The Empress of Zhen Huan Reborn

The maid was a little surprised when she saw Nian Shilan appearing in the Yangxin Palace so late, but she quickly calmed down. At this time, the maid had already thought of a countermeasure, so after hearing the emperor's question, she just cried and said, "I hope your Majesty will understand that I have never passed on the news of the Yangxin Palace to anyone."

The emperor looked at the maid and said calmly, "You know, if I didn't have enough evidence, I wouldn't send people to arrest you."

The maid still refused to admit it and said, "Your Majesty, I really didn't do it. I am innocent."

The emperor was about to speak, but Nian Shilan's indifferent voice sounded, and she said with a smile: "Your Majesty, since this palace maid said she was wronged, it is difficult for me to say whether I believe it or not. How about this, send her to the Ministry of Punishment. If she can endure all 72 kinds of punishment, I will believe her."

The emperor actually agreed to Nian Shilan's proposal directly and waved his hand to signal his servants to drag the palace maid away.

The little maid was very flustered at this moment. She had never expected that things would develop in this direction. Shouldn't she have refused to admit it, and the person who had contacted her had already escaped, and the emperor had no evidence, so at most he would punish her with a few sticks? How did it develop to the point where he would inexplicably send her to the Ministry of Punishment to endure the 72 kinds of torture...

At this time, the guards had come to drag her and wanted to take her to the Ministry of Punishment. The little maid shouted in panic: "Your Majesty, you can't do this. I am innocent. Your Majesty..."

The emperor turned a deaf ear to the little palace maid's cries and just stared at Nian Shilan with a doting look in his eyes. Nian Shilan then added, "Wait, after dragging this person to the Ministry of Punishment, give her a mute drug first. If she is really innocent, there is no need to worry that she will tell others about this and disturb the emperor's reputation. If she is not innocent, it doesn't matter, you can ask her to write a confession."

The guards looked at the emperor, and when they saw him nod slightly, the leader of the guards said solemnly, "Yes, I obey your order."

At this moment, the last bit of rationality in the little palace maid's heart was completely broken, and she cursed: "You are such a noble concubine, how dare you take human life so lightly? Your Majesty, look at this vicious woman in front of you! Do you still want to pamper her like this? Do you want to be a tyrant?"

At this time, Nian Shilan suddenly stood up and ordered the guards with a cold face, "Put her down for me."

The guards who were dragging the maid out paused. Nian Shilan slowly walked to the guards, looked at the maid, and said in a cold voice: "Give me the knife."

The guards looked at each other in confusion, not knowing what to do. Then a young man gave the knife he was wearing to Nian Shilan. The guards looked and saw that it was Old Five again!

After taking the knife, Nian Shilan walked up to the palace maid, who was still sitting on the ground, cursing Nian Shilan.

Nian Shilan stretched out her hand and pinched her jaw hard, lifted her face up and looked into her eyes. Nian Shilan's voice became colder and colder, "You know best in your heart whether you have done something or not. The punishment I gave you is not unfair. You hate me, curse me, and I don't care about you, a dying person. But you dare to complain and slander the emperor? You have violated my taboo. Since you can't control your tongue, I don't mind cutting off your tongue and putting it beside you so that you can wear it and look at it every day."

After Nian Shilan finished speaking, he pointed the knife at the little palace maid's face. The tip of the knife moved from the little palace maid's ear to her lips. The cold fear of the knife tip and the stinging pain every time it passed through attacked the little palace maid's whole body. For a moment, the little palace maid was so scared that she trembled all over and kept muttering, "You can't kill me... You can't..."

When Nian Shilan heard the little palace maid's words, she couldn't help but sneer and said, "Why can't I kill you?"

The little palace maid was so frightened by Nian Shilan that her eyes were dazed. She looked at Nian Shilan with fear in her eyes. When she heard Nian Shilan's question, she blurted out: "If you kill me, you will never have the chance to find out who threw the snake into your palace!"

After hearing what the little palace maid said, the emperor said calmly, "My beloved concubine, please come back and sit down first."

Nian Shilan gently pushed the knife in her hand a few inches deeper into the little palace maid's face before she said slowly, "Think carefully before you speak. If you dare to deceive the emperor and me, you know the consequences."

The little maid was terribly frightened at this moment. The emperor looked at the wound on her face caused by Nian Shilan, which was not deep, but only slightly bleeding. He thought with some disapproval in his heart, "Shilan is still as kind-hearted as ever. If I don't protect her more, she will definitely be bullied."

Nian Shilan walked slowly back to the emperor and sat down in a dignified manner. The emperor said in a cold voice: "Tell the truth, who is the person behind this!"

The little maid looked at Nian Shilan with hatred: "Your servant..."

The emperor looked at the little maid as if he was looking at a dying person, and said in a cold voice: "I have already sent people to investigate your information. Your sister is serving in the Xinzheku, and you often help her. If you don't want to implicate your family, you'd better confess honestly."

When the little maid heard that the emperor knew her sister's identity, she shuddered and said honestly, "This was all done by me alone. Please don't implicate my sister. I really don't know who is behind this. A few days ago, a masked man found me and asked me to report the movements of the imperial concubine. I was unwilling to do so. Who knew that he fed me a poison when I was not paying attention? I had to do as he told me. Every five days, he asked me to go to the entrance of the Locust Gate to pass on the information to him, and he would give me a small antidote pill. I didn't want to betray the emperor. I just don't want to die. Please spare my life."

The emperor had not expected that the person behind the scenes would be so scheming and careful. He looked at the maid and asked, "The person who is looking for you and the person who is exchanging information with you are the same person?"

The little palace maid thought about it carefully, shook her head and said, "Your Majesty, they are not the same person."

The emperor looked at the little maid and asked seriously, "Are you sure?"

The young maid nodded and said, "I am sure that the person who came to see me that day, although she was masked, was a woman. However, the person who has been communicating with me recently should be a man. One day when I was getting medicine, I accidentally touched his hand because it was dark, and there was a mole on the palm of his hand."