The young eunuch said: "The silver is still in my residence. No one would carry so much silver on his person."
"Your Highness." Tu Qingyu looked at Jiang Jingchuan, "Every penny in the palace is recorded. Even if a single ounce of silver goes out of my pocket, it's recorded. Since he said that a maid in my palace gave him twenty ounces, twenty ounces is not a small sum to me. Your Highness, please have someone check my palace accounts to see if there's a discrepancy of twenty ounces."
"Also, since Chen Liangdi insists that I was the one who ordered Xiao He, let's have someone search Xiao He's residence."
She looked completely clear-minded and wasn't worried at all about what might be found in her bedroom.
Jiang Jingchuan nodded, "Okay, Li Shi, go check it out!"
Li Shi: "Yes."
Li Shi acted quickly. In just a quarter of an hour, he returned with the account book and the person.
He handed over the account book and said, "Your Highness, the accounts of Tu Liangyuan's palace are here. Tu Liangyuan spent almost no money. Almost all of it was given as rewards to the palace servants. The accounts are clear at a glance."
"Also, this is the medicine we found in the residence of the palace maid Xiaohe."
As soon as Li Shi finished speaking, Chen Liangdi couldn't hold back any longer, "I said yes! It was that bitch Tu Qingyu who poisoned me!"
"Shut up!" Jiang Jingchuan felt his ears couldn't bear it any longer. "Go, let the imperial physician examine it!"
The imperial physician was very quick, "Your Highness, this medicine is the same poison as the one Liang Di had."
He looked at Tu Qingyu, but Tu Qingyu frowned and looked at Xiaohe, "Xiaohe, what's going on?"
The Crown Princess also said, "Xiao He, all the things have been found. Why don't you admit who ordered you to do this?"
Xiao He knelt on the ground and trembled. After a long while, she looked up and said with tears streaming down her face, "Yes, I gave you this medicine!"
"But it wasn't Tu Liangyuan who ordered me to do it. It was Chen Liangdi who originally wanted me to do it to Tu Liangyuan!"
Earth-shattering!
Everyone's eyes turned to Xiaohe who was kneeling on the ground.
Chen Liangdi even cursed, "You little bitch, what are you talking about? Who are you to dare to associate with me?"
Xiao He straightened up, the resentment in her eyes almost condensing into substance. "Why shouldn't I dare? On what basis should I not dare? Because you, Chen Liangdi, coerced my family into doing things for you?"
"Of course I am humble. Your Chen family is crushing us like crushing an ant?"
"But how noble can you be? My family members are all dead, and you still use them to threaten me. If I hadn't accidentally learned the truth, I would have fulfilled your wish and helped you harm Tu Liangyuan."
"How could you have the heart to kill someone as good as Tu Liangyuan!"
"Your hands are covered in blood. You are much dirtier than us!"
"You've done so many evil things, you'll get your retribution!" She kept saying it, almost shouting at the end, looking angry and desperate.
"What are you talking about? What family member has passed away?" Chen Liangdi and Aunt Dai were both a little confused.
However, before they could react, Xiao He kowtowed to Jiang Jingchuan and said quickly:
"Your Highness, I was the one who administered the medicine. Chen Liang Di originally asked me to administer it to Tu Liang Yuan. However, the day before administering the medicine, someone told me that my family had passed away long ago, three months after the Chen family took them in. That person also gave me something that was close to my mother."
She took out a silver hairpin that had turned somewhat black. "My father was once a blacksmith. He made this hairpin for my mother himself. It even has my mother's small handwriting engraved on it."
"After my father passed away, my mother and younger brother were the only ones left at home. That's when I entered the palace and became a maid."
"They thought my family was easy to bully, so they took me away as soon as I entered the palace."
"We agreed that as long as I do my job well for Chen Liangdi, the Chen family will treat my mother and brother well, but, but..."
She lay on the ground and sobbed, as if she was extremely sad and her chest hurt a little.
Tu Qingyu frowned and looked at Jiang Jingchuan, "Your Highness, she is not in the right state."
"Imperial Physician." Jiang Jingchuan also noticed it and hurriedly called the imperial physician.
Xiao He did not let the doctor get close, "I have already taken poison. Anyway, I am the only one left in the family, and there is nothing to live for."
"Before I die, I'll make it clear to Consort Liang." A trace of blood trickled from the corner of her mouth as she spoke with difficulty, "Those eunuchs you controlled didn't betray you. I'll take the medicine and tell the first person I know. That's what the master wants."
"He...he thought you were going to take something from Tu Liangyuan's palace, so he didn't suspect me and sent the medicine to your yard... Later, the medicine came from my fellow villager. I have leverage over him. Do you think he'll listen to you just because you control his family?"
"He was the least favored child in the family. His parents had either beaten or scolded him since he was young. In the end, even though the family still had some extra money, they still... sent him here to be a rootless person. How could he not be cruel?"
She didn't want to betray this person, but this person just used such a disgusting reason to put everything on her.
Oh.
"You, you using his family to threaten him, that's really, really ridiculous!"
"puff--!"
After she finished speaking, she spat out a mouthful of blood, collapsed to the ground, and slowly died.
Jiang Jingchuan subconsciously covered Tu Qingyu's eyes, and his large and gentle palms almost covered her entire face.
She pulled his hand down and whispered, "Your Highness, I'm not afraid."
Jiang Jingchuan put his hand down only after he saw that she was truly not afraid.
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