Emperor Phoenix

Chapter 78

With a smile on his face, Wen Chang said lightly, "You've lost your mind. It's not just your mind that you've lost. You've lost your mind and soul, and you don't even know your master." She sighed and waved her hand.

Qin Changge looked at Fu Daquan with a smile and said, "Eunuch Fu, what happened today..."

Trembling all over, Fu Daquan hurriedly bowed and said, "Back to the princess, I didn't see anything, and I can guarantee that they didn't see anything."

Where did the palace people dare to speak, they just kowtowed frequently.

"No, you saw it." Qin Changge smiled firmly.

Startled, Fu Daquan met Qin Changge's eyes, obviously very gentle and calm, but for some reason, there was something glittering in the depths of those dark pupils, which made the sophisticated man's heart beat like a drum for a moment, his legs softened, and he couldn't help but Kneeling down with a thump, "Old slave... I saw it, but I swear on my life that no matter what I see, I will rot in my stomach, and I won't say a word in my sleep! Please look at the old slave who is diligent in serving the servants!" For the sake...don't..."

Qin Changge said lightly: "Caitan got lost insanity, but you didn't get it. Everyone has seen what happened today. As for whether we can forget it, it depends on whether everyone is willing to live a good life. Everyone stays in the palace. It's been a while, and there are some things that I don't need to remind."

Smiling, she pointed to the rewards in everyone's hands, "Princess is a kind person, as long as you put your heart into it, you will not be treated badly after all. Remember, if the princess is honored, you will be honored, and if the princess is humiliated, you will be humiliated. Go out. "

The palace people retreated in a panic, and the sound of footsteps went away. Wenchang straightened up immediately, and smiled helplessly at Qin Changge, looking a little unaccustomed to the sinister role he played today.

He waved his hand at Xiao Jue, who was looking cold and ready to rush out behind the gauze screen, to signal him to be calm. Qin Changge took the golden crossbow, put it on Caitan's forehead with a smile, and said softly, "Miss Caitan, Let's be smart and don't speak dark words, you must know more about what's in it than me, if you still want to live, you know what to do?"

Caitan knelt down on the ground, raised her tearful face, sobbing uncontrollably: "... maidservant... don't know..."

"There are many ways to die," Qin Changge said slowly, "There are more ways to deal with people with evil intentions, um... peeling, grooming, cooking, gutting... which one do you like?"

Hearing the names of those cruel punishments, Caitan's face turned blue, her whole body trembled like leaves falling in the wind, she kowtowed, "Please... kill me... please..."

"Killing you is cheap, your request is too extravagant," Qin Changge smiled, took the candlestick on the table, took off the sharp gold braze, took Caitan's hand, looked at her fingers, and praised: " He Ruyu's festival is better than condensed fat, in front of the light spring breeze, a peach petal flies down gracefully, and the embroidered curtain is rolled up after sleeping lazily...It's so beautiful...It's a pity..."

Caitan looked at her in horror and incomprehension.

Qin Changge smiled.

The hand sank, stabbed, stirred, and then picked like lightning.

A bloody sheet flew out and landed on the clean ground, with a slight sound, "Crack!"

Those were the nails that had been picked off.

Before Caitan's miserable hiss could come out, Qin Changge quickly tore off the embroidered handkerchief on her front, rolled it into a ball and quickly stuffed it in her throat.

Fingers connected to the heart, heart-piercing pain, Caitan desperately raised his head, opened his mouth wide, sweat rolled down his head, and a shattered whimper came out of his throat, like the wail of a dying animal.

Wen Chang couldn't bear to turn his head away, but behind the screen, Xiao Jue backed away slowly and sat down.

His eyes didn't even look at the woman who wanted to assassinate him, but only stared at Qin Changge.

Qin Changge remained unmoved by the trembling and groaning in front of him, and only calmly moved the tip of the brazing rod to the second finger. Caitan's eyes widened in horror, and he withdrew his hand desperately, but he couldn't hold his finger firmly. It is firmly held in Qin Chang's singer, unable to move at all.

Seeing that the tip of the brazing rod had reached the fingernail, thinking of the heart-piercing pain just now, Caitan let out a horrified hoot, and in desperation closed his eyes, bit his teeth deeply into his lips, and slowly, There was a line of blood.

She would rather close her eyes and not face the face of self-deception, and dare not confess.

"You don't look like a strong-willed person." Qin Changge stopped his hands, looked at Caitan who couldn't bear the pain but hesitated to speak, thoughtfully, "I don't think that person may be worth it." Your allegiance is so... You have other important handles in the other party's hands, don't you?"

His whole body trembled, as if being hit, Caitan turned his eyes away, weeping silently, his uninjured hand convulsively dug into the cracks of the bright gold bricks.

"That person is from this palace, isn't he?" Qin Changge stared closely at her eyes, and slowly said: "...the status is noble, and he controls the life and death of the person you care about?"

Looking up in surprise, Caitan even forgot to cry, she muttered, showing a hesitant look.

"Is it family?"

"Okay, I can save your family's lives," Qin Changge said calmly, "The condition is that you speak honestly. If you are still stubborn, I will not touch you. I will only ask the princess to drive you out of Jin'ou Palace immediately. Believe it or not, as long as you step out of Jin'ou Palace like this today, before midnight, you will definitely die in an unsightly place in an unknown corner of the palace, and all your family members... will end up just like you .”

There was another trembling, Caitan's eyes showed a look of fear and confusion, she clenched her lips and thought for a while, then said in a low voice: "...you have to promise...you promise to protect my family well..."

"I don't promise." Qin Changge stood up coldly in Caitan's astonishment, and said lightly: "You intend to kill the king and blame the princess, and you have suffered Ling Chi's heinous crime of implicating the nine clans. You, and your family, It should be a capital offense, so what qualifications do you have to bargain with me? What you can do now is to bow your head and confess behind the scenes sincerely, in exchange for a lenient decree. Your Majesty will forgive you for the sake of your filial piety. The life of a family, the pros and cons, you weigh it yourself!"

"And if I dare to make such a promise, I will naturally rely on me," Qin Changge said, looking sideways at the screen, "Your Majesty, is it?"

Caitan looked back in shock.

"Quite!" Xiao Jue quickly walked out from behind the screen, his anger dissipated, Mingrui looked directly at Qin Changge, but he spoke to Caitan, "I don't need to enlighten you, let alone beg you, with your owl Behavior, if the car cracks your family, it is considered a minor crime! I pity you and have the virtue of sincerity and filial piety. I can punish your family lightly, and you can do it yourself!"

With a wail and tears streaming down his face, Caitan threw himself on his knees all the way to Xiao Jue's feet, kowtowed like pounding garlic, his flesh and skin hit the gold brick floor, and the echo was hollow and dull, "The slave said... the slave said all That's it... the servant doesn't want that at all..."

She clutched her bleeding fingers, sobbing intermittently, speechless: "Yes...it's the queen mother..."

Looking at each other, both Wenchang and Qin Changge found no surprise in each other's eyes. The name Empress Dowager Jiang had been lingering in their hearts countless times, and now it was just confirmed.

Xiao Jue's body trembled slightly, his eyes dimmed, and then he returned to normal, and said coldly: "Oh? Evidence? You must know, what is the crime of accusing the Empress Dowager?"

"Your servant knows!" Caitan kowtowed again, seeing that Xiao Jue was not furious, she felt a little more at ease, and said sadly: "Which name is the servant, who dares to slander the Queen Mother? The servant has evidence— ——Nurse He, who is beside the Queen Mother, is the one who came to look for the servant girl two months ago, and took the slave girl's mother's bracelet and the little brother's name amulet...Forcing the servant girl to approach Sister Qimo, she took the mold of the key of the box, Then I opened the box, stole the golden crossbow and locked it again... When I sent it back, it was also put back by the servant girl. Madam He told me not to touch it randomly, so the servant girl knew that it was handmade. The maidservant is afraid of the future When the Dongchuang incident happened, she made a death sentence for nothing so that people could get away with it, so she deliberately pretended to be greedy for money, and asked for the pearl hairpin on Nanny He's head, and Nanny He gave it to her because she expected her slaves to do things... Later, she probably felt something was wrong, and then Brought a few gold ingots and exchanged them back... But the servant girl has secretly tampered with it. The middle part of her hairpin was carved with one long, two short and three horizontal lines... Your Majesty will find out when she checks the hairpin. , it was only worn by senior nuns in the Longevity Palace..."

She is indeed a clever maid... Qin Changge glanced at her, feeling a little regretful.

Xiao Jue was silent after listening, ordered the guards waiting outside the palace to come in, and after a few instructions, a group of people took Caitan away, and a group of people went to the Longevity Palace.

The sound of the guards' boots receded in an orderly and rapid manner. After a burst of noise, the huge palace became more and more silent. Because of waiting, the quiet atmosphere was infinitely prolonged. Xiao Jue sat on the couch, flipping a book clattering. Qin Changge, who was standing on the side with a blind eye and reverently, and regained the humble appearance of a little maid, and Wen Chang, who was drawing a picture on the side, glanced at Qin Changge and Xiao Jue, suddenly stood up with a smile, and said: "This The patterns are really complicated, I remember there are some simple ones stored in the inner hall, I will look for them." Said and went.

It didn't matter that she left, even the maids who were waiting for orders in the outer corridor waved back together. For a while, there was no one inside and outside the hall, only two people's breathing could be heard, one was slightly heavy and rapid, and the other was light and long.

"Tap, tap", a rhythmic knocking sound suddenly sounded, breaking the somewhat dull air, both of them were slightly startled, Qin Changge glanced at Xiao Jue, Xiao Jue realized that it was he who was unconsciously meditating, Finger up the opal wrench and tap it on the agarwood couch, the sound is clear and crisp.

As for the question of pondering... Xiao Jue smiled wryly, what he was thinking just now was—accepting her as a concubine?Not satisfied?Na?Not satisfied?
She is so... similar to Changge.

But she is not Changge, he finally confirmed this fact with disappointment.

When I met Xiao Rong that day, while doubting that the elf child was his son, his heart was never at peace, always thinking in his heart, if the little beggar was his son, then could Ming Shuang be Changge in disguise?
(End of this chapter)