Xia Zhengqi asked seriously, "What's the result?"
"Your son asked the most experienced coroner from the Ministry of Justice to examine it." The prince said with a serious expression.
"Although the body had already decayed, a silver needle test showed that the body was indeed poisoned."
"According to the autopsy results, Wei Yu'er died of poisoning."
Xia Zhengqi said with a gloomy face: "Humph, this Liu Hong is really cruel and ruthless!"
"He usually pretends to be a modest gentleman and deeply in love with his wife. He's such a hypocrite."
At this moment, Eunuch Debao hurried to the door in small steps: "Your Majesty, something bad has happened."
Xia Zhengqi raised his eyes: "What's wrong? Come in and tell me."
"Your Majesty, it's all because of my incompetence. Doctor An... is dead." Eunuch Debao said with difficulty.
"How could he die?" the prince asked in shock.
"I successfully took him to the Ministry of Justice's prison, and the officials there interrogated him, and everything went smoothly."
"But after just a moment of interrogation, he took advantage of everyone's unpreparedness and hit his head against a pillar and died." Grandpa Debao said in tears.
Xia Zhengqi clenched his fists angrily without saying a word.
He recalled his daughter's thoughts and said that Doctor An had been working for the Jiang family for many years.
Doctor An was not only involved in Wei Yuer's case, but also in many evil things that the Empress Dowager and Concubine Jiang had done before. Doctor An was also involved.
Therefore, Doctor An was afraid that he would not be able to withstand the severe torture and would confess all these.
If you confess and are found guilty, not only will you be killed, but your family will also be implicated.
Thinking of this, Xia Zhengqi's gloomy expression softened instead.
"Even if he's dead, I'm not afraid. We still have the doctor from back then, the maid, and Wei Yu'er's body. Everything is evidence. The law will catch up with us!"
Xia Zhengqi raised his face with a firm look in his eyes.
At night, inside the Ministry of Justice's prison, prisoners, wearing dirty and torn prison uniforms, huddled on piles of straw.
The Jiang family, father and son, were imprisoned in two adjacent cells, separated by a fence.
Grand Tutor Jiang lived in one room, and the two Jiang brothers lived in another.
A jailer walked slowly towards them, holding a lantern.
When Master Jiang heard footsteps, he looked up and saw the jailer, and his eyes lit up instantly.
The jailer walked to the cell door of Master Jiang and stopped, then calmly took out an oil-paper bag from his bosom.
Master Jiang immediately stood up and tiptoed to the prison door.
"Here." The jailer spoke in a low voice, looked at Master Jiang meaningfully, and handed the oil-paper bag to Master Jiang.
Master Jiang responded with an affirmative look and took the oil-paper bag.
The jailer immediately turned and left.
Master Jiang turned around and looked at his two sons in the cell next door. The eldest son, Jiang Zhiyuan, was sleeping against the wooden fence, and the second son, Jiang Zhishan, was snoring on the pile of straw.
He gently opened the oil paper package and saw a large chicken drumstick sizzling with oil and steaming inside.
He squatted down, gently pushed Jiang Zhiyuan, and said in a very low voice: "Zhiyuan, wake up."
Jiang Zhiyuan was always alert, and he opened his eyes instantly: "What's wrong, father?"
"Here, eat this quickly. I exchanged silver from the jailer for it." Grand Tutor Jiang looked at Jiang Zhiyuan with a doting look.
Jiang Zhiyuan looked at the chicken leg, then looked at his second brother, and asked in a low voice: "Only one?"
"Just eat, don't worry about me or your brother. You have been weak since you were young, and now you are suffering in this prison. If you don't eat some meat, I'm afraid you won't be able to bear it." Master Jiang held his eldest son's shoulders.
"My father and brother are here, how can I eat alone?" Jiang Zhiyuan refused to reach out to take it.
Master Jiang said earnestly, "If you are a filial child, you will listen to your father and eat quickly. You are the eldest son of the Jiang family. If you fall, I will be finished too."
"Okay." Jiang Zhiyuan said "Okay" with great difficulty. His eyes immediately turned red and tears welled up in the corners of his eyes.
He sat up, turned around, and faced Jiang Zhishan. He quickly finished the chicken leg, one bite after another. He kept chewing the remaining two chicken bones in his mouth, almost chewing them into pieces before swallowing them.
"Thank you, Dad." Jiang Zhiyuan smiled sweetly at Grand Tutor Jiang.
"Go to sleep after you finish eating," Master Jiang looked at his eldest son lovingly.
When Jiang Zhiyuan lay down and closed his eyes to sleep, a cold smile appeared on Master Jiang's face.
In the second half of the night, Jiang Zhiyuan suddenly began to twitch all over, and white foam came out of the corners of his mouth. After twitching for a while, he lost consciousness.
Grand Tutor Jiang looked at his eldest son coldly, showing no sign of anxiety and making no move to call for help.
After Jiang Zhiyuan stopped moving, Master Jiang closed his eyes and continued to sleep.
From beginning to end, Jiang Zhishan kept snoring loudly.
The next morning, the jailer who came to deliver food noticed that Jiang Zhiyuan was acting abnormally and anxiously called the prison boss.
After the doctor examined him, he found that although Jiang Zhiyuan was still alive, he was in a coma.
Xia Zhengqi had just finished his morning court session, and because he was worried about his daughter, he hurriedly took a sedan chair to Kunning Palace.
"My dear daughter, are you awake? Your father is here to see you." Xia Zhengqi said loudly as he walked into the main hall.
Upon hearing the voice, the Queen came out holding Xia Miaoyuan and greeted her. She bowed and said, "Your Majesty really favors his daughter. He talks about his precious daughter all the time."
Xia Zhengqi smiled and took his daughter from the Queen's arms. He gently touched Xia Miaoyuan's chubby face and said, "After all, I only have this one daughter."
"Your Majesty hasn't had breakfast yet, right? Why don't you have breakfast first and then hold the baby in arms? Miao'er also wants to eat fruit puree," said the Queen.
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