"Your Majesty the Empress Dowager! Your Majesty the Empress Dowager is overjoyed! The Fifth Prince and the Sixth Prince have both recovered from their illnesses! All the sick princes, princesses, and ladies have also fully recovered!"
Upon hearing this, the faces of the concubines immediately turned grim again.
Upon hearing this, the Empress Dowager excitedly came out carrying Xiao Chanian, laughing loudly, "Good, good, good! I knew it! As expected, Niannian is a lucky star in the palace! No matter how the villains try to frame us, as long as Niannian is here, we will not stand by and watch them succeed!"
With that, the Empress Dowager revealed her majesty and spoke sharply, "Investigate! Investigate thoroughly what happened! Who dared to lay a hand on the imperial concubines in the palace!"
The young eunuch hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, just now, after the Fifth Prince and the Sixth Prince miraculously recovered, several incense burners in the room and courtyard suddenly overturned. The imperial physicians present could not find anything wrong. Your Highness, Consort Gui and Consort Shu, please grant Your Majesty permission to invite the Imperial Preceptor to come and take a look."
Upon hearing this, the Empress Dowager pondered for a moment and then nodded. "Go! Go all of you! Since the incense burner over there has also been overturned, it must be a warning from Heaven! We must thoroughly investigate this matter!"
Huo Chengche, watching the imperial physician and the Grand Preceptor shaking their heads repeatedly at the incense burner in the room, suddenly spoke up, "Imperial Physician, Grand Preceptor Luo, if examining just one incense burner is no problem, why not examine a few more?"
These words immediately enlightened the two of them.
The imperial physician and Luo Dangdang both raised their heads and repeatedly replied "Yes," then immediately turned and went out to check the other overturned incense burners.
At this moment, the palace servants who had been sent out by Huo Chengche to check the overturned records returned and handed the scrolls of records to the imperial physician and the national advisor.
Within half an hour, the imperial physician discovered the problem.
It turns out that someone placed incompatible incense in the incense burner according to the places different people visit each day. There is no problem smelling each incense individually, but you cannot smell them at the same time in a short period of time.
If you smell this at the same time several times, you will fall ill within three days, and if there is no antidote, your condition will only get worse.
The Empress Dowager felt a chill run down her spine upon hearing this ingenious and vicious method. If it weren't for Xiao Chanian's outburst just now, in a few days, everyone would probably have watched helplessly as most of the imperial heirs in the palace were killed or injured, and the little boy would have been innocently implicated and suffered an unjust accusation...
Huo Chengche narrowed his deep eyes, just in time to see Consort Li sitting swaggeringly in her palanquin, looking smug and triumphant. A sharp aura emanated from him.
"Perfect timing! Today is the grand imperial court day, so let's examine the authenticity of this 'Imperial Preceptor's letter,' which involves all the imperial heirs!"
After saying this, Huo Chengche ordered his men to press down Consort Li without further ado and bring her to the Grand Court.
Today, the imperial court is still arguing and pressuring Emperor Chongjin to abolish Princess Xiaochanian Fuying's title and imprison her so that she will no longer persecute the imperial heirs.
Huo Chengche then brought Consort Li directly to the imperial court, presented the evidence he had just discovered to prove Xiao Chanian's innocence, and his sharp gaze swept over the assembled officials.
For a moment, the hall was completely silent.
Emperor Chongjin looked at the assembled officials, each with a different expression, before the irrefutable evidence. His sharp eyes narrowed, and he said in a deep, cold voice, "My ministers, what else do you have to say?"
Everyone knelt down and shouted that they dared not.
Consort Li had only enjoyed her moment of glory for a few days, but now, seeing the evidence that Huo Chengche had photographed in front of her, her face turned pale and she almost collapsed to the ground.
However, after clutching the letter from the Imperial Preceptor Yeji hidden in her sleeve, she regained her confidence. Facing the sharp gazes of Emperor Chongjin and his son Huo Chengche, she immediately took out the letter and said...
"Your Highness, I do not know why you brought me to this hall. Although the incense burner and the like were made by my palace servants, there is no evidence to prove that I instructed them to do so. Clearly, someone is trying to frame me!"
"Moreover, the letter from the Imperial Preceptor in my possession has been examined by all the ministers and is clearly written by the Imperial Preceptor Yeji himself, with no trace of forgery!"
"This handwritten letter is genuine!"
Consort Li spoke with righteous indignation.
As soon as she finished speaking, a deep, resonant voice echoed from outside the main hall.
"Oh? You have a letter written by me personally? Your Highness, Consort Li, would you like to show it to me?"
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