Chapter 526: Unrelated
Chen Ping asked Qiu'er what the quack doctor looked like, and then took people out of the house to handle the matter.
But Kyoto is so big that it is not easy to find a quack doctor.
When Chen Ping returned home, Shen Wan and Xie Jingyu were having dinner when there was a knock on the window.
"Come in."
Chen Ping jumped in through the window.
He stepped forward and said, "Master, I haven't found that quack doctor yet. I will continue looking for him tomorrow."
It’s not that I can’t find it, but it was already late when I left the house. Once it got dark, there were not many people on the streets, so I had to continue tomorrow.
As a result, the next day, as soon as Chen Ping left the house, the quack doctor was sent to his door.
Prince Yuzhang is well-informed and has spies everywhere in Kyoto. Chen Ping is Xie Jingyu's personal bodyguard and many people know him. If Chen Ping is looking for a quack doctor, it must be the one Xie Jingyu is looking for.
The Prince of Yuzhang sent the quack doctor over and asked curiously, "Most quack doctors are scammers. What do you want to see a quack doctor for?"
The quack doctor trembled in fear, "I didn't cheat anyone..."
Shen Wan asked, “Two days ago, on Dingyuan Street, was there a little maid in a green skirt who came to you to buy medicine?”
The quack doctor's business was not very good. Sometimes only three or two people came to him to buy things a day. He didn't dare to tell anyone about the time, but he still remembered clearly who had come to him to buy medicine within three to five days.
The quack doctor said, "There was a little maid who came to me to buy medicine."
"What medicine did you buy?" Shen Wan asked.
The quack doctor hesitated.
Xie Jingyu glanced over, and the quack doctor felt a chill running down his spine. "Yes, it's Qingfeng Powder..."
The Prince of Yuzhang said, "I know Qingfeng Powder. It's not very toxic and will cause diarrhea and nausea if taken. But if you accidentally take it with licorice, it will be as toxic as Duanhun Powder and cause bleeding from all seven orifices to cause death..."
Originally, Shen Wan only suspected that Du Xiner's maid bought the poison and was targeting Prince Qing, but now it is basically confirmed.
The quack doctor was taken away. Xie Jingyu tapped the desk lightly and said, "Tell Princess Qing about this."
As soon as these words came out, Shen Wan was looking forward to the bustle of Prince Qing's Mansion.
Princess Qing has only one son, whom she cherishes like the apple of her eye. If she knew that he was murdered by someone, she would definitely skin that person alive.
Chen Ping went out of the house, so Chen An took care of this matter.
It was done so quickly and decisively.
The condition of Prince Qing's son has suddenly worsened these days, and Princess Qing is already extremely worried. Prince Qing wants to accompany Prince Qing to leave Beijing, and Princess Qing is touched. She thinks that Prince Qing values Prince Qing very much, and is just arranging people to prepare the luggage when the bad news comes.
Although Prince Qing had been ill for so many years, Princess Qing never thought that her son would abandon her. When she rushed to see her son bleeding from all seven orifices, she fainted.
Princess Qing suspected that her son was poisoned, but Prince Qing called the imperial physician into the mansion. After the physician examined him, he concluded that the Crown Prince died from a conflict of drugs.
All medicines are poisonous. The Prince of Qing takes more medicine than food in a day. Toxins accumulate in his body, and the wrong prescriptions break the balance. The tonics he took before have also become poisons.
Princess Qing could not accept this result and fell ill.
The Prince of Qing died of illness, and many people went to pay their respects. The guards at the Prince of Qing's mansion were not that strict. In order to get the matter done, Chen An chose a simple and rough method. He crumpled a piece of paper into a ball and threw it directly in front of the Princess of Qing's bed.
A ball of paper was thrown in, startling the maid who was pouring tea for Princess Qing. The maid walked to the window, but saw no one.
The maid bent down, picked up the paper ball and opened it.
When the maid saw the words on the paper ball, she was shocked and quickly presented it to Princess Qing for review.
Looking at what was written on the note, the cause of her son's death was that Princess Qing wanted to kill someone.
Princess Qing is no pushover. To secure the throne of the Crown Prince, they're sacrificing her son's life? She wants them to pay with their lives.
But the note came from a strange place, and Princess Qing didn't dare to believe it completely. She first sent someone to check whether Qiaohui had left the house in the past two days, and then sent someone to ask the imperial physician whether her son had died from the poison of Qingfeng Powder.
That evening, Chen Wan held the children to watch the koi. The two children were very excited, dancing and humming, but no one knew what they were saying.
The two children love to watch koi the most, especially the big ones in the imperial garden, and they ask her to accompany them to feed the koi every few days.
Knowing the personalities and preferences of the two children makes raising them easier.
Just as she was watching, a little maid ran over, panting, "Princess, Princess Qing has filed a complaint with the Ministry of Justice, saying that the eldest young master and mistress of the Qing Palace poisoned her son, the Crown Prince of Qing..."
Shen Wan was stunned.
She knew that Princess Qing was not a good person, otherwise Prince Qing would not have had only one son, the Crown Prince, for so many years. However, she did not expect that Princess Qing was so ruthless and would directly file a complaint with the Ministry of Justice.
Xie Jingxi, no, it was Xiao Jingxi and Du Xiner who killed her frail son for the position of Crown Prince. Her complaint to the Ministry of Justice has established evidence of their murder. Not to mention inheriting the position of Crown Prince, she is not even sure whether she can save her life.
Princess Qing and Prince Qing are not of the same mind.
Princess Qing did not let Prince Qing handle the matter, obviously knowing that Prince Qing would choose to cover up. Prince Qing had only two sons, and if one died, the other would become his future crown prince.
Prince Qing would not allow himself to have no descendants just for the sake of a dead son.
But Prince Qing has two sons, while Princess Qing has only one.
Her son was gone, and so was her hope. Xiao Jingxi and Du Xiner killed her son, and sooner or later they would kill her too.
Princess Qing was afraid that something might happen if she was too late, so even though the Ministry of Justice was about to close, she still went to beat the drum to appeal for justice and had Qiaohui and the quack doctor sent to the Ministry of Justice's death row.
Because it was too late, no one knew what happened next.
Chen Wan could only endure the pain for one night and wait until tomorrow to eat this melon.
The next morning, Chen Wan was lying on the couch reading a book when Yin Chuan ran in, "Crown Princess, the case of Prince Qing's son has been investigated..."
Xiao Jingxi and Du Xiner pleaded guilty so quickly?
Shen Wan was a little skeptical.
Shanhu asked, "Have the eldest young master and the eldest young mistress of the Qing Palace confessed their guilt?"
Yinchuan shook her head, "This matter has nothing to do with them..."
Shen Wan, “…”
Are you kidding me?
The one who poisoned her was Qiao Hui, how could it be unrelated to her master Du Xiner and Xiao Jingxi?
Shen Wan said, “Speak clearly.”
Yin Chuan replied, "The Minister of Justice personally interrogated the case, and Qiao Hui confessed. She said that she saw someone adding herbs to the medicine for the Prince of Qing, which made his condition worse. Qiao Hui thought that the Prince of Qing wanted the Prince to die quickly so that he could support the eldest young master, so she secretly bought poison and sent the Prince of Qing away..."
It sounds reasonable, but there is obviously something being concealed. The person who added medicine to the Prince of Qing's medicine must be someone of the Prince of Qing, and a close confidant, otherwise Qiao Hui would not be so suspicious.
Qiao Hui is just a maid. Since she knows that Prince Qing favors Xiao Jingxi, and even wants her legitimate son to die early to make room for him, she should just wait patiently. Why should she be so anxious? If things go wrong, not only she, the maid, will die, but her master Du Xiner will also be implicated.
The only two people who could be so eager to become the crown prince could be Du Xiner and Xiao Jingxi.
Yinchuan said, "After Qiaohui confessed, she bit her tongue and committed suicide..."
Shen Wan was all too familiar with this trick.
The maidservants around Du Xiner most likely have their families staying in the Left Prime Minister's Mansion. If the maidservants dare to be disloyal, her parents and brothers will all be killed.
However, such things mostly happened in the inner court. I didn’t expect that the result would be the same when I entered the Ministry of Justice.
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