Chapter 63 Why must I be a favorite concubine?
But the Queen Mother had been in the palace for many years after all, and she had a powerful maternal family, connections, means, and status.
It is easy to cover up some evidence.
The people in the palace searched in panic for four or five days, but found nothing.
That is to say, two cooks in the small kitchen of the Empress Dowager's palace suddenly returned to their hometown.
Zhao Miaomiao hurriedly asked Eunuch Gao to track the whereabouts of the two chefs.
But these two cooks were killed as soon as they left the palace.
Bodies littered the streets.
The clues are gone.
The witness is dead.
Nothing was found.
Wu Zhanjun's condition became worse and worse. At first he could still speak a few words clearly, but later he was in a coma all day.
Yuan has always been by Wu Zhanjun's side taking care of him.
While taking good care of him, he shed tears silently.
Although the Queen Mother felt uncomfortable, every time she came to Wu Zhanjun's bedroom and saw Yuan there, she felt jealous and hateful.
She was indignant. Why was it that she had taken care of Wu Zhanjun for so many years, but Wu Zhanjun was still closer to this Yuan family? Or was he more partial to Yuan family?
The Queen Mother was so obsessed that she completely forgot that she was the one who wanted Yuan to die first, and Wu Zhanjun just didn't want his biological mother to be wronged and die in vain.
The Queen Mother began to think constantly of her only child.
She believed that it was Yuan who caused her to lose the child, and completely forgot that she had poisoned herself back then.
In the end, the Queen Mother made up her mind and decided to kill Yuan's only child.
Anyway, she had already selected a suitable child from the royal branch and was ready to train a new emperor.
The Queen Mother's family also decided to support her.
So one night, Zhao Miaomiao had just returned to Yulan Palace and had just fallen asleep.
Suddenly, the sound of a bell was heard.
Then someone shouted: "The emperor has passed away!!!"
Wu Zhanjun is dead?!
Zhao Miaomiao immediately ran to the emperor's bedroom. Eunuch Gao knelt before the bed, crying and shouting, "Your Majesty, please wake up! How could you be gone like this? If you are gone, what will this old servant do?"
Zhao Miaomiao walked over and lowered Wu Zhanjun's bed curtain.
Then the empress dowager, Yuan, and all the concubines arrived.
The Queen Mother looked anxious and immediately wanted to check on Wu Zhanjun's condition.
Zhao Miaomiao stopped her and said, "Your Majesty, please accept my condolences. It will make you sad to see this."
Concubine Shu and other concubines began to cry.
Yuan couldn't believe it and murmured to herself, "How could Jun'er be gone? I was just here and saw him wake up and say a few words. How could he be dead after not seeing him for a while?"
Yuan collapsed on the ground in despair.
The Queen Mother also shed tears, covered her face with her handkerchief and pretended to be very sad.
Zhao Miaomiao said: "Fortunately, we have caught the murderer who poisoned the emperor."
Queen Mother:!!!
She immediately looked up at Zhao Miaomiao and asked, "Has the Queen found out who poisoned the Emperor?"
Zhao Miaomiao nodded, "Yes, I found it."
He glanced around the room, then looked at the Queen Mother and said, "And that person is right here."
The Queen Mother frowned and asked, "Who is it?"
Zhao Miaomiao waved her hand and said, "Let's take a look at the evidence first. I'm afraid that person won't admit it."
Then he clapped his hands, and Shaoyao brought in a young servant from the Imperial Hospital.
The little servant came in and immediately knelt down in front of Zhao Miaomiao, shouting, "Empress, I am innocent! Even if I had a hundred or eighty courage, I would not dare to poison the emperor!"
Zhao Miaomiao calmly replied, "I didn't say you were the one who poisoned me."
The slave kneeling on the ground: ………………
Then, he cautiously raised his head, looked at Zhao Miaomiao, and asked, "Then, Queen, why did you ask me to come here?"
Zhao Miaomiao: "Just checking your body."
Little Minion: ?????
Then the imperial physician came over, squatted down and felt the servant's pulse, "Your Majesty, this man has also been poisoned, also by the lotus root."
Zhao Miaomiao nodded, "It is indeed so."
The Queen Mother was anxious and asked, "What's going on?"
Zhao Miaomiao said: "I went back and checked. The poison of Hedaiyi is volatile. It is not just ingestion that will cause poisoning. Smelling it or touching it can also cause poisoning."
Nanny Xue beside the Empress Dowager began to tremble.
She had been the one who poisoned the Emperor for so long! She was exposed to the poison every day, so would she be poisoned too?
Zhao Miaomiao noticed this and continued, “It’s just that if you eat it, the toxins will be absorbed better, while other ways, the toxins enter the body more slowly, but it’s the same.
It's the difference between dying sooner or later; you're all going to die anyway."
Nanny Xue trembled even more violently.
The Queen Mother was also a little worried. She had come into contact with the poison of Hedaiyi before, and she wondered if she had been poisoned as well.
The Queen Mother also planned to have the imperial physician examine her thoroughly after returning.
But who would have thought that at this moment, the little servant who had been kneeling on the ground suddenly vomited blood, fell to the ground, and convulsed all over.
The imperial physician wanted to step forward and hold the man down.
But it didn't work.
The little slave foamed at the mouth, convulsed for a while, and then died.
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