Distressed wife

Chapter 322 The Death of Concubine Hui and the First Showdown (3)
"Defeated?" The old lady's eyes sank, "I underestimated her."

"Old madam, the eldest miss has sent experts there." Nurse Cong said carefully.

"It must be done tonight, and she should come in handy." The old lady narrowed her eyes and said coldly.

"Yes." Mammy naturally knew who the old lady referred to as "she", so she turned around and went to pass on the news.

Mu Qinglin looked at the old lady, "Mother, could this be a trap?"

"Even if it's a trap, it has to come true. After all, the chess piece is buried so deep that they can't guess it." The old lady snorted coldly, "This girl must be eradicated, otherwise, I'm afraid it will lead to death in the future." disaster."

Mu Qinglin also felt that Mu Ziyan was too cautious to send someone to secretly protect the Qi family. Could it be that she knew their plan?

Seeing Mu Qinglin's puzzled face, the old lady said in a low voice, "Even if this girl is cautious, she won't be so amazing. She's only an 11-year-old girl, but how powerful can she be?"

"Mother, don't forget that Zhong Xuan?" Mu Qinglin kindly reminded, just now the old lady said that Zhong Xuan was more scheming than him.

The old lady went on to say, "Zhong Xuan is very evil, but, this girl, she has been watched and grown up since she was a child, she is very pampered, and she is not deeply involved in the world, so how can she know the danger of people's hearts?"

Mu Qinglin nodded and replied, "Maybe the child is thinking too much."

The old lady continued, "It's okay, I have my own opinion on this matter."

"Yes." Mu Qinglin didn't say any more, the mother and son had their own thoughts, so they waited quietly for the news.

Mu Ziyan drove into the palace in a sedan chair, and went straight to Yongshou Palace. At this moment, the Empress Dowager was sitting upright, with the Emperor sitting beside her. Concubine Yun was not present, and the atmosphere in the hall seemed very strange.

However, Mu Ziyan entered the room neither humble nor overbearing, and saluted politely, "My daughter, see the Queen Mother! Your Majesty!"

"Girl Yan, I think Hao'er has already told you about the poisoning of Concubine Hui." The Queen Mother looked at Mu Ziyan who was kneeling on the ground. Mu Ziyan was brought into the palace for interrogation.

After a while, Su Qinrou also came in. After saluting respectfully, the two knelt down in the center of the hall.

Mu Ziyan said in a low voice, "Back to the Empress Dowager, I also heard His Majesty the Third Highness mention this matter, but this matter was definitely not done by my daughter. Concubine Hui is very close to my daughter, although the Zhong family and Mu The relationship between the family is not as good as it used to be, but the minister has no motive to harm Concubine Hui, and more importantly, even if the minister has the intention of harm, is this too obvious?"

Su Qinrou also immediately replied, "Reporting to the Queen Mother, my daughter was not feeling well at the time, so I asked Sister Mu to accompany my daughter for a walk. She has never been to other places, let alone harming Concubine Hui."

Seeing the two 11-year-old girls kneeling on the ground, the emperor couldn't figure out that they were the ones who did it. However, she was the only one who wasn't at the birthday banquet at the time. What's more, he turned his eyes and gave Zhang Xi a look. Zhang Xi then took the tray with a hairpin inside, "Is this yours?"

Mu Ziyan raised her eyes for a look, and smiled secretly, this was the red hairpin that Mu Zijing came to give her that day, and then she gave Mu Zijing.

"This thing belongs to the court lady." Mu Ziyan replied in a low voice, "But the court lady has given this thing to the court lady's third sister."

"Miss Mu Jiasan said she didn't see this thing." The emperor said bluntly.

Mu Ziyan continued, "Your Majesty, it would be too far-fetched to say that the servant girl is the murderer who harmed the concubine Hui because of this thing. It can be seen that all the red hairpins of the servant girl are made in books, and each of them will be recorded. There is a mark, and the Zhuchai presented by the courtiers will also be marked, if it is given to the third younger sister, a static character will be engraved on it."

"You have intentions." Seeing what Mu Ziyan said, the queen mother said in a low voice.

"This is the habit of my courtiers." Mu Ziyan said in a low voice, "It's just that I think this is just my courtier's wish."

"Bring it to me and have a look." When the emperor heard this, he didn't expect Mu Ziyan to be so thoughtful. It can be seen that generally, gifts given to others would not be personally engraved with that person's mark, but it would be easy to take it back later. Expecting Mu Ziyan to be so generous to his sisters, he undoubtedly gave this thing to her completely.

Zhang Xi presented Zhu Chai with both hands to the emperor, and the emperor raised his hand to take it. Sure enough, he saw a word "Jing" on the head of the hairpin, which was newly engraved on it. He nodded slightly, and then handed it to the Queen Mother.

After the queen mother took it and looked at it, she raised her eyes to look at Mu Ziyan, "It's really good, so the third lady of the Mu family is lying?"

Mu Ziyan said in a low voice, "This court lady doesn't know."

She then took the gold hairpin on her head, "This is the golden hairpin that the third sister came to give to my courtier that day. When the courtier saw that the third sister had sent such a valuable gift, she gave the golden hairpin as a gift in return. Give it back to her."

The Empress Dowager nodded slightly, and ordered Zhang Xi to go forward and take it, and put it into his hand to carefully appreciate it, then turned to look at the emperor, "This gold hairpin is finely crafted, it's pretty good."

"It's just that it looks familiar to me." The emperor stared at the golden hairpin for a while, as if thinking of something.

Zhang Xi stood aside and said in a low voice, "Your Majesty, I remember that this gold hairpin was given to Concubine Hui by you."

"Concubine Hui?" The emperor narrowed his eyes slightly, and then stared at the gold hairpin carefully.

Zhang Xi continued, "Your Majesty, this golden hairpin probably has other secrets."

"What's the mystery?" the emperor asked in a deep voice.

"This..." Zhang Xi hesitated.

"Okay, let's talk and listen." The emperor said in a deep voice.

Zhang Xi took the gold hairpin with both hands, and then twisted it lightly, the gold hairpin was split into two halves, and the shaft of the hairpin was actually hollow.

Seeing this, Mu Ziyan's eyes flashed with surprise, "Your Majesty, I don't know that this golden hairpin would..."

When the Queen Mother saw her, she narrowed her eyes, "Is this golden hairpin really from Concubine Hui?"

"All the things that are rewarded to the empresses of the palaces need to be registered and made. This golden hairpin is quite expensive. There are only two pieces. One is given to the Queen Mother by the emperor's old slave, and the other is given to Concubine Hui. Niang Niang." Zhang Xi truthfully reported the report, and then said, "It's just this gold hairpin, the old slave just tried it, but I didn't expect it to be separated."

(End of this chapter)