"What do you mean? Do you think it was me who poisoned you? I stayed in this palace all day and almost never went out. I didn't even know that there was such a little maid next to my sister, and I was with her.
She has no grievances, why should I poison her?" Chu Mian immediately retorted.
"I didn't say you were the one who administered the poison." Yu Jiujiu pouted her lips as if she had been wronged, and continued word by word, "But you said you didn't know this maid, this
It is indeed absolutely impossible. You have just admitted that you bribed Liu Chuan, who was the Minister of Justice at the time, for the Chu Sheng murder case. How could you know nothing about this matter?"
"This is because I helped my third sister because she begged me." Chu Mian immediately defended herself.
"Really? Since it was Chu Jin who begged you, Chu Jin should have paid for it, but why did it end up that Concubine Chu used her private money to bribe Liu Chuan?" Yu Jiujiu continued to ask.
"Chu Jin was still in the boudoir at that time and was not married. Where did she get the money?" Chu Mian said very matter-of-factly.
"Chu Jin is not married, but it's not like there is no one behind her. She is the second wife of the Marquis of Yong'an, and Marquis of Yong'an is behind him. Shouldn't he tell Marquis Yong'an about this kind of thing and let him clean up the mess for his son?
Why is it that your second housemate is helping Chu Sheng, the eldest housemate, to bribe officials?" Yu Jiujiu immediately followed Chu Mian's words and asked.
A thin layer of sweat oozed from Chu Mian's forehead.
She doesn't understand.
At such a young age, Yu Jiujiu seemed to have grown ten hearts. She looked nothing like father and daughter to the simple and easy-to-deceive Emperor Xuan Ping.
Rather, she is more like the Queen Mother Yin, a woman with so many evil thoughts.
In just a few words, she was so frightened by Yu Jiujiu's exploits that she didn't dare to speak. She was afraid that like just now, Yu Jiujiu would deliberately dig a hole and jump into her trap, causing her own trouble.
.
So at this time, Chu Mian gritted his teeth and said with some annoyance: "Yes, I helped Third Sister, bribed Liu Chuan, and suppressed Chu Sheng's murder case. I admit this, the Emperor wants to cure
My sin, I have nothing to say!
"But I don't know if there are any maids around the third sister, and who Chu Sheng killed! I helped the third sister only because the third sister spoke. If it were the second sister who spoke to me,
, I will also agree!
"As for why they didn't ask their uncle for help, I don't know, and I'm not interested in knowing!
"I only know that as a noble concubine at the time, I had the ability to do such a small thing for my family, so I did it! If you insist on punishing me with death based on this, that's up to you!"
As soon as Yu Jiujiu heard her complaints, a sneer suddenly appeared on her small porcelain face.
Do you want to use this trick to get rid of this interrogation?
dream!
"What Concubine Chu said is very reasonable. Jiujiu also felt that she seemed a bit aggressive. After all, the person who poisoned the maid next to Chu Jin was not Chu Jin at all, but Chu Liu. He asked Concubine to help suppress it.
The person responsible for Chu Sheng’s murder case was not the concubine, but Chu Liu!”
As soon as Yu Jiujiu said these words, Chu Mian's expression suddenly changed again.
She suddenly realized that Yu Jiujiu had just followed, and he was deliberately leading her to say that it was Chu Jin who poisoned her, and that it was Chu Jin who asked her for help...
But if it turns out that Chu Jin did all these things, wouldn’t she be beating herself up again and telling everyone that she had just lied?
Chu Mian's face became extremely ugly.
"I don't know anything about what you're talking about! And it's been so long that I can't even remember whether it was the third sister who begged me or the second sister who begged me!" She changed her words cunningly.
"Really? Concubine Chu really can't remember it clearly?" Yu chirped in a soft and cute little voice, and suddenly asked with pity.
"Really!" Chu Mian gritted his teeth and said with great certainty.
"It doesn't matter." However, Yu Jiujiu smiled sweetly at her, "Fortunately, among the gold and silver jewelry hidden in this vase, there is something that belongs to Chu Jin."
With that said, she called Zhou Dafu over.
Zhou Dafu is holding a vase.
Yu Jiujiu reached in with her little hand, touched it, and quickly took out an jade bracelet, "Concubine Chu must remember this bracelet, right? It was after Concubine Chu entered the palace, Chu Jin came to the palace to see you,
The gift you gave her, later Chu Jin asked you for help, so she wrapped some of her jewelry and sent it to you, and you hid it in this vase."
At this time, Chu Mian stared at the bracelet, her face really darkened.
She felt that Yu Jiujiu was just trying to trick her on purpose!
At first, she deliberately led Chu Jin to poison her and asked her for help. Just now, she changed her story and said categorically that the person who poisoned and asked her for help was Chu Liu. Then she suddenly used a bracelet to say that in fact, that person was Chu Liu.
Hibiscus!
But Chu Mian stared at the bracelet and couldn't help but remain silent.
Just because this bracelet was indeed a gift she gave to Chu Jin that year, and when she bribed Liu Chuan, the gold and silver jewelry were indeed stuffed in the vase, but as for whether there was this bracelet inside, she really
I don’t know!
As she said, she couldn't leave the palace, so how could she know what was in the vase?
She also sent someone else to bribe Liu Chuan.
By the way, someone else...
Who did she send back then?
How could she still remember clearly what happened after twenty-four years?
Chu Mian was almost driven crazy by Yu Jiujiu!
"Since Princess Lingfu knows the cause and effect of things so well, why do you always ask me? Whatever you say is fine!" Chu Mian said sarcastically through gritted teeth.
"Oh, it's really bad. I don't want to be fooled easily. Forget it. I won't tease you anymore. It's boring." After Yu Jiujiu heard this, he said a few words in a dull tone, then he put on a straight face and said to Yin
Yu said, "Yin Shaoqing, can you let Chu Liu and Duke Yong in?"
"Yes, little princess." Yin Yu immediately went out and brought the person in.
When Chu Mian saw that it was really Chu Liu and Wen Su, her eyelids jumped several times in succession.
The bad feeling in her heart became stronger and stronger!
"Public women pay homage to the emperor, long live the emperor; pay homage to the queen mother, the queen mother is a thousand years old; pay homage to Princess Lingfu, the princess is a thousand years old." As soon as Chu Liu came in, he saluted in various ways.
Wen Su saluted with her.
When Chu Mian heard that Chu Liu called herself a "civilian woman", her eyelids twitched and she felt something was wrong.
Chu Liu is the wife of the Duke of Yong, so she should call herself "the wife of a minister", but now...she looked at the couple who looked like strangers standing far away after the emperor stood up without ceremony, and suddenly her heart tightened, and she realized something.