Concubine Xie struggled hard to resist, but how could she resist the strength of a few eunuchs?
"Princess Jing, if I do anything wrong, it is the Emperor and the Empress who will punish me. If you dare to resort to private punishment, you will not be able to have an easy time if the Emperor and the Empress find out!"
Jingpin sneered, "You dare to threaten me? Come, beat him up!"
Two eunuchs restrained Concubine Xie, and another eunuch raised his palm as big as a palm-leaf fan and brought it down hard.
Seeing that the big hand was about to fall, Ning Yuxi shouted loudly: "Stop!"
Ning Yuxi pushed aside the servants gathered in the courtyard and walked in, staring straight at Jingpin: "Jingpin is so arrogant. She doesn't take the Emperor and Empress seriously, and dares to resort to lynching in the palace?"
Concubine Jing was so furious, why was it her again? Last time she wanted to punish Concubine Xie, it was Ning Yuxi who ruined her plans, and now it’s her again this time!
She said angrily: "Even if Concubine Yi wants to show off her power, she should consider the situation and the occasion. Since you are here today, you must know the whole story.
"Thank you, noble lady, for ordering your servants to poison my Fourth Prince. This is a serious crime. Moreover, as the head of Yuxiu Palace, what right do you have to interfere when I punish someone in my own palace?"
Ning Yuxi smiled and said, "Although Concubine Xie is a member of your palace, she is not a servant in your palace who can be punished by you. She is also the emperor's concubine. If a concubine makes a mistake, the empress will discipline her. How can it be your turn?"
"As for your claim that Consort Xie ordered someone to poison the Fourth Prince, there's no solid evidence yet, yet you're being so arbitrary. This is slander. Slandering others will earn you a beating!"
Ning Yuxi's words were well-reasoned and righteous, and Concubine Jing was unable to refute her for a moment.
Although the things in the food of the Fourth Prince's wet nurse were found in the Third Princess's wet nurse's room, it doesn't necessarily mean that Concubine Xie was the one who ordered it, unless the Third Princess's wet nurse said that Concubine Xie was the one who ordered it.
Thinking of this, she shouted at the Third Princess's wet nurse who was kneeling beside her, "Tell me, was it Noble Lady Xie who ordered you to poison my Fourth Prince?"
The wet nurse was so frightened that she was shaking like a sieve. She stammered, "Madam Jing, please understand. I have no idea why that thing was in my room. I absolutely did not poison the Fourth Prince."
"You still dare to quibble? I personally searched your room and found it. Do you dare to say it's not yours? Do you dare to say it wasn't you who drugged the Fourth Prince's wet nurse's food?"
Jingpin's sudden and sharp tone frightened the wet nurse so much that she kowtowed, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, Your Majesty, I would rather die than commit such a capital crime."
The situation was deadlocked for a moment. Ning Yuxi suddenly caught a glimpse of a nanny standing on the other side. She looked a little flustered, looked around, and swallowed her saliva from time to time.
Judging from where she was standing, she was next to the palace maids under Concubine Xie. Judging from her attire, she should be another wet nurse of the Third Princess. Why was she so panicked?
Ning Yuxi's eyes shifted. "Princess Jing, I think this wet nurse really didn't know about this. Who would be so stupid as to give her the drug and keep it in her own room?"
Jingpin said with a hint of impatience: "Who else could it be if not her?"
Ning Yuxi said, "No one who could think of poisoning someone would be so foolish as to keep the evidence. Perhaps the real murderer deliberately put the drug in the wet nurse's box to frame her."
As Ning Yuxi spoke, she quietly observed the other wet nurse. Sure enough, as soon as she said this, the other wet nurse looked even more flustered. She also saw her quietly wipe the cold sweat from her forehead.
Hearing Ning Yuxi's words, the kneeling wet nurse also reacted and cried, "Yes, yes, Her Majesty Yi is right. Someone must have framed this servant. Her Majesty, please understand."
Jingpin frowned tightly. "You said someone framed you. Okay, then who did it?"
"This, your servant... your servant..." The kneeling wet nurse looked at Ning Yuxi at a loss.
Ning Yuxi curled her lips into a smile and suddenly asked Jingpin, "Jingpin, when was the medicine added to the Fourth Prince's wet nurse's food?"
Jingpin's face was filled with impatience, but thinking about finding her son's murderer, she said, "The imperial physician found it in the wet nurse's lunch today."
Although she didn't want to admit it, Jingpin had to admit that what Yifei said was right. It was impossible for someone who harmed others to be stupid enough to put the evidence in his own box.
Ning Yuxi heard this and said, "Even if it was the drug given at lunch, the perpetrator must not have had time to deal with it yet. And since he was able to drug the Fourth Prince's wet nurse without making a sound,
He was also able to place the powder in the chest of the Third Princess's wet nurse, so this person must be very familiar with Yuxiu Palace, or perhaps someone who works there."
Ning Yu paused for a moment before continuing, "I heard the powder is white with a hint of powder and a faint orchid scent. So, if anyone present has this powder residue on their hands, that person must be the murderer who poisoned the person!"
After saying this, Ning Yuxi looked at Jingpin calmly and said calmly, "What do you think, Jingpin?"
Jingpin pondered for a moment, and her eyes suddenly became firm: "Investigate!"
As soon as she finished speaking, the two personal maids beside her began to check all the palace servants in Yuxiu Palace one by one.
Ning Yuxi also said to Luoying and Ruyi, "There are so many people here, you two should go and help Concubine Jing check."
As she spoke, Ning Yuxi looked at Luoying and raised her eyebrows calmly, then signaled with her eyes to the other wet nurse of the third princess who was standing nearby.
Luoying received Ning Yuxi's signal and understood it. She and Ruyi went to check it out together.
When Luoying checked the wet nurse, she quietly took out her commonly used orchid-scented perfume powder and pinched some in her hand in advance. When she picked up the wet nurse's hand to check, she calmly rubbed the powder onto the wet nurse's hand.
Then Luoying suddenly exclaimed in surprise, "It's you! Master, we found out!"
Upon hearing this, Ning Yuxi immediately stepped forward and grabbed the wet nurse's hand to examine it. She then sternly said, "It's you, Concubine Jing. Come here and see. There is indeed a white powder on her hand, and it smells faintly of orchid."
Jingpin went over to check as she was told, and sure enough, she saw powder on her hand. She was immediately furious: "Oh, so it's you! Come, take her away and give her twenty lashes!"
The nanny was already feeling guilty, and now, after being frightened by Ning Yuxi and Jingpin one after another, she was so frightened that she collapsed to her knees on the ground, saying in horror, "No, it's not yours, that powder clearly smells like daylily..."
As soon as these words were spoken, the nanny seemed to suddenly realize something, and immediately shut her mouth and dared not say another word, cold sweat breaking out.
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