"What's the difference?" Anle Hou's tone was as cold as frost. At the same time, people from the Ministry of Justice began to carry out the bodies one after another.
The noble ladies covered their faces with handkerchiefs. When the wife of Marquis Anle saw the body of Emperor Lu Daizong being carried out, she screamed again and fainted.
Marquis Anle looked over and saw that the court doctor had already started taking his pulse, so he withdrew his gaze and fixed on Lu Daizong, whose blood had already dried.
Marquis Anle was overcome with grief upon seeing his beloved son's corpse. He stretched out his trembling hands to cover Lü Daizong's body. He listened to the coroner say, "Besides the knife wounds, Master Lü's face is black and blue, his pupils are dilated, and his expression is terrifying. It seems he was poisoned before he died."
Poisoned?!
[I told you to be a good person. Look at this. Several waves of people are coming to kill you.]
Jiang Zhiyu was muttering to himself, and the others who could hear him all lowered their eyes and fell into deep thought.
Marquis Anle looked at the coroner with sorrowful eyes, then asked coldly, "Have you found the source of the poisoning?"
The coroner nodded slightly: "It is tea. I have tested it for poison with a silver needle."
While they were talking, the people from the Ministry of Justice had already started checking everyone's personal belongings. The maids following their masters took the things in their hands and showed them one by one.
The maid who was mentioned earlier as delivering tea stood there, her legs trembling slightly, almost unable to stand steadily.
She has always been responsible for the tea, but she really doesn't know why the tea is poisonous!
Her hands dropped unconsciously to her sides, her eyes filled with fear.
The next second, Marquis Anle's voice seemed to ring in her ears.
"Who delivered the tea today?"
The maid fell to her knees, her eyes filled with fear. "My Lord, I was responsible for making the tea today, but please be advised, I absolutely did not poison you!"
She was shaking with fear and couldn't help but burst into tears.
The veins on Anle Hou's forehead kept throbbing. "Whether there was poison or murder, I will know after a test. Come, bring me my boning whip."
Hearing this, the maid raised her eyes and looked at him in disbelief.
"My Lord, please spare me, I really didn't know anything about this, Lord!"
She knelt down and took a few steps forward, grabbing the corner of Anle Hou's clothes and begging for mercy, but Anle Hou turned a deaf ear to her.
Xiao Lingyu sighed softly and said softly, "My Lord, I don't think this maid has the guts to murder Master Lu. The real murderer must be someone else. Why should you waste your time on her?"
The maid looked at Xiao Lingyu gratefully, and Marquis Anle also frowned slightly.
Why would the prince speak to a maid and plead for her?
Could it be that...
Marquis Anle looked carefully at the maid kneeling on the ground. She was crying so hard and her body was thin. She looked quite pitiful.
It turns out the prince likes this.
Because of their past relationship, Marquis Anle did not think about anything else. The servant handed him the boning whip. Marquis Anle took it, swung it casually, and hit it hard on the ground next to the maid.
The maid screamed in panic.
"The prince is right, she really doesn't have much courage," Marquis Anle's eyes turned and fixed on Jiang Zhiyu again.
Because of Anle Hou's sudden move, as soon as he turned his eyes, Jiang Kang'an and He Yanting stood in front of Jiang Zhiyu on the left and right.
Marquis Anle tightened his grip on the whip handle.
"Reporting to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and the Marquis, except for Miss Jiang, our subordinates have checked everyone and found no poison." The guard from the Ministry of Justice stepped forward and knelt on one knee to report. Everyone's eyes fell on Jiang Zhiyu again.
Marquis Anle waved his whip, which seemed to be both a warning and a threat.
"I'm also afraid you might misunderstand me," Jiang Zhiyu sighed softly, "After all, it's normal for a doctor to carry some medicine."
The corner of Anle Hou's mouth curled up: "So, Miss Jiang admits it?"
Jiang Kangan was about to speak when Jiang Zhiyu stopped him.
"I knew you were only half-obedient."
In his ears, what he said would automatically be equated with "Yes, I was the one who poisoned you."
Marquis Anle: “…”
He swung his long whip, and it slammed heavily onto the ground with a loud bang. He looked at Jiang Zhiyu with a cold gaze, "Miss Jiang, you're not going to tell me that the medicine you brought is the same one that poisoned my son, are you?"
Jiang Zhiyu sighed deeply, took off the cat purse from her waist, stood on the table in front of Marquis Anle, and began to take things out.
"This is arsenic, this is arsenic, this is Gelsemium elegans, this is ginseng, this is henbane, this is poppy..."
As she said the names, she placed the bottles on the table, and in just three minutes, the table was full.
Marquis Anle was so frightened that the whip in his hand almost fell to the ground.
The others had basically the same reaction as him.
Everyone's gaze was surprisingly consistent.
Look at Jiang Zhiyu who was placing poison while reading out names - then look at the cat purse in her hand - then look at the poison neatly placed on the table - and finally look back at Jiang Zhiyu who was still taking out poison.
No, this thing is really good at pretending.
"This is the Blood Drinking Stone, this is the Bone-Breaking Sand..." Jiang Zhiyu paused, looking at the tabletop that had not a single empty space, and said sideways, "Excuse me, please move one more table, no, five tables over here."
besides? ? ?
Everyone looked at her in surprise, and even the doubts in Anle Hou's heart were shaken away by this scene.
"Do you usually carry so much poison with you when you go out?"
Meeting the emperor too?
But how could her little cat purse, which was so small, hold so much poison?
Marquis Anle was full of questions, but what he asked was what he cared about the least.
Jiang Zhiyu nodded. "Yes," she said, looking at the coroner again. "I wonder what kind of poison Master Lu was poisoned with. Is it just a coincidence that there's that kind of poison in this place?"
She followed Anle Hou's example and put emphasis on the word "coincidentally".
The coroner swallowed and said, "Mr. Lu was poisoned by arsenic."
The first medicine Jiang Zhiyu mentioned was arsenic.
Recovering from his shock, Lu Yaozu licked his lips and said, "So it seems that you are the only one here who has poison on you. I don't care whether you usually carry so much or if you planned it today. In short, you are the most suspicious."
He had prepared for Jiang Zhiyu's rebuttal, but Jiang Zhiyu said, "You have some truth in what you said." Then he put the things on the table back into the kitten's purse.
Lu Yaozu: “???”
He suspected that he had heard it wrongly, and asked in a surprised tone: "What did you say? You admitted it?!"
"I'm just saying that according to this logic, what you said makes some sense," Jiang Zhiyu packed up and hung the kitten purse back around her waist.
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