Concubine Xian's face turned green and white, and she was full of anger towards Tang Ning who was so unceremonious, but she couldn't say anything. She could only say angrily: "No matter how you excuse it, the prince died because of Qian Qiyue's injuries." Death, even the imperial physician can testify..."
"That's not necessarily the case."
Tang Ning was too lazy to pay attention to Concubine Xian, and just looked down at Cai'an and continued to ask: "Miss Cai'an, can you tell me why you are so warm-hearted to Concubine Xian alone?"
Cai'an's face was pale, and he subconsciously wanted to look at Grandma Ran, but he lowered his head as soon as he raised it.
She grabbed her sleeves and her thoughts were racing. After a while, she suddenly knelt forward and kowtowed to the Queen Mother with a bang:
"This slave is guilty, please punish me, the Queen Mother."
The Queen Mother's expression remained unchanged: "What do you want to punish Aijia?"
Cai'an lay on the ground: "Something happened to the Cui family before, and Concubine Xian fell out of favor. Seeing that Your Majesty has not been to Cuiwei Palace for a long time, Concubine Xian wanted to follow the path of the Queen Mother and regain her favor."
"Yun'er has sent money to Concubine Xian several times. I was greedy and took the money. Today, I should have been guarding the front hall, but there is someone in my heart who wants to talk to Yun'er about Xian'er through the matter of getting charcoal cakes. The matter of the concubine will accidentally break the story of the prince and Miss Qian."
Concubine Xian was immediately shocked: "What are you talking about? When did I send money to Shoukang Palace?!"
"I dare not lie. Yun'er gave it to me."
"Yun'er?!" Concubine Xian's eyes were filled with astonishment.
Yun'er's face was pale. When everyone stared at her, she wanted to retort that she didn't, but when she met Cai'an's gaze, she trembled all over. She didn't dare to look at Concubine Xian's eyes full of anger and fell to the ground trembling. road:
"Slave, I did send you some money, but the Concubine Xian doesn't know about it."
"After the incident happened to the Cui family, I was anxious to see my empress falling out of favor. In addition, the Empress Dowager disliked the Cui family because of Mrs. Sister Cai'an, can you say a few good words for my queen mother in front of the queen mother?"
"Really?" Tang Ning raised her lips: "How much money did you give her?"
"one……"
Cai'an was about to speak when he was interrupted by Tang Ning: "I didn't ask you."
She looked at Yun'er: "If you want to bribe the palace maids around the Queen Mother, you can't just buy them with only 12 or 8 taels. With so much money passing through, wouldn't you say you forgot?"
"Of course I didn't forget it!"
Yun'er subconsciously denied it, but was guided by Tang Ning's words. Remembering that Cai'an just said "one", she blurted out: "My slave gave sister Cai'an a thousand taels."
Cai'an's face turned pale instantly.
Sure enough, I heard Tang Ning laugh:
"Cuiwei Palace is really rich and noble. A small palace servant can easily spend a thousand taels of silver. It seems that the Concubine Xian is generous."
Concubine Xian was originally not too angry because Yun'er was looking for a way back to her favor, even if she went to the Shoukang Palace privately, but her expression was extremely ugly at this moment.
She is indeed generous and doesn't treat the people below her too harshly, but the silver reward is only three or five taels at most, and her trusted followers are only one or eighty taels.
Yun'er was not the servant she brought from the Cui family, but followed her after she entered the palace. It was impossible to come up with as much as a thousand taels of silver based on the reward in just two or three years.
Tang Ning seemed to be smiling but not smiling: "I guess the rewards in the palace will not be given directly in silver notes. If you want to collect a thousand taels with broken silver, can you afford it? Moreover, most of the female envoys in the palace sleep together, and there are servants outside. Guard, how did you hand over such a large sum of money to Cai'an without telling others?"
Seeing Yun'er opening her mouth to speak, Tang Ning sneered:
"Are you trying to say that you found someone to cash the banknote?"
"The person who can freely enter and exit the palace, carry so much broken silver without being noticed, and can exchange silver notes for you must have a high status. What is his name and where is he on duty? When did he change it for you?"
Yun'er's face turned pale and her lips began to tremble.
Tang Ning looked at Cai'an, and the look in her eyes made Cai'an tremble:
"She gave you so much money and bribed her privately behind the master's back. You must not dare to use the money easily. Commander Yu, why don't you take people to search Miss Cai'an's residence to see if you can find the dirty money? ?”
Yu Yanfeng nodded: "It's easy, as long as the Queen Mother orders me to go."
"Don't!!"
Cai'an screamed in surprise and saw the empress dowager's gloomy face and said anxiously: "I have already sent the money out of the palace..."
"Who gave it and to whom?"
Tang Ning said coldly: "Every maid in the palace, eunuchs and eunuchs are recorded when they leave the palace. If you have relatives and friends outside the palace, they are also recorded. The one who allows you to give so much money is just the person closest to you. Do you want to let me give you so much money?" Go and bring them back to the palace to interrogate them one by one."
The color on Cai'an's face faded.
What did Concubine Zhaogui not understand when she saw her like that? She immediately yelled angrily: "You are a slave, you have reached this point, why don't you tell the truth, who asked you to murder the prince, the girls of the Qian family?! "
"No, I didn't. I didn't murder the prince. I was wronged..."
"Are you wronged?"
Concubine Zhaogui scolded angrily: "If you are really unjust, why do you lie so often? You and Yun'er clearly had a premeditated plan before going to Baosha. Even the eunuch you met in your mouth would have been your nonsense. If it hadn't been for you If I had known what would happen in Baoxia, how could I have dared to make such a fuss!"
Everyone in the palace looked at the two palace maids on the ground.
Seeing that the situation was not going well, the Queen Mother became furious and said, "Cai'an, you are so brave, how dare you deceive the Ai family."
Aunt Ran also said angrily: "The Queen Mother has so much trust in you, how dare you murder the Crown Prince? Do you know that murdering the royal family is a serious crime against the Nine Clan?!"
There was no color left on Cai'an's face, and her words "Kill the Nine Tribes" made her eyes sway.
She looked at the aggressive Tang Ning and suddenly cried: "I'm really unjust. I just took money from the Concubine Xian and didn't know about the Prince. Everything today was an accident."
"Princess Xiangning has so unjustly accused this slave in order to exonerate Miss Qian. I am willing to die to express my will. And Yun'er, you have caused me so much misery!!"
Cai'an suddenly pulled out the hairpin and pierced Yun'er's neck. Yun'er was caught off guard and blood splattered.
"Protect the Queen Mother!"
"Stop her!!"
The voices of Tang Ning and Aunt Ran sounded almost at the same time.
When Yu Yanfeng stepped forward to capture Cai'an, he saw Liu Tongen approaching first. He made a gesture to protect the Queen Mother and drew his knife, but he just blocked Yu Yanfeng's hand that wanted to grab Cai'an. Cai'an turned around decisively and hit him. Liu Tongen's sword is on.
"Slave, you are wronged..."
boom.
Cai'an fell to the ground with his eyes widened.
"ah--"
Princess Huan screamed, and everyone else turned pale.
When Tangning looked at Liu Tongen with an angry look, Liu Tongen knelt on the ground without changing his expression.
"Wei Chen just wanted to stop this woman because he was afraid that she would take a risk and hurt the Queen Mother. How could she be so strong? Wei Chen was unable to draw back the sword in time. Please forgive me, the Queen Mother."
