The Fourth Prince glared at Lady Nian, filled with disgust: "Hongsheng is your son, yet when I question you, you know nothing. His death is inextricably linked to you..."
Upon hearing this, Lady Nian was shocked and collapsed to the ground, saying, "Your Highness, Hongsheng's death was a plot by someone else. Hongsheng was the apple of my eye, how could I possibly harm him!"
"Of course you wouldn't poison him, but your negligence led to him being attacked. If you had been meticulous in everything you did for Hongsheng, how could you have given someone an opportunity to take advantage of him?" Fourth Master said angrily.
Lanqin watched this scene from the side, feeling uneasy. Although the Nian family did not deserve sympathy, the way Hongsheng was poisoned was truly chilling.
Speechless, Lady Nian suddenly realized that she had always neglected Hongsheng. If he had any needs, she would usually have the maids and wet nurses do them, and she rarely did it herself.
When Lanqin returned to the south courtyard from the front yard, Madam Song and Madam Wu were already sitting in her main room drinking tea.
"You're all here!" As soon as Lanqin entered the room, she felt hot and gestured to Baoqin to take off her cotton shoulder cover.
"Well, what exactly is the poison that Hongsheng has used?" Madam Wu asked, rising to greet him.
"Since you want to know, why don't you go and listen?" Lanqin smiled and rolled her eyes at Wu Shi.
“I’m not going. It’s satisfying to see Lady Nian suffer, but the Third Prince is innocent. Since I can’t sympathize with her, I might as well not go and provoke her,” said Lady Wu.
"What kind of poison is it?" Madam Song asked.
“Cinnabar! It’s a heavy metal. Someone put cinnabar in Hong Sheng’s food or in some other way, and it’s likely not just a day or two, but a long time. He died from the poison after the toxicity in his body reached a certain level,” Lan Qin said.
Madam Wu and Madam Song exchanged a glance and said, "We heard that when he was poisoned, he locked himself in his room. We wonder what happened?"
"It was quite a coincidence. Hongsheng bought a fake painting by Tang Bohu to please the prince, which is why he was punished by the Nian family. But who knew that he would be poisoned during this time? If it had been discovered earlier, there might have been a chance to save him," Lanqin said.
"What a tragedy! Lady Nian must be feeling very guilty. Sheng is already engaged. Who could be so cruel as to poison the Third Prince right under Lady Nian's nose?" Lady Song shook her head and said.
Lanqin frowned as well. She had thought about the Fourth Prince's wife. But she hadn't been involved in household affairs for so many years, and the Fourth Prince was very wary of her.
“This person must hate Nian to the core. Otherwise, why would they poison her son like that? Think about it, besides the one living in the main courtyard, who else hates Nian so much?” Wu Shi analyzed.
Lanqin shook her head and said, "This matter is quite strange. Although Nian Shi has a bad temper, she hasn't made any particular enemies over the years!"
Suddenly, the power struggle in the Fourth Prince's inner quarters intensified once again. Lanqin had been in charge of the inner quarters for several years, and even she couldn't guess who hated Lady Nian so much!
There was only one person who knew the truth: Empress Fucha. After learning that the imperial physician had discovered that the poison Hongsheng had been given was cinnabar, she devised a wicked plan to shift the blame onto Lady Liu.
Anyway, the Fourth Prince will eventually ascend the throne and become emperor. Fucha thought that getting rid of one person would be better than having one less person competing with her for the position of empress.
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