The Biography of Concubine Wen Xi in Qing Palace

Chapter 173 Cold Food ([-])

The queen glanced at Yunshan, and seeing that she was really embarrassed and acting sneaky, she winked at Qingyue.

Qingyue nodded and stepped forward, and opened Yunshan's palm, but there was only sweat dripping inside, and there was nothing wrong with it.

At this time, the imperial physician Chu, who had been carefully listening to and examining the queen's decoction, lost his expression, cupped his hands and said to the queen: "I want to report to the empress, this decoction has been mixed with very light cold food powder. My mother has been ill for a long time, and she is hot and night sweating." , it is easy to see illusions, and it should be inseparable from this thing."

The queen was supported by Qingyue and got off the ground. She stared at the bowl of soup that was still steaming with disgust, and said harshly, "Concubine Wan, what else do you want to say?"

She smiled wanly, shook her head and said nothing.When the empress wanted to order someone to take her down, Rong Yue stopped in front of Wanyu, and said softly: "Empress, don't worry, I have a concubine, I want to open my eyes." She said, walking slowly Walking towards Yunshan, he lifted her palm up.Yun Shan exclaimed and struggled, but Rong Yue suddenly became ruthless, abruptly took off the guard finger that was on her little finger, and then pushed Yun Shan onto the couch.

She took two steps forward, put her finger guard upside down on the table and shook it, and sure enough, a little off-white powder fell out from the gap in the gilt armor.Seeing this, the queen wondered, "What is this?"

Rong Yue casually threw the protective finger back to the terrified Yunshan, and then replied to the queen: "The judge of the imperial hospital Fu Zhuo is well-informed, and my mother asked him."

Fu Zhuo picked up some powder with his fingertips, put it on the tip of his nose and sniffed it, then felt the taste with the tip of his tongue, then quickly took clear water to rinse his mouth, and sighed: "Go back to the empress, this thing is stalactite, sulfur, The poisonous cold food powder refined from white quartz, amethyst, and red stone five flavors is no different from the powder mixed in the empress soup!"

Yunshan was startled and sweated profusely, got up from the couch alone, knelt down in front of the queen, kowtowed and repented: "The empress, I don't know where this thing came from, my concubine is wronged!" She tore the hem of the queen's clothes , and glared at Wanyu fiercely: "It's her, it's Wanyu! When the concubine was arguing with Wanyu on the long street, she ordered the eunuch who served beside her to capture the concubine. It is unknown what is embedded in the concubine's fingertips! Empress, my concubine has served you for a long time, how could I harm you? Empress, concubine"

She cried and shouted, which made people's eardrums sting.Qingyue pushed away her hand that was pulling the hem of the queen's clothes, and stood in front of the queen and said, "I never imagined that you would dare to pretend to be intimate and attack the queen?"

Yunshan kept complaining, and the queen remained silent for a long time, as if she still had reservations about this matter.Concubine Yi sneered at Yun Shan, who was crying bitterly on the ground, and said, "It seems that Yun Changzai has to see the evidence before he is willing to plead guilty, and that would be easy."

Concubine Yi clapped her hands twice, and the guards waiting outside came in, holding three bright yellow baby swaddles in their hands. The swaddling swaddles were embroidered with dragon patterns, which Yunshan was most familiar with.

What is wrapped in the swaddling clothes is not a baby, but a doll made of white cloth, but it seems to have dust on it, making it look a bit dirty.

Seeing this thing, the queen's expression suddenly became gloomy, she glanced aside in disgust and said, "Concubine Yi, what are you doing with this thing, looking at you in a horrible panic."

"Then I have to ask Yun Changzai." Wanyu took a baby doll from the guard and threw it forcefully on Yunshan's face, causing her delicately tied forehead hair to fall down.

Yunshan stared at the doll for a few minutes and said: "What is this? The concubine doesn't know it, why did the concubine ask the concubine?"

Wanyan Emei raised her eyebrows, and said with a slight smile: "Yun Changzai really knows how to shirk. Didn't you use these puppets to scare the empress back then? How can you not recognize it now?"

Yun Shan was stunned for a moment, and immediately rejected Wan Yu's words: "Wan Concubine, don't frame me, the ghosts in Kunning Palace were seen by everyone that day, and I was in the palace with the empress, how could I Use this thing to scare the empress?"

The empress boldly ordered Qingyue to present the rest of the dolls for her to see clearly. She half-closed her eyes and looked at it for a long time, and then said in surprise: "That day when the baby was swaddled in the dark, I didn't see it clearly. Hearing the cry of the baby, I knew it was right. Looking at it now, this puppet is somewhat similar to what I saw that day." She waved her hand and ordered Qingyue to take the puppet away, and said doubtfully: "But when the Japanese Palace You and Qingyue did indeed hear the cry of the baby, and the male ghost also had the same voice as Kang Fushou, so what's the explanation?"

Rong Yue gave Yun Shan a disdainful look, and said coldly: "My concubine lived in the capital when I was young, and I often heard that there are entertainers who can perform ventriloquist and ventriloquism. The sounds made by ferocious beasts can also be described vividly, with the fake ones confusing the real ones."

Concubine Yi nodded and continued: "This matter is not uncommon. I heard that during the Tang Dynasty, there was an organization dedicated to cultivating ventriloquist talents, called the 'Learning Image Society'. During Song Huizong's reign, Hangzhou had folk oral arts People can learn many birdsong and beasts, and they are nicknamed "Liu Baiqin". However, these heretics in the palace have never been popular, and it is the reason why seeing is better than hearing. The empress is precisely because she has never witnessed Only those who have seen it will be easily deceived."

The queen's expression was extremely cold, like frost in the winter, exuding a icy aura.

She had heard about ventriloquism and ventriloquism, but she never thought that someone would use these tricks to frighten her.

When Yun Shan heard that this matter had been known by Wan Lai and Concubine Yi, her heart felt uneasy like thousands of termites crawling and devouring.

The queen seemed to understand the key point, and most of the original fear of ghosts and ghosts disappeared. She straightened her face, glanced at the guard who entered the room holding the doll, and said solemnly: "Where did you find this thing?" ?”

The servant bowed his hands and replied respectfully: "As the empress said, this object was dug out from the planting soil of the side hall of Yanxi Palace where Yun Chang lived, so it was contaminated with dust."

The more Yunshan listened, the more frightened she became. She lost her mind and retorted absentmindedly: "You are talking nonsense! That puppet is already on fire."

Before he could finish speaking, Yun Shan sat slumped on the ground, his whole body wilted like an eggplant beaten by frost.

Concubine Yi sneered, her words were as sharp as a guillotine, and she shouted loudly, "Empress Empress, you heard that Yun Chang said to herself that the doll was burned by her. It can be seen that she did it."

Yun Shan was covered in cold sweat dripping down her cuffs and skirts. With a trembling body, she knelt all the way in front of the queen, kowtowed and said, "Empress, my concubine is wronged, my concubine is really wronged!"

The queen looked down at her from above, her eyes were full of anger and disgust, and the stars shone like a blade, wishing she could eat the spruce alive: "You are wronged? Who can wrong you for what you said?" The queen waved her sleeves. Furious, she ordered to the guards at the side: "The lowly maidservant Yunshan has a vicious mind, murdered my palace and plotted against the law, immediately dragged out and strangled!"

(End of this chapter)