Donggong Zhangjiao

"I heard it was six or seven days ago. It was precisely because there had been no movement for so long that the eunuch who delivered the food came to report to me." Concubine Song said truthfully, and then asked, "Why do you ask me this?"

Song Concubine herself was harmed by the Xie family in the first place, so she ordered people to secretly torture the Xie family in the cold palace, so that someone would tell her that the Xie family was about to die.

But Fang Yun had never cared about it before, and now he asked, why?
  Want to vent your anger on the second princess?
  But it was too sudden, and I had never mentioned it before.

"It's nothing, I just asked casually." Fang Yun said calmly.

But after returning to Yuzhang Palace, Fang Yun ordered Yuan He to go to Leng Palace to see how Xie was doing.

Yuan He probably guessed what Fang Yun was thinking and went immediately.

When I arrived, the woman guarding the door was taking a nap.

Hearing the sound, he quickly got up and led people inside.

He also said that people from Jingqian Palace came to search today and asked Yuanhe what was going on.

"Since I didn't tell you, then you shouldn't be able to inquire about it. Just do your job well. This time I'm meeting my father-in-law. Next time I meet someone else who sees you being lazy, you won't get any good results!"

Yuan He lectured calmly.

The woman was so frightened that she didn't dare to ask any questions.

After searching around, I finally found Ms. Xie huddled in the corner in a dark and broken room, looking too dirty to look at.

"Ms. Xie, Eunuch Yuan is here to see you, why don't you come over and salute!" the mother-in-law shouted loudly.

But the woman huddled in the corner was shaking to herself, leaning against the wall without looking back, and was still mumbling something, but she couldn't understand what she was mumbling.

When the woman saw this, she was not polite. She grabbed her hair, pulled her over, and threw her in front of Yuan He.

"Look, father-in-law, this man has been crazy for many years. This year he is almost dead from this disease."

"Pull her hair aside and show me her face."

Yuan He narrowed his eyes and ordered.

Although she didn’t know why she did this, the old lady cooperated.

Mr. Xie seemed to be too sick and had no strength. He let her do whatever he wanted and just smiled.

Not long after, the messy hair was pulled away, revealing a face covered with scars and dirt, making it impossible to see the original appearance clearly.

Yuan He was not afraid. He got closer and took a closer look, but he didn't see anything wrong.

He looked away, feeling disgusted.

But he was still worried and took out a piece of spoiled dried meat from his arms. This was something that Rong Rong didn't want to eat and had gone bad and wanted to throw it away.

At this moment, Yuan He waved the dried meat in front of Mr. Xie and said, "I'll give you something delicious to eat, okay?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Mrs. Xie had already rushed over, snatched the spoiled and smelly dried meat, chewed it in big mouths, and swallowed it in his belly, making the people watching frown.

Yuan He tried again and again, but felt that Mrs. Xie had gone completely crazy. He really couldn't see any problem, so he ordered the old lady to take good care of him, and then returned to the palace to return to Fang Yun.

When he came back, Pei Yao had just gone to court and came over.

So I reported it to the two masters together.

After hearing this, Pei Yao also frowned, and then said in a deep voice, "Let's continue hunting for now."

After sitting in Yuzhang Palace for half a day and having lunch, Pei Yao returned to Jingqian Palace to handle government affairs.

And in the evening, inside the cold palace, the woman who was guarding the door heard a rumbling and collapsing sound coming from the house. When she went in, she found that Ms. He was holding on to the threshold, as if he wanted to climb out.

He moved the door panel open and when he checked his breathing, he found that the person was dead.

The two women were so frightened that they jumped away.

"This unlucky thing is actually dead!" "You need to throw it out quickly. Don't stay here overnight. It won't be safe at night. It's scary!"

"It's good to die. If you die, there will be no one to guard her in this cold palace. We can transfer her to work elsewhere. Just wait, I'll find someone to drag her out."

"Okay, I prepared a straw mat early in the morning. I knew she was going to die soon."

The two mothers-in-law discussed and went separately.

Finally, two reluctant little eunuchs came, carried the man wrapped in mats to a cart, and left the palace through the corner gate.

After throwing the person on the mass grave, he lit a fire randomly and left in a hurry.

As soon as they left, the people in the fire suddenly started to move, quickly crawled out of the straw mat, and rolled around on the ground, extinguishing all the newly burned areas on their bodies.

When I stood up, although it still looked tattered and dirty, the aura of my body had completely changed.

But when she was about to leave, she felt a chill on her neck and a knife was placed on her neck.

"Empress Yanfei, please come with me."

Before anyone could react, the man holding the knife suddenly raised his hand and knocked her unconscious.

When Lin Chan woke up again, a basin of cold water was poured on her face.

The person sitting in front of her was Hong Zheng.

"Empress Yan Fei, when you come here, you will have to explain everything you have to explain. You will suffer less, and my servant will complete the orders from above earlier."

Hong Zheng smiled gently, but the cold light in his eyes was terrifying.

At that time, in Yuzhang Palace, Pei Yao and Fang Yun had just finished their dinner.

Fu Xi came to deliver the news. After hearing this, Pei Yao only ordered to interrogate him carefully and let him go down alive.

At this time, Fang Yun handed him the digestion tea and then asked.

"How did the emperor realize that something was wrong? Yuan He even looked so closely and found no clues."

"Yuanhe said that Mrs. Xie's body smelled rotten, like dead fish and rotten shrimps. The room where she stayed exuded the same smell, but although Ms. Xie was sick, she was not injured anywhere, so that the wound oozed pus. Corruption, in this case, I guess the smell is not coming from her body, but probably from something in the house."

"A dead rat or something wouldn't cause a peculiar smell all over the house, so I guess it's something bigger, such as a person."

Pei Yao said word by word in a deep voice.

Hearing this, Fang Yun couldn't help but feel sick, and said while holding back his discomfort.

"So the emperor guessed that Lin Chan killed Xie and hid the body in that dark room, so that he could disguise himself as Xie and hide there."

"Yes, if she didn't stare at Xie's body, once someone found Xie's body, wouldn't she be exposed, so she had to watch it in person, but it's hot today, and dead people will not be corrupted. "

Pei Yao raised his chin slightly and frowned.

"In addition, today your people and I went to the Cold Palace respectively. In the evening, Mrs. Xie died. It was a coincidence. If she had died during the day, she would have been dragged out before dawn. If she died at night, she would have died the next day. He will be dragged out, but only in this evening, the deceased can still be dragged out of the palace, so I am more and more certain."

After hearing these words, Fang Yun nodded and quickly asked Qingrong and Yanwei to open the window for some air.

After all, just listening to these words and thinking about the scene makes people feel a little upset in their stomach.

Seeing her discomfort, Pei Yao immediately changed his mind and talked about something else to divert her attention.

The next day, Pei Yao already got a copy of the results of Hong Zheng's trial.

Looking at the contents on this paper, Pei Yao's face was gloomy. Then after the morning court, he called a group of close ministers to the imperial study and threw this thing to them.

"Let's all take a look. Based on this, there are both witnesses and physical evidence. Think carefully about how to negotiate with Shang Yangguo."