Empress with no Virtue Chapter 31: Establish your authority

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Ye Zhenzhen was stunned for a moment.

Ji Wu Jiu repeated what he just said again, this time in a positive tone, "You like your cousin. My, Queen." When he said the last few words, he was almost gritting his teeth.

Ye Zhenzhenfeng’s eyes widened and she said angrily, “What crazy talk are you talking about!”

"You two grew up together, studied and practiced martial arts together, and he taught you martial arts; you even know the words embroidered on his collar, which shows that you are extremely close; you don't trust anyone, but you do He did not cry when he encountered a tiger whose life was at stake, but cried easily in front of him; you were worried about him, and when you saw that he was injured, you gave him precious ointment; you protected him, even if you were wronged, you would not Identify him as a suspect. Yes or no?" He pressed forward step by step, forcing her to the corner of the room. His tall figure covered her, as if a mountain was pressing down on her and dark clouds were covering the sun. There was suppressed anger in his voice, which made his voice sound particularly low. In the silent room, it was like a drumstick made of Pistacia chinensis, hitting Ye Zhenzhen's heart. Because they were so close, their foreheads were almost touching. He looked into her eyes, which were gloomy and cold. When he spoke, his breath wrapped around Ye Zhenzhen's face. It was obviously hot, but it reminded her of A venomous snake spitting out letters.

Ye Zhenzhen's body was shaking slightly, whether from anger or fear.

He continued, "Your father even wanted to betroth you to him. Unfortunately, you ended up marrying me. Aren't you sad?" As he spoke, he actually curled up the corner of his mouth and smiled, but The smile was cold, and his eyes were violent.

Ye Zhenzhen mustered up the courage to look at him and said in a low voice, "You are talking nonsense!"

"The so-called cousin and cousin are a perfect match is really nonsense. What I said is just the truth." He lifted her chin and gently rubbed her fair and smooth skin with his fingertips, "Or, you Are you willing to prove to me that I was just talking nonsense, that you have no affair with him, and that you only pretend to be your husband?" He said, taking her hand and putting it on his waist, holding it in one hand. Her face and head were lowered, pretending to kiss her.

Ye Zhenzhen tried her best to endure it, closed her eyes tightly, and her brows were knotted.

Ji Wu Jiu did not kiss her. He let her go with a sneer, took a few steps back and looked at her, his eyes as deep and cold as a winter pool.

Ye Zhenzhen clenched her fists and lowered her eyelids without speaking.

"Ye Zhenzhen, you are my person in life, and my ghost in death."

No matter what, no matter who you pretend to be, this fact can never be changed. The more you like him, the more painful it will be. Because you can't get him, and he can't get you.

What I can’t get, others can’t even imagine.

***

Ye Zhenzhen locked herself in the room all day long, not thinking about food or tea. Su Yue thought she had a headache because of Wang Zhaoyi's case, so she tried to persuade her a few times, but when she saw that she looked gloomy and didn't answer, she was much more decadent than before, so she had no choice but to withdraw and discuss countermeasures with Wang Youcai of Su Feng.

After discussing for a long time, they could not come up with a solution, because the most important witness was the emperor, and none of them had the courage or ability to invite the emperor. Su Yue asked Feng Youde privately what the emperor meant, but Feng Youde kept silent because... he didn't know what the emperor meant either.

Actually, Ji Wu Jiu didn’t intend to just ignore him. He just wanted to ignore her for a few days and then step forward when she was desperate.

Only at the last moment will she understand who can really rely on her.

Ye Zhenzhen's decadence lasted for a day, and she gradually regained her soul. The most important thing at the moment is to take off the blame, otherwise she will really be charged with murdering the palace concubine and killing the dragon vein, and she will be not far away from being deposed.

Wang Zhaoyi was already awake, but she was very weak and couldn't get out of bed at all. Ye Zhenzhen went to visit her and asked a few questions. Wang Zhaoyi answered with tears, while pulling Ye Zhenzhen's sleeve and said, "Please make the decision for me and find the real murderer!"

Ye Zhenzhen was a little surprised, "How can you be so sure that this matter was not done by me?"

"My Majesty has always been kind-hearted, and she will never do such a sinful thing."

"...tell the truth."

"If the empress wants to harm me, she will definitely do it in a secretive way and try to avoid leaving clues. How could she use firearms blatantly?"

Ye Zhenzhen nodded. Even Wang Zhaoyi, an insider, understands such an obvious loophole, so how can others not understand it? Even if they do, they have to pretend not to understand.

They are going to kill me. Ye Zhenzhen thought.

It’s just that I want to live well and live longer than all of you. Ye Zhenzhen sneered.

She called Wang Zhaoyi's personal maid outside the door and asked her and another maid to demonstrate the entire process of Wang Zhaoyi being hit. Then, she touched her chin and pondered for a while, then said, "Wang Zhaoyi was facing the door at the time. The injury was on her shoulder and a little behind her. The steel ball penetrated diagonally downward. In other words, the murderer should have been diagonally above her behind her." Shooting." As she said that, she stood at the door and looked across, where there was a high wall.

Lie down on the wall and shoot the gun, the angle is very consistent.

Outside the wall was a remote corridor. Ye Zhenzhen led a few people around it and walked in the corridor. They stopped at roughly the opposite direction of Yuhua Pavilion and checked around the wall. In addition to walking along the corridor In addition to the footprints, I found at one place that there were several footprints facing the wall.

Moreover, there are also footprints on the red wall corresponding to these footprints.

Ye Zhenzhen asked Wang Youcai to bring over the ladder, and she climbed up herself, riding on the wall to inspect carefully. There were thin indentations on the edges of two tiles. Ye Zhenzhen stretched out her fingers and rubbed them, and a little dust came up. This showed that the indentations appeared not long ago and should be caused by something thin and hard.

She suddenly thought of Flying Claw.

In other words, the murderer stuck his flying claws on the tiles, climbed up the wall, and waited for an opportunity to attack Wang Zhaoyi.

This corridor is very quiet, because one end is a dead end, so few people pass by, and the other end leads to various parts of the harem, but this exit is usually guarded. If the person on duty had looked into the hallway, he would have spotted the murderer eighty percent of the time.

Ye Zhenzhen ordered the **** who was on duty at the time of the incident to be called and asked him if there was anyone suspicious passing through the aisle at that time. When the **** denied it, Ye Zhenzhen stopped asking and let him go.

"Empress, what if this person lies?" Su Feng asked.

Ye Zhenzhen smiled and said, "It's not if, it's for sure. He is an accessory." It was clear that someone passed by, but he said no. Even if that person comes over the wall from somewhere else, it will be difficult not to be discovered by him. And judging from the footprints left on the wall, the murderer was not very skilled.

So, it is simply impossible to say that the people on duty knew nothing and saw nothing.

"Empress, what should we do now?" Wang Youcai quickly figured it out and asked.

"You guys, secretly inquire about who this person is friends with and who he has interacted with recently. The more carefully you inquire, the better. Especially those who know some carpentry work or have something to do with weapons, and those who know how to do it. People who can tinker with iron tools, tinker with gunpowder and so on."

"Mother, you mean..."

"That's right, Feng Youde probably didn't pick up the gun that I threw away. I'm afraid it may have fallen into the hands of others." Because she was afraid of her life, the steel **** Ye Zhenzhen used when testing the gun were smaller than ordinary steel balls. , the steel ball taken out of Wang Zhaoyi's body was tailor-made by her for testing the ramrod. Although the blunderbuss exploded that day, there was still some gunpowder and steel **** left in it, which the murderer used this time. The explosion of her gun that day was not serious, Xiu Yixiu should still be able to use it.

To sum up, someone picked up the blunderbuss, repaired it and kept it for himself. This time, he used it to commit murder. It could not only remove the fetus in Wang Zhaoyi's belly, but also put the blame on Ye Zhenzhen.

Wang Youcai felt it was very subtle, how similar this was to the immoral thing he had done. Don’t say anything else, the Queen is so powerful!

So this time Wang Youcai worked harder than Su Yue Su Feng and the other two.

Although Ye Zhenzhen's popularity among the masters is not very good, the popularity among the ladies and eunuchs under her is quite good. Not for anything else, just because the Queen has money. Ye Zhenzhen specially allocated a sum of money for the three of them to go out and win people's hearts. Don't say "money is unreliable". In many cases, money is the only thing you can rely on. The three of them, King Sufeng Suyue, are talented. They follow their noble master, are generous in their dealings, and never act arrogantly. Such people are unpopular, what else can they get?

Thus, after their inquiries, Ye Zhenzhen quickly gained something.

There was an **** named Chen Ke in Concubine Li's palace who liked firearms. He also bought a book "Artifact Manual" from outside, which contained detailed illustrations of various firearms. The most important thing is that this person has a good relationship with the **** on duty.

It is indeed Concubine Li!

This woman had only lived a comfortable life for a few days, but she became restless again.

Because she was afraid of arousing suspicion, Ye Zhenzhen did not send anyone directly to Luhua Palace to report Chen Ke. Instead, she led a few people to ambush him along the way, knocked him unconscious, put a sack on him, and carried him back. Kunning Palace.

Chen Ke had something on his mind. When he was poured out of the sack, he was so frightened that he could not speak clearly.

Ye Zhenzhen didn't talk nonsense to him, "If I do, I'll spare your life; if I don't, I'll die."

"Slave, I don't know what the empress is talking about." Chen Ke didn't dare to attack, and he would definitely not survive if he did - carrying a matchlock gun to hit the palace concubine would kill him ten thousand times.

"It seems that you don't believe me? I will only say this once: If you are tricked, I can let you leave the palace early and help you fly far away and remain anonymous. Concubine Li has some power in the palace, but her But I can't reach out. She can't, but I can."

Chen Ke lowered his head and said nothing.

"Do you think you can survive without taking action? Even if I don't kill you, as long as I have the slightest suspicion, Concubine Li will not let you go, right?"

Chen Ke's expression was a little painful. He was hanging around in the palace, not seeking to get ahead, he just wanted to live well, why was it so difficult? Concubine Li had previously threatened him with her life to let him do that kind of thing, and now she was being threatened by the empress again. Why are they slaves so miserable?

Seeing Chen Ke's hesitation, Ye Zhenzhen ordered Wang Youcai to bring a charcoal basin filled with red-hot charcoal. Wang Youcai put the charcoal basin in front of Chen Ke, and Ye Zhenzhen smiled and said, "I have eaten too much roasted pig's trotters, and I have long wanted to taste roasted human hands. Why don't you just feel aggrieved."

As soon as she finished speaking, Wang Youcai grabbed Chen Ke's hand and reached into the brazier. Chen Ke screamed in horror and struggled violently, but was held down by two powerful eunuchs behind him, unable to move.

No matter how illusory the threat is, it is not as direct as the torture in front of him. Chen Ke saw that his hand was about to touch the charcoal fire. He could already feel the heat in his palm, so he cried, "I say, I say, I say anything." !"

It must be said that there are only a few hard-nosed people in this world.

The blunderbuss was indeed picked up by Chen Ke. This man loved guns like crazy, but unfortunately the Qi Dynasty had very strict control over firearms, so he couldn't get one himself. He picked this up by chance. Although he knew it belonged to the Queen, he couldn't put it down, so he wanted to play with it for two days. Return it. Not wanting this to be accidentally discovered by Concubine Li, Concubine Li felt that since the queen had thrown this thing away, she should not return it to her, and she might not be able to use it in the future, so she ordered Chen Ke to keep it. Chen Ke was so happy that he studied and repaired the gun by himself.

Later, Wang Zhaoyi became pregnant. Concubine Li was very jealous and had a grudge against Ye Zhenzhen, so she used this plan to kill two birds with one stone, injuring Wang Zhaoyi and putting the blame on the queen.

After hearing what he said, Ye Zhenzhen asked, "Where is the gun? You must have destroyed the evidence, right?"

Chen Ke replied, "Empress Li did ask the servant to throw the gun into Taiye Pond after doing this, but the servant was reluctant to let it go, so he secretly kept it and hid it in his residence."

Ye Zhenzhen thought to herself, this person is brave enough. However, in this way, it is very convenient to convict.

***

The next day, Ye Zhenzhen invited everyone to Kunning Palace to examine Concubine Li in front of everyone.

After Li Fei discovered that Chen Ke was missing yesterday, she noticed something was wrong. But then I thought about it, the evidence had been destroyed anyway, and as long as she insisted that she was wrongfully accused and framed, the Queen couldn't do anything to her. So she resisted without fear.

However, what she didn't expect was that Ye Zhenzhen actually ordered someone to fetch the incriminating evidence. Chen Ke identified it on the spot. It was what he had picked up and what was used to assassinate Wang Zhaoyi and what Li Fei asked him to keep. And destroyed, incriminating evidence.

And this gun was found in Luhua Palace.

Li Fei’s face changed drastically. Although she still denied it, no one believed her anymore.

The evidence was so conclusive that Ye Zhenzhen’s enemies couldn’t even say a word to help her, so they had to watch the queen punish her - Ji Wu Jiu pretended to be mute the whole time and only said one last sentence. , "Concubine Li is demoted to Su Jieyu, and everything else is handled by the queen."

Ye Zhenzhen ordered people to drag Su Jieyu to the door of Kunning and slap a forty-year-old stamp on her face. The executioners were all people whom she had greeted in advance and promised to kill them, as long as they gave her a chance to breathe at the end.

Forty boards later, Su Jieyu’s face was as golden as paper and her breathing was weak. Being slapped with a forty ban in front of so many masters and slaves is far more embarrassing than being demoted.

Ye Zhenzhen stood on the steps, her eyebrows raised and her phoenix eyes slightly narrowed, looking around. Everyone caught by her gaze had their hearts trembling and chills on the backs of their necks.

"Su Jieyu's crime of murdering the palace concubine and the emperor's heir was originally unforgivable. Just because the queen mother and the emperor are both good people and good people, today I will only give her forty slaps, small punishments and big warnings. If anyone does something shameful in the future, I will never condone it."

Although there were many people around, not a single sound was heard at this time.

Ji Wu Jiu was standing next to Ye Zhen Zhen, looking sideways at her. She looks so majestic, just like a little tiger. Her eyes were sparkling, hidden under the thick eyelashes, like two shining black crystals, which made people's hearts beat when they looked at them.

Ye Zhenzhen didn’t notice Ji Wu Jiu’s gaze, she gathered her momentum and said, “Today, I will leave my words here: if anyone wants to commit suicide in the future, I will definitely let them die beautifully. !"

Shocked enough, Ye Zhenzhen asked everyone to disperse. If we establish our authority like this today, we will surely be able to live in peace for a while.

After everyone left, Ji Wu Jiu still stood in the hospital team and looked at Ye Zhen Zhen. She then asked, "What does your Majesty want to say to me?"

——Sorry. Ji Wu Jiu opened his mouth, but these three words were stuck in his throat and refused to come out no matter what.

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