Chapter 276 Finding the Murderer
She felt a little regretful and slowly put down the spoon.
Chang Sunyan rolled her eyes at her and said, "Wild boars can't eat fine bran."
Then pick up the spoon and gently put the crystal clear fruit and soup into your mouth.
It was really great to fly over Tianlinggai.
She secretly sighed.
They can't eat this at home. No matter how powerful their family is, they don't have an ice cellar.
When I get back, I'll ask my mother to find a way to build an ice cellar.
She gently scooped another spoonful and saw the little fool in the veil across from her also eating. Her beautiful eyes narrowed immediately.
I find delicious food a bit disgusting.
How dare this little fool enjoy the same food as me?
Kill her after the show.
Just as she finished thinking, she suddenly felt her stomach boiling, burning her chest and making it hard for her to breathe.
"I……"
She stood up hastily, and wanted to say something, but she spat out two mouthfuls of black blood.
There was chaos all around.
Concubine Gao Guifei and Huo Nanfeng had also arrived early and were sitting in the main seats waiting for everyone to finish eating before starting the next activity.
Of course, Huo Nanfeng knew that there was nothing she could do next, because she had already sent someone to poison Feng Ying. Once the poison entered her mouth, she would surely die. There would be chaos afterwards, so who would care about the prince's selection of a concubine?
This suited her just fine.
The best candidate for King Qi was Chang Sun Yan, but she knew that Chang Sun Yan was unwilling to choose King Qi and had to settle for the second best choice. This candidate became Wang Duan.
If Prince Qi could resume his marriage with Wang Duan, half of the bad reputation he had previously suffered because of Xiao Wenniang would be washed away.
But Wang Duan refused to cooperate, saying that today was not the right time.
Therefore, no matter what happens today, the King of Qi cannot choose a good candidate, and only Gao's son will take advantage, so he might as well not choose.
Huo Nanfeng was thinking about Feng Ying dying, but he didn't expect to see Zhang Sun Yan rushing towards them with fangs and claws bared, and fell right under her desk, and then she never got up again.
Concubine Gao shouted hurriedly: "Someone, come quickly, quickly..."
When the palace maids went to check on Sun Yan's breath, they found that she had already died.
"My Lady, the young lady...is dead."
The person who accompanied Chang Sunyan into the palace today was not Chang Sunyan’s biological mother, but Chang Sunyan’s aunt Chang Sunjin.
After hearing this, Chang Sunjin rushed over from her seat, without even having time to lift up her skirt. She was tangled up in her skirt twice and even forgot about the wolf. She crawled to her niece's side and saw that her seven skins were bleeding.
She was in a trance.
This niece is the apple of the eye of the eldest grandson's family. I brought her out by myself. Now that she has become like this, how can I explain to my brother and sister-in-law when I go back?
"Someone, someone, come here, who is it? Who dares to be an enemy of my Changsun family?"
Concubine Gao reacted by immediately cordoning off the scene and then sent her confidants to call the Emperor and Empress.
Before the two arrived, Concubine Gao ordered the palace servants to screen all those who had come into contact with the ice fruit and then arrest them.
Li Jidao thought: [It is better to refer this matter to the government, otherwise Concubine Gao will always be suspected. But whether Concubine Gao will be hated by Changsun's family is none of my business.]
Feng Ying thought that was not what was meant.
Now it is clear that Concubine Gao can stand with the Empress, and the Empress has someone to warm her up.
Moreover, if Concubine Gao died, the two princes she gave birth to would also die, which would be a good thing for Song Yun.
They may not like Concubine Gao, but as the tallest among the short ones, they dislike Song Yun more.
Feng Ying stood up and said, "My Lady, should we invite the Ministry of Justice and the Supreme Court to come over?"
"This..." Concubine Gao hesitated, this was a matter of the harem.
But at this time Huo Nanfeng rebuked Feng Ying: "This is a matter of the harem, how can you alarm the ministers of the former dynasty?"
Since Huo Nanfeng is trying to stop it, it must be done.
And after she came to her senses from the shock, she felt that it was Huo Nanfeng who did it.
It must be that Huo Nanfeng didn't want her son to marry the young lady from Changsun's family, so she cut off the source of the problem and directly killed the young lady.
Concubine Gao said, "Whether to invite or not, I will ask the emperor to decide, but you are against it now. Are you guilty? Did you poison this man to death?"
"How dare the Imperial Concubine slander me?" Huo Nanfeng's eyes widened, as if he had suffered some great injustice, and he said, "I just think that alarming the officials of the previous dynasty will bring shame to the harem. How could the Imperial Concubine suspect me? If the Imperial Concubine doesn't give me an explanation today, I will report it to the Emperor and say that the Imperial Concubine is wrongly accusing a good person."
Concubine Gao snorted: "Whether it is true or not, you can find out by checking. I can't think of anyone else except you."
Huo Nanfeng was fearless because she didn't kill Changsun Yan in the first place.
She didn't want the Changsun family to join forces with Concubine Gao.
But the Gao family already had a connection with the Changsun family, and that was not something she could stop.
The Changsun family is the maternal family of the founding emperor. It has lasted for several generations of emperors, just like a huge monster. She must be crazy to mess with the Changsun family.
If it is really discovered, I will be bitten off a piece of skin.
"What if it turns out it's not me?"
Huo Nanfeng asked softly, "My Lady, could it be that you are the thief and you are catching the thief?"
"You are sick. I love my eldest grandson so much, why would I kill her?"
The concubine almost shouted out her last sentence.
She was really angry.
Zhang Sunyan is her son's biggest helper and her daughter-in-law. Why would she kill her?
The emperor arrived just in time.
After everyone exchanged greetings, Concubine Gao told the emperor what happened at the time, and with lingering fear, she requested the emperor to ask the Ministry of Justice and the Supreme Court to investigate the case.
Just then, Li Jidao felt someone coming.
She looked back and saw a middle-aged woman dressed in rich clothes, surrounded by a group of people, standing under the shade of a tree not far away and looking at this side.
The distance was not very far, and Li Jidao could see the woman's face clearly without any perception.
Although the woman did not cry or move forward, one could tell from her bloodshot eyes that she was extremely heartbroken, the kind of heartbreak that made her numb and tormented. Only Chang Sun Yan's biological mother could have such a painful expression at this moment.
Li Jidao had clearly never seen this person before, but he felt inexplicably familiar with him.
The eldest grandson's wife was standing not far away and didn't come over.
After much deliberation, the emperor felt that this was a serious matter and that he had to give an explanation to Changsun's family, so he could not protect anyone.
Moreover, when Huo Nanfeng nodded to him when no one else was paying attention, he knew that this matter had nothing to do with Huo Nanfeng.
Then he doesn't need to protect anyone.
The emperor asked someone to invite the Supreme Court Minister and the Ministry of Justice official to come, as well as the eunuch Wang Zhen.
Three people came together to investigate the case.
First they had to determine where the drug came from.
After asking, I found out that almost everyone had drunk ice fruit and was fine.
Meng Rao, an official from the Ministry of Justice, said, "That means this is the only bowl that has it."
The medicine couldn't have appeared in the young lady's bowl out of nowhere. Someone must have put it there. Anyone who touched the bowl would be suspicious.