Queen is the top

"The woman doesn't know who kidnapped her and what her intention is." Kang Zimo's mother shook her head, "The woman only remembers that when she woke up, she was lying in a strange yard surrounded by high walls. No matter how much you shout, no one will answer. Every few days, someone will throw in food such as vegetables and rice, and some people will throw in quilts and cotton clothes in winter, so we can still live on.”

She sighed as she spoke, touched Kang Zimo's face, her eyes filled with tears, "I haven't seen a single person in the past two years, and I miss Mo'er every day, so I can't go out, and I can't get news from Mo'er." , life is simply worse than death."

Kang Zimo burst into tears, and looked at his mother with red eyes. This touching scene of mother and child reunion made others feel unbearable to watch.

Kang Zimo's mother paid homage to He Jingyi and Shi Yuqing, lay down on the ground, choked up, and said, "Your Majesty the Emperor, Your Highness the Empress, the women don't know what happened to Mo'er, but Mo'er was brought up by the women since childhood. , no matter what wrong he did, the women are willing to atone for him."

"Kang Shilang, Mrs. Kang, you two go first." Shi Yuqing heard the words, "Actually, this matter is easy to handle."

These words gave Kang Zimo's mother hope, she raised her head excitedly, Kang Zimo was also surprised, and all the officials looked at the high-ranking person on the stage.

"Since that person uses pastries every time he contacts Kang Shilang, then find the shop that sells this pastry and ask the owner who bought it on what day, and you can find out after a little investigation."

After Shi Yuqing finished speaking, she asked Kang Zimo, "Does Kang Shilang still remember the day when he received pastries every time?"

Kang Zimo kowtowed and quickly replied, "I remember! I don't have any other skills, but my memory is good. And every time I receive a code, I am eager to find my mother and pay attention to the clues, so I wrote down the date."

Shi Yuqing smiled and nodded, "There is another thing, that person contacted Kang Shilang to use the books in the Hubu Zangshuge, it is obvious that this person must be a member of the court, so he has the opportunity to enter and leave the Zangshuge. "

As soon as his words came out, there was a bit of panic among the officials. There were quite a few people entering and leaving the Library Pavilion of the Household Department. Apart from the staff of the Household Department, other officials could also apply to enter if they wanted to borrow or read books.

Doctor Yushi immediately took a step forward and respectfully said, "Your Highness is right, please give your Majesty and His Highness an order, and I will immediately investigate the people who have been in and out of the Zangshu Pavilion of the Household Department."

He Jingyi nodded, agreed to his proposal, and ordered the Minister of Criminal Affairs to investigate the pastry.

The matter was of great importance, and the officials who received the task immediately went to handle it, and during this waiting time, the hall fell into a silence, no one spoke or whispered easily, one was because of the rules, and the other was thinking about their own thought.

He Jingyi stood up, stretched out his hand to take Shi Yuqing's hand, and said softly, "Are you tired after standing for a long time? It's almost noon, come over after lunch?"

The emperor's gentle words spread to everyone's ears. The tenderness was not affected by today's events at all, and it was still so strong. It made everyone know the fact that the emperor never doubted the queen from the beginning to the end.

Some smart and flexible people have already seen the way, secretly amused in their hearts: Some people are just doing useless work.

Shi Yuqing smiled slightly, "I'm not hungry, is Jing Yi hungry?"

He Jingyi shook his head, Shi Yuqing said softly, "Then wait until the matter is settled before eating?"

He Jingyi embraced his body and sat back on the chair, smiled softly, and said, "Okay."

Then the emperor said something, and why the empress laughed lightly, the courtiers in the palace didn't know, but they saw the intimacy of the two approaching and whispering, and they couldn't help but feel different feelings in their hearts. thought.

The servant of the Ministry of Punishment and Doctor Yushi acted quickly, and returned to the palace together with Yuan Lie and Shi Daoran. Behind Yuan Lie was a middle-aged man who shrank in a panic. Apparently a wealthy man.

Yuan Lie led the man to stand still in the middle of the hall, and the man hurriedly stopped behind him, raised his head cautiously, saw the noble two sitting on the dragon and phoenix chairs, and hurriedly lowered his head and kowtowed.

Yuan Lie arched his hands and said, "Return to Your Majesty, Your Highness, this person is the one who bought goods in Shiguo Public Shop."

Doctor Yushi didn't speak, but the Minister of Criminal Affairs replied, "He is also the one who bought the cakes."

Yuan Lie said again, "He is a businessman himself, and he has a shop in the Dongcheng District of Changping Capital, and he also confessed that someone paid for some goods, so he went to the Shiguo public shop to buy."

"Tell Your Majesty who ordered you!" Shi Guogong angrily pointed at that person and scolded.

The man was taken aback by Shi Guogong's aura, and hurriedly said tremblingly, "Your Majesty, Your Highness, he is a middle-aged man. The grass people don't know his identity. He often comes to the grass people's shop to buy a lot of things. A regular customer, that day he specified that he wanted some antiques, but the Caomin shop didn’t have what he wanted. It happened that Caomin remembered that there might be something he needed in an antique shop in the west of the city, so he introduced him to buy it. He said he was not familiar with it. Fearing that the store would deceive him, he asked me to buy it for him, and I agreed when I saw that he was spending a lot of money."

"Then why did you buy pastries for him?" Grand Master Yuan asked.

"Every time that person came to specify that he wanted to eat this pastry, it's not easy to do small business these days, so in order to attract customers, our shop occasionally does some errands for customers." The businessman replied.

"Do you remember that person's appearance?" Shi Yuqing asked.

"Caomin remember!" The man replied hastily.

Shi Yuqing smiled slightly, and said again, "Then take a look, is he in the palace?"

These words shocked the officials, the businessman looked up blankly at the person sitting on the phoenix chair, then quickly lowered his head, and hurriedly replied, "Yes."

As he spoke, he turned around and looked back at the courtiers standing on both sides, his brows were frowned, as if he was carefully identifying them.

"Just stand up and go to them and search for them one by one." He Jingyi said suddenly.

His icy voice made the man almost tremble, and hurriedly kowtowed, "Yes, it's Your Majesty."

He stood up tremblingly, not daring to lift his head, looked at Yuan Lie, seeing him nodding, relieved a little, got up and walked to identify the appearance of the courtiers.

At this time, the expressions of the ministers were also different, some raised their chins for him to identify, obviously it had nothing to do with this matter, some looked blank as if they didn't know what happened, and some turned their heads on purpose, It seemed that he wanted to avoid the man's sight as unobtrusively as possible.

Suddenly, the businessman's exclamation interrupted the coldness in the hall and attracted everyone's attention.

"It's him!"

Grand Master Yuan walked up to him first to have a look, his brows were frowned, Yuan Lie said in surprise, "It turned out to be you!"

He couldn't help saying to the businessman, "Don't you say you are a middle-aged man?"

The businessman hurriedly said, "That man's face is full of beards. The grassroots thought he was a little old, but when he saw this adult, he found that his appearance was almost the same as that man's, especially the mole on the left side of his face, they were all the same. The location, and the smell on this adult is also similar to that person, so the grass people said it was this adult."

Yuan Lie looked at the man with a little sweat on his forehead, no matter how hard he imagined it would be him.

"Lord Wang, please explain to Your Majesty and Your Highness what's going on?" Grand Master Yuan stroked his beard and watched him step by step out of the train and knelt down in the hall.

Chang You raised his eyebrows in shock, his hands shook in anger, and he spat, "Scumbag!"

But He Jingyi and Shi Yuqing were indeed extraordinarily calm and composed, unlike all the courtiers in the palace, they didn't seem surprised by it at all.

Wang Shichu knelt in the center of the hall, his face was full of fear and panic, and he lay down on the ground shaking his body.

"Tell me, Lord Wang, what's going on?"

He Jingyi's voice was full of laughter and even more urgent, Wang Shichu shook his body and said, "I deserve death for my crimes! I have been bewitched! Selling goods, buying pastries, and contacting Kang Shilang are all done by me." do"

"Who bewitched you?" He Jingyi said again, stabbing the person kneeling in the hall like a wind blade.

"Lord Cui, Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment." Wang Shichu said.

"Nonsense! When did I bewitch you!" Cui Changsheng, Minister of the Ministry of Punishments, jumped out immediately, pointing at Wang Shichu with violent veins.

"Early before Kang Shilang got his honor in the exam, Master Cui promised to refuse me to take over the post of Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, so I was fascinated for a while, please Your Majesty and Your Highness to make amends!"

Wang Shichu's words were like turbulent waves, and the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment in the hall couldn't help but glance sideways at the Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment, his eyes were quite meaningful.

"What nonsense are you talking about!" The Secretary of the Ministry of Punishment still pointed at Wang Shichu, "I have never had any contact with you, how could I bewitch you!"

"You said back then that the matter was well planned and you would not implicate me, but today the matter happened, and Lord Shang Shu actually wanted to put me in danger and abandon me!" Wang Shichu suddenly stood up and reprimanded him severely, with a look like Great injustice.

"Why do you slander others with empty words! What evidence do you have that I ordered you!"

Cui Changsheng's anger was extraordinary, but Wang Shichu, as Yushi Zhongcheng and Chang Youjing's student, had excellent eloquence and quick thinking, he insisted that he was instigated by him, and what he said was well-founded, which made him unable to defend for a while.

Grand Master Yuan saw that the astonishment on Shangshu's face did not seem to be fake, he couldn't help but looked up at the two people on the dragon chair, stroked their beards, and wondered: What the hell are these two children doing?

Soon Grand Master Yuan understood that Shangshu of the Ministry of Justice was overwhelmed by Wang Shichu's refutation, and finally blurted out: "Impossible, I didn't ask you to do this!"

"Then who did you ask to do it?" Someone quietly interrupted the heated dispute between the two.

"I'll let..." He blurted out the words, his heart sank suddenly, and he stopped immediately.

There was an uproar in the hall, and everyone looked at him in amazement.

Looking at the gathering gazes, Shangshu of the Ministry of Justice calmed down from the original fury. He stood silently, his face was full of vigilance, his eyes flickered, and fear was more calculated.

"catch him."

When all the officials were in doubt, He Jingyi spoke coldly.