He seemed to be quite patient. He didn't ask questions or stop him. He let the old eunuch finish laughing and then said slowly: "Please elaborate."
Xiao Chenzi stood aside, longing to kick the old eunuch. Seeing Su Peisheng slightly nodding at him, he knelt down and said eloquently: "Your Majesty, I thought this servant was a serving eunuch deep in the cave.
He secretly cooked meals and caused a leak. After investigating, we found out that it was this old guy... who was secretly hiding in the connecting room and decoction. Fortunately, he was brave and borrowed the smoke cage in the connecting room! "
Deep inside the cave, there are copper braziers or small iron smoke cages in various halls, which are called "smoke halls". They can also be used for heating in autumn and winter.
The masters use enamel filigree, which is extremely gorgeous, but the slaves also have slave "smoke cages".
Although it was already the Dragon Boat Festival, the eunuchs in the palace often buried the charcoal to extinguish it directly for convenience, or if they had food that needed to be warmed, they would directly put it in the charcoal basin to heat it.
But there are also hidden dangers in doing this. The most terrible thing is that you can't leave the fumigation cage for a moment - if you are negligent and the guard walks away, the wood grid will be burned due to the regenerative nature of the fumigation cage, and the flames will dim.
When the fire reaches a certain level, it will suddenly rise from the basin.
By the time you smell smoke, it's already too late.
Xiao Chenzi said bitterly: "...I burned down the clothes warehouse, and that's how I hurt my brother!"
Xi concubine looked at the old eunuch from the side, raised her eyebrows slightly, and suddenly said: "Today is the Dragon Boat Festival, deep in the cave, early in the morning, there is an imperial pharmacy coming to distribute sinking tablets, etc. You have chosen a good time, you
What kind of medicine is causing the fever? Where did you get the prescription? What kind of disease do you have? Are there any slaves deep in the cave who can prove it?"
She asked four or five questions aggressively in a row, and she was almost completely different from her usual gentle and demure demeanor.
Not only the concubines, but also the Queen Uranala could not help but look sideways, frowned slightly, and said in a cold tone, with displeasure in her tone: "Xi Concubine, please be patient! Your Majesty is here, what questions you want to ask, Your Majesty will naturally know."
Xi Concubine realized that she had lost her composure, raised her hand to cover her mouth, and then said softly: "Empress, it's not that I am impatient, but it is about my brother, and I am really concerned about my situation... I am the concubine who has lost her composure."
Ulanara slowly raised his head and said in a cold voice: "Among the whole hall, are you the only one who knows how to be anxious? I am the aunt of the princes. If I am concerned about my anxiety, I am even more anxious than you!"
As soon as these words came out, Concubine Yu did not dare to say another word. She shook her lips slightly, lowered her eyes, turned cold, and said no more.
Yinzhen turned his eyes, glanced at Xi concubine briefly, then at the queen, and then his eyes passed over the faces of the concubines.
The old eunuch just said a few words and pulled the wound on his face. Suddenly the skin was torn open and blood dripped down, splashing on his clothes in bits and pieces, which was shocking.
Yinzhen didn't let him go down, nor did he let him get up.
He just let him sit there, his face as sinking as water.
For a moment, everyone in the palace looked at each other secretly, unable to guess what the emperor was thinking.
After a while, the old eunuch put away his frantic attitude and finally calmed down.
Then, in the dead silence, he finally raised his head and glanced at the emperor.
Yinzhen was also looking at him coldly.
The old eunuch finally slipped off his chair, knelt on the ground, and said: "Your Majesty...!"
Yinzhen raised his hand to straighten his sleeves, and finally said calmly: "Throughout the dynasties in the palace, how could you not see a few dirty things? I boiled the medicine and caused the warehouse to leak. Do you think I am a fool?"
The old eunuch rolled his eyes, strained his body and let out a few squeaks in his throat, and was about to fall down again.
Xiao Chenzi was stunned when he heard what the emperor said. At this time, he supported him, his face turned red, and he was ashamed and angry. He gritted his teeth and said: "You are going to die! How dare you not tell the truth in front of the emperor?"
There was a trace of compassion in Yinzhen's tone, and he said to the old eunuch in a deep voice: "Speak carefully - I will reward you with a good death."
The old eunuch stared at his eyes, stretched his neck, and his lips trembled for a long time. Suddenly, he turned his head, knelt down in the direction of Concubine Yu, and shouted heartbreakingly: "Concubine Yu, my servant has already said -
What you did was not thorough, beautiful, or appropriate! There is no airtight wall in the world. When you do this, there are traces everywhere. Where can you not find it? I dare not do it, and I don’t want to do it! You have to force me to do it.
It's a dead end!"
Everyone shouted to each other in shock: "It's Concubine Yu! Concubine Yu?"
The old eunuch's face was in extreme pain, but he stretched out his hand but did not dare to touch the bones. He couldn't help but burst into tears and said: "This slave's injury cannot be cured, and it is impossible to survive. Madam, don't blame me - if you want to blame me, blame you."
Keep your word! You are ruthless. After all, this slave is an old person who has been with you for many years when you were hiding in the mansion. Over the years, I have been secretly working for you around my brother. What did you promise to this slave? What did you promise again? "
When he said this, his expression became angry, and there seemed to be strength in his throat suddenly, and his voice became clearer, and he shouted hoarsely: "Killing the prince, Concubine Yu, I am risking my life for you! How dare you kill yourself for you?
To protect my peace of mind, I have to do something so extreme? Is it necessary to attack the godson whom I have raised outside the palace? I have repeatedly said that he has no idea - why don’t you believe it? Why don’t you believe it!”
When the old eunuch said this, he was full of resentment. He stamped his feet and cried bitterly: "I entered the palace at the age of nine and with one knife, I will have no descendants in this life. I will not distinguish between men and women, and I will not distinguish between yin and yang... What a miserable life! It's hard to use the money I have saved for half my life."
You have coaxed a godson back, and I still expect him to provide for you in old age! You are such a black-hearted master! If you don’t leave any room for me, don’t blame me for your death!"
As if a thunder had been dropped in the palace, Yinzhen slowly stood up and walked to Concubine Yu step by step, with a horrifying expression on his face.
Concubine Yu's face turned pale, she took a few steps back, shook her head desperately, and suddenly bit her lip, raised her finger and pointed at the eunuch, her voice almost changed in tone and said: "Your Majesty! Your Majesty! You are such a wise emperor——
Why can't you see that this is a trap? Someone must have come to frame me and the fifth elder brother, so he instigated this old servant to frame me like this! Your Majesty, think about it, think about it... Burn the sixth elder brother
, bring down this palace, falsely accuse the fifth elder brother, killing two birds with one stone, who is most beneficial to you?"
Ulanara's eyebrows moved, and his eyes subconsciously drifted towards Xi Bin.
Xi concubine angrily pushed the tea cup at her hand, her lips trembling with anger, she stood up and said: "Ms. Yufei! The evil you have caused yourself, you actually want to blame it on my concubine? Concubine usually usually
I respect you, I respect you, remembering the friendship we had in the dormitory in the past, I have always been respectful and respectful! Even with the fourth elder brother, I only tried to persuade him to love the fifth younger brother, and gave in to everything, but you actually bit back like this! You!