Chapter 360: Sent to the Torture Chamber
Yunluo was helped over by two people.
She was slender and pale, and indeed looked sick.
Others did not dare to let her get too close to the Queen Mother and Niu Niu, but just took a look at her from a distance.
Niu Niu nodded and said, "She really looks like this sister."
"Send her to the Ministry of Punishment." The Queen Mother said on the spot.
Yunluo was suddenly helped over, and others refused to tell her what happened. She was frightened and collapsed on the ground.
"Queen Mother, I don't know what I did wrong, I am innocent!" Yunluo cried.
The Queen Mother stared at her coldly.
Nanny Sun said, "I'm not afraid that you won't confess if you go to the Ministry of Punishment."
Some things cannot be said in public. If people are sent to the Ministry of Punishment, Li Shunfu will lead people to interrogate them carefully.
Yunluo's face was full of despair, and the confusion in her eyes was real.
But these were not enough to move Nanny Sun, whose heart was already as hard as a rock. She still urged other palace servants to drag Yunluo away.
But Niu Niu suddenly said, "Wait a minute."
Yunluo immediately looked at Niu Niu with expectation.
After Niu Niu entered the palace, she brought countless joys to the Queen Mother, and the atmosphere in Shoukang Palace also changed from the dullness of the past. Although Yunluo was a servant, she also liked Niu Niu very much. Last time she made a mistake, it was Niu Niu who begged for mercy, and Nanny Sun gently exposed it.
"Niu Niu, isn't it this person?" Nanny Sun was puzzled.
Niuniu's face was tangled, and she said, "This sister looks very aggrieved. I don't know if I have wronged her."
Madame Sun said, "Don't you remember what that person looks like? Don't they look alike?"
Niuniu shook her head, "They do look alike, but... but... that sister has a ruddy complexion, and definitely not a sickly face like her."
Madame Sun said nonchalantly, "The sickly face may also be fake. These calculating people have countless tricks. Don't be fooled by her."
Yunluo seized the opportunity and immediately knelt on the ground and kowtowed hard, "Empress Dowager, I really didn't do anything bad. I was wronged! Please, give me a chance to defend myself!"
Madame Sun turned her head and looked at the Queen Mother with an inquiring look.
"My dear, do you think it's not this person?" asked the Queen Mother.
Niu Niu's face was tangled like a ball of wool: "That person looks almost the same as this sister, but I feel like they are not the same person."
The Queen Mother knew that Niu Niu was kind-hearted and did not want to appear too cold-blooded in front of her beloved baby, so she said: "My dear, whether it is true or not, we will know after the interrogation. If she survives the interrogation and proves her innocence, we will release her then."
This can only fool a child. After entering the Ministry of Punishment, there is no good skin left.
Yunluo could only kowtow and say: "I am innocent."
In a flash, blood marks appeared on Yunluo's forehead.
Niu Niu could not bear to see it, and her little brain worked quickly, saying: "That bad guy, she has a mole on her wrist! Right here!"
Niu Niu raised her chubby paw to show Nanny Sun the location of the mole on her wrist.
Nanny Sun gave a look to the palace servant beside Yunluo, and the palace servant immediately rolled up Yunluo's sleeves.
Yunluo's right arm was clean without any trace.
Yunluo hurriedly said: "I am really wronged. I don't even know what happened!"
The Queen Mother looked at this situation and couldn't help frowning.
Nanny Sun immediately said: "My Queen, the mole on the wrist may also be painted on, deliberately for Niuniu to see..."
The Queen Mother said: "Since the face is not covered, why add another mole to add to the veil?"
Yunluo's eyes burst into great hope instantly.
Niuniu said casually: "Sister, it's so strange, is there anyone who looks like you? Why did I recognize the wrong person?"
Yunluo's face flashed a trace of hesitation, and her lips trembled, as if she didn't know whether to say it or not.
"It seems that you also know that person. If you don't want to say it, it is obvious that you have to protect that person. In this case, I will send you to the Ministry of Punishment." Nanny Sun threatened.
Yunluo closed her eyes, her face full of pain. When she thought about what happened today, although she didn't know what her sister had done, she must have borrowed her identity to cause a disaster.
Yesterday, after she ate the food her sister sent, she immediately had abdominal pain. Could it be that all this was calculated by her sister? If Niuniu hadn't stopped her, I'm afraid she would have been sent to the Ministry of Punishment to be punished.
Yunluo gritted her teeth.
Since her sister was not afraid of implicating her sister, why should she cover up for her sister.
Yunluo finally spoke: "My sister! I have a sister who is also in the palace. She works in the Plum Garden and is at least 80% similar to me."
As soon as Yunluo finished speaking, Nanny Sun immediately ordered the palace people to arrest people.
Not long after, Yunluo's sister Yunxuan was brought over.
Yunxuan was indeed very similar to Yunluo. If someone who didn't know her saw it, I'm afraid they were twins.
Yunxuan, who looked guilty, was not a particularly smart person. After Nanny Sun's questioning, she immediately confessed.
"I don't know who that person is. She found me at night and said that if I helped me do this, she would give me fifty taels of silver and help me find a good job. The maids in Plum Garden have been bullying me, and I have no choice. I really don't want to stay in Plum Garden anymore." Yunxuan burst into tears.
Madame Sun looked unhappy. The person behind the scenes seemed to be more difficult than expected. This person knew the layout of Shoukang Palace and the Queen Mother's knot.
On the surface, the purpose of the person behind the scenes seemed to be to frame Niu Niu, but Madame Sun couldn't figure it out. Niu Niu was just a child, so who would be bothered by her?
Yunluo, who was kneeling beside her and heard her sister's confession, couldn't help but say: "I said I would help you transfer to another place after a while when I saved enough money. Why are you so anxious?"
Yunxuan couldn't help but get angry when she heard her sister's words. She looked at Yunluo with resentment and said: "Wait, wait, you only know how to make me wait. You are living a luxurious life in Shoukang Palace. Do you know what kind of life I live every day? We are all sisters. Why do you live so well while I have to suffer so much!"
Yunluo looked at her sister in disbelief. Her sister was originally in the laundry department and said that it was too hard. Yunluo spent 20 taels of silver to transfer her to Meiyuan. She never expected that she would still be blamed in the end.
Yunxuan couldn't ask more here.
The Queen Mother said: "Pull out the tongue and send the person to the torture chamber."
The torture chamber was full of palace maids who had made mistakes. Once they entered, they had to work hard, and there were strict old maids holding whips to urge them to work. After entering, they basically didn't have much time to live.
Yunxuan heard this, and her eyes were full of fear. She was extremely panicked. She could only beg Yunluo: "Sister, I was wrong, sister, please help me plead, I really know I was wrong, sister, please, I can't go to the torture chamber, I will die!"