Dingxiang immediately pulled out her needle case and rushed to the bedside, placing her hand on Nanny Qiao's wrist.
"It was indeed poisoning; it was arsenic."
After taking her pulse, Dingxiang's gaze darkened. She turned the unconscious wet nurse Qiao over and began to insert acupuncture needles.
After a few acupuncture needles, her heart meridian was temporarily protected. Only then did she begin writing the prescription and then instruct a palace maid to fetch the medicine from the imperial pharmacy.
The young palace maid grabbed the prescription and ran out as fast as she could.
Dingxiang wiped the sweat from her forehead and pulled up a stool to sit down.
A short while later, a commotion arose outside.
Dingxiang looked towards the door: "The people from the Imperial Pharmacy arrived so quickly?"
But it wasn't someone from the Imperial Pharmacy who came; it was Granny Fangqi.
Since becoming the head of the Shanggong Bureau, Granny Fangqi has been very busy and rarely comes to Changqing Palace.
Fu Liu was the first to receive the news and hurriedly led people out to greet them.
"Granny, what brings you here today? Are you here to see the young prince and princess?"
Fuliu learned a lot of skills from Granny Fangqi, so she treated her very warmly.
Unexpectedly, Granny Fangqi raised her eyebrows and pointed at her, cursing.
"I entrusted this palace to you, but how have you managed it? You didn't even know when something went wrong!"
Fu Liu paused for a moment.
"What did you say, Granny?"
“I received a message that someone was poisoning people in Changqing Palace.”
Fangqi's words startled Fuliu so much that her face turned pale, and she hurriedly ran towards the main hall.
She thought something had happened to the two young masters.
Before they even reached the main hall entrance, Dingxiang came out from the servants' quarters.
"There's nothing wrong in the main hall, it's Nanny Qiao."
Fuliu, Granny Fangqi, and the others all turned to look at her.
Dingxiang pointed inside the room: "The person is lying inside! I just administered acupuncture, and their life has been temporarily saved."
Granny Fangqi frowned as she walked over. Upon entering, she saw that the wet nurse Qiao on the bed was barely breathing. While she felt a sense of relief, her heart tightened again.
"Do you know who did it?"
Dingxiang shrugged and spread her hands: "I only care about saving people, investigating cases isn't my forte. Should we wait for Her Highness to return before we talk about it, Granny?"
"Then it will be too late."
Granny Fangqi's gaze swept across the room, instantly revealing a chilling aura.
She summoned everyone in the palace to one place and questioned them one by one.
The main question is who has a conflict with Nurse Qiao.
As a result, many people pointed the finger at Wen Niang.
A young palace maid even confidently declared, "This afternoon, Wen Niang and Nanny Qiao had a fight! Wen Niang pushed Nanny Qiao down, and Nanny Qiao was injured, cut, and bled a lot."
Granny Fangqi asked the others and, after receiving their affirmative replies, immediately had someone call Wenniang over.
The palace maid who went to fetch someone returned quickly, her face not looking too good.
"She said she has to stay with the young master and won't come over. If you have any questions, you can go and ask her!"
"Outrageous! How dare she be so arrogant! Does she really think she's her master?!"
Granny Fangqi was furious and slammed her hand on the armrest.
"You guys, go and bring him here! Drag him here if you have to!"
Fu Liu hesitated for a moment and said, "Granny, perhaps we shouldn't do this? Before Her Majesty left, she instructed Wen Niang to stay with the young masters and not to wander around. It's really not appropriate for her to come over right now!"
Granny Fangqi gave a cold laugh.
"That's just her excuse. A mere servant, who only fed her mistress a few mouthfuls of milk, thinks she's somehow superior. Not only can she not tolerate others, she even poisons them! How can such a vicious woman be tolerated in this palace? You lot, why aren't you leaving?!"
She looked at the palace maids who had come with her.
The palace maids immediately went to the main hall and, without giving Wen Niang a chance to explain, dragged her directly to the front hall.
Wenniang was thrown onto the open ground in front of the hall.
She struggled to her feet.
"Granny, I..."
She had just opened her mouth to explain when she heard a cold shout from Granny Fangqi.
Slap him!
At her command, the palace maid standing next to Wenniang immediately raised her hand and slapped her hard.
Wen Niang was slapped to the ground, and half of her face swelled up immediately.
She looked at Granny Fangqi with fear and uncertainty.
Granny Fangqi looked down at her.
"Was it you who poisoned Nanny Qiao?"
Wen Niang almost jumped up.
"I didn't do it!"
"Still dare to lie?! Humph! You won't shed a tear until you see the coffin!" Granny Fangqi pulled at her face and pointed to a row of palace maids behind her. "They all testify that you had an argument with Nanny Qiao at noon and pushed her down."
"That doesn't mean I poisoned her!"
Wenniang wanted to argue, but Granny Fangqi didn't give her a chance.
"So, in the small kitchen, you deliberately bumped into the maid who was fetching meals for Nanny Qiao, didn't you?"
Wen Niang paused for a moment, then nodded subconsciously.
"The same pot of white fungus soup and the same pot of steamed barley cake were both safe for you, but the one that Concubine Qiao ate was poisoned. And along the way, besides that little palace maid, only you touched that food box. The little palace maid and Concubine Qiao had no grudge against each other, so who else could it be but you?"
Granny Fangqi spoke with conviction, and what she said did indeed make a lot of sense.
Wen Niang's face turned pale at first. After going through these words in her mind, she was shocked and horrified.
"She...it was Nanny Qiao who poisoned herself..."
Granny Fangqi gave a cold laugh.
"Facing imminent death, she speaks without thinking? What reason would she have to poison herself? That poison is extremely potent; if Dingxiang had arrived even a moment later, she would have been dead!"
Wen Niang gritted her teeth: "She's trying to frame me!"
"Who do you think you are? To frame you? Ha! If you said it was to poison the masters, I might believe it, but would she risk her life for a mere wet nurse like you?"
Granny Fangqi didn't believe it at all.
Wet nurses are not irreplaceable.
Wen Niang was speechless and unable to defend herself.
Granny Fangqi waved her hand: "Tie her up and take her to the Disciplinary Department."
Wenniang's face grew paler and paler as she watched the palace maid approaching her.
That wet nurse of Qiao's had such a vicious scheme!
She gritted her teeth.
Now all we can do is wait for the Empress to return and make decisions for us.
But just then, an unexpected figure suddenly ran towards them in a panic.
"Wen Niang! Wen Niang! It wasn't Wen Niang who did it! You've made a mistake! It definitely wasn't Wen Niang!"
Wen Niang looked up and saw Jin Nan Niang barging in with a pale face.
She stood in front of Wen Niang.
"Granny, this definitely wasn't Wen Niang's doing! I'm with Wen Niang every day, she wouldn't poison anyone! The palace is so strictly controlled, where would she get the poison from? It definitely wasn't her."
Jin, the wet nurse, kowtowed deeply.
Unexpectedly, Wen Niang's expression suddenly changed, and she grabbed her.
"Who told you to come here? Wasn't I telling you to stay inside and watch over the young masters? Now that you've come, there's no one to look after the two young masters, isn't there?"
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