Chapter 542 Let You Watch a Show
"Empress Dowager, is one day too short?" Concubine Yi hesitated for a while and couldn't help but speak.
The Queen Mother looked at Concubine Yi coldly: "What does it have to do with me? I only care about the result. Also, since Pan'er cannot leave the palace, Miss Lu should stay as well. It won't be too late to leave after the truth is found out."
Queen Song's face was tense and she was shaking with anger.
This wife is too wicked to her master.
The Queen Mother then ordered the palace maid she had brought with her: "Go, untie the Ninth Princess."
"Yes." Wang Fu responded respectfully and quickly untied the rope for Chu Paner.
Chu Pan'er took the handkerchief out of her mouth and looked at the Queen Mother with red eyes, aggrieved: "Grandmother..."
The Queen Mother took her hand and patted it lovingly: "Don't be afraid. With me as yours, the Queen will not wrongly accuse you."
"Thank you, Empress Dowager." Chu Pan'er nodded with tears of joy, then took the Empress Dowager's hand and left Jingren Palace without looking back.
Upon seeing this, Concubine Shu hurriedly stood up, bowed to Emperor Chengde and Empress Song, and took her leave. After leaving Jingren Palace, she caught up with the Empress Dowager's sedan chair.
Zi Su helped Lu Xiang up and said softly, "Don't panic, Third Miss. It's just right for you to stay in the palace for a day to accompany the queen."
Lu Xiang smiled and nodded at her.
Emperor Chengde looked at Queen Song with embarrassment and difficulty.
The Queen Mother was his nominal mother, and he could not do anything about her power as long as it did not violate the palace rules, let alone taking Chu Pan'er away before the truth of the matter was found out.
Pan'er is his own flesh and blood, and Emperor Chengde doesn't want to believe that his daughter would be such a vicious person. But Imperial Doctor Zheng is here, and it is also a fact that the pair of shoes given to the Queen were stained with chronic poison.
It took a day and a night to find out the truth. The Queen Mother was deliberately making things difficult for the Queen.
Since the palace maid had the courage to murder the queen, it would not be so easy for her to confess. As long as she could endure for a day and a night, the matter would be over.
"I will help you interrogate those two palace maids." Emperor Chengde looked at Queen Song and said with a serious face.
Queen Song's eyes moved slightly, and she bowed and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty. Your Majesty is very busy, and I can do it myself."
When the emperor said this, it meant that he believed in himself.
That's enough!
She knew his dilemma. Chu Pan'er was his own daughter, and the empress dowager was interfering. It was not appropriate for the emperor to intervene.
Concubine Shu raised her eyes and glanced quickly at Queen Song, obviously anxious.
Is Your Majesty confused? If you don't ask the Emperor for help at this time and let those two palace maids get through it, you won't be able to deal with Chu Pan'er. This little bitch has a vicious heart and will do it again if she does it once.
What if I don’t have such good luck next time?
Empress Song felt Concubine Yi's gaze, glanced at her, and then said to Emperor Chengde: "Your Majesty, please go and do your work. I know what to do."
Seeing that Queen Song insisted, Emperor Chengde nodded lightly and left.
I feel a little depressed for some reason.
He took the initiative to speak, but Song Nanyue still refused?
Don't know what's good for you.
Emperor Chengde thought angrily.
"Empress, please make the decision for me. Princess Thirteen is innocent." Concubine Rong suddenly knelt in front of Empress Song and said with a pale face.
Seeing this, Chu Ying'er also knelt down.
Queen Song glanced at Concubine Liang, who immediately stepped forward and pulled Concubine Rong up: "Don't worry, Your Majesty will have a plan."
"Xiangxiang, what do you think?" Queen Song suddenly looked at Lu Xiang and asked.
When the Queen Mother asked her to produce evidence by this time tomorrow, Lu Xiang gave her a soothing look, and she did not make a fuss with the Queen Mother.
"The Ninth Princess believes that she has been acting in secret. Even if something happened, the gift was sent by the Thirteenth Princess and has nothing to do with her. Concubine Yi, you have to be careful. It would be fine if the maid is stubborn and doesn't confess. I'm most afraid that she will say something she shouldn't say and then commit suicide."
Upon hearing this, Concubine Yi's expression changed slightly. "Hearing what you said, I have to hurry back to the palace. I haven't lived in the harem for so many years in vain. I don't believe that I can't pry her mouth open."
But don't let the truth come out, or the person will die in her palace.
Whether to recruit him or not is secondary. It would be unlucky if such a lowly slave died in her palace.
"Your Majesty, I'm leaving." Concubine Yi bowed hastily and left in a hurry.
"You guys go back first." Queen Song said to Concubine Liang and Concubine Rong.
Concubine Liang nodded respectfully: "Yes, Your Majesty, if there is anything you need from me, please let me know."
"Yes." Queen Song nodded.
“Yunlu, go to the Lu family and tell them that I am letting Miss Three stay for one night.” Queen Song ordered, “Be careful not to let the Lu family notice anything unusual, so as not to cause unnecessary panic.”
"Yes, I understand." Yun Lu bowed and went out.
Queen Song sent all the palace servants away, and then sat down face to face with Lu Xiang: "The Queen Mother only gave one day, she is determined to protect Chu Pan'er."
It is not easy to extract a confession through torture, and you cannot kill the person.
If either Xique or Yingxue died, the Queen Mother would have an excuse to attack her.
Queen Song originally wanted to slowly try them, as no matter how tough these two men were, they wouldn't last more than a few days. But who would have thought that the Queen Mother would intervene and only give her one day and one night, without even using many types of torture.
In such a short time, Queen Song was not very sure.
"If your Majesty trusts me, leave the interrogation to me," Lu Xiang said.
"Do you have a way to make her confess?" Queen Song looked at Lu Xiang in surprise and breathed a sigh of relief: "How could I not trust you? What do you want to do?"
"At this stage, Xique will only target the Thirteenth Princess. If Concubine Yi still can't get anything out of her by evening, she should order her to be sent to the Ministry of Justice as well." Lu Xiang said.
Queen Song nodded without hesitation: "The interrogation methods of the Ministry of Justice are cruel, but before ensuring the lives of the two people, many severe punishments are not suitable for them. They can endure ordinary punishments by gritting their teeth." When Queen Song thought of this, she felt chest tightness and shortness of breath, and she wished she could put a sack on the empress dowager and beat her to vent her anger.
After a pause, Queen Song continued, "But since you said so, there must be a way. I will leave it to you. No matter what method you use, I just want the result."
"Your Majesty, please be at ease. The worst that can happen is that we can let them die in another way." Lu Xiang spoke, with a faint smile on the corners of his slightly curved lips, revealing a chilling light.
Queen Song was stunned for a moment, but soon she understood and couldn't help but smile.
"You are right. I am the queen. They have to use all kinds of tricks to harm me. But it is too easy for me to kill them."
Besides not being able to handle the case according to the law, Chu Pan'er made her feel a little depressed.
But what she could not tolerate even more was that Chu Pan'er was still at large after murdering her. In the harem, a place where people were eaten without leaving any bones, she had never used her methods on a child, and now she didn't mind being a little more cruel.
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