MTL - Restart the Protagonist’s Way of Survival-Chapter 25 misfortune

"What's the matter, what happened?" Ji Zhuilu hugged his official hat and entered from outside the pavilion.

He was patrolling by the river just now, when one of his subordinates suddenly ran over and said that there was an emergency at the empress's side, and the soldiers of the patrol battalion surrounded Qujiang Pavilion.

When we arrived at Qujiang Pavilion, we found that there was no sound at the scene, all the officials stood with their heads down, and their retreat was blocked by the people from the patrol battalion.

No one answered Ji Zhuilu, Li Zichu had a gloomy face, and he didn't dare to ask the empress to explain to him.

Ji Zhuilu consciously kept silent, walked to the center and bowed, and when he got up, he noticed the corpse of the official in dark green clothes lying on the seat.

"How come..." Ji Zhuilu's eyes widened, he glanced at Li Zishou, and understood in an instant.

He walked over step by step to check the death of the official, and at the end, he turned his head and reported to Li Zishou: "Your Majesty, it is Ma Yu, a doctor of eunuchs from the Imperial Academy, a humble minister...it is the negligence of the humble minister, so the vicious villain can take advantage of it, please His Majesty punishes!"

Halfway through Ji Zhuilu's speech, he knelt down and bowed his head to plead guilty, as if he didn't dare to continue.

Li Zichou was really frightened, the man was foaming at the mouth, his whole body was still convulsed just now, before it was time for a stick of incense, he had completely stopped breathing, and lay quietly in the pavilion.

The dishes he ate and the wine he drank were mixed with things.

Li Zifu's hands hidden under his wide sleeves were trembling, his stomach felt sick, and his head was a little dizzy.

What if the person lying in Qujiang Pavilion today was not a doctor from the Imperial College, but himself, Yang Dejin?

Li Zichou has never felt that death is so close to him. He is in a high position, and countless people want to pull him down from the throne.

She almost forgot that this was the position of monarch that everyone envied and flocked to.

But the monarch himself has a sword of Damocles hanging over his head at all times.

Today, the sword accidentally fell off and stabbed someone to death. I was lucky enough to save my life, but I could only watch helplessly as the sharp sword hung back on my celestial cap.

Yang Dejin was also terribly frightened. Looking at the miserable death of the green-robed official, she felt that she had eaten something poisonous, and she wished she could jump into the Qujiang River to wash her stomach.

But she knew in her heart that the more this happened, the less she could panic.

Li Zichou didn't seem to have been recruited, but his complexion was a little bad.

It's good that she's alive, Yang Dejin knows that it's not over if she's around, so he can't hold back Li Zifu.

Lu Xiaoying stood beside Li Zishou and watched silently. She was not suitable for living in the palace.

At this time, seeing his master encounter such a thing on such an occasion, he can only sigh that it is difficult to be an emperor, and it is even more difficult to be a female emperor.

Li Zichou paused for a while before slowly opening his mouth to say: "Captain Ji, when something happened, I ordered your patrol battalion to quickly seal off the scene."

"Common people can't enter here, and only people in the palace can poison.

"I have sent someone to invite the imperial physician, and the cause of Ma Yu's death needs further investigation."

"Lieutenant Ji, go and find out who is missing from the banquet, or who has more people of unknown origin."

When Ji Zhuilu heard that she didn't mention his crime, he replied gratefully: "Yes! I will drive away the people outside and investigate suspicious persons."

"No! You can't drive away the common people outside, and you can't make any noise." Li Zishou stopped him, "If you let me know that besides all of you present, there are people who have nothing to do with knowing what happened tonight, I would rather kill a thousand people by mistake than never Let go of the leaker!"

Her tone was deep, and her eyes were full of murderous intent, which made people feel that the former female tyrant Li Chou had returned.

Ji Zhuilu took the order to do it, the officials were gathered together, and the servants were pulled aside to wait for interrogation.

Zhang Keji, Minister of the Ministry of Justice, was a little flustered because he found that he couldn't find Xie Zhi's junior.

An absurd guess grew in his mind, and Zhang Keji was taken aback by himself. He only hoped that the person who did the treasonous thing was not his subordinate.

"Report to Your Majesty," Ji Zhuilu moved quickly, he had already counted all the people on the scene, "The count is over, we are missing Xie Zhi, the Minister of Criminal Justice, and... the empress."

He paused, and then added: "When the incident happened, I was patrolling the bridgehead on the west bank, and I wasn't there."

Li Zichou's heart sank, Bai Qingyang and Xie Zhi's absence was due to his own plan, and Ji Zhuilu was due to official business and needed to go outside for inspection.

This is difficult, not to mention whether the murderer is still at the scene, even if the person is still here, how will she find the murderer out of this huge group of people?

"The queen is not feeling well, I personally told her to go back to the palace to rest."

At present, all the officials naturally did not dare to doubt Bai Qingyang, and it was true that she left the banquet after the empress allowed it, everyone saw it.

"Zhang Shangshu, can you explain why your minister of punishment is not here?" Liang Jing questioned Zhang Keji while pinching his beard.

Zhang Keji was short of breath, and wanted to explain something but didn't know how to say it: "Here, Xie Zhi... the old minister doesn't know..."

Liang Jing snorted coldly, Xie Zhi surrendered to Prince Chengyu, in his opinion, it was simply Yang Dejin's ambition to collude with the minister of punishment to murder the emperor.

He was about to ask, but was interrupted by a clear voice.

"Master Xie was overwhelmed with alcohol, so I sent someone to send him back to the mansion. Why doesn't Prime Minister Liang understand?"

Hearing Yang Dejin slander herself so much, Liang Jing paused.

A servant of the Ministry of Punishment did not report to the emperor when he left the table, but instead told a prince, whether the court should be surnamed Yang or not?

Liang Jing was about to show his strength, but he heard Li Zichou prevaricate casually in a weary tone: "Xie Qing is indeed drunk, I know it. The murderer is in this pavilion."

Liang Jing heard that the queen said so, and it was not good to continue to target Prince Yu, so he had to give up.

Only a few officials noticed the scene when Xie Zhi left, and they were all surprised: Xie Shilang was sober until he left the banquet, he didn't look like he was drunk.

Li Zichou looked at the people standing in the pavilion, some of them were anxious, some of them were suspicious of each other, the maids and servants brought from the palace all fell on the ground, waiting for the Queen's punishment in fear.

The imperial doctor from Tai Hospital arrived at Qujiangting within a few cups of tea. He was an elderly and experienced imperial doctor surnamed Hang.

"Your Majesty, he has been poisoned by oleander. You only need to take more than 20 leaves of oleander to die." Doctor Hang said after examining the deceased's body and the food on the case, "Master Ma's wine There is an ingredient of oleander in it."

"Not only that," Ji Zhuilu interjected, "I also detected the same ingredients in the wine glasses of several adults."

Hearing what he said, several officials began to hold their throats, for fear that they would accidentally drink the poisonous wine.

"Lord Ouyang is afraid of the inside, his wife doesn't allow him to drink outside, so Lord Ouyang is fine.

"Master Wu from the Ministry of Rites always likes to replace wine with tea, so he only drank the tea in the teacup, and the poisoned wine glass has not been touched, so he is fine.

"Master Situ from Qin Tianjian brought the poisoned wine and drew the zodiac signs on the table, and the water stains on the table are not finished yet..." Ji Zhuilu called them one by one.

The people he mentioned did not drink the poisoned wine for various reasons.

And those parties were all terrified, and couldn't stop wiping the cold sweat from their foreheads. Master Situ of the Qin Tianjian was chanting "vision... vision..." madly while wiping his right hand on the official robe, He was drawing pictures with that hand dipped in wine.

Li Zichou was also startled. The wine at the Qujiang banquet was not ordinary rice wine, but grain wine with a high alcohol content. She was not used to drinking it, and Yang Dejin didn't touch it.

Although neither of their wine glasses were adulterated.

"The Ministry of Punishment listens to the order!" Li Zichou clenched his fists and shouted.

Zhang Keji trembled when he heard the sound, and stood tremblingly out of the crowd: "Zhang Keji, Minister of the Ministry of Punishments, I would like to obey the emperor's orders."

"I ordered your department to investigate the case all night." Li Zichou looked around at the officials, as if he wanted to find the person who openly provoked him by poisoning him, "Tomorrow the rest and bathing will be cancelled, and I will stay in Qujiang Pavilion for interrogation! "

"The minister leads the decree!" Zhang Keji knelt down trembling, thinking what to do.

"I'll stress it again, don't disturb the people outside. If you let me know who leaked the news, wait for your head to receive the knife!" After Li Zichou finished speaking, he walked away angrily, followed by Lu Xiaoying.

What Li Zishou said was that all officials present at the scene would be interrogated by the Ministry of Criminal Justice.

In fact, since Xiaowei Ji was not present, the Ministry of Criminal Justice had nothing to say, so he was asked to leave the soldiers of the patrol battalion, so he could go first.

How could Liang Jing allow himself to be interrogated by a mere criminal department, he is the prime minister of Dasheng!

So Prime Minister Liang relied on his usual style of concealing the truth and deceiving others, forcing Zhang Keji to let him go.

As for Yang Dejin, no one dared to stop her. Even the empress was very afraid of the prince, Liang Jing, who at most could only say something about her, so who would dare to openly challenge her?

Zhang Keji bitterly sent these masters away, thinking how to investigate this? Can I still live to the day when I retire from old age and return home?

When Yang Dejin ran out of the Qujiang Pavilion, the banks of the Qujiang River were still full of gongs and drums, as if he hadn't been affected by the changes in the pavilion at all.

Even with so many people, Li Zishou couldn't be found. It seemed that she had returned to the palace first.

Yang Dejin was thinking while walking: Liang Jing is so determined to be a dog, there is no reason to betray Li Zishou, the motive is not valid. Shuobei is also impossible. At what stage has the plot progressed? Not from Shuobei.

Bai Qingyang...

"Your Highness, there is someone." A woman in a coarse short jacket suddenly appeared beside her, walking two steps to Yang Dejin's right, and said concisely.

"Whose is it?" Yang Dejin didn't turn to look at her.

"There are people from Liang Jing, there are people from the emperor, and some people are from Xie Lang."

"Liang Jing's people get rid of it, Xie Zhi's people hold it back, don't let them report back."

Bai Qingyang just left the palace tonight, and the plan is progressing in an orderly manner, Xie Zhi can't be distracted by this matter.

"Yes, Your Highness." After the woman responded, she was about to take a step forward, but was stopped by Yang Dejin.

"Wait Yinniang, is there any movement from Bai Qingyang's side?"

"The queen has safely arrived at Lord Xie's residence."

"Well...notify over there, tell them to protect Bai Qingyang and Xie Zhi, you go."

"Yes!" After finishing speaking, Yinniang was one step behind Yang Dejin, and disappeared without a trace in the crowd after a while.

Yang Dejin continued to walk to her prince's mansion on her own. She didn't take a carriage or sedan chair, and she didn't have any servant girls to follow her. There were only a few hidden guards in different clothes not far from her, watching out for movements around her.

It wasn't Bai Qingyang either... Then who could it be?

This is really, beyond the outline... Yang Dejin thought to himself.

The author has something to say:

Yang Dejin: Li Zichou, someone wants to **** you.

Xie Zhi & Bai Qingyang: No, we are now suspects.