"Are you going to tell me or not? Who is the person behind this?"
Zhu Yue gritted her teeth and gasped, "Your Majesty, it's true that I was responsible for adding water to the pot every day, but I really didn't poison the water. Before the prince diagnosed it as poisoning, we maids were all helping out with Madam Zhang. And because of your status as a prince, the three maids around him were all helping in the kitchen. We had a clear division of labor that day, and there was no other abnormal behavior. Instead, it was Ziyu's behavior that was very abnormal... I have reason to suspect that it was Ziyu who poisoned the fish porridge!"
"Your Majesty!" Zi Yu knelt down again immediately, "I did make a low-level mistake by tasting the salt with my mouth. Please punish me, Your Majesty, but I am the princess's maid and it is absolutely impossible for me to poison the prince!" Zi Yu really didn't expect that Zhu Yue was still biting her when she was about to die!
"Your Majesty, I didn't wrongly accuse her!" Zhu Yue caught a glimpse of the nail on her clenched thumb. "She was personally responsible for preparing the fish that day, and I was the one who prepared the water for washing the fish. She could have hidden poison in her nail and slipped it into the fish while she was slicing it!"
Zi Yu was annoyed, "You are slandering me!"
"I'm not kidding. You're the one who poisoned me! You tasted the fish porridge to test the saltiness and purity of the poison, to purge it clean!"
No matter whether it was her or not, she had to hold on to Zi Yu to have a chance to survive. He couldn't let the bad guys succeed.
"You!" Zi Yu was so angry that she couldn't defend herself. "Princess, how could I possibly poison you? She is slandering me! She is spitting blood!"
"Shut up!" the Queen Mother scolded, turning to Yun Gu and saying, "Go and take a look!"
Yun Gu hurried over and pulled up Zi Yu's nails to examine them carefully. "Your Majesty, Zi Yu's nails are very long. She could have hidden the poison inside them and injected it into the fish."
"Hmph, it's actually you! You hid it so well!" The Empress Dowager originally wanted to kill Zi Yu because she tasted salt and let her eldest grandson eat her saliva. Now, after listening to Zhu Yue's words and seeing the fingernail, she subjectively believed that she was the one who poisoned her!
"Someone come! Beat me up!"
"Princess!" Baizhi and Shaoyao looked at Xie Wanyi. They didn't believe that Ziyu would be the bad guy!
Seeing the imperial guards coming to arrest her, Zi Yu rushed to Xie Wanyi and said, "Princess! Please save me! I couldn't possibly have poisoned you! This is clearly Zhu Yue framing me!"
Two imperial guards rushed forward to grab her and began to drag her onto the bench.
"Wait!" Xie Wanyi stopped them, "Grandmother, Ziyu couldn't possibly have poisoned the prince. This is pure Zhuyue's false accusation!"
"You still want to protect her? Didn't I tell you that? Of all the maids that day, her behavior was the most abnormal. What Zhuyue said is also reasonable. Her tasting of saltiness can be said to be a test of poison on herself. We must exclude her completely! I would rather kill someone by mistake than let a bad person go and beat me!"
"Grandmother, if Ziyu was the one who poisoned the woman, then the one standing here today would not be Wanyi, the daughter of his noble family."
Feng Jinyu looked at Xie Wanyi in confusion.
"What do you mean?" The Empress Dowager frowned. "You were married by the Emperor's own order. How could it be anyone else?"
"It was I who granted you and Yu'er your marriage. Does this have anything to do with whether Ziyu was the one who poisoned someone?"
Xie Wanyi was worried about someone listening in. "This matter is of great importance. Please ask the Empress Dowager and the Emperor to move to the room to talk. Please also send someone to find Elder Lu."
Emperor Qianyuan secretly thought that this was not good. Why did they ask Old Lu to come? Could it be that Xie Wanyi knew that Yu'er was about to have no descendants, and was using this as a threat to spare Ziyu from physical pain?
"No matter what you say, Ziyu can't escape this beating!" The Queen Mother said harshly and turned to go into the room.
Emperor Qianyuan had no choice but to follow the Empress Dowager into the room.
"Xu Mo, Mo Feng, come and carry me into the room."
"No, you can't come in!" Emperor Qianyuan objected immediately. He must not let him know that he was going to have no descendants.
"Wanyi." Feng Jinyu looked at her. "Do you want to hide what you want to say from me?"
Xie Wanyi didn't want to tell Feng Jinyu for fear that he would get angry and affect his health, but the person behind the scenes wanted him to have no descendants, and his intentions were too vicious, so it would be better for the prince to know something.
"Father, this matter is related to the prince. The prince needs to know the evil intentions of the villain behind the scenes."
Emperor Qianyuan glanced at Xie Wanyi several times. It was impossible for Old Lu to lie and tell her that Yu'er was about to have no descendants.
If Duke Xie knew about this, he would definitely try every possible means to cancel the engagement.
"Xu Mo, Mo Feng, please bring your prince in."
After Elder Lu arrived, the Empress Dowager said, "Although Ziyu is your maid, that doesn't prevent the person behind the scenes from bribing her. After all, people's hearts are hidden! Tell me, what exactly made you so sure that Ziyu was not the one who poisoned her?"
"Before Wanyi married into the First Prince's mansion, Elder Lu prescribed a secret recipe for her grandson's wife to give birth to a son. She was to drink a bowl of it every night before bed. Ziyu was the one who brewed the soup for me every day. When I finished the fifth bowl, Elder Lu discovered that it contained ingredients that could cause infertility."
When these words were spoken, Emperor Qianyuan and the Empress Dowager were shocked.
Only Feng Jinyu remained calm and said calmly, "Old Lu made timely remedies, and the person who boiled the medicine was still Zi Yu. If I am not mistaken, the person who gave you the sterilization drug behind the scenes wanted to make me childless. The person behind the scenes did not take action against you for the time being, but you deceived them and made them think that you had been poisoned and there was no chance of conceiving my child. Am I right?"
"Yes, my lord."
The Empress Dowager hurriedly asked, "Mr. Lu, is what Wanyi said true?"
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