Chapter 119 Chapter 119

Qing Chuan waited for a while, and only after the footsteps had gone far away did she unhurriedly follow behind with a lantern.She has followed Concubine Liang for many days, and found that as long as Kangxi does not come to Chengqian Palace, Concubine Liang will go to the fire scene to calculate the time, but she has been there for so many days, and she has not seen any progress.Qingchuan couldn't help worrying along with her. If this counts, when will she be able to travel back? While she was complaining, she suddenly felt a gust of wind blowing from the back of her head. She dodged to the side subconsciously, avoiding the fist of the incoming person. When she turned around, she saw a man in black standing behind her, raising his fist to open her again.Qingchuan was startled, and hurriedly called for help, but just as she yelled, the man in black stepped forward and covered her mouth.

Qingchuan panicked even more, and in the panic, she didn't remember any self-defense techniques, she just closed her eyes and scratched and screamed, and when she went down, she scratched the hand of the man in black.The man in black was stunned for a moment, obviously annoyed, he slapped Qingchuan on the back of the neck, Qingchuan felt his eyes go dark, and suddenly lost consciousness. When he woke up again, he was splashed with water. Qing Chuan shuddered and subconsciously shouted: "Help, help!" There was a little eunuch standing in front of her, holding half a bucket of water in his hand, he couldn't help laughing and said: "Okay, stop screaming, the hair-eating monster has already been caught, you are fine."

Qingchuan was taken aback for a moment, only to realize that it was already dawn. I heard the little eunuch say again: "You are so lucky. The cry of help you called last night attracted the imperial guards. The monster was scared away before it could eat your hair. The imperial guards kept chasing after you. When we got to the scene of the fire, we caught her." Qingchuan was stunned when he heard it, and said strangely: "Caught it? Who is it?" The little eunuch said mysteriously: "You don't believe me even if I tell you, she is the good concubine of Chengqian Palace."

Qingchuan was dumbfounded, Concubine Liang?How could it be Concubine Liang?She spends every day at the fire site researching things back to modern times, how could she cut human hair?Could it be that someone has framed... "You are so lucky, you didn't lose your hair when you were targeted, unlike those court ladies who all became bald..." The little eunuch was still chattering, but Qingchuan didn't care to listen to what he had to say, and hurriedly got up and ran to the fire scene. There was a wooden cage on the open space of the fire scene, Concubine Liang was locked in it, Eighth Prince was silently kneeling outside the cage, when he saw Qingchuan running over, he looked up at her and smiled bitterly , Said: "Come and persuade Er Niang, no matter what I say, she will not speak."

Qing Chuan glanced at Concubine Liang who was sitting in the cage with her eyes closed, squatted beside Brother Ba, and asked in a low voice, "What's going on?" Eighth Prince replied: "Last night, Concubine De said that she caught the hair-eating monster, and deliberately lured Huang Ama to the scene of the fire, telling him to see Erniang doing those weird things here, Huang Ama Asked what Er Niang was doing, but Er Niang refused to say anything, Huang Ama was sad and angry, so she told Concubine De to deal with it according to the palace rules." He said, turned his head to look at Concubine Liang, and said bitterly: "Emiang, have you ever thought about why Concubine De invited Huang Ama to come here in person? She is trying to force Huang Ama to execute you .What are you hiding? Why can't you tell Huang Ama? Why can't you tell your son?"

Concubine Liang closed her eyes in pain, and said in a low voice: "Old Ba, you go back and leave me alone." Eighth Prince smiled bitterly and said, "You are my mother-in-law, how can I ignore you?" Concubine Liang couldn't help crying, she slowly stretched out her hand to caress the face of the eighth elder brother, and said softly: "Son, Er Niang is sorry for you, Er Niang never gave you any motherly love, but always let you bear the burden of Er Niang staying behind. This sin... If Er Niang can escape this catastrophe this time, I will definitely make it up to you. If you can't escape, you will not have me as Er Niang..."

Brother Ba slowly shook his head, "No, I don't want you to say I'm sorry, and I don't want you to make up. I want you to save yourself." Concubine Liang closed her mouth again and did not speak again. The eighth elder brother looked at her, kowtowed heavily, and begged, "Emiang, I beg you." Concubine Liang kept crying, but she just refused to speak. Seeing that Brother Ba was kowtowing, she simply closed her eyes and stopped looking at him. Seeing this, Qingchuan hurriedly grabbed the eighth elder brother, and said: "Eighth elder brother, don't worry, I have a way to save the empress."

The eighth elder brother paused, then turned to look at Qingchuan. Qingchuan nodded and said: "Last night I was caught by that hair-eating monster, and I scratched his hand while struggling. We are going to see the emperor now. As long as we can find the thief, we can prove my mother's innocence." gone." After finishing speaking, he dragged the eighth elder brother to the Qianqing Palace. In the Qianqing Palace, Kangxi listened to Qingchuan's statement, was silent for a moment, and asked her: "Are you telling the truth?" Qing Chuan hurriedly replied: "I dare not lie, and this morning I was woken up by people from the House of Internal Affairs splashing water on it. If the emperor doesn't believe it, just call the little eunuch to come over and ask."

Kangxi naturally did not believe in the theory of monsters, let alone Concubine Liang was a monster that eats hair, but Concubine Liang did such weird behaviors in the fire scene in the middle of the night, he asked her why, but she refused to answer, he was naturally very upset Angry, he handed Concubine Liang over to Concubine De in a fit of anger. Now that Qing Chuan said that it can prove that Concubine Liang is not a hair-eating monster, Kangxi pondered for a while and asked, "How do you want to investigate?" Qingchuan replied: "It's very simple, call all the people who were on duty in the palace that night to come over and see who has wounds on their hands."

Kangxi nodded, and said: "Then let's start with the Qianqing Palace. Li Dequan, you call all the people who were on duty in the palace last night to come over and let Qingchuan identify you. You also take a few people to go to each other." Check in the palace to see if there is another scratch on the back of the hand." Li Dequan complied and went down, and after a while, the maids and eunuchs in the Qianqing Palace lined up in two teams and stood in the hall.Qing Chuan told them to stretch out their hands, and checked them one by one. Except for an old wound on one hand, the others had no wounds on their hands.

The eighth elder brother couldn't help showing a hint of anxiety on his face, Qingchuan comforted him in a low voice: "Don't worry, wait for Eunuch Li to come back and see if there is any news, maybe he is from another palace." Just as he was talking, Xiao Shunzi handed the tea to Kangxi, and said respectfully, "Your Majesty, please have some tea." Kangxi was absent-minded, nodded upon hearing this, casually stretched out his hand to get the teacup on the tray, never thought that the teacup was extremely hot to the touch, Kangxi pushed it out subconsciously, and immediately a cup of scalding hot tea was poured on Xiao Shunzi's face hand. "Ah!" Xiao Shunzi screamed, and quickly withdrew his hand. Kangxi didn't expect such a thing to happen, and asked, "Why is this cup so hot?" Xiao Shunzi hastily knelt down and kowtowed in pleading guilty, "This slave deserves to die, this slave deserves to die." Because of Concubine Liang's matter, Kangxi was in a bad mood, and when such a thing happened again, he gave Xiao Shunzi a cold look, and said impatiently, "Go down quickly." Xiao Shunzi shrank his hands and was about to leave, but was stopped by the eighth elder brother.The eighth elder brother said to Kangxi: "Huang Ama, do you want to check this man's hands too?" Kangxi was slightly taken aback, then nodded. Xiao Shunzi stretched out his hand, only to see that the hand that was burned just now was bloody and mushy.Eighth Brother sneered, grabbed Xiao Shunzi's hand, and said, "The thief is here." Xiao Shunzi was startled, and hurriedly shouted: "Brother Ba, you can't talk nonsense, the wound on my hand was scalded by the emperor just now." Hearing this, Qing Chuan came over, took a closer look at his injured hand, and mocked: "You can scald it like this with a glass of water? Father-in-law Xiao Shunzi's hands are so tender." A trace of panic flashed in Xiao Shunzi's eyes, he pursed his lips tightly, and stood there motionless. In the stalemate, Li Dequan brought people in. He first glanced at Xiao Shunzi and Ba Prince and others, then knelt down in front of Kangxi, and reported: "Reporting to the emperor, the servant is in the Chengqian Palace of the Concubine Liang. found this." As he spoke, he took out a large strand of hair from his sleeve and handed it over. Kangxi took the hair, looked at it carefully, and suddenly became furious, and asked the eighth elder brother in a cold voice: "The truth is in front of you, don't you believe it? Well, let's stop this matter, go down, go down , all go down!" This matter involves the life and death of Concubine Liang, how could the eighth elder brother be willing to leave, he knelt down when he heard the words, and was about to say more, but Qingchuan rushed ahead of him and said: "Your Majesty, this servant feels that there is something strange about this matter, the murderer must be It's not the concubine Liang. Please give the servant another day, the emperor will definitely catch the murderer." Kangxi looked at Qingchuan coldly, and asked, "What if you can't catch it?" Qing Chuan paused, and then replied in a bright voice: "This servant is willing to commit the same crime as Concubine Liang." Kangxi glanced at the eighth elder brother, and then answered Qingchuan and said: "Okay. I will give you another day." After speaking, he walked away. The eighth elder brother stretched out his hand to pull Qingchuan, and said urgently in a low voice: "Qingchuan, why are you so confused?" Qing Chuan shook his head with a smile on the other hand, and said: "Eighth Brother, if I don't show up, you will definitely quarrel with the emperor again, and it will not benefit any of us to provoke the emperor's wrath. Tell me to gamble on my own, at least I can save you." The eighth elder brother was moved when he heard it, held her hand, and said slowly but firmly: "Don't worry, whether it's you or Er Niang, I won't make any trouble to you!" Besides, Xiao Shunzi, after leaving the hall, was blown by the wind, and only then did he realize that the clothes behind him were already soaked in sweat.He was walking out in shock, when suddenly someone behind him patted his shoulder, which made him jump up from the ground in fright, almost screaming out of breath. Then Li Dequan's voice came from behind, "I'm not a man-eating tiger, what are you afraid of me doing?" Xiao Shunzi hastily calmed down his flustered mind, and shouted, "Godfather, it's you!" Li Dequan twitched the corner of his mouth, and said angrily: "Who am I? Who else is willing to risk their lives to help you do these unscrupulous things?"