"Your Majesty, this is slander!" Ji Xiu's hand holding the letter shook with excessive force and said, "This is someone deliberately imitating my handwriting!"
As he said that, almost out of a moment of intuition, he suddenly raised his hand and pointed in one direction: "It's you, you copied my handwriting, it must be you!"
This person is very good at copying other people's handwriting, and has done several things for him before...
Everyone looked in the direction of his finger. A young man wearing a blue official robe was sitting there, looking a little stunned. Then he sighed and said, "May I ask, my lord, what reason does a lower official have to do this?"
The officials exchanged glances with each other.
Who doesn't know that Zhan Yunzhu is Ji Xiu's man?
And if Ji Xiu falls, Zhan Yunzhu's situation will inevitably become difficult - who would frame his biggest backer?
Ji Xiu was so panicked that he started biting randomly in order to excuse himself, right?
Aware of everyone's looks and speculations, Ji Xiu looked at the young man's calm eyes and thought of a key point -
In the mausoleum temple, when the emperor was questioning Concubine Sun and King Xiang alone, Xia Tingzhen walked in to ask for an audience, and Zhan Yunzhu quickly followed...
At that time, he only thought that Zhan Yunzhu was relying on the emperor's recent respect, so he dared to take the initiative to participate in this matter like Xia Tingzhen, and did not want Xia Tingzhen to be alone in front of the emperor. But now that he thinks about it... these two people are in the Zen room, maybe
They were conspiring together in front of the emperor!
Thinking about this possibility, Ji Xiu felt as if he was on the edge of a cliff and would be pushed down the next moment and fall to pieces.
It's not that he didn't think that Zhan Yunzhu would betray him, nor was he unprepared...
Although I had taken all precautions, I never thought that this day would come so quickly!
Even just less than ten hours ago, the other party treated him with respect and respect, as if he knew everything!
This is indeed a poisonous snake!
"Bring the concubine here first and confront Minister Ji face to face." Emperor Qingming ordered Han Yan in a deep tone.
Han Yan agreed and quickly brought Concubine Sun over.
After a whole day of "interrogation", Concubine Sun looked increasingly embarrassed, her hair was messy, her lips were white and chapped with bloodshot eyes, and her eyes were red.
"Concubine, who conspired with you to poison the mother and the queen?" Emperor Qingming asked personally. When he mentioned the words "poisoning the mother and the queen", his tone was full of coldness.
Concubine Sun slowly raised her arm and pointed at Ji Xiu with a trembling finger: "It's Shangshu Ji... He was the one who instigated me in every possible way, and I did such a wrong thing in a moment of confusion..."
Ji Xiu felt like scolding his mother.
He has never been so wronged!
"Concubine, please don't slander anyone. When have I ever instigated you?"
A sarcastic smile overflowed from the corners of Concubine Sun's pale mouth, and her eyes were full of hatred: "Master Shangshu is really good at planning. Not only did he use me to poison the Queen Mother, but he even laid out the escape route if the matter was exposed...
It was clearly you who personally handed the poison into the hands of the maid next to me, but I only found out last night that this poison actually originated from Dianzhou! You have worked so hard, and all you want is to use my son, King Xiang, to take the blame for you once it is exposed.
!”
...Who the hell is taking the blame for whom?
Ji Xiu was so angry that his tongue was almost tied, and he began to speak without any scruples: "Don't try to involve me just because you want to excuse King Xiang!"
"Your Majesty, I will never lie!"
Concubine Sun knocked her head heavily on the ground and sobbed: "This matter was caused by me being confused for a moment and being taken advantage of by others, which almost harmed the Queen Mother... No matter what fate I end up with today, I deserve it! Over the years, it was my wife who
I was too narrow-minded, and now I have suffered the consequences and regretted it so hard that I slowly realized that I was completely wrong... So I really didn’t dare, and I can’t hide anything anymore!”
"..." Listening to these sincere words, Ji Xiu even felt that his eyes were turning black and his palms were covered with sticky cold sweat.
This woman was talking nonsense, and he felt angry and anxious, but he had no idea how to respond and explain!
At this moment, he hated himself so much that he had been in the capital for so many years. Why had he never thought of going to Yitong Academy to learn some skills and come back?!
After all, he was superficial. He thought that this skill in talking could only be used to quarrel. It was only at this moment that he realized that this thing could not only defend himself at critical moments, but could even save his life - he had only learned it for a year and a half.
Zai, are you afraid that you can't tell the difference and the other person is speechless? Why don't you tell yourself clearly?
The extremely angry Shangshu Ji could only shout one sentence after another that he was wronged and that he had been slandered.
And such an explanation is unconvincing even if it is raised up.
"The concubine claimed that the poison that poisoned the Queen Mother was given by Minister Ji - do you remember when and where it was given to whom?" Emperor Qingming asked with a very fair expression.
, doesn’t seem to trust anyone.
Concubine Sun replied without hesitation: "It was the night before yesterday, about the end of Xu hour... He handed the things to my maid Cuizhu in the north garden of the palace! When Cuizhu came back, it was just a quarter of Hai hour. I saw it
It drips!"
At the end of Xu time the night before yesterday?
Ji Xiu frowned and thought for a moment, then immediately said: "This is really nonsense. At that time, I and several other gentlemen were discussing matters at His Majesty's residence!"
So many people can testify for him, and the emperor also knows it!
"When did my dear friends leave my place that night?" Emperor Qingming asked Li Ji.
Li Ji thought for a while and said truthfully: "I remember, I think he left in the middle of the month..."
Several other ministers also recalled: "When I returned to my residence... it was not yet the time of Xu..."
"It is true that Xu Shizhong went back..."
There is only half an hour difference between this and the other.
Half an hour is enough to do a lot of things.
And if we really want to make a careful calculation, it was around the end of Xu Shi that Ji Xiu left His Majesty's place and met the maid next to Concubine Sun in the North Garden - the more he talks about it, the more conclusive the evidence becomes...
Ji Xiu gritted his teeth secretly.
Therefore... what Mrs. Sun said about the end of Xu Shi was not just a casual statement, but a premeditated one!
"Your Majesty, after I resigned that night, I never went to Beiyuan! That night, Zhan Yunzhu left with me!"
——He is the only one who can prove it!
But this bitch is not a human being at all!
There was almost no surprise, and then the young man hesitated for a moment and said: "Xiaoguan just said a few words to the Lord outside the hospital that day, and then they went their separate ways. Where did the Lord go after that?
