Chapter 24 Is he not the only one who can hear Li'er's thoughts?
"If I catch the person behind this rumor, I will never let him go." Lu Yanshi's face was full of coldness.
"Your Majesty, I heard people in the harem discussing this matter a few days ago." Lu Heng stood up.
Xia Shuyi held her handkerchief tightly as she watched her son's performance.
Some time ago, after hearing Li'er's thoughts, this guy knew that Concubine De was going to deal with them, and strongly asked him to help.
Xia Shuyi was reluctant to let him get involved, but she couldn't persuade him.
"Oh? Did you see who was gossiping behind my back?" Lu Yanshi asked.
"She seems to be a maidservant beside Concubine De, her name is Qingqiu." Lu Heng stammered.
"Go and get the person for me." Lu Yanshi sent people to capture Qingqiu with a cold face.
Qingqiu was terrified. It was indeed the Empress who asked them to spread the news, but they had never spread it in the harem.
She kowtowed repeatedly to protest her innocence.
"Tell me, where did you see her?" Lu Yanshi looked at his son.
"She was passing by Yu Garden on the way to Youlan Garden. Someone must have seen her at that time." Lu Heng answered with a blink.
Xia Shuyi gave him a look, and Lu Heng left, making an excuse of feeling unwell.
It has to be said that Cao Dehai was very efficient and he quickly found the palace maid who passed by Youlan Garden that day.
Someone did see Qingqiu chatting with a palace maid, but no one heard what they said.
Lu Yanshi asked again: "Where is the palace maid?"
"She has reached the age to leave the palace." The chief eunuch who was in charge of managing this group of eunuchs and palace maids replied hastily.
"Send someone to investigate. There should be news soon." Cao Dehai knew what Lu Yanshi wanted to know and immediately stepped forward to comfort him.
"Yeah." Lu Yanshi didn't say anything, waiting for the answer.
"Your Majesty, please have a cup of tea to calm down. This tea is newly developed by me, please take a look at it." Xia Shuyi poured a cup of tea for Lu Yanshi at the perfect time.
Lu Yanshi took a sip of tea and felt that the irritability in his heart had eased a lot.
“This tea is good.”
When Concubine De, who had hurried over, heard this, a sharp light flashed in her eyes.
"Your Majesty, I pay my respects to you. I wonder what Qingqiu did to make you so angry?" She looked at Lu Yanshi anxiously.
The maid who was buried in the Weiyang Palace sent her a message saying that Xia Shuyi had made tea today.
She originally wanted Zhuang Cairen to rush over and help expose the truth, but she didn't expect Xia Shuyi to make trouble first and captured her maiden first.
But she didn't understand what excuse Xia Shuyi used.
Since she couldn't find out, she had to come here on her own.
"Please sit down first. I'll tell you after I find out the answer." Lu Yanshi was too lazy to repeat it so many times, so he just asked her to sit down and wait for the answer.
"Yes." Defei sat down and then looked at Xia Shuyi beside her.
"I wonder what kind of delicious tea my sister got. Can I have a taste of it?"
"I'm afraid this tea may not be to your Majesty's liking. I'll ask Lu Ran to make a new pot." Xia Shuyi politely declined.
The more she refused, the more Concubine De felt that there was something wrong with the tea.
"How do you know if it's suitable if you don't try it?" She reached out decisively and poured herself a glass.
Xia Shuyi hurriedly snatched the teapot back: "How can we let the Empress Defei pour the tea herself?"
The more panicked she was, the more determined Concubine De became.
There is definitely something wrong with this tea.
She took a sip and felt that the tea was indeed sweet. After a while, she felt that the emperor in front of her had a double image, and a dizzy feeling spread from her limbs to her mind.
She realized that this was the tea that Xia Shuyi usually gave to the emperor!
She immediately said, "Your Majesty, I feel uncomfortable. There is something wrong with this tea."
De Fei's maid Fu Qiu hurriedly shouted, "Hold on, Madam. I will go and call the imperial physician."
Before Concubine De could say anything, she fainted completely.
"Your Majesty, what happened to Your Majesty? This tea was not poured by me. And you, Your Majesty, drank the tea just now, so there can't be any problem." Xia Shuyi cried anxiously.
"Call the imperial physician." Lu Yanshi also felt that this matter was full of weirdness.
He drank the tea, no problem.
Soon, the imperial physician came and after examination, he found nothing in the teapot. He took a sip of the remaining tea in the cup and indeed felt slightly dizzy after drinking it.
Defei woke up quickly. When she heard the doctor say there was something in the tea, she immediately became excited: "Your Majesty, Xia Zhaoyi has been deceiving you. She added something to the tea and deliberately made you stay in Weiyang Palace. That thing is addictive if you drink too much, so you keep running to Weiyang Palace."
"Empress Defei, you and I have no grudges against each other, why do you say that?" Xia Shuyi wiped away her tears.
"Your Majesty, I guarantee with my life that I will never use this method to make you stay."
Lu Yanshi's face looked very gloomy and ugly.
Others may not know why he comes to Weiyang Palace so frequently, but how could he not know it himself?
The reason he came here was not for Xia Shuyi, but for Lu Li!
"I just drank it and fainted. It was she who tampered with the tea." Defei was very sure.
She experienced it herself, how could it be fake?
"I am innocent. I beg Your Majesty to clear my name." Xia Shuyi knelt directly on the ground.
Just then, the news came back.
"That maid died not long after leaving the palace. At the same time, Concubine De sent a letter home."
Lu Yanshi's face turned very ugly.
Most of the rumors outside were spread by Concubine De.
At the same time, the imperial physician also finished his examination and found that nothing was added to the tea in Weiyang Palace.
"Impossible!" Defei sat up anxiously, and threw the things in her sleeves out.
Concubine De was confused. What was this? How come she didn't know it?
Lu Ran hurriedly picked it up and handed it to the imperial physician.
After the imperial physician examined it, he found that it was consistent with what was left in Concubine De's teacup.
The onlookers felt that the truth was revealed.
It was Concubine De herself who drugged Xia Zhaoyi and slandered her.
"Your Majesty, I was murdered by someone. This is not mine." Concubine De shuddered.
The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind.
At this moment, she finally reacted. She thought Xia Shuyi was the cicada in her hand, but little did she know that Xia Shuyi was the oriole.
"You snatched the tea and poured it out yourself, and the things were also found on you. How could we harm you?" Lu Ran complained angrily on behalf of his queen.
"If you don't tell the truth, then you can go to the cold palace." Lu Yanshi's expression was very cold.
Defei was so frightened that her mind was still a little dazed, so she had to tell everything.
"It was Concubine Zhuang who told me. She said there was something wrong with the tea and that the Ninth Princess could talk. It was the Ninth Princess who came up with the idea of Xia Zhaoyi seducing the Emperor. The Ninth Princess is a demon, a demon."
Defei cried so hard that her speech became incoherent.
Lu Yanshi's heart skipped a beat.
Could it be that he is not the only one who can hear Li'er's inner thoughts, but that Zhuang Cairen can also?