Chapter 109 Source of Poison
When Xia He heard the Dali Temple's punishment, her body trembled like a sieve. She kowtowed twice and cried, "I will tell you everything, please don't torture me!"
After begging for mercy, Xia He began to tell how Liu Ru harmed Hu Lanxin, “I don’t know where my young lady got this medicine from, I only know that this medicine is called Thousand Sunsets, and it is a chronic poison.
Taking it once or twice a day will not have any effect, but if you do it over many years it will slowly deplete a person's vitality until all the vitality is consumed and the person dies.
But it cannot be seen from the outside. Even if you take the patient's pulse, you can only tell that the patient is weak, nothing else.
I remember that this medicine was given after the Prince of Changping's youngest son was born. The princess had a difficult delivery, and the imperial physician examined her pulse at the time and said that her body would be very weak as her foundation had been damaged, and she needed to take good care of herself.
It was only after my young lady knew this that she decided to drug the princess. If outsiders saw that the princess' health was getting weaker, they would not suspect anything.
The young lady bribed the person who served the princess' medicine, and also bribed the person who was in charge of pastries for the young master, hoping to get rid of both of them together.
But the success would not have come if the young master had not been greedy, and the princess took medicine every day, and her health deteriorated day by day, and she passed away not long ago.
There was still a little medicine left, and the lady told me to dispose of it, but I didn't dare throw it outside, so it's still in my hand. ”
Hearing this, Shen Shixu was quite surprised. He didn't expect that there were still traces of the poison. Now he had physical evidence.
Xia He went to her room, rummaged through some clothes in her closet, and took out a wooden box from underneath the clothes. Inside the wooden box was Thousand Sunshine.
Shen Shixu reached out to take it, but Xiao Jinyi got it before him, "Let me take it!"
Jiang Bin felt a little annoyed when he saw Xiao Jinyi's actions. "Cousin, the poison is still separated by a layer of wood. It won't be contaminated by my master. You don't need to be so careful."
Xiao Jinyi knew that Shen Shixu was rather thin-skinned in this regard, and was afraid that after hearing what Jiang Bin said, he would not be willing to let him help him in the future.
So he glared at Jiang Bin and said, "If you are envious, then find yourself a partner. It just so happens that your aunt is looking for someone for you recently. I will tell her when the time comes and ask her to help you find a good candidate as soon as possible. Then you can be like me and your master."
Jiang Bin discovered that Xiao Jinyi and Shen Shixu talked more after being together, especially Xiao Jinyi who talked more.
He still prefers the Xiao Jinyi who used to talk less. He was a little fierce, but not as irritating as he is now.
"I don't want to find a wife to control me. What's the point of finding a wife so early in the morning like you? There's no other advantage except having one more person to control you!
Ruixuan, don't follow your cousins' example and tie the reins on yourself too early. ”
Xiao Ruixuan didn't listen to him, "What's wrong with finding a wife earlier? I just hope there will be someone to take care of me."
Jiang Bin was just about to say that that was no different from having another mother to take care of him, but then he thought that Xiao Ruixuan had already lost his mother, so maybe it would be good to have someone else to take care of him and accompany him earlier.
So he didn't say that, but just crossed his arms and said, "Humph, then you all get married early, and I'll get married later.
I don’t want to find someone to take care of me so early. I want to live my life happily. ”
When Jiang Miaokong heard what he said, he burst his beautiful fantasy and said, "But even if you don't get married, there are still many people who will take care of you! Your mother is Her Royal Highness the Princess, your grandmother is the Empress Dowager, your uncle is the Emperor, your aunt is the Empress, and you have your Master!"
Jiang Bin's originally happy expression cracked in an instant after hearing Jiang Miaokong's words, and that look made Shen Shixu and Xiao Ruixuan laugh.
After laughing, Shen Shixu said to Xia He, "Since you took the initiative to confess, not only can I give you an intact body, but I will not let you die. However, you will spend most of the rest of your life in prison unless you can be pardoned by the emperor."
Xia He was very happy to hear this. She didn't expect that she could still keep her life, even if it meant just spending time in jail.
So he kowtowed to Shen Shixu again and again in gratitude, "Thank you, sir, for sparing my life!"
"Hurry up and get up. We will keep the poison for now. You have to leave here with us. In a few days, you have to follow us to the Changping Palace to confront them."
Xia He stood up from the ground, with a bruise on her forehead, and followed Shen Shixu and the others out of Furong Hutong.
The source of the poison has been found, and now it depends on Zhang Ming.
Zhang Ming and his men traveled day and night and arrived at Majiaao in the afternoon of the next day. After finding out everything, he wanted to go up and capture the person directly.
They walked close to Chuntao's house, but then turned to the side.
The people following him asked in confusion, "Zhang Ming, we are almost at their house, why did you bring us here?"
Zhang Ming said with a mysterious look on his face: "You don't understand this, right? Even if we take the people back now, they won't easily confess.
If it was a little later, when the people sent by Prince Changping to silence them arrived, we would have appeared at this time to save those two people.
The two people who felt the crisis of death were suddenly rescued, and they would definitely trust us especially. Then it would be easy for us to ask anything we want. ”
When the people following Zhang Ming heard this, they were all quite surprised, "Wow, Zhang Ming, I find that you have become much smarter since you followed Lord Shen!
Lord Shen thinks highly of you and has entrusted you with such an important matter. Now that you have succeeded, don't forget your brothers and help us. ”
Zhang Ming said generously: "Of course, when the Lord asked me to find a few people to look for witnesses, I thought of you guys first."
The four people were happy to hear his words. Regardless of whether it was true or not, Zhang Ming did find them and gave them a handsome reward of ten taels of silver per person, which was enough for their family to use for more than half a year.
When night falls, the Golden Crow sets and the Moon Rabbit rises. Ordinary people are reluctant to light candles. After dinner, they go to bed early.
When everything was quiet, two people sneaked into Chuntao and Songshi's yard. Zhang Ming and others who had been guarding nearby were brightened when they saw this, knowing that the people they were waiting for had arrived.
He drew out the knife he was carrying and slowly approached the yard.
Hearing the shouting and smashing sounds from inside, Zhang Ming was the first to kick open the gate, and a group of five people rushed in with knives.
The two men who came to silence the witnesses were not very good at martial arts, but they could only deal with ordinary people.
But they were no match for the few people Zhang Ming brought, and their numbers were less than theirs, so they were caught in a short while.
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