Duan Mingchen's finger pointed to the few dark lumps on the table that smelled like meat.

"What is this?" Xiao Jing asked curiously.

Gu Huaiqing picked up a small piece and put it in front of Xiao Jing, saying: "I found this in Qian Xi's room, because he has been raising cats for the Queen Mother, we thought it was cat food, but later we found out that cats don't eat it at all. This, on the contrary, dogs like to eat it very much.”

Gu Huaiqing turned to Concubine Li, and said, "Miss Concubine Li has a lively and lovely curly-haired puppy who is very good at getting into trouble. I saw you use this kind of food to train it to perform juggling in the imperial garden. Later, at the Chrysanthemum Appreciation Party, it was also this dog that destroyed the concubine's flowers, causing the concubine to be angry and causing the empress dowager to punish her.

After the Queen Mother passed away, I went to Hancui Palace to search and saw this dog again. I also found that there was a small hole in the palace wall of Hancui Palace, and the puppy could come and go freely.So it occurred to me that since you can train a puppy to juggle, you can also train it to do other things, like deliver a letter.

Qian Xi is good at raising animals. He developed this kind of food that puppies love to eat. You tie a note to the puppy and let it take it to Qian Xi. Qian Xi also sends the message back to Hancui Palace through the puppy, so that You can remotely control the whole situation without leaving the palace. "

Concubine Li covered her mouth in surprise, and said, "What is Mrs. Gu talking about? The concubine is just raising a dog with nothing to do. How could she be hooked into a conspiracy? I have no grievances with the Queen Mother, so why did I murder her?" What's more, I'm just a concubine with a low status, I'm not favored, and I have been banned. My orders?"

Gu Huaiqing said: "As I said before, this is a well-designed murder case. The killing of the Queen Mother we saw was only the last step of many steps. In fact, the Queen Mother had already suffered a lot of fright and mental stress before she died. For example, the queen mother received threatening letters from unknown sources from time to time, the queen mother often had headaches and even became manic, the queen mother was frightened by her own Persian cat and fell into a coma, until she was stabbed to death by acupuncture. All these were carried out step by step. , in order to take revenge on the Queen Mother, not only to let her die, but also to torture her to death.

However, this mysterious mastermind never appeared at the scene of the crime. She hid in the dark and kept out of the matter, but planned strategies and coordinated the overall situation. It has to be said that the mastermind who designed this murder case was extremely intelligent and thoughtful.

The dog food incident made us suspicious of Li Pin.But as you said, you have only been in the palace for a year, and you have hardly had any contact with the queen mother, let alone hatred. "

Gu Huaiqing paused, then smiled mockingly, "Speaking of which, I would like to thank Mrs. Feng, the father of Miss Li, if he hadn't loved his daughter so much, he would have given me a huge silver note of 20 taels, begging me Pleading for your mercy in front of His Majesty, it is really difficult for us to find out your motives."

Gu Huaiqing picked up the 20 taels of silver note and the bookmark of the blue hyacinth, handed them to Xiao Jing, and asked, "Your Majesty, what did you find?"

Xiao Jing put the two together, looked carefully, and said hesitantly: "Their paper quality and texture seem to be the same..."

"Your Majesty is absolutely right." Gu Huaiqing said with a smile, "For 20 taels of banknotes, the total number of banknotes issued by Baoqing Bank may not exceed a few dozen, because the denomination is huge, and special paper and craftsmanship must be used. Make it impossible to imitate.

I found this bookmark when I searched the palace of Concubine Li. According to the same paper quality, it can be judged that it is a bookmark cut out of a 20 tael denomination silver note.

A blue hyacinth is painted on the corner of this bookmark. Concubine Li seems to like blue hyacinth very much, and she presented this flower at the Chrysanthemum Appreciation Party. Said that it may have some special meaning, so she specially cut it into a bookmark and took it with her as a souvenir.

Everyone knows that elegant ladies nowadays like to write letters with flower paper and add their favorite flowers as a symbol. The logo of Lipin should be the blue hyacinth.

A few years ago, for some reason, Concubine Li wanted to thank a person, so she painted the 20 tael bank note with her favorite logo and gave it to a friend.They may have agreed a secret code, when that friend showed this bank note, Li concubine knew that the friend needed help. "

Concubine Li widened her eyes, looked at Gu Huaiqing in disbelief, and said, "Master Gu, you have made so many associations with just a bookmark with hyacinth on it, but I am just an ordinary little girl, what kind of secret code or bank note? I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about."

Duan Mingchen took over the conversation and said: "You don't need to be too modest, and you don't need to hide your clumsiness anymore. We have secretly interviewed the background of Miss Li, and we know that you have been extremely intelligent, shrewd and capable since you were young. You founded Baoqing Bank by yourself. So she helped her father manage the business, and all the accounts of the Feng family had to go through her hands. The bank would not receive a few such huge banknotes a year, and the steward should hand them over after receiving them. Here comes this silver ticket with her special mark on it.

Everyone, please see that the paper of this bookmark is yellow, indicating that it is old; if there are rough edges, it may be caused by being soaked in water and then dried in the sun.There is a kind of potion that will not show color on dry paper, and the characters will only appear after it is soaked. I guess, someone wrote on this old bank note with this special potion. In the form of a ticket, an important secret was passed on to Li Pin.

And this person is the late Concubine Zhuang.

Regarding this point, we found the maid who collected the body of Concubine Zhuang back then. This maid had left the palace to marry and lived a very wealthy life.She personally admitted that she found a 20 taels of silver note with blue hyacinth painted on it from the socks worn by Concubine Zhuang. It was exactly half a year before Concubine Li entered the palace.

On the surface, Concubine Zhuang was born in the capital, while Concubine Li was from Yangzhou. The two are separated by thousands of miles, so they have no relationship. However, the fate of people is so wonderful.We searched for Concubine Li's former personal maid, and she confirmed that Concubine Li was taken to the capital by gangsters when she was young. Fortunately, she was rescued by an official woman surnamed Liu, and she was able to preserve her innocence and life. The woman surnamed Liu It's Concubine Zhuang.

Concubine Li was grateful for Concubine Zhuang's life-saving grace, and presented a 20 taels of silver note with her own logo.Concubine Zhuang was drafted into the palace, and she carried this bank note with her. Later, Concubine Zhuang was framed and wronged, imprisoned in the cold palace, and suffered inhuman torture. Get it out and let people try to avenge themselves.

Concubine Zhuang is also a very smart woman. Although she was in a desperate situation and was helpless, she did not give up.She knows very well that money is the most attractive thing in the world, and a bank note of 20 taels is enough to tempt anyone, and no one would be foolish enough to hand over such a huge sum of money.She also expected that the palace servants would come to collect the coffin after she died, and after changing her clothes, she hid the bank note in her socks.The palace servants who collected the corpse would definitely see this silver note when they were coffining her. If they took the silver note and exchanged it at the Baoqing Bank sooner or later, then this silver note would reach Concubine Li's hands one day.

Concubine Zhuang wrote down her grievances on the bank note with a special potion, explaining who persecuted her, and possibly who could help revenge.After all, Concubine Zhuang had also been favored in the palace for a while, and she was always very popular, and she might have her own confidantes. These people could become helpers for revenge in the future, and among them were Zi Kui and Qian Xi.

Concubine Zhuang also has a childhood sweetheart, who is a few years older than her, who comes from a medical family. She originally planned to discuss marriage, but was forced to separate because Concubine Zhuang was selected into the palace.

In terms of age, Imperial Physician Lu was completely in line with Concubine Zhuang's childhood sweetheart, and Imperial Physician Lu had advanced to the imperial hospital for more than four years, just after Concubine Zhuang passed away.With an infatuation for his first love, Imperial Physician Lu decided to enter the imperial hospital, wanting to find out the truth about Concubine Zhuang's death, and also wanted to avenge her.

As for Lord Wandu, he also had a feud with the Queen Mother.I heard that Lord Wan once had a court lady who had a very deep affection for him, but unfortunately, this maid died five years ago.What can make a person die silently in the palace, and make you unable to pursue it, is probably only possible at the level of the empress dowager.

Concubine Li was originally a businesswoman, so she was not eligible to participate in the draft. Her father, Feng Bo, doted on his only daughter very much. He never planned to send his daughter to the palace, and even opposed her entering the palace.However, in the year of Jiji, Concubine Li urged her father to donate an official position, moved her family to the capital, and let her father take concubines and have children to continue the incense. At that time, she made up her mind to enter the palace, not for the sake of glory and wealth, but for Avenge Concubine Zhuang.

After Concubine Li entered the palace, she kept a low profile and was not top-notch, but secretly contacted several people who had enemies with the Queen Mother, and made a careful plan, not only to kill the Queen Mother, but also to make her suffer like Concubine Zhuang. tortured to death.

First, they managed to place Qian Xi and Zi Ke next to the Empress Dowager. Qian Xi was good at raising cats, and Zi Ke was good at making spices and powders. They were all people that the Empress Dowager needed. They entered the Palace of Compassion and Peace and won the favor of the Empress Dowager and stayed by her side. Personal service.

Physician Lu has excellent medical skills and is proficient in Qianjin, so it is not difficult to win the trust of the Queen Mother.Physician Lu added Senecio to the Queen Mother's tranquilizing medicine.The medicine of Senecio is non-toxic when taken alone, but if taken together with Centella asiatica, it will have a paralyzing effect on the human mind, causing people to hallucinate, and if taken for a long time, it can cause madness.

Centella asiatica itself is also non-toxic and has a certain effect on beauty and skin care. Purple sage often uses natural herbs to make powder for the queen mother, and then adds centella asiatica to the queen mother's rouge.The interaction between the two stimulated the Queen Mother to have hallucinations, so the Queen Mother often complained that she had headaches and needed acupuncture treatment from Imperial Physician Lu. She took Ningshen Decoction, but she didn't know that the more she took it, the more poisoned she would become, and her temper became increasingly irritable.

At the Chrysanthemum Appreciation Party, Concubine Li deliberately clashed with Concubine Li, causing Concubine Li to be fined. The Queen Mother became angry and severely reprimanded Concubine Li and Concubine Li, and Concubine Li lost her child.There may be something strange about this, the imperial concubine had only knelt for half an hour that day, and she had a miscarriage. It is possible that the imperial concubine's food or utensils were tampered with.

Concubine Li was grounded by His Majesty because of the Chrysanthemum Appreciation Party, and this hit right in her arms. She was imprisoned in the palace and could not go out. On the contrary, she would not be thought of when looking for the murderer. Anyway, she had a puppy and Ci Ning Qian Xi in the palace keeps in touch and can also control the situation.

Zi Ke put threatening letters in the Queen Mother's bedroom from time to time, which made the Queen Mother panic and furious, and further stimulated her, causing the Queen Mother to become increasingly manic and irritable, and even became suspicious of the people around her.The one who bears the brunt is Wang Momo, because Wang Momo has dealt with many secret affairs of the Queen Mother, including the murder of Concubine Zhuang. Once the Queen Mother suspects her, she will kill her. It is because of this that Wang Momo was strangled to death by the Queen Mother.

Because of her temper out of control, the queen mother injured many palace people and even strangled her confidant Wang Momo to death. She was considered insane by the imperial physicians, and His Majesty sent someone to supervise her.At this time, Qian Xi used the Persian cat to attack the queen mother, causing her to fall and fall into a coma.

The Empress Dowager woke up three days later. In the evening, the news of the Empress Dowager's waking came out. Physician Lu first came to the Palace of Compassion and Peace, carrying the murder weapon—acupuncture needles.Then His Majesty and the Empress came to visit the Empress Dowager, and after His Majesty left, they drugged the meal of another court lady, Bai Zhi, causing her to vomit and diarrhea, and unable to serve her. plan.

From Youshi to the end of Xushi, for more than an hour, Zi Ke, Qian Xi, and Imperial Physician Lu blocked the Queen Mother's mouth so that she could not make a sound, and then unscrupulously used needles all over her body, causing her to die of pain and torture. .

At the end of the Xu Dynasty, Lord Wan Du entered the Palace of Compassion and Ning in the name of a visit, and aimed at the key points of the Empress Dowager, delivering a fatal blow.At the same time, yellow sand was left on the window sill of the rear window, and the golden hairpin of the imperial concubine was left in the garden.After the queen mother was killed, Zi Kui imitated the voice of the queen mother and asked Lord Wan to step down.

The queen mother's blood-stained underwear should have been taken back by Imperial Physician Lu and burned. After all, he has a medicine box that he carries with him, and he can put the clothes in it and take it away without arousing others' suspicion.

Then Zi Ke turned off the lights, pretending that the Empress Dowager had gone to bed, but actually opened the window and placed the Empress Dowager's body in the cold, while Qian Xi kept vigil at the door of the bedroom.

The next day at Yinshi, Zi Kui helped the Queen Mother clean her body, put on clean underwear, and then pretended to find the Queen Mother dead..."

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