Chapter 136 The Battle for the Throne 1
Huizhi and Lanxin's faces turned pale. As the empress's personal maids, they didn't even realize that the empress was poisoned.
"How come the imperial physician didn't diagnose it? I'll summon the director of the Imperial Hospital right now."
Huizhi immediately stood up and prepared to go and summon the person.
"Huizhi, you are too impatient. Please listen to what I have to say."
Lianyi spoke out to stop her, then stood up, held Lanxin's arm, and sat down beside the bed.
After hearing this, Huizhi stopped walking, frowned, and followed the queen.
"Queen, have you discovered anything?"
"You are my personal maids, so I'm sure you have some doubts!"
Ripple asked calmly.
Huizhi and Lanxin looked at each other, then both knelt in front of Lianyi, bowed their heads to the ground, and said in a trembling voice:
"It is I who deserve to die! I thought the three princesses were all flesh and blood of the empress, and they would not do such a rebellious thing, so I occasionally leaked some news from the palace to them to reassure them, but I never thought they would dare to murder the empress."
The two of them had seen a lot of oppression, and if they thought about who would be the ultimate beneficiary if the empress became seriously ill, it would not be difficult to guess who did it. However, they were not sure which of the three princesses was responsible.
"They are grown up now and have their own thoughts. You don't want us to be separated. It's a pity that they took advantage of your protective heart and did this kind of thing."
Lianyi did not blame the two female officials. After all, what they revealed were some daily life matters that had nothing to do with political affairs. However, these children took advantage of this and attacked her.
"Check the incense burner and the spices inside carefully. Also check the ginseng soup that the emperor sent. Don't alarm anyone. If you find any problems, arrange for your trusted aides to keep an eye on them. Don't touch them for now."
Lian Yi ordered directly.
"Yes, Queen!"
"You guys go down first, I need to rest for a while."
Lianyi assigned tasks to the two and sent them off to do their work.
Huizhi and Lanxin helped Lianyi lie down, then they tiptoed out of the bedroom.
"Phoenix head!"
Lianyi lay on the bed and two words came out of her mouth.
At this time, a female secret guard in black landed lightly in front of Lianyi's bed, knelt on one knee and whispered:
"I deserve to die! But I didn't find any traces of poison."
"Everything is mutually reinforcing and mutually restraining. They found two completely non-toxic things and let them enter my body one by one. Even the imperial physician would not be able to detect it for a while. Your strengths are not here, so it is inevitable that you will be negligent."
"What do you need me to do?"
"Arrange someone to keep an eye on the three princesses' residences. I want to know what's going on in their residences."
"Yes, I will arrange it right away."
"Also, check whether the secret guards I assigned to the First and Second Princesses have all pledged their loyalty to their new masters."
"I understand! What if they are already on the side of the princess?"
Feng Shou lowered his eyes and asked.
"Then they must be prepared to accept the consequences of their choices."
Lian Yi said directly without even opening her eyes.
Feng Shou was shocked after hearing this. The Queen had obviously given up on those secret guards.
"Don't try to remind them. If you alert them and ruin my plan, I will hold you responsible!"
"I dare not!"
Feng Shou said immediately that her thoughts and concerns were clearly seen by the Queen.
After waiting for a while, the empress did not speak again, and Fengshou quietly left the bedroom.
When she was sure that there was no one in the bedroom, Lianyi opened her eyes again, and a fierce look flashed in her eyes.
As the original queen of Fengming Kingdom, although she had no great achievements and had never made any mistakes in state affairs, she worked diligently to protect the country built by her ancestors. However, things went wrong with her heir.
She had three princesses. The eldest princess was born to her and her princess husband when she had not yet inherited the throne. After she broke through the siege as a dark horse and finally inherited the throne, the Empress Dowager was worried that she did not have the support of her powerful husband's family, so she arranged for her to have the current princess husband and demoted the princess husband who gave birth to the eldest princess to the position of a servant, and he missed the opportunity to become the princess husband.
When she first took charge of government, she was restricted in every way and had no other choice. In addition, the Empress Dowager personally issued an edict, so she could only accept it with gritted teeth. However, in order to compensate, she made the former princess' husband the Lord Rong, the head of the Four Lords. Before the Second Princess was born, she also showed preference to the Eldest Princess.
The Emperor's husband had just entered the palace, and he knew well that he would not be able to gain a foothold by the side of the new Empress without an heir. Moreover, the relationship between the Empress and Rong Shijun was much stronger than that between him, who joined halfway. So he tried his best to show the difference between himself and Rong Shijun, to show his tolerance, and to take care of the old people around the Empress.
A year after he became the emperor's husband, the empress became pregnant and confirmed that the child was his. He was relieved. The second princess was born amid everyone's anticipation, and the emperor naturally had the right to hold the child by his side and raise it. From then on, he had someone to rely on.
The father of the third princess was a minor servant who had no great power behind him. He was the only one who had the third princess because he was valued by the empress. After the princess came of age, the empress promoted the minor servant to the position of Xian Shijun, the last of the four Shijuns.
The original body was relatively restrained, and did not indulge in love. After having three heirs, she did not have any more children. However, as the princesses grew up, there was some discord between the eldest princess and the second princess, and they fought overtly and covertly in private, and both sides had supporters.
The older generation in the court all supported the eldest princess, believing that she was the legitimate daughter and the eldest daughter. The second princess only occupied the position of a legitimate daughter because of the will of the Empress Dowager, and she was able to compete with the eldest princess because of the support of the emperor's husband behind her.
Some new ministers supported the Second Princess. After all, he was the husband appointed by the Empress Dowager, and her daughter was naturally the legitimate daughter and qualified to inherit the throne. The First Princess's father's family was not prosperous and could not give her much support.
The root of disaster was thus planted. The two sides fought back and forth, and neither was willing to admit defeat. The original body did not want his own flesh and blood to kill each other, so he could only try to balance the two sides. Unfortunately, as they grew older, the two princesses could no longer hold back and attacked the empress one after another.
These two people were not stupid. They knew that if their mother died suddenly, it would definitely arouse suspicion from the royal family. So they gave her a chronic non-toxic medicine respectively. The purpose was to make her feel unwell and have no energy to handle state affairs, thus delegating power to them.
Unfortunately, these two chronic non-toxic drugs formed a new chronic poison when they came into contact with each other, and began to erode the original body. The imperial physician did not notice it at the beginning, and when he discovered it later, it was too late to save the patient.
After the original body knew the reason for his own physical breakdown, he was so angry that he sent both of them to jail and dealt with their father's family.
(End of this chapter)
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