Chapter 234 Confrontation (9 more)
Today, the Queen Mother asked her to go home.
In the past, I wished she could spend the night in the palace.
Sitting in the carriage with a calm expression, Wei Ningzi opened the brocade box, which contained a set of ruby-faced faces, and there was nothing else.
Wei Ningzi didn't know what was wrong, so she took out all her head and face, checked the brocade box at the corners, and then looked at the head and face carefully. There was no abnormality, so she put her head and face back in the brocade box.
Qin Jingxiao saw her searching the brocade box, picked up a bracelet, and looked at the moonlight, "Is there something wrong with this box?"
Wei Ningzi opened her mouth and was about to answer, but she thought of Empress Dowager Wei's thoughts. She swallowed the words she reached the tip of her tongue, "No."
Qin Jingxiao frowned, but Wei Ningzi didn't tell the truth.
She didn't want to say it, so Qin Jingxiao stopped asking.
After putting the bracelet back into the brocade box, Qin Jingxiao stopped speaking.
Until the carriage stopped at the door of Qin Mansion, Qin Jingxiao took the lead in getting off the carriage, held Wei Ningzi's hand, and helped her down.
The two returned to Xiyuan one after another. Qin Jingxiao entered the house. The maid brought water to the wooden rack. Qin Jingxiao cleaned his hands and whispered to Wei Ningzi who entered the house: "If you have any discomfort with the Qin family, you can bring it up. This is your home in the future. If you have something you want to renovate or replace, you will arrange it as you wish after the warm filial piety."
Wei Ningzi was slightly stunned and instantly understood what Qin Jingxiao meant. The entire Xiyuan was arranged by Lin's family at the time. Did he feel uncomfortable when she was living?
Wei Ningzi placed the brocade box on the dressing table. She stood beside Qin Jingxiao and handed it to him with silk cloth. "Second Master is thinking too much, I'm not unhappy. The furniture in the room I live in is replaced by my dowry, which is completely refreshed."
Qin Jingxiao's eyes swept across her fair and rosy cheeks, and his eyes were frozen in her eyes that looked like a pool of autumn water. The sentence: "Why are you lying?" was swallowed to her mouth.
He turned his gaze away, unbuttoned his waist, took off his boots and put on wooden shoes: "If you have any difficulties, don't hide me, you can tell me anything."
Wei Ningzi nodded.
She knew that Qin Jingxiao was suspicious of her checking the brocade box, but she couldn't say it.
I can only pretend that I don’t understand what Qin Jingxiao means.
Wei Ningzi turned around and went to the wardrobe to get Qin Jingxiao a dress for changing clothes.
Qin Jingxiao hung her outer robe on the wooden rack, looked at her slender figure, busy in front of the wardrobe, her eyebrows were deeply frowned into two folds.
Wei Ningzi put her clothes in the clean room, Qin Jingxiao went to take a shower, she stood in front of the bronze mirror, looking at the brocade box given by the empress dowager.
She knew that the Queen Mother coveted the military power of the Qin family. The Queen Mother was very stubborn. She probably had a certain aura of being a superior. She went through a lot of effort to marry her into the Qin family, and what she wanted was military power. Now that she gave up so easily, Wei Ningzi was very uneasy.
After a long silence, she finally held the brocade box and squatted in the yard with a small shovel for planting flowers, dug a hole, and buried the brocade box.
Xiu Tao came over with a basin of hot water. She saw Wei Ningzi burying things in the yard and putting the copper basin into the room. She looked at Xiuying who was sewing beside her and said, "Miss is turning over soil in the middle of the night. What are she doing?"
"Don't ask more about your master's affairs." Xiuying said without raising her head.
Xiu Tao curled her lips, "I know!"
Xiuying tied a knot in needle and thread, cut off the thread head with scissors, took a look at the scratched hem, and then looked up at Xiu Tao, "In the mansion in the Shenzhen courtyard, the first thing is to protect it faithfully, and the second is to control your mouth. Don't ask what should not be asked, and don't look at what should not be seen, so that you can save your life."
Xiu Tao sneered: "Sister Xiuying, the Qin family does not have any fighting in the back house. Are you so rigid, so the lady doesn't think you are bored?"
Wei Ningzi came in and said to Xiu Tao: "Xiuying is right."
Xiu Tao made a face to Xiuying and ran out.
"Why did my wife send you such an unstable maid?" Xiuying had a headache.
Wei Ningzi smiled but did not answer.
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Shang Zhi woke up and it was already noon.
Qin Yushuang brought a basket of oranges.
Shang Zhi saw a basket of orange oranges, and a surprise flashed in her eyes. She picked up one and peeled it, put it in her mouth to taste it, and there was a little sourness in the sweetness.
She peeled a piece and fed it to Xue Shenzhi's mouth, "Is it sweet?"
"sweet."
Shang Zhi put the remaining half in his hand, "I'm going to the clinic later. Will you go to the official office in the afternoon?"
Xue Shenzhi is now in the cabinet, and he wants to handle official duties in the palace.
Xue Shenzhi was about to answer, but the guards beside King Xiang came in and urged Xue Shenzhi.
"I want to go out with King Xiang." Xue Shenzhi closed the official documents, "King Xiang found that foreign ships were docking in Baisong City and transferred to the capital by carriage."
"Donghu?"
"Well. The person below comes to report that his identity is Princess Huamin's son-in-law."
Shang Zhi said in surprise: "Abu of Nine Lady?"
Xue Shenzhi nodded, "The identity is not yet clear, I will go and meet you for a while."
"You go." Shang Zhi thought to himself, did the Abu of Ninth Lady come to the capital and learn that Ninth Lady had entered the palace?
I hope he can take Nine Lady away.
Shang Zhi sent Xue Shenzhi away. She took out a bag of skin, put some oranges on her to the clinic, and tasted it for the doctor and the medicine boy.
Just now, Shen Qiu came in with a bad expression, "Miss, something happened! The deposed queen and King Yu died, the imperial physician examined them, and they were poisoned and died. Before that, you were the only one who cured them. The emperor sent someone to come over and invite you to the palace."
Shang Zhi was stunned, "Is he dead?"
"Miss, the deposed queen and King Yu can no longer turn over. Who would kill them? Could it be that they committed suicide and framed you?" Shen Qiu was anxiously angry. Even if these two people died, they would make people uneasy.
Shang Zhi curled his lips, "Who knows?"
"Miss..." Shen Qiu was about to ask Shang Zhi what he planned to do when the door panel was knocked. When she saw the eunuch standing at the door, she immediately stopped.
"Let's go." Shang Zhi got on the carriage.
The eunuch was stunned for a moment and hurriedly caught up with Shang Zhi.
Emperor Jin of Yuan Dynasty, the minister of Dali Temple, the envoy of Zhongyuan and the coroner were gathering in the cold palace.
The deposed queen and King Yu were lying on the wooden bed, their faces were pale and bloody.
The eunuch brought them breakfast, but only then did he realize that he had died.
The Zhongyuan envoy found that they died of poisoning.
The coroner collected evidence from the deceased and checked the time of death. It happened to be the time when Shang Zhi was treating King Yu.
For Emperor Jin of Yuan Dynasty, it is better to die if the deposed empress dies. It shouldn’t be, but it shouldn’t be. King Yu died together.
If King Yu is no longer favored by Emperor Jin of Yuan, he is also the descendant of Emperor Jin of Yuan, so he naturally has to find out the murderer and intimidate him, otherwise they would think that people in the royal family could be bullied at will.
As soon as Shang Zhi arrived, Emperor Jin of Yuan Dynasty said in a deep voice: "Shang Zhi, you are the only one who has been here in the cold palace. Did King Yu and Gao Lanzhi commit murder?"
"Emperor, if my wife wants to kill Gao and King Yu, she will not expose herself. She will poison them without knowing it. I just cured them and turned around and poisoned them to death. Isn't this telling others that I killed these two people? The emperor thinks my wife will do such a stupid thing?" Shang Zhi said self-deprecatingly.
"Mrs. Xue, you are the most suspicious." Dali Temple Minister said.
Shang Zhi sneered, "Mr. Cao, what you said is wrong. No one has seen anyone come, so there may not be anyone else. Suppose Lord Cao wants to commit murder, will you walk in through the main entrance in a grand manner?"
The Dali Temple Minister choked.
Shang Zhi looked around the room and his eyes fell on the window. She walked over and opened the window, and happened to see a wall behind her.
"Mrs. Xue, except for the main door, the murderer cannot come in here." The Dali Temple Minister finally found a reason to refute Shangzhi.
Shang Zhi raised his eyebrows, "Will the murderer climb over the wall?"
Lord Cao looked at the ten-meter-high wall and it was not difficult to climb in.
Shang Zhi walked back to the bedside and asked, "What posture and expression did you see when you found them?"
The coroner was stunned, "King Yu did not move, but just closed his eyes. The deposed queen sat on the ground and fell beside the bed.
Shang Zhi followed the direction of the coroner and saw a dark red blood stain on the mattress.
She approached and checked Gao Lanzhi first, and then checked King Yu.
"I'm sure, the murderer is not me."
Emperor Jin of Yuan Dynasty: “…”
Coroner, Lord Cao, Zhong Yuan Envoy: "..."
Shang Zhi said: "Gao asked me to treat King Yu, which means she trusted me. I would not be resisted if I feed King Yu's medicine. Look at King Yu's chin being pinched and his gums were cut by sharp weapons. It can be inferred that King Yu was forced to open his mouth and pour poison in. When Mr. Gao saw me pouring poison into King Yu, she would definitely stop him. Look at King Yu's expression of horror, it was obvious that Mr. Gao died first. King Yu was guarded against the murderer, so he wanted to struggle and was very resistant."
The coroner didn't say anything because the two people died about the same time, so they didn't know who died first.
Emperor Jin of Yuan Dynasty said coldly: "Gao Lanzhi has a grudge against you."
"Does the emperor believe me? Gao has a grudge against me, and she will ask me to treat King Yu? If she still invites me, it will only mean that she is planning to be ill." Shang Zhi said calmly: "If you push yourself to judge others, the emperor will not give an enemy a chance to get close to him, right?"
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