Chapter 18 (2)
Shen Shiyun smiled and said, "There is only one person in this palace who knows the little bitch named Chu in this palace. I said you are, you are, do you understand?" He walked slowly in the room and said to himself: "However, it is a false case. Once it is revealed, it will have little impact on the palace. In order to ensure that everything is safe, we must find a head to report the news... Completely eradicating the Demon Cult is the top priority. This little contribution is not harmful."
Just as he was thinking in his heart, he suddenly heard the eunuch outside the room shouting: "Sister see Empress Zhen. Empress is walking here. Please wait in the hall for a while and wait for the slave to report to the master." He also heard Zhenying's voice saying: "What's the noise? Do you think my ears are particularly bad, so you can't shout loudly?" The eunuch said loudly: "Sister dare not."
Shen Shiyun smiled slightly, knowing that the eunuch was deliberately raising his voice to remind him to prevent it, and she was secretly happy: "As soon as I talked about rushing, she jumped out, and she was really good at asking for the lip of the mouth." She leaned over and picked up the tumbler, stuffed it back into Chen Xiangxiang's mouth, and simply sorted out her clothes, and went out to see a guest with a dignified manner, deliberately closed the door.
Zhenying sneered, "I will go wherever I love, and you, a dead servant, dare to stop me?" The eunuch was timid, Zhenying made things difficult for intentionally or unintentionally, and took the excuse to drag her down. Sure enough, she saw Shen Shiyun walking out of the woodshed, with a sweet smile on her face. She had heard Yinyin report that the small woodshed in Yinxue Palace was Li Yijie's residence, but she didn't know that he had quietly left the palace to do business from the secret passage. She also said that Shen Shiyun was having a private meeting with him again, and said, "It's great, I haven't seen her for a few days, and the coquettish vixen is going to show her tail again. Look at me to catch someone." She greeted us with joy on her face. Both of them smiled brightly, on the surface, they seemed sincere in their emotions, but in fact they were secretly happy. Shen Shiyun first said, "Empress Zhen, how can I come here today?"
Zhenying sneered, "Yes, I'm having an addiction to your Snow Palace. If I don't come for a day, I feel uncomfortable all over, as if I've been hit by a demon, no wonder the emperor ran away diligently." Shen Shiyun smiled and said, "You are polite." Zhenying took the initiative to hold Shen Shiyun's arm and said, "After a while, I'm familiar with this palace here as if I've not been to the woodshed there yet. I just saw my sister who seemed to be calling over there. Can you please take me over and open my eyes?"
Shen Shiyun intended to lead her into the woodshed, but her face pretended to be embarrassed and hesitated, "This...is not very convenient-" Zhenying was very happy and asked, "Oh? Could it be that something in the woodshed, or who is it, that makes her sister feel inconvenient?"
Shen Shiyun said, "Where did you think of it? The woodshed is narrow and dirty, and the dust is one foot thick. I am afraid that my sister will not be able to do anything to you." Zhenying smiled and said, "I am not a precious jade body, so how can my sister go to, but I can't go? Besides, the humble house is simple, and only a gentleman can live in it will not be a bad thing. What do you think?"
When Shen Shiyun heard her come to show off her pun, she felt funny and pretended to be hesitant. Zhenying stepped over and walked into the woodshed with a swagger. She had already pressed her throat tightly. When she was about to see Li Yijie, she immediately made a fuss. However, she saw a girl kneeling in the room and carefully examined it. It was Chu Menglin who had been together for one time. An ominous premonition flashed through her heart, and seemed to be invisibly involved in conspiracy and tricks. She hurriedly stepped back and planned to say a few polite words after leaving the house to deal with the scene. Shen Shiyun followed her in and glanced at Chen Xiangxiang in her sight, and smiled and said, "Why, do you recognize her? She was the assassin who attacked me that day. Speaking of which, I really should thank you. When you insisted that the assassin was not dead, I also blamed you for being wronged. Thanks to the fact that the criminal was sent to investigate with half-believing and half-doubted, it was finally the criminal who was punished."
Zhenying was shocked and wondered, thinking: "I asked this witch to kill you, but don't shake it out for her, it's better to silence it as soon as possible." She pulled out her self-defense dagger and shouted: "I'm afraid of assassinating the imperial concubine, and I deserve to die!" She raised the dagger and was about to penetrate Chen Xiangxiang's heart. Shen Shiyun grabbed her wrist and smiled and said, "Why does the Empress seem to be more excited than me when she sees this assassin?"
Zhenying said, "When I think of her courageous and intending to harm her sister, I... anger comes from my heart." After saying that, I felt far-fetched. Shen Shiyun smiled and said, "It hurts my body, but the Empress is jealous of evil. I admire her very much. When I first caught her, I didn't kill her like you. Instead, I questioned her carefully for a long time." When she said that, she suddenly stopped at the critical point and looked at Zhenying meaningfully.
Zhenying thought to herself, "The implication is 'I have been interrogating for a long time, and she has said everything. It is useless to hide it anymore. It's better to come and take the real tricks quickly!" Instead of letting her impose some false charges, I'd better confess myself, and I can't let her pour all the dirty water on me. Besides, my deal with her was not done, and it did not cause any serious consequences." Weighing the pros and cons, my determination was made, and he said, "Okay, I admit that it's not good for me to ask her to do something bad for you, but she didn't agree..." Then I suddenly thought: "The witch named Chu is obviously with Prince Yu and went to Liaoyang to worship her ancestors. How could it fall into Shen Shiyun's hands? Did she not forget to promise that after returning from Tokyo Tomb, she really assassinated me, but was captured?" After thinking about this, the sentence "She didn't agree" was a little indescribable.
Shen Shiyun smiled and said, "Okay, you can continue." Zhenying stuttered a few words, and always felt that it would be hard to continue to say it if she hadn't just said the words, so she had to repeat "she didn't agree" before continuing to narrate. In order to prove her innocence, she repeated each conversation as it was, and finally added another sentence: "I persuaded her to be bad for you afterwards. It was not my idea to assassinate her for the first time."
Shen Shiyun's face was calm, without showing any fear or anger, and she still smiled lightly: "I didn't know before that you had such a deep hatred for life with me. So, do you know her?"
Zhenying said angrily: "So what?" Shen Shiyun smiled and said, "But she doesn't know you." She waved the dagger to open the slaughter. Chen Xiangxiang saw a stranger coming from the woodshed and always regarded him as a savior. She had just gotten free, and immediately cried and said with tears in her life experience and the way she poured beans through a bamboo tube. Hearing Zhenying regretted, she understood that she had been tricked to get, and she said hatefully: "It's really yours. But even if you cheated me, I will not let you deal with it without evidence, and the emperor can't just accuse the good people!"
Shen Shiyun smiled and said, "Empress is too worried. I have no bad intentions in this palace. Now there is a great contribution here. The younger sister is waiting to give it up. You can say that this witch wants to assassinate you, but you are captured by you. However, I don't like the capriciousness. Since I told the emperor that the assassin is dead, she is dead, but you can't tell this level." Zhenying couldn't understand Shen Shiyun's intention and sneered: "You know that she is not Chu Menglin, but you still asked me to ask for credit and reward. Are you deliberately spending me?"
Shen Shiyun sighed, "The Empress, you don't know how to turn at all. I ask you, have you seen Chu Menglin with your own eyes? Have the Emperor seen her again?" Zhenying said, "You asked knowingly. I have only seen her once. The Emperor... Maybe I have seen the portrait." Shen Shiyun said, "That's right. Have you always been in the dark before she spoke? She was so scared that she confessed all her sins. As long as she didn't do bad things, with your and me, the black ones could be said to be white, let alone a woman dressed up enough to confirm her identity with a fake and real one?"
Zhenying pondered, "What you said makes sense, you must cut off her tongue first to prevent her from defending herself." Shen Shiyun said, "No, if you use a knife, there will be traces at the base of the tongue. Anyone with a discerning eye will know at a glance. It's better to give her a clean solution." Zhenying couldn't help but nodded, but she still felt that the good thing was too simple and she lost her sense of reality. She frowned and said, "Why don't you take such a big credit yourself and give it to me?"
Shen Shiyun said: "My sisters don't distinguish between each other. I also want to help you win back the emperor's favor. It's a great pleasure to divide the Eastern Palace evenly. It's better than being cheaper for others." Zhenying, no matter how easy it is to deceive, could hear this sentence as a false statement. She meditated on the pros and cons of the whole thing and shouted: "Are you worried that the Demon Cult thieves will take revenge and that you can't afford them, so I will try my best to make you feel the infatuation?"
Shen Shiyun said seriously: "It's wrong for you to say this. There are endless people and endless things. If you like good people, you will be resentful by evil people. If you want to please the emperor, you must first be correct and make it clear that you are incompatible with the demons. If you completely quell the rebellious party, you will be a heroine and will be remembered forever."
Seeing Shen Shiyun's attitude, Zhenying believed in her judgment even more. She had suffered many losses and knew that Shen Shiyun's good words were unreliable. Instead, the more she denied it, the more she was, the more she was. She thought to herself: "I am the emperor's concubine. She lives in the inner courtyard of the deep palace and is under the protection of the great masters. It is not that easy for the thief of the Demon Cult to murder me. Shen Shiyun is timid and afraid of things, so she gave me the big advantage for nothing. If I don't take it, I will have problems."
So the two of them went to report to the emperor together. After hearing this, Fulin was happy, but he did not believe that Zhenying's ability alone had a way to catch the assassin of the Demon Cult. Seeing Shen Shiyun smiling and nodding on the side, they guessed that they had agreed to discuss it. The two beloved concubines could resolve their past grudges and live in harmony. Why not do it if he was just a favor with others? So he praised Zhenying, praised her a lot of jewelry, and asked her to sleep that night. He secretly told Shen Shiyun that he would catch the main criminals of the Shadow Sect in the future, so he could deal with it by himself, and there was no need to report one by one. Shen Shiyun was overjoyed and immediately set the schedule for parade and beheading, and posted the list in major towns, just waiting for the thief to take the bait.
Fulin knew that the Jiying Sect was not an ordinary anti-Qing traitor. On the contrary, he had made great contributions in various battles entering the pass. He was caught in disloyalty just to help Shen Shiyun avenge him. He often felt ashamed of his thoughts. However, after many investigations, he learned that the Jiying Sect had many evil deeds and was notorious among the Han people. All major sects wanted to get rid of it and be quick, but they were not strong enough, which made the demons rampant for many years. Now, if they could send troops to wipe out the enemy on their behalf, it would be helpful to establish prestige among the people and imagine the overall situation, and it would be a good move. So he handed over the full responsibility of Shen Shiyun and let her do it.
Chapter completed!