As soon as Zhu Jue uttered the words "Crane Feather Palace", the expression of the eunuch Sasao suddenly changed, so there was no need for him to explain, everyone understood.

The main focus of the First Prince and Eunuch Su was attracted by the revealed real murderer, and they immediately continued to interrogate the eunuch Sasao, without immediately entangled with how Zhu Jue knew about it, but Zhou Jue looked at him suddenly with strange eyes.

Zhu Jue was so angry that he didn't pay attention, but some viewers in the third perspective noticed it and helped record it.

Although the truth has been exposed, this eunuch is stubborn beyond the imagination of several people. Apart from the momentary astonishment and face change just now, he has not expressed anything. No matter how tortured, he never utters a word. look.

The young eunuch of the Lingqi Hall next to him was willing to speak, but every time he opened his mouth, he only uttered the word "Queen", and at the end he was dying and weak, and still murmured the word "Queen".

Once or twice can be said to be a lie, but after being tortured to such an extent and still gnawing at it, it is inevitable that people will start to be dubious, maybe it really has something to do with the queen.

The eldest prince's expression was not very good.

Zhu Jue didn't want to continue wasting time like this, so he directly said to the eldest prince, "Let's go to the Crane Feather Palace."

Eunuch Su took a step forward: "Eldest Prince and Eldest Princess, wait a minute. Although this little eunuch has shown his timidity just now, there is no real evidence now. I will allow you to report to His Majesty first, and let His Majesty make a decision."

Zhu Jue squinted his eyes: "Okay, since that's the case, I'll go to Xiefang Hall to report to Emperor Father, and I'll leave the interrogation of the evidence to Brother Elder Emperor and Eunuch Su."

The eldest prince was worried: "I will let Zhou Ting follow you." Handing Zhu Jue to Zhou Ting, he told him, "Be sure to protect the princess well."

"Yes." Zhou Ting stretched out his long arm and took Zhu Jue into his arms, supporting him with one arm.

Zhu Jue put his arms around his shoulders without struggling.

The two rode out of the palace, and Zhu Jue ordered directly: "Go to the Crane Feather Palace!"

With his back turned to Zhou Ting, he couldn't see his expression, only heard his cold and youthful voice: "Princess, are you sure?" There was no objection.

A trace of doubt crossed Zhu Jue's mind, but the desire to find out the real culprit dominated: "Sure, go to the Crane Feather Palace immediately! If the emperor pursues it afterwards, I will take all the responsibilities. Captain Zhou doesn't have to worry, let alone , presumably Zhou Duwei also wants to find the murderer as soon as possible, if the night is long and dreams, it will not end well if the empress is implicated."

"The night is long and the dreams are many." Zhou Ting repeated these four words, as if chewing and thinking, and then pulled the rein, "In that case, the princess sit down!" With a stretch of his hand, he took the whip from Zhu Jue's hand and swung it away. Come, run towards the harem at full speed.

The Crane Feather Hall is located in the East Group Hall of the Harem, with the Hanxiang Hall leaning against Concubine Jing in the front and the Taifu Hall leaning against the Empress Dowager in the back. Hui Jieyu and the current concubine Li Jieyu lived in the hall.

When passing by Hanxiang Hall, he saw Shen Yupan guarding the door, and Zhu Jue signaled Zhou Ting to stop.

"Princess peace." Shen Yupan and the other three guards stood up and saluted.

"You follow me." Zhu Jue looked down at the other three people from a high position. They were all familiar faces, and they had been on duty in Zichen Palace.

Shen Yupan turned his head and glanced at the gate of Hanxiang Hall, showing hesitation.

Zhu Jue is not in the mood to take their thoughts into consideration right now, and directly commanded: "Follow up immediately!"

Zhou Teng gave the four of them a nod, indicating that there was no problem, and slowed down to drive the horse to the Crane Feather Hall.

"Open the door!" Zhu Jue ordered to the four guards guarding the door before getting off his horse.

The four of them saluted and looked at each other in dismay, glanced at Zhou Jue and Shen Yupan who followed behind, then turned and opened the palace gate.

As soon as the palace door opened, Zhu Jue immediately said: "Go, bring all the palace people of Crane Feather Palace to the atrium!"

Zhou Teng tied up the horse and said in agreement, "Do as the princess says!"

"Yes." Shen Yupan led the eight of them and took the order to leave.

Crane Feather Hall suddenly jumped up and down.

Soon, Hui Jieyu and Lingbi came out of the bedroom respectively.

Hui Jieyu took a look at the situation, leaving behind two personal maids, she turned around and entered the room directly, with a coffin face that has not changed for thousands of years, as if she has nothing to do with her and does whatever she wants.

The concubine was supported by two court ladies and stepped forward, her tone soft: "I don't know why the eldest princess is doing this?"

She belonged to the naturally gentle appearance. Among the beautiful girls who entered the palace with her, Yan Jieyu had the most beautiful appearance, followed by her. Her every move and gesture was filled with endless gentleness, which made people feel happy when they looked at it.

No wonder Emperor Yanchang changed her title from Li, set by the Chen family, to Ling.

There is a saying in "The Book of Songs Daya": "It is like a jade, like a Zhang, and it is as elegant as jade, and it has admirable virtues. It also has a beautiful meaning, which shows its impression in the heart of Emperor Yanchang.

However, when Zhu Jue looked at her, he felt that it was fake no matter what he looked at, and he didn't intend to talk nonsense to her at all, so he directly ordered: "Catch her!"

Shen Yupan froze with the guards.

Seeing this, Zhu Jue snatched back the whip from Zhou Ting's hand, and pulled it straight at Lingbi. Lingbi and the two maids exclaimed, dodged and fell to the ground, and the whip hit the ground loudly.

"Ling concubine murdered the emperor's heir, the evidence is solid, take her away!"

Several guards heard the words and only stepped forward to restrain the two maids. After all, the concubine is the emperor's concubine, and did not hear the emperor's direct order, so he dared not actually arrest them.

"Stop!" Ling Concubine got up from the ground, her face was a little embarrassed, but her tone was still soft, "I am one of the nine concubines in His Majesty's personal book, and I am a second-rank concubine. Without His Majesty's personal decree, who would dare to touch me!"

She straightened the messy dress, glanced at Zhu Jue, and then raised her eyes to Zhou Jue, as if she thought that Zhou Jue was in charge, not Zhu Jue: "Although I don't know what happened to the second prince, I don't know Who misled, so that the eldest princess came to ask the crime so aggressively, and the so-called evidence in the mouth of the eldest princess is solid, I don't know what evidence it is?"

Zhu Jue didn't seem to hear the instigation in her words, and didn't intend to listen to her nonsense at all. With a shake of his hand, he swung the whip directly, and it hit her body.

After drawing, he said to Zhou Ting: "Tie up your concubine!"

He didn't expect the guards to listen to him completely. It was already the limit to break in. On the contrary, Zhou Ting, no matter it was for the queen, the Zhou family or the eldest prince, he would definitely help him, and was even happy to see it succeed. .

Sure enough, without hesitation, Zhou Teng took two steps forward to restrain the concubine Ling, and bound her up with the cloak on her body.

The concubine's calm posture could no longer be maintained, and she desperately resisted and struggled: "Let go of me! What do you want to do?! You dare to arrest people without the emperor's order, do you want to rebel—ah! "

Zhou Teng suddenly exerted force on the hand wrapped in silk, causing the concubine's arm to twist and scream.

"Please make my concubine be careful!"

Zhu Jue was very annoyed by this kind of person who likes to beat around the bush, dig holes and bury threads, so he swung the whip up again. This time, the concubine was restrained and could not escape, and the shadow of the whip fell firmly on her face, just like Zhou Jingyi, from forehead to His chin was instantly bruised.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh——" She was stunned for a moment, and then screamed hysterically, "My face, my face, how dare you, how dare you!!" Her expression was distorted, ten times more terrifying than Zhou Jingyi's.

"Why didn't I dare?" Zhu Jue grabbed her hair and made her look directly at him, "Wronged you? I only said that you murdered the emperor's heir. If you didn't participate, how could you be sure that it was the second prince who had the accident? Why not?" Will it be the third prince or the fourth prince?!"

Ling's concubine's expression was horrified and distorted, as if she didn't hear Zhu Jue's question at all, and was completely immersed in the shock and panic of her face being destroyed.

Seeing this, Zhu Jue charged furiously, and slapped her face again with a whip: "Why did you do this?! Because the second prince caused you to have a miscarriage? Anyone with a brain knows that there is something wrong with this matter? I don't believe you don't know ?!"

The concubine was woken up by the whip, and she slowly straightened up from the ground. Her originally gentle eyes were full of hatred, but her expression was a dignified look of being wronged: "I have never done this before. I was so angry that I didn't hesitate to break into the palace. I naturally thought that something happened to the second prince. Even the princess knew that there was something wrong with the miscarriage in the palace. How could I not understand, and how could I resent the second prince because of it? I hate the person who did it behind the scenes! It is even more impossible to murder the emperor's heir. I have had children and experienced the heart of being a mother, so I will never lay hands on children!"

The expressions, expressions, and tone are impeccable, and even the audience can't tell the truth from the fake for a while.

Zhu Jue frowned.

"Smart words!" Zhou Ting suddenly said coldly.

Zhu Jue glanced at him, his expression was extremely cold, as if he was very displeased with her, and he looked at her with full hatred, so full that it made people feel like he was looking at an enemy.

The doubts that had been suppressed in Zhu Jue's heart resurfaced again, but seeing that the concubine Ling wanted to refute again, he picked up the whip and whipped it on her body, then leaned close to her ear: "You won't admit it!" It doesn't matter if you admit there is no evidence, as long as I believe you are the murderer, you are! You say, if I strangle you to death now, do you think the father will blame me?"

"Or do you think you can stand up again with your current face?"

As he said that, he took a jade hairpin from Lingbi's head, and scratched at the shallow whip mark on her face, blood splattered all over in an instant.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh———" her face was pale, cold sweat dripping down her face, she looked at Zhu Jue with hatred, and her distorted face was particularly penetrating.

"Say!" Zhu Jue's eyes were scarlet, and he grabbed the jade hairpin and scratched it down fiercely again.

"Yes, I did it!" Her face was ruined, and the concubine finally broke down, screaming, "He killed my child, why can't I avenge my child!! It's obviously his fault, he killed her!" My child, because he is the prince and the son of the imperial concubine, he doesn't have to kill someone, huh, why?! Why should he be let go because he is a child, isn't my child a child? ! "

"It's my first child. I was careful and cautious, and finally I was pregnant for three months. But because of him, there is no more, my child is gone!!"

"Even if he is used by others, so what, my child is gone, how can he live? Shouwang? Prince? Hehe, how can a prince who kills his own siblings deserve to be a prince?!"

"Why is he alive and well, and my child deserves to be gone? What's the point?!"

The author has something to say:

There are also two minor issues to explain:

Regarding the self-proclaiming of eunuchs and court ladies, before the Qing Dynasty, most eunuchs called themselves miscellaneous families, and those with high positions even called themselves ministers. In the Great Yin, because of Wei Zhongxian and the Hakka family, Yin Taizu ordered all of them to call themselves slaves in order to prevent eunuchs from monopolizing power.

Of course, only eunuchs call themselves slaves, and ministers still call themselves ministers. Only eunuchs and court ladies, especially low-ranking palace people, can kneel and bow.

[-]. Regarding the self-proclaiming of the palace, it is not necessary to be a concubine to be called the palace. The concubines who can live in the main hall of the first palace can call themselves the palace, and even the crown prince and princess can call themselves the palace after they have their own palace.

This article assumes that the concubine of the second grade can live in the main hall, and the concubine is already the lord of the first palace.

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