The next day, when King Xiang got up to wash, he suddenly started coughing, and his internal organs were almost coughed out.
After calming down, he spread out his covered hands and found that there was a large pool of blood on them. He felt something was wrong, so he quickly asked someone to take his name card into the palace and ask the imperial physician to come out of the palace to treat him.
The imperial physician from the Imperial Hospital had just rushed into the palace, put down the medicine box he was carrying, and said that Prince Xiang had coughed up blood when he woke up in the morning. Then he was hurriedly "invited" from the Imperial Hospital to Prince Xiang's Mansion by the people in Prince Xiang's Mansion.
After the imperial physician came forward to take King Xiang's pulse, the frown on his face never relaxed. After thinking over his words again and again, he knelt heavily on the ground and kowtowed.
"I am incompetent. Your Highness has been poisoned, but this poison is rare. I cannot tell what kind of poison it is. I cannot prepare an antidote for Your Highness immediately. I beg Your Highness to punish me."
After hearing this, King Xiang was furious and swept away everything on the table. He was actually poisoned and had no way of finding out.
Prince Xiang recalled the details of his interactions with others over the past few months and felt that Qin Ranran was becoming increasingly suspicious. It was only after Qin Ranran entered the mansion that his health became worse day by day.
He immediately ordered: "Come here - check the concubine's courtyard thoroughly for me!"
The imperial physician retreated with the servants of the palace and went to Qin Ranran's courtyard. The imperial physician felt that this would be a big project and had already started thinking about how to take care of the few remaining hairs after returning home.
But what he didn't expect was that the matter was resolved so quickly.
When he followed the servants to Qin Ranran's courtyard, he happened to see Qin Ranran's maid trying to pour out the bath water that Prince Xiang and Qin Ranran had taken last night. The imperial physician, adhering to the principle of thorough investigation, wanted to check the bath water that the maid was about to pour out.
I didn't expect that it would be fine if I hadn't tested it. I was shocked when I did. The poison in the bath water was clearly the same as the one found in Prince Xiang's body.
The case was solved so easily that the imperial physician almost suspected that the plot in the novel he had read in the book was fake. Seeing that there was nothing else for him to do, he suggested going back to the palace to get some herbs to prepare an antidote.
Prince Xiang ordered the imperial physician to be sent back to the palace. After learning that the poison was found in Qin Ranran's courtyard, Prince Xiang remembered that Qin Ranran's elder sister Qin Ruoruo was good at making poison!
After spending half a month with Qin Ranran, he also realized that Qin Ranran was the kind of woman who only loved to take advantage of small opportunities.
She definitely couldn't have come up with such a bold plan as poisoning him. There must be someone else behind it.
Thinking of this, King Xiang recalled the Duke of Qin's straightforwardness in agreeing to form an alliance with him and marrying his concubine's daughter to him, without any consideration at all.
Such frankness made King Xiang suspicious a few months later.
After connecting the dots, he imagined in his mind that the Duke of Qin's Mansion had resorted to extreme measures and united with everyone in the mansion to poison him, just to ensure that Yuwen Ran could sit firmly on the throne.
He swung his sleeves angrily, then stood up and took Qin Ranran back to Duke Qin's Mansion to ask for an explanation.
Qin Ranran has been denying everything since she was brought from the courtyard to the hall by servants, saying that it is impossible for her to poison King Xiang.
Prince Xiang was annoyed by Qin Ranran's noise, so he simply asked his servants to cover her mouth with a rag and threw her on the carriage. The carriage was driven towards the Duke Qin's mansion. Along the way, the only sound in the carriage was Qin Ranran's whimpering and stammering.
As soon as he arrived at Duke Qin's mansion, he saw Duke Qin coming out to greet him. King Xiang no longer had the joy he had before, but was filled with hatred. He grabbed Qin Ranran's hair, pulled her out of the carriage, and threw her hard in front of Duke Qin.
Then he shouted angrily at Duke Qin: "Duke, Sister Guo Ran has raised a good daughter. Even after the truth was revealed, she stubbornly insisted on her innocence!"
When Duke Qin heard that Prince Xiang had returned with Qin Ranran, he thought that Prince Xiang had accompanied Qin Ranran back to visit relatives, so he hurriedly got up and went out to greet her from the hall. When he arrived at the door, he saw that his beloved daughter was tied up and brought back by Prince Xiang to be punished.
Upon seeing this, Duke Qin knelt on the ground and kowtowed to King Xiang. "I don't understand what Your Highness is saying. My daughter and I are both devoted to Your Highness! Please understand."
After saying this, Duke Qin staggered up his head. When he raised his head, blood was already oozing from his forehead, which showed how hard he had been hit.
After hearing what Xiang Wang said, King Xiang snorted coldly as if he had heard a joke: "You are loyal to me? What a joke! Would you poison me if you are loyal to me?"
Duke Qin was stunned, a look of disbelief on his face. He kowtowed several times to King Xiang and cried, "I swear on my life! I absolutely did not poison Your Highness! If I lied even a word, I wish I would be struck by five thunders and die miserably!"
At this time, Qin Ranran also spit out the cloth that had been stuffed in her mouth.
Because her throat was so dry, she spoke hoarsely, "I...I, your concubine, am willing to swear on my life! I absolutely did not poison Your Highness. If I tell even a single lie, I will be torn apart by five horses. I also wish to never be reborn, and to suffer the torment of having my heart ripped out in the underworld!"
After listening to the fierce oaths uttered by Duke Qin and Qin Ranran, father and daughter, King Xiang gradually calmed down.
If it was really done by Duke Qin's Mansion, then the death oath they just made would undoubtedly cost them their lives. What's more, Qin Ranran even said such cruel words that they would never be reborn, so it must not be them who did it.
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