bookrebus Chapter 297: Personal and Physical Evidence
Chapter 297: Personal and Physical Evidence
Xie Yu thought about it and nodded.
"Just listen to the Queen. Gao Cheng, bring that maid here. The Queen and I will interrogate her in person to find out who gave her the courage to do such a heinous act that would punish her entire clan."
Zheng Jin helped Qin Shushu sit down, and Gao Cheng brought the palace maid up.
The palace maid walked in trembling and knelt on the ground. She was already frightened.
After Qin Shushu saw clearly which palace maid it was, she shook off Zheng Jin's hand the next second.
Zheng Jin deliberately shouted "Ah", instantly attracting the attention of Xie Yu and others
Zheng Jin looked at Xie Yu pitifully, covering her hands weakly, with red eyes, trying to gain Xie Yu's pity. Sure enough, Xie Yu looked at her one more time.
Qin Shushu tore off the clothes of the palace maid who was kneeling on the ground like a madman, and started slapping the palace maid like a shrew.
"Bitch, bitch, how dare you take someone else's things to frame my unborn child, bitch"
Qin Shushu looked no different from a street shrew at the moment. Xie Yu saw this and frowned so tightly that he could kill a fly between his brows.
Qin Shushu didn't know that her behavior today had disgusted Xie Yu, and that even if she recovered from her illness, she would no longer be favored.
Unfortunately, Qin Shushu was only concerned with venting her anger and didn't notice the disgust in Xie Yu's eyes at all.
Chen Mi looked at the scene and glanced at Xie Yu's impatient expression.
She thought to herself that if Qin Shushu was smart, she should pretend to be weak at this time, instead of being so domineering and venting her hatred. Doing so would only make her lose favor in the end.
The emperor hates crazy women the most. He will only feel disgust if he doesn't ask why.
Xie Yu said in a deep voice, "That's enough, Shu Jieyu, you step back first, I will interrogate her."
Qin Shushu saw Xie Yu's expression and froze. She immediately realized her mistake and quickly straightened her posture.
"Your Majesty, I am just too excited."
After saying that, Qin Shushu quickly stepped aside, feeling annoyed.
The beaten palace maid's face was not only covered with the slap marks from Qin Shushu.
And before that, the slap marks from the punishment two days ago, now added up to be shocking
"I want to ask you, who did you accept the bribe from? Did you bury the witchcraft box under the tree to frame Shu Jieyu and her unborn child? Tell me..."
Xie Yu's thunderous rage frightened the palace maids so much that they dared not even raise their heads.
"Your Majesty, I am innocent. I did not do anything and I know nothing."
However, it was obvious that the palace maid's panicked behavior told it all.
Gao Cheng stepped forward and kicked the maid hard on the chest.
"You are such a rude slave! How dare you lie when the emperor asks you a question? Confess honestly and you will suffer less."
Lin Junxue sat in the main seat, watching the scene quietly with a calm expression.
The palace maid seemed to be frightened and looked conflicted.
Zheng Jin suddenly said, "Your Majesty, this maid looks familiar to me just now. Oh, two days ago, because she did something wrong, Sister Shu punished her with a few slaps. It must be because of this that this maid is holding a grudge and was bribed to do such a thing."
The maid showed a trace of guilt on her face as if she had been discovered, and everyone knew that Zheng Jin was telling the truth.
Sun Manrou often beat and scolded the palace maids, so when she heard this, she spoke with disdain.
"Your Majesty, a mere maidservant, after receiving some punishment, dared to be bribed to attack her master. Such a servant should be dragged out and cut into pieces."
Zheng Jin continued, "What the Empress said is true. This maid is extremely bold. However, it is most important to let her confess who framed Sister Shu. Just now, didn't Eunuch Gao say that this maid received gold melon seeds and a jade hairpin in her room? Where is the jade hairpin? Eunuch Gao..."
When Gao Cheng mentioned the jade hairpin, he suddenly became a little uncomfortable.
Xie Yu said in a deep voice, "Bring it up, Jade Hairpin."
The maid's expression changed completely.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, I confess everything. Please spare my life. Please have mercy. I was confused for a moment and shouldn't have been blinded by money. I was bewitched for a moment. Your Majesty, I confess. I confess everything."
As he spoke, the young scholar took out the jade hairpin he had found in the palace maid's room.
When the gorgeous jade hairpin lit up, everyone looked over and was shocked, then had different expressions.
Danzhen whispered, "Madam, this is your hairpin, this..."
Danzhen now understood that someone was planning to attack the Queen.
She remembered that Guyu had kept this hairpin in her private vault, but it was stolen. She was finished now.
Chen Mi and Sun Manrou turned their heads to look at Lin Junxue, who was sitting in the main seat, without saying a word and with a calm expression.
Next second
Xie Yu slowly turned his head and looked at Lin Junxue beside him, his eyes meaningful.
Xie Yu's eyes clearly expressed his doubt.
Lin Junxue's black and white eyes also looked at Xie Yu. Her gaze was clear, without any guilt. She was honest and did not rush to make any excuses.
now
The atmosphere in the hall reached an unprecedented level of oppression and heaviness.
Because everyone in the hall, including Xie Yu, recognized that the hairpin belonged to Lin Junxue.
Because, these two hairpins were tribute from Jiangnan two months ago.
Xie Yu gave one of the hairpins to the queen as a reward, and kept the other in his private vault.
The fact that this hairpin now appears in the maid's room of Ning'an Palace speaks for itself.
Qin Shushu suddenly widened her eyes and looked at Lin Junxue, stretching out her hand.
Zheng Jin also deliberately looked surprised.
Then, the palace maid who was kneeling on the ground rolled and crawled to Lin Junxue's feet, crying and reaching out her hands to pull the hem of Lin Junxue's skirt.
"Empress, please save me, please save me. It was you who asked me to put the box under the tree. It was you who bribed me with such a valuable hairpin. And the gold leaves were given to me by Danzhen, who was by your side. You said that as long as I put the box under the tree, you would give it to me. You let me leave the palace with the gold leaves and the hairpin. Now you can't just pretend nothing happened and ignore me, Empress. I'm doing all this for you."
The palace maid's words further confirmed that it was Lin Junxue who ordered her to do this.
Now we can say that there is both witnesses and evidence, and it seems that there is no room for defense.
Everyone's eyes were on Lin Junxue. There was resentment, suspicion, gloating, and doubt.
Lin Junxue looked at the palace maid kneeling on the ground and slowly pulled out the skirt in her hand.
She was not as panicked as she had imagined. She was calm and composed. She looked at Xie Yu and stood up.
Xie Yu said in a deep voice, "Queen, do you have anything else to say?"
Xie Yu did not question Lin Junxue as he did in the past, but just asked this question very calmly.
Xie Yu's attitude made Zheng Jin very disappointed. Why didn't the emperor get angry?
Even Chen Mi was slightly surprised by Xie Yu's attitude at this moment.
If this happened to another concubine, the emperor would have been furious.