Chapter 421 Physical Examination
The queen looked at the letter that fell at her feet, bent down to pick up the thin piece of paper, glanced at it lightly, and then looked up at the Emperor of Northern Qi.
"Your Majesty, we've been married for half our lives, yet our love is not as strong as this piece of paper, nor as strong as that of a stranger."
"I am the mistress of the harem. Even if I have no children, I can raise the children born by the concubines in the harem to consolidate my position. Mixing up the royal bloodline is a grave crime punishable by extermination of all nine generations of the family. Why would I take such a risk?"
"Besides, if I were truly foolish enough to adopt a child born from an affair between a palace maid and a guard, passing it off as royal blood, instead of threatening the doctor in the letter to keep the secret, why not simply silence her? After all, only the dead can keep secrets secret."
At this point, the Queen glanced at the doctor and said, "Compared with the hundreds of lives of my mother's family and the life of a doctor, which is more important? I'm sure I don't need to say it clearly, right?"
When Lord Feng heard the Queen's words, he felt something was amiss and said anxiously, "Your Majesty, I have not wronged the Queen. The doctor survived because she had a trick up her sleeve. If she had died in the palace under unclear circumstances, someone would have exposed the Queen's fake pregnancy. The Queen was afraid of the truth being exposed, so she had to act cautiously."
The Northern Qi Emperor's eyes were sinister, and he was momentarily shaken as he listened to the Empress's defense. If the Empress had mixed up the royal bloodline, and the doctor learned of such a shocking secret, she would surely be silenced.
But there is no smoke without fire. If there was no evidence, Lord Feng would not have accused the Queen of confusing the royal bloodline.
Besides, what Lord Feng said makes some sense.
The reason why the queen did not silence the witness must be that she had some concerns.
The Emperor of Northern Qi looked at the King of Qi and examined his face carefully.
No matter how he looked, her appearance didn't look like him, nor like the queen.
The Queen's eyes glared. "Lord Feng, you keep saying Chong'er isn't my child, but the product of an affair between a palace maid and a guard. Palace rules are strict, and palace maids and guards don't have any contact. How could they have been secretly passing things around and having an affair?"
Lord Feng was speechless. If he told the truth, it would implicate Concubine Shu.
"If I remember correctly, the Feng family and the Lin family have a close relationship, right?" the Queen said coldly, "Lord Feng specially summoned a female doctor and forged a letter to slander Chong'er as not being the heir to the throne. What is his intention?"
Lord Feng's face turned pale. The Queen's words clearly meant that he had maliciously falsely accused the Prince of Qi of not being the heir to the throne in order to support the virtuous Prince.
"I have no selfish motives. I simply do not want anyone to disrupt the royal bloodline, so I risked my life to tell Your Majesty the truth." Lord Feng protested, "If Your Majesty doesn't believe me, you can question the female doctor."
The Northern Qi Emperor looked at the female doctor.
The female doctor's face was pale, with her hands tucked into her sleeves. When she heard what Lord Feng said, her eyelashes trembled a few times and she pursed her pale lips tightly.
The Northern Qi Emperor asked, "When the Empress gave birth, you personally delivered her. Can you tell me the truth? Did the Prince of Qi belong to the Empress?"
The female doctor glanced at Lord Feng timidly.
The Northern Qi Emperor's face darkened upon seeing this: "Just tell the truth, and I'll spare your life. If you conceal anything and distort the truth, I'll exterminate your entire family."
I don't know what words irritated the female doctor. She shrank back and said in fear, "I...I said, the King of Qi...the King of Qi is...is the Queen's son."
"You're lying." Lord Feng's face turned pale and he shouted angrily, "You clearly said that the Prince of Qi is not the Queen's biological son, but the child of an affair between a palace maid and a guard..."
The female doctor interrupted him, "I, I didn't say that. You threatened me with my family. If I didn't do as you said, you would kill them. But if I lied to His Majesty, I would be committing the grave crime of deceiving the emperor, and my entire family would be exterminated."
She placed her hands on the ground and kowtowed to the Northern Qi Emperor: "Your Majesty, the Prince of Qi is the Queen's biological son. Every word I say is true. If I tell even a single lie, I will be executed along with my entire clan."
The Emperor of Northern Qi looked at the doctor's hand. Two of her nails had been pulled out. It was obvious that she had been tortured and forced to confess.
He asked, "What's the matter with this letter?"
The female doctor replied: "Master Feng forged it."
Lord Feng did not torture the female doctor at all. He just used her relatives to threaten her, and she confessed everything.
Who would have thought that the female doctor would turn the tables on him in front of His Majesty.
He looked at the female doctor, paused, stared at the female doctor's injured finger, and suddenly understood.
The female doctor deliberately pulled out her own nails and pretended to be tortured by him, so that she could follow his wishes and slander the empress and confuse the royal bloodline. In the end, she was forced to tell the truth because of the imperial power of the Northern Qi Emperor.
The "truth" revealed by the female doctor sent him to hell.
The only evidence he had to prove that the King of Qi was not the Queen's son was the doctor and the letter.
Now that his accusation has been overturned by the female doctor, he can no longer produce any other evidence.
Lord Feng broke out in a cold sweat: "Your Majesty, you can use a blood test... No, no, no, we can't use a blood test..."
Once the blood test is conducted, even if the King of Qi is not the biological son of the Emperor of Northern Qi, he will become the biological son of the Emperor of Northern Qi.
Because there are records in history books that someone once used the blood test to verify the relationship between father and son.
The blood of the father and son merged together in the water.
The matter should have come to an end, but a busybody dropped his own blood into the bowl, and it actually merged together.
The ridiculous thing is that this busybody has no blood relationship with the father and son.
In order to distance themselves from the incident, the busybodies brought a few slaves to drip blood into the bowl, and the blood of two people mixed with the blood of the father and son.
It turns out that this method is not reliable.
Lord Feng was desperate and tried every possible means: "Your Majesty, you can ask an experienced maid to examine the Queen. As long as the woman has given birth, she can detect the cause."
The doctor's face suddenly changed, and she subconsciously looked at the queen, her eyes full of worry.
Because women who have given birth may have some different physical characteristics from those who have not given birth.
If an experienced nanny examines, she will definitely find some clues.
Especially the private parts.
When the Queen heard what Lord Feng said, she clenched her fingers in her sleeves.
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