Chapter 103: Kill it!
"What are you showing me?" Mo Yuyao frowned. "This cat has just spilled a bowl of sweet soup. If it spills more bowls, it will ruin my birthday party and bring shame to me!"
"Do you think this princess should be punished?" Mo Yuyao snorted coldly, turned to look at the Empress, with a hint of coquettishness in her tone.
"Mother, Yuyao has just been accompanying the Empress Dowager on a southern tour for a few days. After returning to the palace, she has lost even this little status. She can't even punish a cat."
"Yuyao, it's just a bowl of sweet soup, it's nothing serious." The Queen frowned slightly, "Let Yang Guiren give you a proper gift and apology later, so as not to beat the cat to death."
After hearing this, Mo Yuyao immediately became angry, "Mother, why do you always favor others!"
"I don't care. I'm going to beat this stinky cat to death today!"
Snowball whimpered in fear in Little Sugar's arms.
Little Tangbao gently touched Xuetuan's head, stood up and bowed respectfully to the Queen, "Queen, Xuetuan is not making trouble on purpose, it is saving me."
"I think we shouldn't hit it, but we should reward Yang Guiren and Xuetuan."
"What do you mean?" Upon hearing the word 'rescue', the queen instantly became anxious.
"There's something wrong with my bowl of sweet soup." Little Tangbao straightened the tilted bowl, "There's still a little bit left in it. Can you ask the doctor to check it?"
Hearing this, Mo Yuyao's heart immediately began to hang in the air.
Let the imperial physician come and examine it. If the evidence is exposed and she is implicated, it will be a big problem.
She forced herself to show off her dignity and sneered, "You can even make up such a lie just to protect a beast."
"Whether I made it up or not, you'll know when the imperial physician comes." Little Tang Bao stared coldly at Mo Yuyao, "If you think that letting the imperial physician come now will disturb your birthday party, we can wait until the party is over to check it out."
"It doesn't matter. The birthday banquet is about to end. Besides, this case involves poisoning, which is a serious crime of assassination in the palace. Let's let the imperial physician come now." The Queen made the final decision.
Mo Yuyao's face froze.
It’s over, it’s over, if they really find out.
Given the strict personalities of her father and mother, she would definitely be severely punished.
Just when she didn't know what to do, the imperial physician arrived.
"Your Majesty, I pay my respects to Her Majesty." The imperial physician bowed respectfully.
"Hurry up and take a look to see if there is anything wrong with the sweet soup left in Princess Mingzhu's bowl." The Queen asked hastily.
The imperial physician quickly took the poison testing equipment and began to examine it carefully.
After checking for a long time, he bowed respectfully to the queen and said, "The sweet soup in this bowl is not poisonous."
Hearing this, Mo Yuyao breathed a sigh of relief and loosened her clenched hands.
"Just say that it was that beast that caused the trouble and take it out and deal with it immediately."
"Your Majesty, please have mercy!" Yang Guiren knelt on the ground. "My days in the palace were lonely and boring. It was Xuetuan who accompanied me. I carefully raised it from the size of a palm to the present day."
"Princess Yuyao, please be so kind as to release Xuetuan. I am willing to deduct half a year's salary from myself. I will keep a close watch on Xuetuan and make sure he doesn't run away again."
As Mr. Yang spoke, tears began to fall from his eyes.
Xuetuan was also very human. Seeing Yang Guiren crying, it jumped out of Xiaotangbao's arms, walked quickly to Yang Guiren, and rubbed her with its head.
The Empress felt sorry for the cat. "Since it's not poisonous, I'm relieved. The cat didn't do it on purpose. Just take it back and take good care of it, Mr. Yang."
"No! How can you be so partial, mother? This cat broke the bowls and dishes and disturbed my feast. And there is also the daughter of the Marquis of Yongyi. There is a rumor that she is poisonous, and even the imperial physician has come to make a scene."
"My birthday party was going great, but now it's all messed up!" Mo Yuyao wiped her tears, looking like she had suffered a great injustice.
After saying this, she waved her hand to signal the palace maids to catch the snowballs.
When Xiaotangbao saw this, he immediately stepped forward and protected Xuetuan behind him.
[It is impossible to test whether silver is poisonous, but if the imperial physician smells it and tastes it, it will prove that what I said is correct.]
"Doctor, drink the sweet soup, taste it."
The imperial physician was a little confused.
The Queen Mother spoke up, "Doctor, whether it is poisonous or not, silver instruments cannot detect it, but it will still make people feel uncomfortable if they eat it, and in serious cases, they will lose their lives."
The imperial physician was startled when he heard this, then nodded and immediately picked up the bowls and continued to examine the case carefully.
When Mo Yuyao saw this scene, he clenched his fists nervously.
"Reporting to Her Majesty, someone did put something in the sweet soup."
"It's a concentrated juice extracted from the cycad. This juice is extremely cold. After drinking it, you will have unbearable abdominal pain and become weak. In serious cases..."
"What!" The Queen was shocked.
The other concubines were also shocked and started talking about it.
"Who is so cruel as to want to hurt our little Princess Mingzhu?"
"That's right, little Princess Mingzhu was such a kind and good girl, who could have done such a cruel thing to her?"
"Her Majesty, please conduct a thorough investigation!"
…
Mo Yuyao felt uneasy and his face turned pale after hearing this.
"Investigate and find out what happened." The Queen waved her hand, "If something like this happens in the palace, it must be severely punished!"
All the Kabuki actors who had come to celebrate Mo Yuyao's birthday retreated.
The open space in the middle of the hall was filled with palace maids and eunuchs from the kitchen kneeling in unison.
After checking for several minutes, a little palace maid finally spoke timidly.
"I saw an unfamiliar old lady coming here."
"I don't know which palace she is from, but she is the only unfamiliar face I have seen today."
"She came to the kitchen and just walked around a few times before leaving, so I didn't take it seriously at the time."
"Investigate! Investigate anyone who is suspicious!"
Hearing this, Mo Yuyao's personal nanny became a little panicked.
She subconsciously took two steps back, trying to hide in the crowd so as not to be conspicuous.
At this moment, Xiaotangbao said to Xuetuan, "Good cat, go find out who you saw today."
Xuetuan meowed obediently, looked around, and walked straight towards Mo Yuyao's personal nanny.
When the nanny saw this, she panicked and dodged quickly.
But Xuetuan just kept his eyes on her and kept meowing at her.
"Madame Wu?" The Queen frowned every day.
Nanny Wu smiled wryly and tried to kick the snowball to drive it away. "This cat has a very sharp nose. It can tell that I prepared fish soup for the princess."
When Mo Yuyao heard this, she quickly agreed, "Yes, I specifically asked Aunt Wu to prepare fish soup for me today."
The two people's explanation was so poor that no one present believed it.
Everyone stared at the two of them and talked a lot.
"Princess Yuyao has always been domineering, but I didn't expect her to be so vicious."
"Yes, how could she be so cruel at such a young age? Could it be that this nanny is vicious?"