Chapter 353 Flip
The development of the incident was completely beyond the Queen Mother's expectations, and she began to feel very uneasy.
The Emperor glanced at the Queen Mother, the Empress, and the wife of the Duke of Zhenguo with a cold eye, and was about to speak, when Zhou Huaishan shouted: "Can running away from the shadows be called running away? In that place, even if you have three heads and six arms, you can't escape!
That's called prison break, okay!
I said, well, today the Queen Mother suddenly wanted to see my family's gift, and coincidentally, this kind of thing appeared in my family's gift."
Zhou Huaishan didn't say it explicitly, but it was almost the same as saying it explicitly.
If it were normal days, the Queen Mother would definitely fight back severely and would never allow such dirty water to be thrown on her head.
But now it's unusual.
Su Ke ran away!
The Queen Mother has not recovered yet.
Zhou Huaishan continued in a yin and yang tone: "Now it seems that all this is reasonable!"
His reasonable words stunned everyone at the scene.
Why reasonable?
If it was the Empress Dowager who wanted to frame Zhou Qing and Zhou Huaishan, rescue Su Ke, and use Zhou Huaishan and Zhou Qing to deal with the Emperor, it would make sense, but there were so many boxes in the palace.
There were puppets in each box.
There was also a puppet of the Emperor.
What does this mean?
The Minister of Revenue and the Minister of Works, who had been crushed by Zhou Huaishan in the Imperial Study, were increasingly suspicious of their own IQs.
Why couldn't they figure out what Zhou Huaishan could say?
After Zhou Huaishan finished speaking passionately, he clasped his fists towards the Emperor, "Your Majesty, to be honest, I didn't give any gifts to the Empress Dowager on her birthday today!"
As soon as these words came out, the whole place was in an uproar!
Then Zhou Huaishan turned his head to look at Wang Jin, who slowly took out a box from his arms with an extremely exaggerated movement.
The box opened, revealing the raw stone inside.
Zhou Huaishan said: "I woke up this morning and my eyelids have been twitching. I am a particular person and I am afraid that I will be tainted with bad luck. I dare not pass it on to the Empress Dowager, so I did not send this birthday gift!"
The Queen could not stand the sudden stimulation, and staggered back a few steps, looking at Zhou Huaishan in disbelief.
Zhou Huaishan smiled and sarcastically said to the Queen: "How about it, you didn't expect it?"
As he said, Zhou Huaishan raised the book in his hand.
"Take it and look through it. If you can find my name Zhou Huaishan from here, I will perform a handstand run on the spot today!"
After saying that, Zhou Huaishan looked at the wife of the Duke of Zhenguo, "It's you who really didn't expect that you could send such a big gift on the birthday of the Empress Dowager!"
Everyone looked at the row of boxes on the ground, and their eyes were complicated for a while.
The emperor snorted heavily, and his face was furious, frightening the owners of the boxes to kowtow repeatedly.
The eunuch chief carefully flipped through the book, and then solemnly reported, "Your Majesty, there is indeed no gift from Zhou Huaishan and the wife of the Shadow Commander."
Zhou Huaishan snorted and said to the young eunuch in the Ministry of Internal Affairs: "There is nothing from my family in this book. Did you make that box just now with magic?"
The young eunuch was so scared that his face turned pale and he knelt on the ground trembling.
The eighty-year-old Li Dehou wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth and shouted sinisterly: "Want to frame my brother Shan? Do you really think that the bolder you are, the more productive you are? You don't need a green face if you don't have a brain!"
This curse was rude. He was over eighty years old and unconscious, and no one could argue with him. Besides, Li Dehou Mansion had made great military achievements in the past, and the queen mother couldn't vent her anger no matter how angry she was.
Can she argue with an eighty-year-old fool?
It doesn't matter. Li Dehou's last sentence was really.
The queen mother was so angry that she could hardly breathe.
Wang Jin said slowly: "Your Majesty, this matter really needs to be thoroughly investigated. Not to mention that the Ministry of Internal Affairs used magic to conjure up Zhou Huaishan's gift, just the fact that so many court officials cursed the Empress Dowager together also needs to be thoroughly investigated."
Qingyang Hou followed up and said: "Your Majesty, I beg you to investigate thoroughly. If you don't get to the bottom of today's matter, I am really worried and I dare not attend the next palace banquet."
Yun Qingbo followed up and said: "Your Majesty, I beg you to investigate thoroughly. Don't wrongly accuse a good person or let a bad person go."
Yun Qingbo finished speaking, and before the emperor could speak, another young eunuch rushed in from outside.
He looked terrified and his steps were hurried. When he entered the threshold, he stumbled and stumbled. He ran forward and saluted: "Your Majesty, there was news just now that there was an explosion in Wuxing Street outside the palace."
The Empress Dowager, who was dizzy by a series of out-of-control events, stood up.
The emperor glanced at the queen mother from the corner of his eye, and then asked, "Are there any casualties?"
The eunuch said, "Shadow Commander Lord Shen arrived in time, and there were no casualties."
The queen mother shuddered violently.
Shadow Commander Shen Li? Arrived?
How is that possible!
Didn't Shen Li go to Beiyan?
Just as the queen mother's thoughts flashed, the eunuch suddenly remembered something, and then said, "Your Majesty, I forgot that Su Ke, who just escaped from Shadow, and his accomplices who broke him out of prison were killed in the explosion, about twenty people."
Bang!
The wife of the Duke of Zhenguo rolled her eyes, and as a mouthful of blood rushed to her throat, she fell over.
The eunuch was frightened by the noise and shivered, and continued to report, "Lord Shen said that black gunpowder was found in a house on Wuxing Street. He is organizing the evacuation. The commander of the Northwest Army, Xu Ningyuan, also went there. In order not to cause panic in the city, General Xu brought a team of personal soldiers to seal off the Wuxing Street area."
As he spoke, the eunuch took out a letter from his sleeve and handed it over respectfully.
"The messenger from the shadow said that Lord Shen only wrote the general outline of the incident. The details must be investigated before he can report to the palace."
The emperor took the letter, shook out the letter paper inside, and glanced at it.
There were only two words on it: smooth.
Knowing that Shen Li successfully completed the task this time, the emperor was relieved.
Although the details of the outside world were still unclear, he was relieved that Shen Li was there.
Now, it was the palace.
Ha!
The residence of the Duke of Zhenguo, the residence of the Minister of the Dali Temple, the residence of the Minister of Justice, the residence of the Minister of Works, the residence of the Jingzhao Yin, the residence of the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice, the residence of the Marquis of Weiyuan, and the residence of the Duke of Duankang.
This is complete!
The emperor had a gloomy face, and his sinister eyes swept over the row of people kneeling on the ground and the wife of the Duke of Zhenguo who fainted on the ground.
"Since Zhou Huaishan did not send any gifts, the inexplicable appearance of this box must be a deliberate frame-up.
Whoever framed me, I will never tolerate it.
Investigate!
Investigate for me!"
The chief eunuch immediately took the order and left.
The emperor said again: "As for you, it is clearly recorded in this booklet that each of you sent gifts. Now I found dolls in your boxes. Although you are all the backbone of the court, I cannot be partial to you!"
While the emperor was speaking, the queen mother used her remaining little reason and energy to wink at the queen.
The queen kicked the little eunuch on the side without saying a word.
The little eunuch, who was already trembling and frightened to the point of breaking on the spot, was frightened by the queen's signal and lost control on the spot.
"Your Majesty, please forgive me. I was confused for a moment."
Before the little eunuch finished his words, Zhou Huaishan rushed over and kicked him in the head.