Chapter 64 Why must I be a favorite concubine?
The Queen Mother hurriedly asked, "What happened? Why did this servant die?!"
The imperial physician stood up and said, "Replying to the Queen Mother, the incense in the emperor's palace is the incense that induces lotus flowers.
You could say this incense is a kind of poison. If two poisons meet, they will quickly take effect and cause death."
As soon as the imperial physician finished speaking, Nanny Xue felt a little uncomfortable, her throat was itchy, and she wanted to cough.
Is she going to die soon?
Terrified, Nanny Xue immediately knelt down, tugging at the Empress Dowager's clothes and saying, "Empress Dowager, I don't want to die! Is there an antidote for this poison? Please, give me one! For all the years I've followed you, please save me!"
What is being said, is there anything you don't understand?
Zhao Miaomiao turned around and asked the Queen Mother, "What did Aunt Xue mean?"
The Queen Mother said coldly, "How could I have known this! How dare a wicked slave like you frame me!"
Zhao Miaomiao sneered, looked at the Queen Mother and said, "Queen Mother, even at this point, you still don't want to speak? Aren't you afraid of death?"
The Queen Mother flung her sleeves and said angrily, "I don't know what the Queen is talking about!"
It seems that he only responds to hard things and not soft things.
Zhao Miaomiao walked over, took the incense and put it in front of the Queen Mother.
The Queen Mother also felt an itchy throat and wanted to cough.
The Queen Mother yelled, "Queen, what are you doing? Are you trying to kill me?"
Zhao Miaomiao said: "Queen Mother, this poison is only toxic to those who have come into contact with the lotus belt clothes. It is completely harmless to ordinary people."
As he spoke, he moved forward again with the incense in hand.
The Queen Mother wanted to cough more and more, so she became anxious and slapped Zhao Miaomiao's hand away, "Enough! This is ridiculous! Queen, you said that it was I who poisoned the emperor! Do you have any evidence?"
Zhao Miaomiao pointed at Aunt Xue and said, "Isn't she the evidence?"
The Queen Mother was anxious and said, "I told you, this is a wicked slave! She is talking nonsense and framing me! She should have been dragged out and beaten to death long ago!"
When Aunt Xue heard the Queen Mother's cold-blooded words, she couldn't believe it and asked, "Queen Mother, I have been following you since I was a teenager. For more than ten years, I have always been by your side. Can you really be so cruel?"
The master and servant became enemies.
Nanny Xue knelt there, turned towards Zhao Miaomiao, and kowtowed repeatedly, "Empress, I will tell you everything! Please, save me!"
"Okay, I..."
Zhao Miaomiao wanted to continue speaking, but at this moment, she saw Yuan behind the empress dowager suddenly stand up, holding a sharp hairpin in her hand, rushing over and stabbing it straight into the empress dowager's neck.
"I knew it was you! You're the one who killed my son! You killed the Emperor!"
Yuan screamed and thrust hard into the empress dowager.
The Queen Mother stared with her eyes wide open, her neck covered in blood.
The concubines around him were all terrified, screaming in panic and hiding aside.
Until the guards rushed in and held Yuan down, but the empress dowager was already dead.
All this happened so suddenly that Zhao Miaomiao didn't have any time to react.
When everyone was in shock and panic.
Then, Wu Zhanjun on the bed suddenly started coughing.
Zhao Miaomiao hurried over, lifted the bed curtain, and helped Wu Zhanjun up.
When Concubine Shu saw this, she shouted, "Ah! It's haunted! The emperor has come back to life!"
"I... cough cough cough, I'm not dead!"
Wu Zhanjun spoke with difficulty, then saw the empress dowager's body on the ground and started coughing violently again.
Zhao Miaomiao hurriedly said, "Eunuch Gao, quickly bring out the incense!"
After Eunuch Gao took the incense away, Wu Zhanjun felt much better.
It turns out that all of this was Zhao Miaomiao's sting operation.
Didn’t the Queen Mother destroy all the evidence of the previous poisoning?
Then find an opportunity and let the Queen Mother poison you again.
So Zhao Miaomiao and Yuan Shi agreed to let Yuan Shi visit Wu Zhanjun often when she is free, as it would be best if she could always be with Wu Zhanjun.
Yuan was also worried about Wu Zhanjun, so she was naturally happy.
But Zhao Miaomiao did not tell Yuan about the plan, for fear that Yuan would arouse the empress dowager's suspicion.
First, use the relationship between Yuan and Wu Zhanjun to make the Queen Mother angry.
When people are angry, it is easy to lose their rationality.
Sure enough, not long after, the Queen Mother started to take action again.
The Empress Dowager bribed the people in the Imperial Hospital and the servant who cooked the medicine, put poison in the medicine, and then gave it to Wu Zhanjun to drink.
Zhao Miaomiao had already prepared the medicine.
She brought one pair from the Imperial Hospital every day and asked Shaoyao to go out of the palace to buy another pair.
The task of decocting the medicine was given to Shaoyao, who was to complete it secretly in Yu Lan Palace. Shaoyao was also told not to leave for even a minute while the medicine was being decocted, until she personally brought the medicine over and watched Wu Zhanjun drink it.
The medicine prepared by the Imperial Hospital was simply thrown away.
When the Queen Mother took action, Zhao Miaomiao followed the clues and found the little servant.
He secretly captured the little servant and interrogated him first.
The young servant confessed that he was a servant born in the Empress Dowager's mother's family and was sent to the palace to help the Empress Dowager poison the Emperor.
If he didn't do this, his parents would definitely die.
Zhao Miaomiao spoke to the little servant with both emotion and reason.
Of course, it's useless.
In the end, he relied on threats to make the little servant consider whether he wanted to die now or whether there was a possibility of not dying.
The little slave compromised.
Zhao Miaomiao didn't ask him to do anything difficult, just to perform at the critical moment.
After that, you just have to wait until the time is right.
So when will the time be ripe?
That was when the Queen Mother was about to send someone to pick up the child from the royal branch.
Wu Zhanjun has no children now. Her only child is still in her belly and has not been born yet.
So if Wu Zhanjun died now, there would be no emperor in the Wu Kingdom.
At this time, the Queen Mother could come out and say that the child from the royal side branch also had the surname Wu and royal blood, and then she would brag a lot, and with the support of the mother's family, she would finally put the child on the throne.
Zhao Miaomiao waited for the Queen Mother's men to secretly set out to pick up the child, and he knew that the time was almost right.
So he told Wu Zhanjun the plan and asked him to pretend to be dead and act.
There is also incense, which is actually the Chinese medicinal herb asafoetida.
This medicine is magical and is known as the stinkiest Chinese medicine. It will make people feel dry in the throat when they smell it.
But it is harmless to the human body and is generally used to eliminate accumulation, kill insects and dispel cold.
This whole drama was staged to make the Queen Mother admit her guilt.
Zhao Miaomiao actually just wanted to capture the Queen Mother and let everyone know that it was the Queen Mother who poisoned her.
What kind of punishment the Queen Mother would impose would be decided by Wu Zhanjun.
But no one expected that Yuan would impulsively kill the empress dowager.
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