The princess changed her widow's life by fortune-telling

Chapter 695 The Murderer Has Disappeared

While Concubine Zhao was thinking, Bai Jinye and Bai Fengyu had already asked many people.

Some of these people are okay, their thinking is fairly clear, and they can roughly talk about what happened before they were alive, but a few of them don’t know if they have stayed in the chaos for too long. His consciousness has been muddled, and no one even knows his own name.

Interrogation is not difficult for Bai Jinye and Bai Fengyu.

If there was a soul to interrogate back then, maybe the whole story of this matter would have been clear back then.

So far, the truth has not been revealed, it is nothing more than death without evidence.

The Zhaochun Palace was burned into ruins, and the people behind could only judge that it was man-made based on the most serious burnt there and the traces of kerosene burning.

But who did it, there is no clue.

After all, the Zhaochun Palace was on fire at night, and the guards patrolling nearby did not see anyone coming in or out.

Back then, some people suspected that the murderer was also burned to death in the fire, which made this matter even more concealed.

After a while, Bai Jinye and Bai Fengyu came back, looked at Concubine Zhao, and then said to Pei Zimo, "According to the talking soul, when Concubine Zhao was taking a nap that evening, she dreamed that she was pregnant. This dream made Concubine Zhao, who had always wanted to conceive, extremely happy."

"It happened to be midsummer, so Concubine Zhao gave sweet water with ice to everyone in Zhaochun Palace."

It's normal to reward sweet water, but in the palace, the ice used for each palace in midsummer must be taken from the ice cellar, and there are strict rules according to the level, so the ice is all for the master.

The minions want to use ice, that is not an easy task.

So sweet water is not valuable, but sweet water with ice is.

And it is for everyone in Zhaochun Palace, which proves that Concubine Zhao usually uses more ice than other concubines.

"Everyone thanked Concubine Zhao for her kindness, and happily ate sweet water, and then fell asleep."

"Some people didn't wake up at all, and were burned to death in a coma, and some woke up in the fire, but it was too late, and there was no way to escape."

"Only a few people did not drink sweet water and did not encounter the fire because they were doing business outside the Zhaochun Palace. They were considered to have survived the Zhaochun Palace fire."

"Thus these people were interrogated repeatedly during that period of time, and were even tortured to extract confessions. Two of them died under torture, and three of them couldn't stand the torture, so they committed suicide in the name of serving Concubine Zhao."

"There are only two people left, because the deaths of these people can be regarded as avoiding the rest of the forced confessions. After all, if everyone dies in prison, the investigators will not be easy to deal with."

"Later, one of these two people went to the Yeting Bureau, and the other went to the Huanyi Bureau. The person who went to the Huanyi Bureau fell into the well and died not long after fetching water. She said that she was pushed down by someone. But in a place like the Huanyi Bureau, no one cares about the death of a little maid without a master, so no one should have investigated the matter at the time."

"As for the father-in-law of the Yeting Bureau, he contracted a disease and died suddenly a few years later."

Pei Zimo frowned lightly, "Being caught with a disease and dying suddenly, logically speaking, it's not considered a futile death, why haven't you been reincarnated yet?"

"So it's strangely ill." Bai Fengyu said, "I've heard that some people in the palace will bribe the nanny to wear the dirty clothes infected by the epidemic for the baby, or put the dirty cloth next to the baby, so that the baby And get sick and die.”

"So even if this father-in-law contracted a disease, it may not be a normal disease."

Pei Zimo sighed softly, then turned to look at Concubine Zhao, "This sweet water is a gift from you, so you should know who has access to this sweet water?" Did you drink it yourself?"

After finishing speaking, she turned her head to look at Bai Jinye, "Did someone perform an autopsy on the people in Zhaochun Palace back then? Was it burned to death in a coma or alive? Should it be possible to find out?"

Bai Jinye nodded, "Most people were burned to death in a coma, but... the situation of Concubine Zhao is unclear. Back then, Emperor Father forbade her to touch Concubine Zhao's body, so most of the people in Zhaochun Palace were In a state of coma, one can only think that Concubine Zhao is also in a coma, since Concubine Zhao is also in a coma, obviously this is what she thinks."

As he spoke, he also looked at Concubine Zhao, "But if Concubine Zhao is not in a coma, could it be that Concubine Zhao set the fire in Zhaochun Palace by herself? Anyway, Concubine Zhao had such a dream that made her happy, no one would know." I know. Whether it is an excuse or the truth, only she knows best in her heart. "

"However, if Concubine Zhao set the fire on her own, it wouldn't make sense." Bai Fengyu took over the words, "Concubine Zhao was so favored at the time, there was no need to commit suicide, right?"

"We've always guessed that someone in Concubine Zhao's palace set fire to someone who was threatened, but why couldn't the person being threatened be Concubine Zhao herself?" Bai Jinye looked at Concubine Zhao, "Concubine Zhao, what do you think?" Is it?"

Concubine Zhao gently closed her eyes, pursed her thin lips tightly, and still did not speak.

"I remembered." Bai Fengyu said again, "Back then Concubine Zhao's father and brother seemed to be fighting at the border, and they were guarding Xihe City at that time."

It was also after Concubine Zhao's death that Concubine Zhao's father retired and returned to his hometown, and her elder brother stayed there for a few years, but his old illness relapsed and he could no longer defend the city, so the first emperor sent Bai Fengyu to Xihe City.

"If someone wants to threaten Concubine Zhao's father and brother's life, Concubine Zhao might..."

"It's not me!" Concubine Zhao interrupted Bai Fengyu's words suddenly, and opened her eyes, looking at the souls in the courtyard formation, the corners of her lips trembled slightly, and she said after a while, "But...it's also me .”

Some things are difficult to say the first sentence, but as long as you start to say it, there is nothing to worry about the rest.

"It's my maid, Xia Luo." Concubine Zhao sighed, and continued, "Xia Luo has been with me since childhood, and when I entered the palace, I also brought her into the palace. We are masters and servants in name, but in fact we are Like sisters."

"I did have such a dream that day, but when I think about it, that dream was nothing like normal dreams, it was extraordinarily real, everything in it was very clear, it didn't look like a dream at all. After waking up, I I told Xia Luo about it, and Xia Luo said it was a good omen, and proposed to reward everyone in the palace."

"At first I was immersed in a dream, and I didn't think too much about it, so I agreed to her proposal, and she went down to make arrangements. But then I drank a cup of tea, and after thinking about it, it wasn't right."

"Zhaochun Palace has always used more ice and carbon than other palaces. In fact, it has already made many people dissatisfied. If I continue to give rewards in the palace and even some neglected concubines don't have to use ice, I'm afraid it will be even worse. Reality."

"There is nothing left and right, I want to go out for a walk, so I went to the small kitchen to find Xia Luo."

"There is no one else in the small kitchen, only Xia Luo herself. This is obviously wrong. She is just passing on a message, and naturally other people are cooking sweet water. I walked over carefully and saw Xia Luo pouring medicine into the sweet water."

"I went in immediately, trying to stop her, but before I opened my mouth, the medicine powder had already been sprinkled into the sweet water. I thought Xia Luo was bought by others, and it was extremely distressing."

"In the end, Xia Luo cried and told me that the queen mother found her and asked her to do this. The queen mother said that if she didn't do this, she would cut off my father and brother's food at the front line."

"Xia Luo would rather commit suicide than help the Queen Mother do this kind of thing, but the Queen Mother gave her some incense, saying that the incense would make me enter hallucinations, and even if I was burned to death, I would not feel pain at all. "

"In the evening, she just lit a little incense, so I entered a hallucination, not a dream at all. I woke up and told Xia Luo what was in the hallucination as a dream, and Xia Luo knew that the queen mother did not lie to her. "

"Xia Luo really understands me. If the queen mother comes to me and uses my father and brother to force me to commit suicide, I will accept it. She originally wanted me to die without pain, but now I broke through."

"I said it's fine to let me die alone. There is no need to bring so many people in the palace with me. But the queen mother said that because of the emperor's love for me, I will definitely investigate in the future. Anyone who is alive in Zhaochun Palace may be investigated. On the queen's head."

"The empress dowager also knows that her life is not long, she doesn't want to fall out with the emperor before she dies."

"Even if I die and the people in the palace don't die, the queen mother will not let them go."

"After taking this drug, at least they can die without pain."

"I failed to save the people in my palace, and watched them die. Even if I didn't kill them with my own hands, they all died because of me, so whether I set the fire with my own hands is not that important anymore. gone."

"After Xia Luo lit the fire, she lit the incense in my room. I died without any pain. In that illusion, I saw that I gave birth to a child, brought him up, and was made a prince. The emperor and I will grow old forever."

"But when I got to the underworld, I couldn't find Xia Luo."

Concubine Zhao turned her head to look at Pei Zimo, "Since you have recruited everyone's souls, why don't you see Xia Luo?"

Pei Zimo took over the roster of Zhaochun Palace from Bai Jinye. Xia Luo's name was indeed listed, but it did not appear.

She narrowed her eyes lightly, took out another talisman, and was about to test where Xia Luo's soul was, when Bai Yiheng said from the side, "This Xia Luo has lost her soul."

Pei Zimo frowned, and turned to look at Bai Yiheng. If she wanted to know the whereabouts of Xia Luo's soul, she needed a talisman, but obviously Bai Yiheng didn't need it.

Bai Yiheng scratched his head, "My master taught me that from the horoscope on the date of birth, you can also tell what happens after this person's death."

There is really no way for Pei Zimo to do this. From the horoscope of his birthday, she can only tell what happened to this person before his life, and she doesn't know anything about what happened after his death.

"Her horoscope is obviously the result of her soul dissipating after death." Bai Yiheng continued, "I can't get it out."

"How could you lose your soul?" Concubine Zhao frowned.

"So there are obviously experts around the queen mother." Pei Zimo said, "The illusion is obviously not something that ordinary people can create. That person is probably afraid that someone will be able to summon the soul to know the whole story. No one will know about this matter anymore, he probably didn't expect that you already knew about this matter, so only Xia Luo's soul was scattered, not yours."

(End of this chapter)