It was exactly as Simuqiao had expected.
After Eunuch Ma was captured by Lord Zhou and interrogated, what he confessed was basically consistent with her guess, but with more details.
He did plan all this in secret just to avenge his master, Concubine Jing.
It’s a pity that both the assassination and the frame-up failed.
It is said that Lord Zhou not only got these out of him, but he even found out that he had once plotted to murder Lady Si.
Upon hearing the news, Simuqiao could no longer sit still and went straight to the place where Eunuch Ma was imprisoned.
She has been secretly investigating the death of the original owner, Lady Si, but has no clues so far.
When she first came here, the original owner was drowning in a two or three meter pond in the cold palace.
It was only because she struggled to swim upstream and climbed to the shore that she had a chance to replace Si Meiren and survive in the ancient times.
It’s just a pity that, maybe it was the sequelae of drowning for too long or something else, she really couldn’t remember any details of the original owner’s murder.
After being content with her fate in the cold palace, she has been looking for opportunities to secretly investigate the matter, determined to avenge the original owner.
And now, Eunuch Ma actually jumped out on his own!
Eunuch Ma was imprisoned in the Magistrate's Court, which was the place in the imperial palace used to hold criminals.
Not long after Simu Qiao brought Tang Yuan to the Magistrate's Court and introduced herself, she met the legendary Lord Zhou Lizhou.
"Sir Zhou, I want to meet Eunuch Ma." Simuqiao went straight to the point.
"Please come this way, Miss Si." Zhou Li was even more direct and invited her in without even thinking.
Although it is a prison in the palace, the environment inside is almost the same as the prisons I have seen on TV before.
There are all kinds of torture instruments, without any difference.
Eunuch Ma was tied to a wooden stake of a cross, his body covered with whip marks and blood, his hair was disheveled and his eyes were empty.
If you look closely, you can see that the nails of six of his ten fingers have been pulled out and are covered in blood.
But Si Muqiao didn't feel scared at all, and even his face showed no change.
She walked over calmly and had someone pour a bucket of cold water over her.
Eunuch Ma really came back to his senses and looked up at her.
"Eunuch Ma, long time no see." Si Muqiao greeted him with a smile.
No wonder when Eunuch Ma came to deliver the imperial edict once, he was scared away by her words.
It turned out that he was just guilty.
"Lady Si, you are so lucky!" Eunuch Ma looked at her and said viciously.
"I respect you as a loyal dog and I don't want to punish you any more."
"Tell me how you tried to murder me before!"
She sat on the chair that Zhou Li had someone bring, leaning back and playing with her fingernails absentmindedly.
That little expression was lazy and casual, completely different from her usual self.
Not to mention Zhou Li, even Tang Yuan, who was standing aside with a pale face because he couldn't stand the environment inside, felt that his master was a little strange at this moment.
"You deserve to die. You are the daughter of that old bastard General Si!"
"How hateful! Why didn't God have eyes to let you and that dog emperor live till now?"
"My master has fought for the Great Zhou Kingdom his entire life and made countless contributions. Now that he is old, he will be executed along with his entire clan just because he made a small mistake!"
"My master, Concubine Jing, is a self-disciplined, polite, quiet, and kind-hearted person. But because of this incident, she was imprisoned in the palace and tortured."
"The late emperor clearly said that he would not pursue the matter any further, but your old father is still like a mad dog, biting my master to death."
"That dog emperor is even more cruel and ruthless. He wanted to kill all nine clans of my master without any regard for anything. He even let my master die in front of him without any reaction."
"How can such a cold-blooded tyrant be the ruler of a country? How can he live!"
After hearing this, Si Muqiao's expression did not change, and he continued speaking calmly.
"Just a little mistake?"
"It turns out that we have different perspectives and cannot communicate."
"He didn't just make a mistake. That's treason, a capital crime punishable by the death of all nine generations of his family!"
"As a general of a country, doesn't he know this? No, he knows it better than anyone else."
"But even so, he still did it."
"Because he lost his original intention, and lost his mission and responsibility to protect the people of Da Zhou."
"He made more than just a small mistake. He made the biggest mistake of his life. He deserves to be nailed to the pillar of shame."
"The 30,000 soldiers of our Great Zhou Kingdom did not die on the battlefield, but were betrayed and killed unjustly by their own commander."
"It's so ridiculous to tell this to others."
"Thirty thousand dead souls, thirty thousand families who lost family members, countless soldiers and civilians whose hearts were chilled, what should they do?"
"If my father and his men had not discovered it in time, and if Your Majesty had not dealt with it swiftly and decisively, the casualties would have been more than 30,000 soldiers, perhaps 300,000, or even the entire Great Zhou!"
"Have you ever thought about the consequences of the border being breached, the people being displaced, and the Great Zhou being in danger?"
"What's wrong with saying that your master is a sinner for all eternity?"
"If he is capable of doing this, why can't he bear the consequences of doing this?"
"As for your master, I can only say that she had a bad fate and was born in the wrong place."
Simuqiao spoke each word slowly and calmly, yet his words were inexplicably powerful.
At this point, she didn't think the dog tyrant was going too far.
Such was the ancient law.
Concubine Jing's father broke the law knowingly.
If there is no punishment, it will be unjust.
"You...you vicious woman. If I had known earlier, I should have strangled you to death and thrown you into the lake." Eunuch Ma, whose eyes turned red with anger at Simuqiao's words, shouted loudly.
"I have already said that you are a dog who is loyal to its master, so I am unwilling to take action against you."
"But if you still don't want to have a good chat and keep talking irrelevantly, then don't blame me for being rude to you." Having said that, Si Muqiao's eyes suddenly turned cold.
Eunuch Ma was willing to sacrifice his life for his master.
This is indeed rare.
But his mistake was that he had wrong thoughts and did too many wrong things that harmed people.
Still stubborn and unwilling to repent.
"Ms. Sima, you don't have to threaten me. I know I'm going to die. Since Ms. Sima is so interested, what's wrong with me telling you everything?"
"When I learned about the death of my master's family, I vowed to avenge them."
"For this, I have been planning for a long time."
"I know that you, Lady Sima, are infatuated with His Majesty. Even though His Majesty has banished you to the cold palace, you still think of him."
"So, I bribed the eunuch beside your majesty to pass on your instructions, and sent you some food and wine laced with drugs, and also took the opportunity to send away the maids beside you."
"After you passed out after eating those things, I had someone throw you into the small lake in the cold palace."
"Those people clearly told me that they saw you sink to the bottom of the lake and died before they left. How come you are still alive?"
"Haha, this is truly a disaster that has lasted for thousands of years!"
"But it's ridiculous. Whether it's your beauty Si or your Si family, they are all devoted to the dog emperor."
"One is infatuated, the other is loyal, but in the end, what did you get?"
"All you get is suspicion, indifference and fear from the dog emperor."
"Just wait, one day, your Si family will suffer the same fate as my master."
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