Chapter 603: Questioning Shen Yuantang!
"Did she force you to do that?"
"Although my father no longer holds an official position, he will never let his daughter die!"
"Yuan Tang, if you come with me to the palace right now, even if it means risking your life, your father will not let her send you to marry!"
The more Shen Congwen thought about it, the angrier he became. He had tolerated his eldest daughter long enough.
No matter what she does outside, no one at home can do anything about it.
Shen Congwen took a few steps, and seeing that his daughter didn't move, he turned around and called out again.
"Yuan Tang, follow me!"
Shen Yuantang stood still.
"Father, there is no need to go to the palace to look for her. It is my daughter who is willing to marry."
The couple from the second house looked surprised. Wasn’t the marriage an excuse for the princess to release her?
How did it become true?
"Yuan Tang, this matter is not a joke, this is a serious matter!" Shen Conglian warned.
Shen Yuantang: "Yuantang is not kidding. Since my elder sister is the emperor, all the girls in my family are also royal relatives. Since we enjoy this honor, we must bear the weight that comes with it."
Although the words sound nice, but...
"You're going to die!"
"The Turkic barbarians eat raw meat and drink blood, and kill without blinking a word. Can you have a good life there?"
Shen Congwen was so angry that he wanted to yell at his daughter to wake up.
"My daughter has made up her mind."
Shen Conglian: "Yuan Tang, do you know that we are going to fight the Turks?"
Shen Yuantang naturally knew this, but she didn't believe that a fight would really break out.
"Tianjin is watching with eager eyes. If a fight really breaks out, Tianjin will definitely take advantage of the opportunity to attack."
Therefore, she, the princess who was to be married off to foreign countries, was extremely important.
As long as she goes to the Turks, the war can be avoided, and then the people of the Great Zhou and the Turks will sing praises to her.
"You knew it, but you still want to go?" Shen Congwen wanted to pry open his daughter's head to see what was inside her head.
"Father, I have made up my mind. Please stop trying to persuade me."
"You choose your own path, no one can advise you!"
Shen Lanxi's voice sounded, and then she appeared in front of the Shen family.
"Your Majesty, why are you here?"
"Why didn't anyone let us know so we could go and welcome him?"
Shen Lanxi took off her cloak and threw it to the internal historian.
"I am going out incognito this time because I don't want outsiders to know."
The Shen family wondered, what does it mean?
"I came here this time to get rid of the evil in my family. If the news gets out, it will damage the reputation of our Shen family."
What pest control?
Why don’t they understand?
The Royal Guards placed a few lotus pods on the table.
When Shen Yuantang saw this, his face turned pale instantly.
"Everyone, get out!"
The maids and servants as well as the eunuchs of the imperial guards brought by Shen Lanxi all retreated.
With such a big scene, everyone in the Shen family started to get nervous.
"Your Majesty, what is the matter?"
They have been very well behaved recently and haven't dared to do anything wrong.
It costs a lot of copper coins to buy a candied haws on the street, and I dare not even try to get a bargain for a small dish or a pot of old wine when drinking with others in a restaurant.
Each member of the Shen family looked at each other with suspicion.
"What are you looking at? I've been staying at home honestly recently and haven't gone anywhere!" Shen Congyi explained with a guilty conscience.
"Don't look at me. I didn't do anything except go out to meet friends."
Liu was also frightened.
"I have been busy shopping these days, busy seeing my daughter-in-law off. I always pay for things when I buy them, and never put them on credit."
"I didn't go out to show off. If you don't believe me, you can ask the maids and servants around me. They can all testify!"
They really don’t dare!
Shen Lanxi said with a cold face: "It's not you."
Phew~scare them.
"If it's not us, then who is it?"
"We have always been law-abiding and honest." Liu stressed again and again, as if she was afraid that Shen Lanxi would not believe her.
Shen Lanxi's eyes fell on Shen Yuantang: "Do you want to say it yourself, or let the guards in the mansion say it."
Several eyes turned to Shen Yuantang.
"Yuan Tang, what did you do wrong?"
"Yuan Tang, you can't harm my family, right?"
"Yuan Tang, hurry up and tell me!"
Liu and Miao kept urging him, and Shen Yuantang was already getting a little impatient.
"I'm not wrong, there's nothing to say."
Shen Lanxi had lost her patience as she looked at the pale but stubborn man.
“Why do you sprinkle lead powder into the lotus pods?”
The elders of the Shen family all looked puzzled.
"What is lead powder?"
"Lead powder is a good thing. It can make your face whiter."
"Your Majesty has said so. Lead powder must not be a good thing, right?"
Shen Lanxi: "Eating too much lead powder can kill people. If a small amount continues to enter the body, it will make the body gradually weaker and eventually die."
The faces of the Shen family members changed. Just now they were worried about Shen Yuantang, but now they all looked at her with suspicion.
"Yuan Tang, you can't?"
"We are all your relatives. You can't be cruel to us, right?"
"Yuan Tang, are you talking?"
Shen Yuantang's face was pale and bloodless. She couldn't bear the charge of murdering her family, otherwise, with Shen Lanxi's temperament, she would be killed!
"Big sister, you are the emperor now, so whatever you say is binding, and no one dares to refute you."
"But I cannot bear the charge of murdering my family. Your Majesty, please give me another charge!"
The Shen family was a little confused. Was poison used?
Two plates of lotus seed cakes were brought to the table.
Shen Lanxi was not in a hurry to convict Shen Yuantang, but said: "Since it wasn't you who did it, then you can eat these two plates of snacks!"
Shen Yuantang's face changed, his eyes flashed and he said, "Your Majesty, I know that I have done many wrong things before. If you want to punish me, I will not say a word."
"I only ask Your Majesty to consider our sisterhood and not doubt my intentions towards my family again!"
After Shen Yuantang finished speaking, she walked straight to the table. She looked at her family members deeply, her eyes full of grievance.
As Shen Yuantang took a bite of the sweet lotus seed cake, the corners of her mouth curled up slightly. It would be fine even if she ate all the cakes in the two plates.
After just two bites, her expression suddenly changed, and then she looked down at the pastry in her hand.
Why is it dark inside?
The amount of lead powder she sprinkled on the lotus seeds, even if it melted into water, would only turn the lotus pod into a dark green color, not this ink-like black color.
"Eat, why don't you eat anymore?" Shen Lanxi said coldly.
Shen Yuantang paused, and immediately realized that these two plates of pastries were not made by the cook at home.
"Why is the pastry dark inside? Did it go bad?"
The cook in the mansion was waiting for a reply: "No, these two dishes are newly made."
The corners of Shen Yuantang's mouth stiffened and his eyes became vicious.
"Why don't you eat it? Do you know that lotus seed cake is poisonous and can't be eaten?" Shen Lanxi was waiting to see how she struggled.
"No, I just haven't seen lotus seed cakes like this before!"
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