair them. Don't wait too long and they'll get damaged." Wei Zhong said and led the eunuchs there.
"There's still time to worry about that!" Danyue pouted quietly, "I don't know what to do about Chun'er yet!"
"What can I do? Just consider yourself unlucky." Youzhu said angrily, "Who told us that our queen is a soft persimmon! Whoever wants to pinch you can pinch her."
"What should I do with those two flowers? Is there any way to cure them?" Danyue asked.
"The roots of the flowers have been burnt, how can you still live?" Youzhu said dejectedly, "I just heard that Sister Bishu was discussing with the empress to go to the empress's palace in a day and a half to apologize."
"This is really an unreasonable disaster. Where can I go to reason?" Danyue was also helpless.
"I'm still thinking about reasoning! Wear two more layers of pants later! I'll kneel with you when the time comes, and I don't know how long I'll have to kneel for." Youzhu turned around and left after saying that.
The palace maids all lived in the same place. Youzhu saw Xue Hengzhao sitting inside through the screen window, so he walked to her room.
Xue Hengzhao was still painting the flower shape there, which was a weeping begonia with broken branches.
"You are quite leisurely." Youzhu sighed and said, "I feel uncomfortable looking at everything now."