Everyone present was shocked. For the concubines in the harem, searching the palace was already a great shame and humiliation. Normally, the search was done by female officials from the Shang Palace Bureau, but Concubine Hui took the initiative to let the Divine Eagle Guards search the palace. Although the female officials were not bribed
Maybe, those people are all men.
If the Holy Emperor wanted to favor Concubine Hui in the future and sit in her palace, he would inevitably think of Concubine Hui's palace being broken into and searched by so many men, and how could he not feel bad about it.
This Concubine Hui must be too brave to risk her life.
The queen saw Zhou Baolin's stunned eyes and knew that Zhou Baolin's plan was about to fail, so she said: "Concubine Hui and the Eagle Guard are both men. Letting them search the palace will damage your reputation."
However, Concubine Hui raised her head and said: "Compared with damaging my reputation, I am more afraid of being kicked into the excrement basin for no reason. I am not afraid of shadows when I am upright. Your Majesty is here to testify that there is nothing to be ashamed of in my palace."
Naturally, you are not afraid of what others say."
Concubine Hui was born in a general's family. Her speech was clear and crisp, and her behavior was not that particular.
The Holy Emperor didn't have much sympathy for the cold-tempered Concubine Hui, so he said: "Since Concubine Hui said so, Fuhai, go to the guard station and transfer the Shenying Guards into the palace, search Concubine Hui's Changle Palace, and bring Zhou Baolin's
We searched the side hall together."
After waiting for a while, a condor came back to resume his life.
"Back to the Holy Emperor, I and my men searched the palace of Concubine Hui. There was nothing unusual."
"How is that possible!" Zhou Baolin exclaimed in surprise.
"How is it impossible? Logically speaking, Zhou Baolin is also a victim, why are you so surprised?" Concubine Hui looked at her and said coldly.
Zhou Baolin's face turned pale and he reluctantly explained: "I am just surprised. If it's not Concubine Hui, who could it be?"
"Yes, who is it that has such powerful hands and eyes that he can plot against me, the imperial concubine, and Zhou Baolin all at once?" Concubine Hui glanced at the crowd, and finally cast her eyes on the queen.
The queen took a long breath and was about to scold her.
Concubine Hui did not give her this chance, and immediately said to Rong Qing: "What else do you have to say? You have to think about it. I am innocent now. You just said that I threatened you with the lives of your family members.
If you don't tell the truth, even if it is false, I have the ability to make it true."
Rong Qing understood that the matter was a foregone conclusion, so in order not to hurt her family, she cried:
"It was Zhou Baolin. It was Zhou Baolin who asked the slave to bribe the concubine Huifang. It was Zhou Baolin who asked the slave to frame Concubine Hui. The one hundred taels of silver notes given to the concubine Huifang were sent in by the eunuch who was entrusted by Lord Zhou to purchase them.
Then you know that your crime deserves death, I just ask the Holy One to let your family go."
Zhou Baolin crawled over and beat Rong Qing, scolding: "You are a cheap maid. After you framed Concubine Hui, you came to frame me again. I will tear your mouth apart."
Gu Yu immediately knelt down and said: "Your Majesty, it is certain that Zhou Baolin poisoned my sister. Please give me justice, Your Majesty."
Concubine Hui tilted her head slightly and deliberately flashed the glazed hairpin on her head to His Majesty's eyes: "Your Majesty, Zhou Baolin has a vicious heart and is really unfit to be a palace concubine."
After seeing this, the Holy Emperor pursed his lips and became angry.
Concubine Hui turned to the empress and said: "Empress, there are rules in the palace. If you frame others in the harem, you should be deprived of titles, thrown into the cold palace, and poisoned others. They should be sentenced to death to serve as a warning to others. I don't know if I am right or not."
The queen knew that Zhou Baolin was dead, and in full view of everyone, she had no choice but to say: "Concubine Hui is right. As the lord of the Sixth Palace, I should deal with him impartially. Zhou Baolin ignored the ancestral etiquette and did not care about his family. I gave him this gift."
It’s up to you to accept the punishment of the rod or not.”
Zhou Baolin seemed to be in disbelief and said: "The Queen, my concubine..." Before she could finish her words, she suddenly realized that the Queen had just mentioned her family.
She glanced at the Holy One, whose face was full of disgust for her. She knew that she was completely doomed, so she had no choice but to swallow her dissatisfaction. Like a cuckoo crying for blood, she screamed sadly: "I submit."
The queen said: "In that case, Rong Qing will be beaten to death with a stick, and Zhou Baolin will be punished with a cane for thirty years."
There is a slight difference between beating to death with a stick and beating with a stick. No matter how hard you beat a slave to death, you will be beaten to death. In the punishment with a stick, the first twenty-nine sticks must avoid the vital parts of the body, so that the person is tortured alive, and the last stick is
The person holding the stick uses all his strength to hit the vital parts, trying to kill him with one blow.
If you are lucky enough to survive the last stick and still live, it means that the person holding the stick is not good enough and needs to die together. Therefore, no one has been able to survive the last stick after being punished with the stick for so long.
Just as the eunuch was about to drag Zhou Baolin and Rong Qing out, another Eagle Guard hurried over.
"I found this in Zhou Baolin's dressing table."
He presented what he had in his hand, which was an exquisite small box used by women to hold ointments.
When Zhou Baolin saw it, she was so frightened that she couldn't speak. Shenyingwei really had a sharp eye. She thought she could get away by disguising it as balm, but she was discovered anyway.
The Holy One signaled Dr. Lin to check. Dr. Lin opened the box and smelled it at the tip of his nose. His face changed drastically, and he knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, this is Tongxin Ointment."
When Dr. Lin said the name of the ointment, Zhou Baolin rolled his eyes and fainted.
Someone had never heard of this thing and asked, "What is Tongxin ointment?"
Dr. Lin Yu said: "Tongxin ointment is made of Cnidium monnieri, poppy, dogwood, sulfur, etc. If used for a long time, it will make the person who smells it addictive and create the illusion that men and women are of the same heart."
The Holy Sage threw the tea cup angrily, and everyone in the palace knelt down. Tongxin ointment was made by Zhao Concubine of the former Queen's Palace, which attracted the late Emperor to be obsessed with her and did many ridiculous things. The late Emperor also died because of the chaos in the palace.
He was given the posthumous title of "Huang". Zhou Baolin wanted to make him a foolish king.
After he ascended the throne, the drug was classified as a banned drug, and the few remaining boxes were hidden in the harem warehouse under the care of the queen.
Seeing Zhou Baolin fainting, the Holy Emperor suppressed his anger and said: "Wake her up."
Doctor Lin went over and inserted a needle into one of Zhou Baolin's acupuncture points. Zhou Baolin woke up.
"Tell me, where did this Tongxin anointing come from?" the Holy Master scolded Zhou Baolin.
Zhou Baolin was shaking like chaff, trembling and unable to speak a word.
"I don't have that much patience to waste with you. If you don't tell the truth, I will destroy all nine of your clans." The Holy One said angrily.
Zhou Baolin confessed to poisoning the imperial concubine because of threats from the Empress, and now because of the Tongxin ointment, the nine tribes are about to be exterminated, and the Empress cannot save her.
Concubine Hui suddenly said something meaningful: "Zhou Baolin has not been in the palace for a long time. I'm afraid he has never heard of Tongxin ointment. Why is this thing in the palace? Who gave it to you? This is punishment.
It’s the sin of the nine clans, don’t be sold out and count the money for others.”
The queen felt like she was falling into an ice cave at this time. She never expected that the concubine's poisoning was just the introduction. What the concubine and concubine Hui really wanted to do was to expose the Tongxin ointment.
After Zhou Baolin heard this, he looked at the queen. A feeling of hatred suddenly rose in her heart. Originally, there were not so many things, but the queen guided her step by step. Why should she take the blame in front of her, while the queen sat firmly on the high platform.
She would not survive. Her nine tribes and her family could not be buried with her. The queen could not get rid of the issue of Tongxin anointing and could not protect her family.
She had been dull for half her life, but she finally became wise. All of this was set up by Concubine Gu. Now only Gu Yu could save her family. She raised her head and glanced at Gu Yu secretly.
When Gu Yu met her eyes, he immediately understood what she meant and mouthed the word "good".
In the main hall, Zhou Baolin was heard swallowing: "It's the Queen. The Tongxin ointment was given by the Queen, and the 'Changye' was also given by the Queen. These things are hidden in the niche of her small Buddhist hall."