The reborn prince can't be pushed down

Chapter 45 The lingering ghost
Ning Yuezhao felt that she should be very angry, maybe she was too angry, but instead she calmed down, and asked in a flat voice: "What's going on?"

The official knelt straight, and said calmly: "The weather is hot, and the prisoners in the prison are already irritable. In addition to the recent funeral, many affairs have been suspended. These prisoners are dissatisfied, and private fights happen from time to time. .”

With a sudden "cha", Ning Yuezhao's expression became more and more calm, but when she was about to lift the tea lid, her hands shook, and there was a harsh friction sound between the tea lid and the body of the cup.

"Azhao." Jiang Niannian called out, and attached her hand with a big palm, but found that it was cold under the palm.

The corners of Ning Yuezhao's lips curled up slightly, with a three-pointed coldness, she said: "I know, you should step back."

It was so calm and nothing happened, the official couldn't believe it.

Ning Yuezhao squinted at him, "I don't want to leave, but do you have anything to say?"

"No more, I will take my leave." The official gave a salute in embarrassment, and hurriedly left.

Jiang Nian looked at Ning Yuezhao worriedly. He was startled when he heard the news of An Chen's death, but she seemed to be fine, which made him a little worried.

Ning Yuezhao withdrew her hand, stood up and said, "I'm a little tired, so I'll go back and have a rest first, and you can read the following notes for me."

After speaking, she stood up and walked out of the hall.

Jiang Nian's face was a bit ugly, neither did he chase him, nor did he not chase him.

Seeing this, Jing Ming, who was serving tea at the side, said puzzledly: "His Royal Highness?" Now that he followed his master into the palace, he changed his address at home.

Jiang Nian waved his hand, "Clean up here, and ask someone to send Mr. Jiang Ge to the palace."

After Ning Yuezhao left the Yizheng Hall, she got on Long Yu and went straight to the Yamen of the Ministry of Punishment.

At this moment, An Chen's body had been carried out of the prison and placed in the mortuary of the Ministry of Criminal Justice.

Ning Yuezhao came to the Ministry of Punishment suddenly, and Shi Meng Sheng, Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, led his people to greet him at the door.

"I don't know His Majesty's coming, so I miss you, and I hope His Majesty will forgive me."

Ning Yuezhao said in a deep voice: "Let's live in peace." I will naturally investigate your crimes, but it's not that you are far away or not far away, but that you practiced favoritism and connived at the prisoners to commit crimes in prison!
Shi Mengsheng saw that the empress looked like a mountain rain, and knew that this test must be difficult, but who told this to mean it?He could only grit his teeth and carry it.

"I don't know what your majesty is here for?" Shi Mengsheng asked respectfully while leading the young empress to the inner yamen.

With one hand behind his back, Ning Yuezhao said casually: "I heard that my previous imperial doctor had only been in the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice for a few days, and died before he had time to go to court. Let's come and see."

At this time, Shi Mengsheng had already led the people to the lobby.Hearing what the empress said, one knew the purpose of her visit, and she had already prepared a response.

Ning Yuezhao sat down on the seat in the middle of the hall, Shi Mengsheng bowed and said: "Your Majesty, I know that this matter is of great importance, and I am about to bring the prisoner in the same cell for interrogation."

Ning Yuezhao squinted her eyes, stroked the gold thread embroidery pattern on her cuffs, and said lightly: "Then it's a coincidence that I came here, please bring me up, I want to attend the interrogation."

Shi Mengsheng waved to his subordinates, "Go pick someone up."

Ning Yuezhao said again: "There is still some time now, I want to go and see An Chen's body."

When Shi Mengsheng heard this, he hurriedly said: "No, your majesty has a body of ten thousand gold, how can you let such filthy things collide with your dragon body?"

Ning Yuezhao sneered coldly, "It's a joke, An Chen and I have known each other for six years, and we have a great friendship. If he really has a spirit in heaven, he should also tell me who caused him to go to such a point, and there is no talk of conflict." ?”

Shi Mengsheng had no choice but to bite the bullet and lead the empress to the mortuary.

As soon as the door was opened, one could smell a decaying smell unique to the dead, which made one feel nauseous.

Shi Mengsheng covered his mouth with his sleeves and persuaded: "Your Majesty, look at this..."

Ning Yuezhao acted as if she didn't smell anything, with a sullen face, she pushed Shi Mengsheng away and was about to go in, but Yan Mo stood in front of her.

"Do you have to do this?" Yan Mo said in a low voice.

Ning Yuezhao insisted: "Yes."

Yan Mo had no choice but to follow her in.

The rest of the punishment department probed their heads, hesitating whether to follow up.

Ning Yuezhao signaled Yan Mo, "I want to stay alone with him for a while."

Yan Mo took a deep look at her, finally closed the door forcefully, fastened it, and then stood quietly against the door.

There was only one corpse covered in a white cloth in the mortuary, she walked over, Ning Yuezhao stood firmly in front of that corpse, and then lifted the white cloth.

The corpse under the white cloth had a pale face, a bloody hole on the forehead, bloodstains on the eyes, under the nose, and around the corner of the mouth, and the face was bruised and swollen.He was still wearing a bloodstained prison uniform, which was torn in several places, revealing red and purple bruises.

The strong image he had maintained all the way finally collapsed. Ning Yuezhao knelt beside An Chen's corpse, his nose suddenly sore, and tears blurred his vision.

She stretched out her hand tremblingly, caressing his body tremblingly.

"An Chen..." She shook his body, but there was no response.

"Wake up, okay?" She grabbed his hand, which was white and soft, with scratches on the palm and dirty black shoe prints on the back of the hand, "It's my fault, I shouldn't have handed you over ..."

Ning Yuezhao said more and more heartache, "You know what? I originally wanted to arrange for you to feign death and go away from home after the trial of the third division. Like you said before, you will travel the world and serve the world. But why are they so accommodating?" I can't let you down, so I'm going to kill you so soon?"

She has been in charge of the country for a while, and she has heard about the dirty tricks in the prison.I thought she would let those people relax their vigilance by handing An Chen to justice
When An Chen died, the biggest beneficiaries were Jiang Nian and the Jiang family behind him.Her first reaction just now was that the Jiang family's move could make the Ministry of Punishment unscrupulous. Who else is there besides the cabinet that governs the six ministries?Jiang Nian's father was the chief assistant of the cabinet.

Yan Mo couldn't stand it anymore, walked to her side, and said stiffly, "Your Majesty, don't do this."

Ning Yuezhao shook her head, choked with sobs and said, "It's because I didn't protect him well."

Yan Mo silently denied that, in his opinion, a man of seven feet should stand upright, and An Chen is so weak that she is really not worthy of her.

However, Ning Yuezhao didn't know what was going on in his heart, she just felt that she couldn't restrain her grief more and more, so she put one hand on her chest that had long since ceased to heave.

At this time, Shi Mengsheng shouted outside the door: "Your Majesty, the prisoner has been brought to the interrogation hall."

In fact, from the bottom of his heart, he was a little apprehensive towards the new emperor. He had heard about the absurd things he did for Na An's imperial physician before, but today he was even more daring, locking him in a room with a dead body.

The moment the door was closed just now, he hastily ordered the people present to shut up and not to say a word about what happened today.

Ning Yuezhao still put one hand on An Chen's chest, after hearing the words, her body shook slightly, she beckoned Yan Mo, and whispered a few words.

Yan Mo looked at her in surprise, without saying a word.

Ning Yuezhao glanced at the closed door, "Get rid of it."

Yan Mo had no choice but to agree.

When the door of the mortuary room was reopened, Ning Yuezhao stepped out with a solemn expression, "Shi Shangshu, since An Chen is dead now, everything before his death will be erased, and I want to order someone to send him back to his home outside the palace. "

Now that the person is gone, the case is closed.It stands to reason that the family should be notified to take the corpse back, but An Chen was alone, so he had to put it in the mortuary first. Now that the Empress has spoken, it happened to solve Shi Mengsheng's troubles, so she agreed immediately and sent someone to prepare it.

Ning Yuezhao looked at Yan Mo behind him, "An Chen has no other relatives, so you can send him home for me."

Yan Mo walked up to her, cupped his hands and said, "Yes."

Then, Ning Yuezhao followed Shi Mengsheng to the interrogation hall.

Four indecent, ragged prisoners knelt on the ground with slack expressions.

Ning Yuezhao sat on the grand teacher's chair next to her, looked at the indifference of several people, and there was a faint anger burning in her heart.

With a "pop", Shi Mengsheng, who was sitting in the first seat in the middle, patted the gavel on the table again, and asked in a deep voice, "Who is kneeling in the hall?"

"Grassman Zhao Gui."

"Crassman Zhang Wang."

"Grassman Li Cai."

"Grassman Zhou Sheng."

These prisoners didn't know Ning Yuezhao's identity, and based on their experience, they couldn't recognize what the clothes represented. They only felt that there was a beautiful woman who had been looking at them, so they looked back frivolously.

Ning Yuezhao's face immediately became very ugly, Shi Mengsheng had no choice but to pat the gavel again, and shouted sharply: "Bold, who allows you to look directly at the emperor, come here, and hit ten boards hard."

The prisoners were stunned for a moment, they never thought that this beautiful woman was the newly enthroned empress, and before they begged for mercy, she was knocked down and knocked down with a slap.

After the ten sturdy big boards were finished, several people were already wilted, and they couldn't help crying.

"Shut up!" Shi Mengsheng patted the gavel again, and said loudly, "Why did you fight privately in the prison? And you beat the person in the same cell to death?"

The man named Zhao Gui was the bully of this cell, he endured the burning pain in his buttocks, and said: "My lord, I am wronged, that kid provoked us first?"

Shi Mengsheng asked suspiciously: "How can he provoke you as a man with no strength?"

"As soon as this kid entered the cell, he thought the grassroots were dirty and asked us to make a good place for him. Why should we?" Zhao Gui said dissatisfiedly, "We didn't want to care about him, but he was cursing over there. Said that he is a person with a background, if it is not easy to serve him, he will let us sit in prison for another ten years."

Zhao Gui's words were nonsense, which made Ning Yuezhao very angry.

Shi Mengsheng said coldly: "You beat people to death for such a trivial matter?"

"Of course not. We have been carefully serving him for several days. His uncle has a lot of demands, and he is getting more and more demanding every day. He wanted to relieve himself last night and asked me to bring him the chamber pot. I was slow Some, he kicked over the chamber pot, drenched in urine, and now I still smell like urine!"

Several people who were with Zhao Gui also echoed, saying that it was indeed as he said.

"My lord, we did it only when we couldn't bear it." Zhao Gui seemed to have suffered a great injustice, "And we didn't beat him a few times. Who knows if he was sick before he died."

While listening to Zhao Gui's confession, Shi Mengsheng looked at Ning Yuezhao, only to see that her complexion became even more ugly, and the knuckles holding the armrest of the chair had turned blue and white.

　I twisted my waist in the middle of last month, and twisted my foot again yesterday, and I am updating with pain.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)