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Chapter 459
The Empress Dowager's Mingshou, all those who have a lord will come to the palace to pay homage.

In the first two days, everything went step by step, which was very smooth.

On the third day, it was Cen Yunchu and Han Zhaoyi's class.

Who would have thought that Han Zhaoyi would be sick in the middle of the night before, vomiting and diarrhea, almost exhausted from tossing and tossing.

Just after dawn, the maid was sent to ask the queen for leave, and the queen sent someone to tell Cen Yunchu: "Han Zhaoyi is ill, please Cen Zhaoyi, Song Meiren, and Wei Cairen to work harder today."

After the people in the Queen's Palace left, Cen Yunchu specially sent Fu Lan to visit Han Zhaoyi with Gorgon Cake.

Han Zhaoyi lay on the bed with a sallow complexion, and said apologetically, "I'm so unlucky. I don't have anything to do on weekdays. I just got sick when I was about to do something. I'm really sorry for Sister Yun."

Fu Lan hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, please don't say that, you can recover from your illness at ease! Don't worry about what's ahead, our Majesty said that she will come to visit you in person after she finishes her work."

"Cuixiu, send Miss Fulan back home for me, and talk to Sister Yun when I'm well," Han Zhaoyi said.

When Fulan returned to Cen Yunchu's bedroom, Song Meiren and Wei Cairen had already arrived there.

"Sister Han is ill, the three of us will go over there." Cen Yunchu said to Wei Cairen and the others, "I think those officials and wives will be here too."

What they have to do today is to lead the people who come to worship and burn incense in the front hall of Hyde Hall, and then go to the back hall to have a meal, and then send these people away, and it's over.

Before the time came, all the people who came to worship had arrived.

Many of these people knew Cen Yunchu, and now seeing her again, they felt that her demeanor was more dignified and her beauty was better than before.

There are three layers of altars in the middle of the front hall of Hyde Hall, where sacrifices and fruits are placed, and the center of the highest point is the queen mother's spiritual seat.

Originally, Han Zhaoyi was older, so she should stand at the front and lead the crowd to salute.

Now she is sick and cannot come, so Cen Yunchu can only do it for her.

There is a master of ceremonies singing orders next to them, and everyone pays homage following the singing orders.

At the last bow, for some reason, the queen mother's spirit tablet suddenly fell from above!
Everyone was shocked and panicked.

I don't know who knocked over the long-burning lamp. There were several catties of lamp oil in the lamp, and it caught fire with a whimper.

People suddenly became chaotic, and the whole hall almost became a pot of porridge.

Cen Yunchu picked up the Empress Dowager's coffin, and said loudly: "Don't put out the fire with water! Put it out with incense ash!"

But at this time, someone's skirt was already on fire, and they screamed in shock.

"Don't run, lie down and roll to put out the fire!"

The fire was extinguished with great difficulty, and the front hall was also disfigured.

At this time, the queen and others had also rushed over after hearing the news, and they couldn't help but turn pale with shock when they saw such a scene.

"What do you mean, a good sacrifice made this happen. Which palace worker accidentally lost the fire?" The queen was obviously a little angry, after all, sacrifice is a big deal.

When something like this happened, of course the responsibility must be investigated. Fortunately, Cen Yunchu handled it properly, no one was killed, and the empress dowager's spiritual seat was not set on fire.

"Empress Empress, someone has tampered with the Empress Dowager's spirit card." Cen Yunchu's thoughts changed at the moment of the incident, knowing that this incident must be aimed at him.

Han Zhaoyi fell ill and had an accident during the sacrifice, all of which were planned long ago.

The purpose to be achieved is also very clear, but the spirit card that he took the lead in worshiping the Queen Mother fell, which is enough to show that he is an ominous person.

If this caused chaos, it would even set fire to the hall and burn people to death.

At the least, he will be demoted, and at the worst, he will be thrown into the cold palace.

Even if the emperor tried his best to protect himself, with so many people present today, it would be equivalent to dozens of mouthpieces, spreading the news of today's events everywhere.

At that time, there will be different opinions, and coupled with the deliberate guidance of someone with a heart, I will most likely be regarded as Daji, who will bring disaster to the country.

The four words of people's words are fearful, and more often it is not the fear in the hearts of the parties involved.

Rather, it encourages those who don't know to be full of malice against people and things they don't understand.

Cen Yunchu didn't have to do anything, as long as she was set up as a target, she would be reviled and slandered by thousands of people.

The person who came up with this trick is actually very clever, but the current result may not have met her expectations.

The Queen frowned slightly after hearing what Cen Yunchu said, and said, "Cen Zhaoyi, you said that someone tampered with the Queen Mother's spirit card. How did you know?"

"After the spirit tablet fell to the ground, I quickly picked it up and found that there were traces of water on the base." Cen Yunchu said, "The spirit tablet is placed on the top shelf, so it should be impossible to get wet. Just now I stood on a high place When directing everyone, I saw that there were also traces of water on it.

It should be that someone put ice cubes under the spirit card in advance, and when the ice melted, the spirit card lost its balance and fell down. "

There is a sandalwood base under the spirit tablet. If someone shifts the spirit tablet from the base by about two inches and puts ice cubes under it, it will not be easy to be noticed.

Because the spirit card is very high, most people can't see what the base is like when standing on the ground.

It was only later that Cen Yunchu stood on the chair to see the situation above clearly.

After listening to Cen Yunchu's words, the queen hesitated: "The fire here just now will naturally use water. Didn't water splash on it when fighting the fire?"

"Lamp oil caught fire and cannot be extinguished with water. I asked them to use incense ash to extinguish the fire, but no water was used," Cen Yunchu said.

"The fire in the palace has caused panic. Cen Zhaoyi's inference may not be true. Would it be unkind to arrest the eunuch Gong'e and eunuch because of this? It's the Queen Mother's birthday, so I'm afraid it's not good." The queen thought for a while and said, " Why don't things just go like this, I won't tell the emperor."

The queen's words sounded right at first glance, but Cen Yunchu disagreed.

She was originally innocent, and if this matter was left alone, she would be charged with unnecessary crimes.

Moreover, if such a matter is not resolved on the spot, there will be endless troubles.

Cen Yunchu was convinced that the person behind this must have other tricks, and it was definitely more than that.

So she had to make a decision immediately, and pull out the root cause of the trouble when it first started.

"Empress, don't worry, I will never torture you. I just ask the people who work here to see if I can find the person who did the trick." Cen Yunchu said.

"Alright then!" the queen agreed, "but you can't wrong people."

"The concubine knows." Cen Yunchu nodded, "In broad daylight, under the eyes of everyone, how can Yunnan wrong a good person?"

"Everyone who is in charge here today, come and tell me what you have done?" Cen Yunchu said to the court ladies and eunuchs present, "I have the roster of today's in charge, and I will compare them one by one to see who doesn't." to be frank."

There are strict rules in the palace, and there are corresponding people for everything.

Besides, the Empress Dowager's longevity is extraordinary, and she dare not make any mistakes.

Today there are nearly 100 court ladies and eunuchs working here, but half of them are outside the palace, and only 50 people can enter the palace together.

(End of this chapter)