Chapter 576

The emperor had already spent his dinner and looked at the scriptures by candlelight in the hall. Inside and outside the hall, it is quiet and the needles can be heard.

Looking at this posture, Jing Zhaoyin felt tight in his heart and complained secretly.

Jing Zhaoyin described in detail the traces found by the Yamen officers at the scene, and then quietly waited for the emperor to show them.

The emperor also hesitated.

So many people besieged the two attendants of Khotan envoys, but they were defeated. Not only did they not kill any of them, but they were killed a lot?

In Jing Zhaoyin's report just now, there was a large area of blood left at the scene. Even if the part that penetrated into the land was removed, at least one or two people should have been killed on the spot.

The strength of these attackers seems to be much lower than those who sneaked into the palace to assassinate on that day?

No, not so sure. The imperial palace is heavily guarded, so it's natural to take out the most elite people to deal with it. However, the Khotan envoys can't carry many people in the capital. When they go out, they are not on guard. They are looked down upon by others and think it can be solved easily, so they don't send elite people to deal with it.

The point is whether the person behind the attackers is the same or not.

Those who attacked Khotan envoys, no doubt, were to destroy the alliance between Dazhou and Khotan, so that the Emperor gave up fighting against Dongxia.

This is the most straightforward and easy to analyze.

So it is also possible that the purpose of this person is not this, but to guide all people to think in this direction, and he is hiding in it. After all, in the final analysis, the Khotan envoys themselves are intact, so naturally, the alliance between Dazhou and Khotan can still exist.

The emperor thought for a long time and got a headache. Jing Zhaoyin stood by his highness and waited for the emperor to speak without a word. He was completely objective and tried to avoid any subjective judgment.

Before that group disappeared without a trace of assassins, always stabbed in the heart of the emperor. The emperor was determined to investigate this incident, even if there was only a chance that it was related to the assassin last time.

"It's so bold that an assassin attacked the envoys in the capital. Check it out. I'll check it out. "

With this sentence, Jing Zhaoyin had the bottom in his heart, and knew where to start the next thing.

"The Minister receives the decree."

In the emperor's harem, these days are not very peaceful.

On the day Qilin entered the palace, Princess Wang Shufei was knocked to the ground. The imperial doctor decided on the spot that the fetus could not be kept.

Sure enough, when she was carried back to Princess Wang's palace, she just helped her back to bed, and Princess Wang slipped.

Princess Wang had high hopes for her baby. After the miscarriage, no one dared to take a close look at it. However, Princess Wang concluded that it was a boy who had miscarried. She was sad and couldn't help crying in bed.

The queen was upset by her sharp cry, but the emperor had given the matter to her, so she couldn't give up. She had to be patient and coax Princess Wang to shut up. She called all the concubines who came to see auspicious omen outside the palace.

The palace people in Princess Wang Shufei's palace did not dare to neglect the queen like she did. They quickly moved some chairs and asked the queen, Princess Qian and several princesses to sit down.

The queen took a look and said nothing. She sat down with Princess Qian.

The queen originally wanted to ask several princesses to go back to their respective palaces to save them from the dirty things in the harem. However, looking at the two princesses' eyes shining and eager to join in the fun, she still didn't open her mouth. Recently, the second princess was not very happy. She was seldom interested in anything, and the queen didn't want to drive her away.

"The emperor sent his palace to find out about the concubine's miscarriage. You heard that just now. Who moved her hand? It's better to stand up by yourself, so that it won't be worse if you find out later."

Most of them were young beauties collected by the emperor in recent years. In order to attract the attention of the emperor, they were dressed lightly. Now standing in front of the palace of the lady, almost all of them were shivered by the cold wind. Some of them were weak, and their faces were white and blue. They could not see any of them appeared guilty, and their behavior was different from usual.

The queen waited for a while, but naturally no one turned herself in.

The queen said, "since you don't want to turn yourself in, there's only a little investigation. Now you all stand again according to the position where you stood together to see Qilin. The place where Shufei stands is empty. After you stand, you all look at each other. Is the person standing next to you right? "

At the Queen's command, the concubines lined up one by one according to their previous positions.

When we visited Kirin before, the queen and Princess Qian were far away from Princess Wang, standing a little ahead of her, so naturally they were excluded from the list of suspects.

Suddenly someone pointed to the person beside him and said, "you didn't stand beside me before!"

It was pointed to a thin young woman, but she was not born thin. Instead, she was hungry. Her face was so pale that she couldn't even cover her face with powder. It seemed to float on her face.

She was wearing a thin green gauze skirt. The material was not very good, and the waist was very thin. She really felt like holding it in one hand. She wore a simple bun with only a thin silver hairpin on her head.

As soon as she saw that she was identified, she trembled like chaff and fell on her knees with a plop.

Concubine Qian sighed in her heart that the quality of concubines in the palace was really bad in recent years. She couldn't stand such a little fright. She didn't even struggle for a while, so she simply admitted it.

The queen didn't care about her. She first asked the one who pointed out her wrong position: "do you remember where she stood before?"

The designated concubine thought about it and pointed to a place: "it should be there."

The queen raised her eyes and saw that she was at the back of the princess.

The queen went to see the one kneeling on the ground again. She really had no impression on her. She should be a low-ranking concubine, and she had not reached the rank of greeting the queen.

The two maids next to the queen couldn't recognize it either. The emperor's choice of people in the harem was not big, but there were a lot of them. They couldn't recognize it.

The queen couldn't remember which one she was, so she avoided her name and asked her directly, "is that the lady you pushed?"

The woman trembled heavily on the ground twice, and her body fell like before. There was no movement.

The queen was surprised. The maid in waiting by her side was clever. She rushed up to check the situation. Then she came back to the queen and said, "lady, she passed out."

The empress was speechless. Looking at the rest of the concubines shaking into a group of quails in the cold wind, she was also worried about freezing them out. It was also bad luck for those who were short of medicine to get sick in winter. So she called a literate eunuch to find a pen and paper to write down their standing positions, and then let them go back to the palace.