The queen always thought of herself as a person who cultivated her character and was as gentle as a chrysanthemum, but today she felt like she was going to be angry to death.
Someone actually poisoned the newly returned Eighth Prince in her Fengyi Palace!
Some people dared to stir up trouble in her Fengyi Palace. It seemed that they were really tired of living.
The desire for palace fighting rekindled in the queen's eyes. She vowed to find the culprit and immediately asked the head maid to find everyone who had entered the side hall today.
By this time, Yan Cheng was able to stand up and stood aside, watching the queen give orders in a hurry with an expressionless face.
——She looked very angry and concerned about him, so the poison should not have been administered by her.
——If she was the one who poisoned the person, then her acting skills are amazing.
Although she was to blame for not managing Fengyi Palace well, the Queen couldn't help but look at Yan Cheng with pity.
This child is so pitiful. When he came back, his biological mother was so angry that he vomited blood, and then he was poisoned in a side hall of Fengyi Palace.
What Yan Cheng didn't know was that at this moment, the label of "poor little thing" had been firmly attached to him by the Queen, and it was impossible to tear it off.
Not long after, Qingyu, the head maid of Fengyi Palace, called three maids. All three of them had entered the side hall alone today.
The time was locked on today because the old doctor said that the effect of the substance in the water would not last long, at most six hours.
According to him, this thing was a secret medicine from the previous dynasty, which had caused countless concubines of the previous dynasty to die in their sleep without knowing it. It was later discovered by the last emperor of the previous dynasty and destroyed in a centralized manner.
The old doctor knew about this secret medicine because his family had been practicing medicine for generations, and someone had worked as a doctor in the Imperial Hospital during the previous dynasty.
"Who changed the water in the vase in the inner room?" asked the queen.
The three of them didn't know what had happened. Upon hearing this, a palace maid named Bai Mo stepped forward and said, "Reporting to the Queen, it was this servant who replaced it."
Bai Mo looked calm and showed no guilt, but neither the Queen nor Yan Cheng would think she was innocent because of her superficial efforts.
The Queen nodded and asked the other two people, "When did you enter the side hall, and what did you do?"
Yan Cheng also looked at them. With the Queen, the big boss, present, he didn't need to do anything. He just needed to be a wronged victim.
The other two also had legitimate reasons. No. 1 was cleaning the side hall, and No. 2 was taking the quilt out to dry.
The three of them had passed through the side hall before Yan Cheng moved in, and they were the only ones who could have put something in the vase.
After Yan Cheng came in, people came and went in the side hall, and Jian Ying and Jian Rong were watching, so no one had the chance to do anything.
Compared with Bai Mo who had direct contact with the vase, the other two people were less likely to put medicine in the vase because they entered the side hall before Yan Cheng arrived at Fengyi Palace.
Unless they could foresee that Yan Cheng would stay in the side hall of Fengyi Palace today, how could they go into the side hall in advance to give him the drug?
Bai Mo had just changed the water in the vase before Yan Cheng was sent to the side hall, so the timing was very likely.
The other two tried desperately to prove their innocence, but Bai Mo's reaction was much calmer. He knelt there without saying a single word.
The Queen was just thinking about whether to send the three of them to the Ministry of Punishment for a trip when Bai Mo suddenly blew himself up.
"I thought I would wait until the afternoon meal to do something to you so that you would be poisoned. I didn't expect that the medicine prescribed by the imperial physician would contain that herb."
"I'm curious, why didn't you drink that bowl of medicine?"
Because Yan Cheng was still alive, Bai Mo thought he did not drink the bowl of medicine.
Yan Cheng said, "I have a feeling there's something wrong with that bowl of medicine."
No way.
Thanks to the great god of time travel for giving him the golden finger.
"Who asked you to poison me?" he asked again with a serious expression.
"It's Concubine Yun Shu."
Bai Mo smiled brightly, her pretty face full of vitality, like a bright flower blooming above a deserted city.
However, this blooming flower is withering at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Everyone saw the black blood flowing from her mouth.
"She took poison!"
The queen asked the old doctor to save her, but it was too late. A young life disappeared before their eyes.
The clue is broken.
This was Yan Cheng’s first thought after discovering Bai Mo was dead.
He didn't feel any pity or anything like that because of the death of someone who wanted to kill him; he just felt sorry.
Unfortunately, the real mastermind behind his murder could not be found.
Concubine Yun Shu?
Can the real mastermind behind this be revealed so easily by Bai Mo?
Bai Mo's death further proved that there was a highly poisonous snake lurking behind him, eyeing him covetously.
Since Bai Mo, a man who secretly plotted against Yan Cheng, had appeared in Fengyi Palace, the Queen felt embarrassed to keep Yan Cheng in Fengyi Palace any longer. She asked for his opinion and had him sent to the North Second Prison.
Before leaving, the Queen hesitated and said, "Bai Mo said it was your mother..."
"That's just Bai Mo's nonsense. I won't take it to heart. Mother, since the clues are gone, let's forget about it!"
never mind?
How is that possible? He is a vengeful person.
The queen didn't know what Yan Cheng was thinking, she just thought Yan Cheng was very considerate and kind.
Yan Cheng was poisoned in Fengyi Palace, and the person who did it was someone in her palace. Yan Cheng did not blame her for not knowing how to manage people. Instead, she was afraid of causing trouble for her and took the initiative to give up the investigation.
What a pitiful and kind child.
Although Yan Cheng had the final say, the Queen could not really let it go. She first fined the palace maids in Fengyi Palace for three months' monthly salary, and then ordered people to investigate Bai Mo.
Of course, nothing useful was found in the end. Bai Mo was dead, so who knew what her connections were.
The Queen felt guilty towards Yan Cheng, so she sent a lot of good things to the North Second Office.
When Emperor Jingxi heard about this, he felt that this child who had just returned was somewhat unlucky. There were so many princes in the palace, but he was the only one who had encountered all kinds of bad luck since he was born.
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