Leng Yi said: "So your Majesty doesn't know how many maids there are in your palace?"

"There are so many people, who can remember them?" Daji said.

The whip-wielding maid stared at the palace maids and eunuchs with a ferocious smile in her eyes: "Are you going to tell me?" She slowly raised the whip high.

Leng Yi said: "Empress, after I finish the investigation, can you take care of me as a family?"

The whip-wielding maid didn't seem to hear Leng Yi's words at all. She struck the whip in the air with a crisp sound, and then whipped it like a violent storm on the heads, bodies and faces of the palace maids and eunuchs.

.

Bang bang bang!

Blood flew everywhere, and the flesh and blood were blurred.

"Presumptuous! Arrogant! - Take her whip away from me!" Leng Yi said angrily.

The following palace maids and eunuchs looked at each other in confusion, and finally gritted their teeth, swarmed up, hugged the palace maid, and snatched the whip from her hand.

The whip-wielding maid roared: "Come here, they are going to rebel. Take the whip back and beat them to death! Beat them to death! - Do it!"

There were only five or six palace maids and eunuchs following the whip-wielding maids. They rushed up and screamed, but there were ten on Leng Yi's side, and the other palace maids and eunuchs were all beaten. They took the whips to save them, so naturally they wouldn't

He helped Leng Yi to take back the whip and beat him. The ten palace maids and eunuchs who followed Leng Yi had already taken action, so they had to hold on to the end, confronting each other and yelling and cursing.

Daji was so angry that she was trembling all over. She pointed at Leng Yi and said, "You are against me! - Which palace are these people from? What are their names? Tell me! I want to feed all of them to the dogs!"

Leng Yi said coldly: "They are my people. They are here to investigate the case. If the empress still behaves like this and interferes with my investigation, it means that you are the one who gives people to the tigers in Hushan. You are worried."

If the matter is exposed, we don’t dare to let us investigate, so I can only report it to the officials."

"Sue!" The whip-wielding woman was very arrogant and almost poked Leng Yi's forehead with her finger. "You are a bitch, if you can, just go ahead and sue! Our queen is not afraid of you!"

"Okay! Since the empress admits it, why don't you say goodbye?" After saying that, Leng Yi turned around and left.

"Wait a minute!" Da Ji said angrily, "Who admits to feeding people to tigers? Don't slander people!"

"Since you are not the empress, and you are not afraid of slanting shadows, why don't you dare to let Wei Chen continue the investigation?"

"You check! No one will let you check!" Daji said angrily, "If you can't find out, you must give me an explanation. Otherwise, I will never be done with you!"

Leng Yi ignored them, walked up to the palace maids and eunuchs who were kneeling on the ground, and said: "I will continue to read the names, and the ones I read will stand aside."

Leng Yi continued to put down his thoughts, and after a few names passed, two more missing persons appeared. Now, even Daji was surprised.

She slowly glanced at everyone: "What's going on?"

Still no one answered.

Leng Yi continued to recite. From time to time, there were absent maids, until he finished reciting. A total of thirteen maids were absent, which happened to be the number of dead people in Hushan!

Leng Yi looked at Da Ji and said, "Mother, why are the people in your palace so short of people exactly the same as those who died in Hushan?"

The whip-wielding woman immediately roared: "What did you say? You want to falsely accuse our queen? No way!"

Leng Yi ignored her and looked at Da Ji: "Your Majesty, what's going on? I need a reasonable explanation from your Majesty."

Da Ji seemed to feel that something was wrong, and glared at the palace maids and eunuchs: "What happened? Where have they gone? If you don't tell me, I will cut out your tongues one by one!"

Finally, an old palace maid trembled and said: "Madam, they just disappeared. I don't know what happened. They ate and slept together normally the night before. But the next morning, they were nowhere to be seen. It seemed like they had disappeared out of thin air.

generally."

"Why don't you report this to me?"

The old palace maid was trembling and did not dare to answer.

Leng Yi said: "Then you still need to ask? Of course you are too domineering. They are afraid of you and don't dare to say anything! Anyway, the matter has nothing to do with you."

"Really?" Da Ji drawled her voice.

The maids and eunuchs were all trembling and did not dare to talk to each other.

The whip-wielding maid said to Daji: "My dear, these people don't take you seriously because they have such cold-blooded support. They must learn a lesson and beat a few of them to death first!"

"Okay! Call me!"

The whip in the hand of the whip-wielding woman had been snatched away. She waved her hand and said to the palace maids and eunuchs who were following them: "Hit them on your orders! Beat them to death! Beat them until they open their mouths!"

The whip-wielding woman took the lead, followed by the five or six palace maids and eunuchs, who punched and kicked the kneeling palace maids and eunuchs without avoiding any vital points. None of the palace maids and eunuchs dared to avoid moaning. They just held their heads.

Leng Yi said angrily: "Your Majesty, stop it! I want to investigate the case. If I kill them, how can I investigate the case?"

Daji said calmly: "I discipline my slaves, it's not your turn to teach me a lesson!"

The whip-wielding woman rubbed her wrists and giggled: "I'm so tired from beating them. Madam, let's let the dogs bite them. This is fun!"

"Okay!" The smile in Da Ji's eyes became more cruel, and she said slowly: "Let the dogs out!"

The strong eunuch Fifth Brother let go of the iron chain in his hand. Five strong fierce dogs rushed out like arrows and pounced on the eunuchs and palace maids.

Among the ten maids who followed Leng Yi, the eunuch's face turned pale with fright, and he turned around and wanted to run away. However, when he saw Leng Yi standing there calmly, he plucked up the courage to come back and trembled on Leng Yi's body.

Fortunately, these five fierce dogs only bit these palace maids and eunuchs, and specifically bit at the fleshy parts of their bodies, avoiding the head and neck, vital parts, and places with large blood vessels, so they bit these palace ladies and eunuchs until they were dripping with blood.

But it won't hurt their lives.

Da Ji watched those ferocious dogs biting the palace maids and eunuchs, with uncontrollable excitement on her face and bright eyes.

Leng Yi shouted angrily: "Okay! My Majesty! You are really the real culprit who threw thirteen palace maids into Tiger Mountain to be eaten by tigers! Now you still want to kill people and silence them! I have no choice but to report it to the officials immediately!" After that!

, turn around and leave!

"Stop!" Da Ji shouted. At the same time, with a wave of her hand, the strong eunuchs stepped forward and took back the five fierce dogs. The palace maids and eunuchs had been bitten to pieces with wounds all over their bodies, and they were all dripping with blood.

Da Ji slowly turned around and stared at Leng Yi: "If Emperor Taizu is still here, if he slanders you and frame me, I can have you executed in Ling Chi and behead your entire family!"

Leng Yi said boldly: "If Emperor Taizu were here, he would never tolerate you torturing your servants like this, and even using your servants to raise tigers for fun!"

Daji snorted and said, "So, you are determined to frame me?"

"Isn't it? - You take pleasure in torturing others, and you have raised five ferocious dogs to bite others for pleasure. Thirteen maids died tragically in Hushan, and your palace happened to be missing thirteen maids. You still have

What’s there to say?”

Daji smiled faintly: "Then why don't you report it to the officials and have me taken down and punished?"

"The case has not been investigated yet. After the investigation is completed, I will naturally report it to the officials. As for how to deal with it, the officials will make a decision. Now I want to investigate the case. If the empress still blindly obstructs and refuses to obey the order,

I can only report it to the officials."

Daji snorted twice: "Don't scare me with the officials! If you want to investigate, go ahead! However, if anyone wants to put a shit basin on my head, they can't!" After that,

He turned around and walked away.

The whip-wielding woman glared at Leng Yi angrily and said, "You bitch, just wait! I will make you unable to live or die!" After that, she spat out a mouthful of thick phlegm at Leng Yi.

Leng Yi stepped aside and looked at her with a sneer.

After they entered, Leng Yi said to the eunuch maid behind him: "Who is this vicious maid?"

An old eunuch said: "Her name is Xue'e. Because she is vicious and cruel and likes to see blood the most, they all call her Xue'e in private."

"Yes!" Leng Yi nodded, "Hurry up and ask the imperial doctor to heal their injuries, hurry up!"

The two maids agreed and left in a hurry.

Leng Yi asked the other palace maids and eunuchs to supervise them not to talk, and then called a palace maid who was relatively lightly injured to go to a room for questioning. In order to avoid suspicion, he also specially called two accompanying palace maids to accompany him for interrogation.

Leng Yi briefly asked about the other party's name and other basic information, and then asked: "These thirteen missing palace maids, do you know when they disappeared?"

"They started disappearing about half a year ago, one after another."

"When did the last one disappear?"

"Three days ago, it was the one named Cui Yan. Like me, she was in charge of the front yard. We have a good relationship."

"So many people are missing, why didn't you report it to the Empress? Or the Ministry of Internal Affairs?"

The palace maid bowed her head sadly and said nothing.

Leng Yi said: "Don't worry, I won't tell your mother-in-law what you said."

The palace maid looked at him gratefully and whispered: "We dare not say it, because the empress' methods are very vicious and she doesn't care about everything. Especially that Xue'e, the one who just took the whip, she is even more vicious and always

On the sidelines, if someone is reported to have made a mistake, she will instruct the empress to punish the person who made the report together. She said that the person who reported the report did not think highly of the person who made the mistake, so he should be punished together with the person who made the report. And the empress and Na Xue'e like it the most

The punishment is to let the dog bite. Although it will not bite to death, it will bite the person to death. It is more painful than death. Therefore, she is going to be punished anyway. Instead of telling her and being punished on the spot, it is better to do it later

She knows that they will be punished together. In this way, everyone has a share, and it may be better than being punished individually."

"Then if you don't report it, won't you be punished more severely?"

"There is no more severe punishment. The punishments given by the empress are not serious. They are all bitten by dogs. She and Na Xue'e like to watch people being bitten by dogs the most. They are very happy every time they see it. So, even if there is no

Wrong, sometimes she also wants to find reasons to punish us. All of us, except for Xue'e and the few personal maids around her who have not been punished, almost all of us have been punished by her in this way."

After saying that, the palace maid rolled up her sleeves and showed Leng Yi. She saw the sad marks on her arms, some of which had just scabbed over. They were obviously new bites.

Leng Yi said: "Your Majesty's hobby is really disgusting."

Although the palace maid was bullied badly, she still did not dare to comment on Empress Daji casually. After hearing what Leng Yi said, she just bowed her head and remained silent.

Leng Yi asked: "That Cuiyan, what was she wearing at that time?"
To be continued...